The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-26

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New YORK, March 23.-Out ON the
blossom of the ocean," as the writers
have it, is Theodore Roosevelt with
his party of lion hunters. They are
aboard the Hamburg-American line
steamer Hamburg, which cast off her
lines from her Hoboken pier this morn
ing and to the music of the whistles
of numerous ferryboats, tugs and 9th
er vessels sailed down the bay with
her distinguished passenger.
Accompanying Mr.. Roosevelt-or
Colonel Roosevelt, as some wise re-
porters addressed him on the pier this
morning, winning thereby smile-are
his son, Kermit Roosevelt; Major Ed.
gar A. Mearns, medical corps, U. S. A.,
retired; Edmund Heller and j. Alden
Loring. The last named three men &C
company Mr.. Roosevelt as representa-.
tives of the Smithsonian institution,
while the younger Roosevelt is official
photographer of the expedition.
Crowd on the Pier.
The long pier to which the Hamburg
was moored was damned this morn.
ing with persons gathered to see the
Roosevelt party sail. They made the
pier ring with their cheers for the
voyager from the time OF his arrival
from New York city until the Ham.
burg sailed He was nightly pleased
with the reception and showed his
qualification by his smiles and the fire,
quency with which he lifted his hat in
response to greetings. To a request
for a formal statement of his plans
Mr.. Roosevelt returned a smiling de.
NAL. 1T has all been printed over and
over again." he said land | have moth,
ing to say"
Among the most enthusiastic of the
cheering crowd when the Hamburg
moved slowly away from her pier was
a small boy, who had crowded to the
very limit permitted by the authorities
of the steamship line. His last cry,
"Goodby, Teddy; take care of your.
of the eX-president, who seemed then
a little tired of smiling.
About seventy-tive friends and ad-
mirers of Mr.. Roosevelt escorted him
out to sea on board the big ocean go
ing tug John j. Timmins, as guests
of James S, Clarkson, surveyor OF the
port. An official character was given
to the tugs trip by the presence on
board of Captain Archibald Butt, mill
tary aide to President Taft, who went
along as the representative of the
president.
Two Fine Ships Garry Party.
The Hamburg is due at Naples on
April 3. Mr.. Roosevelt and his party
will remain in the Italian city two
days, sailing thence on the Admiral
of the German East African line Oh
April 5. The Hamburg is one of the
finest vessels of the Hamburg Ameri
can line and is the favorite ship of the
German emperor. The Admiral is hel
equal in all the comforts and conven
fences needed for the hot trip through
the Suez canal, down the Red sea anC
along the moist and sticky coast Of
East Africa. The Admiral is due al
Mombasa, where the Roosevelt party
will disembark, on April %.
On his arrival at Mombasa Mr.
Roosevelt and his party will go direc
to the estate of Sir Alfred Pease, {
member of the well known English
Quaker family, which is situated a
Kilima Theki, Kapiti plains, British
East African protectorate, and remain
there for three months during thu
heavy rains,
Will Visit American in Africa.
Afterward the Roosevelt party will
go to Nairobi and pay visit to thu
estate of Philip Macmillan, who il
head of an American company tina
has a concession of 100 square mile
in the district. They will cross LAX,
Victoria early in December to ente
Uganda when the dry season com
mences in order to do the thirty-sevel
days march to Gondokoro in fin
weather.
1t is expected that the Roosevelt ex
petition will complete its trip through
the dark continent in the spring o
next year, reaching Cairo about Apr