The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-27
PRESIDENT IN
 NEW ORLEANS Roosevelt Wins the CreS-
 cent City. Y SETS SAIL FOR CAPITAL For Four Days Will Be Off
 American Soil. By Means of Wireless Telesraphy, How- ever, it is Promised He VIII sel- dom be Ont of Communica-
 tion With shore.
SETS SAIL FOR CAPITAL

New Orleans. oet 2s-At the end of nine strenuous hours of varied enter tainment in New Orleans which brought his exceptionally pleasant trip through the South to a close, President Roose- welt, at 6:30 o'clock tonight boarded the light house tender Magnolia and be- gan the first stage of his return journey to the national capitol.
 No newspaper representative &C., companied Aim and he will be out of touch with the world throughout the night. but daylight tomorrow is expect ed to brings news of his successful transfer to the armored cruiser West Virginia which lies at anchor off the mouth of the river to receive him and of the beginning of the second stage of the journey.
 For four days he will be absent from American soil. which has never here- tofore happened to President during his incumbency, but through the means of wireless telegraphy it is promised that he will be seldom out of commu- nication with the shore and there Is no reason to doubt that the staunch vessel in which he is to travel will carry him safely to his journeys end.
 Testimonial of Esteem.
 The Presidents New Orleans recep- ton was a signal testimonial of popular esteem and of grateful recognition of the service which he had rendered the city in her period of stress.
 New Orleans today remembered not only that the President had acted with characteristic promptness when asked to put the federal surgeons in charge of the yellow fever struggle, but that throughout the fight he had sustained the people of the stricken city with ex- pressions of unfailing sympathy. and when large share of the public opin- ion of the couptry opposed his ventur- ing into New orleans with the fever still prevalent he refused to consider the element of personal danger and de- ciared his purpose to keep the promise he made when he accepted the original invitation to come. . i-
 The densely crowded streets. the elaborate decrotatious, the wild ap- plause that greeted him along the whole route of the prade, the enthusi- asm with which his address to the null titude in Lafayette Square was re- ceived and the remarkable demonstra- ton in his honor at the luncheon were outward manifestations of the spirit in which the people welcomed him.
 Abandoned the Address.
 Probably for the first time in his public career the President was compelled to abandon public address before he had got well afArIe0 that the military and civic parade should pass in review before the Presi- dent at the city hall, but the crowd which gathered at this point was so tremendous that neither the police nor the troops were able to move 1t and the President, foreseeing a possible catas- trophe in the event of panic. finally gave up the attempt to speak and left the platform. The crowd jammed St Charles Street from property line to property line all the way from Poydras to North Street and it spread over La fayette Square almost from St Charles to Camp Street.
 Probably 50, 900 people were gathered in and around the stand from which the President was to have. delivered the address. When the President decided to abandon his efforts he shouted to the throng to go home and be good citizens and then disappeared into the Mayors parlors well night exhausted. To those about him he expressed him self as immensely pleased with the demonstration in his honor. which was far beyond his expectations or the ex- pectations of the members of his party, and said that the reception was the greatest that he had had since he had started on his trip.
 Demonstration at Luncheon.
 The demonstration at the luncheon was scarcely less exuberant When the President entered the superbly decorat- cd dining hall the 425 banqueters rose as one man and gave way to frantic chears Every reference of Governor RIancha d, Mayor Behrman and Presi- dent Sanders of the Progressive Union to the guest brought forth a perfect storm of cheering and wheA the Presi- dert himself arose he mar great dll- hcuIty in speaking.
 Every thought he uttered was the signal for an extraordinary exhibition ~ enthusiasm and as his speech dealt almost entirely with local subjects and had special reference to thel nght against fever the banquet developed m "a an urceasing ovation while the Pres i6ent was on his feet An immense crowd packed Gravier and St. Charles Streets, as the dinner ended and the ap- pearance of the President on his way to the river provoked thunderous ap" plause The cheers lasted all the way from the hotel to the river front. As the Magnolia left her landing a Presi- dentisl salute was fired and the inde- scriba bIe direction of the whistles of the factories and river craft mingled with the lusty cheering of acres of peo- ple who had colo cted on the wharf.
 From the moment of his arrival early in the forenoon until he said farewell from the deck of the Magnolia at night he was constantly in the lime light The crowded program gave him no oppor- tunity for rest. Blt there was every evidence in his expressions to those who were with him throughout the day and in hi3 gracious acknowledgement of the popular demonstration that met him on every hand of the keen enjoy nnent he found Tn his visit.
 Net a DiscOrdant Note.
 The arrangements for the reception were carried cut without a discordant noe. The police preserved excellent or der thro ugnout the parade. the process sion moved with celerity, and the mill itary and civic display was imposing. Nowhere did the President see the sIirhtest evidence of the existence of any remnants of the fever. He saw on every hand immense gatherings of ap- parently happy and contented people in the Full enjoyment of a fine holiday and if may reasonably be believed that he carried away with him the impression that, howev er. serious the visitation of disease may have been it is now little more t an a memory.
 The only opportunity which the col ored citizens of New Orleans had to SA~At the Prasidant was while the ra-