The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-06-21
HAILED IN TRIUMPH.
Roosevelt Returns-Vast Crowd Wei.
comes Hunter Back From
ElbaesQue Jungles.

day for the first time for nearly ff-
teen months and received arotsing
welcome.
He bore with his usual buoyancy a
day of heavy fatigue, public duties and
private emotions commingled and at
4.40 o'clock this afternoon, after a
family reunion at the home of Theron
Butler, grandfather of his prospective
daughter-in-law, Miss Eleanor Butler
Alexander, left the city he had sur
veyed the same morning from afoat,
reviewed in parade ashore and greet
ed by explicit word of mouth to be
welcome more intimately by his life
long neighbors at Oyster Bay, L. l.,
tonight. Tomorrow he will rest.
AS private citizen he was still the
same vigorous man the city has
known for 80 years IN various public
offices from assemblyman to presi-
dent.
Claims 'Em All.
"By George, that's one of my ships"
be exclaimed, doesn't she look good.
built her end those torpedo boats
too."
In the excitement and suspense of
waiting for the time when the return
ing marine parade should bring the
colonel to his appointed landing point
at the Battery, there were many lit
tie incidents that showed the temper
of the crowd. One stevedore unload
ing a ship laid down his hook to
watch and wait.
"Hi," shouted the foreman, "you
come back here or I'll dock yoa an
hour"
Dock ne a week." shouted back
the recalc:trant, "I'm going TO have a
look at Teddy"
Another waterfront sightseer cap
ped long tale of wonders by asking
naively, "Who is this Roosevelt any
how" s<.
A Costly Query.
The next thing he knew he was in
the river, propelled by indignant
hands. A policeman fshed him out
and an ambulance carried him to a
hospital
The mayor in welcoming Mr.. Roose-
velt said:
eve are all here to welcome MI.
Roosevelt to New York. We have
watched his progfess through Eu-
rope with delight. Wherever he has
gone he has been honored as man
and as an exponent Of the principles
Of the government of this country. He
was received everywhere in Europe
and honcred as no man from this
country ever was honored. We glory
in all that and it only remains for me
to say now, Mr.. Roosevelt, that we
welcome you most heartily and we
are glad to see you again"
The Whole Business.
"Mr. Mayor, fellow townsmen, and
to you, my fellow Americans" the
colonel began. A tremendous wave
of cheering went up as the word
"Americans" received especial en-
phasis.
His voice was a little hoarse, but
he spoke with his usual force and de-
clamatory effect.
Replying to Mayor Gaynor, Col.
Roosevelt said:
II thank you, Mayor Gaynor.
Through you I thank your commit
tee and through them I wish to thank
the American people for their greet
ing. I need hardly say am most
deeply moved by the reception given
me. No man could be received by such
IA greeting without being made to feel
very proud and very humble.
"I have been away a year and
quarter from America and have seen
strange and interesting things alike
in the heart of the frowning wilder
ness in the capitals of the mightiest
and most highly polished of civilized
nations. I have thoroughly enjoyed
myself and now am more glad than
I can say to get home, to be back
in my own country, back among peo-
pie love.
Ready to Join.
81 am ready and eager to do my
part so far as I am able in helping
solve problems which must be solved
if We of this, the greatest democratic
republic on which the sun has ever
shown, are to see it's destinies rise to
the nigh level of our hopes and it's
opportunities. This is the duty OF