The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-06-09

Chairman r. A. c. Smith OF the
Harbor Display committee states thaI
NEARLY every available sea-going craf'
has been chartered to meet at quaran'
tine the Kaiserin Augu3te Victoria or
which Colonel Roosevelt will reach
America. and that upwards of 100
boats will join in the procession from
quarantine to the city. The boats
comprising steamships, private yachts
and tugs, will be gaily decorated and
all will have bands on board. The 300
members Of the citizens reception
committee appointed by Mayor Gaynor
will go down the bay early in the
morning on the revenue cutter An.
~droscoggin and meet the Kaiserin at
. o'clock as she drops anchor. Imme-
diately Colonel Roosevelt will board
the Androscoggin and the procession
will start toward New York.
Passing the battery the boats will
proceed up North river, hugging the
New Jersey shore, to a s~take-boat an
chored at 59th street, and then return.
reaching the battery at II O'Clock.
Here Colonel Roosevelt will set foot
on his native soil for the first time
in a year and be official welcomed
by Mayor Gaynor, representing the
city Of New York. This ceremony will
take place on a raised stand and the
principals will be surrounded by 5000
distinguished guests, including United
States senators and representatives,
members of the diplomatic crops al
Washington, members Of President
Taft's cabinet, business men of ma
tional reputation, artists, literateurs.
and many other PERSONS Of note,
The republican club of the city Of
New York, has chartered the big
steamship Albany and will go to quar-
antine with fully 5000 persons aboard.
she is as speedy as the fleet Kais-
it is likely that she will proceed
to Fire island and pick up the liner.
The Roosevelt Neighbors' association
Of Nassau county, l.. t., will take
part in the naval demonstration on
the steamboat Nassau. The Nassau
will go down the bay with banners
flying ind bands playing, and it is
needless to say, with Colonel Roose-
neighbors shouting themselves
hoarse. They will wear hats alike,
carry the banners they took to- Wash
.ngton at the time of Roosevelt's in
l%uguration, and wave small American
The Hamilton club of Chicago,
800 enthusiasts from Philadelphia and
delegations from Omaha, Washington,
o:ttsburg, Buffalo and other cities
already engaged boats. The
larbor will be policed by cutters in
he revenue service and speedy police
raft.
The land parade will be spectac Tar
n the extreme, although the marching
will be confined to the mounted police,
he police band, the Roosevelt Rough
iiders escorting Mr.. Roosevelt, and
he reception committee in carriages.
The demonstration will be remarkable
n that instead of marching, the vsri-
JUS organizations will be lined up
long Fifth avenue from Eighth street
to 59th. Each organization will
AVE a band and may throw an arch
cross the street. In reality the par
.ders will review Mr.. Roosevelt, in
tead Of Mr.. Roosevelt reviewing
hem. All along the line decorations
will be thrown to the breeze until the
QUITE will be an enormous ribbon of
ed, white and blue, extending from
park to the battery.
Mr.. Roosevelt's plans following the
eception have not been announced,
nd it is not known whether he will
to his home at Oyster Bay or re-
main in the city until the luncheon to
given him Thursday, June %, by
he Roosevelt Rough Riders. Mrs.
roosevelt has been invited by the
OF the American Revolu-
ion to a luncheon at Sherry's, where
{ she accents, she will review the par
de from the windows of the famous