Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-21
!CHEERED TO THE ECHO
Cordial Welcome to President
at Worcester, Mass.
STOOD UP IN CARRIAGE
CHEERING MULTITUDE GAVE HIM
NO CHANCE TO SIT DOWN.
Incidents Of the Trip From the City
Today-Greetings All Along
the Way.
STOOD UP IN CARRIAGE

the way.
| WORCESTER. Mass. June 21-The Pres
| ident's train reached this, city three min
utes ahead OF the schedule. At the sta
ton the reception committee. headed by
Lieut.. Governor Curtis Guild. jr., repre-
| senting the state: Mayor Blodgett of the
city, and former Representative Joseph
Walker. Stephen Salisbury and Represen-
| tative lockwood Hoar, representing Clark
College and Univer sty, boarded the Presl-
dents car. Lieutenant Governor Guild
formally presented the welcome of the
| commonwealth, and Mayor Blodgett that of
the city Of Worcester.
The station was thronged and so were
the streets in the vicinity. The mist of the
earlier hours had become a drizze and the
weather was raw and uncomfortabe.
With the appearance of the President
upon the car platform the throng burst
into roar Of cheers. Passage to the
street was quickly made. the President
bowling constantly to the acclaim of the
crowds. Waiting outside the station to
act as escort We're Company G of the 9th
infantry, Company y and Company c and
Company IL of the I'd Infantry, a battalion
of light artillery and the local post q. A X,
| and Spanish War Veterans Camp. The
line was formed at once COMPANY A Cant
Edwin q. Barrett commanding taking the
head of the line, followed by details of
members from the G. A. r. and the Span
ish War Veterans.
In spite of the rain the President rode in
an open carriage. The cheering multitude
gave him no opportunity to sit. From the
moment OF his entering the carriage the tu-
multi was inceSSant, and as the parade
moved President Roosevelt remained with
head bare, bowling to the people.
All the way to Clark College a distance
OF about two miles. the demonstration con-
tinued.
President Sent a Telegram
The Presidents trip was without unusual
incident, although after daylight today
every station through which the train
passed was thronged with cheering people.
The President had just been awakened as
the train passed Gales Ferry. Soon after
| ward the President sent kilograms to the
captains of the Harvard and Yale crews.
The message to the Harvard crew was as
| follows:
Captain, Harvard crew, Red Top, Conn.,
I expected to pass through New London
much earlier, or 1 should have been up to
greet you. wish 1 could see the race.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
To the Yale crew the following dispatch
was sent:
Captain, Yale crew. Gales Ferry, Conn.
I expected to pass through New London
much earlier should have been up to
greet you. Hope you will not think am
an offensive partisan If, under these partic-
ular circumstances, l do not wish you good
luck. would at any other time, but Taft,
l am sure. is praying for you.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
Address at Putnam.
The train made no early morning etops
until Putnam, Conn.,, was reached. AS the
train drew up several hundred persons
shouted their welcome to the President. He
appeared on the rear platform of his pri-
vate car, the Courier. and said:
1T is great pleasure to have the chance
of saying word of greeting to you today.
I saw the mayor running along here, but
I did not know he was the mayor at that
time. I saw he was an old soldier, and
knew, therefore that he had a claim upon
me- as upon everyone else. l cannot say
more than word of greeting, and draw
just. one lesson from the mayors life. The
mayor fought in the big war, and IT, after
he had quit fighting, he had quit doing any
thing else except talk he would not be
mayor. When he got through that job he
turned his attention to the next JOB that
came along. NOW let US eacn take q lesson
from that
There were no further stops until the
train reached Worcester.
Received by College President.
President Carroll D. Wright of Clark Col
lege, attended by members of the faculty.
received President Roosevelt at the west
entrance of the college and ushered him
directly to the private office of President
Wright, where about fifteen minutes were
devoted to an informal reception. The aca-
demic procession was then formed and the
march taken to the chapel where the first
commencement exercises OF the college
which the President had come to honor
were held.
After the party had taken places on the
platform the audience was seated and Rev.
Dr. George Harris, president of Amherst
College, offered the invocation. Dr. Hamil-
~ 81,
day. After music. President Wright, while
the audience stood, introduced Mr.. Roose-
welt simply as THE President"
President Spoke Briefly.
President Roosevelt spoke briefly. address,
ing himself to President Wright and Pres
ident Hall, graduates of the university and
the college, and men and women of Wor-
cester." In part, he said:
II shall do little except by way of illus
tration of the admirable address to which
We have Just listened from DR.. Mabie
What the speaker said applies thoroughly
to two men. because of whom 1 am here
today Senator Hoar two years ago in
duced me to promise to come here on this
occasion to greet President Wright as the
head of this college. Coming from such a
man and for such another man, l could
not refuse the request.
Turning to DR.. Mabie, the President con-
tfnued: with Senator Hoar was realized.
Mr.. Mabie, your picture of the public serv-
ant
Addressing President Wright, Mr.. Roose-
Welt said:
aI cannot speak of you as would like to
speak today, and / hope you may live a
long time yet, it may be long time before
I shall be able to say what | would like to
say.
''He gave to the country the President
resumed, turning again to the audience and
referring to President Wright, the kind
of service no money possibly could BUY. :
was not merely what he did at the head OF
his department. but it was the way in which
he did it, and the influence which he ex-
erted, which made him so valuable to the
country.