The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 15, 1903, Page 1

SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1903. 3 PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOLUME XCIII-NO. 166. = 225 ’ S - n TN \ Z N : T NN\ == B W) & /= W N\ / \ a5 T % s*“\‘\‘\‘ 4 u;"'f”"zi £ L\i‘h \x) 3 ‘ 1 ; & %o Z l\ ; ) \\ NN NS\ T(A '{;5/_7\‘ \k\\«_‘i_\ % '\" Pias o AR\ i J g\ ISSS A ; LS @8 PRESIDENT ROOSEUVELT DEDICATES COLUMN THAT BLAZONS GLORY OF DEWEY'S FLEET yesterday morning dedicated the Dewey | Union square. He then procced- had won a lasting place in its citizens. His kindly ma nified bearing gained him the all the Union League , Club | President | 7 -— T = L - ‘ i’{ EROISM ‘ | EMINENT \[{%. compELs DISITOR =) PRAISES DEPARTS 7;»/ = i\ Naval Prowess Ably Pleasant Clo:se : of JSpoken Of by the the E.;f-ecutwe s President. {o;ourn. Jea Power Is Es- Success the -Cr:own sential to Our on the City’s Greatness. Efforts. Theusands Attend Advantages Accrue Union Square 4 From Stay of the Ceremony. A W N Statesman. J n t s ,w 7 ! RESIDENT ROOSEVELT depart- ry in Ma i | was | Monusient Roosevelt orted to the Oakland ferry at | . | m AD] Eo who came In contact with him. ing his short stay every nt 11 o'clock last evening and took a cd to Berkeley and presided at the | time was taken up in taking i b : \ B 3 A emonies and banquets arrang cial boat to conncct with a| | commencement ‘exercises of .the| nomor. Although he sufferea fatigus train to Yosemite Valley, where! e e et e e, :{'ni‘."t‘r\rit‘\' of California. At 1 armur, in order that the people of the city might have an opportunity to greet him as chief executive of the nation and as a man To use a trite expre he will spend four dayss A large crowd gathered at the ferry wait ing-room and cheered the: Presi- lf*. m. he went to Oakland, where | he was given a Im:pi}ab[v recep- He at has often I'the navy yard at Mare Island. In -alr spe -] uing the | | 1 y e ! 1h1= | t ot oh e | f[mn by the patriotic citizens. ‘ :0;\‘ ’\'\A:x!miml to Pr t Roosevelt, ) | them woent to Valleio and laid the | M° 3@ “strenuous” time yesterday. Ho | | then wwen J0 and (a6 tNe | was up early and was on the move all - - | cornerstone of the Y. M. C. A.| ‘he time. At o'clock he | monument erected in | clubhouse for scamen: The Pres-| navy and the victory / I : 3 | In Manila Bay, under command of tident and his party then inspected ‘I Admiral Dewey. He delivered a i address to the asscnbled | | she J ‘Do { the evening he was banqueted at : upbuflding of the a hitch | : sentiments were heartily appl sent large | the Palace Hotel by the Union | who heard him. Escorted by the troopers of the Nint Cavalry and the Police Department, the chief executive drove down Market street to the ferry. He was cheered all along youths who g the ships League Club. the plat- that thoroughfare and he bowed and st $he Sase waved his hand in answer to the saluta- t were the officers on this « M tions. © The President went directly to al Glass and his staff pre- Berkeley, where he took pa e i ir full ral Bickford, com squadron and Captain Keppe S. Grafton, distinguished mencement exercises of Califo As nia. his o Pacic carriage d at the Harvard ye! univer: were velled themselves hoarse. , so familiar to the President, reminded him of his alma mater and he was pleased in ering After hearing it. deliv- addre of Oakland, w a short ADLCRESS BY PHELAN. ’ Pretty ( Is Given Into San PRUGIGIING: aEve isco’s Keeping. i 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon Presi ol rman of the mon- the programme. dent Roosevelt boarded the torpedo boat troduced Mayor Faul Jones and proceeded to Vallejo to 5 Phelan said | inspect the Mare Island Navy Yard and simple duty | to take part in the la e corner- monument mittee to San F and in order t the cere- e of the Young Me ation Auxiliary Clubhouse, te for the benefit of the seamen. As the torpedo & assed down the mn s pro- in the harbor thunde g k rlated. in his honor. This was repeated when s € s ago when | the President returned to this city The s and country found | noise of the great guns echoed through a serfous for- ber how the sco and California, | | the city ana apprised every one that the chief executive was again nearing hospitable shores. its + fleet was | eir coast avaged, eir cities might be put e and thelr and prop- led. You reme at feel- ng of uncertainty and alarm which came rom ignor ; but when om Washington the order was sent to the then Commodore Dew: f the Or in command ntal squadron, to go to Manila to capture or destroy the en- s fleet the danger was past, because odore Dewey did his work as an rican sallor and soldier, and we re- ce to-day In his great fame as we were clieved then by his superb achievement. Bay and e people of San Franeisco, grateful he American navy under the command rge Dewey, then decided to erect emorial in honor of that navy and mmemoration of that victory, and now the shaft is complete. I have noth- ing to do than to present it to the city, with this reflection: That the Pacific Ocean was opened to us by that victory, and that our commerce was made secure, and that the victory of Manila Bay added immeasurably to the glory of American arms; that it made us, as much as any other single event the late war, a power among the nations of the earth, thus extending American influence and exalting American citizenship, and mak- ing us & people respected and honored sbroad. (Applauee.) “What more can we ask of a soldier in President Roosevelt and Mayor Schmitz that he bring to us such benefits? There- fore we must be chary of and cherish his fame. It is said that republics are un- grateful, It is said that history repeats itself, but why should history repeat it- self with us, this new race of Americans, under such a leader as President Roose- velt? (Applause.) “It has been said of the United States that it is a Government without a pre- cedent and without a parallel. Why should we fall into the evils of the past? We are here, not only animated by pa- triotism, gratitude and local pride, but to erect in our hearts and perpetuate by this monument the love and fame of the American navy and of Admiral Dewey, and to see that they shall be preserved. “I now present Mayor Schmitz, who wiil accept the monument on behalf of the city.” (Applause.) SR MRS MONUMENT ACCEPTED. Mayor Schmitz Speaks on Behalf of the City. Mayor Schmitz was given a rousing re- ception when he stepped forward to de- liver a short speech. In part he spoke as follows: “Mr. Chairman: On behalf of the city of San Francisco I accept with much ap- * preciation this noble monument of art &nd of victory. While it commemorates a great naval triumph, it will stand for all time to come as a patriotic tribtue to American arms and American valor, both on land and on sea, a source of glorious recollection to the present generation and of sublime inspiration to those who are to come. (Applause.) Its dedication Is a notable event in the history of our natlon and no more auspiclous sponsor could be present than that historlan and ex-naval officer, the hero of San Juan, President of our beloved country, whom I now have the honor to present to the people of San Francisco. Ladies and gentlemen, I pres- ent to you the President of the United States—our President.”” (Applause.) s VALUE OF THE NAVY. President Urges Continual Building of Ships of War. The reception accorded President Roosevelt was as generous as those he has already been accorded in this. city. Shouts came from all sides of the plaza and the Chief Executive bowed his ac- knowledgments. He spoke as follows: “Mr. Mayor, My Fellow-citizens, Mén- and Women of San Francisco: “The ground for this monument was ; at the Dewéy‘ Monument in Union Square. + first turned by President McKinley .(ap- plause), and I am glad to have the chance ofisaying ‘a few words in dedication of the completed monument. 'There ‘is no branch of our government in which all our people are so deeply interested as the navy of the United States. (Applause.) It s not merely San Francisco, not mere- ly'New York, or Boston, or Charleston, or New Orleans, not merely the sea coast cities of the nation; every individual in the natior who is proud of America and Jealous of her good name must feel a thrill. of generous emotion at the erec- tion of a monument to the navy; a mon- ument to the fleet which was victorious under Admiral Dewey on the 1st of May five years ago, a fleet which then added & new page to the long honor roll of American achlevements, (Applause) “It 18 eminently befitting that there should be here in this great city on the Pacific Ocean a monument to commem- orate the deed which showed once for all that.America had taken her position on the Pacific, and'I want you all to draw a practical lesson from this commemora- tion.” We to-day dedicate this monument because those who went before us had the wisdom to make ready for,the victory. NAVY MUST BE READY. “It we wish our children to have the chance of dedicating monuments of this kind in the event of war, we must see that the navy is made ready in advance. (Applause.) To dedicate the® monument would be an empty and foolish thing if we accompanied it by an abandonment of our national policy—bulilding the navy. (Applause.) Good though it is to erect this monument, it is better still to go on with the building up of our navy which gave the monument to us, which, if we ever give it a fair chance, can be relied upon to rise level to our needs. (Ap- plause.) ‘““Remember that after the war has be- gun, it is too iate to improvise anything. A naval.war is two-thirds settled in ad- vance, at least two-thirds, because it is mainly settled by the preparation which has gone on for the years preceding its outbreak. We won at Manila because the shipbuilders of the country, includ- ing those here at San Francisco, under the - wise provision of Congress, had for fifteen years before been preparing the nayy. In 1882 our navy was a shame and a disgrace to the country in point of ma- terfal. “The personnel ccntained as fine material as it is possible to be found in the world, but the ships and the guns ‘were as antiquated as if they had been the galleys of Alcibiades, and it would In the evening the President attended the dinner given in his honor by the Union League Club of San Francisco. The affair was given in the grillroom ‘at the Palace Hotel and was one of the best of its kind ever held in this city. There was a great deal of enthusiasm. The Presi- dent is an honorary member of the organ- ization and the members saw to it that his reception at their hands was a worthy one. That they succeeded in pleasing the chief executive was evi- denced by the fact that he graclously consented to personally greet each mem- ber ere he took his departure from the city. He stood at the door of the hall and as each man passed out he was presented by President Pippy. President Roosevelt then entered his carriage and amid the hearty cheers and godspeeds from the assembled citizens he was driven to the ferry. The carriage was driven on board the” steamer Pied- mont and the boat, with its distinguished passenger, moved across the bay. The President left by special train for the Yo- semite Valley, where he will stay for at least three days. R o e o e s e e have been a wicked absurdity to have sent them against the ships of any good power. (Applause.) “Then we began to build up the navy, Bvery ship that fought under Dewey had been built between 1883 anq Continued on Page 2, Column 1.