The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 3, 1901, Page 1

WMAT 3 1661 / YOLUME LXXXIX—NO. 154. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS PRESIDENT MCKINLEY IS RECEIVED IN STATE IN HISTORIC : HALLS OF THE OLD CABILDO BUILDING AT NEW ORLEANS, WHILE IN THE STREETS THE WILDEST ENTHUSIASM PREVAILS e By a Ruse He Escapes the Crowd Which Clamors for a Sight of Him Early in the Morning and Is Driven Through the Ancient Portions of the Town and to the Southern University and Jackson Square e Colored Students Bid Him Welcome and He Replies in Short Speech. He Speaks Also to the Crowds That Throng the Rooms of the Old Courthouse, and Again From Its Railed Porch to People Outside | PRESIDENT M’KINLEY A FIGURE n | IN THE HISTORY OF OLD CABILDO | ——— 1do building, facing Jack ed by the chigfs of the re d the sovereignty of th ville in 1700, after the irea S the President stood in the o'd Cabl from the ‘usual place on her page occu Spaniards one hundred and seven years : interesting changes. Touisiana, settled by of France to An Cro who appointed Cadillac Governor of the prov to think of that'domain belonging to one man as a gift and Crozart could not make thé domain pay—another thing to think le of it to the notorious John Latw. who made. it the basis.of his cele | but not the resources of our modern tr sniGters, when his ! declined, so that the King, finding himself u to.make a gift of .it toindividualsstick, ir all to Spain. The next year by a treaty between France, Spain, Great Britain and Po Mississippi from its source to the river Iberville, thence along the channel ¢ Maurepa s ceded to Great Britain. This treaty ‘eclare sources cf the Mississippi, easterly and westerly. The part west of the M until 1801, when by ‘the treaty of St. Iide it was reconveyed to France. This t Great Britain would seize the territory as spoil from France. erithe trealy of 'Amiens, ace and England, the loss of San Domingo | 1 1t remained in th was k for fear th which made a mporary pade’ the ‘na- 1 Bernadotte, broke out but the ‘ IN FRONT OF THE OLD CABILDO THE CROWDE GATHERED AROUND ; 3 1 THE PRESIDENT'S CARRIAGE AND BLOCKED ITS WAY, WHILE ana anc CHEER UPON CHEER FOR NATION'S CHIEF THRILLED THE AIR. ed French interest in Lo nch colony and ordered Marsk take possession. War with ns as chief prefec peace between F tives av to 1 the founder of the dynasty, of Sweden, with 5000 troops, to go out ar in and Bernadotte refused the commission, whereupon Lausat was vereignty was still in Spa About that time Gove sissippl Territory was enraged by th r Claiborne of Mi sang “‘Americ as he p ed, This ground of the coionial troops for the seemed to please the President immensely French and Spanish regiments and later ports of New Orlea nd Mobile to:the deposit of American goods. Tn 1803 he wrot and he bowed and smiled repeatediy. rasthe vwWhete-ths Pdopis of th * ik “Excitement in_the Territory great.- It I= the general sentiment that the treaty E ple o e city gardc rially injured and t United States | < comity of pations disr : faenabled fios weloome, GERSHAL iAW tory 2000 militia. well officered and as f wal ride as any ity he addressed Jackson after the Battle of New Orleans. regiment who are burning to resent the obs es imposed by the colored students In Jackson Square. 800 of my men—we can take possession of New Orleans and expel welcome extended by Facing (he squar Claiborne was spoiling.for a fight, bu* had to spoil. Ml Tk ok 11 The Bob od i L ena e MiGE 1 (he Sd. SN, "About that time President Jefferson wrote to Mr. Livingston, our Minister at P: A S et :‘)L”lc he actual transfer of Loulsiana to ing now, in view of our political conditions. Jefferson said: e 4 2 ® he United States was made a v “The at France takes possession of New Orleans fixes the sentence whic! her forever within lo 5 radine v ettt ddifvcbiate. ot Bosch de and where The day that France takes n e eans e sentenc i er forever within low President McKinley was formally wel- water ma 1t seals the union of iwo nations who, in conjunction, can maintain e yossession of t ves to the British fleet and r At the Southern University. a At the Southern Unive nearly five thousan after an address of ich is 1 tere: e ocean of welco as sh nde: oresi > v v - tio By C. ©. CARLTON. cEwel fll;\r":“ e handed the President a comed by Governor Heard. It was in this | From that moment we must marry cur: tion. r attention to a mari- A pakes o % saitare that: the miiugslers ata pirates or .| time: TaEce 8Ndy havie: formediand cannegtad, togetlier a:power which_may ettlements P ! = 2 he President replied in the following R gty by i here impossible to Prance. make the first cannon that shall be fired in Europe ASoings Special Correspondent of The Call T the Carribean Sea and Barataria Bay she may have made and for holding the two continents of America i sequest of the i S were hanged and gibbeted. In this square itish and American nations.” I am glad to know that all over the South, where most of you dwell, the &t vere shot the French creoles of a. cool provosition to partition North and South America between the Ur B £ make the United States and s have pr 1 EANS On account of the vast throng in and A s e g o Louisiana who rebelled at the secret But circumstances change policies. Presi¢ retired around the St. Charles Hotel it was neces- ry girl can prepare them r use- ireaty whereby their county was ceded to thapdellies, and 2o Livnzaton e o L N T f sary to resort to a little strategy in get- and honor under the Government in Span 2 signed in Paris, “the tenth da . in the eleventh vear of the French republie. the 3 prs away. The “common’ stréet side of Whichhe lives. ‘The thing to-day is to be prac- 1n antebellum ddys dnd roe, Livingston and Marbo! i r s at 2 ban-. Nehptel was compiratively Clobr of egs sl WHist iyon wint is 1o sebiet S ana s nantehalling Ceywand, foris otgatima reserve force on the Tombigbee. AR e Pk S M AT A b with 1t you wa A thercafter, as well as in colonial times, the French. awakened ple a1 vas seized by escorts and hese you want unfaltering industry Jackson square, or “La Place d'Armes,” December 20, 1803, the Spanish comandante. Lausat the French vrefect. Claib ard Wi " are to-day’s hustled quickly ouf through a side door vou have these three things you will was the assembly ground of the fashion bildo building. The Spaniard, by virtus of the treaty of St. Tidefonzo, formally g e for his and was seated in his carriage before the cess anywhere and everywhere. - God bl nd culture of New Orleans. Along th to France and the Spanish ras hauled down and the French flag went up X s it crowd was aware of it. He smiled The procession of distinguished vi i e el e s Paris the United States, the French down and 1 & dly and good humoredly at the crowd and escorts then wended its way through arjyeway, upon which rode and drove :“9 jEmags, dia Clatborne, snd Wilkinson=ug S Elach; deg Dxme a4 shm I ! 8 1 , bowed rapidly right and left and Frenchtown—or the creole quarter of the D RO T S o A G EIRNE el Staten:is Sangpeigtant o palle s gih 2 ign g, o Gibex: dbpi: i I AR e AR S S T R s ) e crecle beauties and their dashing, d people were the subjects of Spain, France an public. Jefferson had ended to avpoir ¢ . e ja-mmerry tyinkle f ves at city. ark, ¥ and narrow streets gajlants, while under the groves of eral of the provinee, but our relations with Frasce had changed his pla 1 Claiborne w e Gov . he strategem employed by werc offensive in odor and it was a relief gak played the children in the charge of Louisiana with all the executive, legislative and judicial t rdan e party . escort. While he was p St. to the party when a halt was made in plack ‘‘mammies.” The negro vend . * President McKinley became part of @ p>culiar history as he staod in ad o 4 3 o n endured in the hope to . ! T " % Marquette, Joliet, La Salle and Ponce d2 I and “pralines” found their | = owc'\critfen in the first chapter of that history and the successor of Jeffe -st market at .the Place a’Armes the chimes of that cathedral Jackson Square, the old French plaza or cpeole “‘cal led forth a welcome and a multitude of “Place d Arme: one of the mokt ro- ’ well slored ung girl students at the New mantic spot associated with the early his- ¥ Orleans University united their voices and tory of the State. It was the parade Continued on Page Two. A