The Carlisle independent., 1910-03-17
FORMER PRESIDENT INTERVIEWS WRITERS AT RENk, SOUDAN,
 MAKES NO COMMENT.
COLONEL AND KERMIT FEEL FINE
Through Fever Zone-Sends a Small Boat to Meet Report ers-Due Home June 20.

Renk, Soudan, Africa-Col. The odore Roosevelt has absolutely noth- ing to say publicly regarding American politics.
 The "insurgent nov ement," the new tariff, the Ballinger-Pinchot contro- versy and the alleged graft investiga- tion at Albany, N. Y, might as well not exist, so far as getting any state ment from him is concerned. The former president is looking as brown as berry arr. as hard as prize fighter in training.
 Roosevelt arrived here Friday on
 board the steamer Dal and immediate
 lY encountered group of American newspaper correspondents who had come to Renk aboard the Abbas, a specially chartered boat. The Colonel
 greeted them with characteristic en-
 thusiasm, all of them being his per sonal friends
 But if the correspondents thought
 by reason of their friendship the ICololtl might loosen up a bit they
 suffered keen disappointment.
 Roosevelt absolutely refused to com ment on American politics. Interveiws Journalists. It was the ex-president who did the
 questioning and the correspondents
 who unburdened themselves of com ments.
 Col. Roosevelt proved greedy l.s- tener and simply "ate up" everything 1 the correspondents had to tell him, 1 but never once did he let slip even a
 bit of comment thta proved the least Illuminating. The Coloners guard" was simply impregnable.
 1 He and Kermit are in perfect health, but Cunninghame, Loring, Hell | Ter and Mearns, the other official
 members of the party, showed the eff fleets of their recent escape from the
 levers. They are all right, but they had not withstood the rigors of tfe I African sun as well as the distin
 guished head of the party.
 The moment Roosevelt sighted the
 correspondents boat from the deck of
 the Dal he sent a small boat out to
 bring the newspaper men aboard his
 own vessel.
 l As proof of the activities of the eX petition in its nine months of hunt | ing in the jungles, the party is re | turning with l3,000 specimens for the l Smithsonian Institute, the American | f ,f oil American museums. These are ir addition to several thousand already sent to America.
 l Roosevelt plans to spent eight days
 on the trip from Khartoum, where he
 will arrive Monday, to Cairo. He
 will sail for Naples April l. A mum Der of sightseeing trips will be made out of Naples and then successive trips made ito Rome, Vienna and l Budapest He will arrive in Paris
 according to the present schedule, or l April 23. day each will be spent 1 in Belgium. Holland and Christians and then the visit will be made te
 Berlin, where he will arrive May 10. 1 From MT. Berlin MT. Roosevelt vii fgo' direct to London, reaching there May 16. He will appear at Oxford university May IS and plans to reacf America June 20.
 Despite the eXactions that his Euro 1 pean tour will make, the colonel looks forward to it with keen anticipation l He expressed himself as pleased ovel
 the coming marriage of his son Theo dore to Miss Alexander of New York which, he understands, will take 1 place shortly after his return to New 1 York.