The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-11-01
The President Visits New Or.
leans and Sails for Home.
A CROWD SO LARGE
Ga Liners In Front of the City Hall That
1t was Imp 3ssible for the Military
and Civic. Parade to Pass in
Review of the President.

and Civic. Parade to Pass in
Review of the President.
President Roosevelt, accompanied
by Secretary Loeb and Surgeon Gen
eral R'xey, arrived at New Orleans
by special train from Memphis at
nine o'clock Thursday morning. A
reception committee, headed by May
or Martin Behrman, received the
president at the station. An enor-
NOUS crowd was Assem- bled in front
of the station when tho president ar.
rived and received him with snthusi-
astic cheers, which continued until
the carriages, bearing the president
and other members of the party as
well as the members of the reception
committee, had vanished from sight
down Canal street. Detachments Of
mounted state troops formed the
military escort Of the president.
At the end Of nine strenuous hours
of varied entertainment in New Or.
leans, closing a pleasant trip through
the South, President Roosevelt at $3.50
Thursday night boarded the light
house tender Magnolia and began his
return Journey to Washington.
No newspaper representative &C
companied the President on the boat
and he will be out Of touch with tho
world throughout the night, by day
light tomorrow is expected to bring
news OF bis successful tranfer to the
armored cruiser West Virginia, which
lies at anchor eff the mouth OF the
Mississippi River to receive him and
carry him on towards the Capital.
For four days the President will be
of American soil, but by wireless
t~elegraphy it Is promised he will be IN
communication with the shore.
The Presidents stay In New Or.
leans was made a testimonial OF popu.
lar esteem and of grateful recognition
for the service which he rendered the
city in It's struggle against yellow
fever. The dens, lily crowded streets,
the elaborate decorations, the Wild ap-
plause that greeted the President
along the route Of the parade, the en-
thu ,iasm with which his address to
the multitude in Lafayette Square was
I received and the remarkable demon
stration in bis honoI at the luncheon,
made the day replete with cordial
welcome to the nations Chief 'Execu.
tive.
The President was compelled to
abandone one public address before
he had gotten well started on it. II
was contemplated that the military
and civic parade should pass In review
before the President at the City Hall,
but the crowd which gathered at this
point was 80 tremendous that Meth.
err the police nor the troops were able
to move it, and the President, fore.
seeing a possible panic, finally gave
no the attempt to speak and left the
platform. The crowd jAmmed Char
les street all the way from Poydras
street to Ninth street, and it spread
over Lafayette Square almost from
st. Charles street to Camp street.
Probably so, 1000 persons were gather
ed In and around the stand from
which the President was to have de
iyered the address. When the Pfest-
dent decided to abandon his effort, he
shouted to the throng to 20 home
and be good citizsns and disappeared
into the mayors parlorS well nigh OK.
hsusted. He said that the reception
was the greatest that he had since ne
had started on his trip.
The demonstration at the luncheon
was Scarcely less exuberant. When
the President entered the superbly
decorated dining hall the 625 BAN
~aueters rose and gave way to frantic
oheers. Every reference CT Governor
Blanchard, Mayor B ;hrnan and Pfesi'
dent Sanders, OF the Progressive
Union, to the guest brought fozth a
perfeci storm Of cheering, and when
the President rose he had great diff
Guilty In speaking. Every thought he
uttered was the signal for an extra
ordinary exhibition OF enthusiasm,
and as bis speech dealt almost entire.
with local subj cts, and had special
reference to the fight against yellow
fever, the banquet developed into IN
ceasirg laudation Of the President
while he was on his feet.
An immense crowd packed GraVier
and St. Charles streets as the dinner
ended, and the appearance OF the
President on the way to the river,
provoked thunderous applause. As
the Magnolia left the landing a Presi'
Dental salute was fired, while the
din Of hundreds OF steam whistles
Mingled with the lusty cheering oil
acres OF people who had collected on
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