The age-herald., 1901-05-03
FLOWER LADEN CITY HONORS
 MR.. M 'K|NLEY Memorable Jay in the History
 of New Orleans ENTIRE CITY TURNED OUT --------~- Some Historical Spots Seen by
 the President HE MADE SEVERAL SPEECHES Prettiest and Most Romantic Incident of the Trip Was the Visit to Room Where Spanish Gov 
 ernors heigned.
Some Historical Spots Seen by
 the President
HE MADE SEVERAL SPEECHES

NEW OtifAHS May l.-lue u2y spSut III New Orleans will live long in the memory of the President and the members of his party. In no other city in the United States is the old and romantic preserved and placed in such sharp contrast with tho modern as in the Crescent City, and today as the Presidential party drove through the nower-embowered city from the new Into the old French and Spanish quarter it was like passing mysteriously from America Into a foreign land; from this century into another 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 government of the former Spanish and French rulers, which Is yet preserved in its original entirety by the Louisiana Historical Society.
 The weather could not have been fairer. strong sun blazed from a oloudless sky, but the heat was tempered by light breeze from the river. The foliage was all a tender green, and along St. Charles avenue. through which tho party drove behind clattering squadron of. cavalry, flowers. flags and pretty women in gay rainleni formed a mist of color. Roses were everywhere climbing up the pill Jared porticos and creeping over the trel- lses and mingling their perfume with that of the magnolia, while the public squares trilled with the songs of semi tropical birds.
 Everybody Was Out.
 The entire population apparently, was
 
 short visit to the Southern University where thousand colored students greeted the President with waving bits of colored bunting, so arranged as to make the 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 galleries its cathedral. old Spanish buildings, and the French market all with the flavor of another generation and all now unfortunately, going inH picturesque decay.
 There was a striking picture when the party drew up before the mouldering old sCabildo over a hundred and fifty years old, which is situated opposite what Is now called Jackson square. but which in the old days was the Place D' Armes. where Spanish generals formerly drilled their soldiers. Around the encircling streets the balconies were thronged and down into the squares were acres of peo- ple. Many races were represented. but the foreigners were mostly French and Italians Those on the outer edges of the crowd stood with their faces pressed against the high iron r3ilings which en- close the park Many people were perched in the trees The French tri-color and several other strange flags among them tha red white and green, banner of Por- tugaI were interspersed with American flags in the decorations. Drawn up in line befor ethc historic old building. were the young cadets from the Jesuit college and lip the winding stairway at the en- trance of the building were ranged 2 file of the continental guard. local or ganization. in the buff and blue of the revolutionary army, wearing cockades and white crossed belts with the figures '76" on their shining brass belt plates. As the President alighted, squad of the cadets blew q fanfare on their glittering trumpets the Louisiana Field Artillery fired a national salute of twenty-one guns and the bells of the cathedral and all the churches in the quarter pealed out their welcoming greeting. It was an in- spiring moment.
 Beautiful Sight.
 Up the stairway. past the continental
 
 mounted into the crimson draped audi ence chamber where the exercises took place As In a dream. the visitors were carried back to the days long ago. when governors of Spanish Kings ruled here and to that memorable day, almost a cen tury ago, when the keys of the city of New Orleans were delivered up In this very room to Wilkinson and Claiburne. the American commissioners and French dominion over the great Louisiana terri tory passed to the sovereignty of the f.nited States. Alcee Fortier. a distin- xuished French creole. who is president Of the Louisiana Historical Society. re- called these great events in his address to the President. and the President in his response dwelt upon their momentous bearing upon the worlds history. It was a notable speech and was received with enthusia sm by the distinguished gather ing present The President spoke as follows:
 "I rise only for the purpose of making acknowledgment to the Louisiana Histori- ceJ Association for it's cordial and gener- GUS welcome to this historic place. It has been great honor to me to be received here by the governor of this great com monwealth. by the chief Justice and his Associates of it's highest court. by the mayor of the city to this place. memora- bie. not only in American annals but memorable in the annals of the world fAppIausa) I an, glad to stand nearby where the great transaction took place which transferred the Louisiana terri tory to the lag of the Stars and Stripes fApplause.A A transaction which changed the map of the world and made this union which it is now. the strongest and freest
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