Omaha daily bee., 1905-02-15
ROOSEVELT VISITS EAST SIDE
President is Guest at a Banquet Of Run
garian Republican CLUB.
OVATION FOR THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE
He Meets n Number of Men He Knew
-- when He Was Police Conn
missioner I'm the
Metropolis.

NEW YORK, Feb. I.-After two days
President Roosevelt left tonight over the
Pennsylvania road for Washington.
The events of today included a reception
at the University club and tonight the
event of his vist-the dinner given by the
Hungarian Republican club at the restau-
rant Little Hungary on the East Side,
where president has never been before
The fact that Mr.. Roosevelt was to
visit places where he has not been since
he was governor of New York and where
no other president while in Office had been
led to unusual police precautions, but moth
ing untoward happened.
The president left the Hungarian club
dinner after making a brief speech, in
which he told of the duties of an American
citizen as he saw them and was driven
directly to the Desbrosses street station,
accompanied by a squad Of mounted police.
The ferryboat arrived in Jersey City at
l:5O and some minutes afterward he
boarded his special train.
For the first time since the days when
he was governor of New York, President
Roosevelt revisited the heart of the East
Side, where as guest of the Hungarian
Republican club he dined and spoke at
wv ANSNouidHl lJlllle hungary. from
the moment his carriage entered the dis
trict, he received an ovation. Never be-
fore has a president of the United States
visited this little known part of New York
and never before has a fraction of the
thousands that cheered him seen a ma
tons ruler. Electric lights winked and
olinked characteristic legends, gaudy
bunting fiuttered in the wind and the great
East Side showed its enthusiasm in every
imaginable way. Across Second avenue at
sixth street huge electric device blazed
torth the single word "De-Lighted,"
word frequently used in the decorations
President Arrives on Time.
President Roosevelt was punctual to his
schedule. He was due at $780, and five min
utes before that time cheering began. The
police lines came to attention and a band
stationed near the cafe struck up "rhe
Star Spangled Banner" But after the
opening bar not a horn could be heard
The wave of cheering swept ahead of the
presidential party and grew into a roar
such as East Side tenement walls never
echoed before. The window order was
forgotten. AS If worked by a system OF
switches, the sashes went up simultane-
ously. Waving his hat from the carriage |
window and bowling, the president returned |
the greeting. The mounted police lined |
up opposite the entrance until the party |
entered the cafe
In the carriage with the president was
Marcus Braun, president of the Hungarian |
Republican club, whose guest Mr. Roose- |
Welt was; Police Commissioner McAdoo and |
Secretary Loeb AS the president stepped |
from the carriage he paused and shook |
hands with several police inspectors who
stood near.
Six years ago Governor Roosevelt was
entertained at t~the same place, and when
he was police commissioner he became
familiar with every turn of the narrow
streets through which he passed tonight.
In his police escort tonight there were
some OF the men who wore their badges
under him when he headed 1.-THE Force"
and who still address him as Mr. Com
missioner"
When the president drove up to Little
tonight he fulfilled a promise
made to members of the Hungarian Re-
publican club several years ago, that he
would be their guest at a banquet II their
prediction came true and he ever went 70
the White + lse
He met old friends many of whom he |
mad known when he was police commits
sioner and 1t was interesting to see how
well his memory served him at the recep-
lion which preceded the banquet, for when
ever Mr. Braun presented an old acouaint-
lnce Mr.. Roosevelt would exclalm, mo
need OF an introduction here" and quickly
'all the man and grasp the hand of the
Individual
Promptly at $50 the president left the re-
,eption room and, escorted by Mr.. Braun,
iescended to the basement and past the lit
-ie par into the cafe. The president sat at
he right M
he club and the other guests at this table
we're General Francis v. Greene, William
5arnes jr., Rear Admiral Coghlan, General
frederick d. Grant, Nevada NJ Stranahan
Loeb. w. Travers Jerome; Com