The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-23
CHEER ROOSEVELT PASSING BY
RIVER CRAFT AND THEIR FOLK
GIVE HIM a NOISY WELCOME.

WHISTLES Snrleh, hNersiuc roin S"""'
Kearsargc Thunders salute as the
President, His Vacation Over, sails
Down to jersey City-French Cruiser
Only Didn't Recognize His tlaS
Train Delayed BY slight Accident.
Amid the footing OF hundreds Of steam
whistles and other notable manifestations
of enthusiasm the naval yacht Sylph with
President Roosevelt and members OF his
family on board, on their way to " ashington
after their summer at Oyster Bay, steamed
down the East River yesterday around
the Battery and up the North River as
Tar "a Grants Tomb and back to the Penn
sylyania Railroad pier In Jersey City, where
the President and his party took special
train for Washington.
Everywhere till the White House was
reached the President received warm
greeting. One accident married the trip
A wheel OF the engine Of the President's
special train broke in the Baltimore tunnel
delaying his arrival in Washington nearly
an hour.
From the moment the sylph poked her
nose into little He'll Gate, with its factory
fringed shore, until she was warped in at
the Jersey City pier she was the centre OF
water and for hundreds on the land. Her
officers we're kept so busy acknowledging
salutes that they finally had to give up all
pretence of doing anything like answering
the greetings individually.
TWAS soon after 9 o'clock in the nornins
when the President said good-by to Saga
moro Hill and his summer vacation and
embarked on the yacht. The Syfph had
been lying Off the j. West Roosevelt pier
since Wednesday night, having gone to
Oyster Bay from Rear Admiral Barker
feet at Tompkinsville, to which she has been
attached as a despatch boat. The jackies
had been polishing and scrubbing her ever
since she arrived in the bay, and when the
President boarded her she was in the very
spickest and spannest condition.
With the President on the yacht were
Mrs Roosevelt. the three younger Roosevelt
children, Ethel, Archie and Quentin, and
Secretary Loeb and Mrs. Loeb, together
With several of the executive Office stan
and the usual force of Secret Service agents
On the pier as the Sylph, swinging grace
fully around, pointed her nose toward the
Sound we're many Of tho Presidents rela-
tives and few of the townspeople. The
early hour Of the departure and the dis
lance Of the pier from the village-three
miles-prevented anything like the send
OF which the President would have had
under other circumstances, but the few
who were out waved their hats and hand
kerehiefs until the Sylph disappeared from
View around Centre Island.
Except that q chilly wind was blow
ing the weather was all that could be de-
sired for the trip. The President, however,
enjoyed the sharpness of the air. While
others in the party turned up the collars
of their overcoats and sought shelter in the
cabin and places on deck whore the wind
didn't strike, Mr.. Roosevelt was outside
most Of the time, without any overcoat.
The Sylph was hardly out of Oyster Bay
before craft OF all sorts began TO salute
her in one way or another. The private
yachts and som, of the pleasure DO ats
dipped their ensigns, the tugs footed their
whistles and the fishermen in mulberry
looking soows waved their hats and cheered
All these greetings were acknowloo gel
by the Sylph, a jackie having been sJa-
toned aft by Lieut.. Evans, son of Rear
Admiral Bob Evans who was in command OF
the Sylph, with orders to dip the Sylph's
coIors In response to similar salutes by
other vessels
The lighthouse keepers, who were on the
lockout for the Government yacht, also
paid their tribute to the President by, ring
Ing their gongs, and each received In &C
acknowledgement three shrlH blasts from
the Sylph's whistle.
But it was not until the Sylph got abreast
Of North Brother Island that the real out
burst OF enthusiasm began. A deep voiced
siren whistle on one OF the iron foundries
on the Manhattan side started things going
by sounding three long blasts. The work
men In the factory evidently knew what
the blasts meant, for many OF them hurried
out Of the shops to the waterfront and (,
waving their hats, added strong lunged
shouts TO the ear splitting shrieks Of tie
whistle.
After that, the salutation was taken up
by nearly all the factories along the shore
until the Sylph got below Blackwell's Island,
near Thirty-fourth street. Then the tugs
and ferryboa joined in the uproar, and the
situation became so confusing that the
Syiphs officers had to discontinue their
attempts to answer-the salutes individu-
ally Ill., windows ~ many Of the factories
an the Sylph steamed down the East River
were crowded with the employees, who
showed their enthusiasm in many ways.
The folks In the houses along the water
front In Harlem attracted by the noise,
also poked their heads out, and, whet her
they knew the reason for it or not, joined
enthusiastically in the demonstration. Sc
infectious was the spirit that group OF
men IN striped suits on Blackwell's Island
paused in their work long enough TO wave
their hands In greeting.
As the Sylph approached the Brooklyn
navy yard the Presidential salute oil
twent y-one guns thundered from one OF the
guns, on a big man-of-war anchored off the
yard, and there followed presently the inter-
mittent roar Of the navy yards gun on the
Cob Dock
The warship was the kearsarge, Rear
Admiral Barker's flagship, She had come
mp 10 the navy yard from Tornpkinsville
early in the morning to undergo slight re-
para The sides Of the vessel and hel
iurrets were manned with blue leaned
tackles, as were also the sides Of large
transport anchored near the Kearsarge
Rear Admiral Bankers flag was flying from
the pennant Of the battleshp.
The President, as soon as he caught sight
Of the warship, mounted the bridge OF the
Syiph, and, uncovering his head, stood
there until the Government yacht was wei
past tho navy yard. As the President APP
80 ared on the bridge, the Kearsarge's bano
struck up 1.-THE Star Spanged Banner
During the noisy progress OF the Gov
. errrfient yacht down the river Rags a
bull terrier mascot Of the Sylph, who hao
been very much in evidence ever since the
Sylph weighed anchor took to disportinR
himself most uproariously, barking and
growing and snorting every time the