Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-02
PRESIDENT GIVES
FAREWELL FEAST
TO MIXED CLASS
DIMES FAMOUS TENNIS CLU3
AT WHITE HOUSE
ADMINISTRATION OFFICERS COM.
PLlMENTED HIGHLY
Roosevelt Declares Loyalty of His
Supporters nprecedented-Gar-
field Especially Commended.
Many Notables Present
nav Assoeiated Press.l

VIZ ASHINGTON, March 1.-Presi-
wv dent Roosevelt today gave a
w farewell luncheon at the White
House to members of the famous tennis
cabinet and others who have been
closely associated with him during the
past seven years.
Aside from the distinguished govern
ment officials who have served as
among the presidents chief aids DUR
ing his administration, and also as his
companions at sports of different kinds,
there were present men whom the
president had made friends with. when
he was roughing it in the west years
ago and with whom he had gone on
numerous hunting expeditions.
The occasion was memorable to those
who surrounded the president today,
and the latter's farewell words were
not entirely free from notes of regret,
if not sadness.
The president in a brief speech laid
emphasis on the point that no admin
istration had given it's chief more loyal
service, and said that he believed the
country had never had a more devoted
set of public servants than those men,
through whom, he said, most of the
work of his administration had been
accomplished.
Presidents Address
The president, in his remarks follow
ing the luncheon, said:
"Gentlemen-You are here nominally
as members. or to meet the members of
the Tennis cabinet'-that is, as men
with whom at tennis, or hunting, or rid
ing, or walking, or boxing, l have
played, with whom I have been on the
roundup, or in the mountains, or in the
ranches.
but really, as you know, you are not
of oil a sE
here because you are the men, and be-
cause you represent the men, with
whom 1 have worked while l have been
president. No administration has ever
had finer or more loyal service than you
have given, and 1 do not believe this
country has ever had an ADLER or more
devoted set of public servants.
at is through you and those like
you that have done the major part of
what has been accomplished under the
administration. Moreover, in vast
number of cases the doing of the work
itself has been your only reward. The
eredit has come TO me, to the chief of
the administration.
Credit Should Be Shared
Exactly as men like to symbolic a
battle by the name of the commander,
SO they like to symbolic an admins
tration by the man at the head. for
getting that the immense majority of
his acts can be done only through
others, and that really successful ad-
ministration, successful from the stand
point of advancing the honor and the
interests of the country, must be man
aged as ours has been managed, in a
spirit of most loyal association and
partnership.
"There are many others like you
whom 1 would have given much to
| bring here today; but there simply
was not room enough; and so l have
brought you here partly for your own
sakes, but primarily as representing
thousands of other workers. as repre-
senting all good, faithful, fearless pub
lie servants, who strive their best to
do what the public need demands and
who, in the last analysis, stand all on
the same level, when judged by the
supreme test which takes into chief
account the spirit of the service rem
dered.
whether a man is a cabinet minis
| ter, a bureau chief, a marshal, an In
dian agent, a forester, a letter carrier
! a member of the life saving service, a
clerk in department or a workman
| in a navy yard, or whether he holds
one of hundred other positions, makes
not the slightest difference if he puts
| his heart and soul and his mind into
| his work. and is content to accept as
| his chief reward the satisfaction that
comes from knowledge that the work
has been well done.
Compliments Garfield
$50, while 1 greet you for your
selves. greet you still more as sym
bolizing all of you one who leaves pub
| lie life when 1 leave. it; a man who
made real personal sacrifice wher
seven years ago he came here to take
office at my request, man who has
| stood ever since as the type of wha1
a good public servant should be: g
man who for the last two years has
been one of the most useful cabinet
ministers who ever sat at the cabinet
table-Jim Garfield"
Those present at the luncheon were
| The French ambassador, Secretary
Bacon, Mr.. Justice Moody, the post
master general, Secretary Newberry
Secretary Garfield, Secretary Loeb. So
licitor General Hoyt, Assistant Secre
tary O'Laughlin, Assistant Secretary
Winthrop. Assistant Secretary Satter
lee, Assistant Attorney General Wood
ruff. Assistant Secretary Phillips
Comptroller Murray, Commissioner Nc
Ilhenny, Hon. J. c. Rose, Hon. H. L
Stimson, Hon. Lyman NJ Bass, Giffort
Pinchot, James b. Reynolds, w. w
Heffelfinger, Captain Luther S. Kelly
yellowstone Kelly whom the presi
1 dent first met on the Little Missouri
at present an Indian agent in Arizona
w. W. Sewell, the presidents ole
guide: Captain Seth Bullock, Commits
sioner Keefe, DR.. Henry S. Pritchett
John Abernathy.