The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-06
PRESIDENT TWICE At CHURCH
AND mas A HORSEBACK RIDE
~ SIOUX FALLS.

,.oe,,,op committees Error Sent Him TO
German Lutheran Church In the Morn.
,nr-,ttended Dutch Reformed Service
IN 1, eninx-NO More Late speeches.
s,orx FALLS, S. D., April s.--Through
srgr' Misunderstanding by the enter
tainm,nr committee here, the President
touno il ,cccssary to 60 to church twice
to-day. Word was sent from Washington
% tho SIOUX Falls committee that the Presi-
don't would like TO go to church In Sioux
Tsll, a,l would prefer to attend services
alta Dutch Reformed church II there was
one. Tie committee, 1t Ia apparent, was
moi thoroughly informed as TO the religious
efdlipmcnt of the city. Everything out
bera that is spoken Of as Dutch" Is con-
.,dered German, and the committee, after
some superficial investigation, Was greatly
pleased to learn that there was a German
lutheran church that seemed to Gil the
speclfcat lons TO the letter. They 40
cordIngly arranged for the Presidents
attendance at the Lutheran church.
They were chagrined and shocked, on
the eve Of the Presidents arrival, to receive
representations from the congregation Of a
Reformed church which has fiourished
for years in Sioux Falls witho ut attracting
the attention Of any member OF the COM
mitta, The Reformed church members
wer. greatly hurt and somewhat scandal
ized 10y the way in which they had been
Ignored The committee concluded that
the shortest way out, and the least disa-
ereeahls. az far as they were concerned,
was to have the President attend both
int hn inc nd ha har
in the evening, and he did 50.
Tho general devotional tendencies Of this
particular committee were illustrated by a
colIoquy which took place in the corridor
Of the Cataract Hotel to-day, when Frank
Crane. the chairman OF the Republican
State Committee and an old friend OF the
Pr sd,nt, asked member Of the Reoep-
why, Henry. ! thought you were one OF
those who was to 60 to church with the
President. Didn't you go?'
The committeeman blushed.
why, yes; said he. 4 went up there with
out, III go up and come back with him.
That's all right. isn't II, Frank
The sermon in the Lutheran church was
preached IN German by the Rev. Herman
Sill. president OF the Iowa Lutheran Col
hg4, a former pastor Of the church., who
dent said afterward that 1t was one Of the
bst sermons he had ever heard. 1t Is his
hope. however. that other reception COM
nittees will not and IL necessary to assign
him TO go to church oftener than Is his
habit at home. once q day.
The President caused IL TO bU announced
to-day that hereafter he will not keep to
any programme which does not permit him
to begin making his last speech OF night at
half past o'clock. and which will not
train by 10 o'clock at night. He is iri ex-,
clint physical condition and does not in
tend To let the somewhat inconsiderate zeal
Of committees of arrangements break him
down by keeping him up late at night. In
he began delivering his speech on the
tariff.
One OF the FIRST persons 70 meet the Presi-
dent on his arrival here this morning was
Capt Seth Bullock cf Deadwood, super
Capt. Bullock Is now famous as one Of the
President'e prairie friends. He had break
fast with the President and arranged for q
ride which he and his friend, Mr. Pendar.
and the President took this afternoon.
fe SSadache and wanted fn an
gated horse but 1t was observed that
. when they returned after having been out
for two hours the horses OF both were
dripping with lather. Those who knew
Of the headache assumed that II had been
dlspelled during the ride.
Capt. Bullock said afterward that he
took the President to the Highlands, TO the
northeast of the city. 1T Is the pleasing
custom in this charming city said Mr..
Bullock, TO take the visitor who Is to see
the town up to Penitentiary Hill. It struck
me that this was disheartening. IL not
positively discourteous. II lacks the real
avor Of Western hospitality To brandish
the penitentiary under q mans nose the
minute he crosses\ your threshold. So
We steered away from the penitentiary
and went twenty miles or more the other
wav" tf
The President came back In good spirits.
He will speak here Tomorrow morning
early. and will lie on his way around the
ncrhwestern corner Of the State by ten
minutes after o'clock
Some of the Presidents party have been
mildly endeavoring to learn something
of Mrs Blanche Molineux, who lives at
the hotel where the committee has lodged
the President. So far they have been un-
successful. She has kept very closely TO
her room since the folks from the East
arrived