Smyrna times., 1901-10-09
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IS
RUSHED WITH BUSINESS
LOTS OF UNFINISHED BUSINESS INVOLV.
ING EVERY PART OF THE COUNTRY.
Interesting Letter From Our Washington Cor
respondent Telling of the Busy Life Now
Being Led by Our New President.

lea nowadays is IneOuOre ROOSEVELT. |
If they are forced to submit to the |
pressure which he is at present under
going, the majority of the leading bus
mess men of the country would soon |
become distracted. Even J. Pierpont |
Morgan, with his multitudinous inter-
ests, would doubtless find himself |
seriously Inconvenience by the tasks
that confront the new Chief Magis-
trate. Mr.. Roosevelt is head over
heels in work by nine o'clock in the
morning, and, after a hurried disposi-
ton of mountains of correspondence,
he is ready for the numerous head of
Government departments who seek to
see him on various matters of import
ance. Between times, he is taking up
the broken threads of foreign ques-
tions and domestic politics, severed by
the sudden death of his predecessor.
There are hundreds of bits of unfn-
ished business, involving every part of
the country, with which Mr.. Roose-
yelt must famillarize himself before he
can take intelligent action.
After he has received those who have
matters of public business to pre-
sent to his attention, he must play
the host to scores of men of all sorts
and conditions, but mainly men of pO-
litically pursuits, who come to the
White House these days on diverse
missions. Some simply desire to
shake his hand and wish him success
in his new position of grave response
billty. Others seek to secure his APP
proval of this plan of that measure
which will come before Congress when
it assemblies. Many have axes to
grind and offices to beg for themselves
or others.
1t is not until late in the afternoon
that Mr.. Roosevelt has hidden adieu
to his last caller and finds little time
to either drive out with Mrs. Roosevelt
or walk briskly through the parks or
take his favorite mount and gallop
into the environs of the Capitol. Even
after dinner, the President must give
his attention of pressing matters that
have accumulated during his brief re-
spite from his desk and it is late at
night oftentimes before he feels that
he can leave the masses of documents
and seek the rest that nature de-
The odd little Grace Reformed
Church has been brought into unex-
pected prominence by the fact that
Theodore Roosevelt is of that denoml-
nation and has selected it as the Presi-
dents place of worship in the Capital.
Naturally, Grace Church has become a
center of interest and is Overtaxed
every Sunday by its increased congre-
cation. Visitors to Washington, an d
they come in droves, make it point
as a rule, to try and see the Chic
Magistrate at church before they leave
the city. This is one of the reasons
why the modest sanctuary is over
crowded nowadays. Mr.. Roosevelt is
generally accompanied to service by
aughter Ethel, and son, Kermit. H,
arrives just before the sermon, enters
his pew unOstentatiously and exhibits
the deepest interest in the words of thu
pastor. He apparently takes no motto,
of the fact that even the aisles and the
the reserve spacei in the rear of theedifc
are filed with curious Americans, o
that some individuals on the outsid
avail themselves of point of vantage o.
the window sills. Mr.. Roosevelt ha
pew in the second row of the middl
section and there is absolutely nothin
to indicate that he is more than a
ordinary commitment. At the clos
of the service, he walks quickly OF
with his children, and the congrega
tion, as a mark of respect, remain
standing while he makes his exit.
A Washington correspondent write
thus of President Roosevelt and his a
titude towards appointments in Dell
ware:
"Presi7ent Roosevelt also has a
rort .u the Delaware Republics
complication for developing policy
appointments. The situation in th
State has for years been hard one f
the national administration to handl
The Addicks and anti-Addicks tactic
have steadily and fercely fought ca
other, and President Mckinley was
ways placed in an embarrassing pos
tion as to what to do in appointment
For several years neither faction b
been permitted to fill the Fedel
offices, and the postmasters were nam
by the Representatives, whose right
do that is recognized.
Representative Ball of Delawa