The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-27
AT MOTHERS HOME
President Spends Two Most
Pleasant Hours in Roswell. !
OLD MEMORIES REVIVED
Welcomed in Atlanta by the Largest
Crowd of People That Was Ever
Gotten Together in Georgla's
Capital City.

President Theodore Roosevelt will
never forget the two hours he spent
in Roswell, Ga, Friday morning.
1t was a very quiet affair, but it
touched the heart chords tuned long
ago when Theodore Roosevelt leaned
on his mothers knee and listened
eagerly to stories of the "old home"
far away in Georgia.
Roswell met the occasion splen-
didly. Little flags, a. myriad of them,
fluttered in the wind all along the
pretty drive from the station and two
bands greeted the visitor with mar
tial music. But, despite this, and de-
spite the fact that the guest of the day
was the president, no one ever forgot
that the sentiments of the son were
uppermost in his heart and the whole
occasion was arranged to crafty his
feelings rather than those of his
hosts.
There we're few people in the vel
coming group. not closely related to
the men and women of the neighbor-
hood of old Roswell when Theodore
Roosevelt, Sr., came down from New
York to wed pretty Martha Bulloch,
and the old house amid the trees
was full of inarticulate voices. famil-
Jar, sweetly sad to the ears and heart
of the man in the Prince Albert coat
and silk hat, who alighted from his
carriage and began shaking hands
right and left. In his address the
president said in part: "You have no
idea of how much it means to me to
come back to Roswell to the home Of
my mother and of my mothers people
and to see The spot which I already
know so well from what my mother
and my aunt have told me. It has
been exactly as if l were revisiting
some old place of my childhood.
''Tt has been my very great good
fortune to have the right to claim that
my blood is half southern and half
northern, and I would deny the right
of any man here to feel a greater
pride in the deeds Of every southerner
than I feel. Of the children, the bro
theirs and sisters of my mother who
were born and brought up in that
house On the hill there, my two I'M
cles afterward entered the confeder-
ste service and served in the confed-
rate navy"
At the station the final farewells
were said to the committee, the Ma
Tietta band played one more air and
the president and his party boarded
the train again for the short but pleas
ant trip over the Southern railroad
to Atlanta, where the eager thous-
ands were awaiting them.
In all her history Atlanta never ac.
corded quite so royal and enthusiast
tic welcome to an honored guest
as that given to President Roosevelt.
Almost from the moment he stepped
from his train upon arrival at the
terminal station, he found himself sur.
rounded by admiring thousands who
crowded the approaches and lined the
streets, often far beyond the limits
fixed by the police.
Tall buildings and store tops be.
came grand stands for thousands who
were fortunate enough to climb above
the tightly packed masses of human
itv on the sidewalks below, where mo.
ton was practically impossible.
Tt was the unanimous opinion that
Atlanta had broken the record of
all her largest crowds. For more
than mile along the line of march
from the terminal station the people
thronged the streets.