Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-06-24
NATION EXTENDS
ROYAL WELCOME
TO ROOSEVELT
FORTS AND BATTLESHIP SALUTE
FORMER PRESIDENT AS HIS
SHIP GLIDES INTO PORT.
PANDEM0M!UM ON ALL SIDES
Guest Of Enthusiastic Americans Waves
Acknowledgment from Bridge of
the Steamer.
REFUSES TO DISCUSS POLITICS

NEW YORK, June 18-Theodore
Roosevelt, ex-President of the United
States, statesman and cosmopolitan trav-
eler, was greeted back to his native land
today by such demonstration of popular
enthusiasm and personal devotion as had
seldom if ever been accorded to a re-
turning American traveller.
Each step in this eventful home com
ing, from the time he debarked from the
steamship kaiserin August Victoria I'M
til be moved up Broadway amid the tu-
multuOus demonstrations of vast throngs
Of people brought forth a continuation
Of the ovation and fresh tributes Of pop
uiar enthusiasm.
The stages in this stirring welcome
were crowded into hardly more than
three hours. At $50 this morning Mr.
Roosevelt left the steamer amid roar OF
big guns from battleships and land forts
and a pandemonium of steam whistles
from craft and the factories along the
water front. Then, aboard the revenue
cutter Androscoggin he moved at the head
of an imposing marine parade up the
Hudson river to Riverside drive and
back again to the battery, amid the con
and the assembled multitude along the
water front.
The landing at the battery was the sig
nal for another clamOrOus ovation. Here
too, Mayor Gaynor extended official
greetings, and Mr. Roosevelt spoke brief
ly, but significantly of the interest and
part he will continue to take in public
affairs. At II o'clock the start up Broad
way began, through densely massed
throngs extending for five miles along
the main thoroughfares Of the city.
Everywhere the returning traveller met
the same whirlwind of demonstrative
greetings as he passed Wall street, fur
Their on as he moved through Park place
and the business section, and then
through the throngs in Union and Madi-
son squares and through the long reach
es of Fifth avenue.
Stands Erect in Carriage.
Mr.. Roosevelt stood erect in his car
riage most of the time, his silk hat in
his right hand, waving responsive greet
ings to the echoing cheers. By noon
the popular welcome was practically con
tives for lunch preparatory to returning
to his home at Oyster Bay later in the
day.
The steamer Kaiserin Auguste Vic
toria, on which he sailed from England
June 10, entered New York harbor a
Z o'clock this morning and was greeted
by the battleship South Carolina Will
the national salute of twenty one guns
At half past O'Clock Mr.. Roosevelt
was transferred from the Kaiserir
AUguste Victoria, to the revenue tus
Manhattan, where he was welcomed by
a number of personal friends and rela
tives and Capt. Archibald w. Butt, rep
resenting President Taft.
Shortly after this he was transferred
from the Manhattan to the revenue
cutter Androscoggin, which led the
water parade that took him up as fal
as Fifty-ninth street, North river ant
down to the battery, where he was Off
cially welcomed by Mayor Gaynor Of
New York at II o'clock.
Battleship Salutes Him.
Redecked with signal flags and wifi
the guns from Fort Wadsworth anC
Fort Hamilton booming out In welcome
into quarantine at 1888 o'clock Immedi
ately behind the big liner came six shin.
of the navy. the battleship South Caro-
lima in the van, while at anchor in the
roadstead, awaiting her coming, was thu
United States dispatch boat DOLPHIN
with the secretary OF the navy on board
The battleship already had saluted the
returning of the former President a
Sandy Hook with 81 guns, but on comine
to anchor alongside the liner, the South
Carolina hoisted long strings of pen
na1ts and the river craft Joined in the
demonstration with loud and prolonged
blasts from their whistles.
Thanked by Mrs. Roosevelt, his daugh
ter. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, and hi.
son, Kermit, Col. Roosevelt stood or
the flying bridge of the liner high above
all the decks Of the ship, and with hi:
CHARACTERISTIC smile overspreading his
tanned countenance and shiny silk ha
in his hand he waved acknowledgment
to the pandemonium on al sides of him
Mr.. Roosevelt lost no time on board
the Auguste Victoria The usual Gus
toms and health inspection formalitie:
accomplished, he at once transhipped tt
the revenue tug Manhattan, where, will
the immediate members of his family anC
a few intimate friends, he sat down Il
q haSty breakfast.
Water Parade Begins.
There was more firing of big guns q,
Mr.. Roosevelt left the Manhattan for til,
Androscoggin. Then comparative ouiet
while in the upper bay patrol boat
darted back and forth among hundred
and one craft of every description. mar
shaling them in line for the parade.
The United States steamship DOLPHIN
leading the parade and closely followed
by the AndroScogg1n, got away at tWeIy,
minutes past 8.
The first address of welcome presented
to Mr.: Roosevelt was handed him by tn,
boarding pilot, on behalf of the Pilots
association This association was tn,
last to speed the colonel on his departur,
from New York. Health Officer Dot,
was the first of those from shore to pa,
his respects to Mr.. Roosevelt
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, Con
gresham Nicholas Longworth OF Ohio
and Capt. Butt boarded the Kaiseril
from the Manhattan and were received
by Mr.. Roosevelt in his stateroom.