The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-07
PRESIDENT GIVES DIPLOMAS.
PUPILS TRAVEL 100 MILES TO
RECEIVE THEN FROM HIS HANDS.
Flagstaff, AP1z., High.SciiooI Class
Meets Him at Grand Canyo0--Presi.
dent Rides Thirty Miles Through the
CanyOB-Now on Ills way 10 Calf Ornis.


Canyop-Now on His way 10 Califor
GRAND CANON, Ariz., May CATER a
night made somewhat restless by the super
abundantly expressed enthusiasm Of some
| OF the populace OF Arizona President
Roosevelt has refreshed himself to-day by
q visit to the mighty cafion OF the Colorado.
Early this morning no went out on horse
back to Rowe's Point with Dr.. Nicholas
Murray Butler, DR.. Rixey and Gov. Brodi
On his return to the hotel at the terminus
Of the Grand Canon branch he spoke to
several hundred people. many Of whom
came in on excursion trains from Phoenix
and Flagstaff The President, at the end
Of his speech handed the diplomas to the
graduates OF the Flagstaff High School,
who came all the hundred miles from home
IL order TO receive them from his hands.
The President said in part:
"Ihave come here to zee the Grand Caiion
OF Arizona, because In thst canon Arizona
know, 10 in 1t kind absolutely unparalleled
throughout the rest Of the world. Jap
plause. shall not attempt TO describe It,
because cannot. could not choose words
that would convey or that could convey
to ask you to do one thing In connection
with it In your own interest. and In the
interest Of the country.
Keep this great wonder Of nature as it
of s ash1 Ras Learn Of dee ss nsd no
to build their hotel on the brink Of the
canon. l hope you will not have build
ing OF any kind not summer cottage. a
hotel or anyt hing else, to mar the wonderful
grandeur. sublimity.. the great loneliness
and beauty Of the canon.
Leave it as it ID. You cannot improve
on 1t; not bit. The ages have been at
work on 1t, and man can only mar It. What
you can do is to keep it for your children
your children's children and for all who
which every American. II he can travel
at all should see Keep the Grand Canyon
as IL Is.
We have gotten past the stage. fellow
citizens. when we are to be pardoned il
as sonnet hing to be skinned for two or three
years for the use Of the present generation.
Whether 1t is the forest. the wafer, the
scenery. whatever It Is. handle IL 80 that
your childrens children will get the benefit
Apply irrigation under circumstances
that will make 1t Of benefit, not to the specu-
htor who hopes to get profit out Of 1t for
two or three years, but SO that 1t will he of
use to the home-ma kers-to the man who
comes to live and to have his children
stay after him"
In the afternoon the President and his
party went up the cahon and rode for thirty
miles, Lunch was served fifteen miles
up the trail. He left for Williams and the
main line Of the Santa Fe on his way to
California at 9 o'clock this evening
One Of the first to meet the President
on his arrival was Ben. Daniels. Mr..
Daniels, it will be remembered, was nom-
mated and confirmed as United States
Marshall for Arizona; his final establish
ment in the Office was upset by the discovery
that in early life he had stolen horses and
had suffered the laws penalty for the in
discretion.
The President, in withdra wing the nomi-
nation, said that he did it because Daniels
had concealed his past and not on account
Of youthful wrongdoing. in which he had
been the catspaw OF other men. for which
he had atonsd by a righteous life spent in
the maintenance OF the law.
The, President apparently feels that Mr..
Daniels is now square with the world and
eligible to any Office which he Is fitted
mentally and physically to administer.
The President had reception for former
members of his regiment for half an hour
before the departure OF his train