The Green Forest tribune., 1901-10-12
NEW PRESIDENT IS BUSY.
Mir. Roosevelt Finds Little Time
 for Exercise and Pleasure.

According to THE TRIBUNE's S Washington correspondent, Mr. Roosevelt is 8 very busy man. He says:
 Probab ply the busiest man in America is Theodore Roosevelt. If they were forced to submit to the pressure which he is at pres- ent undergoing, the majority of the leading business men of the country would soon become dis tracted. Even J. Pierpont Nor an, with his multitudious inter- ests, would doubtless find himself seriously inconvenienced by the tasks that confront the new chief magistrate. Mr. Roosevelt is head over heels in work by 9 o'clock in the morning, and, af- ter hurried disposition of moun- tains of correspondence, he is ready for the numerous heads of government departments who seek to see him on various matters of importance. Between times, he is taking up the broken threads of foreign questions and domestic politics, severed by the sudden death of his predecessor. There are hundreds of bits of un- finished business, involving every part of the country, with which Mr. Roosevelt must familiarize himself before he can take intelli- gent action.
 After he has received those who have matters of public busi- ness to present to his attention, he must play the host to scores of men who come to the White House these days on diverse mis- sions. Some simply desire to shake his hand and wish him success in his new position of grave responsibility. Others de- sire to seek his approval of this plan or that measure which will come before Congress when it assemblies. Many have axes to grind or offices to beg for them selves brothers.
 It is not until late in the after noon that Mr. Roosevelt has bid. den adieu to his last caller and finds d little time to. either drive out with Mrs. Roosevelt or walk briskly through the parks or take his favorite mount and gallop into the enyirons of the capital. Even after dinner, the president must give his attention to press- ing matters that have accumulat- ed during his brief respite from his desk and it is late at night often times before he feels that he can leave the masses. of dOcu- ments and seek the rest that na- ture demands.
 The odd little Grace Reformed Church has been brought into un- expected prominence by the fact that Theodore Roosevelt is of that denomination and has se- lected it as the presidents place of worship in the capital. Nat urally Grace Church has become 8 center of attraction. Visitors to Washington, and they come in droves, make it a point, as a rule, to try and see the chief magis- trate at church before they leave the city. This is one of the req .sons why the modest sanctionary is overerowded nowadays. Mr. Roosevelt is generally accom- panied to service by his daughter, Ethel, and his son, Kermit. He arrives just before the sermon, enters his pew unostentaciously and exhibits the deepest interest in the words of the pastor. He apparently takes no notice of the fact that even the isles and the reserve space in the rear of the ediice are filled with curious Americans, OF that some indi- yiduals on the outside avail them selves of points of vantage on the window sills. MT. Roosevelt has a pew in the second row of the middle section and there is abso- lutely nothing to indicate that he is nothing but an ordinary communicant. At the close of the service, he walks quietly out with his children, and the con-