The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-09
PRESIDENT IN FLOWER LAND.
REVIEWS THE PARADE At THE
Los ANGELES FESTIVAL.
Beautiful Display There and Al Other
California Cities--Peited with Hoses
by the children AZ Clarein0nt "A
Chinese Dragon Furnishes Amusement.

de Flores OF Los Angeles had President
Roosevelt for Its centre to-day. Tonight
found him an enthusiastic but very tired
President. He has seldom, il ever, found
such enthusiasm for the Presidential Office
as has been shown in this city Of flowers.
Even the stold Chinese rose In their glory
and made merry most gorgously; and
pretty girls!--nobody ever knew that there
were 20 many in the world. They rode
in nower-bowered carriages. They sat in
windows and on grand stands, They stood
in windows and sauted the President with
continuous saueals and giggles Of delight.
The uproar began with the arrival Of the
President at the Santa Fe station at
O'Clock. No crowd had been expected in
he downtown streets and no preparation
had been made to keep 1t In order. There
was a crowd there which made the stree.
almost impossible until the Secret Service
men, handful OF policemen and some
mounted lnilitiamen combined with Teddy's
Terrors to break way through.
There was a slow parade up to the hotel,
where the President had lunch. Right after
lunch the President went to the head Of
the column Of the flower parade and pre-
coded it through the streets to the review
ing stand amid storms Of cheers.
The parade itself was as beautiful as a
flower parade ought to be in the most beauti-
full flower year that California has ever
known From the marshals. with saddle
blankets of carnations and roses. and all
the horse treppings hidden by twisted ropes
Of blossoms, to the automobile disguised
into a submarine torpedo boat, beneath a
cigar-shaped mass Of red and yellow flowers.
il was simply a long, twisting ribbon OF
flowers. Teddys Terrors, the Los Angeles
organization that has been escorting him
up the Coast. sat on the pavement opposite
the reviewing stand and commented freely
on all the features Of the parade, including
the many very beautiful girls who SUR
mounted the floats. The girls encouraged
the comments by smiling at tho Terrors
almost as graciously as they smiled at the
President when he rose to bow to them.
But when the Chinese delegation cams
along with its many changing gongs and
wonderfully embroidered banners and the
MISUNDERSTANDING $50, 900 golden dragon,
borne sinuously on the backs Of forty China
men, the crowd fairly went crazy and the
President laughed uproarious1y.
The dragon was very awesome object.
Iobbed from one side Of the street to the
other and circled around from curb to curb
with most horrifying effect. As it ap-
preached the reviewing stand one OF the
Terrors, seeing the Presidents head turned
away. yelled: Look out. Mr. President.
The President saw the thing, and then.
assuming great horror. put his hands to his
mouth and shouted:
Il know that you will protect me-
The most enthusiasm on the Presidents
part was shown when the children passed.
waving their little hands and throwing
kisses at him.
The President spoke to fighting, pushing
mob in a corner Of Central Park for fifteen
minutes He had to speak to the crowd
the women, whose screams now and then
came from the middle.
There was banquet. With no speech
making. at the Hotel tonight. and the
only little less beautiful than the flower
parade in the afternoon Resides Score
tary Moody, ex-Speaker Henderson ac-
companied the President in reviewing the
parade.
Charles F. Lummis. we'll known as a
writer and as an indefatigable student OF
Western life and geology and natural his
tory. who has accompanied the President
from the Grand Canon of the Colorado. left
him here to-day. Los Angeles Is Mr.. L,im-
The first place visited ! y the. President
this morning was Claremont. the site OF
Pomona College. IA in every town to which
he has come IN 6OuNneTn We IOdu-
way, already rendered dustless by spray
ing with the California asphalt oil, was
strewn with great sheaves OF fresh roses;
Hundreds of children lined his path and
hurled more roses at him until his eyeglasses
we're Knocked Of and he had to duck in
self-defence.
Pasadena repeated the greeting Of flowers
and children but multiplied It many times.
An interesting part of the Pasadena pro
granlme was that of driving the President
|. /. = al Residences
If prominent citizens to the front doors OF
their homes, where the lady OF the house
saluted the President and those in each
following carriage with a hospitable bow.
had much JOY in Watching the battle be-
tween the Legislature and the Governor,
which began when the Legislature forced
the Governor to get a special train OF MS
own e bring s0ng b his GSs1nar o. GAIT
fornia seldom rides in the carriage with
the sixth carriage among the correspond
ents, at Pasadena. At Claremont he
was in No s. Here he was ,, Pack IN IN he
President to get into the reviewing stand.
The whole Pacific Coast is upset with labor
troubles. To-day the only bare spots
along the route OF the parade were those
stopped midway by strikes. The Presi-
dent, after dwelling on the wonderful de-
veIopnen, of California agriculture, .ad.
dressed what was intended az a word OF
admonition to those responsible for the
disturbances in business in this State. He
said at Pasadena
am not going to talk to you very long thus
morning because | am too much interested
in your community. want 70 see all can
soc. We speak often Of the old pioneer days
end the wonderful feats Of our countrymrn
in those DAYS. but we ar" living right IN the
middle Of them now. only we are living unGer
pleasanter auspices. II IL well nigh N redlole
That all Of this that have been looking Mt
the city 'hc development OF the country
has occurred within twenty years: that
twenty years only separate the sheep pasture
from this city from the fertile, irTigated
region round ABOUT. 1t is hard to believe y
You have built M this ne" community ana
yet have preserved all the, charm. all the
refinement OF the oldest civilization. 90,
Yesterday and to-day have been traveilne
through what Is literally a garden q the
Lord. in sight Of the majestic and wonderful!
scenery OF the mountains, goinS over TINS
plain titled by the hand OF man as you have
titled It until 1t has blossomed like the roset
hlossoned as never dreamed in my ilie
that the rose could blossom until came mere.
We are all pretty much alike In believing
unqunlifediv in the future of the country:
! believe in the average American. In the
average standard of our citizenship. sno l
believe that, serious though the problems
are that now confront us, they Will al pe
solved exactly as the soldiers Of 81 tS o5
solved the far more serious problems " we
al than in the same spirit In wn1Cn