New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-06-18
ROOSEVELT SENDS !
WIRELESS GREETING
Near Home, He Tells America
He Enjoyed His Trip in Every
Way, but Glad to Get Back.
NO POLITICS I'M NEAR FUTURE
Parades by Land and Sea, with
Cheering Thousands in a Gayly
Decked City, to Welcome
His Return from Journey.

Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, by wireless.
Sagaponack. Long Island. June Is
At 1850 o'clock this morning the
steamer Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, on
which Theodore Roosevelt is passen-
ger. was about f15 miles from the Am
brose Channel Lightship.
Owing to the heavy fog. the vessel was
nroceeding at reduced speed. but she
should pass Fire Island about o'clock
and be abreast the Sandy Hook Light
ship at 6 a. m
Ex-President Roosevelt, rapidly COM
pIeting the last stage of his homeward
iournev sent a message 10 America last
night from the Kaiserin Auguste VIC
toria by wireless by way of Siasconset,
Mass. 1t follows:
have been away year and quar-
ter, While enjoyed Africa most, en-
joyed Europe very great deal. In facf,
I fail to see how any one could nave rad
a more interesting or pleasanter trip
than have had.
wish to express my very deep appre-
citation Of the more than generous cour-
tesy and hospitality with which was
treated by the people and the rulers OF
the countries through which ] passed'
But. Of course, ] am very glad to get
home.
appreciate deeply the kindliness OF
,,,,Ititude of friends who have asked mo
70 sneak in different places, and hope
.b.v will understand that it is simply
chysicaI inpossibiIity for me even 20
consider accepting more than one IN .
hundred of these invitations
shall not sp-ak for more than TWO
months. and then will speak tirst at the
John Brown celebration in Kansas City'
at the Cheyenne frontier eatherins' AT
the Conservation Congress in ST. Paul.
and. possibly, at one or two otner places
| shall have nothing whatever to say
in the immediate future about politics.
and will hold no interview weatever on
the subject with any one; and anything
,,rportina to be an interview with mo
that may appear can be safely ser GOWN
at once as an invention
take this opportunity of aekno"ieo9-
inn with the heartiest of thanks the nu-
n,erous noareonigran,s and letter greet
;,,e which | received in London before
startin1. and which il has been InPos-
sibIe 70 acknowledge. need not say now
despIy | am touched by these kIno mes
saoes. and an, sure the senders VIII UNI
derstand that my failure to answer aii
Of them is due simply to the tact tnae
.bev are so numerous that il is an aoso-
lutte physical inpossIbilrty.
Colonel Roosevelt returns to-day from
a tourney of more than year aNlohS
the wilds of Africa. and the olstln-
gnished environments of Europe For
all that time. though he sought 10 eI-
face himself in Africa, he has oeen
figure in the public eye, growing sred
With astonishing rapidity as his progress
through Europe advanced. until now a'
he lands again in America, the "IlO4o
country waits to greet him
This citv is decorated with flags and
hurting and the line OF march OF Ino
land parade will be five miles or the na-
tiouaI coIors. while the naval paraoo
viii move up the North River between
shores hidden by streaming flags Thou
sands of persons have come from all
over the country. and the trains from
the surrounding states this morning WIZ
he crowded with those VINO come L"
welcome the returning traveller
A dav has been planned for Coione'
Roosevelt that will tax him as heaVy
as any that he spent on MS Airlcdn
hunt. The Kaiserin Auguste Nlctorla'
on which he comes with his family WIZ
be off Sandy Hook at D O'CLOCK tnlS
morning and from then on he VIII nave
little time TO rest until he has reacneo
his home at Oyster Bay in the evening
and greeted his neighbors there.
The fog lifted from Manhattan IasN
nigh, and the clouds drifted away Tne
progress UP the Lower Bay and through
the Narrows to Quarantine promises 10
ba in the golden light Of oeautiIul
summer morning But IL is on the ar
-,,,aI AZ Quarantine at Z o'clock that
the work of the day will begin
Loeb's Greeting the First.
Tho Kaiserin will be boarded there oy
collector Loeb. the first 10 greet hs
former chief After brief talk WIN
the Collector. Colonel Roosevelt and MS
family will be transferred TO the Man
tartan A special party will go down
,,-,.h Collector Loeb on the Manhattan
Among them will be ex-Seeretary rev"
Vary of the Navy Department: ex-
coc-atarv Garfield of the Interior De-
nartment. and ex-Secretary Luke 4
Wright of the War Department. all ror-
,,,sr members OF President Roosevelts
cabinet
Captain Archibald Butt. President
Taft's military aid. who bears letter Oh
welcome from the President; secretary
Nsver of the Navy Department, Secre-
tary Wilson of the Department OF asIi-
cuIture and Congressman Lonswortn'
Colonel Roosevelt's son-in-law, spent
last night on the Dolphin They VIII be
,aken aboard the Manhattan this morn
ing. Adjutant General Neroeck- Win
a letter of welcome from Governor
Hughes. will also be on the Manhattan
After breakfast on the Manhattan the
marty will be taken aboard the revenue
cptter Androscoggin. where IL will be
greeted by the reception committee, and
q national salute OF twenty-one guns
uiI. he fired At 9 o'clock the naval