The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-21
Was Accomplished Standing
Bareheaded in the Rain.
INCESSANT TUMULT.
OfAdmiring Thousands Followed
Him Throughout Route
From Railroad Station to Clark
College, Two Niles.

!
| dents train arrived here at 1928 a. m.
The trip was without unusual Incl
dent, although after daylight today
every station through which the train
passed was thronged with cheering
people.
The president had Just been awak-
ened as the train passed Gales Ferry.
Soon afterwards the president sent
| kilograms to the captains of the Har-
ward and Yale crews. The message
to the Harvard crew was as follows:
"CaptAin Harvard Crew, Red Top,
/ Conn: Expected to pass through New
London much earlier or should have
been up to greet you. I wish could
see the race. Good luck to you.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
To the Yale crew the following dis
patch was sent:
Captain Yale Crew. Gales Ferry,
/ Conn: 1 expected to pass through
New London much earlier. or I should
! have been up to greet you Hope you
will not think I am an offensive par
| tisan If, under these particular cir
| cumstances, I do not wish you good
/ luck. I would at any other time, but
Taft, am sure, is praying for you.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
! The train made no early morning
| stop until Putnam. Conn.,, was reach
I
/ dred persons shouted their welcome
] to the president. He appeared on the
rear platform of his private car, the
/ Courier, and said:
s'It is a great pleasure to have the
| chance of saying a word of greeting
| to you today. saw the mayor run
ming along, but I did not know he
( was the mayor at that time. I saw
/ he was an old soldier. and knew there
/ fore that he had claim upon me as
! on everyone else. I cannot say more
| than a word of greeting and draw
| Just one lesson from the mayors life.
1.-THE mayor fought in the big war,
and If after he had quit fighting he
| had quit doing anything else except
! talk, he would not be mayor. When
he got through that job he turned his
/ attention to the next job that came
/ along. Now let's each take a lesson
i ffo1a that.
There were no further stops until
| the train reached Worcester.
Met at the Station.
The presidents train reached this
| city three minutes ahead of the sched-
uIe At the station the reception
committee, headed by Lieutenant
! Governor Curtis Guild, Jr, represent
/ ing the state; Mayor B1Odgett, of the
city and former Congressman Joseph
1 Walton, Stephen Salisbury and Con-
/ gresham lockwood Hoars represent
/ ing Clark university and college,
! boarded the presidents car. Lieuten-
]
! the welcome of the commonwealth and
| Mayor BIodgett that of the city.
/ The mist of the earlier hours had
/ become a drizzle and the weather was
/ raw and uncomfortable.
| With the appearance of the pres1-
4 dent upon the car platform the throng
/ burst into roar of cheers. Passage
/ to the street was quickly made, the
/ president bowling constantly to the ac-
/ claim of the crowds. Waiting outside
/ the station to act as escort were Com
/ pany C of the Ninth infantry, Com
/ pany A and Company Q of the Second
I infantry battalion of light artillery,
1 and the local post of the G. A. R., and
the Spanish war veterans camp. The
I line was formed at once.
In spite of the rain the president
rode in an open carriage. The cheer
/ ing multitude gave him no opportunity
to sit From the moment of his en-
! tering the carriage tumult was inces-
! SAINT and as the parade moved. PreSi-
dent Roosevelt remained with head
bare, bowling to the people.
All the way to Clark college. a dis
| tance of two miles, the demonstration
/ continued.
At the College.
President Carroll D. Wright of Clark
college, attended by members of the
| faculty, received President Roosevelt at
the west entrance of the college and
| ushered him directly to the private Of
fee of President Wright, where about
| Is minutes were devoted to an informal
! reception. The academic procession was
then formed and the march taken to the
chapel where the first commencement
exercise of the college which the presi-
dent had come to honor were held. At
| ter the party had taken places on the
platform the audience was seated and
Rev DR.. George Harris, president of
Amherst college, offered the invocation.
DR.. Hamilton w. Mabie delivered the
| grafton of the day. After some music
/ President Wright, while the audience
stood, introduced Mr.. Roosevelt simply
| as 1.-The President"
President Roosevelt spoke briefly ad-
dressing himself to president Wright
and President Hall, graduates of the
university and the college, and men and
| women of Worcester" In part he said
! Il shall do little except by way OF
illustration of the admirable address to
| which we have just listened from DR..
Mabie. What the speaker said applies
thoroughly to two men because of whom
I am here today. Senator Hoar, two
years ago, induced me to promise to
come here on this occasion to greet
President Wright as the head Of this
college. Coming from such q man and
for such another man, could not re-
fuse the request"
Turning to DR. Mabie the president
continued:
with Senator Hoar was realized, Mr..
Mabie, your picture of the public ser
| want"
Addressing President Wright. Mr..
Roosevelt said:
Il cannot speak Of you as would
like to speak today and as I hope you
may live a Tong time yet it may be a
long time before I shall be able to say
/ what I would like to say.
He gave to the country the presi-
! dent resumed. turning again to the au-
dience and referring to President Wright,
1 the kind OF service no money possibly
could buy. It was not merely what he