Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-03
Special Train Brings Him to Omaha
Depot Exactly on Time.
ROOSEVELT GREETs ALL WARMLY
Looks Everyone in the Eye and Grips
His Hand.
APPEARS AT SEVEN O'CLOCK
Noted Visitor steps from Car and
Greets Reception Committee with
Glad Smile, Looking Tired,
but Full of Energy.

Colonel Roosevelt, how does this sort
OF work compare with hunting big game
in African
Hunting in Africa is a mere pastime
compared with this sort of thing,r re-
sponded the colonel. He was half smiling
as he spoke but there was a ring Of sim
| cerity in the answer, nevertheless. And
| that there much truth in IL was to be noted
| from Colonel Roosevelt's manner.
His special car had pulled in on the min
ute, attached to the Burlington train from
Kansas City due at 6:45 o'clock. The local
committee, headed by Victor Rosewater
and Chauffeur Gould Dietz-boss of the
steering wheel for the day-was at the
steps when the car stopped. The colonel
was not ready and the committee waited
while he dressed.
The o'clock whistle had hardly finished
blowing when Mr.. Rosewater stepped out
of the door of the Roosevelt car and the
colonel followed right behind. The small
group at the car steps gave him CHEEKY
greeting as he raised his old black hat; and
that same headpiece Is characteristic, be-
ing marked ali over, from crown to rim,
with signs of hasty handling by a hunter.
1t has no particular shape any more ex-
cept that it is roughly dented from front
to rear. The rim has lost its pristine
curve, aud in the hollows and dents, dust
has settled.
Bears Traces of Hard Usage.
Roosevelt bore traces of hard usage, In
spite of his smiling face and his voice will
require considerable smoothing and rest to
make 1t natural again. But he was the
personification of husky manhood just the
same and as he walked up the platform
there was no lack of indication that he
possesses tremendous reserve power
| He met all who reached his hand with
friendly response and a Tightening of
| the eyes plainly perceptible through his
| glasses. He desires a. good look at every
person he greets' and the look of the rifle
man sighting a piece comes over his face
in the most natural manner.
Compared with the men surrounding him
Colonel Roosevelt was not a whit
different He has a typical American
! appearance. He is just aDove medium
height, with a square head. strong neck,
stout shoulders and a sclidly knit body
above a pair Of legs which have taken on
the barrel-stave curve OF the habtual rider
OF horses
Ia simply Dressed.
In plain black cutaway coat and a vest
OF the same material and trousers of
lighter hue, the appearance of Colonel
Roosevelt, with his old black cady in his
hand brought welcoming-indeed loving
smiles to the faces Of the several hundred
men, women and children gathered along
the iron fence at the Burlington depot.
"Hurrah for Roosevelt" yelled a grin
ming citizen with waving arms, and the
women close by gave the shouter some
warm smiles.
"Bully for you, Teddy" yelled another
enthusiast, and then the whole bunch let
out warm salute OF shouting joyousness.
Every tone of American vociferousness
was in evidence, and the colonel is not un-
responsive in the least. He likes the peo-
pie, revels in their friendliness and gives
them back with hearty willingness the af-
lection they express in the mass. Young
| lads and old men grasp his hand, and they
find no assumption of dignity whatever in
their way.
Has HandshakfnE Session.
AS he passed from the gateway in the
platform railing to the Gould Dletz red
torpedo car at the south door of the depot
Colonel Roosevelt shook hands with prob
ably twenty different people. and at the
car, as he paused moment, dozen more
| reached him. Then, as Dletz steered his
machine up the incline TO Tenth street, a
big crowd lining the sidewalk railing
started more cheering and personal greet
ings. and Roosevelt waved his war bonnet
with a strong arm. And so 1t went to the
doors of the Omaha club; all along the
line unrestrained beckoninss and shouting
signified to the guest that Omaha folks
were real glad to see him and wanted him
to know it. He was glad of the atmos-
phere too, and laughed and chatted in his
own rollcking way with Rosewater and
Wattles.
It was remarked as a coincidence that
when the colonel was in Omaha presi-
dent, he arrived on just such morning
moist and cloudy, with rain in the early