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Show Is Greeted by the Greatest Crowd Ever in Copper City. President Roosevelt arrived in Butte at. 3:52 Wednesday arternoon. 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 OLe 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 tho 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 uu the rear. The Sn&n- ish war veterans were the guard of honor, and Colonel C. F. Lloyd of the First volunteers acted as marshal of 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, Presl-; Presl-; dent Roosevelt at night adressed 20,-S 20,-S 000 people at the Columbia Gardens, Senator William A. Clark's resort in I the mountains, three miles east of Butte. At the conclusion of the ban- quet given by Mayor Mullins and the j 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. ra., and left for .the Columbia Gardens. With the pres-i pres-i ident rode the leading labor men of the city, prominent citizens following it In 1 carriages. Frank A. Boyle, president of the Sliver Bow labor and trades assembly, lu a few words Introduced. , the president. |