The sun., 1910-07-23
ROOSEVELT SEES PARSONS
avn tJNH RIGHT TOO THEi
JtIkED POIITHS
What ThrS Sshi, Ho~ ever, l. Not -" clear
suffer Toe Visits the 'anIribui Ing
Eiinsr To Nh Him to ~prak ~ .
l.oo,I Roads tsn, ruI Ten tie Declines.

t..n the elevator bows IN the Outlook
office appear To l,- getting used to the
colonel davS IN town tn. unusual eN-
rli-m-nt that ~ tirst almost swept Dr
Lyman Abbott and hiS associates "H
their f-.r Is wearing away There was
scarcely a thrill Yesterday even though
Nlr Roosevelt d,d meet few political
callers who went away without saying
anything In fact n was quiet
After he had got through seeing several
of the delegations which always come IN
the Colonel pat IN several hours with
Congressman Herbert Parsons. formerly
Republican county chairman. and state
senator J Mayhew Wainwright. They
had luncheon with him and after that Was
over came back to the ONCE and discussed
things Neither Mr. Parsons nor Mr.
Wainwright cared 10 say what they talked
about They talked politics The Colo
mel admitted that. hut he said later he
had no comment to make on their visit
Representative Sulzer who - mentioned
as Democratic nominee for (ioVarnor.
and senator Cobb of direct primary fame
were two other callers attracting bit of
attention They did not arrive together.
MIR Sulzer came with Mayor Douglas OF
Niagara Falls and Col Isaac- Of Buffalo.
All he wanted was To ask the Colonel 70
make a speech nt the national good roads
convention IN the latter part Of ths month
The Colonel refused He simply cannCt
do u
In order to emphasize the utter impos-
slbility of hts making any more speeche-
for n long time the contributing editor
Said that by actual count up to late in
the afternoon he had received 2.Uai in
vitations 10 talk Secretary Harper
computed the list II dates from June N.
the day he got back from Europe II
the Colonel made "a speech every day. in
Guiding Sundays. as he ls requested To do,
he'd have tO he on the job steadily Tor
more than FIVE years
Mr.. Roosevelt showed good deal Of
interest yesterday IN looking over some
plans for raising the wreck ~ tho Maine,
John O'Rourke. president NJ the O'Rourke
Engineering Construction Company. had
drawn some blue prints. and he showed
them to the Colonel. who studied them.
MIR. q Rourke believes that his scheme Tor
raising the wreck out of Havana harbor
~ practical. Tho Colonel didn't say
whether he thought 50 or not
The only incident that caused much stir
yesterday was the appearance Of a rather
large woman wearing eysglasse- who de-
all about a new magazine of race prog
ress Tor grownuTs about babies She
carried numerous posters on which we're
revealed a pair 81 youngsters with hardly
any clothes on. There were lion and
n pair of glasses, which she explained
ought 20 please Mr. Roosevelt. Nobody
knows whether they would or not because
the woman went away angry when the
Colonel denied her an audience.
Liston l. Lewis. a. chairman Of the
Lincoln birthday dinner committee.
asked the Colonel 10 n. tbs, guest Of honor
at the annual dinner next winter. The
Colonel accepted this invitation, which
he has had under consideration for several
weeks The dinner will hn held February
~. 1911. a. Lincoln = Birthday. February -,
falls on Sunday. Among others who saw
the Colonel yesterday were Representative
Calder of Brooklyn. {. Hildreth of Frank
lin. Walter Page and =. VI Doubleday.
Peter A. Jay United States diplomatic
representative IN Egypt William 2. Nor
gan and Dr Charles McKenna u the Amer
ican Society Of Chemical Engineers. and
several minor delegations with Requests.
The Colonel stayed unit! late in the after
noon. He motored hack 20 Sagamor"
Hill saying that h. will he very niuset until
Monday at least