The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-29
ROAR OF GUNS.
Col. ROOSevelt's Arrival in Dem
yer Greeted With Artillery.
He Leads Parade OF Spanish
War Veterans.
A COWBOY LUNCHEON.
Grub Is Served to Him From
Old "Chuck Wagon"
Day Will Close With a BANQUET
and Speeches.

Denver, Col, Aug. 29.-The salute Of
cannon welcomed Col Roosevelt TO
Denver, as his special train drew in at
the union station. A great crowd had
gathered at the station and set up Il
wild cheer as the ex-president appear
&c on the platform of his car. He
bowed his acknowledgements of the
noisy welcome and stepped into a car
riage to take part in the parade. Gov
ernor Shafroth Mayor Speer and M. K.
Parsons, president of the Colorado Live
Stock association, were in the carriage
with him. The parade was through the
principal streets of Denver to the re-
viewing stand in Broadway near Sew
enteenth street. Throughout the eIA-
tire distance of the line of march, two
miles and a half, the sidewalks were
packed with a solid mass of people,
who pressed at the ropes which had
been put up to keep them from the
streets and were kept back only by the
constant efforts of mounted policemen,
cowboys and cavalrymen-
From the time the parade started un-
til it ended there was an uninterrupted
roar Of welcoming shouts from the
multitude. The cowboys gave their
yell, whistles were footed and bells
were rung. Col. Roosevelt was kept on
his feet, bowling to the right and left IN
acknOWIeOSmonI OIL the SdluldllOiio'
The streets were a mass of colors.
From the buildings flags and bunting
were hung out, and on ropes suspended
across the streets, banners were hung,
with pictures of Col. Roosevelt with the
words Welcome Teddy" and De
lighted
The Parade.
The parade starting at the union sta
ton, passed under the welcome arch up
Seventeenth street to Lawrence street.
to Sixteenth, to California, to Four
teenth, to Cleveland place, to Sixteenth
street, to Glenarm. to Champa, to
Eighteenth and then turned into
broadway to the reviewing stand.
During the last mile of the parade the
first two divisions dropped out of the
line and stood at attention as Coz.
Roosevelt, who headed the third di-
vision, passed by. From the reviewing
stand the colonel reviewed the remain
der of the parade.
The first division consisted of United
States troops from FIT. Logan and the
national guard of Colorado. Then IN
the second division came the Spanish
war veterans, who are holding their
national encampment here, the Army
of the Philippines and veterans of the
foreign service In the third division Col.
Roosevelt rode, escorted by division
of the Roosevelt Rough Riders, IN
their familiar uniforms of khaki and
the Colorado Sheriffs' association, ,Bri-
gadier General John Chase. adjutant
general of Colorado; Major H. A. Will
liams, James R. Garfield of Cleveland,
O., ex-secretary of the interior. and
Clifford Pinchot, of New York. former
chief forester. rode in this division.
Then came the automobile division
at the end of the parade. Cowboys in
blue shirts, blue scarfs and khaki
trousers. galloped up and down the line
of march giving their shrill yells.
There were a dozen bands in the pa
rade, each playing different tune and