The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 10, 1901, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXIX—NO. 161. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1901. PRICE F1VE CENTS. PRESIDENT AND MRS. MCKINLEY LEAD PAGEANT OF FLOWER-BEDECKED CARRIAGES IN FIESTA FLORAL PARADE ALONG LOS ANGELES STREETS | A MEKINLEY — b M’KINLEY DROPS OUT OF FLORAL PARADE TO ENTER REVIEWING STAND AT CITY HALL. Sl § Mul titudes Crowd Streets of the Angel City and Gover Almost Block Passage of McKinley’s Carriage Along Broadway. BY: W. FE. BURKE, Staff Correspondent. of The Call. 9.—There have eets of Los Angel tic throng of people than that whi e and nearly checked the ad- of the best parades the been bigger and there have there has neve: t from the commencement from the President, in whose pplause o lock when the platoon of mounted police that od ¢ from the Van Nuys Hotel ident Me- » ed into his carriage i around the entrance of the hotel and d driven down the at the hotel on Main street, was down around Temple block to Spring street, xth, on Sixth to Broadwa north on st street and then on First to Hill, where the Spring to n front of the City Hall, was the stand from was to review the parade. Tribunes de and down the street so far as to front of the City Hall and the adjoining build- to block the sidewalk and a good part of the roadway. ng of the carnival yellow and roofed with a cloud the President’s stand stood forth from the trib- uous sight from up and down Broadway. Just pampas plumes edged the sidewalk, and car- ting and national banners blended their brilliance ong the building fronts and from window to window. Ovation Received at the Reviewing Stand. as all there, and it was well past the hour of up wad Wi w e President arrived at the reviewing stand. He had eern 2stically received all along the route, but the big crow! thered in and around the tribunes and it was there 4 the ovation of the day. He rode in a car- a gold, the white being the simple purity of na the yellow gaudy marguerites and silk. rses, harnessed in yellow and with tails and crimped, drew the carriage, and at the head of ked vaqueros in yellow velvet, wearing broad 'd stepping as proudly as the milk white horses. 4 Homer Laughlin of the local committee of ngements rode on the forward seat of the ze, while he alone occupied the back seat and 1 his cordial responses to the greetings show- pon him. It was expected that Mrs. McKinley would ride with the President and would occupy the reviewing stand with him, but at the Jast moment it was decided that the excitement would be too much for her. Instead, she and Dr. Rixey drove in a half-closed carriage along the line of march and to the review- ing stand, but there some one recognized her and cheers and hand-clapping went along the crowds like the wind over a fleld of waving grain; nor did the cease until the President’s > had driven aw: Perade Holds Much of Interest. As the parade passed the President took his place at the g of the stand and most of the time with his hat In his he watched the divisions pass. His escort, the signal corps of the First Brigade and its cavalry troop, passed first and lined up along the street, waiting for the time when the parade had passed to escort him back to the hotel again, and then for an hour and a half passed features seen only in the floral parades of Southarn California. The parade was not made wholly of flowers, however, for there were at least two features which caught and’ held ‘the President’s attention and won from him special commendation, One was a riotous, reckless crowd -of cowboys, that with whoops .and yells came galloping down 'the street, and the other was the Chinese division. The ‘cowboys were from San Fernando. They were dressed in true cowboy style, which means. almost anything ple- turesque, and all their attention seemed to have been lavished on bridles and saddles, spurs and sombreros. As they came down the street’ they had some semblance of a line, but when they caught sight of the President they broke ranks and dashed at a mad gallop until just in front of him. Horses were reined back upon their haunches and the wild cavalcade came to a sudden stop and mix-up. For a minute the street was full of cowboys with flopping hats and capering horses, and each velled like a Comanche, and then when the President ralsed his hat to them and broke into a laugh they gave one more wild whoop and rushed on down the street, getting into line again as quickly as they had left it. Chinese Division for Sober Enthusiasm. For an exhibition of serious enthusiasm, the Chinese di- vision was a tremendous success. From the well behatted young Chinaman, who, astride of an indulgent old horse, led the division to the man who carried the tail of the dragon it was all essentially Chinese and sober, solid business. The only laughs came from the crowds or from the grinning dragon, and the only cheers from the people, but the greater part of the noise came from the Chinese themselves. Every squeaker in surrounding Chinatown had been brought into play and every leather-lungéd Chinaman who could blow one was given full liberty, and there were others who walked behind wooden drums and beat an incessant tattoo that revealed a small boy, a lath and a picket fence. There were men in gorgeous robes and yard-long beards, girls with little feet, men with cymbals and gongs, floats and the dragon. The dragon was the greatest sight of all. It was a good three hundred feet long, and the sturdy shoulders of nearly a hundred Chinese were needed to carry it, and that it was heavy applause re hand Continued on Second Page.” Committee at Outs. 08 ANG ES, May 9.—The ab- sence of the .Governor from the public functions of to-day was noticed and freely commented upon, for ic was known that the Governor was at his ranch near Los Angeles, if not actually in the city. A dozen different rezsons have been given for the .executive’ the true one being a clash between Gage and those in charge of the arrangements here over the usual questions of courtesy. The Governor declares he has been slighted, and to prove it he says he has recétved no invitatiin to take part in any of the functions pertaining to the recep- tion' of the Pre t. He thinks, toq, there was an atterant.on the part.of his old-time enemy, Otis, who has had a great deal to do with the programme, al- though he has not figured prominently in any. of the arrangements, to keep him out of the doings in Los Angeles, and those which took place in Redlands yesterday as well. There is a stout denial on the part of the committeemen here that there was ever any intention to slight the Governor. Ferd K. Rule and Homer Laughlin of the local committee of reception and ar- rangements went to Redlands to meet President McKinley, but they went to see Gage as well and to ask him what he would do and what he wished to do. They said invitations to all public functions had been sent to him, and he said he had not received them, thus leaving to the integ- rity of the postoffice the solution of’ the problem. Gage finally sald, any evay, that he would not take any part in the pro- gramme. He was asked to ride to Red- lands in the President’s train, but would not, as he said he would not have his part, and there was no assurance that they could get on the train also. He was asked to remain in Los Angeles to-day and be in the stand with McKinley, but he would not. He was finally asked by Mr. Laughlin to attend the private dinner given to the President in the Laughlin home this evening, but again he refused, saying he had important business in San Francisco which he nad to attend to. Then he went to his ranch, and some one at his house there, answering a question over the telepnone to-night, said he was probably in Los Angeles and would not go to the city for a week vet. . sence, nor and Veterans at the National Soldiers’ Home Wel- come the President and L.isten to Eloquent W ords Fro OS ANGELES, May 9.—After luncheon the Van Nuys Hotel the President and his party took the parlor car Mormaid of the electric line to the Sol- dfers’ Home at Santa Monica and spent the remain- irg hours of the afternoon with the veterans. The run from the city was made in thirty minutes and on the President’s arrival at the home the old soldiers were drawn up in line to salute him, as they did the flag so many years ago. The lines were not as straight as they might have been, and ~he men in the ranks were not without stoop of limp or trembling hands, and the voices that cheered might have been louder, but there could be no more touching welcome to any man than that McK'nley got from the veterans at Santa Meonica. George B. Dexter, Postmaster of Santa Monica; Mrs. De- fores, and Mrs. Fred Eaton of this city had charge of the President’s carriage and had it beautifully decorated. The President and party were in charge of Major Bonsall and were received by General O.-H La Grange, governor of the home. The carriage of the nation's chief executive was drawn by four handsome white horses with gilded harnes: The other distinguished guests were amply provided with carriages and all were speedily conveyed to the home, a half mile away, while a huge cannon was belching forth a Presidential salute of twenty-one guns. The guests made a slight detour of the grounds and finally landed at the office building, where they were presented to the cficial staff of the home. Eight com- panies had been mustered Into line and in open rank filed along either side of the footway leading from the office to the dining hall, two blocks distant. These aged and scarred veterans in military attire formed a double line, through which the Presi- dent, with uncovered head, marched to the steps of the great hall, accompanied by Major Bonsall, Governor La Grange and other officers of the home. President Speaks to Comrades of Civil War. At the end of the hall was a stand decorated with military emblems, and. to that the President walked, escorted by the officers of the home and the members of his post. As he passed in the veterans wheeled into column and followed until they had arranged themselves in front of the stand. The President was greeted with cheers as Le rose to speak. He said: 3 “My comrades: I am very glad to meet you all here in this beautiful home provided by the Government of the United States, which you served so well in time of war, where you can end peacefully and with repose the later days of your lives. There is no relation except that of home and family so close and intimate and sacred as that of comradeship in war. And when we remember that we were not only soldiers serv- at 4ng in the same army, but that we were serving for oné of the noblest causes that ever engaged mankind—that of the preser- vation of this republic—there is an added sanctity to our rela- tions from ’61 to '65. *To you and to all of you, comrades from every State and Territory of the Union, the nation has for all a sense of grati- tude, and men who love liberty everywhere appland your noble work. Pl % m His Lips. “T am here to tell my comrades of 1361 that T have only within “the last week passed through the battle which so many of you fought and upon which s comrades fell. “I am here to tell you that on those battlefields and in the Southern cities and towns through wnich I passed those who bid me warm welcome and those assoc ed with me were the upon many of your men who were your foes forty years ago—friends now, march- ing side by side as they did with the Grand Army of the Re- public, to give me greeting—all now having one faith, one hope, one aspiration, one destiny, and all loving the same old flag. “I never meet my_comrades that I do not recall how many of them are no longer with us. They have gone who seem s great; gone, but nothing can bereave them of the force they made their own being here, and we know them something far advanced and that they wear a purer crown than any man can weave them. They sleep to-day in those silent tents that never are to be opened--the tents that outward swing. Thus our comrades are sleeping—sieeping’ where they fell, and falling for the hosest cause for which men could fight.” Secretary of State Hay, Secretary Wilson and eight other memters of the Presidential party were robbed by a clever pickpocket at the Soldiers’ Home this afternoon. The thief was afterward caught and he is now in jail in Los Angeles and the property has been recovered. Members of Cabinet Have Pockets Picked. It was after the reception to the President in the dining- room :t the Soldlers’ Home, about 4 o'clock, as the party was breaking up and preparing to proceed to the cars that the pickpocket reaped a harvest of well-filled purses. ~He would probably nave escaped detection and capture had it not been for Charles A. Moore, a wealthy New York manufact who is a member of the party. The pickpocket was no respecter of persons and before he had begun operations upon Mr. Moore he nad zlready successfully obtained the purses of Secretarfes Hay and Wilson. In the collection of pocketbooks found upon the crook after he had been arrested and handcuffed there wers those of less Important persons and not so well filled as those of the Presidential party. United States Secret Service Agent George Foster had charge of the detectives who guarded the President during his visit to the Soldiers’ Home. -Among his men were four detee- tives helonging to the Los Angeles department. As the Prest- dentlal party was about to leave the dining-room these men were sent ahead by Foster to clear the way to the cars and only the latter and Special Agent Crimin remained behind to protect the guests from Washington. It was at this time that the pickpocket tackled Mr., Moore's pocket. He was standing in the center of a number of people when he felt a hand in- serted in the .pocket which contained his pocketbook and he knew that as the thief withdrew his fingers the purse went along witn it. Moore glanced over his shoulder and saw the fellow who had robbed him. Secret Service Agent Cronin, who had joined in the hunt, lost no time in grabbing the thief, who was at once hustled Tontinued on Second Page.