Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-05-09
RECEPTION AT LOS ANGELES
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY RESPONDS To
CALIFORNIA; GREETING.
City Was En- Fete and the Visitors
Were Treated in Royal
Style.

An Associated Press dispatch from Los
Angeles Cal. last night, describing Presi-
dent Mckinley's trip through the state,
says:
From Redlands down to Los Angeles Il
was continuous ovation. Every station
was crowded by children with wreaths OF
flowers in their hands and by cheering men
and women. Minute stops We're made at
Cotton, Ontario, Pomona, and at 2:30
o'clock the train drew into Los Angeles.
The approach to the city OF Los Angeles
was heralded by a terrific din which could
be heard for miles. Steam whistles
screamed, cannon doomed, and as the train
passed through the Chinese quarter of the
city long strings of firecrackers hung from
awning frames. exploded like the contin-
uous rattle Of musketry. The city had been
beautifully decorated in honor OF the Pres
idents coming. The fiesta is in progress
here, and the town dressed like q
queen to receive the coming of her lord,
The colors of the carnival, red, yellow and
green, representing the wine, orange and
olive. predominated. The streets We're ave.
nues of masts festooned with yellow bunt.
Ing and crowned with palm leaves ana
wreaths of laurel. At the station the party
was met by the citizens committee and
many distinguished people from all over
California.
Gen. Shafter, commander OF the Depart
ment of the Pacific, with his entire staff,
II,
Preside to greet his chief Secretary Of
the Navy Long, who was to have met the
party at San Francisco. also came here to
meet the President, and was at the station.
The party was driven in carriages to the
Nannuyes Hotel. An escort of artillery
and several companies of militia had been
provided to escort them. but both the milf
tary and police had to fight their way
through the enormous crowds that had
swarmed into the city, drawn by the
double attraction of the Presidents visit
and carnival. At the hotel the police were
obliged to literally force way TO the en-
trance. There the President met Gov.
Nash Of Ohio and the Ohio congressional
delegation, which had arrived by different
routes an hour before. In the rotunda Of
the hotel the mayor of Los Angeles for
mally greeted the Chief Executive and ex-
tended to him the freedom of the city. The
President responded as follows:
Mr.. Mayor and my Fellow-citizens: am
glad to be In this great state. Its popula-
ton today lis more than one-tenth of the
entire population of the United States over
which the first President presided / cam
not stand in this presence without recall
ing those splendid pioneers of American
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Stockton and Free
mont-who led in the paths of progress and
civilization, and dedicated this mighty en-
pire of the coast to liberty and union for
ever. You have now residing In your beau
tiful city that aged woman who shared
with Gen. Fremont i'm his early and later
trials and triumphs, and for her | am sure
you will all Join with me in reyerent and
affectionate regard.
Il congratulate you upon the happiness
and prosperity, not only of the people OF
your city and OF your state. but the people
of the whole country. and to felicitate with
you that now this nation Of ours is stronger
and more firmly cemented than il has ever
been before in all its history. There ara
more men and women loving our flag today
than ever loved IL before, and there is
more respect paid to il at home and abroad
than ever before.
There is one thing about our national
character|it is not spoiled when 1t is
transplanted. 1t loses none of its strength
or it's virtue or its liberty under any sun
or beneath any stars. They say liberty
does not thrive under tropical skies. Did
liberty ever thrive more grandly than In
the state of California and throughout our
southlandT'
The President then held short public
reception in the parlors of the hotel.
Meantime Mrs Mckinley and the MEM
bers of the party had been driven to the
woman's club in Figure street. where they
met the ladies of Los Angeles.
This evening the President and Mrs. Nc
Kinley dined at ''Bivouac," the handsome
residence of General Harrison Grey Otis,
and after a dinner a private reception was
held there in their honor. They spent
the night at the "Bivouac." Governor
Nash held a public reception at the cham-
Der of commerce. Late in the afternoon
some of the members Of the Presidents
party assembled Mount Low, 5000 feet high,
when they had birds eye view for sew
enty miles of southern California and the
Pacific ocean, twenty miles out to sea.
Tonight the members OF the cabinet and
other members of the party witnessed the
brilliant illumination in the streets. The
whole city blazed with fantastic colors,
and the air was a binding storm Of con-
fetti, thrown by the merry rioters.
Tomorrow the President and his party
Will witness the floral parade, and in the
afternoon a visit VIII be paid to the Sol.
diers' Home at Santa Monica.
The train will leave Los Angeles early
Friday morning.