New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-27
HARTMAN GETS RECORD.
CELEBRATION OF RETURN.
Report of Mss RooseUelfs Illness
False-AU 4rden Turns Out.

f. II. Harriman's special train. carrying Miss
Alice Roosevelt and the rearguard Of Secretary
Iafts Congressional party. arrived in New York
last night The from the Pacific Coast was
made in less than seventy-three hours which
Is record breaking. though no effort was made
to make speed east Of Chicago. Reports tele-
graphed from points along the line Of the spe-
ciai yesterday that Miss Roosevelt Sc
riously III proved to be unfounded
The special steamed into Arden, n. Y, the
country seat of E. H Hartman, few miles
beyond Tuxedo a little before I O'Clock, and
there the real celebration of the return of the
wanderers occurred Mr.. Hartman owns some
10000 acres about Arden. and every man in the
place, with the exception of the railway en-
pioyes, is directly in his employ. They began
early yesterday morning to decorate and ar
range for the celebration and every man, woman
and child In the community had hand in It
When a Tribune correspondent got off a train
In the afternoon big crowd was stringing
lanterns about the grove which lies back Of
the station. Presently several automobiles
chugged" in from Arden House. which Is
mile back in the mountains. and everybody for
miles around lined up the station platform.
There We're enough babies in arms to have
brought cheer from the President, we'll as
several pairs of Arden twins who the par
ticular pride of the community
When the Arden folks grew tired waiting for
the train they went up and gazed with pride on
an illuminated arch over the bridge across
Ramapoo creek which read
JAPAN WAS NEVER LIKE THIS"
Just before train time sixty school children
marched in double file from the schoorhouse
where they had been practising songs for hours,
and lined up about the driveway. The Worth
While Club. to which the younger Hartman
belong honI in, cI-a hall ,,-,I
form The Arden Athletic Club, of which Mr..
Hartman is president. was represented by a
lusty cheering corps and the young men Of the
Arden Jockey Club were out in hunting uni
form. The Happy Life Club which includes
most of the grown-ups of the Hartman country
seat, formed the official reception committee.
The minute the train whistled. the Central
Valley band which had been imported for the
occasion, began extended programme They
played America until the train stopped. and
then changed the tune to THE Conquering Hero
Comes
The special included a baggage car of the
Overland Limited, three Pullmans and Mr..
Harriman's private car. The Hartman party,
consisting of Mr.. and Mrs. Hartman. the Misses
Mary, Cornea and Carol and Master Roland
Hartman, left the train from the observation
platform at the
Miss Roosevelt, wearing a greenish silk shirt
waist, dark skirt, starched collar and
flaming red tie, bade them most enthusiastic
farewell
What a glorious trip it has beenv' she ex-
claimed. We'll never forget it."
Roland Hartman led the family march into
the arms of the assembled retainers He bore
oilcloth banner trimmed in red, white and
blue tissue paper, which the school children of
Arden had given him to carry to Japan on the
departure of the party last July. 1t bore the in
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