The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-16
PRESIDENT 70 HOLD A LEvEE.
He WIN Talk "a Many. hut Not on the Munich
pal Campaign.

OYSTER BAY. L. l., Sept. l5.-President
Roosevelt OH his trip TO Ellis Island to-
morrow. besides inspecting the immigra-
ton service. will confer with more than
score Of men prominent In public anairS'
II IN said however, on authority, that IN"
talks with the President will have nothing
whatever TO do with the New York mum
cipal campaign,
Senator Plat of Connecticut will H""
the President, and. IL Senator Platt's pres
ence can be taken as criterion, Their. may
be discussion Of the proposed hnan'mi
legislation. Senator Plat Is moinb"r
of the subcommittee of the Senate Com
mittee on Finance, and he has not r"rh 'h"
President since the Republican memb"r-
ship of the committee came here more than
a month ago to consult with the President
on remedial currency legislation, III"
President will talk with some Of hls visitors
on the island and with others on iii" Sylph'
The Sylph will leave here tomorrow at
o'clock. The Presidents party will be
composed Of Mrs. Roosevelt. Prof. Albert g.
Hart of Harvard University, Prof. j. Is.
Moore of Columbia. Grant La Fargo OF
New York. Owen Wister. the writer Secre-
tary Loeb, representatives of the three press
associations and four Secret Service agents.
Prof. Hart, Prof Moore. Mr.. La Fargo and
Owen Wister are spending the night at
Sycamore Hill They will leave the Presi-
dents party soon after Mr.. Roosevelt lands
at Ellis Island. Mrs. Roosevelt also will
not remain at Ellis Island. She will 60
to New York to visit for day or two at the
home of Douglas Robinson.
The Sylph. it is expected, will go to Ellis
Island considerably before noon. Com
missioner Williams and other immigration
officials will be present from Washington.
The party will have luncheon on the island
1t is expected that the inspection will be
over at O'Clock Then the Presi-
dent will board the Sylph and remain there
until nearly 10 o'clock, when he will go to
the Pennsylvania Railroad station in jersey
which will lake him to the battlefield Of
Antietam, where he is to speak al the un-
yelling Of a memorial monument erected
by New Jersey.
Gov. Mnrphy's train will leave Jersey
City at midnight. The Governor and his
party will probably be picked up at Newark,
The train will 60 over the Pennsylvania
land Valley Railroad to Hagerstown, Md,
where it will take the Norfolk and Western
Railroad to Antetam. Returning, the
President will leave the battlefield late on
Thursday afternoon, arriving IN Jersey
City early the next morning. The Sylph
will take the President directly to Oyster
Bay.
The President entertained several guests
this afternoon. Bellamy Storer, Arnbassa
dor to Austria Hungary, was one OF the visi-
tors. He has been in this country for SOW
eral weeks and sails on the return trip to-
morrow. He came merely to pay his re-
spects He believes that both Russia and
Austria will do everything possible to avert
a war between Turkey and Bulgaria Mr.
Storer said. however. that he believed the
danger of a war between Turkey and Eul-
garia was serious, but he did not expect
any definite move IN the matter by either
Russia or Austria until after the Car meets
the Emperor at Vienna the latter part of
this month
Prof. J. W. jerks of Cornell University
was another guest. Prof. jerks has recently
returned from tho Philippines. where he has
been investigating financial and economical
problems for the Administration. 1t il
supposed that he made an informal report
Of the results of his labors.
Other visitors were Willis l.. Ogden, chair
man of the Civil! Service Board OF New York
William J. Matheson Of New York. State
Senator William Mckinney Representative
James 8 Sherman and Charles Yates of
Utica Mrs. John Van Worst. the writer,
and Gen. James r. O'Berne Of New York.
Among the guests of President Roosevelt
at Ellis Island to-day will be William II.
grafton. Eugene A. Philbin. Robert w.
De Forest, Frank C. Travers. Senator o. H,
Platt of Connecticut. Commissioner-Gen-
eral of immigration Sargent, Nathan
Blur Arthur Won Briesen, Thomas w.
Hynes and Jacob Riis.