The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-17
The City Is Buried in Bloom,
Banners and bunting
In Honor of Ireland's Patron
Saint and Taft.
PRESIDENT ARRIVES
And Joins in Parade Through
Business District.
Will Speak at Irish Fellowship
Club Banquet.

Chicago, March 17.-Fairly buried in
green blooms. banners and bunting,
Chicago today received President Taft
as its guest in one of the biggest Saint
Patricks day celebrations the city has
ever known. From the time he step
ped off his special train at the Thirty
third street station OF the Pennsylva-
MIA railroad at 1850 a. M. the president
caw hardly a building or an individual
that was not decorated in green.
Met at the station by national guard
regiment and a large reception COM
mittee President Taft swung into the
line of a ST. PatricF'S day parade which
marched through Michigan avenue, to
the down town district and escorted him
to the La Sale hotel
The president came to Chicago as the
guest of the Irish Fellowship club. AZ
ter meeting the local endowment COM
mittee of the American Red Cross So
ciety, he attended a reception given by
the Chicago Newspaper club and then
made a visit to the Traffic club.
A luncheon by the Irish Fellowship
club was given halt an hour later and
a brief rest was allowed the president
to prepare for his appearance at the
auditorium at 3 p. m, to deliver his
eddI esS or Conservation. The con-
servation meeting was arranged by 18
Chicago clubs.
Two receptions in the afternoon were
planned, to be followed at p. m, by
L
club Fifty square feet of sod brought
from Ireland was put into the banquet
hall
Talked Baseball at Pittsburg.
One of the presidents callers dur
ing his stop at Pittsburg asked him if
he was an Irishman.
mo, 1 am not he responded 1.-THE
nearest to an Irishman the Taft fam
lily has ever come is in name. That
was borne by a Count Taafe of Ire
land. I will confess, however, that
have kissed the blarney stone." =
The president assured Mayor Magee
he would be there May 2, and would
attend the ball game between the Chi
cago and Pittsburg club. He asked il
it was to be an exhibition game or
lone for blood"
sDo you know wisat appeals to me
in those games he said, 'tis that big
Dutchman-whaf is his name? Oh,
yes, Wagner. He looks as if he could
not get anywhere and yet he gets ev-
erywhere. Do you know that If 1 saw
him miss ball 1 would think he was
bluffing."
just before the presidents, train
pulled out a big stout man with
face beaming with smiles saw the
president on the rear platform and
shouted:
Hey Mr.. President, I'm almost as
big as you are
How much do you weigh?" in
Quired Mr.. Taft.
Two hundred and ninety-five |
pounds" the big fellow answered.
The president hurled back:
"Oh, you're not in my class, I |
313 the last time I was on |
the scales" and wearing the famous /
Taft smile he doffed his hat to the |
assem- blage as his train rolled out of |
the station.
Woman Wanted to Ride.
Soon after President Taft had left |
the train here the procession halted |
for about five .minutes owing to re-
peated attempts of a woman, who gave |
her name as Jennie Mud, to get into |
the automobile containing the prcsi- |
dent and his party. The woman strug- |
gled violently with detectives, who es- |
sayed to stop her. and the scene occa- |
stoned considerable excitement. The |
woman was finally subdued and ar |
rested. She had no weapon in ner