Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-11-03
Theodore Roosevelt Forty Eight Years
Old Today and the First in Hearts of
His COntempOraneOuS COuntrymen.
HAPPY BLENDING OF BOTH THE NORTH AND SOUTH TYPES
Interesting Gossip About Him and IFS PTOgeneOTS Since
Their First Arrival Hero From Holland
In the Seventeenth Century

assomblyman 10 the republican ma
tlonai convention al Chicago which
nominated James O. blaine for the
presidency. Mr Roosevelt went unln
strnCted. but In favor OF ano nomina-
ton OF Senator Edmnnds Re did NOT
snlk In hie tent, nor did be- Join the
forces OF George William Curtis and
his party but declared Il was bolter
90 stick 10 tho party and the PARTY
nominee. On 1854 Mr.. Roosevelt
moved 10 422 Madison avenue where
he lived two years. during which ime
he took an active part IN municipal
affairs and was nominated for mayor
Of tho city ON the republican ticket,
running against Abram =. Howeit
and the famous Henry George Tie
was absent from the city much dur.
Inc these years on the Dakota ranch
which he had purchased. IN 1856 he
moved his city home q little further
up to $50 Madison avenue where he
continued 90 live until ibst Ills
residence here, the longest be- has ycJ
been allowed to have. comprised
part of his city lifo when ne was
writing u history and acting az ciyl
service aud police commissioner SIR
Roosevelt cyidcn,ly considered this
more permanently his home than any
other uf the city houses he has Oc-
cupied The dining room which is
sim as he left a. was nttod up and
decorated according 90 his own no.
lions. In the spring OF 1897 Mr. Roose
welt was crlled 90 Washington By
President Mckinley 90 be assistant
secretary Of the navy and gave up hts
New York home.
up 10 the time of writing. the ca.
feer of the president Is well known.
The village of Ror ~ Cherokee
county Ga, however awakos To- find
itself famous Here the presidents
mother spent her Elrlh0od aud while
Mr. ana Mrs Roosevelt we're touring
in tho south recently. they visited
Bulloch hail 10 quote the words
of the hi0gruphCr "ROOs0vGlt stopped
here for a few hours ON his urpapnf
southern tour where his mother spent
7 her girIhOod. To see the house in
which she lived ln her Young DAYS. 90
stand revercnly ln the room she
used as pld and the room in which
she was ~rrgied, parior and a
7 drawing room with folding doors
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room for the occasion" Fifty years
I ago, pretty Martha nullOeh came and
went among the young men and
maidens % Roswell, a care-freo. hap.
py young gir with mo- thought of
I Time. place on personality One day
/ there came along one Theodore
{ Roosevelt citizen OF New York.
I who gathered unto himself the Choro.
I koe rose And today the president of
[ tho United States speaks az the name
of Bulooh nullooh is an honorcd
name ln Georgia. Archibald nulloch
ono OF the presidents maternal an
I costors. was Georgla's FIRST reyoln-
/ tiunnry governor Bull0ch county
WIS named m his honor. Archie"
Roosevelt one of the boys Ia the
white house, bears the name of that
illusirious forbear Tho former home
OF Martha Bullooh at Roswell n still
/ known as "nulloch HALF and IS tho
pride OF the hamlet. After the war
Il passed out OF the Bulloch family
and WIS owned by a Mr. Wood who
/ changed the name 90 Woodhursi H.
( Is now owned and coupled by ! p,
/ Wing, who has restored the old
I name. as great white columns sun
[ porting the high rooted vergndn 10
colonial style give Il an imposing APP
penrancc Nom" Grace was maid TO
Matte Bulloch before her marriage.
Nom Is a real old darky Ia every
sense of the word She still wears
hor korchief on her head She D. "a
Z years old and lives on little farm
near Roswell given her by the presi-
Gent more grace talks about her
"iutlo MlaHus' and never tires
oi telling about when she was
married. She describes Miss Mhttlo's
dress as a handsome white silk. made
princess fashion, with "a long traln
ANA tells hos small her feet looked in
tbe little slippers with their bic So
yer buckles She likes 10 tell also
h0w the grand old hali was illumlnh.
ted with many lights, and OF the flow
erf and vines used in the decorations
and saws n ten SOU Massa u was "a
grand time when Miss Matte mar
ricd."
President Roosevelt today was the
recipient of many congratulations A
family dinner was the feature Of tho
day