The Washington times., 1901-09-14

Kermit Carow. and they have tive
children. three boys and two girls. His
| home, where all his children were born
| is called Sycamore Hill. and Is at Oyster
| BAY Long Island. There he spends ali
his time when not officially engaged. and
| to the minds of himself and his frienus IL
| is as lovely a home as there Is in the
country albeit it is a simple one in many
respects. 1t stands on the hill overlook
! ing the bay and the sound, and from the
| corner of the broad Veranda, where a row
Of welcoming rocking chairs invites the
/ visitor one can see out for n score OF
mills across reaches of land and water
| In the cool autumn weather ne SITS III
the hall or the library, by the DIG HFep pidce,
| where the hickory and oak logs crack ana
the fire dances and shines over the elS
moose, and buffalo heads on the wall ana
! the bear skins on the floor HIS hunting
trophies and the heads of the big game
he has shot hang all over the house-oh
the walls in the halls. in the dining room:
and in the library. He has library or
about 4,00 Enthusiastically rich In
| English and American poetry ana Amer
ican history. For hunting books and books
upon outdoor life. in the fields and woods
1t is unquestionably the best collection in
the country. The library Is a favor1te sit
ting place of Mr. Roosevelt, for ii has
a huge fireplace at one end. and above it
the horns of mountain sheep, mountain
goats, and prong-horn antelope. Half or
his books are in the top of the house
where he has big gun room. He has
not many pictures; still there are some
fine engra wings of Lincoln. Grant, wash
ington and Hamilton. and two or three
reproductions of the old Dutch masters.
some vases and some panther, bison. and
deer figures by Kemys. the American
sculptor
| PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
A friend of Mr.. Roosevelt recently
| wrote concerning his personality:
| Mr.. Roosevelt is a vertable dynamo of
earnestness, force and physical and men
tai energy. In build he is of the medium
height, broad, very thicliset, solid and
muscular. Even through the large-lensed
glasses he is obliged to wear when at
work he looks boyish, and is constantly
| thus referred to in the press. That is be-
cause he is not only young, but his youth
has been preserved by an active outdoor
life nationally directed. He has plump,
! almost round face thick brown hair, the
small light mustache of a younger man
| than he is, and swapping blue eyes. His
| photographs make him look trife stern.
| taken with his glasses OFF, the strong
| light makes him half close his eyes like
| a man influenced by a stern resolution or
| character. In reality, he is kindly. ge-
| nial, happy man, too full Of animal spirits
and too fond of fun to be stern except
| upon rare occasion.
| His mind works so quickly, and he is
so quick in every impulse, that he talks
| fast and seems to explode his words,
which fly from him in short volleys. not
| in loud tone. but with only half re-
strained energy. He is noted for his high
| Ideals, but he is nevertheless exceedingly
| practical. He was once asked what he ex-
| pected to be or dreamed of being when
| he was a boy, and he said, 1 do not re-
collect that 1 dreamed at all or planned
| at all j simply obeyed the Injunction,
whatever thy hand findeth to do, that
| do with all thy might and SO l took
| up what came along as it came. Since
then have gone on Lincoln's motto. do
| the best: if not. then the best possible
He has never laid up anything to be
CURED to him to do. that he has done at
once with all his might and main, wheth-
| er il was hunting bears. or writing books,
or climbing mountains"
! AS cattle rancher and a hunter Mr..
| Roosevelt held his own with the best in
| his younger years. and he is still an ar
| dent hunter 1t was said that he couid
| ing of the cowboys. He could meet a
grizzly in his own bailiwick, or shoot
mountain lion at close quarters in dizzy
| canyon. His record fighter was
\ known from Cheyenne to Mexico
On the frontier and in the army men are
| usually sized up for exactly what they are
worth, and 1t mas been asserted that
| Roosevelt has been tried and pronounced
a rustler and a hustler by the expert
| judges of men and guns in the big West
In 1854 Mr.. Roosevelt estabh.1ed
| ranch In Montana, and for a number
! of years subsequent passed his summers
| there iRA hunting, in which way he az
| quired a considerable knowledge of lie
| among the cowboys and hunters
HIS LITERARY WORK.
Mr. Roosevelt has an enviable reputa-
| ton as a literary man. To write for
| publication he first took pen in hand
| when he was a student at college.
| Then he was editor of the "Harvard
Advocate but his first work of note
was his Naval War of 1872" which was
| f,,
1881. He could find no trustworthy Amcri-
| can history of that conflict ana nothing to
| contradict the English accounts OF 1t.
| That the work was needed and .hat it
| was well done is now seen in the fact
that it is authoritatively quoted in Bras
| sey's Naval Annual" the year book of
| English naval matters
| In 1885 he began to write books upon
| his Western experiences as a ranch own
er and hunter. In 1856. the year he raT
| for mayor, he wrote the Life of Thomas
| II. Benton" in the American Statesmen"
| series. In 1857 he wrote the Life of Gou-
verneur Morris In lsss he wrote his very
| popular Ranch Life and the Huntin;;
| Trail" published by the Century Com
pany. New York. In 1889. the year of his
| appointment as United States Civil Scrv-
| ice Commissioner. he published the first
| two volumes of the Winning of the
| West in 1890 he wrote a history OF New
| York City for Edward A. Freeman's Sc
ries of Historic Towns" published by
| Longmans, Green Co. London and
New York In 1892 he wrote as Essays
on Practical Politics" published by the
| Putnams. New York. In 1898 the same
| firm published his book. The Wilderness
| Hunter" The next year. 1884, he pro-
| duced the third volume of ais Winning
of the West" and in 1895 he with Senator
! Henry Cabot Lodge wrote Hero Iaies OF
American History" His later books have
| been The Rough Riders. "fhc Strenu-
| Gus Life anu the Life of Oliver Crom-
| WELL
His books of hunting in the West are
those of a sportsman with keen Zest
| for sport and they are in addition fine
| descriptive books-of the Bad Lands, and
| the Rockies They contain also vivid
| character sketches of the Indian fighter.
| cowboy, trapper, ground breaker and
! ranchman of the great West, men who
| are rapidly passing away.
In the Winning of the West, by some
| considered his best work. Mr.. Roosevelt
| tells the story Of the great march of the
| E1nglish-spea1eIg race against the French,
| the Spanish and the Indians from the
| Atlantic to the Pacific His later books
have been much read ana much talked
| about, especially The Rough Riders,
| which describes the work of his regiment
| in the Spanish American war.
| President Roosevelt is the youngest
| man that ever held the office. He Will
| not be A. years of age until next month.
| both AZ vcars old when inaugurated.
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