The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-06-13
ROOSEVELT CAMELS,
Travellers Tell President of How
Egypt Honors His Name.
THOUSANDS CALLED FOR HIM

No Home Along the Lower Nile Said
to Be Complete Without a Renamed
Ship Of tho Desert TEDDY" and
Even "Roosey" Heard.
w. w. Newell and E. s. Truesdale of
Broome county, N. Y. who have been
travelling in Europe and Africa, called
on President Roosevelt recently to tell
him that they had found him to be
the best known man In the world, says
Washington special to the New York
Times. In every country they had
found him to be as we'll known as in
BrOome county.
The president was interested and
said he had not expected to be well
known in Africa. They assured him
that he was, and to prove it they dis
closed the fact that in Egypt they had
fouri at least 10000 camels named
after him.
Along the lower Nile no home Is
complete without a Roosevelt camel.
The Roosevelt camel in that region
liz the equivalent of the Teddy bear in
H'snokus and East Hampton. the only
difference being that along the lower
Nile the camel is alive instead Of be-
iIig bunch of excelsior with beads
for eyes.
It was with great establishment that
TIE travellers found that practically ali
the camels in the neighborhoo1 of
WIdy Halena were named after the
president, while within radius Of FIVE
miles around the Assouan dam ;here Is
rot a camel to be found which Gees not
bear the distinguished name. In the
Sudan the confusion caused by n num-
Der of camel drivers addresso:, their
animals as Roosevelt all at fhe same
moment has been found to be 50 great
that many of the Bedouins tllarea3ou
have been forced to differentiste their
camels from the others by suct: abbre-
viations as Teddy" and even Roo
sey."
Soue confusion was caused I'll the
minds of the travellers by the .act that
at tie pyramid of Gizeh there was II
aheik from the upper Nile who, when
they asked him the name of his camel,
turned to the animal and saiG. Get up,
Roosevelt" The camel iElylediateiy
afvae, and the interested tourists gave
bacSsheesh. The next day, however,
they We're surprised to see GerSlan
tourist approach the same sheik and
ask the same question, whereupo1 the
she;k said, "Get up, Wilhelm" and
the camel promptly rose. The rstri-
otir German divulged some backsheesh.
The tourists speculated for some time
On the meaning of this incident and
finally concluded that the sheis. not
being us well W ON American matters
as the Coptss Nubians, Bisharines or
Rejas and Other assorted Egyptians
whom they had met, imagined the pres
ident's name to be Wilhelm Roosevelt
instead of Theodore Roosevelt.
What surprised the Adventures more
than anything else was to find that
the presidents fame had penetrated to
the Nubian desert. 1t is safe tO~Say
that practically every camel born or
purchased in tho desert for the last
four years bears the name of ROose-
Welt. The same, indeed, Is true from
Tel Ell Amarna to as far north as Abu
G,rgeh and practically to Megaga. One
apparent exception was found ut a
place midway between Benz Hassan
and Weiad Noayr, across the river
from Ell Nahal, but this exception was
only apparent, tor the camel's name
was Theodore.
A remarkable fact noticeable about
the Roosevelt csn1els of the lower Nile.
at least as far Forth as Masr Ell Atika,
Is that after receiving the name OF
Roosevelt many Of them have become
exceedingly strenuous. Ordinarily a