The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-02

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Haitians in light blue uniforms. was the
| observed of all observers, as attaches
| of the Haitian Legation. They sat
among the diplomats and just back of
the President.
| The Presidents Reception.
was disappointed in the reception
of the President. He gets more devoted
| attention right here in Washington,
where he is seen upon the streets every
/ day in the world. than he got at any
| time while on the sacred soil Of the
Mother Of Presidents. The ovation"
due the office was missing. There was
| always a tremendous crush TO see him,
but it was simply to "see a President"
| The people seemed to be apathetic
about 1t, for 1 talked with them, and
they invariably said, "Why, he is just
a man." On the other hand, everybody
was crazy to see Mrs. Roosevelt and
the children. The crowd nearly created
riot at two or three points, and lives
we're endangered in the effort to get a
glimpse Of Mrs. Roosevelt's dress. One
| poor woman, who carried baby, and 1t
nursing. and dragged another along
Juggling at bottle of milk, said, half to
herself, in wholly disappointed tone:
| "Shoi I made suah she would a-wore
somethin' fine like. Now, I reckoned
on a white satin, and I dom see no
| dimuns nowheres." The poor woman
herself wore faded green cashmere and
| a sunbonnet. For the instant I really
felt sorry myself that Mrs. Roosevelt
hadn't donned a party dress rather than
the beautiful gown she did wear. The
memory would have been joy forever
10 some Of the starved "po' whites"
who took much more interest in every
thing than their betters.
The Decorations.
| And I was disappointed in the decora-
| tons in Norfolk and at the Exposition.
For city that is decorating for a seven
| months siege of invited guests the old
| town is mighty conservative in her ex-
penses for decorating. The dome of the
historic old City Hall, of purely Ionic
architecture, was ruined by plastering
on four sides Of 1t banner with some
strange device upon it, possibly wei
| come, guests" but it was awfully bad
taste to ruin its splendid pillars and
| other artistic outlines with such frivo-
leus things. Big Flags from every win
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decorative to the last degree. Some of
the fine big buildings had not even a
Flag flying from the flagstaff. Others
had a few dinky Flags that looked
starved and lonesome. Most Of the
hunting displayed was cheap cotton
stuff already faded with sun and water.
The Confederate flag flew everywhere
except in the meager decorations on the
Exposition Grounds. didn't see one fly
ing in the air there, but saw very few
people who were not wearing them.
There Is q new wrinkle in decorating
with the American Flag down there,
and am curious to know If the wrinkle
Is Just Grass ignorance or studied insult
Flags Of possibly six or 10 inches in
length and wide in proportion on small
stans are stuck along the top decora-
tions Of windows with every blue field
hanging down. Below them, in all in
stances In which I noted this arrange
ment OF the Flag at distress, were wide
spread Confederate flags, often set be-
tween American flags of the same size,
but with the rebel flag higher than the
others.
In the stores nearly every woman
clerk Wore small silk Confederate flags,
and as postal cards they go like hot
cakes. So the dealers informed me.
The souvenir Of the Exposition is a.
huge postal card, on which is fac-l
smile Of 800 in Virginia State money!
OF the war period, with a welcome
printed below it. These, I was told, also
sold rapidly at five cents each.
Cause Of the Unreadiaess.
While the unreadiness of the build
irgs and of the exhibits is laid to a
dozen causes, all of which may have
helped to hinder, one story, il true,
ought to be Investigated. am assured
it Is true. and the fact that carloads of
freight look as tho they had been stand |
ing for months in their tracks gives
color to the tale. It is said that 400
carloads of exhibits are standing on the |
tracks ready to be delivered, but that
the Exposition management is trying to
get the express and railroad companies
to purchase space OF t.iem inside of the
grounds in which to build structures to
unload freight in. The way in which
they hope to force this is by chargingl
a dollar load for each vehicle, sol
cents admission for each 1aborer who
accompanies the load and rs cents for
each horse that pulls the load into the
Exposition Grounds. The transporta-
ton companies decline such contracts,
and the Exposition Company not yield
ing up to date, leaves the exhibits thatt
should be in the buildings packed Sc
curely in cars, and the cars standing on
the tracks in the way OF everybody and
everything. Ina1 Is the story as twas
told to me.
The Disappointed Norfolk Blues.
Then. too, one of the spectacular fea-
lures Of the parade on opening day was
a sad failure because of the penurious-
ness Of the management. It is we'll
known that the Norfolk Blues are the
swell society soldiers Of the Old Do
minion, or at least one of the swell
military aggregations.
Norfolk went to sleep with one ear
cooked for the first gun that the Nor
folk Blues were to fire out at the Ex-
position Grounds to greet the morn.
That was to be the alarm clock which
was to give warning of the approaching
expected shortly after sun
up, and of the salutes to follow. The
loyal Norfolk Blues had promised to let
off just about 800 guns. -
But there was no sunrise salute from