Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-20
Associated Pressl


OYSTER BAY, N. Y, June 19.-This
was Theodore Roosevelt's first day of
rest in months.
The return to privacy is a, delight to
him and he made it known that it is
his desire to drop just as far out of
public sight as the public will let him.
In the autumn he will make tour
of the country.
Col. Roosevelt went to Christ church
In Oyster bay this morning and took
long walk in the afternoon.
Senator Lodge and Representative
Longworth were at Sycamore Hill all
day and later in the afternoon Secre-
tary Mayer came for visit.
The colonel is to take an early train
for New York tomorrow morning, to
attend the wedding of his son, Theo-
dore, jr., and Miss Eleanor Alexander,
On Wednesday he is to visit his edi-
torial Office in New York.
1t was after o'clock tonight when
Col. Roosevelt returned from a walk
of several miles with Mrs. Roosevelt.
He spied a group of interviewers watt
ing for him, and headed for them.
mot one word to say" he began be-
fore a question had been asked. IF I
| received you it would mean that every
one would come here. and I should
have no peace or privacy.
II shall be at my editorial Office in
New York twice a week and any
statement I have to make will be Civ
en- out there
ANXIOUS FOR PRIVACY
He paused to survey the expanses of
grassy slopes that stretched as far as
the eye can reach from his home on
the crown of Sycamore Hill.
There was not sound to be heard
hn ,f hi aI,f
on the veranda and the spluttering of a.
motorboat on the bay. The contrast
with the tumult of the last few months
seems to please him and he said he
hoped to screen his private life wholly
that he might have a true rest for the
summer.
What did you think of your welcome
home yesterday?' he was asked.
You know very well what 1 thought
of that"
what have you been doing today?'
Just that kind of a question is what
don't want to answer"
Col. Roosevelt made it plain that the
daily pilgrimages of interviewers to
Sycamore Hill must cease, and that he
does not wish a single detail of his
private life made public.
In spite of the hard day he had Sat-
urday, Colonel Roosevelt was ur early
this morning. After breakfast he
went to the veranda with Senator
Lodge and Representative Longworth.
The three were seen walking energeti-
cally in circles, the colonel leading and
talking in his vigorous style. Mr..
Longworth said afterward that the col
onel was telling them his experiences
in Africa and Europe.
HEARS PASTOR HIT TRUSTS
There was an innovation today in
customs at Sycamore Hill. All the
family except Kermit and Mrs. Long
worth rode to church in an automobile
with Miss Eleanor Alexander, the
fiancee of Theodore Roosevelt, jr., and
her mother, Mrs. H. A. Alexander, in
a second car. Colonel Roosevelt does
not like automobiles and has always
ridden to church in the family car
riage.
This evening Percy Strafford Olton
of Greene, N. Y, who preached, made
no direct personal reference to Colonel
Roosevelt, although he did touch on
things in which Colonel Roosevelt is
very much interested. He said that
with the rise of corporate power had
been produced a corporate conscience
which was so inferior as to be a seri-
Gus menace to the country"
THE leader of men, he said else
where, has the vision of the kingdom
of God, and pledges his life for the es-
truth"
AS he spoke these words all eyes
shifted to Mr.. Roosevelt, who sat i'm
movable in his pew.
PREPARES FOR WEDDING
After services the Roosevelts walked
quickly out of church to their auto
mobiles. From the tonneau the colonel
told his neighbors, as they crowded out
to see him, that he was glad to be
back again and then was whisked
away.
Theodore Roosevelt, jr., Mrs. Alexan-
der and Miss Alexander left church
early and went to New York for a
rehearsal of the wedding.
Mr.. Roosevelt had not returned from
his tramp when Secretary Meyer puffed
up the hill, mopping the respiration
from his face. He had come from
New York on the dispatch boat Dol
phin.
mo politics." he said "I have come
simply to see Colonel Roosevelt as an
old friend"
To request for his impressions OF
the celebration yesterday he replied:
1T was the most wonderful thing [
ever saw. The spontaneity of the
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