The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-06-16
WELCOME TO TEDDY
Great Reception Awaits Col
Roosevelt When He
Lands in N. Y.



The First Citizen" of the Umitssi
States. After Fifteen Months spent
In Africa and Beyond the Seas.
Where He "Hob-Nobh-d With Roy
atty" and Broke Bread With the
Heathen Savage" Returns to Its
Home. stin the Most Popular Citi-
zen i'm America.
ExPresident Theodore Roosevelt
will arrive in New York Saturday Of
this week (June lsthl from Europe.
after an absence OF fifteen months
from the United States, fully n year
OF which time he has spent beyond
the pale OF civilization''-in the jun
giles OF South Africa. shooting big
game with great success.
He will land in New York. and all
this week preparations have been
making TO give the first American
pass anything Of its kind on record.
Next week The Caucasian will tell
you all about the forthcoming event
In the meantime our readers. as well
as the balance of the world. will be
interested in the arrangements, and
the following particulars are printed
for their edification. At the same
time they will accentuate the belief
that there has been no other private
citizen" so popular. nor one in whom
the public has manifested so univer-
sally popular interest.
Lands i'm New York Saturday Morn
ing.
\ dispatch from New York says:
When Colonel Roosevelt arrives
in New York harbor at a. M. Sat
urday, June 18th, he will receive the
most remarkable welcome ever ac-
corded a private citizen in the United
: States. The city. not content with
pouring its huge throngs along
Broadway and Fifth Avenue, will be
gin the welcome down the bay. where
hundreds of steamers, yachts and
crafts of every description will roar
a steam-voiced salute, while bands
play and the multitude shouts itself
hoarse.
From every corner of the United
States, and even from Canada and
Mexico, will come thousands OF Wis
itors to add their voices to the tu-
multi when the Kaiserin Auguste Vic
toria, on which the former President
and his party are passengers. casts
her anchor at quarantine. Foremost
among the boats to meet Colonel
Roosevelt will be the revenue cutter
Manhattan with Roosevelt's relatives
aboard. Close at her stern will be
the cutter Mohawk, carrying two rep
resentatives appointed by President
Taft to meet the famous hunter
scores of Congressman and Represen-
tatives, Governors of States, and
members of embassies, who will &c
down the bay unofficially, and promi-
nent citizens from every State in the
Union.
Colonel Roosevelt will leave the
Kaiserin and board the revenue cut
ter Androscoggin, which will have
Mayor Gaynor's reception committee
on board, and followed by a great
flotilla, the cutter will proceed up
the bay and past the battery to Fifty
ninth Street, where it will turn, and
a half-hour later, land at Pier A.
Here, on the broad lawn OF Battery
Park, where upwards of $50, 900 per-
sons can witness the ceremonies
Mayor Gaynor will receive the dis
tinguished citizen and he will respond
to the address Of welcome.
'The park will be gaily decorated
and will contain a court Of honor
through which Colonel Roosevelt
will pass to his carriage The pa
rade will begin Immediately. In ad-
dition TO the police, mounted band
Roosevelt's Rough Riders. and the
committee, there will be in line the
Spanish War veterans TO the number
OF 5000. All other organizations
will be placed along the line OF march
On Fifth Avenue from Eighth Street
to Fifty-ninth Street. Many of these
organizations will have their own
band, and several. il is understood
will throw arches across the thor
oughfare."