The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-28
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TUO BANDS AND TWO PAR4DES
IN OYSTER DAY.
They Play Different Tunes NJ Once and
Scare HOrse-GuRrd Knocks Down .
Man VIM bushes Up to Shake Hands
MARTY" Townsend Makes Holiday.

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MARTY" Townsend Makes Holiday.
OYSTER BAY, l.. l.. June e7.-President
Roosevelt arrived at Oyster Bay this after
noon for his summer vacation. and WAS
greeted with rousing double header cele-
bration The Oyster Bay Board OF Trade,
Of which the President Ia a member. with
its following, vas one head and Maurice
+. Townsend, brother of ex-Assemblyman
Townsend. was most Of the other head.
Everything was new and on a big scale
There were two bands. which sometimes
played different tunes at the same time;
two marshals, two well-defned parts in the
parade, and two baseball games.
The Presidential special got in at 430
o'clock, five minutes late. The station
platform and the space for a considerable
distance near it were packed with people.
Seven Secret Service men. followed by
Capt. McClusky, with fifteen detectives,
piled of and got busy with the crowd as
the President. accompanied by Secretary
Loeb appeared on the rear platform Of
the train. A mighty shout went up. and the
air was filled with futtering handkerchiefs
and swinging hats.
Besides Secretary Loeb, Frank C. Travers,
vice-president of the Oyster Bay Board Of
Trade; NJ. &. Latta. the official stenog
rapher, and Assistant Secretary Barnes
were with the President.
More than COO children from the Cove
school. which President Roosevelt y children
attend, and from the High School here
we're drawn up before the train arrived
in two lines along the avenue. The girls
were al! dressed in white and eacl carried
an American flag. The two brass bands
also were there One in military uniform
played for the Board OF Trade, the school
teachers and the school trustees: The
other band belonged to Marty Town
sends staff His musicians wore white
duck trousers.
Marty announced few days ago that the
Board of Trade committee for the celebra-
lion did not contain representative men. He
ea he E. s. to get up hsG
colored veterans OF the civil war and
about AZ many old white soldiers. besides
himself, backed up in front OF his band at
the entrance to the station as the President,
hanked by the Secret Service men and the
detectives. started OF on foot through sand
several inches deep up Andria avenue
Townsend's tooteB didn't toot. and the
Board Of Trades uniformed musicians fell
in behind the President in the place of
honor.
Dul tIey ullH pay, eilIlcf' dIN ~ Wdb
said that his was a part of the compromise
effected between the factions-that the
Board Of Trades ba nd should lead the way
up to the Town Clerks Office, but that
neither should play during the trip up, and
that Townsend's band should furnish the
music on tho march toward Sycamore
Hill after the exercises.
The President and his escort had not
gone far between the lines OF cheering
schoolchildrcn when short. thiokset
,.,l AAA kNx>x( "a
made for the President with outstretched
arms. The Secret Service men sprang
at him. One landed with his fist on the
mans jaw and knocked him completely
over the rope at the side OF the road. Az
the intruder fell his shoulder struck lit
too.
The breath was knocke d out OF her, and
II took several minutes to bring her around.
The man who ran into the road said lie
only wanted to shake hands with the Pree-
ident
Mrs. Roosevelt and Ave Of her children.
Quentin, Kermit, Archie, Ethel and 1heo-
dore. Jr with Mrs. j. West Roosevelt, were
at the Town Clerks Office waiting for ths
President. The President waved to them
quickly to the old civil war cannon which
the Navy Department recently presented
to the Oyster Bay Board OF Education and
unveiled it. Turning, he greeted his family
and then called loudly for chair to stand
on. Everybody was cheering when he
began to speak and he had to make two
or three starts before he could make him
self heard. He said:
My friends and neighbors, thank you
heartily, more heartily than can express,
wonder If some of you remember what I
shall never forget? The way that you
came out to greet me nearly five years ago
when got home from Santiago. ICheers.l
] thought some Of you would remember 1t.
Since I last saw you have been across
the shore of the Atlantic Ocean across the
Alleghanies across the Mississippi Valley,
by the side OF the Great Lakes. over the
Rocky Mountains, To the shore OF the Pacific. |
and the thing that has struck me most in that
journey OF nearly 1907 miles Is the essen
tial unity of our nople-that wherever
an American President goes here in the |
United States he feels himself to be at homo |
u mong those who feel as he does and who |
have the same ideals.
know 40 well. The older among you l |
have known for some thirty years and over.
My children are now growing up here just |
as grew up, and hope they will do better
IN keeping out OF mischief. aughter.l
you show me the feeling that you have
shown this afternoon. and Of which you
have given evidence 20 often before. When !
get back here. am not the President,
am your old neighbor and friend lap
plausc| and in welcoming all Of you, l |
want to say am particularly pleased to see
here the children.
las you know. believe in children lap
plause , and am very glad that the chill
1ren of Oyster Bay seem to he all right in
quality and also INDIGNANTLY. Applause
Now l shant try to make any speech to
you, and shall just say again, my friends,
my neighbors, with whom have lived so
ong, whom l know 20 we'll and to whom
ain knit by such close ties, thank you
rom my heart, and am deeply touched by
your greeting me this afternoon" APP
clause.
The President and his family started
or Sycamore Hill in two open carriages.
Immediately after the exercises Townsend
md his band started right behind the
Presidents carriage. MARTY" tried to
'hakc hands with the President over the
,arriage wheel. Secret Service man
with him and Townsend went
O the roadside The President saw him.
,eckoned Ia him and Marty got his
hnke.
-Plav up, boys!" he yelled to his musicians.
rhey did, until the Pr sident and his party
disappeared over the brow of the hill.
Before the President reviewed the school
,hildren from the steps OF the Episcopal
.hurci,. Isaac Baldwin. farmer. of Locust
Valley. had an unpleasant experience
Townsend's band was playing, III You
Mint Got No Money You Needn't Come