New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-31
president IN BROOKLYN
Continued from nrst page

Gum. General Benjamin f. Tracy. Seth Low
saooo Bremen. General Horatio g. King, Thomas
p. Peters. Police Commissioner McAdoo j. L.
Swanstrom and Charles z. Newton
The President then went to the reception room
OF tbs club, where he held a fifteen minute hand
shaking fest with members and guests. AS the
receiving line was backing into position inc
president found a bronze reproduction OF KEN
ington's Wicked Bronco" He spent huAA
minute looking It over with admiring eyes
Fully three hundred grasped the PresioenIs
hand at this reception, and except toward inc
end. when they came too fast for him. he had
,rord OF grating for each one. All received a
characteristics smile and grasp that unsled tor
..evsraI moments afterward. Many he reneIn-
bersd and with a word recalled their last meet
ing when was Police Commissioner IN
the legislature, old man. you remeinDeF'
-eYes I was In this club when ran Tor Gov
ernor."
From the Union League Club, mid the boom
of a salute OF twenty-one guns, the PTesloene
drove ND T3edford-ave. to Eastern Parkway
where stands a large bronze statue OF IeheFai
Henry " Slocum, Civil War hero. whose
nam. ts linked with Charlottesville. Cramp-
TOMS Pass Bull Run Malvern Hill; q fighter who
With his own men twice defeated General Joe
Johnson and brought about Johnson's SURRENDER
and who with his troops was the first TO enter
Atlanta. whence began the march to the sea-
Since his death IN 1894 Brooklyn has desired
4ba ceremonies of yesterday. the unwilling OF
statue TO his memory.
The reviewing stands. which extended several
Hooks down the streets both sides, were
packed with holiday makers, eager to see inc
president If they could not hear him. The parks
and vacant lots IN the neighborhood hKe"lse
held their cheering thousands It did not take
Ssr1.$ alyer'e 0fa
r,eYt Among those who found seats there who
had not met the President earlier were Mayor
Mcclellan General Sickles and DR.. Thomas Oar
rngton- The meeting between the President and
Mayor Mcclellan YVES hearty one, ana tney
spent several minutes in spirited conversation
Bishop Frederick Burgess pronounced the in
vocation thanking God for putting IT Into the
hearts Of the people Of Brooklyn TO erect a
statue that could teach such desirable lessons
Of civic glory and the need Of self-sacrihce FOR
fellow
Michael T Kennedy, Commissioner of Parks
for Brooklyn and Queens presented the statue
to the city in a neat address in which he dwelt
on the pleasure of the borough at the presence
OF the Chief Executive. He spoke feelingly OF
the life and example Of General Slocun. "a
valiant commander in Lberty's cause Just
man and an exemplary citizen"
AS the Commissioner finished Miss Gertrude
Slocum advanced TO the statue ana cut the
string which held the yelling Of flags. They
fell eway neatly and disclosed the bronze show
ing the general mounted prancing charger.
holding on high the sword he used so effectively.
Mayor Mcclellan, IN receiving the statue for
the city, spoke OF Memorial Day as one in which
we do honor to those who by their deeds made
possible the greatness of che United States, the
chief result of which Is to inorlcate a lesson
which serves for the guidance OF our people
throughout all the other days OF the year."
He declared the day most hitting for the unveil-
ing OF a statue to General Slocum and even more
citing that the thin blue line which held so we'll
at Antietam, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
should be hand to bear testimony to the
devotion of men to great commander. He
spoke Of 6locum the man, and the worth he
had been 20 Brooklyn. and in closing declared
that IN honoring Slocum they were honoring
the best that is in American character