White House gossip : $b from Andrew Johnson to Calvin CoolidgeColman, Edna M. (Edna Mary)
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White House gossip : $b from Andrew Johnson to Calvin Coolidge
Colman, Edna M. (Edna Mary)
Presidents -- United States -- Biography; Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs; White House (Washington, D.C.)
After the return to the White House, the President and Mrs. Roosevelt
entertained about two hundred persons at luncheon, including their
new official family and intimate friends and relatives, and then the
entire party walked to the reviewing stand in front of the White House
facing the “Court of History.” There the President reviewed the largest
pageant which had ever assembled in marching order for an inauguration.
This parade was noteworthy because of its many unique features. Besides
the Rough Riders, Philippine native scouts, Porto Ricans, and Carlisle
Indians, there was a large number of cowboys in full regalia, led by
Seth Bullock, the famous Sheriff of Deadwood, S. D., and a phalanx of
600 of the fellow citizens, friends, and neighbours of the Roosevelts
from Oyster Bay, disproving the old saying that “a prophet is not
without honour save in his own country.”
In addition to the Richmond Blues, in their handsome blue and white
uniforms and waving plumes, which are always to be honoured as the
oldest military organization in the country, and the Lincoln Club of
Toledo whose royal purple broke the monotony of colour, there was also
a body of miners from the anthracite coal region whose banner expressed
their sentiments, “WE HONOUR THE MAN WHO SETTLED OUR STRIKE.”
Most interesting, at least to the juvenile portion of onlookers, were
Buffalo Bill and the band of Indian chiefs led by Geronimo, including
American Horse, Little Plume, Quanah Parker, Buckskin Charley, and
Hollow Horn Bear. These braves were a startling reminder of the pioneer
history of the country, in their vivid blankets of varied hues,
their gaudy feather bonnets, and hideous war paint. Like Remington’s
pictures, upon which a magic touch had bestowed life and motion, they
majestically swung into view and then were gone--swallowed up in the
surging maelstrom of humanity, a brilliant, flashing, terrible page
out of the past, when their names were synonymous with massacre,
reeking scalps, and murderous tomahawks. So vividly was this impression
called to life that it was hard to realize that these old-time “bad
Indians” had smoked the pipe of peace for all time and were riding
along in loyal allegiance to the Great Father.
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