The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 14, 1903, Page 2

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FAR WEST HISTORIC TERRITORY Roosevelt Not Unmindful of the Glories of Olden Days. Bear Is Among His Prizes Although He Hadn't Hunted One. Interesting Meeting at Headquarters of an Order. F public functions such as are mark- ing the Gally life of President Roose- velt are trylng upon the chief ex- ative of the country certainly his pearance belies the fact. Yester- day morning shortly after the city’s bad tolled the hour of 7 the Presi- was up and about in his rooms at o Pz d half an hour later, with e r of a man who was pre- paring to catch an early morning train, he was walking briskly down the oourt ors with his secretary on his way to the hotel grill. Despite the at the citiz had kept him at banquet until long after midnight nt Roosevelt looked as fresh as an f his training for a feld fast in he hote! and Secretary | office, where vly made ac- them, and for d of the ce of ployment or 2 glimpse ay, was | {gom- rd, in col | rk band e ¢ A great r- arket | roughfare | s' Hall, | ted | party ar d to it ers of the assembled escorted marched down age rose and gave hearty welcome among those the platform were d joined the from the hotel; tive Sons; of the Native president of olonel dlewart, ngton Dodge, i Dyer, Lewis F. Byingto: H. 8. Martin, Louis Mooser, A. P. Gian- ninl and others representing the societies which figu uously in the his- D tory of s platform. sles the vocifer As 1} ssemt us evidence Promir ey ’ e w Henry B. Russ, as the representative of N the men who founded civil government in ¥ the State and have watched it rapidly de- & velop into one of the richest factors In the unjon of States, was called upon by P: Chairman Phelan to make the openmg & address. In expressing to President Roosevelt the thanks of his friends and early assoclates for his presence in the 1 hall and extending on their behalf a Call- fornia greeting the speaker said: We are assembled here to honor and wel- come to our city the chief magistrate of our country, and, as our time is limited, we are obliged to shorten our ceremonies. To our guished guest 1 will say that this audi- e is composed of members of the Soclety fornia Ploneers, Veterans of the Mexi- Native Sons and Native Daughters den West, wives of pioneers, daugh- oneers, pioneers who came to this ore the first day of January, 1850, the te settlers who passed through all the experiences of the border State and frontier w Gy th b; nd friends Mexican | Golden West f the Golden | ace for the Presi- | make their way | rated reception ¥ the honor t. country, representing the youth and manhood of banded together in one organization. you to-day on behalf of that order. hood. 1ife re than fifty years ago. we bave reached nearly the limits of our & f I 4 4 : b THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1903. MINENT VISITOR COMMENDS THE LABORS OF PIONEERS, NATIVE K> NES AT THE BREAKING IN TE PARK. DURI BY ORGANIZATIO OF THE GROU. =) SONS AND DAUGHTER McKINLEY OF NOBLE CHARACTER Appropriateness of Plan to Build Enduring Memorial. Life of Assassin’s Victim a Rich Record of Good Work. Deeds of Wartime Heroes Awaken Expressions of Gratitude. <= Continued From Page 1, Column 6. When 1598 came and the war, which Pi dent McKinley, in all honesty and w sincerity, sought to avold > and was pressed upon hi and you had met the h st to became ughly as i lesson ibly keep « for our honor and to assert a given position we s with ev intention of making ssert! se.) ar came, an able h came was natu ders live and hav who fought in the great war, that this State should fin untes the war t ame § to be expected that ¢ well, as they did do we the new contest. And 1 fitting that the war and the men claiming soldiers, come here to the monu . A [ s b ent, across westward, west that s the ho this city, 'situated upon that giant oe will, in the not distant future, be cc the most important body of water ir world. (Applause.) PRIDE IN SOLDIERY. I have enjoyed coming Into ye c into your city and spea Iike "this, a v of v I wish to reviewlr and t s ¢ the MacArthi as | American citizen to wearing the uniform ses su tor—That is the only Yes, the only one. 0L, 5 JOUVER R ™ ~ CANTELN 7 here and for ith you t lesson In peace, as a of what can be done good faith str mighty republic, by the CANTEEN PRESENTATION. G THE IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY S OF VETERANS OF THE WAR ms to me the older we grow ur country and honor its ur his- of our , shield you with r many ¥ Ste (Applau of the Vet- was the next Colonel Stewart, president rans of the Mexican War peaker. He said: We welcome you with trembling hands and hearts t n Francisco. Fifty. years e was established bet 1 by the treaty upe. now well San Frar ard the old M s, and 1 will ask you to a e’ of membership. ~(Appl The appearance of President ept this cert 1se.) Noble of the Native Sons wae hailed with great ap- Jause, and when the demonstration had ubsided he proceeded with his address, o - which was as follows: After the ploneer, that hardy son of toil CREEEINN X0 FREELDENT. who left his home In all parts of the world to bulld this civilization on the Pacific slope, Words of Welcome by Argonauts and after the old Mexican War veteran who fifty- Native Sons. seven years ago left his home to fight for our come the Native Daughters and the tive Sons, descendants of that hardy race hich crossed the prairies as of old the pil- ms crossed the sea, to build the West as y the Bast, the homestead of the free, the acific Coast, known generally as the Native ons of the Golden West, 14,000 of whom are I greet Out here in the West we admire your pecu- ar and beautiful type of American man- We love your fearless disposition, and e admire your loyalty to the principles of our overnment. On behalf of California, our mother State, we greet you as the chief execu- ve officer of the greatest nation known to anclent or modern history. We hope and trust that your visit in our State shall terest to you, and we assure you that it is of Ereat across our beloved State, God speed you. be of in- importance to us. In your journey Another outbreak of enthusiasm at- tended the presentation to the President y Miss Eliza D. Keith, on behalf of the Native Daughters, of a beautiful bunch Consequently ©Of California popples, the flower which the last Legislature enacted should here- D FOR THE McKINLEY MON' THE PRESIDENT < Gift‘ of Rough Riders to the Pres- ident. When the cheering had subsided George C. King, a member of Troop B, Roose- velt's Rough Riders, stepped forward and T TO BE ERECTED AT THE BAKER-STREET ENTRANCE TO WAS PRESENTED WITH A BEAUTIFUL AND COSTLY after be the’ State flower. Sald the lady as the President gallantly accepted her offering: Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, man of might, tower of strenuous times, mighty, brave, age heart, sturdy type of the best American m hood, In the name of the Native Daughters ot the Golden West, I greet you with our blos- som of California. May your visit be one of pleasure and may even your patriotism receiva fresh inspiration from the evidences of our love and loyalty to our happy, united coun of which you are the honored and cho chief. (Applau RICH GOLDEN GIFT. Chairman Phelan Presents the Stat- uette to President. Then came the gift of the Native Sons to the President, o magnificent statue of gold, *“The Bear Fight,” truly a piece of art that a President could certainly feel proud of. In making the presentation Clairman Phelan sald: Mr. President: You have heard the presi- dents of the socleties.of the Native Sons, of the Pioneers, of the Mexican Veterans and of the Native Daughters. It devolves upon me, as chairman of the joint committee of these socleties for this entertainment, to say a final word. We are aware of the limitations of time, but I desire simply to impress upon vou that these orders are patriotic and fra ternal In their purposes. The ploneers planted civilization in American ideas in Californta. The Native Sons have taken up their work. They were born upon the = soil proud, as you may now well un [ My President, of their native State, and among their worthy purposes is the Dreservation of landmarks and the preservation of the mem- orles of historical ideas. -We belleve, sir, that If you were born in another generatlon you, too, would have been a pioneer. (Ap- plause.) We know your love of the unbroken prairie and the untrodden forest, -and we feel that you understand the enterprise, the courage and the fortitude of the men who_participated in the winning of the West. You. sympatiize with us, and to-day, sir, we would feign respond to you. The ploneérs have done great work, and they feel they have now in . you a President that has the spirit and hardihood of the pioncers. The young men feel that they have in you an example and a type, because you understand the enthusiasms of the young man, his ideas, his devotion to duty, his ap- preciation of valor and his love of country. (Applause.) %+ on behalf of his comrades presented the President with a handsome On it 1s Inscribed: ident, rising, bowed in token of his ap- silver canteen. preciation, and when the cheering and ap- Our meeting here to-day is a labor of love. We desire to glve you some souvenir of this occusion and we have evolved an idea which p1puge had spent its force he began his “Presented to Comrade Theodore Roose- is here expressed in the preclous metal of 4 2 our native hills, designed by a native sculptor Tesponse. He said: velt, President of the United by of whom we are proud, made by California I thank you men and, women of the Camp Reinhold Richter No. 127, A W. artificers and wrought so deftly. Made of gold, State. I thank you, nof merely for the greet- _ = : g D we think that It represents the State, and Ing you have given me to-day, but through V.i Camp General Liscum No. 15, 8. M. vou will see, Mr. President, that it is a bear yow I thank your State for the week I have of S, W. Camp General Fremont No. M4, hunt. (Laughter and applause.) We thought spent within her borders. 1 trust I came e that ‘would be pleasing in your eyes. within them a fairly good Ame and 1 8. M. of 8. W.; Garrison Oscar F. Long And why did we choose the bear? Perhaps leave them 8 better American. stil. u\xp- 101, Army and Navy Union, San It ‘was because we did mot want the bear to plause.) And ply touched by the S 2 4 Ty chocse us, but this territory whs mot won beautiful gift you have given me and, you see, Irancisco, Cal, May 13, 190 On the r without a struggle, and that represents in this shows that even a President can be a Vers ide is the insignia of the Fifth itself the dangers and perils of ploneer life, ful vear hunter. (Laughter and ap{ Army Corps and crossed sabers. The ang the bear was—we have great respect for ) segun to think that my strap used to sling it over the wearer's him—one of the very earliest settlers. I be- quaintance with that noble ar - . A n lieve that Mexican Veterans and the Ploneers out of office. (Lai shoulder came from Manlla and was tak- Phelan ou pleased and touched me y much by what you sald as to my feeling en from the canteen used on the fleld of battle. The stopper and buckles are of do mot dispute that he antedated them, be- cause many of them met him when they came here. (Applause.) He disputed every foot toward the ploneers. Of course, I am glad t0 go1q and the souvenir is extremel of the ground with them, and, brave beast, be welcomed by you, for you, the men of 49, 910 & - he died rather than submit to captivity. So the men of the Mexican War, you have dome Propriate. the State has taken him up. He is put In a Wwhat I have preached, and practice is always In his presentation speech King spoke place of honor, sir, upon our great seal, und better than preaching. (Laughter and ap- gs follows: When the plonéers raised the flag of resistance plause.) against Mexican rule in 1846 they looked about I should be sorry indeed if there were not President: The service men of the for something emblematic of that resistance societies like those of the Native Sons and sh War—Camp General Fremont, Camp in their love of freedom, and they put the the Native Daughters of this e to keep Colonel Liscum, the Spanish-American War bear upon the bear flag. That struggle was alive the sense of historic continuity with the Veterans, Camp Rienhold Richter, ar the for equal rights and justice, and above the State’s mighty past. (Applause.) I have wel- / and Nav [‘ fon., Garrison bear they placed, hovering, a star, which {n- comed the sight of the feeling which has Oscar F. Long—have selected me to pre. dicates o us ail now, as It was pleasing made the peopie of this State wish to preserve Sent to you on their behalf a fit to them then, the hope, the yearning, that the anclent landmarks, landmarks of man and memento and souvenir of.this occasion. Hay the new territory which they proclaimed wouid landmarks of nature, and which has made Ing myself been a soldier in your regimen come into the galaxy of the Union, and their them desirous of keeping alive the memory of Which is justly proud of being known in his- Wishes were gratified in that same memorable the great deeds and great doers which gave tory as “Roosevelt's Rough Riders’” and hav- year when Admiral Sloat at Monterey raised the State to the Union. (Applause.) ing myself followed your victorlous lead in above the old_custom-house, which you saw Proud of your State? Of rse you are every battle in which our regiment was en- but on Sunday, the starry stripes which proud of your State. How could you help be? gaged in Cuba, and having been an eye- brought our Whole territory within the juris- 1 do not praise you for being proud of your Witness of your heroic valor, undaunted courage diction of the United States, State. I would be ashamed of you if you and brilllant leadership it i3 indeéti gratifying The bear, Mr, President, is a foeman worthy Were not. (Applause.) to me to be made the instrument of convey- of your steel. The perils of the chase make _ It 8 sometimes difficult for us fully to real- ing to you the high esteem and loving re- it heroic sport, but he is our California bear, iz the wonder of the deeds that have been membrance in which you are held by the He is emblematic of our State. We have done. veteran soldlers. and sallors of the Unit chosen him for these reasons and I now pre- (Addressing Colonel Stewart): Colonel, you States assembled here to-day. gent o you this souvenir, that you may al. and your fellow veterans took part in a war _ This gift from them to you Is not alone Ways keep it before you, that it may remind Which in its effects dwarf into utter signifi- prompted by that natural high respect in you of this day and this occasion. that it cance all the struggles of contemporary Eu- Wwhich these veteran soldlers and sailors hol Tnay tell you that the Native Sons and Daugh. rope. It often happens that at the time be- you as the chief masistrate of this, ing two given contests afe seen entirely out of perspective that the real importance of them is shrouded from the eyes which look on at the moment. So in the time of the decay of the Roman empire the, struggles of the rival claimants for the throne of Caesar seemed all important to the people on the shores of the Mediterraniean, and now we forget even the names of those under whose banners the rival factions fought, while for all time deeply im- greatest country In the world, nor yet by their recognition of you as a man who is already deservedly ranked as one of the most illustrious statesmen which America has yet produced, but it also springs from their hearts as a loken of their great esteem for you as a brave and gallant soldier and comrade whom his fellow soldiers love and delight to honer, and last, but not least, it is inspired by the firm ters and Ploneqrs and Mexican Veteraas honor you, not alone on account of the ex- alted position which you hold, but on ac- count of the love they bear you the cham- plon_of the strenuous life, which 1s our lifs in the West, and the exponent and defender greater still of true American ideas, which constitute the foundation principles of our order. (Applause.) —— r conviction on their part that in you they have printed in history are the deeds of the men, found a true friend of the great common PRAISE FOR CALIFORNIA. the barbarians who came from the north and people, a stalwart enemy of oppression, what- The Incident was followed with con- tinuous applause, during which the Pres- Continued on Page 4, Column 2. Continued on Page 4, colum; 2 7P ~ — \ L BN o \ Iy ‘ [ J ' \ N | Y

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