Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-08
ROYAL WELCOME
BY SAN ANTONIO
PRESIDENT GREETED WITH
GREAT ENTHUSIASM
City Brilliantly Decorated and the
Streets Are Filled With Cheering
Thronos of People-Speaks
In Alamo Plaza
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, April with
San Antonio richly decorated with pa
triotic emblems, flags of all sizes and
likenesses of the president and the
streets filled with cheering throngs OF
people, Theodore Roosevelt today could
not mistake the hearty welcome ac-
corded him. Enormous crowds Of peo-
pie greeted him along the route of the
procession from Fort Sam Houston to
Alamo plaza, where an address of well
come was delivered and a response was
made. The people felt that they had
as their guest not only the president
of the United States, but man toward
whom the people of San Antonio feel
especially friendly on account of the
fact that it was here that the Rough
Rider regiment was organized.
The president was delighted with the
reception. He was kept busy bowling
right and left, acknowledging the out
bursts of enthusiasm. 1t is seven
years since President Roosevelt left
San Antonio with his Rough Riders.
mo human being dreamed that after
that l would return as president of the
United States" he said in short ad-
dress at the railway station.
Today was a busy one for the presi-
dent. The day began with a reception
at the train. This formality was soon
over and the president party proceeded
tc the parade grounds of the post,
where the troops in Fort Sam Houston
were reviewed. This interesting cere-
mony over, the start was made for the
city. From the moment the procession
Of troops, carriages, police and Rough
Riders swept out of the gates of the
post into Grayson street until the presi-
dent entered the gates of the fair
grounds to go into camp with the
Rough Riders, he was the recipient of
| hearty greetings.
Eight Thousand Children
A spectacular scene occurred at
Travis park, where 5000 school children
cheered the president and sang Amer
ica," while a band played the national
air.
In Alamo plaza, within the shadow of
the old Alamo, which, the president
said, had seven years ago filled him
| with determination to do nothing to
reflect on the heroes who died there,
he was greeted in manner which
| touched him.
His arrival was the signal for a
burst of cheering which lasted until
after he had taken his seat on the
stand and which was renewed when he
rose to respond to the address of well
come.
The presidents speech was frequently
punctuated by applause. He was
pleased that San Antonio agreed with
him in his ideas on race suicide. He
noted with satisfaction the attention
Texans were paying to education. The
law of the worthy life, the effort in a
cause worthy of striving for, was his
theme His reception throughout
Texas had touched him, he said.
The speech covered much the same
ground as former addresses.
A banquet was given the president in
the Mengor hotel this evening by the
Business Mems club. At it's conclusion
the club gave him handsome pair of
silver spurs with gold buttons and Or
naments. The president bade farewell
to the Rough Riders in the parlors of
the hotel. His train left for Fort
Worth at II o'clock tonight.