The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-04-05
Throng at Madison.

dents train, and no demonstration he
yond cheering here and there along the
way.
Throng at Madison.
AT Madison a throng was congre-
gated ana wildly cheered as the train
rounded the bend at the approaches of
the Merchants bridge across the Mis-
sisslppl Without neUse the train
slowly and cautiously proceeded across
the bridge to the North Market street
railroad yards, where it met the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas road.
AT O'Clock the lr;Lin slowly crept
down the steep incline at the Missouri
end of the Merchants bridge and as
soon as the assembled throng discerned
3 it in the darkness a welcome from Mis-
souri, was sent resOundlng through the
night.
When the train stopped at the North
Market street station President Roose-
welt was at dinner and did not appear
The people congrega ted. cheered lust
lily in the hope of inducing a glimpse of
the president. but almost before the
first cheers had died way the switch
ing engine began shunting the train to
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas tracks.
Texan Joined the Party.
Colonel Cecil Lyon, member of the
republican national committee from
Texas, under whose guidance the lack
rabbit hunt in Texas is to be made.
Joined the party here.
The private car of A. A Allen. vice
president and general manager of the
Missouri, Kansas * Texas road, was
attached in the yards, and Mr.. Allen
viii remain with the party so long as
the train is on the Katy system.
Switching continued until $3.50, when
with a long shrek from the whistle of
the big new engine. the train plunged
into its long run to Texas with pilot
engine running five minutes ahead. The
first stop will be made at Vinita, l. T
View Was Pleasing.
From Louisville 20 st. Louis. Presi-
dent Roosevelt took more than a pass
ing interest in Indiana and Illinois, the
two states through which his special
train passed. He discussed with his
guests the relative merits of the states
from an agricultural point of view and
the warmth of the people as displayed
at the various towns the special
stopped or hesitate1. At a dozen or
more places the train slowed down and
at most of these great crowds were at
the station cheering as long as the
train was in sight. He MADE three
speeches en- route They We're at Mill
town, Ind. Huntingburg. Ind. and Mt.
vernon, Ills. At East Junction near
Princeton, Ind. where a change of en-
glnes was made, the president jumped
down from the rear platform of the
train to shake hands with a number of
employees of the railroad shops there.
The train ran through Princeton slowly
u give the president an opportunity
to hastily review several hundred
school children that mad been assem-
bled near the railroad tracks.
Speech in Indiana.
At Huntington, IND, the president
said:
"GentIemen and ladies: 1t is a great
pleasure to catch this glimpse of you
and greet YOU on my way down to the
reunion of my old regiment at San
Antonio, Tex. There is one thing I am
always impressed with in going
through this country, and that is that
down at the bottom, east or west,
north or south, wherever you meet the
average man, he as a pretty good
American. In greeting all of you. I
want to say that while 1 am particu-
larry glad to see the men and the wo-
men, think I am even more glad to
see the children. 1 think the American
stock is a middling good one, and / do
rot want to see it Gie out. l see here
men who wear the button that shows
that thsy fought III the great war.
They have left US Z legacy not only
of how to do our duty in war, but in
peace. Let us of the younger genera
ton try to keep up their standard"
AT Mount Vernon, Ills, the presi-
dent said:
My friends and How Americans:
L am delighted to be IN this great and
beautiful state today, to be passing
/ through Illinois, which [ know SO well.
and to be greeted by you. L have but
n moment, and l want to say a word of
special greeting to two bodies here; in
the first place TO the men of the great
to the men who actually did the deed
instead of talking about it. and in the
next place to you young people, the
boys and girls, for il is going to de-
pend upon what you do and the way
years hence we are as proud of this
country as We are COW. One word to
the fathers and mothers; in bringing