The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-15
Thanked the Policemen.

When the carriage stopped before the
canopy, the ten mounted police of the
escort drew up facing it.. The presi-
dent jumped out. He whipped off his
here and there to the noisy, Joyous
people in the windows. Then he ora bbed
Inspector Schmittberger hand and
shook it warmly. The inspector blushed
like a 16-year-old girl. The president
dropped his hand and seized Inspector
Brooks. Then quickly Mr.. Roosevelt
said HHowdy' to a captain or two he
knew: Last, he turned to the mounted
men, lifted his hat and his moving lips
framed the inaudible words, II IN much
obliged to you.'
gratifed. The president turned, and,
with Marcus Braun by his side, passed
under the canopy and upstairs, the
hearty cheers still ringing in his ears.
The district thru which the presi-
dent drove and in which he dined is not
the safest in the great city, and the DO
lice took no chances. So stringent were
the precautions that not Sflashlight
photograph was allowed to be taken and
uniformed police, plain clothes men and
detectives fairly swarmed inside and
out of "Little Hungary.'
Precautions Are Extensive. .,
They were stationed on the roofs
and fire escapes in the neighborhood
and for two blocks on either side of
East Houston street a Gordon of police
cut off the crowds. The ordinary po-
lice cards permitting entry into fire
lines and similar places were suspended
by order of Police Commissioner Nc
to the dinner or a specially issued po-
lice, card, was permitted to pass the
line of policemen.
The night was almost the coolest of
the winter, but it did not depress the
spirits Of the crowd. Before dusk the
East Side streets began to pour forth
their quota bound toward 'Little Hun
gary,' and these were swelled by
sightseers from all over the city, the
latter perhaps more anxious to see the
East Side on gala night than to
catch a glimpse Of the president. The
snow Of many storms, ice coated by
alternate thaws and freezes, was
breast high in the side streets, and
over these heaps the crowd scrambled
and slipped to secure vantage point.
Cold Is Ignored.
They stood uncomplainingly on the
hours of the banquet, again to cheer
the president on his departure.
By 6 o'clock East Houston street and
the intersecting thorofares in all direc-
lions were blocked by as cosmopolitan
crowd as could be gathered in any
city in the world.
At that hour the police began to
clear the streets and to draw their lines,
thru which admission was gained only
police rode slowly into the crowd and
working east and west, gradually moved
the sightseers into the. side streets
where another line was established tt
keep them back. The crowds were
in the best Of humor and no disorder
or resistance occurred. They allowed
themselves to be 'herded back and in 6
remarkably short time the streets before
the restaurant and two blocks in either
direction, as we'll as for half a BLOCK
down the side street, were absolutely
cleared.
Doorways Are Guarded.
Every entrance to residence or stor
within the police line was guarded b,
an officer, while on the housetops op
posite the cafe stood policemen to kee1
| these vantage points clear of any evil
disposed person. The men took up thei
stations with the certainty Of well-a1
ranged plans, and whenever some be
lated homecomer whose residence wa
W1JllQ the gudEueU LOuo dppedleu Ii
was accompanied to his door by an OF
icer and left with the caution to renal
indoors. = - :
The tenants Of the nearby houses ha
been warned in the afternoon by the pc
lice to get home before the lines wer
drawn, and most of them appeared t
have done so.
Driven from the streets, they crowde
the front windows and out onto the fir
escapes Of the tenements. They wer
posted in this way by the hundred. TIL
buildings were bristling with faces frol
every point of vantage and a hurrie
conference Of police officials was hel,
They evidently did not like the stu;
tion. AS result every one was drive
from the fire escapes and from the ope
windows, which were ordered locke
but no objection was made to the occ1
pants looking thru the glass.
On every fire escape, with orders
watch the people in the houses, was
uniformed policeman. From the entrant
Of "Little Hungary, could be see
more than fifty policemen in uniform {
| the numerous fire escapes, while othe
peered over the cornices and still othe
were stationed in the Railways of tt
teeming tenements.
Duties Of Citizens.
The president LETT the Hungarian eli
which he told ofstbe duties Of an Amer
can citizen as he saw them. and VI