The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-02-15
PRESIDENT IN LITTLE HUNGARY"
First Time That Chief Executive Has
Visited That Section.

New York, Feb 15.-For the FIRST
time since the days he was police com
missioner of New York President Roose-
yelt last night visited 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 clear
ed and cordoned by patrolmen, he drove
from upper Fifth avenue into the crowd
ed district which lies around Second
avenue and East Houston street, a re-
gion of small shops and tenements and
largely populated by foreign born resi-
dents. From the moment his carriage
entered the district he received an ova-
tioTi. Never has a President of the
United States visited this little known
part of New York, and never before
had a fraction Of the thousands that
cheered him seen nations ruler. Elec-
trio lights winked and blinked charac-
teristic legends, gaud bunting futtered
in the wintry wind and the great East
Side showed its enthusiasm by every
imaginable sign and sound. Across Sec
ond avenue at Sixth street huge cleo
trio device blazed forth the single word
Delighted word frequently used in
the decorations. Many small shop keep
ers apparently had seen many a weeks
profit spent in elaborate decorations,
and it has been many years since the
East Side saw such night.
The district through which the Presi-
den drove and in which he dined Is not
the safest in the city and the police
took no chances. So stringent were the
precautions that not a fiashlight photo
graph was allowed to be taken, and uni
formed police, plain clothes men and
detectives fairly swarmed inside and
out Of 'Little Hungary" They were
stationed on the roofs and fire escapes
in the neighborhood and for two blocks
on either side of East Houston street q
Gordon Of police cut off the crowds. The
ordinary police cards permitting entry
into FIRE lines and similar places were
suspended BY order Of Police Commits
sioner McAdoo and no one without an
invitation to the dinner or a specially
issued police card was permitted to
pass the faulty drawn line Of patrol
men.
BY six o'clock East Houston street
and the intersecting thoroughfares for
several blocks 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
to clear the streets and draw their lines
through which admission was gained
only by special ticket A troop of
mounted police rode slowly into the
crowd, and working east and west grad
ually moved the sightseers into the side
streets, where another line was estab
Iished to keep them back The crowd
was in the best Of hunor and no dis
order or resistance occurred. They al
lowed themselves to be herded back and
in remarkably short time the streets
before the restaurant and for two
blocks IN either direction as well as
for half block down the side streets,
was absolutely closed
Every entrance to a residence or
store within the police lines was guard
ed by an officer, while on the house
tops opposite the cafe stood policemen
to keep these vantage points clear Of
any evil disposed persons. The men
took up their station with the Ger
tainty Of well arranged plans, and
whenever some belated home conner,
whose residence was within the guard
ed zone appeared, he was accompanied
to his door BY an officer and left with
the caution to remain indoors.