The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-06-21

New York City.-Theodore Roose-
welt, private citizen, with no title,
not having the prefix "ex," returned
to the United States, and upon enter
ing this port received all the hcnors
that could be devised by his admirers.
That is only another way of saying
that he could not have received great
er attention had he still been Presi-
dent or one of the Kings or Emperors
with whom he has been hobnobbing
in Europe for the last three months.
AS his ship, the Kaiserin Auguste
Victoria, came up the bay, United
States battleship fired a salute of
twenty-one guns The forts on either
side of the Narrows paid him the
same tribute Twenty-one guns, as
every one knows, is the national sa-
lutte, the greeting for the President
There is nothing higher
And the program OF the reception
that followed on shore and river was
all on a twenty-one-gun scale.
The Kaiserin Auguste Victoria car
rying Theodore Roosevelt reached the
channel outside of Sandy Hook in a
great bank of mist Above the giant
ship rolling clouds threatened to spoil
the Homecoming of Americas most
popular citizen. There was a heavy
chill in the air and not a bit of prom
Use that the sun would shine. But
Roosevelt luck was there again. In
an hour the Navesink Highlands, the
rest of the Jersey coast slanting down
to New York, the big towns on Coney
Island and the sandy skirt of Long
Islands south shore came breaking
into sight. The sun, blazing merrily
above Long Beach, sent the fog gall
Looping from view, and by 7 o'clock
the bright blue of June sky unfold
ed itself over the stretch of waters
and of land.
So with the sun kissing him warm
welcome Mr.. Roosevelt began day
that must always live green in his
memory From the shrill screech of
the welcoming Hamburg-American
tug, the first to greet him, to the last
neighborly salute in Oyster Bay at
night there was not an incident to
mar his homecoming. The Navy and
the Army Numbered their salutes.
Cheering thousands on the water and
a vast multitude on land sent to him
their rounds of applause. Friends of
a generation grasped his hands on the
revenue cutters Androscoggin and
Manhattan. His old Rough Riders of
the Spanish War mobbed him at the
Battery and at the finish of the par
ade. Politicians crowded the Andro-
scoggin to say that his leadership is
no more questioned now than when
he was master of Congress and the
White House. Walls of people lined
Broadway and Fifth avenue and in a
tumultuous demonstration made plain
how happy they were to have him
home.
No fewer than half million per-
sons crowded the roofs of the sky
scrapers and thronged the river piers
to cheer his journey up the North
River They made, panorama of
color and life that was wonderful.
Flags, colored streamers, parasols of
every shade, were waved in welcome.
Tugs screamed their salutes, factory
whistles serenaded and ferryboats
hoarsely cried welcome to the former
President. On the water, as on the
land, there was not moment of quiet
while Mr.. Roosevelt was in view. The
widest reception was at the Battery
At least 10000 men, women and chill
dren roared their delight when the
first citizen was landed from the An
droscoggin to be received by Mayor
Gaynor. The noise of the multitude
actually drowned the final river salute
of the boats that had finished the ma
val parade
From the beginning to the end 1t
was the same old Roosevelt who
smiled, laughed aloud, shouted here
and there to friend or took some
body aside for a second or two of
confidential chat. His right arm
worked faster than an active pump