Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1910-06-16
ALL READY FOR
MR.. ROOSEVELT
Broadway Will be EIabOrateIy
Decorated for the
Reception
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND
WILL BE In THE PARADE

NEW YORK, June 16.-Final details
for the reception to Theodore Roose-
velt when he returns from his African
hunting trip on Saturday were COM
pleted today.
Everything is to move according to
hard and fast schedule on Saturday
The committee has notified the Long
Island Railroad that the private car
used by Roosevelt and his family in
making the trip to oyster Bay shall
be attached to the train leaving Long
Island City at >. m. This will permit
the former president to have his first
dinner on American soil after his long
absence in his own home on Sycamore
Hill.
The train taking the Colonel home
will be d special run as the first sec
tion of the regular express. 1t has
/ been chartered by the Nassau County
Roosevelt Reception Committee (Roose-
velt's neighbors) the organization that
escorted him from Washington follow
ing the installation Of President Taft
as the Coloners successor in the White
House.
The naval parade up the bay from
welcoming exercises in Battery Park
where Mayor Gaynor will welcome Col
onel Roosevelt back home and the lat
ter will make a speech in response are
to be concluded By 11.30 Mayor Cay
nor stated today that he will not con-
sumo more than five minutes in greet
ing the former President and wireless
dispatches from the steamer quote the
Colonel as saying he will have only
few words to say"
Gay Decorations.
The entire route which will be fol-
lowed by the Colonel the reception
committee and escort of police ex-
rough riders and Spanish war veterans
is to be decorated with Nari- colored
! bunting and the American flag. Most
of the big concerns on Broadway and
Fifth avenue have announced that they
will spare no expense in decorating for
the occasion. The organizations that
! will be massed on Fifth avenue be-
, tween Eighth and Thirty sixth streets
have had their positions in line as
signed All Of them will be uniformed
J and they include political organiza-
: tions Of every description Italian, Hun
garian, scandinavian, Swedish, Irish
and American social and fraternal So
GlellGS numbering not 1855 AAldn -YtvVb'
They will stand and wait the privi-
i lege of marching" being reserved by
? the committee for its members who
I garbed in plug hats and long flow
ing frock coats will ride in carriages
1 imediately between Colonel Roosevelt
/ and his escort Of 1000 Spanish War
? veterans.
Roueh Riders to be in Line.
! The Rough Riders in line Will be COM
4 manded by Colonel Alexander Q. Brady,
Roosevelts neutenant-colonel when he
commanded the volunteer cavalry and il
was stated there will be 1H members Of
the famous organization on hand, mount
ed on livery stable nags from most part
although a few brought their own
! mounts The escort of police will lead
the way followed by a hand Of 100 pieces
Then will come the mounted Rough Rid
ers. surrounding the carriage i'm whicf
= will ride Colonel Roosevelt. Mayor vii
# liam j. Gaynor and Cornelius Wander
= hilt, chairman of the general COMMITTEES
f Of arrangements. In the second carriage
d will be Judge Ebert II. Gary. chairman
q of the plan and scope committee, Secre
A tary Of Agriculture James Wilson. Cap
!. tain Archibald Butt. aide to Presiden
n Taft and formerly aide to Presiden
secretary to President Roosevelt. now
. Collector of the Port for the Southern
4 District Of New York Secretary Meve
4, Of the Navy Department viii ride in th
third carriage accompanied by Govern
I or Fort Of New Jersey: Governor Quin
by Of New Hampshire; Governor Mills
Of New Mexico, and Governor Weeks, o
Connecticut.
Y Representatives Of many o4her state
Z win follow. members Of the Senate an,
Il House Of Representatives. Of the Stat
Legislature. distinguished invited guest
and the entire committee Of arrange
ments.
II Spanish War Veterans on Left.
The left Of the line will be brought II
by the Spanish war veterans They VII
wait at Washington arch for the other
and win stand AZ present while the Col
+. onel and distinguished guests pass. the
i take their place at the rear Of the Pre-
cession.
1t is expected that the entire prograr
will be completed by 1so and Rooseve
Will drive TO the home Of his brother-ir
law Douglas Robinson where he wi
lunch with his family and a few persona
N friends and rest until tune to leave f.
oyster Bay. Il is planned to halt ii
Colonel al Fifty-ninth street just befoi
he starts for the Robinson home. to pr,
n sent him with copy OF the resolution
". Of welcome adopted by the allied camy
nd Of Spanish War Veterans. These res,
he lutions are magnihcently engrossed q
~ parchment and bound
re wireless from the Kaiserian August
~ Victoria to-day stated that at o'cloc
- this morning she was $40 miles southea
of Sable Island. all we'll, and running I
/" schedule The wireless OUTFIT is beir
kept busy receiving messages for CO
- onel Roosevelt most of them from pe
"a sons of whom he had never heard.