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Children and adults running down and around railroad tracks.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-04-14
Joseph R. Ornig relays the story of how the city leaders of Temple, Texas, passed an emergency ordinance requiring presidential trains to stop in the city. The ordinance was passed when it was learned that President Theodore Roosevelt did not plan to have his train stop in the city while traveling to San Antonio, Texas, in April 1905. Roosevelt did, in the end, make a brief stop in Temple, and Ornig notes that President Harry S. Truman referred to the incident during his 1948 visit.
Two photographs, one of Roosevelt and one of the crowd in Temple, Texas, accompany the essay.
Photograph showing crowds in Temple, Texas, greeting President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-06-23