The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-15
METROPOLIS
 DEE GIFTED" Hungarian dblicaus Welcone dsevelt. CROWDS ENTHUSIASTIC The Occasion An Unusual Oc-
 currence. First Time any Chief Executive of the Nation Has Visited That POr- ton of New YOrk-Pres-
 ident's Speech.

New York, Feb. 14.-For the first time since the days when he was Gov ernor of New York. President Roose- welt revisited the heart of the East Side, where, as a guest of the Hunga- rian Republican Club. he dined and spoke at the Restaurant Little Hun gary" Guarded by mounted police and secret service men through streets cleared and cordoned by policemen. he drove from upper Fifth Avenue into the crowded district which lies around Second Avenue and East Houston Street, A region of small shops and ten ements and largely populated by tor- eign born citizens.
 From the moment his carriage ent- cred the district he received an ovation. Never before has President or the United States visited this little known part of New York. and never before had a fraction of the thousands that cheered him seen the nations ruler. Electric lights winked and blinked characteristic legends, gaudy bunting futtered in the wind and the great East Side showed its enthusiasm In every imaginable way Across Second Ave- nue at Sixth Street a huge electric de- vice blazed forth tho single word. "De- lighted" a word frequently used In the decorations. Many small shop keepers apparently had spent a weeks profits in elaborate decorations and 1t has been many years since the East Side saw such a night.
 The district through which the Pres ident drove and In which he dined is not the safest in the great city and the police took no chances. So string ent were the precautions that not fiash light photograph was allowed to be taken and uniformed police, plain clothes men and detectives fairly swarmed inside and out of Little Hungary. They were stationed on the lroofs and fire escapes in the neighbor- | hood and for two blocks on either side of East Houston Street a cordon of po- lice cut of the crowds. The ordinary police cards permitting entry into fire lines and similar places were suspend d by order of Police Commissioner Mo- | Adoo and no one without an invitation .o the dinner or a specially issued po- lice card was permitted to pass the .autIy drawn line of policemen. Great Crowds fin Evidence. | The night was almost the coldest of he winter. but it did not depress the l spirits of the crowd. Before dusk the Fast Side streets began to pour forth heir quota bound toward Little Hun gary" and these were sweiled by sight seers from all over the city, the latter probably more anxious to see the East Side on a gala night than to catch a ylimpse of the President. The snow of many storms, ice-coated by alternate | 'haws and freezes, was breast high in he side streets. and over these heaps 'he crowds scrambled and slipped to secure a vantage point They stood Tncon1plainiu9lv on the fee crests and Fingered through the long hours of the Nanuuet to again cheer the President rn his departure. The tenants of the -Aarhv houses had been warned in the 7Fternoon hv the nolica to get home NAfore the lines were drawn and most oe +NA-o a~nnared to hove done SO
 Driven from the streets. they crowd. l ed the front windows and the fire As- cepes of the tenAments. The buildings were bristlinR with faces from every | noint of vantage and a hurried con ference of police officials was held. They evidently did not like the situe- l tion. As result every one was driv- 1 en from the fire escapes and from the | open windows, which were ord red locked. but no ohiection was made to the occupants looking through the glass. On every fire escape with or- ders to watch the people in the houses | was a. lnIIOTmed policeman.
 The President was driven to the | University Club for the luncheon in an open carriage. As he emerged from the door of A. R. Robinson's home he was greeted by an enthusiastic crowd which cheered him until his carriage was out of sight. The President wos kept busy tipping his hat in acknowl- edgment of the greetings he received In addition to the seLret service men ] h I,f ,fu q by six mounted policemen who were appointees of Mir. Roosevelt when the latter was Police Commissioner.
 President Roosevelt left the Cniver- sity Club at 4:30 and. accompanied by Secretary Loeb. and the usual police escort. drove to the residence of Mrs James A. Roosevelt. his aunt, at No. West 6Ith Street. where he paid a visit lasting nearly an hour. From there he returned to the Douglas Rob- inson residence at 5:3O to prepare for the Hungarian dinner tonight. He was loudly cheered as he left the Univer- aity Club.
 Roosevelt PunetuaI.
 President Roosevelt was punctuaI to his schedule. He was due at 7:3O and five minutes before that time cheering began on Avenue R. The police lines came to attention and a band stationed near the cafe struck up 'SThe Star Spangled Banner" But after tho opening bar not horn could be heard The wave of cheering swept ahead of the Presidential party and grew into Q roar such as East Side tenement walls never echoed before. The win dow order was forgotten. As if work cd by a system of switches the sash g went up simultaneously. Waving his hat from the carriage window and lowing. the President returned the greeting.
 There was no delay. A lane was made quickly through the people
 massed at the police line in Avenue A and the carriages with their mounted
 police escort swept up to the door of
 the cafe At the entrance to the cafe
 there was a cheer and the President
 doffed his hat
 In the carriage with the President
 was Marcus Braun, President of the
 Hungarian Republican Club, whose
 guest Mir. Roosevelt was; Police Com
 missioner McAdoo and Secretary Loeb.
 As the President stepped from the car