Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10

mats, with the exception of the Ger
man ambassador and his staff, drove
Informally to the esplanade to await
the arrival of the official party, which
came in three groups. They arrived
in inverse order of rank, the military
group first. then the diplomatic group,
and lastly the presidential group, each
under escort of a troop of cavalry
To troop A, Seventh cavalry, fell
the honor of escorting the presidential
party. which avenue along the route
followed by the preceding cavalcades-
The presidential party left the white
house in carriages at 2 O'Clock in the
following order: The president, the
secretary to the president and the
presidents aids, Col. BromweI1l and
Commander Winslow, Mrs. Roosevelt
and Maj McCawley. the secretary of
state, the secretary of the treasury,
the attorney general, the postmaster
general. the secretary of the navy, the
secretary of the interior, the secre-
tary of agriculture, the secretary OF
commerce and labor, the acting secre-
tary of war and his aid, Brig.-Gen.
Story, and Mrs. Oliver and the Misses
Oliver, escorted by Capt. Niche. AS
each party started, the escorting
troops formed line and rendered the
appropriate honors.
Two batteries of field artillery were
stationed in the south battery of the
post, and, upon the arrival at the gates
OF the several groups, fired the pre-
Scribed salute, Lieut.-Gen. Won Loew
enfield receiving fifteen guns, the Ger
man ambassador nineteen guns and
the president twenty-one guns.
The firing of the presidents salute
of twenty-one guns had barely finished
when his carriage reached the stair
way of the war college terrace. The
entire asSemblage arose as he ascend
ed the grand esplanade and remained
standing until the master of cere-
monies, Maj.-Gen. Gillespie, had escort
ed him to his seat in the front row of
the presidents stand and directly to
the right of the statue. The presi-
dents flag had been hoisted over the
stand as soon as the first gun of his
salute had doomed forth.
The official program began with the
invocation of Bishop Satterlee, the
bishop of Washington. Maj.-Gen. Gil
lespie then addressed the ambassador.
In closing he turned to Baroness Won
Sternburg, and, Offering her his arm,
escorted her to the edge of the statue,
attached to the American and German
flags in which it was shrouded. Grip
ping the cords firmly, one in each
hand, the baroness, with a tug, loos-
ened the silken folds from around the
figure of Frederick the Great. Straight
way twenty trumpeters of the army,
drawn up in front of the presidents
stand, sounded a blare of welcome,
and the Marine band played the Ger
| man national anthem.
Baron Speck Won Sternburg made
the address of presentation in behalf
of the German emperor. He referred
to the friendly feeling existing be-
tween Germany and the United States,
and expressed the kaiser's hope that
the sentiment would continue and
grow.
Addressing Speck Won Sternburg,
the German ambassador, in his speech
of acceptance, President Roosevelt
said:
In accepting the statue given us to-
day through you from the German en-
peror, 1 accept it not amerely because
it is the statue of a mighty and terri
bic soldier, but l accept it as a symbol
of the ties of friendship and good will
which 1 trust as the years go on will
bind ever closer together the Ameri-
can and the German peoples.
There is kinship of blood between
the two nations. We of the United
States are of mixed stock
I'VE have in our veins the blood of
the Englishman and the Irishman, the
German and the Frenchman, the
Scotchman, the Dutchman, the Scan
dinavian, the Italian, the Magyar, the
Finn the Slav so that to each of the
great powers of the old world we can
claim a more or less distant kinship
by blood; and to each strain of blood
we owe some peculiar quality in our
national life or national character"