Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-28
PREPARE FOR SEND-0fF
Oyster Bay to Bid President
Adieu
WITH FLAGS FLYING
CELEBRITIES WILL BE OUT IN
FULL FORCE.
Waning of the Little Capital'-Hopes
for Another Year, How
ever.
WITH FLAGS FLYING
Special Dispatch to The Star.


Z OYSTER BAY, N. Y, September 2s.-
President Roosevet's neighbors are plan
ming to give him vociferous send-off when
he leaves here for Washington nett Sat
urday morning. The President and his
family will leave the station of the Long
Island railroad by special train at 10 am.
Audrey avenue and East Main street,
through which thoroughfares the Presi-
dents carriage must pass on it's way to the
station. will be hung with bunting and
streamers of red, white and blue. Along
the station platform 1t is expected that the
village school children all in white, will
pc formed In line in the Presidents honor,
and all the leading lights OF Oyster Bay
society who can possibly attend will be on
hand to give the President farewell cheer
OF course Uncle Amos Boerum will be
there to shake hands with the President
for the last time this summer John Nc
Quade too, should be present, for the as
sembly would not be complete without the
presence of the man who, alone and un-
aided. personifies Oyster Bays police force,
detectives and traffic squad. There too,
should be Dave Newport, Oyster Bays
leading tonsorial artist, who ereaps the
whisker crops of Oyster Bays elite and
keeps their lofty domes of thought as trim
as the lawns around Sycamore Hill.
One who can be counted on not to be
present is 'Enry Gf his name is not 'Enry
it ought to be-. who. although he has spent
the better part of his seventy years in this
country, Is as loyal subject of Great
Britain as IL his home was still in York
shire. 'Enry claims to be distant relative
OF King Edward. and says he can prove it.
Be this as 1t may, he strongly deprecates
republican form of Government and refuses
to wear any clothes that are not made in
England. AS his purse will not permit him
to import his wardrobe, his loyalty has
compelled him to keep on wearing the
otn hoe hn
least that is the story his friends tell.
George Will Be There.
But, although 'Enry will almost certainly
absent himself from an occasion the en-
thusiasm connected with which he could not
honestly countenance, Cobbler George will
be there. and he Is host in himseIf.
Quite philosopher Is George and he is
rated something of fnancier, too, by his
friends. for the reason that his place of
business Is just beneath the local bank.
Somebody asked George the other day what
he thought of the contributions made by
the insurance companies to the republican
campaign committee during the last
tional campaign.
well" he replied sagely. "if dey hadn't
given deer money to de republicans dey
would have given 1t to de democrats 80
what is de difference?"
The subject of life insurance companies
was revived here this week by the arrival
one morning from the direction of Eas:
Norwich of a frock-coated gentleman in
rickety buggy, who alighted at the corner
of South street and West Main street and
esked to be directed to Sycamore Hill.
Questioned as to his errand, he is alleged
to have GRATED as follows:
My name is Tracy Graham. I have
come to offer to President Roosevelt the
presidency of the Consolidated Life Insur-
ance Company of the United States at a
salary of 81. 100000 a year. To embrace my
offer will necessitate his resigning his po-
cit Sov, irat
that? He can accomplish infinitely more
good in his new field. The salary I have
named may sound high. but an honest man
is cheap at any price"
The oyster Bay citizen whom he had
accosted happened to be possessed of
ready wit.
Pm afraid you're too late" the citizen
declares now that he replied. "Only today
President Roosevelt sailed on the flagship
of the North Atlantic squadron for The
Hague, where he has accepted the posI-
tion of the worlds chief peace propagator
and champion war exterminator at a sal
ary of $1,Q0000O minute. So you'd better
! go back home"
Wave Of Crime.
This advice the stranger reluctantly took
During the last week of the Presidents
stay here a wave of crime seems to have
swept over Oyster Bay. Last Sunday a
laborer was shot and killed in a street
brawl. and his murderer, an italian, has
not yet been apprehended Every second
man one meets in the village is deputy
sheriff. but their large number hinders
rather to hinder justice than to help it.
When an Oyster Bay malefactor desires a
place Of concealment he doesn't look for a
tree-he gets behind deputy sheriff It's
handler.
Last Wednesday Oyster Bay was treated
to sensational robbery. The Rev w. H.
Newby, the presiding elder of the New
York conference Of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church of Zion, was robbed of a
satchel containing $11O in cash. The rob-
berry occurred on Long Island railroad
train few miles down the line From the
size of the sum of money in his possession.
1t Is supposed that Rev. Mr. Newby was
coming here to purchase the entire town:
but that purpose he is now unable to carry
out.