The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-02
OUR JEWELS, Mr.. PRESIDENT!
CITIES SNOW ROOSEVELT THEIR
WEALTH IN CHILDREN.

ahowing--President Spends M0st Of
the nay There snd In Topeka.
KANSAS CIrr. Mo, May AFTER to-day's
demonstration hero the awful spectre OF
race suicide cannot find a home too gloomy
in which to hide It's execrated head. Iowa
was great In the eyes OF the President as
an indomitable foe to the enemy, but Kan
sas City put forth an exhibition 40 over.
towering that there was nothing left to be
said. Even Secretary Root, who 10 not
given to vain comments on passing events.
was moved to speak out his conviction that
Kansas City had cleared It's skirts af the
Roosevelt charge.
Thirty thousand school children were
gathered along about a mile and half
Of streets to be reviewed by the President.
About Ave thousand Of them were black
and all shades between black and yellow.
The rest we're white. Every school had its
banner and it's individual yell and every
child had an American flag. They screamed
continuously as long as the President was
in sight. They were Of all ages from some
who were hardly able to walk alone to high
school girls and boys Of II and 10. and they
almost danced out Of their clothes in their
glad they were to see him.
1t was quite apparent that the President
reciprocated their feelings. He waved his
left hand at one curb and his hat in his right
hand at the other. He shouted answers
to such greetings as reached him. He
was laughing all the time, and more heartily
than ever when one ridiculously small
person screamed to him. Say, please drive
as slow as you can. and We won't have to
90 back to school,
The drive was continued through the
streets Of the city and thousands Of grown
persons paid their respects in hearty Ameri-
can fashion. He addressed 1900 or more
people in Convention Hall. At one side
Of the hall was delegation Of Harvard
graduates. to the number Of eighty. who
until the President stood up and bowed
to them. A Thousand Civil War veterans,
Of both Federal and Confederate armies,
had the front seats in the big hall. The
President varied 80 much Of his speech
enoe to the gallantry Of the Confederate
armies
A luncheon at the Hotel Baltimore fol-
lowed. The Commercial Club. acting as
host. gave the President silver csrd
eSmmemoratiys q the Sh sion The The
words, Particularly grateful for the warm
and thoughtful and friendly and generous
hospitality" at which everybody in the
room, having read In the newspapers OF
the succe ssive muddles in ST. Louis, broke
into roar Of LAUGHTER and applause. The T.,
comparisons. Secretary Root. President
Nicholas Murray Butler. Of Columbia Uni
versity and Senators Long and Burton
made little speeches. Mr.. Root said.
MIR. Chairman, an ordinary Cabinet
officer served at lunch after a President
Ilaughterl is rather an anti-climax. l
want to congratulate you, however, now
that have the chance, on the evidence that
you have given the President to-day In
the long lines of bright. happy children
has not become epidemic in Kansas City.
,Laughterl
Il want to say one other thing. do not
know whether l ought to say it or not i.
but / will say it anyway 1t Ia that nothing
can hs more to the sb
dent has talked to ,is to-day than having
those same children and all the youths OF
our beloved country taught TO look up to an
example in the chair OF the Chief Magistrate
4 Kansas City. Kan, delegation which
had been waiting with unconcealed jealousy
then hustled the President out Of the lun-
cheon room and took him for drive through
the stock yards.
Topeka, Kan, May 1.-The President
made a short speech at Lawrence, Kan.
The race suicide exhibition there was in
the form Of hundreds Of Indian children
Of all sizes.
At Topeka, Coy. Bailey entertained the
President and the Kansas Senators at
dinner. The President dedicated the Young
Mems Christian Association building and
addressed great multitude Of Kansans
Secretary Root will go as far as juno
ton City, Kan, with the President to-mor-
row.
It came out here that there was very
nearly strike among the hackmen who
drove the carriages in which the President
and his party were taken through the
streets of Kansas City. Mrs. Armour had
offered the committee her best carriage and
and Governor Dockery. The coachman is
not a union man. The Coachmen's Union
met and informed the committee that unless
a union hack and coachman were selected
strike and there would accordingly be no
hacks in town for the entertainment OF the
distinguished guests. The committee
showed fight at once, and it's members
arranged to use their own carriages and act
as, drivers themselves Then the union
Rather than have the President embar.
raised, Mrs. Armour withdrew the offer OF
her carriage.
Ar parting remembrance Of the general
syf tenn of entertainment there, word pa sed
this morning that the laundry OF the Pres j.
dent and Of all his guee ts was held In 81 Louis
because the Monticello Hotel folks refus ed
to receive and pay for it. and there was no
member Of the party around to rescue It.
The last few hours in st. Louis saw the
Pres ident's mes senger scurrying around
in wild haste trying to find that laundry
One Of them, Duany. got left In 81. LOUIS
in the effort. The incident Is trifiing, but,
as q part Of the whole occasion, wonderfully
and beautifully consistent.
At the banquet to the President last night night
olas Murray Butler of Columbia University
were wedged in at the last moment at side
table with the guards, although list Of the
guests the Pres ident would bring with him
had been In the committees hands for
weeks.
Tonight the President addressed the
International Conference Of the Railroad
I'm. c. A., Of which Col. John l.. McCook
Of New York Is presiding officer