The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-05-03
THE PRESIDENTS JOURNEY
A MEMORABLE Day SPENT IN
NEW ORLEANS.

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People-A Visit to the Old French and
Spanish Sections of the City-A Brief
speech by the President ON Historic
Ground-Party Resumes the Trip
Westward.
New Orleans, May 2.-The day spent
in New Orleans will live long in the
memory of the president and of the
members of his party In no other city
in the United States is the old and ro-
mantle preserved and placed in such
sharp contrast with the modern as In
the Crescent City, and to-day as the
presidential party drove through the
city from the new into the old French
and Spanish quarter it was like passing
mysteriously from America into for
eign land, from this country into an
other that has gone And the illusion
of the transition was heightened by the
interesting ceremonies, which occurred
in the old cabildo, the seat of the gov
eminent of the former Spanish and
French rulers which is yet preserved in
its original integrity by the Louisiana
Historical society.
The weather could not have been fair
er. The heat was tempered by light
breeze from the river, and the entire
population apparently was out to see
the chief magistrate. After a short Wis
It to the Southern university. where
thousand colored students greeted the
president with waving bits of colored
rro1 ocs IN
whole an American flag, and where the
president made a brief speech the party
passed across Canal and Rampant
streets, the boundaries of the new city
into the old town. with its narrow
streets, its quaint galleried residences,
its cathedrals, old Spanish buildings
and French market, all now unfortu-
nately going into picturesque decay.
There was striking picture when the
party drew up before the mouldering
cabildo, over a hundred and fifty years
old. situated opposite what is now called
Jackson Square.
Around the entire streets the balco-
nies We're thronged, and down in the
SQUARE were a crush of people. Many
races were represented but the foreign
ere were mostly Spanish, French or
Italians.
Drawn in line before the building
were the young cadets from the Jesuit
college. and up the winding stairways
at the entrance Of the building was
ranged the continental guards, local
organization in the buff and blue of the
revolutionary era. AS the president
alighted a squad of the cadets blew
fanfare on their French trumpets, the
Louisiana field artillery fired salute of
twenty-on guns, and the bells of the
cathedral and all the churches in the
quarter pealed out their welcoming
greeting. Up the stairway past the
continental guard, the president and his
party mounted into the crimson draped
audience chamber where the exercises
took place.
Alcee Fortier, president of the Louisi-
ana Historical society delivered the ad-
dress and the president in his response
spoke of the memorable day, nearly
century ago, when the keys of the city
of New Orleans were delivered to Will
kinson and Claiborne, the American
commissioners, by the representatives of
France. When the president appeared
upon the balcony the cadets below pre-
sented arms. The applause was tre-
mendous as the president, an impress
i've figure, stood waiting for the cheer
ing 20 subside. He acknowledged the
demonstration with bow and spoke as
follows:
''My Fellow Citizens: I have great
honor in standing on this historic
ground to- receive the greetings of my
country, and to recall the fact that here |
nearly hundred years ago great
scene was enacted that dictated larger
area than the original thirteen states to
liberty and union forever" (Applause) |
The party then returned to the hotel |
for luncheon and in the afternoon en- |
barked on a Mississippi river steamboat |
for a trip along the river front from
Audubon Park to the battlefield of |
Chalmette.
The ladies of the party had remained
quietly at the hotel during the ceremon-
les of the morning, but they participat-
ed in the river trip and enjoyed it.
At o'clock the presidential special
resumed it's long journey to the Pacific
coast Houston Texas, will be reached
tomorrow morning.
n ATTHTNG MARC ARYT1 YCTANn |