New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-11
[. ROOSEVELT, JR.,
is ENGAGED
SON OF EI-PRESIDENT'
TO WE'D.
BetrothaI to Mss Eleanor But
Ter Alerander Announced
an This City.

Mrs. Henry Addison Alexander, of No
42 West 41th street, announced yester-
day afternoon the engagement of her
laughter Miss Eleanor Butler Alexan-
der, TO Theodore Roosevelt, jr. Mrs.
Roosevelt and Miss Ethel Roosevelt
We're at the Alexander home when the
announcement was made returning to
oyster Bay late in the afternoon Theo-
dore Roosevelt, jr., came down from
Thompsonvlle, Conn. and was a mem
Der of a theatre party given by Mrs.
Alexander last evening.
The party went to the Globe Theatre,
where its members separated, and Miss
Alexander and Mr. Roosevelt were
Lshered to seats in the front row. A
dinner party had detained them and
the performance had begun when they
arrived. They were not recognized by
those surrounding them and remained
until the end of the performance.
Mr.. Roosevelt said that the families
had been intimate for several years and
that he couldn't remember when his
f7ancee and he had not known each
other. A cable message was sent to
Colonel Roosevelt and the wedding will
not take place until his return from
Africa.
Miss Alexander is the only child of
Henry n Alexander and Miss Grace
Green. who we're married in New York
in January, 1888 She was born in De
cember of that year Mr.. Alexander is
son of Henry NJ. Alexander, who
founded the law firm of Alexander &
Green. At one time he was counsellor
to the United States Embassy at Paris.
Theodore Roosevelt, ir.. was born in
1887 and is the eldest child of Theodore
Roosevelt and Miss Edith Carow. He
has three brothers and one sister in ad-
dition TO Miss Alice, now the wife Of
Nicholas LongWorth, who is three years
older and was born of his fathers first
ma rriage. Not much was known about
the Roosevelt children when they were
young, their mother being a great ad-
mirer of Mrs. Grover Clevelands policy
of not letting her children know that
they were objects of public interest.
He prepared for college at Groton
School, and entered Harvard with the
class of 'OS. When he entered college
for strenuous activity. He appeared on
the gridiron each fall and worked out
under the coaches, but was never able
to make the varsity team. his weight
not being equal to his nerve. His col
lege career was not distinguished much
from that Of most of his fellows. All
sorts of stories have been published
about him. however, and his engagement
has been reported several times
After his graduation he entered the
employ of the Hartford Carpet Corpora
ton in its factory at Thompsonville.
Conn. He went in to learn the business
in all its details, and is still there, fol-
lowing out the views of his father,
whose opinion on the education of young
men was once expressed as follows;
I'D order them to work. I'd try to
develop and work out an ideal of mine
the theory Of the leisure class to the |
I have tried to do it by eX- |
ample, and it is what 7 have preached |
first and foremost, to be American, |
heart and soul, and to go in with any |
person, needless of anything but that |
PERSONS qualifications.
Pat Dugan as with the last descendant
Of the PATRON; it literally makes no diff
ference to me SO long as the work is
good and the man is in earnest"
Governor George L. Lilley of Connec-
-icut appointed young Roosevelt as a
military aid on his personal staff. SO that
ne gloried for a time in the title of
ma jor, only two ranks below that of his
,ather. He resigned the post after Gov
srnor LiIley's death.
His half-sister, Miss Alice, was mar
led four years ago this month to Nicho-
as Longworth, Representative in Con-
yress from an Ohio district His un-
married sister. Miss Ethel. will be twen-
Y years old in July.