The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-06
|ROOSEELT
 WIS KEPT IN Great Crowds Around Home Caused Action. YIELDED TO INNOVATIONS Friends Afraid for Him to At-
 tend Church. Vice President and Mrs. Fairbanks Present mt Divine Services and He wns Congratulated on
 His Induction.
YIELDED TO ADMONITIONS

| Roosevelt passed the first Sunday af- ter the inauguration quietly at the | White House. Surrounded by the mem-
 hers of his family and his house guests
 he spent the day in recuperation from | the fatigue incident to the heavy men,
 tai and physical strain which he under
 went during the inaugural ceremonies.
 It was expected that the President
 would attend religious services today | and in anticipation of his leaving the White House thousands of people
 gathered in and about the White House grounds as early as 9:30 o'clock. No restriction were placed on en- | trance to the grounds and throughout the day unnumbered thousands of peo- | ple wandered about the historic exec utive mansion. They swarmed about the main entrance, peered through the | closed doors and windows, in hundreds of instances pressing their faces against the glass of the doors and windows in order that they might have a better view of the interior. The White House of course. was closed to all visitors except the personal friends and relatives of the Roosevelt family. During the day the President and Mrs. Roosevelt received informal calls from many of such friends and at both luncheon and dinner large companies were entertained.
 Yielded to Friends.
 It became evident early in the day | that if the President should leave the White House to attend services at his church he would be surrounded both at the church and in going to and from the services by an almost un- controllable crowd of curiosity seek CTS and admirers. He was advised strongly not to leave the White House under the circumstances and finally yielded to the admonitions of his friends. Tens O" thousands of visitors yet were in the city and it was evil dent to those who have an earnest TO- gard for the safety and comfort of the President that if he should leave the White House to attend the services at his church it would require the ef- 1 forts of the entire force of metropoli- tan police to insure beyond peradven- ture his safe conduct to and from the edifice at which he worships.
 Vice-President and Mrs. Fairbanks attended service this morning at their usual place of worship. the Metropoli- tan Methodist Episcopal Church at the corner of c Street and John Marshall Place, At the time of its erection about forty years ago. this church. which is one of the largest in the city. was near the center of the fashionable residence section of Washington. but since that time the center has moved two miles or more to the northwest. General John A. Dix of civil war fame. lived in a house next adjoining the church. and at an early period Henry Clay and many of his contemporaries in Congress. lived in it's immediate neighborhood. General Grant regular ly attended services at this church. Bishop Newman then being its pastor. and served as President of the Board of Trustees. General Logan and Sec retary> Salmon P. Chase and later Mir. Mckinley were regular attendants. The only unusual decorations of the church today were two silk American flags draped behind the pulpit and a smaller flag, which had been placed to mark the VicePresidents pew. The Rev. Dr. Frank M. Bristol. pastor of the Church. preached the sermon, the theme of which was Liberty" his text being from Pauls epistle to the Gala tians. Ne have been called unto lib- erty."
 Fairbanks Congratulated.
 At the conclusion of the service the pastor and a large part of the congre- gation gathered about the Vice-Presi- dents pew and extended to him their congratulations on his induction into his high office
 While thousands of visitors to the inaugural ceremonies left the city last night and early today. other thousands remainder to review the historic sights of the national capital over Sunday. The day was fair but the air was sharp with frost. making heavy overcoats not entirely unnecessary.
 It was remarked by old Washington ians that this was the first inaugura- tion period for thirty years when the weather had been so uniformly pleas ant for so many successive days and comments upon "Roosevelt's luck" and 'Roosevelts destiny" became trite in repetition among the vast crowds which thronged the capital.