The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-06-23
NATION EXTENDS
ROYAL WELCOME
TO ROOSEVELT
FORTS AND BATTLESHIp SALUTE
FORMER PRESIDENT AS HIS
SHIP GLIDES INTO PORT.
PANDEMONIUM ON ALL SIDES.
Guest of Enthusiastic Americans Waves
Acknowledgment from Bridge of
the Steamer.
REFUSES TO DISCUSS POLITICS.
PANDEMONIUM ON ALL SIDES.
REFUSES TO DISCUSS POLITICS

REFUSES To DISCUSS POLlllCS.
NEW YORK, June 1S.-Theodore
/ Roosevelt, exPresident Of the United
States, statesman and cosmopolitan tray,
eler, was greeted back to his native land
today by such n demonstration of popular
enthusiasm and personal devotion as had
seldom if ever been accorded to a re
turning American traveller.
Each step in this eventful home com
ing. from the time he debarked from the
steamship Kaiserin August Victoria un-
til he moved up Broadway amid the tu-
multuOus demonstrations Of vast throngs
of people brought forth continuation
I of the ovation and fresh tributes of pop
uar enthusiasm.
The stages in this stirring welcome
were crowded into hardly more than
three hours At $50 this morning Mr..
Roosevelt left the steamer amid roar OF
( big guns from battleships and land forts
and 4 pandemOnium of steam whistles
from craft and the factories along the
water front. Then, aboard the revenue
cutter AndrOscOgGin he moved at the head
/ of an imposing marine parade up the
/ IL llNOU IlNfT " INV q SUE NllNt t'AH
back again TO the battery, amid the con
tiuuous demonstrations Of water craft
and the assembled multitude along the
/ water front.
I The landing Mt the battery was the sig
/ nal for another ciamorous ovation. Here.
/ too. Mayor Gaynor extended official
/ greetings and Mr.. Roosevelt spoke brief
. ly, but significantly of the interest and
7 part he will continue to take in public
. of ,ir ,'plftlr Ht 81 RrnuI-
/ way began. through densely massed
/ throngs extending for five miles along
4 the main thoroughfarcs Of the city
4 Everywhere the returning traveller met
the same whirlwind Of demonstrative
greetings as lie passed Wall street, fur
ther on rs he moved through Park place
and the business section, and then
( through the thrOnga in Union and Madi-
son squares and through the long reach
IS og Fifth avenue.
Stands Erect in Carriage.
( Mr.. Roosevelt stood erect in his car
| rage most IF the time his silk hat in
/ his right hand, waving responsive greet
/ ings t. the echoing cheers. BY noon
/ the popular welcome was practically CON
! cludcd and Mr.. Roosevelt joined reia-
! tives for lunch preparatory TO returning
/ 10 his homo at Oyster Bay later in the
| day.
! The steamer Kaiscrin Auguste Vic
/ toria on which he sailed from England,
! June 10, entered New York harbor Mt
| I O'Clock this morning and was greeted
| by the battleship South Carolina with
| the national salute OF twenty-one guns.
At half past \ O'Clock Mr.. Roosevelt
was transferred from the Kaiserin
Auguste Victoria, to the revenue tug
| Manhattan, where he was welcomed 10y
number Of personal friends and rela
tiyes and Capt, Archibald W. Butt, rep
resenting President Taft.
Shortly after this he was transferred
from the Manhattan to the revenue
cutter Androscoggin, which led the
water parade that took him up as far
as Fifty-ninth street, North river and
/ down to the battery, where he was ON
cially welcomed by Mayor Gaynor of
| New York az II O'Clock.
Battleship Salutes Him.
/ Rcdcckcd with signal flags and with
/ the guns from Fort Wadsworth and
/ Fort Hamilton booming out IN welcome.
/ the Kaiscrin Augustc Victoria gldod
T into quarantine at 1888 o'clock Immcdi-
atrly behind the big liner came six ships
/ Of the navy, tho hattlcship South Caro-
/ lima in the van, while at anchor in tho
/ roadstcad, awaiting her coming, was the
. United States dispatch boat Dolphin
I with the secretary of the navy on board.
/ The battlcship already had salutcd the
returning Of the former President at
. Sandy Hook with - guns. but on coming
/ To anchor alongside The liner, the South
. Carolina hoistct long strngs Of peu-
uunts aud the river craft joined in the
/ demonstration with loud and prolonged
4 blasts from their whistles.
\ Thanked by Mrs Roosevelt, his daugh-
/ ter. Mrs Nicholas E.ougworth. and his
. son Kermit Col Roosevelt stOuu an