The times., 1898-09-28

nifty of almost the entire German voting
element of the State.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
After President Mckinley was
inaugurated on the 4th of March,
1897, among the first appointments
he made was that of Assist
ant Secretary of the Navy, and he named
Col Roosevelt for that position. This
place he held until the breaking out of
the war between the United States and
Spain.
Col. Roosevelt revolutioniZed in a way
the methods OF conducting business in the
Navy Department. He had little If any
use for the so-called red tape. II he want
ed anything done he saw that II was
done at once. He threw to the winds all
customs and precedents. He believed the
Navy Department should be run on
business principles as well as any other
institution. He Is said TO have made the
remark at the time when the business in
the department was very heavy IN MAX
ing preparations for the war, that his
observations of a year in the department
had taught him that the majority of
those employed there made 1t a study of
how to take the longest possible time in
performing the least possible service"
Services ns n Soldier.
After the declaration of war had been
passed by Congress about the first thing
Col Roosevelt did was to resign his posi-
ton as Assistant Secretary Of the Navy
He asked permission TO recruit a regi-
ment of cavalry which he said he would
like TO have known as the Rough Rid
ers. This permission was granted him
and had he so desired he would have been
-s,f
he preferred TO be made lieutenant colo
mel instead
He made the request of President Nc
Kinley that Col. Wood be assigned to the
command of the regiment. which was
done. He left Washington and went to
San Antonio, Texas, where most of the
regiment was recruited. He remained
there with the regiment for more than
a month, when 1t was transferred to
Tampa Fla. The Rough Riders were
among the first of the troops TO be trans
ported from Tampa to Santiago, and 1t
was but a few days after the troops ar
rived in Cuba until they were engaged in
one of the hottest battles of the war at
San Juan Heights
1t is here that Col Roosevelt distin-
guished himself upon the field Of battle.
He led the famous charge and had d
horse shot from under him. This. how
ever, did not seem to daunt his fighting
spirit, for he Immediately dashed TO the
front in the face of the Spanish bullets
and contributed no little to the splendid
victory won by the American forces.
The regiment of Rough Riders sustain
ed itself superbly. Col Wood was pro-
NOTED for bravery displayed in the field
to a brigadier general and Col. Roose-
velt from the rank of lieutenant colonel
TO colonel, also for bravery.
Thorough Type of an American.
Col Roosevelt is distinctively an Ameri-
can. To that title he has the claims of
long descent" The Roosevelts came
from Holland In the middle of the sew
enteenth century The roots of the family
run deep in the soil of civic liberty and
civic loyalty on the continent of Europe.
Col. Roosevelt's ancestors were doing
the kind of work he is doing now be-
fore the prov OF Hendrick Hudson's lit
tie ship cut the waters that bear his
name. On the fathers side, Col. Roose-
welt is not only an American from the
start but heir TO the charter and prin-
ciples that have made America. On the
mothers side the stock is about as pure
ly American as history will allow. cross
ed with a strain not less tough. and even
more aggressive than that of the father
His mothers family name was Bulloch,
and her home was in Georgia, where
her ancestors, coming from Scotland,
also settled in the middle of the seven
teenth century. Her great-grandfather
was the first Revolutionary governor of
Georgia, and it tells something of the
family tendency to fight. for principle
that Col. Roosevelts uncle fired the last
shot from the Inflated Alabama when
she sank under the merciless guns of the
Kearsarge off Cherbourg.
In person Col Roosevelt. bears the
marks of his race. He Ifs of medium
height. squarely and strongly built, sin
ewy, elastic. and with bearing that eX-
presses energy, decision, Ialedftness, intel
ligence. His head is square rather than
round, the brows straight, 1.-The eyes clear
and rather widely sat, the nostrils large
and fine-thoroughbred-t jaw firm but
not heavy. In animated talk which is
to say always in talking. 5his1 white teeth
CLEAN like the combing surf above a reef
force, determination, eagerness TO Crap
pie an antagonist, all the; flashing vital
ity of the man seems concentrated there.
No one ever questioned ol--Roosevelts
honesty. tae-stts
Col. Roosevelt has been married twice.
His first wife was Miss Alice Lee, of Bos-
ton; the second Miss Edith Carow, of
New York. He is the father9of six chill
dren, the eldest fourteemlaild the young
est one year old. He live feet nine
inches high and weighs about $50 pounds