The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-19
ROOSEVELT in
HIS SEA LEGS
Voyage Across Atlantic One of
Interest TO COIOneIs Eel
IOw-Passengers.
TELLS IMMIGRANTS WHAT
CITIZENSHIP STANDS FOR
Throughout Passage Traveller
Impresses All With His Plain
ness and Democracy.
BY HOMER DAVENPORT.

NEW YORK, June 1S.-ln London
there was but ono general topic
Roosevelt, Little else was discussed.
At tho station tho crowd was dense
yet the man himself was tramping
through the country miles away near
Southampton and when the train final
ly picked him up at that station and
steamed towards London the windows
were all full of people to gaze, If for
only Il second, upon this remarkable
man. At the docks the baggagemen
were more concerned in seeing him than
in handling the accumulated luggage,
Here and there boys with good cock
ney lungs were crying papers of this,
that or the other name that contained
his speech.
While all this tumult was in the air,
the man himself was bidding good bye
to men in uniform, \ shower came up,
and as his tug steamed out to meet the
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria loud cheers
rang out all along the docks, The dem.
onstration attending his departure
could not, of course, he compared with
hls welcome here, but even though it
was an imitation, it emphasizes the
universal popularity of the man.
The big steamship was a little late,
but once alongside of the tug a band
struck up our national air and the peo-
pie cheered. When Colonel Roosevelt
walked aboard the sailors on the tug
| let out loud whoops and clapped their
hands. Each port hole contained the
head of n yelling fireman, shouting as
though the boat were afire,
Plain and Democratic.
Finally we were all aboard. Colonel
Roosevelt democratically acknowledge
ing the plaudits Of his fellow passen.
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burg American liner pointed toward
America under full head of steam, some
man on the promenade deck hailed an
other with, 'Is Jeffries going to whip
Johnson7''
And standing by was Colonel Roose
welt, plain and democratic, smiling and
showing his cleaning teeth. He that
caused all the whistles and talk, moved
his friends and acquaIntances, quietly
talking just as you or I or any other
man would do. l thought that the
demonstration had been finished but
it was Just beginning. 1t lasted all the
way across the Atlantic, eliminating in
the grand demonstration here today
On Saturday, one week ago today, Col
onel Roosevelt spent an hour looking
over a book called "T r. in Cartoon. y
He spoke of various things at home
which the pictures had awakened in
| his memory. He laughed at some of
the drawings, he smiled at others, but
| he frowned at none
Across his memory fitted forgotten
incidents called up by the pictures. He
recalled that this thing had come about
when such and such was the case, or
that thing had transpired when some.
thlng else was happening. His great
regret was that the cartoons were NOT
/ dated,
At Religious Services.
The following day-Sunday-fou
him at the religious services on shin.
board. He sang with the others and
was more than interested in the home
! ly sermon and It's appeal to common
sense. In the evening he spoke to the
second-class and steerage passengers.
He told them their duty to America and
themselves after they had landed and
enrolled themselves as American citi.
zens.
On Monday he made the rounds of
the engine room and fire rooms and
shook hands with one whole watch
of grimy stokers. He admired them and
told them so. He commented on the
cleanliness Of their quarters The
watch was very proud of the honor, l
can tell you.
On Tuesday there was a reception
and he met many of the ships passeu-
StAS" utN II WdS tHdC L 0aQ my DeSt
opportunity to study him when he was
unconscious of the fact
The great mass of Marconigrams that
| came from shore and passing ships did
not disturb him the least. He was al.
ways the plain, jovial man. with
ready wit and keen vein of sarcasm.
At lecture on the power OF the car
toon he was bobbing up and down in
his seat, comm enting first on this face,
L.
jumped to his feet and indorsed the
cartoon in a ringing voice He was
thankful, he said, that the cartoon had
done so much good work in behalf of
one like Admiral George Dewey, who
had done so much for the nation.
Nearing American Shore.
As we neared the American shore
his eyes grew brighter. He spent mo.
ments of absolute quiet on the upper
deck, and last night he sat up until
after midnight telling stories.
He was not the "elderly man with
the varied past'' that he described him
charge him. Today he was the young.
vigorous man with "the varied past.5j
Yet, with all excitement increasing with
every new whistle, he was the calmest
person on board.
As he lifted his hat to the grim bat
tleshlp that was pulling alongside. men
and women among our passengers were
weeping with sort of pathetic 10Y.
AS we could see the land from the bay,
everything was mass of flags and the
air was full of various noises, each and
all combining to the welcome
There were on this smaller boat that
pulled up along the Manhattan two
small boys. He grabbed them as if they
were babies and for the moment his
face was wet with tears. The boys
were his sons-Archio and Quentin.
Again and again he kissed the young
sters and hugged them TO him The
younger Of the little chaps bit his
tongue to keep up his nerve, but des-
pite this heroic measure his ewes filled
with tears. 1t was great meeting.
The waters were now swarming with
craft of every description. Cameras
from nearby fleet were clicking like
rifles at half dock. A few moments
later this man of destiny was on an
other boat. He was then transferred
to tho Androscoggin.
Some one on board told ME that they