The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-02
T. RS OYSTER BAY HOUSE


WASHINGTON, d. c., March 2.
Teddy bears and big sticks and
buffalo robes, boxing gloves and
elkhorn chairs, books and papers
oh, tons of 'em--saddles and
guns and khaki suits and cam
paign hats-I tell you, it's busy
days around the white house
these times, for moving month
has come.
Moving month is the word
yes, month. Shades of Ananias!
you couldn't move all that truck
In the longest day in the Antarc-
tic calendar. For Roosevelt is
packing up the presents sent him
from time to time during the SSst
seven years by citizens and citi-
zenesses of grateful republic.
Moving vans are grooming be-
tween the white house and the de-
pot. Baggage smashers are swear
ing and sweating all the day from
Washington to Oyster Bay. Every
departing freight train carries it's
load for the little homestead on
Long island.
Bully" says Pa Roosevelt, as
he absent-mindedly jams a stuff
ed moose in a packing box on top
of his dress suit, and a top hat or
two. Great. Well have these
treasured mementoes of my
friends packed away in a fifty"
No president in the history of
the nation is the declaration Of
the chief clerk in the B. & O.
freight office at the capital, who
runs to statistics, ever got such
lot of truck, and such a miscel-
laneous lot of it, as has Theodore
Roosevelt.
And the way freight now being
shipped doesn't represent all the
presents which came marked EFT
R." Those which were alive and
would bite, like King Menelik' s
lions, and the cub bears from
West Virginia, and the wildcat
from Oregon, and. side hill pam
theirs from Idaho, whose port
legs, fore and aft, are shorter than
its starboard ones, and the horn
ed toad from Texas, which gave
Secretary Cortelyou such a shock
when he went through the mail
these were all sent to the zoo at
Washington.
Also all presents which were of
Intrinsic value were returned
with cordial notes Of thanks and
carbon copy explanations that it
wouldn't be proper to accept
them, though we thank you very
much, hoping that you are well,
and write soon, etc.
Finally, all articles addressed
Theodore Roosevelt, president"
were regarded as contraband and
turned over to the government as
not being personal trophies for the
man who happens to be president.
But these are only a small part
of the whole. The moving opera
lions need an ex-circus transport
tation man to group them. He
would group them about as fol-
lows:
Section vivid Animals I and
My Friends Have Slain. Five cars.
To include buffalo heads, caribou,
moose, reindeer, eagles, snakes,
snipe, catamounts, Rocky noun
tain goats, Alabama razorbacks,
ground hogs, Jack rabbits, timber
wolves, United States senator's,
naturalists, and grizzlies.
Section 2-Teddy Bears. Three
Brill Car Co. coal gondolas.
Section 3-Pictures of large
families. Two Northern Pacific
grain cars. Keep end doors un-
locked to allow for further expan-
sion.)
Section 4-Big sticks with fun
ny letters attached. To be corded
; on two Alabama flat cars, with
guard posts at side. To contain
all of EN-, in cedar, redwood, yell
low pine, cherry, mahogany, briar,
fir, bass, maple, blackthorn, teak,
ivory, spruce and persimmon.
Section 5-Guns and sporting
goods. Use three transformed
Pullmans. To contain tennis
racQuets, croquet ma1lets, boxing
gloves (present B Nelson), wres-
thing mat with toe hold shoes
compliments Mahmout), pea
shooter, San Juan sabers, bowie
knives, machetes, cut1asses, anti
mollycoddle foot ball with jersey,
cheated shoes and shoulder pads,
oak bats. gloves and $3.50 league
balls Gree list Doc. White and
Chas. Hickman. sporting goods,
Washington, d. CO., five gross
sixshooters, three tons rifles and
shotguns (Rocky MIS-, Mississippi
and Dakota styles), dumbbells,
patent exefcisers, campaign hats,
khaki suits.
Section 6-Letters and papers.
Use nine transformed baggage
cars, with armed guard. To con-
tain billets doux from your old
pal, Eddie, Rex from Gear Nick
from Menelik, Aguinaldo, sultan
of Sulu, Wilhelm, Castro, Sir
Wilfrid Laurier. the milkado, SEN
ators, congressman. Ladies' Aid
societies, Good Citizenship league,
New Year dance programs, coll
onel's commission, Harvard diplo-