The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 13, 1903, Page 5

P S Glorious Scene at Palace Banquet. Bright Remarks by Conspic- uous Men. S B A Wit and Logic Enliven the hine, fruit and President ntiment, em- of gold, he chief on when et hall at In his £ nearly five hun- the State. President ed ng and ancisco with the cer this golder cove were huge aining hawthorn. The hand- and gold ing-room was was on was rul the north v sixty feet a raised dias. At this e guest of the evening and ed officials. The seat of honor ck chair In blue and gold hair and spreading its wings glory was a magnifi e. The stars a iy g background for the noble otted plants were used inated C lan- Chinese dded to the general effect tables occupied by the the evening were set at right that occupled by the Presldent lk tablecloths were used to he idea of a golden banquet es were crowned with red, yellow or d: Roses in e were also used to beautify the had many evidences on the various tables. A del of the battleship Oregon rpiece on the President’s of war, locomotives, San Juan Hill, lght- BT T e by the Palace chef: me m Traophies ortresses rt, made > tables in the rear of under the direction of Henr rendered classical and popular ring the evening. Probably the . g incident of the banquet s the spirit displayed by the President hen the orchestra played *‘A Hot Time To-night” This was sung by the troops during the mpaign and it was familiar to , he having heard it frequently the march against the enemy. the fa r melody burst upon the of the ed guest he was alive instant. With a quick wave and and a shake of his his glass in the air and His action was the c else in the room and in banqueters were singing gusto. The orchestra had it a second time, and the Presi- voice eould be heard in the sing- g of the chorus. Again when the musi- 1 e national airs he was firs to his feet and remain standing 1 the beautiful melodies were finished. rived at the Palace as early In the gathering were and business men; city offi- men high in the affairs of Nation. They walted patiently he guest of the evening to arrive. e President aid not leave his apart- ents until 8 o'clock and he walked rough the hall in company with Mayor Schmitz and ' members of the executive He was unmindful of the of secret service men and local ves. He even overlooked his spe- rd of policemen. As he passed the court on his way to the room he was greeted on every side arty cheers, The President bowed knowledgments to the greetings of ests and entered the banquet hall. me through the doorway the or- Hail to the Chief,” but ns of music were drowned in the 15 cheer that greeted Roosevelt. t was in his seat and instantly on their feet velling wildly for E o hief executive. More t 0 waiters looked after the guests. They had their hands full, literally and metaphorically speaking. The men had narrow alsles to pass through in their effort to serve the guests. Every inch of floor space had been utilized in order that all applicants for tickets could be accommodated. When the last course of the repast had been placed before each guest and the diners were enjoying their cigars, M. H. de Young, president of the Citizens’ Re- ception Committee, arose to speak. The ted orchestra Somo in a right & he raised to sing ment the song, with The guests a feseional yod ayed Every gue they were needs of g SCENE AT BANQUET AND PORTRAIT OF PRESIDE T OF COMMITTEE ON ARRANGEMENTS. was hushed and the words of welcome expressed by the speaker heard in every part of the room. sech he rested his hand on chair and spoke fol- assemblage Our Dist We have nguished Guests, and here to-night e of California a this visit. Sit- the extreme border two ntain ras. like two ps the rtest of to us to ir coun him and let the Rockies and walls, cutting us of m nation, have. he head and seat . for he executive head trouble to that he ap netrable thousand m harbor? Mr dollar to nearer t short tin But svered in days our hills,-and our mour ing mass of human nuggets; w cities were 11in a ngght were d vered with d #t was sald This State is only a and we are g all They were mistaken. R antains, where t they ha are to-day oran (Appla .dALIFOENIA 'S FUTURE. stands as the great horti- this nation) with more acres of vineyvard within its boundaries than all the Test of the Union put together. It leads in all its tropical and semi-tropical fruits, producing, according to the ce 1890 5,000,880 boxes of oranges autiful sister State the Eastern s Florida, roduced only 2,000 boxes. ing at the top of the ultural States of the pyramid_of the TUnited States, at the top'of the pyramid of tes. are we not in the metal producing S deed proud of our Golden State? (Applause.) Mr, President. this State has 38,000,000 acres of arable and tillable lard, while only 11,000, 000 acres have been cultivated. Can you all look Into the future, can you 1ift the vell of the time that is to come, and look at Cali- fornia fifty years hence, when the other 27,- 000,000 acres ‘are in cultivation? What a fu- ture lies before us! But we are now all San Franciscans. Stand- ing here in tie metropolis of California, 1 may eay the metropolis of the shores of the great Pacific, we welcome our President. We point with pride t that harbor, thirty miles long and nine miles wide, where the whole mer- chant marine of the world could be housed with safety, for that harbor is land-locked with our ever dear Golden In this building, just before the Spani James Anthony «Froude said me do not appreciate this city. You will be the largest city in the Unjon in time. It cannot fall You have before you 600,000,000 of peopie: vou have behind you the suy of eighty 0dd millions of producing people a great nation. San Francisco will positively be a great metropolis.”” Judging from its increas and improvement in the short time since thcse remarks were made, Froude’s prophecy is com.- ing true. To-day we stand as the financial center, the heart of all financial movements on the Pacific Coast. Hardly an enterprise is inaugurated or a_corporation formed on this coast that San Francisco capital is not em- ployed in it; and the profits from those enter- prises roll back into the laps of our citizens. SURPRISE FOR PRESIDENT. Think of this city to-day, with its banks having $225,000,000 in their vaults! It seems almost incredible. And, Mr. President, though we are a golden State, I want to tell you something that may surprise .you. Never, in the history of California, have ‘we used paper. We are to-day using gold and silver as our currency for the transaction of business. While there is no_opposition to our govern. ment's paper currency, yet It is a habit, and we have mot got over it, We are proud tc be a member of this Re- public. I remember when I was a boy, my teacher told me that he was not going fo be a monitor over me and the rest of my fellows; that we must learn how to govern ourselves, because we had a right to aspire to be the Mayor of the ‘city, or even the Governor of the State, or, maybe, the President. And that a rus b ed in a when the and torn, this mi who _di metal@produc there fs out serte as trusted ing S there was In very year in len fr exhausted a producing gold e se.) is true. We all have the right to so aspire. And some of us get there. 1 see th my mind's eye a young man graduating from Har- vard. Two years afterward I see him enter ing the Legislature of his State; then goin out and becoming an author. Then 1 see him jumping: from that eastern part of our coun- try over beyond the Missouri River and becom- ing a cowboy and the owner of a cattle ranch. ‘Then he returns to his State, becomes a Police Commissioner therein, and then a Civil Service Commissioner. Next we see him Secretary of the Nawvy Again, leaving a high position for a low one, we see him, out of pure patriotism, going to fight his country’s battles as a lieu- tenant colonel He returns and his State makes him Its Governer He makes a good Governor; the people reward him and make him Vice President. To-day he is the Pres- ident of the United States! (Great applause.) To that man, I sa in the name of the cit- izens of San Francisco, you are welcome, t ce welcoms. Our city {s yours. Our hearts are yours. God ed you, and welcome you back to your family (Great applause.) Then followed the greeting from the municipality. This was given by Mayor Schmitz, and was by far the best speech of the evening. The Mayor's delivery was faultless and every word was clearly enunciated. He spoke in glowing terms of the guest within the gates of the city, and when he concluded he was given a tre- mendous ovation. His old rival fc seph S. Tobin, Mayoralty honors, Jo- was so impressed with excellence of the city’s chief execu- tive’s speech that he arose and proposed three cheers for Schmitz, which were given with a will. The Mayor spoke as follows: Mr. President: Seated high on her crest- ed hills, by this limitless Western sea, with a life of achievement behimd her, and a future full of anticipation and of brilllant promise, all San Francisco now extends 10 you formal greeting and whole-souled, whole-hearted welcome, As chief executive officer of our great municipality, 1 offer you, Theodore Roose- velt, the President, and Theodore Roose- eit. the man, assurance of the thorough spect, the loyal devotion and the sincere sprecfation of all her people, irrespective of class, condition, sex, financlal standing or soctai station, You are our President. you also as our friend. You have come to us from the East— where the great commercial ».nd industrial activities of our nation pulsate in throb- bing arteries of finance, trade and manu- facture, you have come from the center of our national life, for the first time to the shores of our Golden State, where amld our fruit and our flowers, our sunshine and gur people, you wjll have found our West neither so very wild nor so very woolly, and where you will find every- where, in San Francisco, and north, south, east and even west of her, the same loval Americanism of which yoi are our recog- nized exponent; the same intelligent per- ception of our civic duty and the same honest desire of living up to it, the same moderation and conservatism in’our public and in our private life, which, under the direction of our chosen officlals, have made our country great among the nations of the carth, and our flag respected wherever it floats under heaven's blue skies. Therefore, sir, you will realize the depth of sentiment underlylng the statement, when I assure you that the warmth of our greeting s not alone a patriotic tribute to the Presidency of our nation, an office perhaps the most exalted on earth, be- cause the result of the deliberate cholce of a great and free people, but that it 'is based also upon intelligent and appre- clative regard of the sterling qualities and virtues of an American man, [ BUOYANT WELCOME. Our welcome is buoyant not alone because we have the opportunity of exhibiting to you our great material resources, our min- eral, agricultural and industrial wealth and their great future possibilities, our own ability to exploit them, and our desire for the concurrent interest and co-operation of the great men of our country and of our national Government, for. irrigation, forest reserve and river and harbor improvement; it 1s not alone for the notable advantages which may accrue in every direction to our State and to our city from this visit of vourself and your distinguished _friends, but it Is founded also on the high in- spiration and ideals which a closer contact with the really’ great men of a nation will bring into the closer and clearer view of our own citizenship. We will of course show you some of the glories of this Western empire and all the indicia of our material prosperity. ~ You will see our land-locked harbor upon which could ride the commerce of the world, our parks, our buildings, our markets, our uni- Versities. You will take away with you concrete 1deas of these material things, but-beyond We look upon and bac above all this we want you to carry the knowledge that our people are with you, of one united brotherhood that shall stand for the establishment of a andard of American honor in our com- mercial and private life, for the elevation of our American political life and for the greater glory of our American institutions. San Francisco welcomes you for the puri- ty of your own private and domestic life, 2s well as for the integrity and brilllancy of_your public career. San Francieco admires you for the fear- lessness, ‘the honesty and the ability with which you have maintained the principles of the American constitution. You have declared in favor of equal political rights to all, regardless of color or creed. You have publicly and boldly recognized the reciprocal rights of orgar 1zed labor and of vested capital and of the onservative and ever peaceful relations hich would obtain between these great forces in our national success, and you have opened wide the door of hope for peaceful arbitration of all industrial dis- Dutes 3 You have listened to all, but the words and the ways of the demagogue have found no favor with you, nor has aggregated wealth found for you any terror. (There may be Teddy's Terro but this ig not one of them). KEEPS GATES OPEN. We stand by you and yield you for this our undivided admiration. You have found the gates of opportunity open for steady and onward march of national pros perity and by wise and intelligent action you have kept them open; the march is still ‘on and likely to be for many years Yet to come. You took up the work left unfinished by the lamented McKinley, who passed away not long after he had been among us, and you carried it out on his lines, where perhaps another would have sought to chanze them In this we saw real greatness. You have had your triumphs of diplomacy. In the treatment of our forelgn complications we believe you to have been both just and wise. You have ever been the friend of the army and of the navy, those powerful arms on which the nation'relles and which have ever been the justifying bases of American pride and glory. And to crown all with a more local in- erest, with avenues for the commerce of st now opening to'San Francisco and to the entire Western coast through your wise administration of the Philippines and your friendly offices in China, you are now aiding us to a more rapid and more ex- tensive commercial communication with the lands of the Occldental civilization and in- deed with ‘our own American people, through the approaching acquisition of a much needed and long hoped for Isthmian canal. In ‘the expressive language of a large number of our fellow citizens, you are “all right,”” and from the hearts and homes of all her citizens, for all these reasons, San rancisco through me agaln extends to You and to your friends her warmest hos- pitality and good will and during your stay the entire freedom of the whole city. You see here only the sterner sex. The women of San Francisco and indeed the children regret that they cannot extend to Mrs, Roosevelt and to your children the same manifestations of esteem and of af- fectionate regard which we are privileged to extend to you. But we respectfully re- quest that you take back with you not only theirs, but also our good wishes for their constant and continuous contentment, hap- piness and peace. Golden San Francisco, metropolis of Golden California, with her realized golden past and her certainty of a golden future amid this golden light and at this golden table bids you a golden welcome—thrice welcome indeed. Governor Pardee delivered a welcome in behalf of the State. He spoke well and his words of welcome were greatly appreciated by the honored guest. Mr. Toastmaster and Gentleméh: after conquering the Gallic provinces making them a part of Rome, sent back to the capital of that magnificent empire this mes- sage: "I came, I saw, I conquered!” To-day the chief magistrate 'of this nation of ours should send back to Washington this message: *‘I came to California; I saw her sunshine, her fruit and her flowers: I have conquered the hearts of her people and take back with me their love, their esteem and their admiration.” (Applause.) : Alexander, after he had laid tribute the whole of the then known civilized world, sigked for new worlds to conquer, and so, Mr. President, may you sigh for another Cali- fornia to conquer, for you have conquered, as no_other man has ever conquered, or in my humble judgment ever will conquer, this great and glorious State of ours. (Applause.) The people of my native State have been paid through me the high compliment of having their representative taken into the official family of him whom we are assembled here this evening to greet and honor, and during the few days that it has been my pleasure and my deep honor to have assoctated with him I have found him to be what every American admires most of all, @ man and an American man, & man such as California more than any other State in the Union, I opine, welcomes and takes to her heart of hearts and holds him close within the cockles of her memory. (Applause.) I was a little apprehens| when I first met the chief executive of the United States that he might perhaps say of California what he has intimated of other portions of this Unlon, but at Redlands my doubts were all dispelled. Op- posite to the balcony on which our President appeared were banked the children of the coun- try (laughter), and I took upon myself the lib- ty to say to him: “‘Mr. President, will you be kind enough to look opposite you? Are you ap- prehensive, Mr. President, of race suicide in California ?* (Laughter.) Need I say that my heart swelled with pride in California’s fertil- when he responded: ‘‘The danger is past.”” jughter and applause.) jentlemen of San Francisco, my native city, T am proud of my native State, and I am proud of my people. 1 am proud of those men and women who have greeted the President of the United States with shining and smiling feces. 1 am proud of the glorious California sun that has shed its rays on him. I am proud of the frult that we have laid at his feet and the roses and the buds with which we have be- strewn his pathway. I am proud, prouder than T can express, Mr. President to bid you a Godspeed when you leave this State ours and to beg, sir, that you will take with you full assurance of the heartfelt love that Cali- fornia bears for you and yours. (Applause.) When the cheering for Governor Par- dee had subsided Mr. de Young arose and in a short speech presented the Presi- dent with a handsome loving cup. He proposed drinking a toast to President Roosevelt, and after the handsome goblet had been fllled with wine, he held it high in the air and called upon the guests to drink to the health, prosperity and long life of the President. Every one but Roosevelt stood up and drank to the toast. When Roosevelt arose to reply he was enthusiastically cheered. Every one stood up and waved 2 napkin at him. The scene was an ani- mated one, and the noise generated by the guests would have made college root- ers look to their laurels. When the noise had subsided the President spoke as fol- lows: Mr. Chairman, Mr. Mayor, Governor, and you, my hoits: T, your guest, greet you and drink long life and prosperity to the golden land of sunshine, fruit and flowers. (Applause.) And let me thank you with all my heart for the more than kindness, the more than courtesy and cor- diality with which I have been treated in California from the hour when I first set foot within her borders. (Applause.) Governor, the message that I shall send back is: “I have come to California; I have seen, and I have been conquered by California’s citizens and Callfornia’s Gov- ernor. (Applause.) And, Mr. Mayor, as vou said in your speechi, the thing that has struck me most coming here, coming from the East through the West, west of the West to California, is that though I have never been in your great and beautiful State before; though I have known your citizens only as I met them elsewhere. I am absolutely at home. for 1 am speaking as one American to his fellow-Americans. (Applause.) I have been pleased with the* diversity in our country, but, oh, my fellow-country- men, T have been pleased infinitely more with the unity of our country. (Applause). Gentlemen, while I am not by inheritance a Puritan, I have acquired certain Puritan traits, one of which Is an uneasy feellng, which I think a large number of Amer- jcans share, that when we are having a £00d time it fs not quite right. (Laughter.) And_during the week that I have been in California I have enjoyed mvself so much that I have had a slight feeling as if, maybe, I was not quite doing my duty as President (applause), but I cannot say that I am penitent about it. (Laughter.) The chairman has been kind enough to allude to various incidents fn my some- what checkered past, among others the time when I was Police Commissioner of New York, an event to which New York still looks back with mixed feeling. ter.) 1 am by no means certain ew York enjoyed the experience, but I know that I had a very good time. (Laughter.) ° PROSPERITY FOR ALL. And now, my fellow citizens, let me try to express, for I can only try, I cannot fully express, how I have enjoyed and appreciat- ed my visit to California, my sojourn among you. It has been a genuine revelation to me, for, while T knew of much that I should see, T could not realize it until I had seen it. ' T think I was a fairly good American citizen a week ago when I came into your State, but I am a better one now, and even President Made Press Club Member. Rare Reception by Newspa- per Men. Bohemia’s Joys Delight the Guest. HE reception to the President at the Press Club of San Francisco was one well culated to please a man of Mr. Roosevelt's temperam He was at once made a m ber of the club and treated as a democratic good fellowship and an sence of conventionality that first wreath- ed his face w nd then brought from him a succession of hearty laughs. The President was hailed with song as a “jolly good fellow”; was presented with A monster stein wherewith to remove the fatigue of travel, and induced to on a blackboard a greeting to the cl from its newest member; and he ent into the spirit of the thing with comaraderie, his first words being a erence to the newspape men’s or ization as “‘his” club. Members of President’s party said afterward th incident of his tour had given the Presi- dent more genuine pleasure. On arriving at the club the President left his carriage and, seeing Chief of P lice Wittman mounted on horseback, we straight to him and shook him cordia by the hand. Mr. Roosevelt was then escorted to the flag draped elevator by Elmore C. Leffingwell, president of club; W. C. Holloway, secretary, and S retary Loeb. At the entrance to the club rooms the Press Club Glee Club stood singing “Hail.to the C * under direction of Willard J. Batchelder. President was escorted through rooms and on reaching the library r: a volume which was on a table ar “This is the place I revel in.” To the large jinksroom above the d tinguished party then ascended Mem bers and gue: of the club formed an avenue along which the President walke greeted at the same time with a lifting volley of cheers which he cann soon forget. The lines forming the av nue wers then broken and a semicirel was made in which the President and tk chief officials of the club were the cente figures. GREETING TO PRESIDENT. President Leffingwell, turning to President, said: Mr. President: In behalf of the newspaper craft of San Francisco, 1 welcome you. We have long looked forward to tk and I_feel signally the homor that ident of the United States should We look upon you as a fellow craf I will ask Mr. Theodore Bonnet, one of our b to act in behalf of the Press Club in presen ing you, sir. with a life membership of t lub. (Applause.) Theodore Bonnet addressed President Roosevelt as follows: Mr. President: In bidding you welcome to their home to-day the members of the Press Club of San Francisco are imbued with a live 1y sense of the high compliment paid them b: the chief magistrate of their country. You have come among us to-day giving us reason to felicitate ourselves on an occasion that we will always recall with pride. We believe that in you we meet one who Is in sympath with our craft, whose exploits with the wes ons of war were not more brilliant notable achievements of your pen, whose dar ing In the smoke of battle, whose courage and ss in the halls of legislation a raft, deserve not more the ad of the people than ti of journalism to which we are indebted the views of a sound thinker and a man varied experience-on subjects of vital intes We who have followed the work of your pe and knowing the spirit of good fellowsk has always characterized your relations on a occasions with the men of the press, believe we are justified In calling you ome of Therefore, it is, Mr. President, that we des to perpetuate to-day the memory of th to the home of the Press Club of San Fr cisco, and to that end we have elected you to honorary membership, and it is my pleasure to present you with a certificate of honorary membership in the Press Club of San Fran- cisco. (Applause.) PRESIDENT APPRECIATIVE. President Roosevelt said in reply Mr. Bonnet, Mr. Leffingwell and Fellow Mem- bers of the Club I am very deeply touched and pleased by your hailing me as a brother of the pen, and paying me the signal compliment of electing me to membership in your club. I greatly appreciate it. Mr. Bonnet, you have spoken of my services in war. I have never seen an soldier display greater and more marked ga lantry than I have seen displayed on the bat tiefleld, not merely by one or two, but by many representatives of your profs (Ap- plause.) Gentlemen, quite an extended experience in politics has taught me that the one man whom it is perfectiy safe to tell an important sec to is a newspaper man (laughter), because only shares with other honorable men ire to keep the secret, but he knows how. (Laughter.) I have been enjoying myself to the full in California, and now I have begun to enjoy San Francisco just as much as I hav joyed California. But, gentlemen, the only thing that has marred my happiness at all has been the fact that I have had to make speeches, so I shall not try to say anything more. I/shall merely say that I hope you understand the sincerity with which I thank you from my heart for your kindmess. (Ap- plause.) The Glee Club sang the “Stein Song.” and Secretary Holloway presented the club stein, a magnificent cup two feet in height, to the President, who remarked that he regretted that he could not drink their health out of it. President Leffingwell then asked the President if he would subscribe something on a paper which, in anticipation of his willingness to do so, Had been pinned to a blackboard. The President instar y complied with the request, and wrote om the paper: “Good luck always to the San Fran- cisco Press Club from fts member, Theo- dore Roosevelt, May 12, 1903.” During the notable reception the Glee Club rendered “Comrades in Arms” and ‘Soldier's Farewell,” which was sung cal- the Continued on Page 6, Column 3. Continued on Page 7, Column 1.