The sun., 1901-09-16
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
TAKESOATH OF OFFICE
Sheds Tears as 1t is Administrations
: Present Shake With Emotion--Policy of
Late President to be Continued.

Buffalo, n. ", Sept. 15.-Thcodore
Roosevelt became President of the
United States mt 3.35 o'clock yesterday
afternoon. Standing in low-ceiled, mar
row room in the quaint old mansion oc
tnl,ied by Ansley Wilcox, in the fash
fenable Part OF Delaware avenue, the
:aliStocratic thorolIghfare Of Buffalo. Mr.
Roosevelt sworc to administer the laws
of th" government of which lie is now
the head
His first act was to administer the
following proclamation:
"A terrible bereavement has befallen
our people. TIE president of the Unit.
ed States hi been struck down, a
crime commit .d not only against the
chief magistrate, but against every
1awabiding and liberty loving citizen.
president Mckinley crowned u life
of largest love for his fellow men, of
most earnest endeavor for their vel
fare, by death of Christian fortitude,
and both the way in which he lived
his life and the way in which, in the
supreme hour of trial. he met his
death will remain forever precious
heritage of our people.
1T is meet tl.at we as nation eX.
press our nbiiing love and reverence
for his life, onr deep sorrow for his
untimely death.
Nov, tnerecore, l, Theodore Roose
welt, pr lsident Of the United States OF
Amer "a, do appoint Thursday next
Sept, 10, the day on which the body o.
the. dead president will be laid in 1t.
'.ast earthly resting place. as n day o
mOurning and prayer throughout tn
United States. | earnestly recommend
all the people to assemble on that da.
in their respective places of divin
worship, there to bow down in submis
sion to the will Of Almighty God an,
to pay out of full hearts their homag
Of love and reverence to the great am
good president whose death has snit
ter the nation with bitter grief"
Theodore Roosevelt passed the en-
of his first day as president rathe
quietly at Mr.. Wilcox's home, diniii
quite late. Governor Odell. Congress.
O. lnuu IIutiub iAluldutE anu w iitiuIh w a
den of Buffalo called, as did also Coli
mel Russell Harrison. The presiden
while affuble, still showed some e
fects of his long journey. However, i
found time to have little chat wit
Governor Odell.
The president was besieged wit
messages of congratlilation. In fac
thpt Dttpmnt
made to open the large majority I
them.
Where Roosevelt Took the Oath.
The house in which the presidel
took the onth Of office is a picturesql
old mansion of colonial style, bul
somewhere back in the thirties al
standing upon ground once the pro
erty of the United States governmer
1t was used for some time as an arm
headquarters. While the house Ii
been added to and improved, 1t has n
been allowed to lose any of its colOni
charm. The room in which the on
was taken is ceiled high In dark oa
the floor heavily polished, and the OIL
bit of relief to it is a bay windc
prettily set in palms and relieved wi
stained glass. 1t was in this e
brazure where the president and Jud
Hazel stood when the oath was adm
istered. Those present when he swt
to the oath We're:
Secretaries Root, Hitchcock, Lo
ana Wilson, Postmaster General Smi
senator Chauncey Nj. Dcpew, Jud
llaight, John \. Scatherd, Mr.. a
Mrs. Anslcy Wilcox, Miss Wilc'
George T.. Sawyer, Drs. Mann, Pu
and Stockton, Mr.. and Mrs. Carlet
Sprague, Mr.. and Mrs. John G. \
burn, William Loeb, Jr., secretary
the president; George B. Cortely
secretary to the deceased preside
DR.. and Mrs. Charles Carey, B.
Scntherd, J. d. Sawyer and Willi
Jeffers, official telcgrapher of the III
ed States.
The scene was most affecting O
The new president had Just come Fl
the Milburn house, where his no
predecessor lay cold in death. o,
come by the deep personal sorrow
felt, in his Enthusiastically impuls
way he had gone first to the house
mourning to offer his coincidence ,
svinunthy to the broken hearted wild