Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12
ROOSEVELT ON ROAD AGAIN
President Resumes His Trip Among the
Wonders Of California.
THROWS BOUQUET FOR PACIFIC COAST
Says Every Good American Citizen
that Can should visit the Slope
in order to Understand
Its Greatness.

PAJARO, Cal, May 1.-THE presidential
train left Del Monte at s o'clock this morn
ing. A detachment Of the Fifteenth infan-
try, commanded by Captain SWEET, accom-
panied the president from his hotel to the
train. After the men had been drawn up
in line the president stepped up in front Of
them and, addressing Captain SWEET, asked
him to convey mis- thank to the officers
and men of the Fifteenth infantry for the
good care they had taken Of him during
his stay at Del Monte. A company of this
regiment guarded the hotel last night and
kept intruders from the grounds.
At Pajaro a stop of ten minutes was
made, during which President Roosevelt
made a short address to the crowd col
lected at the station.
In his remarks the president said;
1t seems to me every good American that
ize how much of our country's greatness in
the future will lie with the slope. l did not
need to come out here In order to believe
enough and believed in you with all my
heatr, but II has done me good to be In
touch with you. The thing that has i'm
pressed ms most in coming from the At
lantic across to the Pacific is that good
Americans are good Americans in every
part of this country.
SANTA CRUZ, Cal, May 1i.-Presidens
Roosevelt was given an ovation here this
morning. The train arrived at 1855.
His carriage was driven through an ave-
nue. OF thousands of school children with
waving flags, who for a mile scattered
flowers along his pathway. The cheers of
the children were taken up by the pio-
neers, the Grand Army, the Knights of
Pythias and citizens.
When the carriage stopped in front of
the court house the cheering was vigorous.
On being introduced by Mayor Clark the
president, whose smiles testified to his ap-
probation of the reception, said:
I thank you from the bottom of my
heart. II is a pleasure for me to see the
men of the naval militia, If there is one
thing this country is alive to, ii is our
navy. We must believe in a frst-class
| navy. We already have a good navy, but
we must have a better one. Not only
towers and turrets, but expert men with
them. We cannot afford to neglect our
navy. We must build IT up; we must have
men to man them.
I am glad to see your big trees and to
see that they are being gnI preserved Ssei 81 They isy
ages. They should be left unmarried for
our children and our children's children,
] and so on down the ages.
Preceded by the naval reserves and band
the procession moved slowly up the streets
to a special train. The big trees wero
reached in fifteen minutes and the party
sat down to an al fresco luncheon, twenty
of Santa Cruz's p~rettiest girls waiting o.
the tables. The naval reserves and ON
GERS acted as a guard. At the close OF
the repast the president said:
l want TO thank you for your courtesy
and to say how much l enjoy being here.
This is my first glimpse of the big trees.
Let me preach to you a moment. All of
us desire 10 see nature preserved. Above
ali. the trees should not be marred by
placing cards OF names on them. People
aged. The cards give an idea of ridlcule
TO the solemn and majestic giants. They
should be taken down. / ask you 70 keep
| all cards on the trees, or any kind of
signs that will mar them. See to IL that
the trees are preserved; that the gift from
nature is kept unmarried. You can never
replace a tree.
The president requested hat he be un-
accompanied In his walk among the trees.
and President Butler was his only com
panlon. While he was away Secretary
Loeb, President Wheeler and others acted
on the presidents suggestion by tearing
down the cards from the trees amid great
applause.
Al 1850. amid great cheering from the
large crowd, the train left for San Jose.
seeing the Sights.
SAN JOSE, Cal. May n.-From Pajaro
the president went to Santa Cruz. a pic
turesque city and seaside resort on the
northeastern shores Of Monterey bay,