The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 11, 1901, Page 1

"YOLUME LXXXIX— SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1901. PRICE F1VE CENTS, PRESIDENT JOURNEYS WITHIN SOUND OF BREAKING WAVES OF THE PACIFIC, AND, LOOKING OUT OVER ITS BROAD EXPANSE, DECLARES FOR EXTENSION OF OUR LIBERTY TO PHILIPPINES L AGoNSE HEAD 7 PRESIDENT ™ CARRIAGH H1s NcKInleu Sees Beauty in All Its Variety From Los Angeles to San Luis Obhispo. By W. F. Burke, Special Correspondent of The Call on Board the Presidential Train. 10.—There were in to-day. He galleries. He saw the ocean the first time in h with their murmur. been. pond and b center of the the broadening canyon mouth was BOARD THE PRESI- DENT'S SPECIAL TRAIN, LUIS OBISPO, May tires new the President's saw 1a missions and was wel- nciscan monks in cowl and , who took him through the the 1 wells set up on piles over and reaching ds of the sea for its is brozd Pacific] blue and with long, white rollers wn through the lley, following the Clara River, unfil was reached the val- d the blue of the ocean ndscape where the vanishing It was calm as a mill jlue as the skies, and in the shcet of water framed in steamer making her way up the coast. It was in Ventura the first mission was visited, and the welcome there was from the ladies of Ventura, members*of Buena Ventura Parlor of Native Daughters of the Golden West, but ingghe old mission at Santa Barbara the solemn old monks ranged themselves before the doorway and the President was received by the gray old prior. Everything about the place was old, even to an Indian skull imbedded in one of the walls, the relic of some race who thought the brown gowned men of God were weak as well as humble, end as the President left the mission two aged monks grasped the old ropes that hang from the molding bells and swung them on their rusty bearings until they clanged out a loud welcome and good-by. Inspiring Surroundings. The President spoke to the people of Santa Barbara, and he stood where he could look out over the ocean to where carth and sky meet in a band of light, and as he referred to the Philippines uncon- sciously he waved his hand toward where six thousand -miles of restless, ¥ s 3 A DEPUTATION FROM.S.F. ~THE PRESIDENT DELIVERING AN ADDRESS «- R o e * St FEATURES OF THE LOS ANGELES FLORAL PARADE, WHICH PRESI- DENT AND MRS. McKINLEY REVIEWED ON THE GREAT DAY OF | THE RECEPTION IN THE SOUTHERN METROPOLIS. 7 4 swaying sea stretched between him and his subject. It was a beautiful speech, fitting the place and the occasion and the inspiration of his surroundings. The horses drawing the carriage in which Sec- retary Hay and-Mrs. Hay rode became restive at the station in Santa Barbara, where the train was backing down, and there was a mix-up, out of which Mr. and Mrs. Hay escaped gracefully and without loss of dignity or self-possession. It was at Santa Barbara, too, that Lau- rence 1. Scott lingered too long among the delights of the little city and the train pulled out without him. He will re. Jjoin the party at Del Monte to-morrow. It was while passing through Summer- land that the people on the train saw the amphibious oil wells and the forest of der- ricks that clustered along the ground and the hillside, where thick black ofl oozed over grass and rocks and railway. No one of the party had ever seen anything Qike it before and the sight created the most_intense_excitement. Along the surf-beaten shore for hours and for miles the traii ran, giving a new phase of the scenery of California, a new phase of her climate and a new class of her people. It was overclouded and in- clined to be foggy, but as if to compen- sate for the lack of sunlight along the shore, the clouds opened out on the hori- zon and with the touch of Midas the sun turned the distant waters to gold. Waves Sing Accompaniment. Inland the hills that make the coast line at once forbidding and attractive unfold- ed themselves in all the countless varieties of the California landscape. Fields of grain turned to orchards of blosspming trees and these changed to barren crests and canyons and then to shifting yellow heaps of sand. The members of the party were always at the windows and there was not much of sea or shore that passed unheeded. At Surf the train stopped while the en- gine drank and this was long cnough for a speech to thé crowd walting at the sta- tion. There was a gentle swell lazily tumbling up the beach and as the Presl- dent spoke the waves curled over the -sands, singing a soft -accompaniment to his words and bidding him welcome in their own wild way. After leaving Surf the train turned from_ the seashore and wound its way through the canyons and inland to San Luis Obis- po, which was reached about 7 o’clock. It was just dusk when the party ar- rived in San Luis Obispo. It was not much more than dawn when they started this morning and during the day the run had not two minutes the same, the train had not two windows alike; the scenes shifted as fast as the whirling wheels and as bewilderingly, for it was all so new and changeable and beautiful. Stops at Fernando and Saugus. The train left Los Angeles at 6 this morning and after a short stop at Fer- nando, where a drove of cowboys from the surrounding ranges were on hand to greet the President, it went on to Sau- gus, where it stopped for five minutes. There was a crowd of raillroad hands working at Saugus and. they paused In their tolling long enough to cheer for Me- Kinley, although he did not appear. The only other stop before the train reached Ventura was at Santa Paula, where the President spoke. Senator Bard boarded the train there and it was he who intro- duced McKinley to the people whe had gathered from the whole countryside The President said: My Fellow Citizens: This stop was not on the official itinerary, but there is so much that {s unexpecled happens to me as 1 -pass-through Southern California that-I am quite grepared to.meet the welcome of Continued on Second Page. President and His Party ! View the 0ld Mission in Santa Bar- hara_Bu the Sea. Special Dispatch to The Call. ANTA BARBARA, May 10.— President McKinley and party saw Santa Barbara to-day, and If their expressions of satisfac- tion may be taken as proof of their feelings toward the people of this city Santa Barbara has made an impression upon them that they ‘will carry back to Washington. President McKinley expressed himself as having greatly en- Joyed. the three hours’ stop here. ‘President McKinley's magnificent spe- clal'train arrived in Santa Barbara at U o’clack. The train was met at State street by ‘a multitude and the broad thorougn- fare was lined with people. As the President appeared on the rear platform he was given a thunderous ova- tion and repeatedly bowed his acknowle edgments. He was met by Chairman Frank M. Whitney of the reception com- mittee, who escortedl him to his carriage. A shower of roses filled the air as he descended and took his seat, The car- Continued on Second Page.