The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-12
BOYS AND GIRLS ARRIVE
FROM TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA
Mayor Gaynor VIII Head the WelcOm-
ing Party and Band of Rough
Riders VIII Be Present
at the Ceremonies


from Col. Theodore Roosevelt on board
the steamer Kaserin Auguste Victoria,
homeward bound today, the friends,
neighbors and admirers of the former
President in this city FASTENED their plans
for welcoming him next Saturday morn
irg Wireless reports from the ship to
Crookhaven and transmitted thence by
cable stated that Colonel Roosevelt was
lust as busy on shipboard as though he
were land
He Is debating messages. speeches. let
ters and articles, while he finds plenty of
time for reading and intercourse with
the other passengers and regularly takes
his constitutional on the deck.
A floating ambulance service will be
established in connection with the water
parade next Saturday. 1t will be sup
Piled by the national volunteer emer-
gency corps, which has also arranged to
look out for possible victims of accidents
on shore during the land parade. Brig.
Gen. F. Elbert Davis M. D.. has writer
to the committee on harbor arrangements
that he will supply the launch Mellerz
with staff OF physicians on the morn
Ing of the water parade and that he will
zee to 1t that 1t accompanies the fleet
pver the route from Quarantine up the
Jersey shore of the Hudson and back to
The Battery.
Several persons who will play unique
part In the reception arrived today. They
hre Louis and Temple Abernathy, tho
youngsters OF United States Marshal
Abernathy of Oklahoma, and United
Etates Marshal Seth Bullock OF Dead
wood. S. D.
1t is said that 20 girls from Texas will
take part in the parade, riding ponies
Imported from the big Texas ranches.
These ranch girls will give touch of
q solor to the line and give it UNIQUE
( hash which will appeal to Colonel Roosc-
Welt
Inst what position the cowgirls will
occupy .Ta Z not yet been determined. The
girls will not have a monopoly upon
picturesqueness, however, for the Rough
Riders will constitute about the most in
teresting section of the line, for in their
ranks will be found representatives OF
pvery walk and condition of life.
War correspondents, aviators, football
players, stock exchange members, con-
puls, ministers, former governors and Or
sinary laborers, all will be found in line
Under President Charles F. Hunter.
Among those who will ride as Roose-
velts escort are Col. Alexander Brodie,
u. 8. A., former governor of Arizona;
Capt. Thomas L. Lynnng, Maj. Henry
B. Hershy of the governments corps of
Rviators, Col. Edward Emerson, Richard
Harding Davis and others prominent in
many walks of life will be present.
Plans for Reception
New York, June 1.-THE committee 20
arrange a welcome for Colonel Roosc-
velt on his return next Saturday comA
Npleted its work today and the five days
Intervening will be spent in building
4 Stands and in receiving the thousands
4 Of guests from all parts Of the country.
A Colonel Roosevelt is expected at quar-
antine at 9 o'clock next Saturday morr.
i ing An hour earlier the revenue cutter
'sAndroscoggin. bearing the mayors COM
)mittee of 800, the state governors here
A for the occasion and other notable guests;
4 the steamer Nassau. bearing the Roose-
\ velt Neighbors association of Oyster Bay
] and hundred or more other steamers
i .rwil start for quarantine. AS soon as the
\ finer Kaiserin Auguste Victoria comes to
H anchor Colonel Roosevelt will be trans
Y ferred to the Androscoggin. Mrs. Roose-
4 welt and others of the family will bs
transferred to the revenue cutter Man
haitian.
The transfer made, the Androscoggin.
escorted by police boats, will take her
place at the head of double column
OF excursion steamers. private yachts
and tugs. The fleet will sail up, the west
side of the Hudson to a flagstake off
West Fffty-ninth street. kfurn in view of
the crowd and make its way back to
the Battery There Colonel Roosevelt will
land at about II o'clock and be received
BY Mayor Gaynor Hundreds of official
6Asuests and the mayors committee will
pc In readiness.
1.-THE mayor will speak first and Colonel
I2Roosevelt will respond When the well
come is finished the land parade will be
formedw. The Roosevelt Rough. Riders.
commanded by Charles e. Hunton of
Oklahoma City. will lead. Following the
Rough Riders will come Colonel Roose
welt, Mayor Gaynor and Cornelius Van
derbilt. chairman of the reception com
nittee, In carriage After them will
|march 6000 Spanish-American war vet
Grams as an escort to the committee. At
Fifth avenue and Central Park the pa .
vadc will disband and 1t Is expected that
Colonel Roosevelt will go to luncheon
At the home of Douglas Robinson, his
brother-in-law. where he will have the
FIRST chance of the day to meet his thre
children now in this country Later in
the day he will take train for Oyster
Bay.
Edward Marshall ON Hand
Nav York. luna II /coa,t,lN