The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-06-06
Ex- President Roosevelt Sails For Home On Friday;
Great Reception in His Honor to Be Held in New Yon
His Ship VIII Be Escorted H-
to HarbOr By Monster Fleei
And The Journey Along
Broadway Viii Be a Tr--
umph Fit For a Conquer
ing Roman Emperor.

New York, June Con Friday next
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will sail
from Southampton, England aboard
the steamship Kaiserin Auguste Vic
toria and begin the last leg OF his won
derful and spectacular journey. which
will end when the big ship docks in
this harbor eight days later.
Since he emerged from the African
jungle the latter part of March he has
been the guest of nearly every Euro
pean ruler, and honors have been con-
ferred on him which were never be-
fore accorded private American citi-
zen with the exception Of General
Grant. AS fitting climax to his tri-
umphal tour, a monster reception has
been planned by representative citi-
zens OF the nation, and when the Col
onel arrives on June IS, he will be well
coined by thousands of his country
men from every section of the United
States. representing all classes. Plans
have been made on most elaborate
scale, and the reception promises to be
as brilliant as the historical homecome-
ing Of Admiral Dewey with his victor
ious fleet.
A parade of harbor craft, followed by
a reception at Battery park, where
Mayor Gaynor will deliver the princi-
pal address and triumphal march up
Broadway and Fifth avenue to Fifty
ninth street with the famous Rough
Riders as an escort, are the principal
features OF the program.
On account Of his position as chief
executive, President Taft will not be
present, but large number Of senators
and representatives together with the
cabinet officers will be on hand. Or
ganizations Of every kind and descrip-
tion and from every part of the coun-
try will be present in a body and the
city will be overrun with thousands Of
visitors.
Every available craft in New York
harbor has chartered as early as the
middle Of May and hatboats and scows
are at premium. Some Of the larger
organizations, such as the republican
club OF New York have chartered reg
ular coast line steamers, on which to
go down the bay and welcome the
Colonel after his absence of fifteen
months.
Although there will be many repub-
lican statesmen present, the recep-
tion will be strictly non-partisan in
character. The reception committee is
composed of three hundred of New
York's leading citizens, both republi-
can and democrats, and nothing of a
political nature will be included in
the program.
According to the present plans the
vessel on which Colonel Roosevelt and
his family will make the return jour
ney across the Atlantic, will reach
quarantine at o'clock on the morn
ing of June 49, One hour before, a
selected number of the reception COM
mittee will leave the Battery in a
revenue cutter and will proceed to
Quarantine where the Colonel and his
family will be taken Off in a tug.
Gaily decorated craft of every des-
cription have been chartered by clubs
and private partise will line both sides
OF the harbor and after the cutter with
the Colonel aboard passes by they will
fall in the rear. Nearly every big
craft in the harbor will have a band
aboard, and the noisy procession will
make its way up the harbor amid the
screaming of whistles and the cheer
ing of the crowds on the shores of
Twenty-third street where they will
turn round and steam back to the Bat
terry.
The Colonel will go ashore at the
historic spot at the lower end Of the
island where he will receive a hearty
welcome from the assembled thous-
ands In an enclosure in the center OF
the park will be 200 distinguished
guests. composed of senators, represen-
tatives, ambassadors. and numerous
personal friends of the Colonel Sur
rounding this enclosure will be an
other reserved space, which will be
occupied by $500 prominent men and
the members OF the reception commit
tees. The rest Of the park will be open
to the public.
Here Mayor Gaynor of New York
will formally welcome the Colonel to
his native land. and several other brief
speeches will be made by prominent
men.
1t was originally intended to conclude
the reception with monster parade,
and invitations were issued to various
organizations throughout the country.
Within few days, however, the COM
mite was flooded with SO many applf-
cations that the parade feature had to
be abandoned. Organizations from
Maine to California and from the Cult
to the Great Lakes requested a place
in the line OF march. and if the project
had been carried out. the procession
would have extended from the Battery
to the Harlem River and back again.
| a distance Of twenty miles, and the
people who had travelled hundreds Of
miles to see Roosevelt would have been
deprived Of the pleasure In order to
overcome this obstacle SO that no one
would be onended. q unique arrange
ment was adopted by the committee.
All organizations that wished to par