The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-15

Places Where No Other President
 While in Office Has Been Led-Ex-
 traOrdinary Police Precautions Taken
 but Nothing Untoward Happens-One
 Man Who Suddenly starts Up at the
 Dinner to Shake Hands Causes an
 Amusing Incident.
 New York, Feb. 14.-After two days of receptions and dinners in New York city President Roosevelt left tonight over the Pennsylvania road for Wash ington.
 The events of to-day included re- ception at the University club and to- night the event of his yisit-the dinner given by the Hungarian Republican club at the restaurant Little Hun gary" on the East Side, where a presi- dent has never been before.
 The fact that MT. Roosevelt was to traverse places where he has not been since he was governor of New York, and where no other president while, in office, has been, led to unusual police precautions, but nothing untoward hap pened. :
 The president left the Hungarian club dinner after making a brief speech in which he told of the duties of an Amer lean citizen as he saw them, and was driven directly to the Desbrosses street station, accompanied by a squad of mounted police. When he reached the ferryhouse he alighted from his car- riage, shook hands with the members of the mounted squad and then went to the mems cabin in the ferryboat.
 The boat arrived in Jersey City at 11:50, and some minutes afterward he boarded his special train.
 From the time the president arrived on the East Side tonight until his de- parture the great precautions were talk en for his safety. Secret service men guarded his person and policemen in uniform and in plain clothes were sta- tioned all about the restaurant and for blocks each side, so that the crowds of East Side residents who had gathered to see the chief executive of the nation were able to get not within two or three blocks of him.
 When the president left the banquet room he was heartily cheered by people in the windows and doors of tenements near by. MT. Roosevelt waved his hit in response as he entered his carriage.
 An amusing incident of the early part of the dinner was furnished by MT. Taussig, a prominent member of the Hungarian club. He Is a tall man, with long black hair and rather strik- ing countenance. He was sitting down in front of the president and started up to shake hands with him, when there was an immediate rush of secret service men to the rescue. This caused great amusement among the members of the club, and the president gave him a most cordial greeting.
 Presidents Address.
 The applause was deafening as the president arose at the dinner to speak and faced the crowded room. When si- lence was obtained, he said:
 MT. President, and you, my fellow Americans: It is a peculiar pleasure to me to be with you this evening, and in greeting my hosts of the Hungarian Republican club, give utterance to the 5lHOuS5tlL ol lily lCllp" man Sulzer and others, when I say that whatever our differences before our election when once the election has taken place, all of us in public life or ir private life-president, congressman, judges, legislators alike--are Ameri- can citizens and nothing else.
 Tt is nearly ten years ago that first took dinner here in the immediate neighborhood of where I am dining now and at that time remember per- fectly, when I first brought up here, it was by MT. Jacob Riis and Mr. Jim Reynolds, and I was told that would get an awfully good dinner and hear some very good music, and both prophecies proved true; and it was about that time that grew to be &C., duainted with so many of my hosts and fellow guests of this evening. The others I had known before. With one of my fellow guests, General Grant, I was tllei working in common and at different times spoke at meetings presided over by, or held in the club houses of various of the gentlemen here present, sometimes on political sub JeCJS, eI1luCu f1lUEe OlLeI Ou lfldICerS or good citizenship affecting us all as good citizens. grew in those years, gentlemen, to have a very close feeling of sympathy and affection and regard for the men and women of the great east side of this city, and I needed no urging when I was invited to come and be a guest at club of the east side this evening.
 "President Braun has described how the preliminary invitation took place. It was six years ago that this club gave me a dinner after had been elected governor, and they then said that they intended to elect me president and that I must then come and take dinner with them again. I told them, certain 1v that if they would carry out their part of the contract would carry out mine. I am not perfectly certain that they anticipated that their offer would be closed with so soon. But you see, gentlemen, I closed with them and to- night wish to greet you most warmly and to say that doubt if we could find a more typically American gathering than this. Americanism is not a mat ter of birthplace, of ancestry, of creed, of occupation; Americansm is a mat fer of spirit that is within mans soul. From the time when we first became an independent nation to the present u,, o,,,o o,,t, there has never been q sreuare =