Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-02-21
TEDDY WOULDN'T Talk
Vice President-elect Positively
Refuses to Be Interviewed
on Present Trip.
Prefers Seclusion Of His Private
Car..Appeared . Few Mo-
ments at Boone.
Tanned by Sun and Wind..He is
Hurryins Home to Prepare
For Inauguration.


HurryinE Home to Prepare
For Inauguration.
Col Theodore N Roosevelt, Of New
York, vice president elect Of the United
States, who will be inaugurated on
March 4 ait the national capital, passed
thru Marshalltown about 1890 o'clock
this morning on the first section of the
Chicago & Northwestern Chicago limit
ed. No. 6, for this trip a solid train of.
ten sleepers.
The journey of the rough rider vice
president can hardly be said to haye
been triumphant one thru Iowa, altho
in the western part of the state, where
Il the train passed at more seasonable
hour, intense interest Was shown in the
"trip. which was Sheralded by the Eews'-
papers all along the line.
Col Roosevelt arrived in Omaha a
$50 "Wednesday afternoon on tn e Mon
Pacific fast mail train, No 102 occupy
ling the private car, No. 400, of President
Marvin Hughitt, which was attached to
Ithe fast train at Julesburg. He had had
a long hard trip from the west, and the
lreaxation after his several weeks stay.
In the mountains Of Colorado on his
hunting trip. vas such as to cause him
To seek retirement from the World at
large.
MEETS ONE OF HIS BOYS
At Omaha the only person he saw,
laside from Superintendent HI. G. Slifer.
of the Iowa division, and Superlntend-
Tent Baxter of the Western Iowa, was
Il member of his regiment of rough rid
ers named Proctor. Proctor SAW him
and. stepping up to him. said: Hello
lcolonel. how are you? Well, by -7, =
answered Roosevelt, it's Proctor, Why.
/ haven't seen you since we left Cuba. =
Calling to Superintendent Baxter he in-
|8troduced Proctor as one of his boys, "
and invited him into his car.
REFUSES INTERVIEWS.
Newspaper men who anticipated In
|steviewing Col Roosevelt regarding his
western experiences. were made TO feel
livery plainly that the colonel wasn't
Hooking for notoriety. Two Times Re-
publican representatives and one from
1.-The Des Mones Leader went West 10
| Jefferson 10 meet the train. and after
larriving there We're informed by Wire
THAT they would be unable to board the
ltrain. which vas solidly vestibuled. The
reporters then returned to Boone and
lawait,sd the arrival of the train which
Mas losing time. owing to its extreme
weight, and arrived there one hour and
4 twenty minutes late. When Superin-
Istendent Sitter. who was the only COM
panion of the colonel in the trip from
Icouncil Bluffs to Boone. stepped from
the train, he met the newspaper mer
with positive statement that Col
4 Roosevelt would not be seen under any
circumstances that he had positively
Irefused interviews at Omaha where he
was besieged beyond endurance and ex-
lpectsd to hold out in his positionSin Chi
cage and or the trip east. All that he
Mould do. said Mr. Slfer. would be 10
step to the rear platform of the private
lear and shake hands with as mary of
the people as he could While the train
stopped.
After the dining cur had been
lswitched into side track the private
car was coupled onto the rear of the
train and Col, Roosevelt appeared in
Iplan view his countenance being light
ed up by the glaring headlight of the
switch engine, which faced him.
4 Here he spent about three minutes i'm
4 dulging in hearty handshakes to all who
were within reach. There We're in the
|neighborhood Of 100 enthusiastic men
women and boys, who cheered and cried
for a speech. Col. Roosevelt said:
4 am very glad to see you, indeed,
but no speech tonight. ! wish you all
Igood night
Turning abruptly he left the throng,
land Immediately afterward made prep
i arat.ons to retire. a T. r. man tried Ia
4 work the porter for admittance, and
lsucceeded in getting him to open the
door. but neither coaxing nor Jolly
lwould bulge the stalwart negro.
The trip east, thru this city. and to
[Chicaso. VAS made by Col. Roosevelt
lalone. Mr.. Slifer having left him at
Boone. The colonel showed very vivid
lily the effects OF his several weeks
lroughing 1t in the mountains. His face
was bronzed by the sun and the expos
ure to the mountain winds. and 1t Is
4 doubtful il he was browner in Cuba
when he led the onslaught on san Juan
5Ihill. He was attired In suit of black
with a black SLOUGH rough rider" hat.
i After the train left Boone the last
time, caused by the stops for kand-
shakes at western Iowa towns, 4 IVA :
made up, and into Chicago the limited
l.arrived on schedule time The train left
4 Council Bluffs transfer forty five min
slutes late, but lost time gradually all the
way to Boone, or until Col Roosevelt
retired. Afew of the eastern stops east
of this city, were rot made. Conductor
w. F. Conner and Engineer Mike
O'Donnell, With engine 2O3 had charge
/ OF the train from Council Bluffs "a
Boone. ard Conductor George w. Good
win and Engineer by" McMahan, Of
4 Clinton. with the 202. pulled the limited
from Boone to Clinton.
The great weight of the train of ten
sleepers was more than ordinary, owing
to the fact that the sleepers from the
coast of the Union Pacific We're two
days late. having been delayed by
wreck at Mill City. New. on Sunday
when q Union Pacific passenger went
into culvert killing three persons-one
passenger and two tramps. Trains from
all directions were stalled there and
these sleepers were the first from Cali
fornia that had succeeded in passing
the wreck. This forced the Northwest
ern to run two sections of No. s In order
to take the seepers east as fast az pos
sible.