Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-21
ROOSEVELT THE EDITOR.

New York. June 20.--Theodore Roose-
welt began today the life he has chosen
for himself as private citizen. He
has his own ideas of what the coun-
try shall do with it's eX-Presidents and
after single day of rest at Saga
more Hill, took UP his work today as
contributing editor of the Outlook.
Not even tho fact that his son was
to he married this afternoon detained
him from his desk.
TIE dispatch boat Dolphin on which
MI Roosevelt left Oyster Bay late last
night with Secretary Meyer of the navy
department as his host brought him
into New Norl; early this morning. He
went direct to his Office and immediate
ly plunged into the mountain of cor
|respondence which has been acCumulat-
ing for lim. Two hours later he APP
pealed on the street and was imme-
diIttly recognized by the crowds. Be
fore he had walked half a block west
W*rd toward Firth avenue. he was fol
lowed by a throng that blocked the
sidewalk
The SUI, vas ocating down with an
intensity that made a top hat unen
dGralie. The colonel plunged for a
hatter's at 4 speed that made the crowd
behind run to keep up. AS he passed
the Offices OF the publishing house that
will bring out his forthcoming book on
his hunting trip. he Spied tall por-
trait of himself, framed in red. white
anG blue. That's dandy, isn't it, was
his comment. A halter was closely.
It took the colonel just two minutes
to- tu% wide hTimmed straw hat with
4 black land. Then he footed it at the
caine amazing speed to his new offices
again.
Col Roosevelt's business headQuar-
ters hereafter win be on the seventh
floor of the United Charities building
at 4th avenue and 22d street In the
same building with him are the Amer
lean Missionary Society. the Charity
Organization Society. the Association,
for The Improvement of the Condition
Of the Poor, the City Mission and Tract
Society. the Association of Day Nurs-
cries, the Society for First Aid to the
Injured and a string of like organiza-
tons
Col. Roosevelt will work in surround
ings very unlike any to which he mas
ever been accustomed. There is nothing
to suggest the quiet of Sycamore HILL
the Executive chamber at the state
Capitol or even the Presidents private
office in the White House. Typewriters
are gathering. telephones are ringing
and tongues wagging continually IN
the main office where half hundred
clerks work behind row after row OF
desks. Beyond this room is smaller
one. about which seven editors in sew
en- offices hedge the visitor.
But it is in none of these that Ed
tor Roosevelt will sit. He has suite
of three rooms especially engaged FOR
him still further to the rear. On the
door appears the legend in big gilt let
tiers: "Oftice of Theodore Roosevelt
! The rooms themselves. alhough busi-
ness-like in appearance, are turnished
with a magnificence unusual for an
Office building.
His desk is a reproduction of George
Washington's desk at Mount vernon.
and pictures of Washington. Lincoln.
and a COPY of the Declaration of In
dependence written in large. Old Eng
| Iish characters. hang upon the bronze
| burlap- covered walls.
| If it should prove that visitors are
too insistent there is an auxiliary exit
nv which Editor Roosevelt may escape
through hidden hall to the street.
| After his mornings work in his new
offices. Mr. Roosevelt went out for
| luncheon to the home of his cousin
Frank B. Roosevelt. Thence he took
an automobile to the church where
his son was married. stopping at the
home of his brother-in-la Douglas
Robinson, on the way, to pick up Mrs
Roosevelt and their children, Quentin
and Archie At the church Inspector
O'Brien opened the door of the auto
| mobile. His old chief jumped out and
grasped him by the hand.
why Steve," he said, I'm mighty
glad to see you. You don't know, In
spector, how good it is to see you
From the church the Roosevelt party
rode to the reception given after the
wedding at the home Of Mrs. Charles
B. Alexander, the brides aunt.