Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-05-02
ROOSEVELT GUEST Of
KANSAS CITY, MO.
Missourians Extend Ovation
to Nations Chief.
MAYOR PRcLAIMs A HOLIDAY.

Over One Hundred Thousand People
Greet Nations Chef-He Reviews
Nearly Thirty Thousand School Chill
dren-SaIutes Fired.
Kansas City, Mo-, May President
Roosevelt spent five hours in Kansas
City, Mo, today and later was the
guest Of Kansas City, Kans., just
across the state line, for two hours,
leaving for the west at 4 o'clock in
the afternoon In the two cities the
president was driven over a route Is
miles long, reviewed nearly 10000
school children, made two speeches,
one at Convention hall, before the
| greatest crowd that the noted structure
ever held, and partook of lunch soon
after at the Baltimore hotel as the
guest of the Commercial club of Kan
sas City, Mo. In the party there
was Elias Root, secretary of war, who
joined the party at ST. Louis at the
| express wish of the president
Accorded Enthusiastic Reception.
The reception given President Roose-
Welt was intensely enthusiastic, and
it is estimated that 100000 persons,
| several thousand coming to town from
| surrounding places, greeted him. The
| schools were closed, business general
ly was suspended, the mayor having
proclaimed holiday, and many resi-
dences and business houses were dec
| GRATED
| The presidential party arrived from
st. Louis at $40 in the morning and
were met by a reception committee
at Fifteenth street and Askew avenue,
miles from the business center.
The reception at the train was brief
and informal. Five members of the
committee, J. F. Richards and A. M.
Glendenning, president and secretary
respectively of the Commercial club:
Fl. w Evans, chairman of the recep-
tion committee; Mayor J. A. Rex and
Colonel William H Nelson, entering
the private car.
There was a crowd on hand and it
cheered from the moment the train
hove in sight until the presidents
carriage moved away for a drive. A
detachment Of mounted police togeth
er with the Third regiment NJ. N. G.,
which had just returned from ST.
Louis, acted as an escort. The route
starting from the train took in miles
of Kansas City's boulevard system.
Greeted by 10000 Children.
Passing first through the Pare. a
driveway mile in length, the presi-
dent was greeted by over 10000 chill
dren, white and black, from private
and public schools, who stood seven
deep in the grass plot between two
drive ways and forming a line that
extended for three BLOCKS When
President Roosevelt appeared, each of
the children waved tiny American
flag, cheering all the while, and while
the president passed, thousands of
voices broke forth in singing "Ameri-
ca" In the bright sunli rht the thou
sands of happy-faced children backed
by rows OF residences. decorated and
covered with spectators, proved one
OF the most pleasing features of the
day. After traversing Berton Glad
stone boulevard the party stopped and
viewed the landscape from Scarritt's
Point, which overlooks the Missouri
river, 200 feet above that stream. Then
the party was driven through the bus
mess section to Convention hall
where the principal exercises of the
day were held. The great hall was
reached at few minutes after II.
There the two sections of the reception
committee were consolidated.
Hall ProfuseIy Decorated.
The decorations of the hall were
profuse and every available foot of
space in the hall, which has a seating
capacity of $4,000, was occupied. AS
President Roosevelt emerged on to
the stage the band started THE Star
6pangled Banner" and the current
was turned on in two electric flags
that formed part of the ceiling decor
ations. Instantly the crowd broke
into tremendous cheers, while 80
Harvard graduates with vigor gave
their college cry ending with the
word" Roosevelt" Portions of the
hall were set apart for federal and
confederate soldiers, of whom there
were 500, a body of the Daughters of
the Revolution and the officers of the
Third regiment On the platform.
besides the presidential party, were
the members of the reception com
mittee.
President Roosevelt was introduced
H. r A 4
tion took place as he arose to speak.
The president spoke for Is minutes
Shortly before noon the start was
made for the Baltimore hotel, where,
after a brief reception in the parlors,
| a luncheon, perhaps the most elabor.
ate ever given in Kansas City, was
served The guests numbered 140.
The luncheon over, the president
was delivered into the hands of the
committee of Kansas City, Kans., and
became the guest of that city Evan
H. Brown, president of the Mercan-
tile club presented President Roose.
velt with a large silk sunflower and
he was escorted to a carriage decor
ated with sunfowers and silken Amer
! lean flags. company of the Fourth
United States cavalry and squad of
mounted police acted as escort to the
state of Kansas. When the party
started beneath the bluff overlooking
the union depot, a presidential salute
was fired from cannon placed high
above the procession.
His Strenuous Way.
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