The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-08-27
MR.. ROLLER RETURNS
From Europe. Just Escaping De-
tention in Quarantine.
M'KINLEY BILL A BETE MORE
To the Business interests of Germa-
ny-.A Patriotic Demonstration by
Two Americans at tho ArlOn Con-
cert In stuttgart...A Pittsburgh In.
tervlew with Mr.. Henry seamon.

Mr.. Theodore Roller, one Of the most
prominent German citizens OF Wheel
ing, and the hustling general agent of
the jefferson Insurance Company, ar.
rived yesterday from Europe, having
landed in New York at halt.past seven
o'clock Wednesday evening.
The parlor Of Mr.. Rollers residence
was crowded last evening with the rel
atives and friends Of the genial wan
derer, but the ISrRLLIaENcER reporter
managed to snatch few moments Of
his pleasantly occupied time.
"You may just say" said Mr.. Roller,
after pleasantly greeting the INTElII'
oEscRR man, "you may just say tina.
there's no place like the United States.
The old fatherland isn't in 1t with us.
Twas glad to see my old home, but was
still more reioiced when my foot touched
American soil again." I.i
The cholera scare being uppermost in
the minds Of everybody, Mr.. Roller was
asked what he knew about il. :.
"There was not much, excitement"
he answered, "when l left BFemeEhayen,
but when got to London l heard the
report that cholera had broken out in
Hamburg. was afraid that we would
be detained in quarantine at New York
on account of the scare, and you may
be sure that I was agreeably surprised
when we were allowed to come through
without Vexatious delay ,s
The nextIvessel landing will be quar-
antined.
Unlike 60 many who return to, their
old home and find their former friends
dead or gone away. Mr.. Roller was tor-
tunate In finding many of, his old
schoolmates still alive, and preserving
d lively recollection Of the times they
had had together in youth. An old
schoolmate, when he had not seen for
thirty-two years, accosted Mr.. Roller,
as he was looking at the house in which
he was born. The elderly gentleman
said he thought he knew the stranger,
but couldn't "place" him as we say in
America, and when he was told 1t was
Theodore Roller, embraced him and dis
closed himself as member Of the same
class in confirmation, to which
THE STRANGER FROM OVER THE SEA
had belonged. OF course, they hunted
up all the other old schoolmates, and
spent some Jolly times together
Business was dull in Germany, Mr..
Roller said, and the business men over
there are "cussing" the Mckinley bill,
and would like to see 1t repealed. The,
people are q hard working lot, and Mr..
Roller was panied to see SO many wo-
men working in the fields, but the old
travellers lie OF the woman and the COW,
hitched together. dragging pillow, was
not verified by this traveller.
'That same miserable old baggage
checking system that / was familiar
with in my boyhood days." complained
Mr.. Roller, "still obtains in Germany.
They give you paper ticket about
foot long for a trunk check, and every
time you change cars-which 10 very
often-you have to go to the baggage
room at the depots, pick out your trunk
and follow it around on the truck until
you are positive that it has been placed
in the car. A great many cars like the
American, without compartments, are
used in Wuertemberg, but in other
countries they still have the same old
compartment cars. Unlike itwas for-l
merly, however, the cars have more
facilities, and layatorles are frequently
found on them"
According to Mr.. Roller, the pros
poets for large crops Of grain were
bright in Germany. Grapes along the
Rhine will make only a half crop, but
growers say that the wine made from
them will be Of good quality. The
weather has been 80 warm that the per
cent of sugar in the grape will be
largely increased.
At the Fourth Of July celebration in
Wuertemberg Mr.. Roller and the COM
panion Of his travels, Mr.. Henry Sea-
mon, were present They made their
presence known at the grand concert
given in the same city by the New York
Arion singing society. When the "star
Spangled Banner" was intoned by the
American singers, Mr.. Roller and Mr..
Seamon, who sat in the audience, rose
to their feet and waved the American
flag. The entire audience rose en-
masse, and "Hoch Amerika,n and
t.Hoch den Amerikanern," and Bravo,
brayissimo," made the welkin ring.
HE FORGOT A SOUVENIR.
The christening Of the man-of-war
'"Woerth," in the harbor OF Kiel, by
the Princess Victoria. was witnessed by
the two Wheeling gentlemen. Mr.. Roller
secured fragment OF the champagne
bottle, which the princess broke on the
PROV of the ship. He didn't bring it
with him-he left It in his room at the
hotel in Hamburg.
every American traveller returned
from Europe" sighed Mr.. Roller, sought
to consider himself a missionary for
the establishment OF good roads. I
passed through the wilds of the Black
Forest, and all the roads, the common
country roads, not only the national
highways, were in splendid condition.
They are made good at the start and
kept that way by constant repairing"
Mr.. Henry Seamon arrived in Amer
lea with Mr.. Roller, but will not arrive
here until to-day. He was in Pitts
burgh: yesterday, and the following ia |
an account OF q. talk tho GtroitSctS 9sl5,
graph had with him:
d. Seamon, with whose name nearly
every lover Of the toby is byword and
his tobacco mandatory at Wheeling
familiar institution, was in the city this
morning, Just from Germany and her
scare Of cholera,
Eyes, l am extremely glad and most
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