The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 5, 1901, Page 13

A Beresetereres enene won Pages BRORORGRONS 2] The § $ i | s .8 PHOROKOROR 1 E | | | Pages 022 PAPASASAPH 4@ | | i i VOLUME LXXXIX-—NO. 156. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, MAY 5, 1901—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. THREE HOURS IN SAN ANTONIO, THE QUAINT OLD CITY OF THE PLAINS, WHERE PRESIDENT IS WELCOMED WITH TRUE TEXAN ENTHUSIASM PRICE F1VE CENTS. ¢ ROSERT B § Gorkpord Drives to Fort Sam Houston, the Big Texas Military Post By C. C. CARLTON, Special Correspondent of The Call AN ANTONIO, May 4—The sixth day of the President’s long jcur- ney brou him to San Antonio. The Presidential train arrived at 2:35 this morning and was side- cked until daylight. Guards surrounded the train to keep the curious from disturbing the sleep of the party. Another cial train with Governor Sayres and his staff aboard escorted the Presidential train from Austin to San ived fifteen minutes later. ns were sidetracked in the yard. dent and his party wore escort- in carriages to Fort 1 early morning hours, gh the city and viewing a number of its myriads of beautiful natural and artificial parks. At Travis Park he was greeted by hun- dreds of public school children In white, singing D c songs and waving tiny American flags. This park is named in honor of Colonel Travis, who figured prominently early Texas history and Jost his life in the ill-fated Alamo mis- slon on March 6, I when Santa Anna’s horde of Mexicans overpotwered and mas- sacred the small garrison of Texans. Fort Sam Houston. At Fort Sam Houston the Presidential party was met by General Chambers Me- Kibbin, commander of the Department of depot passing t JOHN W. CASSIHGHRAM Hearty Greeting at the Famous Alamo by a Throng of People Texas; Colonel James M. Wheelan, com- mandant of Fort Sam Houston, and the members of their staff. The Light Bat- tery, commanded by Captain Clermont L. Best, fired the Presidential salute and gave a flying battery drill, followed by evolutions by several troops of the E:! enth Cavalry, which is organizing here. Fort Sam Houston is the second largest Post in the United States in point of area and equipment and the President was highly pleased with it, as it stands on a high stretch of territory overlooking the istoric city of San Antonio and com- ding an excellent view rounding country for miles. In the Alamo. On the return from the post the Presi- dent was officially welcomed to the city of San Antonio, the ceremonies taking place in the historic old Alamo Place, where a grand stand had been erected. Mayor Hicks delivered the address of welcome and President McKinley respond- ed. He alluded freely to the enthusiastic welcome and closed by declaring that he and his associates would always have cause to “remember the Alamo. He said: I was glad to know and cannot describe my satisfaction at the respomse that great State of Texas made at the call of the executive for troops for the Spanish war. You filled more than your quota and thousends crowded to get Into the service to help free_an oppressed people and preserve the honor of the country. The sons of the boys In blue and the sons of the boys in gray fought side by side in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines, and to-day they are shoulder to shoulder carrying the fiag we love spotless in honor of the sur- d glory. (Cheers.) % £ I was glad to be received by the school children of this historic city. As I drove through a line of more than 5000 and heard them singing “My Country, 'Tis of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty,” 1 knew the future of the republic was safe forever. I want to return thanks to all the people of this great empire State, not alone for their welcome to me, but for her contribution in the advance- ment of the republic. No State was ever more blessed by the kind hand of Providence. You have everything—strong mer, fair women —and I cangratulate you on this splendid her- itage and join with your honored Mayor in saying that we stand to-day one in hope, faith, liberty and destiny—the greatest republic un. der the sun; a republic which will live and which those to come after us will pass along to the ages and civilization to come. (Pro- longed cheers.) At the conclusion of the President’s ad- < Q. HRILPEBRANDT Speaks at Del Rio While the Engines Are Being Changed dress Governor S: citizens of San yres in behalf of the ntonio presented to Mr. McKinley a magnificent oil painting of the Alamo. The President then visited the Alamo and wrote his signature on the register, signing “Willlam McKinley.” Received by Ladies. The party then proceeded to the Menger Hotel, where the ladies of the party had preceded them and where the ladies of San Antonio were holding an informal re- ception. The President was there intro- duced and shook hands with the assem- bled multitude. The city is elaborately decorated in red, white and blue, and the blooming spring flowers in yards and parks helped to make the scene enchanting and to give the President an idea of what to expect in sunny California. President’s Health. The party left San Antonio at noon and the run through Western Texas was with- out incident. The President, although showing, traces of fatigue, bears up wonderfully well un- der the severe strain of six days on the road. Constant hurrahing and handshak- ing, speech-making, dining and banquet- ing is calculated to fatigue a stronger man than the President. He is looking forward to a grateful rest at El’Paso. There will be no exercises and no attempt at entertainment whatever, the President and Mrs. McKinley remaining quietly at their hotel except for an hour in the morning, when they will go to church. Neither President McKinley nor Mrs. McKinley murmurs a complaint against ._ - Continued on Page Fourteen. Vallejo Will Have at Least a Visit From Congressmen if Not From the President Himself — Invitation Sent to EI Paso ALLEJO has won its point that the Presidential party should see Mare Island. A committee from the navy yard town was before the executive committee in charge of the reception to the President yesterday morning, with the re- sult that it was agreed it should be so ar- ranged as to allow time for the Secretary of the Navy and the visiting Congress- men to visit the yard, and if it be found possible that the President, too, should be taken there. When the executive committee met yes- terday morning Senator McCudden, Sen- ator J. J. Luchsinger, George J. Campbell Jr. and J. Dannenbaum, all of Vallejo, were in attendance to make the request that the programme be enlarged to in- clude a trip to Mare Island. It was ex- plained that the town of Vallejo would do all things possible to make the trip a pleasant /and instructive one and ‘that it would co-operate with the committee in any way necessa ry. It was explained by the committee that the local committee had nothing to do with the making of the programme ex- cepting to suggest what should be done. The committee from Vallejo was informed that the programme as originally out- lined contained provision for a trip around the bay, including a visit to Mare Island on May 21, but that the trip had been dropped when the President had decided to leave the city on May 20. It was con- ceded that the Secretary of the Navy and the visiting Congressmen would visit the navy yard, some time during their stay here. and the committee was authorized to make such changes in the programme as would provide for this trip, even If it should be found impossible to alter the programme for the President so as to in- clude the yard in his itinerary. The aim of the committee is to show the President just-what he wishes to see and to make-it easy for him to‘do‘just as he pleases. The proposition:of a:visit to the retary of State Hay at ConsularBanquet - il AD there been any representa- tive of the Treasury Depart- ment in the Presidential party the Chinese would have seen that he lacked nothing in the way of Chinese entertainment, for the Treasury Department has made many friends among the better class of the Chinese people of the West by its at- titude on the restriction laws and its in- tarpretation of the many problems which have arisen under them. The Chinese are not to be balked of a demonstration, how- ever, and so in lieu of a treasury official they will exert themselves to entertain John Hay, the Secretary of State, who is just. as highly esteemed by the yellow population. Ho Yow, the Chinese Consul, has taken an active interest in this, but he has a better scheme than that even which he is trying to make good. There are twenty- nine or thirty foreign Consuls in San Francisco, and it is his idea that they could not do better than to get togcther and entertain the Secretary of State at a purely consular entertainment, preferably a banquet. The idea is a good one and is looked on with much favor. The Consuls of this port have never been gathered to- gether in anything like a soclal event, and it is believed that the gathering to wel- come the Secretary of State will have a more far reaching and lasting effect than the mere meeting of the head of the diplo- matic corps. The employes and officers in the Cus- tom-house and in the Federal offices are also preparing to entertain the Cabinet chiefs that most directly have authority over them. Arrangements are being per- fected in a quiet way and early next week the intentions of ‘the Federal colony will be made known. Committee Meeting. ‘There was a meeting of the executive committee yesterday morning. The finance committee reported that the total, Plan to Entertain Sec- J.H.30UTHARD General Shafter to Go toLosAngelestoWel- come the President cash In sight was $28,53875, with several canvassing committees still to. report. J. P. Cusrier, chafrman of the commit- tee from the various commercial organi- zations for the entertainment of the visit- ing Congessmen, reported that the list of his committes so far as formed included Charles Bundschu of the Merchants' As- soclation, Willlam M. Bunker of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, A. Ger- berding of the San Francisco Produce Ex- change and B. N. Rowley of the California State Board of Trade. The name selected by- the committee was the Commercial Committee for Entertainment of Con- gressmen, and was accepted by the ex- ecutive committee. Mr. Currier reported that owing to the limited time since the formation of the committee its programme had not yet been arranged,-and that he would report further at the meeting on ‘Wednesday next. It was ordered that $200 be appropriated to the committee on accommodations for the establishment of a bureau of informa- tion at the ferry building for the conve- nience of visitors desiring to secure ac- commodations during the week of the President’s visit. -It was decided that the reception com- mittee appointed to meet the President at Third and Townsend streets should as- semble at the Palace Hotel at 3 p. m. on Tuesday, the 14th, and take the carriages Continued on Page Fourteem. e