The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26

THE story officially denied that
President Roosevelt was about TO
acquire q SI.20O.OO0 residence IN
New York city out Of his own re-
sources was absurd without the denial.
re has not money enough. His activi-
ties have always maintained his for
tune at about the level at which It
started, but he has never for g single
instant exhibited q spirit OF CONNER
cialism and it has never Increased
President Roosevelt has alFaxs been
too busy doing things to waste time in
the pursuit Of the almighty dollar.
President Theodore Roosevelt is and
always has been IN easy circumstances.
The general public has known little and
cared less about this phase Of his ex-
tstence- Il is not cogent- Rich or poor,
his career would have been the same.
He was born October 20, 1858. in New
York, the eighth generation Of the old
Dutch family stock IN the United States.
BIS father, also Theodore Roosevelt,
was e merchant and importer OF glass
ware. President Roosevelt was a fraiI
litCle boy and was instructed by pri-
vate tutor at home and allowed to run
free as much OF the time as possible on
Sycamore HiIl, the old family estate at
Oyster Bay. Thus his muscles grew
with his mind, and when he was gradu-
eteo from Harvard IN 1880 he had some
athletic victories to his credit and also
wore tho insignia OF Phi Beta Kappa.
After graduating. he spent q year
abroad In 1881 he attended his first
primary. and then the real Roosevelt
the man that the people OF the United
States know and love, appeared. A
member OF the old eristocracy, he was
90 democratic that no one ever suspect
Er knfn %
class OF self-made men OF which this
country IS 30 Justly proud. In COM
Portable circumstances IN the first place,
the steadily increasing emoluments Of
the various political Offices which he so
Justly won meant nothing 20 him As
eemblyman In 1884. civil service COM
missioner IN 1889, president Of the New
York police commission IN 1898 and as
sistant secretary OF the navy IN 1891
his salary was always incidental to the
work which he was accomplishing
Just es bis royalties on his books were
the result OF his literary enthusiasm
and not the end and aim Of IT. He cheer
fully accepted soldiers pay when be
volunteered for the Spanish war IN 1885
and accepted $4,000 a year as governor
OF New York the following year with
equal Indifference AS vice president
OF the United States his salary waa
$4,000 a year.
President Roosevelt has q bigger
family than any other president ever
had he IS giving them all an ex-
pensive education. His income left &c
him by his father has been variously
estimated at from $4,000 TO $4,000 q
year. His income is little, II any
larger at the present time than Il wae
az the time of his fathers death.
~HE fact that Grover c1sve-
land died q comparatively poor
man has 3ust been published the
p country over. II is not at all surpris-
tng. Before and during his terms
Of once he was too buEY fighting politi-
cal battles TO have time to Gmass a for.
tune He bought & summer home IN the
suburbs OF Washington and real estate
sn that section scared, but II was th'
real estate dealers who got the money
His service as one OF the trustees OF tht
Hyde stock OF the Equitable life as
6ursnce company was his last business