The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-17
Strenuous Traveller Will Be
Given WhirIwind Reception
Upon Return Saturday.
NEW YORK CITY PREPARES
FOR M0MENT0US OCCASION
ThrOngs of 0ut-OfTOwn Folk
Crowd Hotels to Be Early
on Hand.

NEW YORK. June l6,-Theodort
| Roosevelt at midnight was within oOt
| miles by dead reckoning of the welcome
New York will give him next Saturday
morning on his return TO America. after
an eventfu absence of fifteen months
His ship, the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
is rated as a seventeen knot vessel, and
at her normal speed should cover the
remaining distance In twenty-nine hours
bringing the former president TO the
gateway of the harbor at s o'clock Sat
urday morning.
The programme is for Colonel Roose-
welt TO leave the steamer at Quarantine
at o'clock that morning, so it is pre-
sumed the vessel will be held back when
before schedule, Twenty-one guns, the
national salute, will greet former Presi-
dent Roosevelt as he first enters the out
er harbor of New York on his return to
this country. The battleship South Caro-
lima, to be stationed in the Ambrose
channel. will thus notify an eXpectant
city that the Kalserin Auguste Victoria
and her distinguished passenger are near,
In Naval Parade.
In completion of the naval demonstra-
ton that Will follow. Chairman r. A.
Chapman of the river display commits
sion, announced tonight the limo OF ves-
sells and the line for formation. Final
instructions were also given to all cap
tains, Eighty warships, harbor patrol
boats and other steamers will take Of
fetal part on the parade UP the Hudson
river and back to the Battery. In addi-
tion, fiotilla OF $50 merchant steamers
Will carry sightseers down the bay to
witness the transfer OF Colonel Roose-
welt and his party from the ocean liner
to the Androscoggin, the revenue cutter
that VIII bear the welcoming party and
Colonel Roosevelt in the parade.
AS the former president steps aboard
the AndroscoGgin, a second salute will
announce that he is once more under the
American flag. For two minutes follow
Ing, the combined flotillas will join in a
blast OF whistles
Escorted by revenue steamers. police
patrol boats. the South Carolina, five
torpedo boat destroyers and the govern
ment dispatch boat Dolphin. the Andro-
scoggin will lead the river parade,
Will Be Formally Welcomed.
When Colonel Roosevelt lands at the
battery. the formal welcome by Mayor
Gaynor will proceed His speech and the
land parade Will start Immediately,
New York began final preparations for
the reception In earnest today. Despite
rain and clouds. the decorating OF the
city for the event went steadily ahead.
In other ways the near approach OF
the Roosevelt reception was impressed
upon the city. One of these was in the
iuluH Ol NlSllOrS. f1Otel registers gave
the best proof of this, Even far-away
Alaska loomed up large when word was
received from Governor Clar kof that ter
r!tory that former Governor w. B, Hog
gait of Alaska Will arrive here in time
10 represent him in the ceremonies. To-
morrow, however is expected to bring
the real out-of-town throng
Former Governor Benjamin B. OdeIl
announced here tonight that he had de-
clined 10 serve on the committee TO re-
ceive Colonel Roosevelt next Saturday.
appointed by Chairman Timothy =,
woodruff OF the Republican state COM
mittee. He had no explanations to mako.