The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-10-31
PRESIDENT IS
HONOR GUEST
Two Big Celebrations in
Pittsburg at Same
Time.
Taft WATCHES THE CONTEST
Presents Medals to First
Aid to Injured
Teams.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Starts the River
Celebration.
Thousands Line Bridges and River
as New Orleans. Replica Of First
Steamboat of Same Name 10 Navi-
gate Ohio, Leads the Procession.

by United Press Wire
|. Plttsburg, Pa, oct. 31.-President
Taft arrived here early today and was
the guest Of honor at both teh Ma
tlonal Safety Mine Demonstration,
centennial celebration of steam navi-
CATION on the Pittsburg rivers and
later at a banquet
Arriving at the Shadyside station
of the Pennsylvania railroad at $3.50
a. M, the presidential party was met
by reception committee shortly be-
fore S:3O O'clock ana escorted to
waiting automobiles. which conveyed
them to Forbes field.
Thousands of school children. stu
dents at the Carnegie Technical
schools boy scouts and other per-
sons eager to see the executive. lined
the thoroughfares through which the
presidential automobile passed and
| soaked In the Taft smile which was
| just as apparent as ever Arriving
at the baseball field. great shout
| from the throats of thousands Of
miners, who crowded the giant grand
stand greeted him.
The president closely watched the
first aid" teams under the auspices
of the Red Cross society, demonstrate
the uses of the different kinds OF life
| saving devices used i'm connection
with the rescue of miners after ac-
| cidents, and about noon President
| Taft presented medals to the teams
which a committee selected as being
the most perfect in the work.
Forty teams from a dozen states
competed in the various first aid and
rescue events. Canvas stretehers
were laid around the base lines and
a man placed on each. Close at hand
were bandages, cotton. blankets and
everything needed in case of Il mine
accident
'IFractured skulls and limbs. -
"broken backs" burns" and other
injuries received by miners in mine
explosions We're cared for and the
injured" carried fro mthe field. The
demonstration greatly interested the
president. who. despite the drizzllng
rain, sat in an uncovered section OF
, the stands, earnestly watching every
movement of the relief men.
| Because of the feap that some ac-
cident might mar the demonstration,
only one explosion was staged. This
occurred in a huge boiler plate cylin-
der placed In the far outneld. Fine
coal dust was sprinlxled on shelves In
the interior of the tube and in one
one was fired cannon loaded with
a charge a black powder. Immediate
ly afterward a great roar followed
, which set window glass in the neigh
borhool to vibrating and caused all
but the miners In the audience to
quake. Following this a parade OF
nearly 10000 miners was reviewed
by the president from his box.
President Taft Was then escorted
to the Hotel Schenley where he at.
tended luncheon. From there he
went direct to the wharf where he
spoke from rhe deck of the steam
boat Virginia, the flagship for the
naval parade.
Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth
christened the little New Orleans, q
replica of the firt steamboat of thC
Z same name, TO navigate the Ohio ant
Mississippi rivers. The original New
Orleans was built in 1911 by Nicholas
j. Roosevelt, uncle of former Presi
; dent Theodore Roosevelt.
After bottle of wine had beer
! smashed over her prov, the New or
leans headed to midstream and LED
, the parade Of about seventy-hve river
, craft down the Ohio river, some dis
7 tance, thence back amid a noisy sa-
: Lutte of whites from other river craft
and mills. Both sides of the river and
| all the bridges We're lined by thou
sands who cheered the president anC
: the little boat. During the parade
= President Taft was aboard the Nir
= gina, the flagship for the occasion
Tonight a banquet will be given
the president in the Soldiers and
Sailors Memorial hall by the mem
! bers of the Chamber of commerce
There the executive will again speak
1t had been originally planned e
? serve wine at this affair but because
the local members of the G. A. II.
i who have the control of the memor
lal refused to allow liquor to b'
brought into the building, the or
ganlzation was forced to change It's
plan in order to be allowed to holt
the feast in that building.
= The president leaves tonight fol
Morgantown, West virginia, wher'
he will spend two days and from
there will go to Washington, theme
= to New York, where he will review
, the big naval parade in the Hudson
| river.
The New Orleans leaves her
, Thursday morning enroute down tn
, Ohio and Mississippi rivers to NeN
= Orleans. Many stops along the wa
will be made by the little craft,
= FALLS NINE STORIES.