The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 15, 1901, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXIX—NO. 166. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1901. PRICE F1VE CENTS. PRESIDENT McKINLEY IS SPLENDIDLY WELCOMED, BUT WIFE'S ILLNESS WILL - PROBABLY END HIS TOUR IN THIS CITY PRESIDENT MGKINLEY MAY ABANDON TRIP ON ACCOUNT OF ILLNESS OF HIS WIFE T TWO 0°CLOCK THIS MORNING a statement was given out from the Scottresidence that the condition of Mrs. McKinley is such that it is thought it will be impossibie for her to be removed in less time than three weeks. The President under no circumstances will Ieave his wife for any length of time. This means that unless conditions change the trip beyond San Francisco will be abandoned. In fact, it is problematical if the President will go to the State University at Berkeley to-day. 'i he Presidcntdesires to visit the State University and the Stanford University, and also to take part in the launching of the battleship Ohio. His devetion to his wife will not permit him to leave her for more than a fcw hours at a time. As far as the gencral public functions are concerned, the Presigent feels that the people of San Francisco have seen hiin and that he has done the best under the unforesecen circumstances of his wife’s iilncss. ¢ President is of the opinion that the social functions arranged for him can be abandoned, and that no disappointment will be felt in consequence. '+ he President considers that he can sacrifice many of the social functions arranged in this city, especially as the people have no part in them. i - = OR the second day of Presi- dent McKinley's - visit in‘ | San Francisco the following | weather forecgst is made: “San Francisco and vicinity— | Cloudy, unsettled weather Wednes- | day; ' brisk westerly winds, with fog. “ALEXANDER G. McADIE, “Forecast Official.” | n at 711:\'/‘ and formal leted a red- PROGRAMME FOR TO-DAY'S EVENTS. a. m., nanveiling of Donahue foun:ain: 0:30 | President embarks on revenue cutter Go Gate for Onkland mole; 10:15 a. m., . com- University of California, Berkeley; © p. m., luncheon at residence of President 30 p. m., President and party depart for Ozkland in carriages; 3:00 p. m., recep- r Perkins; 4:00 p. m., parade to steps of Oakland High School: open- 00 p. m., President leaves Oakiand in Slocum for San Franelsco; President arrives in San Francisco; 9:00 ¢. m., for visiting Congressmen, drive to Golden ocean beach and Cliff House; lunch at ClifZ House: retarn by way of Point Lobos Signal | Staticn end the Presidio; 3 - Postoffice Department employes’ reception to Postmaster Ggneral Smith, nave of Ferry depo: . m., Union League banquet, Palace Hotel, to Governor Nash: 8:00 Water and Foresi Association banquet to Sceretary Wilson; 8:00 p. m., postofice employes’ ban- ostmaster General Smith at Delmonico’s; 10:00 p. m., trip through Chinatown for visiting VENTS scheduled fer to-day are ns follows: a w Wheele tion at residence of Se air reception for pub 5:30 p. m., Gate Park, p. m. quet to P Congressmen. % i remendous crowd that surged around the seemed a glittering avenue of light, brilliant as the sun, col- ding and crushed through it E ored like the rainbow and reaching far away until each lamp , not one one-hundredth s was a tiny spark and each glorious arch a narrow, gleam.ryz ot one one-thuusandth he: band. ments were good in theo Down the center of the Lall was stretched a wire nettihg, They contemplated a grand revi dividing the space into two ways. Again the western side f the city passing before the President, who was divided at the entering stalrway and on into the street on a raised platform and greet the the division was carried, so as to catch the crowd before it = they passed, but no consideration was became unmanagsable and turn it into the way it should go. 2 ,sity and human selfishness, and instead The idea was that the people should come in through ths he time came, the lucky ones stayed and lis- stairway, turn to the south and walk down to the end and ‘ + 0 move, and the unlucky ones crowded and past the President’s stand, then turning to the north walk the ™ ——— ated and ; wer lled fainting fro; e Jen; o! nave and turn o us r- R T L e e o e L e SCENE IN THE FERRY BUILDING WHERE-THE PRESIDENT MET THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY. way was reached again. Then the hope was that the people the grandest sights a mind could concelve, would go out into the street and lose. themselves. B . swinging lines of people slowly working The wire netting was dotted with pink geraniums, wreaths )f the nave and down the other, under and garlands of green. At the upper end and just before the ILLIAM McKINLEY, President of the Unfted States, the guest President’s previous and unofficial entrance to the city, they were shown to be t stretched in arches far away until President’s position was a minlature of the Ohio, its shrouds /__of. San_Francisco—such was the sentiment present in every false prophets even before McKinley's foot touched the planking of the railroad r and became a blur of colored light. hung with tiny lights and over it its name in flowers. " mind yesterday, attuning all to a harmony that made San depot platform, and none, even the most ardent and demonstrative of his personal a high platform at the southern end The President’'s stand was decorated in the tri-color and Francisco's welcome fo'the nation’s chief géntine, whole-souled friends among San Francisco’s public men, could have hoped for such an out- looked down six hundred feet to where a over this was thrown a net that covered the rafling and hung and. enthusiastic to a.degree possible only because the people pouring of people, such demonstrations, such entire genuineness of feeling ke an eye of fire, marked the morth down in front to the floor. In this neét thousands of carna- love William McKinley the man no less than they pay homage manifested from the moment that unfurling flag and burstir m this were beams of red and white and “tions, pink and red, had béen fastened, giving the drapery the to"the high-office Ne so worthily fills. The reception accorded the President’s arrival blue, and above i down the sides sprung arches outlined appearance of a delicate lace work, patterned with flowers the city’s -distingujshed guest was not perfunctory and vet not It was a great reception from the moment the Presidential train rolled into in fire and banked one upon the other through the length of and foliage. Behind the stasd was a great bear, outllned jn 2dulatory. It was a warm-hearted welcome given to a man 6f the people whom the depot until late at night when the President was driven homeward through the great hall. On the sides, too, lamps flashed bright lights, and with the word “Shake” glea in red lights in his the people delight to honor and whose present pre-eminence, a gift of the people, brilfantly {lluminated streets thronged with cheering thousands—a reception that carries with it the reverential a..ection of his countrymen. 2 AT and in many colors, and overhead the red changed to blue and the blue to white in bewildering succession uatil the nave Tontinued on Second Page. Continued on Second Page. If any predicted that the reception would lack spontaneity because of the