The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-17
he IS NEAR HOME
Col. Roosevelt Is Due to Arrive
Tomorrow Morning.
After 15 Months Absence From
His Native Land.
NOTICE TO BE GIVEN
BY the Firing of Salute of
21 Guns.
Mayor GaynorWill Welcome Him
at the Battery.
NOTICE TO BE GIVEN

june II, Nld MdrCOIn wireless 10 SldS-
scOnsett Mass.-As the steamer Kali
serin Auguste Victoria with Theodore
Roosevelt on board approached New
York the former president continued to
receive invitations to deliver speeches.
All of these Invitations will be decln-
ed With the exception of three occa-
sicrs, Col. Roosevelt has not met many
of the passengers on the steamer.
These occasions were at the services
last Sunday and on last Tuesday, when
he held a reception on deck and shook
hands with some 300 of his fellow voy
ayers. Yesterday, he attended lee
ture by Homer Davenport. the car
toonist and at it's conclusion he spoke
briefly.
Mr.. Roosevelt spends most of his
time debating to his stenographer or
walking the lower deck alone. wearing
3 gray suit and a siouch hat.
II Mr. Roosevelt takes his breakfast in
the dining salon. but lunches and dimes
with his family in their private apart
nents. Mrs. Roosevelt and the for
ruer presidents daughter, Mrs. Nicho-
las Longworth, kept to their own cab
ins most of the time. Captain Ruser
entertained tine Roosevelts and the
Medill A-cCornicks Yesterday.
New York, June 1.-THE weather
bureau today makes the following
weather forecast:
Showers this afternoon. Party
cloudy tonight and Saturday; warmer
Saturday; light to moderate variable
winds becoming westerly"
New York, June 17.-Theodore Roose-
Welt today is fast nearing New York,
where welcoming demonstration
awaits him tomorrow on his return
from foreign lands. A wireless dis
match from the steamship Kalserin
Auguste Victoria. with Col. Roosevelt
and his family aboard. states that tne
liner was 443 miles east of Ambrose
channel hghtship at O'Clock TINS
rnorniI1r which under ordinary con-
ditiors would bring the steamship OF
the Sandy Hook reaches at O'Clock
tomorrow morning. Weather condltons
for the welcoming semed dubious thls
morning. ..-,-- ,.o-ootad
+be bav and a slantless drizzle made
New York a sodden spot today. put tne
Weather man held out little prospect
of clearing fog at sea, put as nc
shin TO be in quarantine until oclocA'
Captain Ruser has some leeway III
"There will be no postponement f of
fnrnnrr0WiS program OlA
900 rain or anything else in the weaIn-
-, iira If the Kaiserin Auguste VIC
+oria gets in on time, was Ine SI4t $50
1nent made by the reception colilill''ee
today. 49, fo,.,,oer ,res-
.sa,l+,s 1reIcome have been completeuo
When the vessel drops ahcnoi t1ie
quarantine Col. Roosevelt anu anu - -
family will go aboard ti'fos4 the after
+ar Manhattan for break1ase' -
hitch +hey will be transferred " III
larger cutter Androscoggln WhIIr IIli 49,, W.,
lead the water parade up ln5-o In1 Max-or
and back to the Battery, W. Ie+nrning
C.avnor will welcome the Dn++ary
St IaStro 1he exercises at the BattelS
lii followed by a parade up pros'y .oa,1-
-, and Fifth avenue. VlsltIhS . VI A.
+zaffons having been asslgheu "i'ie
line of march
VIII Go to Oyster Bay.
Col Roosevelt goes to nus noi"e
O,Cste,- Rav late in the atterhooH; 10
Og yS, +i,e General roundup of crooks, oee
= 4tsn - - eorraIled 81 in the poroueh ~ ~
Manhattan They were an +1,e
+ba Dolice headquarters uui 61ss.,,o;s IhIs
iv1+ and morning. Ponce IN. "
mgnt 5aI.a,. 5ilI had a conference with the
I, elT ,11aois+rates and 1t was dsIS
poIICo ~ Known pickpockets ana QUIZ t
oriYoinaIs taken before the ~" - hold
win, upon proper ldenIrii1Sr4s ars for As hours.
e9 ,TFrtx-ora guns the nauolal SO
"liIi erect the former presldeh1I ~ as
iulea aS+ enters the outer harpo['
ile.tiasi,in ne south Carolina, TO pS sua s1l
tioned in the Ambrose ciall4 .atl 4t,a+ fbe
i LIE, an expectant city LhdI ~ Ine
Kaiserin Auguste Victorla ,in1a 1n.e at hand
tinguished passehs
at ,aac COMPLETION of the naval demon n
.Lntioo that will follow, Chairman H.
r smith of the harbor dlSpIaS S,ns-
mittee has ammo unceu unc+inT FinaI in
seIs 4iors go also were given to all cap
Eicbtv warships. harbor patr0l poaeS 9.Hio7
and other steamers Will take so,l Dll5cla,
part in the parade up eme
river and back to the pa''ei'
A Second Salute.
In addition a hotilla of loo mer-
chant steamers will carry slghtseers
down the bay to witness the transfer
Of Colonel Roosevelt and his party
from the ocean liner to the Andro-
scoggin, the revenue cutter that Will
bear the welcoming party and Colonei
Roosevelt in the parade.
AS the former president boards the
Androscoggin, a second salute will an
nounce that he is once more under the
American flag. For two minutes fol-
lowing the combined fiotillaS VIII JOIN
IN p blast of whistles.
Escorted by revenue steamers, po-
lice natrol boats. the South Carolina,
ave torpedo boat destroyers and the
government dispatch boat Dolphin, the
Androscoggin will lead the river pa
rade When Colonel Roosevelt is land
ed at the Battery the formal welcome
by Mayor GaynOr will proceed The
rnayor's speech and that by Mr.. Roose-
welt will be the only addresses. and the
land parade will start Immediately.
orb final