The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-08-05
TEDDY DIDN'T COME TO LAKE.
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where he interviewed miners and
working people, his mission evil
IDENTIFY being the covering of an as
signment from the Outlook to in
quire into the condition of the young
people in the mining regions, just as
he had the conditions surrounding
the lives of young people in rural
districts investigated when he was
president. Well, he was on his job
and wasn't out for holiday or he
probably would have taken advant-
age of the invitation extended him
to attend the Merchants day outing
at Lake Lodore.
Carbondale is disappointed as
naturally we would have liked to
have been considered of enough i'm
portance with our 1900 popula-
tion to have had him here. He had
the dinner engagement at o'clock,
however, and as he had worked so
strenuously at every town coming
up the valley, it was seen after the
party reached Peckville that, owing
to the condition of the roads, it
would be impossible to come here,
make the inspections intended, and
get back to Scranton in time to fill
the engagement.
The Colonel was working as hard
as any newspaper man covering an
assignment, and deadly in earnest.
A number of incidents were related
in the papers of his meeting miners
and the miners wives, but none
were quite so typically Rooseveltian
as at Peckville at the Bliss silk mill,
where he made his last stop. He
asked to be presented to the young
women and little girls and he shook
hands with each one of them. 1t
came the turn of one of the forewo-
men, young woman of foreign eX-
traction. She was introduced as
Miss Mary Without any
smirking or smiling to convey
compliment, the colonel said in kind
but precise words:
Mary, you are a handsome young
woman. How old are you?"
Nineteen, SIR" she said.
We'll, Mary, think that in about
another year now you ought to be
getting married"
SNAP" Mcdonald was one of the
first to get into Col. Roosevelt's
presence and was about to be intro
duced to him by Father Curran of
Wilkes-Barre, when the former
president exclaimed:
"Oh, yes; Mr., Mcdonald of Car
bondale."
And he has probably met no less
than a million of people since the
time that Mcdonald, John Mitchell
and John Lotus took lunch togeth-
er with him at the White House
during the time the mine strike
commission was investigating the
mine troubles in this region. There
was no hesitancy in his manner.
He recalled the name as soon as he
saw Mr.. McDonald's face.
Monsignor Coffey and Judge
O'Neill were guests at the dinner
given in Mr.. Roosevelt's honor by
Bishop Hoban at the Bishops resi-
dence. Both were greatly pleased
with him. The judge especially,
usually reticent, spoke enthusiasts
cally of the quality of man Roose-
welt appeared to be upon personal
/ contact with him.
\ beautiful thing about the char
/ acter of Roosevelt is that he makes
and holds and seems to appreciate
so many personal friendships. In
| this respect he has not an equal in
any man on earth. The Mcdonald
incident serves to illustrate how he
retains his acquaintances in his
memory. He has thousands of warm
personal friends with whom he is
on intimate terms, and yet none are
nearer and closer than the friend
ship mutually entertained betweer
him and Father Curran and John
Mitchell. These men he met through
their work for the miners. Father
Curran probably more than any 9th
er man was responsible for the
presidents interference in the mine
strike and for the appointment o
the commission.
Roosevelt makes his friends from