The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-06-09
Mr., TAFT ALL OYER BROOKLYN


But he was glad of uuo thing, IL was the
one minute knd Of At speech. "th" k'nd
which onlv means shaking hands ana
taking a smile.
II congratulate vou ON ih,s e'snty.
ri tth anniversary Of your school parade
he said. 1T Is IL great thing that !, has
the inspiration Of public recognition;
CO.. DIX. whu spok" ncAt. ,'ic',',. IT,,
to IL IA the nfti.tn school parade. B,h
Nuyur Oaynor WAS right on the Jo1. ur
WAS sorry that they didn't have S,ihdaV
schuul pari,des IN IA" other hor"'lGhs' az
they were good things.
'ihis parable il the eighty src",n VI
tbs ',orough. he said. But II 'hH RES,
den, ia cuirect il il thu "gnty ~ xth, nn'
am always rendv 10 be corrected hy soin'-
| body higher Ia authority than J am
The Mayor referred 10 the time when
Hehiuws. tnitaritis uhe President Il
/ Unitarian and Roman Catholics were
WIS such spirit Of tolerance that e,i
crcsds were united, no this the fres',
dent replied that II was indeed the day OF
the children. a day when the gr"wnuPs
| PLAYED second fiddle.
After the luncheon the President shook
hands with everybody In sight, including
many women who were guests OF the
club. Then he got into his automobile
| again and with a string ut them behlnd
him scirried around Brooklyn. The first
stop was AZ the Iompkns Avenue tor-
Rreeationsl Church, where the childre II
of the Central Presbyterian Church bad
also gathered The church was filed
with bright faced youngsters. girls an'
boys. and they stood and sang The Star
| Spangled Banner when the Pr SD, IT
entered He told them that il was on"
of his happ'cst Gays 10 he with the unday
srh"ul children ut Brooklyn and that
they should alsr remember the 'csso ns II
the SUNDAY school. for they contained
mu'i that could he carried through life
with profit
The children waved flags and ;ho Pres
| dent hurried cat ana around to the Nos
trand Avenu. ". 'hcdis: pscopal church.
Here the childr' II of the Central tongre-
| gational Church had alsr asscMh'ed.
The President told the children that many
things were t. l.. learned from sunday
school lessons. and with chucklc he tod
them about the waywa!d Tom sawyer
and how he made Use f MS sunday school
dlvs
This took ahn"r five minutes and the
| President hva'l.d Over l. tee ReGfcrd
| Presbyterian hurCh. ne children Il the
New York Avenue N.thodis, p!sco pal
Church. the Bedford Hsir!'s Baptist
there too. lh" President noticed thG'
with the children were many young men
and women. ~ he told theLl that they
should never forge, that in the sunday
school the pgincipil book stud cd was the
Bible and that the mos telling speakers
were those who could refer W Holy Wit.
So that II nothing else save knowledge
Of the Bible was obtained in sunday
school IL was good thing.
| The greatesr demonstration was ".
Prospect Park where three stands ned noen
erected. These were filled hon ine Pres
dent and his party arrived lie GO noisy
greeting. bands playing and ,hi''r"n
| Qin0 Nhtlu lp fine
paraders Master Berri app"af d ag,in
| He was scrambling around 'Ac Irlue
Of the stand when the Preside'.; caught
sight Of him and called him Spine on.
suggested that Master Berri would con
slider II a great honor 10 he pictured with
the President. The Presiden, caught the
sug ges'on and grabbed Master BerrI
! The young man tried TO lock solemn
but he couldn't help grinning whit" tl'
battery Il snapshrtters fired rr,ay AZ
him.
There were not only children lut
young women. pretty ones, and women
who were olCer IN me parade which III"
| President reviewed here. Some If {, e
women We're gray haired t,it lively.
\ few were on cru'chts. plit agile enough
to go around waving q h.ndS"rciii,f
and smiling al the President. In nil :n.ooo
children passed before hun. r'c lines
breaking and passing g either = 70 "t tn
stand. 40 that no tim" was How
many grownups there W'e" re- "a" at
tempted 10 count wa '" fnis was goin Z
on a lieutenant Of III. Sc Nty-tnId !,ogi-
ment refreshingly young, Cavorj'u "a his
horse before the President. apparently
an xious that there should h- no iilCCkld"
of the paraders At no time did he Set ont
of range Of the moving picture machine.
'ihr iresdent Wa "A hoir IN 'r1'.
peC' PAX The" FH"e mor' 'h1Y
d a huniret THOUSAND persons mass"d
around the grounds. 'ha police est
mated, and " hen the President and hi
pa-ty started 10 lcay" IN it"lr auto
mobiles II took careful dri> ing no' 10
rnn down those anxious TO go a Closr
view Of the President The park road
we're lined with automobiles and ~"
horns made noisy salu'es Along ~"
roadw avs were banked women and cut
dren who had nothing 10 do Nth -"
parade. hu' had turned out 10 eee -"
p.-sideut In fact II seemed that al o'
Brooklyn that was not working IN Man
haitian was OFT
After leaving Prospec' Park tho Pre>l-
dcni review I'd twelve divisions of the
par lad. II had been arranged rha, IL
various sect ions of III" boiough the chill
dren were to be lined up along the street.;
while the President passed through At
the headquarters Of the Clinton div isioA
there were 10000 children Not far az av
AZ Tompkins Park ther" were 5000 chill
dren The Hancock division had A,5oo
Ichildren. In the StuyveSant division
were s.OOO parnders. the Saratoga division
had 5000 children and there were i5.Us
children to greet the President in the
Bushwick section. In many instances
there we're babies in carriages, especially
in the R,shwick section. This seemed "a
nteres. the President II SO happened
that in the Brownsville section there were
three negro babies in carriages,
Probably nothing has amused R:ool,
lyntes more than the sppea rance OF the
Taft party by the time the automobile
got to the Eastern Parkway Congress
man Calder had SO much dust on him
that a marshal Of the parade didn't know
him and held him up A. times i, wa
impossible TO ace the automobile ahead
and there were about twenty OF them III
line Children shouted dirty face" n
the occupants of the machines and cheers
for the President were turned into shouts
of laughter Women who were IN the
machines had gowns and hats -rined and
several military officials will probably
have to get new dress uniforms They
were not displeased when the Presiden,
finally got 10 the Crescent A c grounds