The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-01
The President and Mrs. RoOse-
velt Receive the World
And Its New Years Greetings at
the White House.
NOT FOR SIX YEARS
Has There Been a Vice Presi-
dent in the Receiving Line.
Fairbanks Was First to Wish a
Happy New Year.

Washington, Jan. New Years /
day at the national capital was OBJ 1
served with all the traditional bril- |
liancy which time and custom have !
decreed shall characterize the official |
greeting of the New Year, and another
was added to the long line of recep- |
tions at the White House, where Pres
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt received the |
people of the world, whatever their |
race or creed, of station high and low, |
who filed past till their numbers !
reached up into the thousands. each
of them bringing happy New Year
The first day of the year dawned
bright and crisp, a heavy frost melt
ing in the early morning by a food of
sunshine. BY o'clock the long line
of citizens who were to be received
after the represent rtives of the SOW
ereigns of the world and the various
| officials of the American government
had passed down the receiving line be-
gan forming in front of the White
House gates and by II o'clock, the
hour for the reception to begin, the
column stretched along the front of
the state, war and navy buildings and
gave promise of one of the largest re-
ceptions in the history of the White
House Eleven o'clock was the hour
| set for the reception of the vice pres
1dent, the members of the cabinet and
| their families. For the first time in
six years today a president received
/ the good wishes of vice president on
! New Years day, the late Garrett A.
! Hobart having been the last vice pres
ident present at the White House on
/ this occa sion.
Shortly before Il o'clock the President
and Mrs Roosevelt preceded by the mill
/ tary and naval aides to the president
and the several White House aides all
in special full dress, DESCRIBED the mar
/ bic stairway leading from the second
floor. Entering the blue room they took
| up their position to the right of the
| door leading from the red room. The
| first wishing them a happy New Year
were the vice president and Mrs. Fair
bank, who passed behind the receiving
line and stood to the right of Mrs
Roosevelt. Next came Secretary and
Mrs. Root, who while not attending
! their first New Years reception as
members of the presidents Official fam
lily today for the first time held the
ranking position.
In the order named there followed
| the Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs.
Shaw, the. Secretary of War and Mrs.
Taft, Attorney General Moody, Post
master General and Mrs Cortelyou,
Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Bona
parte, also new conlers at the White
House on New Years, the Secretary of
the Interior and Mrs. Hitchcock, the
T secretary of agriculture and the secre-
tary of commerce and labor and Mrs.
NIetcalf.
All took up their positions in the re-
ceiving line to the right of the President
! and Mrs. Roosevelt. At the president
! left was his military aid, Colonel Charles
| S. Bromwell, superintendent of public
buildings and grounds, who made the
presentation to the president. Nearby
was the presidents naval aid, Lieutenant
! Albert L. Kay. Opposite Mrs Roosevelt
Charles t.
/ States marines. who made the presenta-
tiOns to her. In single line facing the
president and the receiving party were
members of the presidents staff, young
| officers of the army, navy and marine
| cial full dress, which is always worn by
/ officers when at the White House. FFhe
aides were:
Captain A Harding. U. s NJ. Captain
! Dan T. Moore, of the artillery, Captain
/ Fitzhugh Lee of the cavalry, Lieutenant
/ Robert L. Berry of the navy, Lieutenant
! Ulysses Grant third, of the engineer
/ corps, Lieutenant Philip H. Sheridan of
1 the cavalry and Ensign Adolphus An
4 drews of the navy.
AS soon as the president had gath
/ cred about him his official family, the
doors of the red room were again
swung open and in a clear voice Col.
| Bromweu announced the acting dean
/ of the diplomatic corps, the ambassa-
dor from Austria Hungary and
4 Madame Hengelmueller. For the first
time in five years the familiar figure
of Count Cassini, the Russian ambas-
sador, was missing, and in the absence
/ of Baron Mayor Des Planchez, the
Italian ambassador who succeeded to
the deansIip, the place of honor at
J the head of the corps was today held
; by Mr.. Hengelmueller. who was in full
uniform and wore the many decora-
tions conferred upon him during his
/ diplomatic career. After the Austro-
J Hungarian Ambassador and Madame
/ Hengelmueller had bowed before the
| President and Mrs. Roosevelt and
shook their hands, Mrs. HengelmuelIer
/ stepped back a pace. He then pre-
sented, as did the other ambassadors,
the members of their staffs to the
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