The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-02
ROOSEVELT
AT ANNAPOLIS.
The President Makes a Run
Into Maryland
To Attend Graduating Exer-
cises Of Naval Academy.
DELIVERS DIPLOMAS.
Was Accompanied by Miss Alice
and His Sister.
Makes Patriotic Address to the
Young Officers.

Annapolis Nd. May 2.-The presi-
Dental party arrived here at As o'clock.
President Roosevelt and party left
Washington at O'Clock this morning
for the U. S. naval academy to deliver
diplomas to the graduating class today.
The party Travelled in a special train
over the Pennsylvania road, comprising
the cars Olympia and Theodore.
With the president were Miss Roose-
velt. Commander and Mrs. Cowles, Sec
retary COrtelyou, Representative Foss OF
Illinois, chairman of the house commit
tee on naval affairs; Representative
Burton of Ohio; Lieutenant Commander
Won Rebeur Paschwitz, of the German.
embassy; Lieutenant Commander de
FaramOnd de LafajOle, the naval attache
of the French embassy and DR.. Ohm r.
Uric, the presidents physician
AS the president alghted from the
train he was received by Superintendent
Wainwright and his aide, Lieutenant H
J. Zeigmier. A battalion of marines,
under command of Captain Lucas was
drawn up at the station. The party
proceeded in carriages to the academy
grounds, the president going directly to
the Superintendent'S house where there
was a short wait to permit the assem-
bling of the cadet battalion at the chapel.
The day was most propltlous and the
cadets in their uniforms presented
fine appearance
The president walked across the cam
pus to where the cadets were lined up
and passing down the line looked each
cadet squarely in the face He was then
presented to the officers of the academy
by Commander Wainwright.
While this was going on the shore
batteries fired the presidents salute of
twenty-one guns. At the sound OF
bugle blast the cadets stacked guns
and with a precision that bore evidence
of the discipline which they have TO
undergo marched by fours to the chapel
where benediction was pronounced by
the chaplain In the meantime the
president had been escorted down the
aisle by Commander Wainwright, and
was shown to his seat on the platform,
the battalion of cadets, the officers and
others receiving the president standing
Commander Wainwright then intro
duced DR.. G. 7. Winston, member Of
the board of visitors, who delivered
short address in which he spoke of TIE
navy as being the most complete fac
tor in the cOuntry's history He was
loudly applauded when he referred tc
Dewey as the hero of Manila and
Sampson the hero of Santiago, and at
the conclusion of his remarks was con-
graduated by the president.
A great crowd gathered around the
gTandstand where the cadets were 10
receive at the hands of the president
the diplomas which would make them
officers in the United States navy.
The graduating class discarded their
guns and accOutrem ents. President
Roosevelt then addressed them his re-
marks being frequently interrupted by
applause.
At the conclusion of his address and
distribution of diplomas, the president
requested to be taken to the hospital
where Cadet Empry S. Long of Wyou-
ing, a member of the graduating class
was lying i'll Sitting up in bed the sick
boy received his diploma from the presi-
dent who made a few appropriate re-
marks in which he expressed the hope
that he would soon be out. The presi-
dent was then given an opportunity of
witnessing the customary prank of the
plebs throwing the graduation class out
of amusement.
After luncheon the president and par
ty went aboard the torpedo boat Gwynn
for a short trip on Chesapeake bay. af-
ter which they viii take the train for
WASHINGTON