The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-09-11
COLONEL ROOSEVELT LEAVES
PiTTS5uRG ON HIS WAY TO
OYSTER BAY.
Best Seems to Have Been Saved Until
Last for Great Traveller, pittsburg
Giving Him Spectacular Reception
--Hc Discusses Graft caccs III That
ci,y and Then Says Goodbye.

r.tt.hurg, Sept No. Tile western
tour of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
was virtually concluded il Ptttsburg
tonight lie stopped here long enough
IL deliver two addresses ami attend
an Informal dinner. Hc will hn at
home at oyster Euy again tomorrow
need. The last day was ono of the
most spectacular of Colonel Itoosavclts
long trip. Leaving Cincinnati III tho
morning. he cut across ohio into Most
Virginia and was tonight in Pennsyl
vania At several stops made throngs
were On hand to greet him. Tile last
of the rear platform speeches Of the
trip was made at Steubcnville. Ohio.
this afternoon The ex-presidcnt talked
about the homcly virtues. which have
been his texts many times before.
At London, Ohio, Il man crowded up
close to the platform. holding II gourd.
which resemblcd the .'bg stick" Tho
colonel laughed and took II In his arms
l'and held 1t there while he talked about
/ corporations.
J Thousands Of Pttsburg people sac
4 rficed their usual dinner hour this
! evening and crowded the downtown
1 streets to welcome the distinguished
/ guest. who had not paid Pittsbnrg II
/ visit for more than eight years. After
! an informal dinner he was driven
across town, where, from n historical
I balcony on the Monongahela house.
/ facing the river of that name. he adj
/ dressed an enormous crowd. From
! this rostrum Henry CLAY. the late King
/ Edward lthen Prince OF Wales1 Cen
cral Grant and the martyred presi
dents. Lincoln. Garfield and Mckinley.
have addressed the Pittsburg people
Colonel Roosevelt viewed the sea or
I the Monongahela shlmmcring in the
/ flood of electric lights from surround
| Ing buildings. Il have seen many ex-
traordlnary sights IN the last two and
/ a half weeks, but | have met nothing
I like this" hc said. 4 have peculiar
feeling in speaking from this historic
balcony. The many great names asso-
ciatcd with this place and 80 many
national memories of which We are
proud. spur W on 10 action III our
turn, but they are worse than useless
" we treat them merely as excuses
for idlcncss in ourselves. We pf today
have great problems and we must face
them as our fathers and forefather3
faced tie problems of their genera
ton. Our first and greatest problem
Is 10 secure rigid honesty In busi-
ness and politics. aud | congratulate
Ptlsburg on what Plitsburg has done,
That man II the tflin benefnetor who
exposes crookcdncss and who hunts
out of public life the crook great or
small.
The cheers which greeted the colonel
Kept him on his feet most Of the time.
bowng Ills acknowledgements At
Exposition hall, "A citizenship rally
awaited the cotonel's coming. Five
thousand men jumped and danced and
waved their hats and yelled themselves
hoarse, as the guests assembled 70 the
platform. The band struck up "A Hot
Time and the colonel raised first one
foot and then the other, as though Ia
dance. The crowd broke out anew,
Women helped lu Tho ovation, loo, for
IN boxes on either side we're reserva :
tlons for the leaders Of the promincnt
womens civic clubs and civic organl-
cations, 1t was five minutes before
Mayer Magcc and President English
! of the eisc commission were allowed
! - make Introductory speeches. Oyet
the stage from which Colonel Roose
/ l. ~
the world, on which WAS painted black
! lines showing Colonel Roosevelt ;.
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