Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-02-15
AT LITTLE HUNGARY
President Roosevelt Visits
 East Side of New York.
LIGHTS BLAzED Fl R1a"DELICHTED!"

LIGHTS BLAzED Fl RTd "DELlGHTED!" Introduced by President Braun, Guest
 of Honor Spoke Briefly as to What
 Should Constitute Amcri-
 can Citixenship.
 NEW YORK. Feb. 15.,-For the first time since the days when he was police commissioner of New York President Roosevelt last night revisited the heart of the east side, where as guest of the Hungarian Republican club he dined and spoke at the restaurant Little Hun gary. Guarded by mounted police and secret service men through streets cleared and cordoned by patrolmen, he drove from upper Fifth avenue into the crowded district which lies around Sec ond avenue and East Houston street, a region of small shops and tenements and largely populated by foreign born citizens. From the moment his car riage entered the district he received an ovation. Never before has a presi- dent of the United States visited this little known part of New York and never before had fraction of the thou sands that cheered him seen nations ruler. Electric lights winked and blinked characteristic legends, gaudy bunting futtered in the wintry wind, and the great east side showed its en- thusiasm by every imaginable sign and sound. Across Second avenue at Sixth street a huge electric device blazed forth the single word Delighted" q word frequently used in the decora- tions. Many small shopkeepers appar- ently had spent a weeks profit in elab- crate decorations, and it has been many years since the east side saw such a night
 When the president visited Little Hungary last night he fulfilled prom ise made to the Hungarian Republican club several years ago that he would be their guest at banquet if their pre- diction came true and he ever went to the White House as president.
 This, the concluding function of the presidents two day visit to New York, was the most picturesque that he has attended. In striking contrast to the wealth and fashion which surrounded him at the Lincoln dinner were the sur roundings amid which the president spoke last night.
 The president sat at the right of MT. Braun, the president of the club, and the other guests at this table were General Francis V. Greene, William Barnes, Jr.: Rear Admiral Coghlan, General Frederick D. Grant, Nevada N. Stranahan, Secretary Loeb, W. Ira vers Jerome, Commissioner McAdoo, Robert B. Armstrong, James Sloane, dr.. and Frank H. Tyree, while near by were many other men prominent in various walks of life.
 Among the telesrams read at the din ner was .one from the Hungarian club of Kansas City to President Roosevelt, which said:
 Hungarian hearts they beat for you because they always find you true. We hope you find the tokay right, and good will bless your appetite"
 Vice President Elect Fairbanks sent a letter expressing his regret that he could not be present.
 Amid loud cries of "El Jenr' and the playing of "The Star Spangled Ban ner' Mir. Braun proposed the presi- dents health.
 , T present." he said, ''the man who gives everybody square deal, no more, no less.''
 The applause was deafening as the president arose and faced the crowded room.
 When silence was obtained he said:
 'dr. President and you, my fellow Americans, it is peculiar pleasure for me to be with you this evening, and with greeting my hosts of the Hun garian Republican club I give utter ance to the thought of my fellow guests. Congressman Sulzer and oth- CTS, when I say that whatever our diff fcrences before our election, when once the election has taken place. all of us in public life or in private life-presi- dent. congressman. judges, legislators alike-are American citizens and noth- ing else.
 Tt is nearly ten years ago that I first took dinner here in the immediate Deighborhood of where am dining now. and at that time remember per fectly when I was first brought up here it was by Mir. Jacob Nis and Mir. Jim Reynolds. and I was told that would get an awfully good dinner and hear some very good music. and both prophecies proved true.
 ''I say to you tonight that American ism is not a matter of birthplace. of ancestry. of creed, of occupation. Americanism is a matter of the spirit that is within mans soul From the time when we first became an inde- pendent nation to the present moment there has never been a generation in which some of the most distinguished and most useful men were not men who had been born on the other side Of the Atlantic. and it is peculiarly appro- priate and to me peculiarly pleasant that in addressing this club of the men upon whose efforts so much of the fu- furp welfare of this city. of this state,