The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-07


chance to see the Car, you would
doubtless improve the opportunity If
only to satisfy your curiosity as TO
/ what a real Car looked like. The same
curiosity would surely lead you to
make special efforts to get a glimpse
at the Emperor of Germany, if he were
to come out to attend some public
| function, and you would not pass up
| the chance to shake the hand of most
any other ruler of renown. And it is
for the same reason that SO many
foreigners who emigrate to the United
States like to catch sight of our Pres
ident, when he goes visiting, and as
result of their enthusiasm usually land
| in the police stations as suspicious
characters, there to stay until the ma
TONS chief has got beyond their reach.
They have not learned how to show
respectful curiosity.
/ When President Roosevelt arrived in
Canton a few days ago to attend the
funeral of Mrs. Ida Saxton Mckinley it
was only natural that a large crowd
should be at the station to greet him. |
In all of the thousands there assembled |
there was only one man placed under |
suspicion of the Secret Service men
who were on hand to guard the Pres
ident against cranks. This individual
was to all appearances a Russian, blue
eyed, stoekiIy- built and wearing an i'm
gone to the station nearly three hours
before the Presidents train arrived.
Not much attention was paid to him
then, but it was recalled afterward
that the police had to tell him several
times to get out of their way.
AS the crowd gathered ne always
managed to keep in the front rank, up {
against the ropes, stolid, watchful.
patient. once he was seen to get 9
around to a position where he could E
look into the station. 1t was also re- 6
called afterward that he had been seen
everywhere through the crowds at >
some time or other during the few
hours the crowd fingered. T
I've been watching that man over
here" said one of the members of the
ocal committee that had called to es- :
,ort the President to the home of
Justice William R. Day, to a Secret
Service officer, pointing to the interest
ID, watching Russian. The remark was
heard by several persons, and as the a
suspect seemed to bear all the ear e
marks of an Anarchist, they also had a
noticed him and felt little bit of n
larm due to his presence
That settled it. s-T1'~- p
The foreigner was an Anarchist. Y
He was also a Nihilist. "
And an expert bomb-thrower. n
No doubt of 1.-THE had a great big i"
,omb concealed about his person. =
Would the Secret Service man please p
De careful, lest the bomb be thrown
nto the crowd. |
When the officer approached the man \
ne naturally went about the job care
fully. The foreigner was alarmed and
idgeted. One of those frightened, i'm
Dloring grins spread over his face. He
couldn't make out why the officer was
to know why he happened to ?
De there. and went feeling about over v
his person, even to the extent of run q
ming his hand into one of his inside t
pockets. Such a bold attempt at peck >
right in broad-day light, and r
while he was in the midst of his friends Y
was an experience the foreigner had +
never even heard of before. His alarm
vas agonizing for a few minutes.
Finally he managed to stammer out
n broken English that he had come
to see the President, merely to look $
1t him from a distance. Did he want
10 kill him? No, no; the foreigner
nearly tainted. He merely wanted "to
see President" The same wish that $
the thousands of others. :
We'll, your whiskers are a little
against you, but 1 guess you're all
light said the officer, finally.
The foreigner looked relieved. n
So also did some of the spectators, d
who had overheard the MEMBER of the =
express his fears to the Of r
fcer a
The man with the whiskers, having d
been pronounced all right, fingered with s.
the crowd to his hearts content. He b
vas in the front ranks when the Pres n
dent finally arrived, and when the I
crowds began to cheer the foreigner %
looked at a policeman who was not
then busily engaged.
You may cheer, too, whiskers!' said s
The officer, and the Russian let out II
series of yells that would have done ny
credit to a COssack. o
Speaking of the incident afterward, o
one of the Secret Service men said: "
We, perhaps. have no good reason a
for it, but we usually watch foreigners O
with shaggy boards closer than we do u
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