The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-15

lDPY nONlttl anu hNItbUFtl WAN bNhh'N
every time n cab crowded through them
carrying people toward the fcstal centre
In the deliriou, JOY u the moment every
man with eyeglasses was Der PRESIDENT
Blocks and blocks away from Sch"artNs
the influence Of the radiating geniaiity oil
the ghetto was felt. Fakars with ial7e
moustaches and big round eyeglasses
howled aloud Here's your Teddy lace
ten cents One far sighted pedlor had
a push cart loaded with heaps OF paper
covered copies Of THE Simple Life, which
he was hawking a. the Strenuous Lille. TO
his great profit.
ONE SUPPRESSED oRERrIN1,
INSIDE the concentric circles Of uniformed
policemen. on foot and mounted the plaza
before Little Hungary stretched white
under foot and gay with electric signs and
bunting along the walls of the surrounding
buildings.
But one glory Of the night. to which the
simple East Siders had looked forward
as the very button on their up-thrown cap
of greeting to the head Of the nation was
alas not gttering before their anticipatory
ewes 1t was the electric embla2onment OF
the historic word of greeting Dee
lighted which had been prepared at great
cost. but which, because Of some mysterious
intimation from the foolish formal world
outside had been hastily suppressed and
doomed TO darkness.
ALL GRADES or MES THERE,
What shall BE- said Of the company that
gathered for the feast7 II would be useless
to undertake to pick out a complete list
of those who we're present who have dis
tinguished themselves IN politics. in husi-
ness, in tho professions in philanthropy
or in the accumulation of wealth by WAYS
which are recognized as legitimate on the
East Side il nowhere else
There were Judges. public and private
advocates, merchants of dry goods and of
wet goods. physicians, district leaders
and party leaders, public officers,
pawnbrokers. bankers poets and students
of philanthropy.
When the President was safely within the
building reception was started. First of
all, a reception committee OF twenty-four
members. Of whom William Blau, was chair
man, we're closeted aside with the Presl-
dent for ten minutes. This was not too
long a time considering that 1T was whis-
pered enviously abroad in the big room
that each member OF the reception com
mittee had been assessed s25 for the honor
thus achieved by him.
PRESIDENT SHAKES HANDS.
The committee brought Mr. Roosevelt
out into the large room whore a double
line was formed. Mr., Roosevelt stood in
the middle OF the right hand side of IT, with
Mr. Blau at bis left. The Secret Service
men who had come from Washington with
the President stood back of the line on
either side. They had merely the duty Of
seeing that every man who approached the
President showed his hands,
Mr. Blau introduced each member OF the
club and each guest TO the President. and
he shook hands with all. This variation of
the recently established Washington rule
regarding receptions was made possible
bv the fact that no one had been admitted
to Liberty Hall whose name was not known
and who was not Identified at the door.
The Presidents greetings to those who
were presented to him were Of the cheerful
and personal nature usual to him. When
he varied from his formal greeting and
smile he usually whispered in the ear Of
the man who had his hand
LoNd LINE THAT PASSED HIM
1t took very long time for the line to
pass him. because tho President wanted
an especially long time TO renew comrade-
ship with the men he has not seen since
the days when he took many of his meals
at Little Hungary" "a Police Commits
sioner. long before it became the resort
of noisy tin plate Bohemlans.
The presence Of such we'll known East
Siders as Alderman Parsons, George r
Manchester, Joseph Murray Armitage
Matthews, Seth Low, William L. Ward
and hundred more who have not been
east Of the Bowery for years was among
the features OF the banquet occasion
Everybody in town who really is anybody.
and is at the same time Republican, was
there, besides a great ma jority Of Amori-
cans OF Hungarian blood without any
political asserting.
1t was observed in the walk past tho
President that Capt. f. Norton Goddard
went b. Mr., Roosevelt three times, and
that the last time he got just one-thrd as
long handshake as the first time. There
were other more or less enllvening Incl
dents far too numerous to set down.
SCENE IN THE BANQUET ROOM
It was long after o'clock when the guests
were all down IN the banquet room IL was
a sight of which no restaurant and no hotel
In this town could not well have been ieal-
Gus. The partitions between the great
east and west rooms of the street floor Of
the place had been almost entirely knocked
out and pillars took their places.
Pillars, walls and the ceiling were hung
with hundreds Of thousands of yards Of
emiax. In the dark greenery OF the cell
ng we're hundreds OF red shaded lights,
the rays Of which were caught and reflected
by brass helmets and breast plates hung
al intervals along the walls in the banks
OF green
The tables which were crowded as close
together as they could well be, were also
covered with the green smiax and lighted
with dark red Chinese lanterns and red
shaded candelabra.
1t was as simple and as completely beauti-
full form Of decoration as has ever been seen
at a public banquet here James H. HYDE,
who recently gave a ball which was not I'm.
marked by it's elaboration. was observed
20 start and gasp with admiration when
he came through the door.
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