The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18
Former President Returns A.
ter Absence of 15 Months.
Spent in African Jungles and
European Capitals.
A NATIONAL SALUTE.
Is Fired in His Honor by the
South Carolina.
River Craft Join in DemOnstra-
tiOn With Their Whistles.
HE AVERTS COLLISION
Calls Attention to Impending
Accident Just in Time.
The Program Begins With Big
Naval Parade.
Roosevelt Has Fine Time Greet
1 g Friends Today.
HE AVERTS COLLISION
Calls Attention to Impending
Accident Just in Time.
Roosevelt Has Fine Time Greet.
1 g Friends Today.

New York, June 1S.-Former Presi-
dent Theodore Roosevelt returned to-
day to New York from a trip through
Africa and Europe which began imrne-
diately on his leaving the White House
and which has lasted for Is months.
The steamer Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
On which he sailed from England, June
10, entered New York harbor at
o'clock this morning and was greeted
by the battleship South Carolina with
the national salute Of 21 guns.
At $3.50 o'clock Mr.. Roosevelt was
transferred from the Kaiserin Auguste
Victoria to the revenue cutter Man
haitian where he was welcomed by a
number of personal friends and rela-
tives and Captain Archibald w. Butt,
representing President Taft. Shortly
after this he was transferred from the
Manhattan to the revenue cutter An
droscroggin, which leads the water pa
rade that takes him up as far as Fiji
ty-ninth street, North river and down
to the Battery, where he is officially
welcomed by Mayor Gaynor of New
York, at IL o'clock.
Bedecked with signal flags and the
guns from Ft. wadsworth and Ft. Ham
NA@~
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria glided into
Quarantine at 1888 o'clock. Immediate
iy behind the big liner came six ships
of the navy, the battleship South Caro-
lima in the van while at anchor in the
roadstead awaiting her coming was the
United States dispatch boat Dolphin
with the secretary of the navy on
board
The battleship already had saluted
the returning former president at Sandy
Hook with 21 guns but on coming to
anchor alongside the liner the South
Carolina hoisted long strings of PEN
uants and the river craft joined in the
demonstration with loud and prolong-
ed blasts from their whistles.
F'lanked by Mrs. Roosevelt his
daughter, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth,
and his son Kermit, Theodore Roosevelt
stood on the flying bridge of the liner
Eigh above all the decks of the ships
and with his characteristic smile over
spreading his tanned countenance and
a shiny silk hat in hand he waved
acknowledgment to the pandemon1um
on all sides of him.
The Water Parade.
Mr.. Roosevelt lost no time aboard
the Auguste Victoria The usual Gus
toms and health inspection formal1tles
accomplished, he at once transh1pped To
the revenue tug Manhattan where, with
the immediate meiuDeIs oA MS telhli-y
and a few intimate friends, he sat down
to a hasty breakfast.
There was more firing Of big guns
when Mr.. Roosevelt left the Manhat-
tan for the Androscoggin. Then COM
parative quiet while in the upper bay
patrol boats darted back and forth
among a hundred and one craft of every
descriprion marshalling them in line for
the parade.
The U. s. ship Dolphin, leading the
parade and closely followed by the
Androscoggin got away at IL minutes
past 9.
The first address of welcome pre-
sented to Mr. Roosevelt was handed
him by the boarding pilot, on behalf
of the Pilots association This asso-
citation was the last to speed the col
oneI on his departure from New York