The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-25
ROOSEVELT AT CAPITOL
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(Continued from Page Oneo sied in the throng and their Joyous, childish voices blended happily In the dull murmur of the throng.
 On the opposite or south side or the walk were the negroes. There was not q single black body in the crowd, wnicn was remarkably depse, that failed 10 carry a national flag. The students or the State Normal School for Negroes were in a body and waved above them a yellow banner with the name or their school inscribed thereon.
 Each person endeavored to get near est the rostrum from which the ad- dresses were to be made. special de- taiI of police under the command of Police Captain w. H. Taylor was sta tioned to keep all, except those who wore officiaI badges, from the platform. To eyade the police. hundreds turned their energies. They tried entering from the rear of the Capitol and from it's sides, but all doors were closely guarded. They pleaded in vain for their friends, who were lucky enough to be on the rostrum to give them the open sesame" of admittance.
 The ingenuity of the human mind was apparent in the efforts of mem bers of the throng to get better stand than that of their neighbours. A man holding a little boy by one hand and a 5ig rope by the other, walked to a tree in close proximity to the rostrum. The man climbed the tree. The little boy had previously been made fast by the rope and when the father gained the goal of his endeavor. he hauled the son up. tied him to the tree to keer him from falling, lit cigarette and awaited developms nts.
 OLD GLORY EVERYWHERE.
 The rostrum. constructed directly over the Capitol steps. was covered witf national colors and flags while over th' star placed by the Sophie Bibb Chap fer. Daughters of the Confederacy. wa! rlaced a wreath of carnations and ferns National colors were everywhere. Schoo children carried flags, and men carried red, white and blue silk handkerchiefs Each oficial wore a badge of Coiltm bias colors, each policeman wore then over his shields, while there were no a few men and women, who wore tn colors and flags in every fantastic ant grotesque manner imaginable.
 During the period of waiting tn rostrum gradually began to i'll. Tn State officeers arrived and took thei seats, while their wives and familie were given places of honor in the gal leries overlooking the rostrum. Tn Judges of the Supreme Corut and O the City Courts arrived and thens ther was a small smattering of the politi cians of Alabama. Chairman H. $. Mallory or the DtmOcrdtic clAte EAeSu tive Committee was noticeable ngur and Representatives B. Dec. Wadde of Russell, J. ". Rushton of Crenshav H S. Doster of Autauga were also O the platform.
 Good feeling toward the Presider was evident everywhere.
 On the northwest corner of th rostrum was the immense bale of cot ton presented by the Alabama Cotto Growers Association to the Presider in recognition of his efforts to regulai the cotton industry, On the table s' aside for the press was a large bask' of pears and near 1t the following not
 My Dear Mir. President-Thls is little token of my esteem. We wis to pear off with you.
 Very cordially,
 Robert Halls. 'Private semples Battery, c. S A. No
 proud to say. am an American"
 Al noon, the dull boom of artillel fin the distance caused a furry in u crowd. The people began more 'eari estly to seek coigns of vantage. Soc every tree was hIled with humanit On the southside of the capitol. b beech tree was literally black vii negroes and during the address of tl president one of the occupants re headlong from his perch. He was n' aHE's COMING" THEY CRIED.
 Another period of waiting -folloKe!