Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-08
Moving Time at White House
Big Job Because of Presi-
dents Trophies
GOVERNMENT KEEPS PORTION
Trophies and Other Articles Given to
White House Occupants Personal
Property Presidents Hunting Trip
Creates New Interest in Africa.
Especial Correspondence.

Washington, Feb. 6.-Tirese are NOV
ing days at the White House. How near
at hand is the exit of the Roosevelt adj
ministration is indicated by the fact
that all personal effects of the Roose-
welt family are being packed and from
time to time shipped to the Oyster Bay
home which hereafter will be merely
the suburban residence of a prominent
New Yorker. instead of the summer
capital of the nation.
President Roosevelt has received
during his, administration a vast num-
Der Of trophies from all sorts of people
and places. Some of them come within
the description of articles Of intrinsic
value, and these it has been the presi-
dents policy to refuse. There has been
3 vast number of articles in this cat
egory, which had to be returned to the
I donors with letters explaining that it
!, would be Improper for the president to
accept them.
Articles which have been donated to
Theodore Roosevelt, president" are
considered to be the property, not Of
the president, but of the government;
and these go to the various museums
and other proper depositaries. Thus
Emperor Menelils, of Abyssinia. sent a
fine pair of lions. which looked like ell
ephants to the White House force when
they were delivered They were turned
over to the washington zoo, and if the
president cares to go into the lion bus
x l~re hi mi 6o MI
to bring back his own live stock from
Africa after his coming trip. In this
class have been bears. 'coons and all
sorts Of animals. People who wanted to
donate exactly the right horses to the
chief executive have been numerous.
Mr.. Roosevelt could have done hand
somely in the livery business if he had
accepted half the horses which admir-
ers have tried to present to him; but
these have been refused as of intrinsic
value. Likewise. if he had encouraged
the people who. recognizing him in his
capacity as faunal naturalist. wanted
to donate animals, he would have had
two or three menagerfes.
Recipient Of Many Medals.
Medals, orders and insignia of organ
Izations to which he belongs as active
sented in great numbers. These, being
Of value mainly for sentimental rea-
sons, the president will retain; and the
number of them IS almost unbelieva-
BILE He will have wonderful museum
In his home at Oyster Bay, stocked
with the trophies that have come from
all the world.
Not by any means the least interest
Ing presents are those which will be put
In the Oyster Bay library. Authors
from all over the world have sent him
autographed copies OF their books, and
these the president prizes very highly.
While Mr. Roosevelt has received far
more presents than any other president,
the advantage in his favor has been es-
pecially striking in the matter of books,
because he is himself an author. It has
been his custom when books were sent
to him to reciprocate by sending back
an autographed volume of some OF his
own writings. incidentally, the presi-
dents writings have had a great vogue
while he has been in office.
The sort of trophies which have been
favored by the presidents naturalist
and hunting friends may be judged
from the collection of heads In the state
dining room, which includes a caribou,
reindeer, a moose, an antelope and a
BUFFALO, The Roosevelt children have
been remembered constantly, with all
sorts Of gifts from raccoons to bob
sleds.
Some Highly Priced.
But the most personal and the most
highly priced trophies are probably
those which tell the story Of the APP
peal the president has made to the
imagination Of the great rulers of the
world. He has had the most delight
full personal relations with many Of
these, including correspondence Of a
sort which would provide reading Of
highly interesting character if it could
be given to the public, which 1t prob
ably never will be. The plain people
all over the world have looked to
Roosevelt as the great democrat Of his
day: and the rulers, members Of hered-
itary houses that have held crowns
for centuries, have looked to him as
the true aristocrat. "The true aristo-
crat the best democrat" has been the
aristocratic analysis of the president,
and so he has attracted the friend
shin and eager interest of the crowned
heads of Europe, establishing closer
personal ISldIAo1io with IAASAAA eiA''AA " -
fell to the part of another president.
He has been urged by the rulers OF
half the countries on the globe to
paw them visits, and it is suspected by
his friends that when he goes to Eu-
rope after his African trip, he will
accent some Of these invitations. The
announcement that he would deliver
lectures at universities in England and
Germany, while enroute back to the
United States after his hunt in Africa.
has been the signal for a renewal OF
the bonn bardment of REQUESTS for Wis
its lectures and the like. from all over
F,,rope. There is a most interesting
story that the Emperor Menelik, de-
scendant sof Solomon, has invited the
nresident to visit him while in Africa,
but it is understood the presidents
route will probably make it impossible
for him to accept. Menelik is one of
the most Interesting rulers in the
world. and has been an ardent admirer
of the president.
Creates New Interest in Africa.
The possibility that the president
may establish more than casual in
terest in Africa, as a result of his
"trip there, is a good deal goss1ped
about among people who know some
thing of the preparations he has MADE
for his visit to the dark continent.
One of the men with whom he has
conferred a good deal is j. S. Leigh
,.,,,l+} ,,,illiooaire who has made