The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-17
GREAT DAY FOR ST. PATRICK.
PRESIDENT COMING TO DINNER
IN HIS HONOR.

biggest Of Parades. the Mayor Leading
the Civic DNlsIOn-FIfty hands In Il
Mr. Roosevelt WIN Take In Two
Dinners and Ills NleceS Weddlng.
The little green Gag with the harp Of
yellow will wave proudly all over the city
to-day and the fact that Il il st. PatricE .
day will be impressed upon The town more
emphatically than ever before. Not even
In 1874, the year Of the big O'Connell demon
stration, was there such an enthusiastic
celebration as Is presaged by the elaborate
arrangements for to-day.
For the first time the Friendly Sons Of
st. Patrick will entertain a President Of
the United States. The Gaelic motto,
-Caed Mile Failthe" Ca hundrcd thousand
Welcomes, will encounter President Roose-
vet's vision as he enters Delmonico's TO
take part in the annual dinner. The Irish
are certain the motto only mildly expresses
the heartinass Of the greeting that will be
given 70 him.
Mr.. roosevelt is himself a Friendly Son.
He will leave Washington at 0.55 A. M,
accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt and Score
tary Loeb, in a special train over lhe
Pennsylvania road. reaching Jersey CITY
Just before 1 o'clock. The President ard
Mrs. Roosevelt will attend the wedding
Of their niece Miss Eleanor Roosevelt,
daughter of the late Elliott Roosevelt.
with her cousin, Franklin Delano Roose-
velt at s East Seventy-sixth street, the
home Of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Parish, Jr., az
3 o'clock. Later in the afternoon they VIII
20 TO the home OF the Presidents sister,
Mrs Douglas Robinson, in Madison avenue.
The President will start for the dinner
Of the Friendly Sons at s45 o'clock. he
will be escorted to Delmonico's by the
SiKty-ninth Regiment and will remain
until 10 o'clock. when he will 20 on 10 the
dinner Of the Sons Of the American Revo-
luton at the Hotel Aston. The President
and Mrs. Roosevelt will leave. Jersey city
for Washington soon after midnight.
The police guarding the President during
his stay here will he in charge OF Chief
Inspector Cortright. Either Commissioner
McAdoo himself or Inspector Cortrlght
will meet the President in Jersey CITY;
RoundRma1 Wood and his mounted squad
of eight men, the Presidents usual body
guard while here in New York, will accom-
pany him everywhere he goes while here,
and Detective Sergeants Foy and Funston
will be detailed 10 keep close to him at all
times. There will not be any large number
Of patrolmen specially detailed along the
streets through which the President Will
pass, but the men on patrol will be in
strlcted to make it their business TO be
near at hand. -,
the cooperation Of every Irish Catholic
society in the greater city, will have, 80
Il Is announced by the secretary, 10000
men in line in the annual parade to-day
Mayor Mcclellan will lead the civic divis-
ion, and the Si1ty-ninth Regiment will
have the right Of the line; Fifty bands
will help the feet Of the marchers along.
The procession will move north on tnth
avenue from Forty-ninth street promptly
at o'clock In the afternoon. The route
goes along Fifth avenue TO l23d street,
thence east TO Madison avenue, thence
north TO 10th street, where II again turns
east, leading to Suffers Harlem River
Park.
Before the parade the siKty-ninth regi-
ment win attend ponuhcal high mass in
the Cathedral at 10 o'clock AUXILIARY
Bishop Cusaok will pontifcate, and the chap
lain Of the regiment, the Rev. W. j. B.
DAILY, rector Of ST. Malachy's Church. in
West Forty-ninth street, will preach. Mgr.
Iavelle will meet the regiment at the
Cathedral doors and welcome the men to
The evening Festival and bali win be held
in Madison Square Garden and In SulScr's
Harlem River Park. In the evening there
will be a banquet at the Irish Club in East
Fifty-eighth street. a dinner for the Irish
American Volunteers at Turtle Bay Hall,
and another for the Bay Ridge Celtic Club.
The Irish Club and the Friendly Sons Of st.
Patrick have a special dispensation 10 eat
meat; the others must be content with fish
as a substitute for the meat courses.
Those attending the dinner Of the Friendly
Sons Of St. Patrick must present tickets
TO obtain admission.