The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 14, 1903, Page 1

TO Deterans Gather at a JSolemn Ceremony. Fervent Address by the City's Guest. Exquisite Gift for the Nation’s Chief. entrance vester fi s D —r 4 - L \\\\ ) € me rial { s cha d A. A ‘Watkine handed - the < the g spade with which he ke ground Med 1ong s : 193, when broke the r the mon- mingled emotions MEMORY OF McKINLEY. | the of close of the Mr. 1 2 committee to solicit subscrip- memoria our then James D. elan Mayor, ns of funde sufficient to erect a suita- ble nument to commenm the mem- our dead Presid whom all loved. hable hon his Spartan his frankness, kindness and rate nimity, his fidelity to his friends, enerosity and humanity tc ene- of his pr i unsullied purity vate ’ the patriotism of his public princi- 1 never cease to be cherished in remembrance all true- He was obedient and | patriotic and faith- t and upright as a_ | ted as a husband, an n every relation a distinguished, a great of of e was man, a and became distin- | guished, great and useful because he had and retained fine qualities of the heart. (Applause.) eminently fitting and proper one succeeding him and who as- duties of the office with the purpose of carrying out the prin- and volicies adopted by our late President William McKinley should turn the first shovelful of earth preparatory to the laying cf the cornerstone of the enduring monument. (Applause.) “The committee has had prepared a ghovel from the same material as the statue will be maue of so that you, our &4 that tt sumed w ciples e e PR g = f citizens or wh ple of the s number i defend | st v execute the s ec e he d in- s s mm r months cement was de of n, the people of of the Pacific were SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, MAY 14, S 1908. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT LAUDS LAMENTED M KINLEY AT THE BREAKING OF GROUND FOR THE MONUMENT THE MARTYR STATESMAN AT GOLDEN GATE — PRESIDENT’'S PROGRAMME FOR TO-DAY 8:45 a. m.—The President and party, with miMtary escort, will leave the Palace Hotel and pro- | ceed up Market street to Powell, | up Powell to Post and down Post | to the central entrance of Union | square. The President will then dedicate the monument erected | in honor of our navy and the vic- | tory of our fleet in Manila Bay, | under the command of Admiral | Dewey. After the ceremonies “ the Presidential party and mili- | tary escort will proceed down | Post street to Kearny, Kearny to ‘ Market, to East, then to the United States tramsport dock, | where the President will proceed | to Berkeley. | 10:45 . m.—The Prosident and | party will take part in the com- | mencement exercises of the Uni- versity of California at Berkeley. 1 p. m.—The Presidential party will prcceed to. Oakland, where they will take part in the cere- mony as prepared by the citizens of that city. 2:30 p. m.—The/ President and party will go aboard the torpedo destroyer Paul Jones and pro- ceed to Vallejo to lay the corner- stone of the Y. M. C. A, Auxil- fary Club House, to be erected for the benefit of seamen. Thev will them inspect Mare Island navy-yard, after which they wul return to San Francisco. 7:00 p. m.—Bangquet tendered to President Roosevelt by the Union League Club at the Pal- ace Hotel. 12:25—Leaves for the Yosemite. i Rl T RS T ou or THIS we bid DOUBLY WEICOME \ | | - e e P e - X3 SUCCESSOR OF THE LATE WILLIAM McKINLEY IN.THE PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE LIFTING A SPADEFUL OF EARTH AT GOLDEN GATE PARK AS. PART QF THE CEREMONY OF DEDICATION .OF THE MONU- | MENT TO BE RAISED IN THE MARTYR'S HONGR. X - — i Soldiers Bestow on the United JStates Executive Testimonial of Their Admiration. - honored President, may keep it as a souy- enir of the event. (Applause.) el TRIBUTE TO McKINLEY. President Roosevelt Pays Honor to Predecessor’s Memory. With head uncovered and the breezes from the,ocean fanning his hair’ the chiét executive of the nation replied. Fe. spoke in-excellent voice and could be heard far out in the crowd. His tributes to; Mc- Kinley and to those brave men who bat- tled for the Union in 1861 to 1865 and the young ‘men who upheld their country’s- flag in the Cuban and Philippine cam- paigns -aroused - hearty ~applause. He sqoke as follows: Friends and Fellow Americans: It is a'be- ! fitting thing ;that the, first 'sod turned to pre- (pare for the monument to commemorate Pres- ident’ McKinley should*be"turned:in the pres- erice of his old comirades of the great war and 41n. the ‘presence of .the .men who, in-a lesser war, strove to'show /that théy were not wholly. unworthy of. those who, in . the dark years from 1861 ‘to -1865, proved ‘their truth by their en- deavor, ‘and with thelr ‘blood cémented the foundation - of ‘the ‘American ‘Republic.” (Ap- plause.) ' It is a solémh thing to speak-in mem- ory of a man who when young went to war for the honor afhd. the life of the nation, who for four years did his part in camp, on the march, in/battle, ‘rising’ steadily, upward ' from the ranks,-and to whom it was glven in after life to W’ himself exemplary in public and in private conduct, to,becomé the ideal of the nation’ in' peace'as he had ‘been a typical rep- = P resentative of the nation's youns soms in war. (Applause,) 1t'is not too much to say that no man since Lincoln was as widely, ‘as universally, beloved in ‘this !country as was Président McKinley (Applause), for it was given to him not only to rise to the most exalted station, but to typify. in his character and conduct those vir- tues. which each’ American citizen worthy of the name likes to regard his, typically Amer- * ican,to typify .the virtues of cleanly and up- right living in all: relations, private and pub- lic, as in ‘the most’intimate family relations, in the relations of business, in the relatfons with his neighbors, and finally in his conduct of the great affairs of state. And exactly as\it was given to him to do his part In. settling aright’ the greatest problem which it has ever befallen this nation to settle PARK Citizens JStrive to. Multiply Honors. Loyalty to Flag Splendidly Showan. Jan Franciscans Prove Worthy Hosts. which impressive Pres: monial prepar the mont Gate city remembered with fon the memc e w the man who t ip an ried on the work commenced 1 T whose memory is t 1w add imn Iy to the rev worth of the monum While this was proba nificant event of the on nume: which the ed. Fortified for the day early breakfast, Pre 1éd the outlined dutie s second day in San Francisco on railroad time and kept up with the-eebadule until its last exaction had been fulfilled He was smiling when at 9 o’clock in the morning he leff the Pal tive Sons' Hall, and when he left his morn for the Mechanics’ Pa g genial T city's tireless g There is the evide and interested be absolutely " vesterday from one the energy to what ever ‘he was indertake on the outward n to Ih omeward journey. F greeted the Native and the Ploneers with e light and while at the M seemed to have no i vond the achievements and aspirations of his tempor d h N 1 army of scho S uadl take rest to his soul fr hrieks. As they wav d screamed their del nded with smiles that s made for children and which t sters accepted as all their owr viewed the United Stat Presidio with the eri dier, but with all the de t boy with the e bu s honnet 1 him 1 at the CHff House he administ reic justice to a substantial lun between courses feasted his eyes on the Pacific as it through the Golden Gate. From the Cliff House he went to the Baker-strcet entrance to Golden Gate Park, where he broke the sod on the site for the McKinley monument. He dined with M. H. de Young, and for a brief spell in the seclusion of his host's home had a chance to rest from the busy whirl. It was only brief, however, and shortly after 8 o'clock President Roosevelt was being driven up Market street, bowing and smiling to the appreciative thousands that thronged both sides of the broad roadway. And after all that he stood up in Me- chanics’ Pavilion and for half an hour held a yast audience spellbound while he 1ssed expansion and other vital is- beauties of the flows in since it became a nation, the problem of the Dpreservation of the Union and the abolition of slavery, exactly as it was his good fortun do his part as a man should in his youth in settling that great problem, so it was his good fortune, when he became in fact and in name the nation's chief, the nation’s titular and the nation's real chief, to settle the problems springing out of the Spanish/War, problems less important only than those which dealt with by the men who, under the lead of Washington, founded our Government, and the men who, upholding the statesmanship of Lin- to wers coln, and following the sword of Grant or Sherman or Thomas or Sheridan, saved and perpetuated the Republic. (Applause.) Continued on Page 2, Column 6.