The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-06-17
The President Enjoyed Every
Minute Of His Stay.
THOMAS NELSON PAGE
AND j. w. DANIEL REPLY
The Students Added His Name to Their
College Yell, and Sang that He's
Jolly Good Felow-The Pres
ident Rides Horseback to
MonticeIIo-Never Had
Warmer Welcome. AZ
Especial from a STAFF correspondent.)

Especial from staff Correspondent.)
CHARLOTTESVILLE. VA. June 1s--
The welcome extended the President here
to-day had every suggestion OF the open
door. The gates Of the little University &
town were thrown wide open to tha
Executive OF the nation. and 1t Is safe to
say that on the fourteen thousand mile
trip which he has Just made In the Vest
ern section of the Union he has not any
where received a welcome more cordially
hospitable than was extended him and IA
Mrs. Roosevelt here to-day. #
From the time the train arrived shortly
past noon. until 1t pulled OF the Union
Station for Washington when the shad-
auws of evening We're filling up the valleys
around beautiful Charlottesville the peo-
sple-nen and women, officials of the city
and the University. college boys, the cit
liens of the town and the hundreds OF
farmer folk who came in to see the Pres
ident OF the United States-all exerted 4
themselves to make him feel that he had II
come down to the house of his friends
land that the heartiest hand Virginia, could
SAtend was outstretched to greet him. 5S5s
ROOSEVELT ENJOYED 1T.
And he enjoyed every bit of it. Mr..
Roosevelt told a member Of his party this
afternoon as he was iourneying to the
tomb OF Jefferson at Monticello that he
had not in a long while had a more en-
.jcyable day than the one just closing at "
Charlottesville. Virginians will be ready
to believe that If the President did not
have a good time to-day it woulu be hard
for him to find conditions suitable for
the full enjoyment OF six or eight hours.
For the finest men that the old State II
can furnish We're here to welcome. him.
They We'd with each other In efforts to u
honor him and make him fully realize
that he was on the sacred soil OF Vir-
ginia.
From the mountains to the sea these
sons of the University came to greet the
lead of the nation, and to the spectator
i ere was as much OF interest in the per-
sonnel of the assemblage which met the Il
President as In the President himself,
For as Northern man expressed ii
this afternoon. the President was only
of the finest types Of the American citi-
zen and the Virginia gentleman to greet
him.
TIcKLED vIRG1NIA's PRIDE.
1t would be hard to imagine man
giving tho appearance of more thorough,
enjoyment than the President. And 1t \
would be difficult to conceive OF an ad-
which every Virgtnian has in his State
than the one which he delivered in the
University auditorium. The tributes
which he paid to the greatness of Vir-
Gnia We're OF the henrtiest charac :er.
and no native Of the Old Dominion could
have said moro OF his State than did the
President of the United States.
In his SDecCh at the alumni banuueE .I
the President, too, in alludius to what
had been done In the upbuildins Of the
navy by secretaries who had worn the
blue and those who had worn the gray,
excited the heartiest enthusiasm. Or.
Thomas Nelson Page. In his address at
the luncheon, In response to the toast.
Tho president" paid the highest tri-
butte TO the character OF the present oc- (
cupant OF the White House. and con-
cluded with the remark: HE has not q
drop Of New England blood In his veins;
he comes of the middle stock OF the
Middle States and the South"
Tho tremendous applause which fol.
lowed this declaration made one think
that the people who gave the President
such a warm welcome must have thought
something of the kind before Mr.. Page
said It,
DANIEI, suRPASsEs HIMSELF.
Nothing could have been much finer
than tho address delivered by Senator
Daniel, 1t means a great deal to say
that he surpassed himself; yet certain
IT Is that never heard him to such
advantage, and l found that there were
many who have been listening to him
on similar occasions for years who en-
tirely agreed with mo that the address,
which he delivered at the luncheon IN
response to the toast, "Virginia," wax
In every respect the best effort OF his
which they had heard.
All tho addresses We're good. far from
the average for ths best men in ths
country made them,
1t has been a great day for the Uniyer-
city, ROUNDED by President OF thu
United States. for the third time IN ita
history a President has come down to
take part In the final exercises. ~
A JOLLY GOOD i 4iLLOW,
The hearty manner In which Mr.. Roosss
Welt entered into the exercises. tho cor.
dial way In which he met thu advances
OF his hosts, captured them completely.
and old men were seen to unite In the coi-
lege yells of the hoys, ending with
'If3- o. o-s -e,y-e-l-t" "F'or he's q folly good
fellow'' sang group OF University grad
uates on, the lawn In front of the bans
Duet hall as the President cane out to
go on his ride to Monticello Many others N
caught up the words of the song, and
shAsA nt tha alumni who did RAT sins