Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-06-24
100000 PEOPLE CHEER.
Roosevelt Laughs and Weeps Dur
ing Progress of the Splendid Re-
ception PREPARED for Him.

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New York, June l9-Mr. Roosav welt is
home, the happiest man alive. His re-
ception in the gateway of his country
went straight to his heart. He laughed
like boy. lie wept unashamed.
Nothing in all of his career-he said it
with clinched jaws and bang of his
ist-so affected him as the fervency of
the greeting he got on land and water
yesterday. New York Just reached out,
gripped him by the hand. slapped him
on the back and said TEDDY, you're
mighty welcome home"
From his year and quarter of hunt
ing and sightseeing and spt ech making
he returned with no politics to declare.
Afioat and ashore stand patters and in
surgents coveted his smile, plucked at his
sleeve and prayed for declaration. He
| laughed them aside. He WAS in no mood
he told them all, for political discussion
The futuref Well-and then he was dane
ing away, fiercelv, feverishly intent on
missing nothing of the spectacle in his
honor.
Theodore Roosevelt was no mans critic
yesterday. His delight embraced them
all. For the strenuous, the mollycoddles,
they Of the soft body and the hard
face, the big and little in the worlds es
timation, he had the same smile--and
every degree of citizen cheered with the
same enthusiasm. He said once that he
felt like reaching out and giving the
whole United States hug. There you
have him all day long.
1t is the simple truth that no American
was ever so nightly acclaimed as ex-
President Roosevelt yesterday. Within
the eight hours stay in New York bound
aries he got every mark of honor that
time and his own comfort permitted.
The pageantry of San Francisco's receipt.
ion to Gen. Grant when the general ar
rived there in 1879 from his tour of the
world was not equal to that of Mr.. Roose-
velt's Homecoming. The Marquis de
Lafayette was saluted by the forts and
the shouts of the people in this city near
ly sixty-six years ago. but for Col Roose-
welt forts and warships roared the presi-
denial salute of twenty-one guns and
more than a pillion people lined the
streets and cheered him every foot of his
way
WELCOME THAT LASTED ALL DAY.
His welcome began when the Ham,
burg American steamship Kaiserin Aug
uste Victoria doomed at 6 AS a. m.
through the mists off Sandy Hook. and
| it ended, so far as this city is concerned,
only when he went abroad his train for
Oyster Bay at 4:30 p m. At s o'clock IF,
| Quarantine he was received by represent
atives of President Taft and Gov. Hughes
and senators and governors and legis-
lators and private citizens of distinction.
New York Bay under splendid sun
was dotted with ships of war and mer-
chant vessels assembled to escort him up
the North river and back to the battery.
The battleship South Cardinals guns
were firing the salute that is reserved to
honor the first citizen of the republic and
five of the most powerful boat destroyers
of the United States navy were ready to
show him the way home.
He came UP the bay on the revenue
cutter Androscoggin after greeting on
board the cutter Manhattan his children
who had remained in this country and a
few intimate friends. The reception com.
mittee selected by Mayor Gaynor sur
rounded him on the Androscoggin and
shook hands with him. For nearly every
man who passed him in the line he had
like man on springs. He joked. he
went back over the years and recalled
this and that adventure.
He swept New York with an eager
eye, standing alone on the bridge of the
Androscoggin. The piers, crowded and
noisy, gave him greeting and he swung
his silk hat to Jersey and Manhattan.
The deep and vibrant whistles saluted
him and he laughed and waved his hand
at the crowding steamboats,. Not until
the cutter had wheeled around opposite
Fourteenth street had started back to
ward the Battery did he descend from
the bridge.
The fervency of his welcome grew as
he approached the land. When he touch
ed foot on Manhattan Island at 1886 a. m.
there were 10000 people around Battery
park to roar welcome. On the stand
near pier A. Mayor Gaynor greeted him
with the briefest of speeches and Col.
Roosevelt, with almost equal brevity, as
sured the mayor and his fellow citizens
that he was glad to be home and that no
man could get such reception without
being made to feel very proud and very
humble.
| SOLID YELL MOVED WITH HIM.
And presently he was on his way up
Broadway through crowds that filled
that canyon. With the Rough Riders
ahead of him and 400 frock coated and
silk hated officials and prominent citi-
zens in carriages behind him, he moved
| with Maynr Gaunnr and C,ornalils Nan.