Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-03-24
CHEERING 7HRONC
| CREETS PRESIDENT
He Learns from Mayor That
Rochester Is Best City in that
Country.

Rochester, n. Y. March lS.-President
Taft received a noisy greeting when he
arrived in Rochester at four o'clock this
afternoon. The streets from the center
park station OF the New York Central.
| where he detrained. to the Seneca Hotel
were crowded with cheering throng.
! The President seemed deeply to appre-
ciate the demonstrat>< welcome and
| had his silk hat OF almost constantly
acknowledging the sauta,ions of the
throng. Escorted by companies Of the
militia and naval reserve. he rode In
| flower decked automobile to the hotel
! where after a brief rest he appeared on
the nlezzanine balcony and made brief
address to ne crowds in the lobby.
After referring to the fact that the
last time he was in Rochester he was
a candidate for office. the President
said: Since that time l have been
elected your President And IL any
one here thinks that is an easy job,
let him try it, 1t is not easy to get
there, lIy friends, and not easy after
YOU get there. / am glad TO be in your
beautiful city again. Your mayor tells
me it is the best city in the country.
] have heard other nice things about
Rochester. too. | might tell you what
| President Brown OF the New York
Central told me If wasn't afraid it
would be reported in Syracuse and
Buffalo"
| The President spoke feelingly of the
death of Representative James Brock
| Perkins of this city. He said he had
| hoped to make him an amba ssador of the
! United States.
but he decided he would not accept
the new work until the coming fall"
said the President, so again We see that
! man proposes and God disposes. ! want
TO record here my high appreciation OF
the man ana to sympathze with YOU in
the great To- YOU have sustained"
! REAR PLATFORM SPEECHES.
| Leaving Chicago at eleven o'clock last
night, President Taft did not arise until
after his train had passed through Cleve-
land this morning. In response 20 tele-
graphic requests. he appeared on the rear
/ Platform ana made brief speeches at
-Ashtab hula, Ohio. Erie, Northeast Dun
kirk and Batavia. The train stopped but
a few moment at Buffalo and there was
10 speech. At each OF his stops, the
| Presidents remarks were little more tina n
u greeting to the crowds at the depot.
He questioned his hearers as to their
local industries and hoped they were all
prosperous and flourishing At Durkirk.
the President said;
II hear your locomotive works are
running day and night. Aren't YOU glad
fG that?"
No. came a voice from the throng.
AMI 'aughingly the President remarked
wei! there is generally somebody
around to register protest"
PRAISE FOR THE Y. NJ. c. A.
OF the movement there TO raise 500, Oo0 for
Il Y NJ. {. A, building He said he had
had great deal of experience with the
Y NJ, c. 4. In different sections of the
world and always found 1t doing good
work
Tho President was rather annoy ed
to-day at stenoGraphic error whici
lcrept into the report Of his conssr-
Vatioh speech at Chicago yesterday
Anxious to give credit to clifford Pin
chot for his great share In the conser
walton movement. the President 70,
ferred to Mr.. Roosevelt. who was IN
sp'red by clifford Pinchot to that won.
derful activity Of mind and body witt
reference to the conservation move
ment" The stsuoEraphers made 1,
read: "Who was II inspired Ginort
Pinchot," etc. leaving an inserenc,
: which was Just tho reverse Of wha
the President had said.
After spending the night At the Son
Ieca Hotel, Mr.. Taft will leave earl,
Tomorrow morning for Albany.