The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-02
CHEERING BEGINS.
Sounds of Chicago Greeting
Reached Across the River
When President Roosevelt Step
ped From His Train.
FIFTEEN BUSY HOURS.
Will Make the Most of Him
While They Have Him.
Speech on the Monroe Doctrine
Scheduled for Tonight.
FIFTEEN BUSY HOURS.


Chicago, April president Roose-
velt's sixty-six day tour of the west be-
gan in earnest here today when he
stepped from the Pennsylvania special
at s:45 o'clock and was received By
Mayor Harrison and a special reception
committee. not to mention a huge crowa
which made its unofficial presence
known by cheers which could be heard
across the river.
The programme prepared for the pres
ident's fifteen hour stay in this city was
repeated to him by Charles S. Deneen.
chairman Of the reception committee.
and served to remind the president OF
the strenuous nature of the life he will
be called upon to lead during the next
two months. The programme to which
the president gave his hearty approval,
provided for an immediate run to Evan
ston, seventeen miles to the northward,
and a brief address there to the stu
dents of the Northwestern university,
luncheon at 1890 o'clock at the Audi
torium Annex; a trip in the afternoon
to the University of Chicago, where the
president was to receive the degree OF
IL. D: a banquet at $50 at the Audi
torium. he being the guest of 11O citf-
which the president will deliver one OF
the most significant addresses Of his
tour on sThe Monroe Doctrine"
President Roosevelt smiled his appre-
citation when informed by Mr.. Deneeh
that every available foot of space in the
/ Auditorium theater had been assigned.
and that hundreds of people who were
clamoring for seats could not be ac-
comnodated.
While the greetings were being ex-
nj a nd 1n171E Of IA
committee and the Evanston hosts We're
presented by Mayor Harrison. the presi-
dents special train was switched to the
tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee & SA
Paul road for the run to the north shore
/ suburb AS the guest of President
James and P. D. Sheppard of North
/ western university and F. P. Crandon.
G. b Jenkins and ]. G. Shaffeg or
Evanston. the presidential party with
in a half hour after arrival, again en-
tered the cars anQ amid the cheers OF
the assembled crowds and the waVina
Of hats the train pulled pulled out OF
the station.
AT EVANSTON.
At Evanston the president was greet
headed by detachment of cavalry
from Fort Sheridan and military
band, the party made its way through
lanes of school children on the street Is
and of capped and gowned students OF
the campus to the steps of Lunt library.
AS the university grounds were entered
a salute Of II guns was fired.
President James of the university
welcomed the president. saying in part:
You, sir, are the first president of
the twentieth century, not merely IL
time but in temper Your predecessors
for more than fifty years looked for
ward to, grappled with, or looked back
upon problems of the nineteenth ceH-
tury-problems which seem to US now
more than a century old They belong
to history You are the first to face
irRGOlnfalX and f11lIX the nrnhlpnS of
new genera ton and a new age. May
God grant you wisdom and strength to
inaugurate this new era. and as un-
paralleled opportunities have come to
you so may unparalleled success attend
you. We thank you. sir, not only in the
name of this institution not only in the
name of this college and of this univeT-
Slty. but all other colleges and ali other
universities. for the grand illustratio
which you have given to US and ouF
faculty and our students of the fact
that college life and college opportunity
properly lived and properly utilized are
a most valuable element in the prepara-
ton of the manifold activities of the
great world outside. Welcome, thrice
/ welcome. to our midst
TALKS TO STUDENTS
The president was then introduced by
President lanes and was received with
deafening cheers.
Addressing the students the president
referred to the value of a college edu-
cation THE better your training ne
said, the better the work you can do.
We have no room for the idler-the
man who wishes to live a comfortable
life. and if d man has not the right
spirit IN him. if he goes from this or
any other university feeling that that
fact puts him in a special class, he wis
fail But if he feels that he has re-
ceived special advantage to succeed in
this life and proceeds vigorously with
that special advantage in reserve. he
will succeed
He spoke of athletic sports and
stamped his approval upon them ane
dweit upon their value in success. IN
tellectuai supremacy. he said, was gooc
Physical Drowess was desirable, but
better than all. and without which none
acter. At the conclusion of the Dresi-
train and was hurried back to the city
route crowds gathered at the stations
nations chief Arriving again at the
union station carriages were taken tc
the Auditorium.
After luncheon the president was sss-
corted to the University of Chicago
where he win receive the degree Of LII
D. in the presence of the professors
and 5000 students of the University and
+ Morgan Park academy Later he vii
assist in laying the corner stone of ths
: new law school building and make {
brief address.
RODE ON THE ENGINE