Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-27
GIVEN A GREAT OVATION AT
NEW ORLEANS
After Most Enthusiastic Greeting Of
Journey, He Boards Lighthouse
Tender Which Is to Take
Him to Cruiser
BY Associated Press.

brought his exceptionally pleasant trip
through the south to close. President
Roosevelt at 6:30 o'clock tonight board
ed the lighthouse tender Magnolia and
began the first stage of his return
journey to the national capital. No
newspaper reporters accompanied him,
and he will be out of touch with the
world throughout the night, but day.
light tomorrow is expected to bring
news of his successful transfer to the
armored cruiser West Virginia. which
lies at anchor off the mouth of the river
to receive MIN, and of the beginning of
the second stage of the journey. For
four days he will be absent from Amer
lean soil, which has never heretofore
happened to a president during his in
cumbency, but through the means of
wireless telegraphy it is promised that
he will be seldom out of communication
with the shore.
The presidents New Orleans recep-
tion was signal testimonial of popular
esteem and of grateful recognition of
the service which he has rendered the
city in her period of stress. New Or
leans today remembered not only that
the president had acted with character
fStic promptnesS when asked to send
federal surgeons to take charge of the
fever-struggle, but throughout the fight
here sustained the people of the Strick-
en- city with expressions of unfailing
sympathy and, when a large share OF
the public opinion of the country OPP
posed his venturing into New Orleans
with the fever still prevailing, he re-
fused to consider the element of person.
al danger and declared his purpose to
keep the promise he made when he ac.
cepted the original invitation to come.
The densely crowded streets, the wild
applause that greeted him along the
whole route of the parade, the en-
thusiasm with which his address to
the multitude in Lafayette square was
received and the remarkable demon
strat1on in his honor at the luncheon, |
were outward manifestations of the
spirit in which the people welcomed
him. Probably for the first time in his |
public career the president was COM
relied to abandon public address be-
fore he had got well started on it. 1t
was contemplated that the military and
civic para lie should pass in review be-
fore the president at the city hall, but
the crowd which gathered at this point
was so tremendous that neither the po-
lice nor the troops were able to move
it, ana the president, foreseeing a pos
sible catastrophe in the event of a
panic, finally gave up the attempt to
speak and left the platform.
Fifty Thousand People Gather
The crowd jammed st. Charles street
from property line TO property line,
all the way from Poydras to Ninth
street, and it spread over Lafayette
square almost from st. Charles to
Camp street. Probably fifty thousand
people We're gathered in and around
the stand from which the president
was to have delivered the address. |
When the president decided to abandon
his effort he shouted to the throng to
go home and be good citizens, and then
disappeared into the mayors parlors,
we'll nigh exhausted. To those about
him he expressed himself as immensely
pleased with the demonstration in his
honor, which was far beyond his eX-
pectations or the expectations of the
members of his party, and said that
the reception was the greatest that
he had had since he had started on his
trip.
The demonstration at the luncheon
was scarcely less exuberant When
the president entered the superbly dec
GRATED dining hall, the 625 banqueters
rose as one man and gave way to
frantic cheers. Every thought he ut
tered was the signal for an extraor-
dinary exhibition of enthusiasm, and as
his speech dealt almost entirely with
local subjects and had special refer
ence to the fight against yellow fever
the banquet developed into an in
creasing ovation.
An immense crowd packed Gravier
and st. Charles streets as the dinner
ended, and the appearance of the presi-
dent on his way to the river pro-
voked thunderous applause. AS the
Magnolia left her landing a presiden-
tial salute was fired and the indescrib-
able din of the whistles of the fac
tories and river craft mingled with
the lusty cheering throng of people
which had collected on the wharf No
where did the president see the slight
est evidence of the existence of any
remnants of the fever. He saw on
every hand immense gatherings of ap-
parently happy and contented people. |
and it may reasonably be believed that
he carried away with him the impress
sion that, however serious the vista
ton of disease may have been, it is
now little more than memory.
The only opOrtunity which the negro
citizens of New Orleans had to meet
the president was while the parade
was passing the Iroquois club, and the
president stopped there to receive an
engrossed address expressing the senti- |
ments of the colored people toward
him. The president made a short
speech in response.
Holds Several Receptions
After a short rest in his hotel the /
president held a series of receptions.
The first was to a group of Confed-
crate veterans, who presented to him
& watch charm of crossed Union and
Confederate flags as a souvenir of the
trip. The second of the receptions
was to a group of Grond Army vet
Grams.
Representatives of various woman's
associations had five minutes with the
president during which Mrs. Bahen,
president of the women's league, which |
was active in the fever fight, pinned !
a badge of the association used during |
the campaign on the lapel of his coat.
THE climax of the days entertainment
was the luncheon which started short
Iy after o'clock and was prolonged
is minutes beyond the time set for 1T,
as a result of the continuous ovation
given to the president. The president
sat beneath the pelican flag, with
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