The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-15
IN.
LITTLE HUNGARY
Fulfilled a Promise Made Several
Years Ago.
SCENE WAS REMARKABLE
STRONG CONTRAST WITH THE
NIGHT BEFORE.

Anew YORK, Feb. 14.-For the first
N 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 Hun
Sarian 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 carriage en-
tered the district he received an oVa-
ton. Never before has a president of
the United States visited this little
known part Of New York, and never be-
fore had a fraction of the thousands
that cheered him seen a nations ruler
Electric lights winked and bIinked
characteristic legends. gaudy bunting
huttered in the wind, and the great
east side showed its enthusiasm in
every imaginable way. Across Second
avenue at Sixth street a huge electric
device blazed forth the simple word
Delighted a word frequently used in
the decorations
Was Well Guarded.
The district through which the pres
ident drove and in which he diued is
not the safest in the great city. and
the police took no chance. So stringent
were the precautions that not a flash
light photograph was allowed to be
taken, and uniformed police. plain
clothes men and detectives fairly
swarned inside and out of Little
hungary They were stationed on
the roofs and fire escapes in the neigh
borhood. and for two blocks on either
side Of East Houston street a Gordon of
police cut off the crowds. The or1i-
nary police cards permitting entry into
fire lines and similar places were sus-
pended by order of Police Commission
er McAdoo. and no one without an in
Fltation TO the dinIier or "A specially
issued police card was permitted to
pass the faulty drawn line Of patrol
men.
Gala Night on East Side.
The night was almost the coolest of
the winter. but il did not depress the
spirits of the crowd. Before dusk the
east side streets began to pour forth
their quota bound toward Little Hun
gary and these were sweIled by sight
seeFs from all over the city, the latter
perhaps more anxious to see the east
side on gala night than TO catch n
glimpse of the president. The snow of
many storms, ice-cOated by alternate
thaWs and freezes, was breast high in
the side streets, and over these heaDs
the crowds scrambled and slipped to
secure a vantage point They stood nm
complainingIy on the lev crests and
fingered through the long hours of the
banquet to again cheer the president
on his departure.
Streets Blocked
East Houston street and adjoining
thoroughfares in all directions were
blocked by as cosmopolitan crowd as
could be gathered in any city in the
world. At that hour the police began
10 clear the streets and draw their
nnes, through which admission was
gained only by special ticket A trooD
OF police rode into the crowd, ana
working east and west gradually
moved the sightseers into the SIDE
streets, where another line was estaD-
hshed to keep them back
The crowds We're in the hest of Inn,
CURED.
Every entrance to residence o.
store within the police line was guard
ed oy an officer, while on housetops op-
poSlte the cafes stood policemen to
keep these vantage points clear of anv
eNli-diSposed person The men took up
their stations with the certainty Ct well
arranged plans. and whenever some be-
iateu home-comer whose residence WAS
within the guarded zone appeared he
was accompanied 10 his door by an Of
hcer and left with the caution 10 re-
main indoors.
Warned to Get Home.
The tenants of the nearby bouses
mad been warned in the afternoon by
the police TO get home before the lines
were drawn, and most of them ar
peared to have done So
Driven from the streets they crowded
the 'front.' windows and out on the fire
escapes Of the tenemeutS They We're
posted in this way by the hundred. The
buildings were bristling with faces
from every point Of vantage. and lur-
RED conference of police officials was
held. They evidently did not like the
situation. As result every one was
driven from the fire escapes and NJ IN
the open windows, which were ordered
locked but no objection was made to
the occupants looking through the
glass On every fire escape. with CT
ders to watch the people in the houses
was a uniformed policeman. From The
entrance of Little Hungary could he
seen more than fifty policemen in uni
forms ON the numerous fire esca0es.
while others peered over the cornices.
ana sun others were stationed n the
Railways Of the teeming tenenents.
Roosevelt Was PunctuaI.
President Roosevelt was punctuaI to
his schedule. He was due at 7:3O and
five minutes before that time cheering
began on Avenue r. The police lines
came TO attention and a band stationed
near the cafe struck ID The Star
Spangled Banner" But after the open-
ing bar not a horn could be heard
The wave Of cheering swept ahead Of
the presidential party. and grew into
roar such as east side teneme mt walls
never echoed before The window order
was forgotten The SasheS went lIp
simultaneously Waving from his car
rage window and bowling the presi-
dent returned the pOlygiot greeting.
There was no delay. A lane was made
quickly through the people massed at
the police line in Avenue 4 a block
from its intersection with East Hous-
ton street, and the carriages with their
mounted police escort swept up to the
door of the restaurant At the entrance
20 the cafe there was a welcoming
cheer and the president dotted his hat
The mounted police lined up opposite
the entrance until the party entered
the cafe