Evening star., 1905-10-27
GREATEST OF HIS TOUR
Reception Of President at New
Orleans Yesterday.
A TREMENDOUS CROWD
ONE SPEECH ABANDONED BE-
CAUSE OF SIZE OF MULTITUDE.
Addresses to Veterans Of Both Armies
and at Banquet-Departure for
Washington by Sea.
A TREMENDOUS CROWD

ried entertainment in New Orleans, closing
q pleasant trip through the south. President
Roosevelt at 6:30 clock last night boarded
the lighthouse tender Magnolia and began
his return journey to this city.
No newspaper representative accompanied
him on the boat and he was out Of touch
with the world throughout the night
For four days the President will be off
American soil, but by wireless telegraphy. 1t
is promised. he will be in communication
with the shore.
The President was compelled to abandon
one public address at New Orleans before he
had got well started on It. 1t was contem-
plated that the military and civic parade
should pass in review before the President
at the city hall, but the crowd which gath
cred at this point was SO tremendous that
neither the police nor the troops were able
to move it. and the President foreseeing
possible panic. finally gave up the attempt
to speak and left the platform. Probably
$1,000 persons were gathered in and around
the stand from which the President was TO
have delivered the address.
When the President decided to abandon his
effort he shouted to the throng to go home
and be good citizens, and then disappeared
into the mayors parlors, well nigh exhaust
e6 He said that the reception the
greatest that he had had since he started on
his trip.
was driven to the ST Charles Hotel, where
a reception was given him by the governor
and his staff and by the women's clubs
The President. In receiving an engrossed
address from the members OF the lroquoiS
Club, leading negro organization said:
II want to thank the colored citizens of
New Orleans for this address. and to say
that II is peculiarly pleasant to have 1t
presented by one of the school children, and
/ congratulate not only the colored popula-
ton of the whole city of New Orleans, but
the people of the state for what you are
doing, and what the state Is doing, in the
cause of education. With all good will and
good wishes and good luck to you. adieu.'
After short rest in the hotel before the
luncheon the President held a series of re-
ceptions. The first was to a group of con-
federate veterans, who presented him with
a watch charm of crossed Union and con-
federate flags as a souvenir of the trip.
Gen. A. B. Booth. commander of the United
Confederate Veterans, made the presenta-
tion. To the confederates the President
said
Address to Confederate Veterans.
Gentlemen, If you will allow a man who
has served In very small war to call you
so. comrades: / accept your presentation
with pleasure. Although sometimes we have
difficulties In this country that we have to
battle against and sometimes things that
we are not well satisfied with. yet We are a
pretty good people. l felt this as never be-
think what II means to a nation for
the President of the nation, forty years after
the greatest war of all times, to be able to
come south and speak as / have spoken in
the capital of the southern confederacy, and
TO feel that l was addressing a people as
loyal to the flag of our reunited country as
could be found in this broad land of ours.
] passed under the shadow of Admiral
Semn1es' monument. under whom one, of my
uncles fired the last gun from the Alabama.
Another of my uncles built her. sister of
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the Philippines. Gentlemen, this is an honor
that / appreciate. 1 thank you, not only
for the gift. but for the spirit and words
which accompany It,"
Talk to Grand Army Men.
The second of the receptions was to a
group of Grand Army veterans. To them
he said.
Comrades I want to thank you fro1n
my heart for coming here and greeting me
/ cannot say what it means to me to be
greeted l have been greeted, by the men
who wore the blue as by the men who wore
the gray, on this trip through the south
ern land. At Little Rock my escort
composed of Union and Confederate SOL
diers riding side by side in pairs. AS |
said at Richmond next only to the men
who wore the blue, L hold the men who
the gray. We should, indeed con-
sider ourselves fortunate a nation that
forty years after the civil war we find
all our people can challenge as their own
every memory of valor left by both sides
Now there is but one rivalry, the rivalry
to see which can do the most for the flag
of the reunited country
Representatives of the various women's
associa lions had five minutes with the
President during which Mrs. Behan of the
Womans League. that was active in the
yellow fever fight, pinned badge of the
league used during the campaign against
the yellow fever on the lapel of the Pres.-
dents coat
The climax of the days entertainment OF
President Roosevelt luncheon at the
st. Charles Hotel at O'Clock. The Presi-
dent sat between the Pelican flag, with
Mayor Behrman on one side of him and
Gov. Blanchard on the other. Senators
Foster and McEnery and Representatives
Davey and Meyer. Secretary Loeb Surgeon
Rixey, DIR. White of the Marine Hospital
service and many of his aids members of
the army and navy, federal. state and city
officers: and large number of representa-
tive citizens were present. There were only
three speeches. President Sanders of the
Progressive Union was POSTMASTER
The President spoke last and the ex-
uberant and cordial reception that was
given to him as he entered the banquet
hall was repeated at intervals throughou.
the dinner, the whole company rising and
frantcally waving their napkins as they
expressed IN his address.
The Presidents Address.
The President said:
Let me at the outset express to you my
profound gratitude. my deep appreciation
of the way I'm which the people of New
Orleans and Louisiana have greeted me
today Gentlemen, no President of the
United States could have been greeted as
have been greeted today and not go
back to take up the duties of his office
with stronger and more earnest purpose
TO try to represent all the splendid people
whom he serves. And, governor as Won
have so well said. when man is Presi-
dent. when he holds any public office
questions OF merely partisan character
sink into absolute insignfcance compar-
ed with the mighty questions upon which
all good Americans are united.
And now, gentlemen. as you have greet
ed me so well, you have given me the op-
portdnity TO indulge myself in a luxury
Tiere have been moments in the past
when ] was afraid of saying how weu /
Thought OF the senators and representa-
tves IN the national Congress from Lou
fsiana for fear / might damage them. I
did not know but that, maybe the best
service could do them was to keep still