The Triumphant Life of Theodore Roosevelt edited by J. Martin Miller

CHAPTER XV
SWINGING AROUND THE CIRCLE
Arrives at St. Louis—Dines with Ex-President Cleveland—Dedicates the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition -The President's Speech Received with
Great Enthusiasm— Cordial Demonstration by Kansas City People
Ovations in Colorado and California— Speaiis en Expansion in San
Francisco—The Trip through Nevada and Oregon—Greeted by Cheering
Thousands in Washington, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho and Utah
Homeward Bound.
The President left Ottumwa early Wednesday morning,
and arrived at St. Louis at 4.30 p. m. Here a troop of cavalry
men from the Fourth Regiment met him at the station; a
dozen carriages were in waiting and a detail of mounted
police was in attendance, and great crowds filled the streets in
every direction.
ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION IN ST. LOUIS
He was driven directly to the Odeon, where the National
Good Roads Association delegates were assembled in annual
convention, but whose proceedings for the day had been aban-
doned because the President had promised to make an address
to the audience in the hall. They rose in a body and saluted
as he faced them on the platform. He talked to them of good
roads, and of the good things that come to a nation in the
wake of good roads. Immediately after leaving the Odeon
he was escorted again between deep lines of spectators, to the
St. Louis University, where he made a brief speech. Mr.
Roosevelt was next driven to the residence of E.\-( Governor