The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-01
ROOSEVELT GIVES
FINAL LUNCHEON
+. TO CLOSE FRIENDS
Tennis Cabinet, Ambassadors
and Cowboys at Same
Table.
PRESIDENT PAYS BIG
TRIBUTE TO GARFIELD
Holds Him Up as a Model of
What a Public Official
Should Be.

01okN Ill ~ ColuGIl
Roosevelt today gave a farewell lunch
con at the White House to the mem
bers of the famous Tennis Cabinet"
and others who hav been closely as
ISOLATED with him during the past
seven years. Aside from the dis
tinguished government officials who
have served as among the Presidents
chief aides during his administration.
and also as his companions at sports
of different kinds, there were present
men whom the President had made
friends when he was roughing it in
the West years g and with whom he
had gone on numerous hunting expe-
ditions.
The President in his remarks follow
ing he luncheon said:
"Gentlemen-You are here nominally
of the Tennis Cabinet'--that is as men
with whom at tennis or hunting, or
riding, or walking, or boxing, have
played, with whom 1 have been ON
the roundup, or in the mountains, or
in the ranch country. But really, as
you know, you are not here for that
reason at all-you are here because you
are the men n because you repre-
sent the men with whom 1 have
worked while l have been president.
No administration has ever had finer
or more loyal service than you have
given, and I do not believe this coun-
try has ever had an ADLER or more de-
voted set of public servants. 1t Is
through you and those like you that 1
have done the MAJOR part of what has
been accomplished under this admins
tration.
Moreover, in a vast number of cases
the doing of the work itself has been
your only reward. The credit has
come to me, to the chief of the ad-
ministration. For exactly as men like
to symbolic a battle by the name of
/ the commander so they like to symbol
ize an administration by the man at
the head, forgetting that the immense
majority of his acts can be done only
through others, and that a really sue
cessful administration, successful from
the standpoint of advancing the honor
and the interests Of the country, must
be managed as our has been, in a
spirit Of the most loyal association and
partnership.
Tribute to Garfield.
There are a others like You
whom I would have given much to
bring here today; but there simply
wasn't room enough; and so 1 have
brought you here partly for your w
sakes, but primarily as representing
thousands of other workers; as repre-
senting all good, faithful, fearless pub
lie servants, who strive their best to do
what the public need demands, and
who, in the last analysis, stand all on
the same level. when judged by that
supreme test which takes into chief ac-
count the spirit of the service rendered.
whether a man is a cabinet minis
ter, a bureau chief, a marshal, an IN
dian agent, a forester, a letter-carrier,
a member of the life-saving service, a
| clerk in a department, or a workman
in a navy yard, or whether he holds one
of a hundred other positions, makes net
the slightest difference, if he puts his
heart and his soul and his mind into his
work, and is content to accept as his
chief reward the satisfaction that ONE
from knowledge that the work has been
well done
so. while | greet you for yourselves,
| greet you still more as symbolizing
others; and in saying farewell to you, I
shall take as symbolizing all of you one
who leaves public life when ] leave II;
a ma who made a real personal sacri-
flee when, seven years ago he came
here to take Office at my request; q man
who has stood ever since as the type OF
what a good pubic servant should be; a
man who for the last two years has
been one of the most useful cabinet
ministers who ever sat at the cabinet
table-Jim Garfield"
rho Guests.
Those present at the luncheon were:
The French ambassador, Secretary
Bacon, Justice Moody, the postmaster
general. Secretary Newberry, Secretary
Garfield. Secretary Loeb, NSolicitor-Gen-
eral Hoyt, Assistant Secretary OLough-
lin, Assistant Secretary Winthrop, AS
sistant Secretary Satterlee, Assistant
| Attorney-G General Woodruff, Assistant
SecretarN.Phillips, Comptroller Murray,
Commissioner Leupp, Commissioners
Neiil, Commissioner Smith, Commits
sioner McI1henny, Hon. John G. Rose,
Hon. Henry L. Stimson. Hon. Lyman n.
Bass. Clifford Pinchot. James b. Reyn-
Odds. w. w. Heffelfnger. Captain
Luther s.. Kelly, yellowstone Kelly"
whom the President first met in tho
Little Missouri, at present an indian
agent in Arizona: w. w. Sewan. the
Presidents old guide; Captain Seth
Bullock. Commissioner keefe, DR.. Henry