Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1905 — PRESIDENT HAS VERY BUSY DAY [ARTICLE]

PRESIDENT HAS VERY BUSY DAY

Goes to Three Towns in Alabama Delivering Addresses in Each. HE VISITS TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE Educational and Industrial Parade of Students Reviewed by President. Elaborate Preparation* Made for Hi* Entertainment at Montgomery —Welcomed by Mayor and Governor. Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 25.—When the president left here to continue his tour of the state of Alabama, a busy day confronted him. His program for the day included a visit to Tuskegee, the home of the famous institute for negroes, a return trip to Montgomery and a visit to Birmingham, at •11 of which places speeches were made. The presidential train, which arrived here at midnight, had been ordered sidetracked in the country near this city until 7 o’clock In the morning, when the start wa* made for Tuskegee. The president was enabled to obtain an uninterrupted sleep which freshened him for the work ahead. His train arrived at Tuskegee at 8:30 o’clock. There two hours were spent and the president made two addresses, one in the town and the other at the Tuskegee institute, a mile and a half away. Students' Industrial Parade. Here the president was received by Principal Booker T. Washington and members of the institute board of trustees and faculty. He then entered a carriage, made by the students of the school, drawn by horses raised at the school and driven by a student in the school uniform. Four other carriages, also made by the students, in which were seated other members of the president’s party, The party proceeded immediately to an elaborately decorated stand, in front of the office building, surmounted by the president’s flag. From this point he viewed the educational and industrial parade, upon the preparation of which the students and faculty have been at work for several weeks. This parade was headed by the Institute-band, led by Bandmaster Elbert B. Williams, of the Ninth United States cavalry, who had been detailed to Tuskegee by the war department.

Students in Two Divisions. Then came 1.500 students of the school in two divisions; the young men uniformed in blue suits, with brass buttons, white gloves and cadet caps. The young women, wearing blue dresses trimmed with red braid and wearing straw braid hats, followed. each bearing a stalk of sugar cane topped with a cotton boll, all raised in the school’s agricultural experiment station. Immediately behind the student body came sixty-on? floats, representing the various phases of work of the academy department and the thirty-seven industrial divisions of the school. In this way examples of work being carried on in all departments were put In evidence. Among the more striking floats were those representing the broom making and basketry, millinery, blacksmithing, shoemaking, electricity, machinery, the last float carrying an engine in operation, made by the students. Other Exhibits.

Printing, brick masonry and plastering, architectural drawing, experiment station and experiment teaching division, dairy, truck gardening, nnlse training, history and library, chemistry, training school for gardening were represented, as well as the department of the agricultural division. In addition, a Hambletonian stallion, five brood mares and colts, pedigreed jack and mule colts represented another branch of the agricultural work. The herd of Jersey and other fine strains of cattle was also in line. After the parade has passed the students, faculty and visitors repaired to the chapel, where the president delivered an address.

Returns to Montgomery. The return trip to Mdntgomery was then made. When he reached the city the president was escorted to the state capital where he was welcomed by the mayor and governor, after which he made an address to the people. Elaborate preparations for his entertainment had been made. Two hours were spent here, after which the president continued his journey to Birmingham, which place the train reached at 5 o’clock in the afternoon. Two hours were spent in that industrial center. At 6:45 o’clock In the evening the president’s train left Birmingham for Little Rock, Ark.

The Day al Little Rock. Little Rock. Ark., Oct. 26.—President Roosevelt spent seven crowded hours in and around Little Rock, and his journey from Fort Logan H. Roots, on Big Rock, on the north side of the Arkansas river, to the city park tn Little Rock was marked by enthusiastic demonstrations of welcome on the part of the thousands of people appearing on the streets tor the occasion. While in Little Rock the president delivered two speeches. Aft-S-W. • - A , » • in • . , .

er the exercises and the preaMekfs address the party was taken to the Albert Pike Scottish rite consistory, where a luncheon was given to the president This function was concluded at 3:80 p. m., and the visitors then repaired to the special train in waiting at the Rock island station to convey the party-to Memphis. Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 26.—President Roosevelt and his party arrived here at 8:30 p. m. The president’s itinerary did not include a stop here longer than was necessary to switch his cars to the Illinois Central, but a crowd being present the president delivered a brief address, his subject being “good citizenship.” The train left for New Orleans at 8:50 p. m.