New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-21
At HIS MOTHER'S HOME.
The President Visits Places Made
Familiar by Childhood Stories.

Roswell Ga Oct. 2O-President Roosevelt to-
day carried out his long cherished plan Of visit
ing the h )n1e of his mother-ROsweu. Ga One
Of his reasons for coming South was that he
might see the old homestead where his mother
spent her glrlhood and which she left bride
That the visit was fraught with many tender
recollections was evident. and as his carriage
drove away from the old Bulloch mansion, where
his mother lived and was married the President
murmured to Mrs. Roosevelt: Il can hardly bear
to leave here"
The President reached Roswell at 7:30 o'clock
this morning and was joined here by Senator
and Mrs Clay, who were his guests at break
fast He then entered a carriage and was driven
to the mansion. This fine old homestead Is now
the property Of J. B. Wing, lumber merchant
of this section, who lives in it with his sister,
Mrs. Wood, postmaster OF Roswell The Frest-
dent was greeted by two servants who lived on
the place during his mothers young womanhood.
One Of these is Aunt Grace who was maid
to Miss Martha Bulloch. who afterward became
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. and the other Is Will
lam Jackson who decorated the mansion on the
occa sion of the marriage Of its young mistress.
The President was deeply touched as he shook
the hands of these old SerVitors In company
with Mrs. Roosevelt he then inspected the house.
calling to the attention of the company many
incidents connected with his mothers childhood.
Before leaving the mansion he posed with Mrs.
Roosevelt for a picture which includes Aunt
Grace" and Daddy William"
TALKS TO HIS MOTHERS NEIGHBORs.
From the homestead the President was driven
to the town park. where a stand nad been built.
from which he delivered address. He was in
troduced by Senator A. S. Clay and was en-
Enthusiastically greeted as he arose to speak. He
said:
Senator and You. my friends whom It is hard for
not to call my neighbors, for 1 feel as If you
were you have no idea of how much It means
to come back TO Roswell. TO the home or
my mother ana ny InotheE peopLe ana 20 see Lus
spot which 1 already knew so well from what my
as If I revisiting some old place Of my child
hood Il mas meant very loea 70 me I 70 Do A IT,
altogether too kind in what he said about me
Now, am solag 70 say nothing whatever but the
amount TO this. II the average man had to deal
with in public life possessed Senator Clay's firm
devotion TO what ne deems right MY task wouId
tioniug- 1 have gone to Senator Clay Tor ADVICE
and counsel and heip ever since l have oee1 N
4Ssol-Li. "i-tS ne Va IN Az e Us t9 ConiTce him
that what I wanted done was right coUld not al
ways convince hiTn-bur II I did convince him that
"sS me eFd Oh llne ven ike Ike t @ how deeply
my heart is moved by coming back here among you;
is heS.ing from my mother and my aunt. Miss
Annie Bquoch, as she was t9en, about "yli %
iochs came here first TO settle about the oil home
6 q the h9se ali On a hs and soPs Of ncdeat
that would rot Interest you. put interested me a
Si IT, jsres boTt which have heard all kinds
OF Incidents. All those anecdotes. looking back
rn7F Z can see tauglL me an enormous amount,
perhaps all the more because they were not IN
tended to teach anything.
THE LESSONS OF CHILDHOOD STORIES.
think perhaps we very apt to learn most
when neither nor the people talking 10 Us in
tend to teach anything, II anybody stsrts in 70
teach something we are q LITTLE apt 90 resent
those stories OF the life Of those days taught
what q real home life. real ueighbOr life,
ana should be. Looking back now at what
learned through the stories OF the childhood OF my
the BOYS and girls OF Roswell Of that time grew u
to be and women who were good servants Of
the community, who were good husbands. good
fathers, good wives and mothers; how IL was
that they learned TO 90 their duty Alright: in peace
and In also
1t has been my very great good fortune 10 have
the right 10 claim that my blood is half Southern
and half Northern, and I would deny the right OF
of every Southerner than I feel or the children
the brothers and sisters of my mother, who were
born and brought up In that house or the hfi
there. my two uncles afterward entered the Con-
navy. one. the younger man, served On the Ala
bama the youngest officer aboard her He was
captain Of one OF her broadside 32-pounders in her
final fight. and when at the very end the Alabama
was sinking and the Kearsarge passed Under her
stern and came up along the side that had NOT
been engaged hitherto. my uncle Irving RuIlcch
shifted his gun from side to the tlther and
fred the two last shots fired from the Alabsma
James DUnwoody BullOch was an admiral in The
Confederate service. OF all the people whom
have ever met he the one that car,e nearest
to that beautiful creation OF Thackeray Colonel
Newcome.
Men and women don't You think thar have
the ancestral right TO claim q proud ki.ship with
saw the duty. whether they wore ths gray or