The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-15

MINISTER RESIDENT AT THE HAGUE.
The appointment of Robert B. Roosevelt
as United States Minister to the Neither
lands, is one that everybody approves. Mr..
Roosevelts has been a busy and useful life,
although he has always enjoyed more than
the financial means necessary to the life of
leisure. His mission to the Netherlands is
of no Importance to him for its money value
OF $1,000 year. Mr.. Roose-
welt is President of the Hol-
land Trust Company, of New York.
How his going to The Hague will influence
his business affairs is his own private con-
Germ. A descendant of the sturdy stock
who first settled the American metropolis
he will show the ancestral Dutch what has
been the influence of two centuries or more
of American life on the renowned men and
women who are proud to trace their descent
from it. That Roosevelt should be Minis
ter to Holland is strictly in accordance with
"the eternal fitness of things"
Mr.. Roosevelt was born in New York in
the year 1929. He is a graduate of Har-
ward, and lawyer by profession. At an
early period of his life he surrendered a
large practice in order to devote himself to
literature and politics. He was fond Of
athletic sports, and prominent yachtsman.
Mr.. Roosevelt won the first prizes for cast
which he took part, was active in securing
the passage of proper laws for the protec-
ton of the game of the country, and was
elected President of the International As
ISOLATION, which had been organized for that
purpose. Although enjoying outdoor
recreations, he was equally devoted to
literary pursuits. He began with con-
tributions to the old Spirit of the Times,
and wrote for it's columns many articles
IL L ~
of age he wrote play for John Brougham,
but the financial misfortunes of that gen
tleman, which eliminated soon after, pre-
vented its production, and the manuscript
was destroyed in fire at the Winter Gar
den Theater, New York. In 1868 he became
joint editor of the New York Citizen, with
Charles G. Halpine miles O'Reilly), of
genial memory. After the death of that
merry journalist he continued in control of
the paper for several years, securing for it
larger circulation than it had ever attained
before. bis first books were on sporting
subjects, as Game Fish of the North,
published in 1869. This was so successful
that it was quickly followed by 'The Game
Birds of the North" Superior Fishing"
and later by FLORIDA and the Game Water
Birds" These books were reprinted in
1884. As a more purely literary venture
Mr.. Roosevelt wrote Progressive Petit
coats.n satire on short-nindness in the
female sex, and Five Acres Too Much" a
ridicule of amateur farm culture. Jointly
with Mr.. Seth Green he prepared Fish
Matching and Fish Catching" During
the same time he was writing
fugitive articles innumerabls and
frequently delivering addresses on
the subject of fish culture. He suggested
the idea of the Ichthyophagous Club, for
the purpose of calling the attention of the
public, by an annual dinner, to edible fishes
not generally so considered. Mr.. Roosevelt
was one the founders of the Lotos and the
Arcadian clubs, and was founder and was
elected perpetual President of the
Pot Luck Club, an association the members
of which cook their own dinner and write
songs or parodies ON the dishes they con
contribute. Some of the most eminent
literary men and women of the country
belong to this unique organiza ion.
Twenty-years ago Mr.. Roosevelt was
made fish comm ssioner In 1881 he be-
came President of the Commission. He is
now President Of the Fish Culture Associa-
ton, and of the New York Association for
the Protection of Game.
He has always been Democrat. During
the height of the Tweed rogues' revelry in
New York he assisted in the organization
of the Citizens Association. Subsequently
he Joined the Democratic Union, an ,organi
zltion opposed to Tammany Hall. He was
q member of the Forty second Congress.
While at Washington he distinguished him
self in upsetting the plans of a dishonest
ring. 1t was toward the end Of his term in
Congress that the people rose against the
rule of Tammanv Hall, and the Committee
of Seventy was formed. The work of the
committee released the city from the domi-
nation of Tweed and his associates. Mr..
Roosevelt was one of the "War Demo-
cracy," giving active and earnest support
TO the Union cause while continuing a
Democrat. He served as one Of the COM
missioners of the Brooklyn bridge, and has
been an Alderman-at-Large of his native
city.