Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-06
At THE Witch OUSE
This Was the Presidents Busy
Day.
OPENED FAIR AND A FEST
Received Many Besides the Vienna
Singers.
OUTLOOK FOR THE EXPOSITION
President Tucker Making Arrange
ments to Celebrate
ing Day. IAN
OPENED FAIR AND A FEST
OUTLOOK FOR THE EXPOSITION

President Roosevelt has had a tremen.
dously busy afternoon. At 2 O'Clock he
touched a button that opened the actors
fund fair In New York. and at $50 o'clock
In the afternoon he fired the opening guns
OF the German scheutzenfest at Charleston,
8. c. When he touched the button for
charleston the electricity fired three guns
there at targets. and the President himself
heard the report Of the guns. With his ear
to long distance telephone he touched the
button. and in few seconds came the re-
port OF the discharge Of the three guns.
Shortly after 2:3O o'clock the President be-
gan his reception to the Wiener Maennerge-
sang Verein OF Vienna. who are in this
country on q visit.
How It 10 In Pennsylvania.
Representative Hun Of Pennsylvania
talked politics in a cautious way today He
visited the President to present some friends
and incidentally to say goodbye. When
asked about presidential politics In his state
he said: 1T is far too soon to discuss what
the state will do, and who the candidates
Will be. Pennsylvania Is a republican
state. and will endeavor to help nominate
good man. Do the republicans take the
President at his word as to a third termr
1t Is generally taken for granted that he
knows what he wants. and that when he
said he did not want third term he
meant what he said Yet do not suppose
he would refuse a nomination II conditions
necessitated that step by the convention.
But the republican party has many good
men. There's Knox of our own state. I
date than the President, but don't think
he would refuse a nomination. No man
would. Taft, Foraker. Fairbanks, Cannon.
are all good. able men, and the party
would not go astray with any one Of them.
But 1t really is too early to discuss candi-
dates now"
Two New York Callers.
Representatives Parsons and Bennett OF
New York city spent some time with the
President today. not together though. Mr..
Parsons is the chairman of the republic
cans Of New York county. pretty cautious
in what he says and closely identified with
the President and his policies. 1t was Par
sons acting through the President, who
insisted on the nomination Of Hughes for
governor. An attempt was made to draw
out Mr.. Parsons on the presidential posi-
biiities of the governor, but he would not
talk. All he would say was that the public
utilities bill that Gov. Hughes Is trying to
get through the legislature has the sup
port Of a large majority Of republicans and
he felt sure the bill would become law be-
fore q great while.
Representative Bennett declared that there
was little truth in stories that the New
York republicans are disrupted. 1.-THE
rank and file Of the party is all right" he
The immigration Question. -
Mr.. Bennett said that the national inini-
grafton commission. of which he Is a MEM
Der. will hold meeting In this city FRI
day to hear E. J. Watson, commissioner
Of immigration Of South Carolina, who has
been trying to induce immigrants to locate
in that state. -
Mr.. Watson has been abroad a number
of times in efforts to interest desirable
class Of Immigrants in the opportunities af-
forded for work in the southern part of the
country. and the commission Is anxious to
hear from him. Six members Of the immi-
grafton commission are to sail for Europe
on May Is to pursue their Investigations
into the immigration question. The COM
mission has already visited Boston, New
York. Baltimore, Philadelphia and Albany.
Mr.. Bennett says that his commission has
come to the conclusion that the immigra-
ton station in Philadelphia is unworthy of
that city and that there should be a new
station.
jamestown Exposition Prospects.
Yes. we need q little money to finish
the exposition" said President Harry st.
George Tucker of the Jamestown Ex-
position Company. after a visit to the
President. THE board Of directors has
issued a mortgage of 100000. and I
have every reason to believe that it
will be taken up in the next few days.
With ten or fifteen good days think
everything will be all right at the ex-
position grounds. At present the gov
eminent buildings are completed and all
the exhibits are In; the pure food exhibit
is all right and the state exhibits are
practically in. The war path Is adding
daily to Its amusement features. and the
fleet which Is still at Hampton roads
is sight worth seeing"
Mr.. Tucker came to Washington to
make arrangements in connection with
landing day" at Jamestown, which oc-
ours on the 18th Of May, at which Secre-
tary Metcalf is expected to be present.