The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-05
Spent Last Night at the Home of His
Aunt i'm New York and VIII Go
TO Long Island To-Day.
RECEPTION AT CENTURY CLUB
WHERE THE PRESIDENT NET A
FEW Personal FRIENDS.
Mrs. James III. ROOseveIt's House.
Where the President Slept, Guard
ed by Police and Detectives.

NEW YORK, Nov. 4.-President and Mrs.
Roosevelt and party arrived in New York
at 6:2O o'clock tonight, an hour and twenty
minutes behind schedule time. The party
remained in New York over night and to-
morrow will be taken to Oyster Bay, Long
Island, where the President will cast his
vote He will remain scarcely more than
an hour in Oyster Bay, returning in time
to take an afternoon train tomorrow out
of the Jersey City depot of the Penn
sylvania Railroad for Washington.
The President was in excellent spirits and
enjoyed to a degree the little respite from
official exactions. He spent most of the
trip from Washington, which city he left
at IL a. m, chatting jovially with the rest
of his party or on the observation platform
of his car.
Owing to the cars with which the exact
itinerary of the trip being guarded from the
public, there were but few people along the
line waiting to see the President until
Newark was reached. There a crowd
pressed the depot gates. The President
took along with him, far as Baltimore,
Caspar Whitney, editor of Outing. At
Baltimore he spent two or three minutes
pacing the depot platform alone. The day
was cloudy and threatening and he re-
marked that it was a fitting contrast to
the weather conditions he hoped for to-
morrow.
The untowed incident of the journey
was the delay due to a freight wreck at
Claymount Del, which made it necessary
to shift the train to the Baltimore &
Ohio tracks, whence it ran as far as
West Philadelphia. AS the train lay in
the yards for some minutes the President
stepped to the platform and smilingly
greeted a group of railroad employees, who
climbed on the platform and shook hands
with him. He told them that he was glad
to their interest in politics, as evil
denced by the municipal campaign buttons
they wore.
When the train pulled into Jersey City
depot ii had made up a few minutes
time. A big crowd had gathered and a
number of secret service men, detectives
and newspaper men followed the party to
the ferry boat, where carriages were wait
ing. Arrived at New York the President
and party were driven to the residence
of the Presidents aunt, Mrs. James II.
Roosevelt.
About 10 o'clock the President left his
aunts house, and in company with one OF
his cousins, William A. Roosevelt went in
a closed automobile to the Century Club,
where ten or a dozen personal friends gave
him an informal reception. No list of those
present was given out, but it is known
Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler and Prof.
6randcr Matthews were among them
After this President Roosevelt returned TO
his aunt's residence TO pass the night On
the way to and from the club the President
was closely guarded by detectives-a dozen
in all-and detectives and police guarded
the house in which he slept throughout the
night.
The President will take a ferry early to-
morrow morning for Long Island CITY.
where a special train for Oyster Bay will
be in waiting Secretary Cortelyou will
leave the others at Mineola and drive over
10 Hampstead 10 vote. while the President
and HIS assistant secretary, Mr.. Loeb will
cast their ballots at oyster Bay.