The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-06-19

but II is peculiarly my duty; for any
man who has ever been honored by
states is thereby forever after rem
dered the debtor of the American peO-
pic and is bound throughout his life TO
remember this as his prime obligation.
and in private life, as much as in pub
lie life, SO to carry himself that the
American people may never have cause
TO feel regret that once they placed
him at their head"
Follows Copy Closely.
Did follow copy, bOys7" he asked
as the cheering still fingered over his
closing sentence.
ITO word" came back an apprecia-
tive chorus from the press stand.
The exercises at the battery were
surprisingly BRIEF and simple, and, al
most before the people realized. they
were over.
Mr.. Roosevelt, the mayor and Cor
nelius Vanderbilt were moving toward
their carriages in the line OF parade.
Long after they were swallowed in the
multitude, the crowd fingered to ex-
change "reminiscences. They had their
fill Of Impressions. but the real eX-
ming
While Colonel Roosevelt. and his es-
cort were waiting in their carriage
for the head of the parade to form.
the one Hundred and FOrty-fOurth
Rough Riders, who had come from
every part Of the cOuntry-sOme of
them from as far as Alaska-had their
first chance to greet their old chief.
As the Roosevelt carriage drew up
behind them. they gave a long. wild
yell The colonel was on HIS feet in
an instant Il certainly love all my
bOys" he shouted back. and again
there was a yell almost hysterical in
The parade started at 1890 Lead
ing the line was a detachment of
mounted police Then came the mount
ed band Of Squadron A. New York Ma
tional Guard, the Rough Riders. the
Roosevelt carriage and eighty other
carriages, in which rode the visiting
mayors. governors, members of the
House and the United States senate.
land members OF the reception commit
tee. Eight mounted policemen, all for
merly cavalrymen, who served in the
spanish American war. surrounded the
Roosevelt carriage.
/ The line OF march in the lower city
was through q seethinE whirlpool OF
enthusiasm. The tall cliffs OF the can
lyon that is Broadway were specked
with faces at the windows. Every
Thing ina ginable was waved. below
land aloft. Whirls OF descending ticker
tape, thrown from windows in the fl
nancial district. filled the air with spi-
rails.
Colonel Roosevelt Enthusiastic.
/ Colonel Roosevelt was as enthusiasts
tic as the crowd His face grew red
der, his smile broadened His hat was
continually in his hand as he waved
and bowed, standing erect in his car
friage. He remained standing almost
constantly throughout the two hours
Tourney.
The convOlutiOns of ticker tape
| wound about the necks Of the horses
and fairly enmeshed the colonel him
self. when 10 seemed as II he had fallen
into tic4er basket But he seemed TO
I like II. and waved n string OF tape In
/ one hand while he raised and lowered
/ his hat with the other.
Shortly after the parade passed City
HALL park, a woman leaning from a
/ window Of a factory in which babies
/ hats are made. tossed out a half a
! dozen tiny bonnets toward the car
| riage. Leaning, he caught one of
1 them, inspected il Eravely and then
broke into a broad smile. a woman
! with two babies in her arms stood at