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Show Is Greeted by the Greatest Crowd Ever in Copper City. President Roosevelt arrived in Butte at 3:52 Wednesday afternoon. He was met at the B. A. & P. depot by Mayor Mullins, escorted, by a company of militia, mi-litia, a platoon of police and the Spanish Span-ish war veterans, who are holding their state convention in Butte. United States Senator Clark of Montana was oue of the first to greet the president. Mr. Roosevelt then entered a carriage car-riage in which the senator, Mayor Mullins and a secret service man were seated. The drive through the streets of Butte was one long ovation. Such a crowd has never been seen in the history of the city. The neighboring towns for fifty miles had poured in their thousands, and the thoroughfares thorough-fares over which the line of march lay were crowded to suffocation. From the depot the president was driven to the court house. Veterans of the American civil war, militia and police formed the escort. Carriages containing a hundred distinguished citizens cit-izens brought up the rear. The Spanish Span-ish wa veterans were the guard of honor, and Colonel C. F. I.lnvd nf th First volunteers acted as marshal o? the parade. At the court house 2,000 school children appropriately dressed in the national colors saluted the president. pres-ident. He stopped a few minutes and spoke kindly words to the little ones. As the guest of the labor and trades assembly of Silver Bow county, President Presi-dent Roosevelt at night adressed 20,-000 20,-000 people at the Columbia Gardens, Senator William A. Clark's resort in the mountains, three miles east of. Butte. At the conclusion of the banquet ban-quet given by Mayor Mullins and the citizens of Butte, the president, with an escort of sixty rough riders and a number of mounted police left the banquet hall at 7:45 p. m., and left for the Columbia Gardens. With the president pres-ident rode the leading labor men of the city, prominent citizens following it in carriages. Frank A. Boyle, president of the Silver Bow labor and trades assembly, 'in a few words, introduced the president. |