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uuu vna tho nnlv one allowed IN pass over
~. rrroh line leading to Tho town within
urco " twelve hoira, aud the citizens
flI huilt now wagon road between the
nj, ad station and the village, two miles
srIf. rSptcssly In anticipation ~ the
Presidents visit.
M, villagers were In n aort of ecstasy.
The county sheriff and n dozen leading citi-
,rr4 on horseback met the President and
Mir Rooaevelt NJ the station and escorted
ha carriage over the new road TO Roswell.
Among the horsemen waa Warren Crockett
NJ Marietta, n trooper In Col Roosevelt's
regiment " Rough Riders and he and Capt.
John Grecnway. who Ia travelling with the
President, had little impromptu reunion
with their colonel at the Roswell station.
A. the Presidents carriage was driven
across the bridge the old woollen factory,
one II the landmarks Of the town, where
Confederate uniforms were manufactured,
was pointed out to the President, and on the
bum across the road from the mill the VIII
Iagc band was bravely playing Home,
Sweet Home.
The carriage dashed up the hill and then
the first houses of the village were seen,
for Roswell is scattered along the length
Of n read two miles long.
There IL only one street In the little town.
Almost at the extreme end, more than a
mile and half from Roswell station, stands
Bullock Hail. where Martha Bullock was
horn and where she was married to the
Presidents father. The President and Mrs
Roosevelt went directly to the hall. The
old mansion is a stately house. guarded
by tall white pillars and surrounded by
trees. 1t is now owned and livedAn by j.
b Wing and his wife, and they greeted Mr..
and Mrs Roosevelt on the broad front
portco.
Several of the old servants of the Bullock
family with their descendants are still
part of the household, among them being
old Aunt Grace, who was Martha Bullock's
nurse in her girlhood; Aunt Charlotte and
Daddy Luke, Aunt Charlotte's son, him.
self an aged negro now, were also there,
and the President and his wife shook hands
with them before they entered the house.
80 you are Nom Grace, my mothers
nurse" said the President as he shook
hands, Il have known of you all my life.
Yes, sah," said the old negress with
curtsey. Il am Little Grace. Your mother
always called me Little Grace. Yes, sab.
The President was informed that Daddy
Luke decorated the hall for Miss Bullooks
wedding -.
Where was that huge bed OF violets3'
asked the President, turning to Miss Wood,
the postmistress of Roswell, who is rela-
tive of the present OCCUPANTS OF the hall.
The place was pointed out to him, and
he asked great numter of other questions.
Where is the place where they dug the
we'll but couldn't get water, and so used
it as a place of cold storagep" he inquired.
That is right over there said Mrs. Wing.
sbut there is water in the we'll now"
Il remember my mother told me when
! was a child that pig fell into the we'll
and they never did get that pig out said
the President, and there was a general
laugh
Then the President and his wife entered
the house and visited every apartment.
They were told that the house Is almost
exactly the same in appearance as 1t was
more than half century ago. Upon COM
ing out of the house the President asked
that a photograph be taken of Mrs. Roose-
Welt and himself surrounded by the old
family servants.
The Presiden. then drove to a stand
erected in the public square, and after
young man had delivered an oration espe-
cially prepared in honor Of the Presidents
visit Senator Clay introduced the Presi-
dent to the crowd gathered on the four sides
OF the stand.
TIE President said:
Senator, and you, my friends, whom
il is hard for me not to call my nei ighbors.
for feel as if you were: You can have 20
idea of how much it means to me to come
back to Roswell, to the home OF ny mother
and Of my mothers people, and to see the
spot which | already know so well from
what my mother and my aunts told me-
Il has been exactly as ii were reFisiuhs
,ome old place of my childhood.
1T has meant very much to me to be in
trcduced by Senator Clay. Senator Clay
has been altogether too kind in what he
said about me. Now, | am going to say
nothing whatever but the bare facts about
Ser ator Clay, and those facts amount to
this That if the average man l had to
deal with in political life possessed Senator
Claws firm devotion to what he deems
right, my task would be 30 easy that it
would not be worth mentioning. I have
gone to Senator Clay for advice and counsel
ard help ever since have been in Washing
ton, lust as l went to Senator Cockrell OF
Missouri while he was in the Senate, with
the certainty that all had to do was to
convince him that what wanted done was
right. l could not always convince him.
but if I did convince him that was the end
Of it. He went that way.
"Oh, my friends, hardly like to say how
deeply my heart is moved by coming back
here among you. Among the earliest
recolections | have as q child is hearing
from ny mother and my aunt, Miss Annie
Bullock, as she then was, about Roswell,
Of how the Pratts and Kings and Dunwoodys
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