Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1903-04-28

1t lies upon ourselves to determine
| ] our own fate.
But virtue Of a purely cloistered
| type, the virtue that sits at home In !
! its own perlor, does not count.
plause that greeted him from every man.
woman and child. As the president reached
his carriage he found himself the target Of
an array of cameras. Observing them,
he smiled and then took a seat with his
back to the artists, who we're compelled
to grab their instruments and run for an
other setting
In the Carriages.
Eleven carriages we're in the parade. The
president occupied the first one, with Sec
retary Loeb, Senator Millard and Thomas
A. Fry president of the knights Of Ak
Sar- Ben The remainder of the carriages
we're occupied as follows:
Carriage No. 2-Members of presidents
Carriage No 3.--Assistant Secretary
! Barnes, Surgeon General Rixey, Mayor
Moores and II. j.. Penfold.
otSTi Carriage % No, 5-senator Dietrich, Gov
ernor Mickey, General Manderson, Con-
Carriage No. s--I. A. Coleman, R. H.
| Hazard, l.. benson, X. &. Howe.
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Carriage No. s-George B. Luckey, Il.
a. Strohmeyer, L. l.. KOuntze, c. II. Will
Carriage No, 9-P,, W, Williams, ]. P.
Carriage No, lo~D. IL Mercer. NJ A.
Carriage No 1i-Members of the presi-
dents party.
Along the Line of March.
1t was just 5:1s when ten mounted police
ofhcered by Sergeant Hayes, swung out
upon the viaduct and headed north between
avenues of people that extended in angled
lines clear to the Omaha club, and num-
bered 100000 at least calculation.
Twenty-four members of the South
Omaha cavalry troop in full uniform dashed
from the sides Of the viaduct and took posi-
tion in the lead. Behind them came Major
o. @. osborne's battalion, including the
! Thurston Rifles, fifty men: the Omaha
. G&Ards, dfty 5nsn,. and the Millard, ,R ideas
forty men, After these were the 200 High
, School cadets, under Captain l.. Higgins.
, Abbott's Musical Union band and then,
81 at he sides OF and behind the presi-
/ dents carriage a special equestrian escort
, of twenty-five under Colonel Martin Of
? South Omaha Upon the seat with the
driver was one OF the presidents own
a
on foot, four others. The carriage, a superb
afIair, was drawn by a span of the hand
soonest blacks in Omaha, with the driver
In dark livery.
3 But all these we're scarcely observed by
5 the crowds. II was Theodore Roosevelt
. alone whom the eyes focused upon. And
II was Theodore Roosevelt who stood nearly
all that long drive to wave responses to
{ the old and the young, the fortunate and
h, the unfortunate. the sturdy and the fair
t, who waved and shouted and looked such
cordial greeting.
Enthusiasm at Every Turn.
1t was a well-deported crowd and q
3 courteous one. but 1t was enthusiastic to
r degree and the shout Of greeting trav-
r eled along II as steadily as a great wave
9 Men grown gray with weighty business af-
fairs barred their heads as the nations chief
5 passed them and We'd with their children
in shouting his name. Women, indifferent
to the wind that was playing havoc with
' their hats and gowns, waved dainty hand
t kerchiefs, clapped dainty hands and smiled
such smiles as commoner men can never
{ gain.
When the carriage turned off Tenth street
I onto Howard a secondhand dealer raced
I madly and hatless to the edge OF the curt
I and focused a ten-mile field glass on the
q passing figure. The president Of the United
A States saw him and grinned. AS the car
riage was about to turn on Howard onto
Twelfth hundreds Of working girls in the
windows OF the Byrne Hammer establish
ment waved tiny flags and swelled the
: chorus of cheering. The president Of the
y United States saw them and waved his sill
hat so gayly that all the crowd noticed
It and laughed In sympathy. On Twelfth
just before Harney street was reached
there was a halt and the president anC
his companions changed TO the second car
riage, one better adapted to observation
The driver of the first carriage hesitateC
a moment in confusion and the president
l OF the United States noticed him and said
: "Drive up" in a manner most democratic
n President "A Keen Observer.
l. From Twelfth to Fifteenth streets tn,
q carriages moved up Famam along whicl
: every door and every window and ever
y balcony was crowded full OF waving, cheer
T. ing people of every age and every size AM
: every rank. The president Of the Unitet
e States saw, or seemed to see every groul
: and gave them all a bow or smile o
Z friendly wave. At Fifteenth and Dodge
o men in blue saluted from the windows 0
c the army headquarters. The president 0
II the United States saw them and saluted Fl
= return. In font Of a lodging house at FIT
i teenth and Capitol avenue, where the car
! riages turned west again, blind man stoo,
d in the middle Of the sidewalk, hearing wha
n he could not see. The president OF tn
United States noticed even him and smile
a smile OF such vast sympathy that hi
secretary turned to ascertain what coul
d have provoked 1t. On the steps Of the fed
a eTsl building and on its balcony and In IT
e windows we're hundreds and hundreds o
people. The president Of the United State
Ie took in all OF them and all OF the grea
Is buildings in one swift gaze, then focuse
le his glance on q comely little woman wit
ID three small children who stood at the cur
= Of the sidewalk, aud he bowed to her wit
It an approving Difference that seemed TO at
N test amply the depth OF the sincerity o
le his plea for a full cradle. AS FarnaI
t. street was crossed by the parade now NOV
le ing southwark on Sixteenth, there was
d mighty chorus from all four corners. Tn
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