The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-23
IMMENSE CROWD BIDS FAREWELL
 TO ROOSEVELT
E1.President and Son, Kermit, Sailed for
 Naples on Steamer Hamburg.
Tug Escorts Vessel Down the Bay, Band
 Playing "Garryowen."
Crush Was so Great on Pier That Panic Was Narrowly Averted-No Formal Farewell and Speeches Cut Ont Taft Sends Last Message.
Especial from United Press.l

I Hoboken, March 23.-The steamer Hamburg, with former President Roosevelt and his son Kermit aboard I cleared her dock at II A. M., and, es- corted by a fleet of revenue cutters | and tugs, started on her trip for Ma pies. As the steamer steamed down
 the North river a band on the tug Tirnmins played Garryowen, Colonel Roosevelt's favorite tune.
 New York, March 23.-Carrying with citizens without regard to race, polit- icaI or religious belief, Theodore Roosevelt, private citizen, sailed for Naples today, en route to British East and rest from the environments of civilized life. His departure was in keeping with his entire career. De- spite the fact that he publicly an nounced that he wanted to make the trip as unostentatious as possible, his wishes were ignored by his friends who were determined that he should have a .'bully send off,, and long be- fore he arrived at the Hoboken pier from which his steamer, the Hamburg, sailed, the pier and the street outside was damned with men, women and even children all anxious to get one last look at the most strenuous Presf- dent the United States has ever known.
 And outside in the North River, 1y- ing in wait until the big vessel warped out of the dock and following her down until she turned her nose east ward after clearing the big Ambrose Channel Lghtship, was the big ocean tug TfmnonS with seventy close per sonal friends aboard and three of the revenue cutters in the local service on board of which officialdom of New York was well represented.
 The police lines about the dock were established early. A cordon of Brook lyn police aided by the uniformed of ficers of the steamship company and 6, score of plain clothes men of the New York detective bureau closely scrutinized all persons who tried to enter the dock enclosure. Admission was strictly limited to the regular passengers of the Hamburg. their inn mediate friends and relatives and those who by issue of political prefer ment or friendship for Colonel Roose- badges which gave admission within the police lines and these were legion.
 General Leonard Wood came up from Governors Island to say goodbye to the man who had succeeded him as colonel of the volunteer cavalry and original Roosevelt men from every section of the country were not far behind. Long before o'clock the big expanse of pier was damned with hu- manity all anxious to say the last God Speed to the ex-President of the United States.
 A delegation of 300 residents of Oys- ter Bay were on hand early. These were the men who had accompanied the private citizen to Washington when he was first inaugurated.
 Soon after 8 o'clock the ocean tug Timmons laid alongside the pier and a part of her company got off to say a final word of farewell, then to go aboard again and follow the Ham burg down to the blue water. The Tim mons was in charge of Surveyor of the Port James H.. CllaSon, while on
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