Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-12
DINNER OF IOWA SOCIETY
Three Hundred Former Hawkeyes
Attend Banquet in New York.
DoLL1vER PRINCIPAL SPEAKER
Among Guests Of Honor Are Leslie N.
NJ. shaw, william Loeb and
Victor ROsewater-JRmes
:. CIarkson Presides.

NEw YORK. March 1f.-Three hundred
Iowans toright at the Hotel
Astor for the annual dinner of the Iowa
Society of New York. With William Loot,
the newly installed collector Of the port
of New York. al the speakers table sat
Senator John P Dolliver of Iowa; Victor
Rose water. editor OF The Omaha Bee;
Leslie M. Shaw and James Clarkson. pres-
dent of the society.
Senator Dullivcr aroused tho diners to
cheers by his praise of former President
Roosevelt. whom he characterized as the
champion, not of the strong and powerful,
but of the weak and lowly.
why, the one thing about Judge Taft
that has endeared him to the American
people, he said, lis that for the last ter
years he has been connected with the great
achievements Of the administration az
Theodore Roosevelt"
Senator Dolliver also praised his old as
sociate in the senate, the late Senator w.
B. Allison.
Roosevelt IL a s~traphanEer.
Former President Roosevelt enjoyed
today his first experience as a
private citizen in New York since
his retirement from the chief mag
istracy. His visit here was marked by
those experiences IN the CITY me WnlCh
are common to every New Yorker. De-
layed on the ferryboat by fog in the COM
muting rush hour, Mr.. Roosevelt. in COM
pany with Miss Cornelia Langdon, a friend
OF Miss Ethel Roosevelt, whom she had
been visiting at oyster Bay, boarded a
crowded surface car and found himself a
strap hanger" Few people recognized the
former president as he made his way to
the home of his brother-in-law, Douglas
Robinson, in Madison avenue.
Mr.. Roosevelt was shown the published
announcement Of the verdict rendered to-
day in Chicago acquitting the Standard OIL
company of the charge of obtaining re-
bates from the Chicago & Alton railway,
MIR. Roosevelt, who was instrumental in
bringing about the indictment of the
Standard Oil company in the case, read OF
the action of the Chicago jury with inter
est, but refused to make any comment on
the verdict.
When informed that the people of Nom
hasa and British East Africa were pre-
pairing to welcome him, not as the former
president of the United States, but as a
noted hunter and sportsman, Mr.. Roose-
welt expressed much pleasure.
II am glad to hear that" said he, las
I wish to travel as a private citizen. 1t Is
1lIn lie httnGSl dnNlClpdllOh lhdl L lOOh
forward to my trip to Africa. which I am
sure will be interesting. My companions
all are most enthusiastic and splendid nat.
uralists.
II shall be busy during the remainder
OF the time I remain at oyster Bay pack.
ing up and preparing for the trip"
Major Zalinski Dead.
Major Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski. U
s. A., retired, inventor of the pneumatic
dynamite torpedo gun and other military
devices, died today from pneumonia after
a short illness, aged 6S years.
Major Zalinski was born in kurnics, Prus
sian Poland, but came to the United State
with his parents when 4 years old. wher
the civil war broke out Zalinski at the ag,
Of 10 years entered the army as a volunteer
aide-de-camp on the staff of General Mel
son A. Miles, and served until the close o
the war.
Fights with Broken Arm.
The bout between Jack Dorman ant