The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-03-13
Col. Roosevelt Is Aboard a
Government Steamer Which
Has in Tow a Barge Filled
With Trophies.
NEWSPAPER MEN ARE
GIVEN WARM WELCOME
Of His Travels in Africa Ex-
President Talks Entertain
ingIy, But Is Very Silent
About Politics.
Especial Cable from the Interna tiona1


Especial Cable from the lnterna tlonal
News Servce) .
Khartoum, Egypt, March 12.-Speed
ing down the white Nile, the steamer
Dal, with Col. Roosevelt, his son Ker-
init, and the other members of the
American expedition early today was
at a point but little more than 200
miles south of this city, the capital of
the Egyptian government of the Sou
dan. where Mrs. Roosevelt and the
distinguished explorers daughter, Eth
el, will greet him. Full speed" is
the order issued today by the captain
of the Dal at the coloneFs request.
In tow of the Dal is barge contain
ing thousands of the specimens which
Colonel Roosevelt came to Africa to
bag, while conveying yacht are the
fleet craft of newspaper correspondents
who raced madly from Khartoum to
be the first to greet the ex-president.
n CONTINUOUS ICVCCs
From breakfast time on today, Col.
Roosevelt held continuous levee for
the benefit of the newspaper men,
most of whom are old American friends
of his. Tanned and toughened by ex-
posure until he looks as hard as the
hardest of his old rough riders, he
greeted each with the old Roosevelt
smile, hearty "hello, old man." and
a grip that made each recipient vince.
OF Africa and his adventures therein
he talks inexhaustively. OF politics,
at home or abroad, he has not word
to say.
You know the position in which
am placed" he said to group of half
dozen writer's on the forward deck of
the Dal, when they were pressing him
for opinions on the Ballinger- -Pinchot
trouble besetting President Taft and
also trying to CLEAN his views on the
lIew York state situation as well as he
could formulate them from the exceed
ingly meagre cable information they
could give him.
Cut OF From World.
II have been practically cut off from
the world for year now" he contin-
ned. why these papers you boys
have given me are the first from
America l have seen for an entire year.
Occasionally l got a look at an anti
D,,;$ ;,1 Of
rican stations, but in most instances
they were behind the time when l had
left civilization.
1.-THE reports you have given and
brought me are an undigested mass in
my mind now. I have got to have de.
tails and time for reflection before
can formulate intelligent ideas on how
civilization has moved in my absence
Anything I know about l will discuss
with you but politics-home or foreign
is tabooed and will be until l am
back in America. This is positive and
shall rigidly live up to this rule
throughout my entire European tour.
AS the boat passed along today, il
was cheered at several points by ma
tives who had heard the mighty hunt
er was passing down the Nile. Col
Roosevelt waved a greeting in answer
to the cheers and smiled broadly.
Col. Roosevelt, like r. T. Cunning
ham, the African hunter, who con
Quoted the expedition: A. Loring, Ed
mund Heller and DIR. Mearns, gave un
stinted praise to the wonderful skill
and courage Kermit had showl
al Spu-a T,,Y,, h.
is a mighy hunter" said Cunningham
with a smile, but if his laurels hav'
been imperiled at all or this expedition
it has been by Kermit. who is on,
Of the deadliest shots and nervies
men. young or old. ever met.
Told of His Escapes.
Colonel Roosevelt told today of tn
latest of the several narrow escapes h
had while hunting in the back country
Shortly before the expedition entere
upon the Nile stage of the journey h
was charged by bull elephant he ha
wounded He was in an impenetrabl
jungle and apparently was doomed, bu
we'll placed bullet that went HON
Just before the mighty trunk fstruc
him. dropped the beast dead in it
tracks.
At the present rate of speed the Da
will dock at Khartoum during Monda
forenoon. Siatin Pasha, the BIRTHS
governor general of the Soudan, ha
had no direct word from Col. Roost
welt In regard to his reception, but ha
come to the conclusion that after S
long an absence. Col. Roosevelt woul
appreciate the opportunity OF devotin
the first day at least to a reunion wit
n