The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-06-24
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hunting in the wilds of Africa and a
visit to the principal capitals of Eu-
rope.
Among those who were at the Bat
terry to meet the returning traveller
were Assistant Secretary of State
Huntington Wilson, Commissioner OF
immigration O'Keefe, Commissioner
of Labor Neill, Comptroller of the Cur
rency Lawrence o. Murray, Assistant
Secretary Of the Navy Beekman Win
thu, and Commissioner of Corpora
tons Herbert Knox Smith, the last
three having been members Of the IA
nous tennis cabinet.
In addition to these higher officials
scores, if not hundreds, of subordi-
mates in the various departments had
asked for their annual leave at this
time in order to join the admiring
Roosevelt crowds at the metropolis.
Colonel Roosevelt was met down
the bay by a reception committee of
800 prominent New Workers, of which
Cornelius Vanderbilt was chairman.
President Taft, Governor Hughes
and Mayor Gaynor sent letters of
welcome to the returning hunter, which
were delivered by Captain Archibald
Butt, the presidents aid. In addition
to CAPTAIN Butt two other members
of the presidents official family. Sec
rotary of the Navy Meyer and Secre-
tary of Agriculture Wilson, were in
New York to greet Colonel Roosevelt
The governors of many states also
were on hand to welcome him. Sew
eral hundred thousand less distin-
guished citizens came from all
over the country to help swell the
roar that started at the Battery and
continued to Fifty-ninth street as the
colonel rode up Fifth avenue.
The steamship Kaiserin Auguste
Victoria, on which Colonel Roosevelt,
and family were passengers, dropped
anchor at quarantine at 8 o'clock this
morning. 1t was met there by the
revenue cutter Androscoggin with the
committee of 300 on board, and on this
the Roosevelt party made the Jour-
ney up the harbor The cabinet mem
bers and members of congress were
aboard the revenue cutter Mohawk.
The Hamilton club of Chicago, rep
resented by 100 members, under the
leadership of John H. Batten, went
down the bay on the steamship
Commodore.
The Androscoggin headed a double
column of excursion steamers, yachts
and tugs in the trip to shore. Every
vessel in the parade saluted the
former president with a continuous
blast of steam whistles for two min
utes. The battleship South Carolina
was stationed in Ambrose channel
to greet Mr. Roosevelt with the nation
al salute of twenty-one guns.
The fleet proceeded up the Hud-
son river to Fifty-ninth street and
back to the Battery.
At II o'clock Colonel Roosevelt
disembarked at Pier A. On reach
ing Battery park he was welcomed
by Mayor Gaynor. The exercises here
were brief, and then the parade up
OGuW dy d1u IL III avenue 4OtSdL.
The procession was made up of
mounted police with the police band;
the Roosevelt Rough Riders, who
formed the colonel's escort, and the
Spanish war veterans, who escorted
the committee of 500.
If the naval parade was a success
the parade up Broadway and Fifth ave-
nue. was trebly so. 1t was here that
the thousands upon thousands who
lined the streets could see the man
who had caused this uproad and greet
him, and the canyon of Broadway re-
Battery, the Office buildings were
damned with sightseers. Even the won
derful height of the Singer tower was
nc obstacle to privileged ones who
gazed at a spectacle that must have re-
ser1bled an ants procession in their
eyes.
Following an escort of mounted 20,
lice and the band of the historic Sew
enth regiment of the New York ma
tional guard came a corps of Rough
Riders, mounted and in costume, the
guard of honor. Behind them was Col.
Roosevelt in an open barouche The
reception committee In a long line Of
carriages followed, embracing national
celebrities such as Secretary of the
Navy Meyer Secretary Of Agriculture
Wilson, Capt. Archibald w. Butt, the
presidents military aid; Gov B. B.
Odell Jr., of New York, and many
others.
The band of Squadron A., the crack
cavalry troop of Manhattan. led the
Spanish war veterans of whom sew
eral thousand were in line in the khaki
of the Cuban and Philippine cam
paigns. Bringing up the rear were
Capt. Jack Alternately, federal marshal
of Oklahoma, and his sons, Louis and
Temple, aged 10 and respectively.
The youngsters, who had ridden from
Oklahoma alone to greet their idol, the
colonel, received a hearty welcome.
That was all the procession, but the
east side of Fifth avenue from Wash