The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18
REVIEW OF TRIP.
Graphic Description of EXPIRES
ident's Journey.
Remarkable and Surprising In
cidents Which Developed.
1T WAS SPECTACULAR
From Start to Finish, Whether
in Jungle
Or in Cultured Cities or Courts
of Europe.
IT WAS SPECTACULAR

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt today
completed his remarkable trip, re-
ceiving a most enthusiastic welcome
home.
Sailing from New York on the
steamer Hamburg March %, 1903,
amid scenes of unprecedented enthusi-
asm, the colonel returns just ASP DAYS
later, after journey of nearly thirty
thousand miles, laden with honors. to
find the plans for his welcoming far
outrivaling those that marked the
send-off given upon his departure.
A world figure before he left. he
returns probably the most talked of
man Of the present day. That this
journey through a part of Africa and
through Italy, France, Austria, Bel
GUM, Holland, Germany, Denmark.
Norway, Sweden and England was
nothing short of triumphal march, is
attested by mere unadorned recital
of his movements. Whether it was
when Daudi Chwa, the 12-year-old
king of Uganda, did him honor at
Kampala, or when Emperor William
of Germany enthusiastically called
him "Mein Freund Roosevelt" at a
special review of the flower of the
German army, whether it was in the
matched villages of the interior of
Africa or riding in the imposing flu
neral cortege of the late King Edward
of England as the special ambassador
of the United States, it is no exagger-
alton to say that he was the central
figure.
Trips of Other Presidents.
Four other ex-presidents of the
United States made trips abroad-Van
Buren,, Fillmore, Grant and Benjamin
Harrison-and, while their journeys,
particularly that of General Grant,
were memorable in many ways, they
were hardly to be compared with that
of Roosevelt, lacking, as they did, it's
many spectacular features.
When 1t is remembered that the
colonel spent nearly an entire year.
from April 81, 1909. when he landed
at Mombassa, to March IA, 1910,
when he arrived at Khartum, in the
interior of Africa, his Quickening of
the worlds pulse in his Kaleidoscope
rush through Egypt and Europe be-
comes an even greater achievement.
Although Roosevelt went abroad
primarily to hunt big game, as a
spent by far the greater part of his
time in this pursuit, it was his trip
down the Nile and through Europe
that furnished the real news features
of his journey. AS a hunter he proved
a big success, winning at the outset
the title of Bwana Jumbo. or 'PortIy
Master from his admirers among the
African natives, but as lecturer and
his well known themes of decent living
and the meeting of duty face to face,
he created far more comment.
StartleS His Audiences.
Beginning with his address at the
American mission school in Khartun
March 16, in which he forcibly urged
upon the students obedience to and CO.
operation in England's rule, and Gull
minating with his memorable address
in Guild Hall, London, May 81, when,
after receiving the rare honor of the
city's freedom, he boldly arraigned
England's administration of affairs in
Egypt and bluntly told his hearers that
England should meet its responsibility
there or get out, almost his every pub
ton or thrust that startled his audi
ences and set the press of the world to
talking.