Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-10-27
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 His POgenetorS Since
Their First Arrival Here From Holland
in the Seventeenth Century

memOer OF tHe assembly from llldl
/ was nominated to succeed
him and was elected" He was re-
elected to the legislature in 1888 and
his activity there as reformer and
anti-machine man, is well known. In
1888, Mr.. Roosevelt having married,
moved to 55 West Forty fifth street,
modest New Brunswick brownstone
house, where he lived only one year
This was the time when the state re-
publican convention sent the young
assemblyman to the republican ma
tional convention at Chicago which
nominated James G. Blaine for the
presidency Mr.. Roosevelt went unin-
structed, but in favor of the nomina-
tion of Senator Edmunds. He did not
sulk in his tent, nor did he join the
forces of George William Curtis and
his party, but declared it was better
to stick to the party and the party
nominee In 1884 Mr.. Roosevelt
moved to 422 Madison avenue where
he lived two years, during which time
he took an active part in municipal
affairs and was nominated for mayor
of the city on the republican ticket,
running against Abram S. Hewett
and the famous Henry George. He
was absent from the city much dur
ing these years on the Dakota ranch
which he had purchased. In 1886 he
moved his city home a little further
up to $50 Madison avenue where he
continued to live until 1851 His
residence here, the longest he has vet
been allowed to have, comprised a
part of his city life when he was
writing a history and acting as civ
service and police commissioner Mr.
Roosevelt evidently considered this
more permanently his home than any
other OF tile city houses he has oo-
cupied. The dining room which is
still as he left it, was htted up and
decorated according to his own no
tions. In the spring of 1897 Mr.. Roose-
welt was called to Washington by
President Mckinley to be assistant
secretary of the navy and gave up his
New York home.
Up to the time of writing, the ca
reer of the president is well known.
The village of Roswell. Cherokee
county. Ga, however, awakes to find
itself famous. Here the presidents IS
mother spent her girlhood and while
Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt were touring
in the south recently, they visited
Bulloch hall. To quote the words
of the biographer Roosevelt stopped
here for a few hours on his present
southern tour where his mother spent
her girlhood, to see the house in
which she lived in her young days. to
stand reverently in the room she
used as a girl and the room in which
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drawing room with folding doors
which were thrown open to make one
room for the occasion" Fifty years
ago, pretty Martha Bulloch came and
went among the young men and
maidens of Roswell, a care-free, hap
py, young girl with no thought of
time, place or personality. One day
there came along one Theodore
Roosevelt, a citizen ofs New York,
who gathered unto himself the Chero-
kee rose. And today the president of
the United States speaks of the name
of Bulloch. Bulloch is an honored
name in Georgia. Archibald Bulloch
one of the presidents maternal an
cestors, was Georgia's first revolu-
( tionary governor. BullOch county
was named in mis- honor. Archie"
Roosevelt, one of the boys in the
white house. bears the name of that
illustrious fOrbear. The former home
of Martha Bulloch at Roswell is still
known as "Bulloch Halr and is the
pride of the hamlet. After the war
ii passed out of the Bulloch family
and was owned by a Mr.. Wood who
changed the name to Woodhurst. II
is now owned and Occupied by j. Z.
Wing, who has restored the gold
name. It's great white columns sup
porting the high rooted veranda in
colonial style give it an imposing ap-
pearance. Nom" Grace was maid to
Matte Bulloch before her marriage.
Nom" is a real old darky in every
sense of the word She still wears
her kerchief on her head. She Is "A
years old and lives on a little farm
near Roswell given her by the presi-
dent more grace talks about her
llttle Missus" and never tires
OF telling about when she was
married. She describes Miss Matue's
dress as a handsome white silk, made
princess fashion, with a long train
and tells how small her feet looked in
the little slippers with their big sill
yer buckles She likes 10 tell also
now the grand old hall was illumina-
ted with many lights, and of the fow-
ers and vines used in the decorations
and says Il tell YOU Massa IT was a
grand time when Miss Matte mar
ried"
president Roosevelt today was the
recipient of many congratulations A
FAMILY dinner was the feature of the
day