Show new orleans frantically cheers president f whose help and sympathy have en cod raged fever stricken community new orleans la oct 26 at the end ot nine strenuous hours of varied entertainment in new orleans which brought his exceptionally pleasant trip through the south to a close president roosevelt at tonight boarded the lighthouse tender magnolia and began tha first stage of his return journey to the national capital no newspaper reporters accompanied him and he will be out of touch with the world throughout the night but daylight tomorrow is expected to bring news of chiy successful transfer to the armored cruiser west virginia which lies at anchor oft tho mouth of the river to receive him and for the beginning of the second stage of the journey for tour days he will be absent from american soi which has never heretofore happened to a president during his incumbency but through the means of wireless telegraphy it is promised that he will be seldom out of communication with the shore the presidents new orleans reception was a signal testimonial of lar esteem and of grateful recognition of the service which he has rendered the city in her period of stress new orleans today remembered not only that the president had acted with characteristic act promptness when asked to send federal surgeons to take charge of the lever struggle but throughout the fight here sustained the people of the stricken city with expressions of unfailing sympathy and when a larga share ot the public opinion of the country opposed bis venturing into nw orleans with the fever still prevailing he refused to consider the element of personal danger and declared his purpose to keep the promise he made when he accepted the original invitation to come the densely crowded streets the elaborate decorations the wild applause that greeted him along the whole route of the parade the enthusiasm with which his address to th multitude in lafayette square was received and the remarkable demonstration in his honor at the luncheon were outward manifestations of the spirit in which the people welcomed him probably tor the first time in his public career the president was compelled to abandon a public address before he nad got well started on it was contemplated that the military and civic parade should pass in review before the president at the city flail but he crowd which gathered at this poin so tremendous that neither the nor the troops were able to move it and the dent foreseeing a possible catastrophe in the event of a panic finally gave up tho attempt to speak and left the platform the crowd jammed st charles street from property line to property line all the way from poydras to ninth street and it spread over lafayette square almost from st charles to camp streets probably people were gathered in an d around the stand on which ane president was 10 have delivered the address when the president decided to abandon his effort he shouted to the throng to go home and be good citizens and then disappeared into the mayors parlors well nigh exhausted to those about him he expressed himself as immensely pleased with the demonstration in his honor which was far beyond his expectations or the of the members of his party and said that the reception was the greatest that he had seen sines he started on his trip at the luncheon was scarcely less exuberant when the president entered the superbly decorated dining ball the banquet ers rose as one roan and gave way to frantic cheers every thought he uttered wag the signal for an extraordinary exhibition of enthusiasm and as bis speech dealt almost entirely with local subjects and had special reference to the fight against yellow fever bithe banquet developed into an increasing ovation an immense crowd packed gravier and st charles streets as the dinner ended and the appearance of the president on his way to the river provoked thunderous applause As the magnolia left her landing a presidential salute S was fired and the indescribable of the whistles or the factories and river craft mingled with the lusty cheering of throngs of people ano bad collected on the wharf nowhere did the president see the slightest evl ance of the existence of any remnants of the fever he saw on every hand immense gatherings of apparently happy and contented people and it may reasonably be believed that he carried away with him the impression that however serious the visitation of disease may have been it is now little more than a memory BANK OF CENTRAL AMERICA naw york oct ac cable advises advices today from berlin announce that the loie ue bafik of berlin lazard speyer of frankfort on the main and tho Schweizer ische of zunchi leave founded a bank with a capital of to be called the bank of central america and which will have jag hea office in berlin the business p the bank will be started in Gaut emala with ahe intention of opening branch offices in the central american countries |