NINE THOUSAND HANDSHAKES.
In strict accordance with Democratic custom, President Roosevelt shook hands at- the White House, Washington, on New Year's' Day, with anybody and everybody, The- Now York World correspondent, by close observation and careful analysis, concludes tlmi'tho President shook 0052 hands altogether, which Is a largo number, but not a record. To many of those who preienWd themselves he snid, "Delighted I" , and to others, "So glad,* so gM'l" The, Vice-President, Mr, Fairbanks, wns the first to bo greeted, and the lnot, ntt'OhUtaegro.' After the Cublnet Ministers; th^Dlplomatta Corps and tlio Supreme Court Judges had passed, Mrs. Ifoosevolt obtihdoned the handshaking, but had a ploanunt smile for ovoryono. ,
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Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 47, 24 February 1906, Page 14
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