Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-03-30

Porto Delgada Island. San Miguel.
Azores, March 30:-The Hamburg
arrived this morning. Theodore
Roosevelt came ashore and was en-
Enthusiastically greeted by the natives
and the foreign population. Edward
McCreevey, the American consul,
took Col Roosevelt and Kermit on
tour of the city In an automobile.
Just before he left Col. Roosevelt
addressed the crowd. He was given
a vociferous farewell
Special By United Press Wire.
Aorta, Azores, March 30:-Theo-
dore Roosevelt, during the few
hours stay of the Hamburg here to-
day took occasion to express his In
dignation over the report cabled
from here of an attempt on his life
by an insane Italian named Guisep-
pc Tosti. He said he never saw him,
never heard anything about 1t and
heard no commotion. He was un-
aware of anything until the fellow
was put In irons.
Col. Roosevelt is in good health
and is eager for the African arrival
to begin the hunt.
That an insane Italian was putt in
irons on board the Hamburg is not
denied The story told of the affair
is as follows:
Giuseppi Tosti, a steerage passenger.
broke from his companions and start
ed for the upper deck, where Mr..
Roosevelt was standing with his son.
Kermit.
He has let them take away my
childr' shouted Tosti. Now he shad
pay for itr'
Sailors seized Tosti. quickly master
ed him, carried him below and. by the
captains orders, put him in irons.
For four days the prisoner refused
to eat, constantly crying, Roosevelt is
trying to poison mev'
At Mr.. Roosevelt's request the
steamship Hamburg's course was
changed to the Azores.
Mr.. Roosevelt is enjoying the voy-
age hugely and, were he not so anx-
ious to get to Africa, would seem to
wish the sea journey to last forever.
He has dropped the cares of state.
His whole heart, all his expectations
and hopes are in the African hunting
grounds. He tells the passengers he
has no fear for his health while after
big game.
Major Edgar A. Mearns retired ar
my surgeon. who accompanies Mr..
Roosevelt, has warned him against
the danger of going through the coun-
try once stricken by the sleeping
sickness"
Major Mearns has given to Mr..
Roosevelt a hypodermic syringe filed
with an antivenom to cure snake bite
and has ordered him never to go with
out 1t after reaching the big game
country.
AS to the dangers he will meet, Mr..
Roosevelt has been reassured by w.
Robert Foran, a passenger aboard the
Hamburg, who passed six years In
British East Africa as a chief of po-
lice. Mr.. Foran tells the former ppes-
ident he has little to fear in Africa
from any cause-from natives, wild
beasts or disease.
Mr.. Roosevelt purposes to write .
complete story OF his journeyings and
of his experiences in the jungle before
he returns to civilization.
'If l don't write it then l never
shall" he says. Il shall be too busy
after 1 return"
In conversation on the steamship
with George Haven Putnam Of New
York, James c. Smith of Detroit and
]. c. Burnett, Mr.. Roosevelt said incl
dentally, Il never can forgive Harri-
man.
He said he sympathized with Colonel
Cooper and his son Robin, who shot
former Senator Carmack in Tennessee.
As TO the American navy and the use
of warships, he said:
Il believe our ships will never be
more than scouts in war. | would not
prohibit the use of airships or of any
thing else IN war. The only way to
prevent wars Is to reform the under
lying conditions that cause them.
When yen have to fight | believe fin
using the most destructive weapons
even expanding bullets, so as to lick
the other fellow as soon and as hard
as possible"
The steamship Hamburg remained
here two hours The governor OF HoT-
ia, A. De Freitas, came out to the
steamer and welcomed Mr.. Roosevelt.
then took him and his party ashorw
and drove them about the city. T
ship is due at Gibraltar next Eric