The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-06-30
ROOSEVELT BACK
TO NATIVE LAND
Weather Conditions Ideals Met
Down Bay by Members of His
Family and Friends-Theo-
dore, Jr, and His Fiancee
Among First to Greet Him.


f., Into his home port Saturday after
an absence OF fifteen months dur.
| ing which he has journeyed more
than $4,000 miles.
Back from Elba," on the an
| niverSary OF the battle OF Water
loo, he received q welcome such
as no other private citizen has
been vouchsafed I'm America.
City, State and nation united
| TO do him honor, while Rough
Riders whooped their 10Y and
even the "mollycoddles" cheered
to the best of their ability.
roosevelt luck" favored him az
the end OF his journey. for the wea-
Their, which had been rainy during the
night, with his vessel, the Hamburg
American Liner Kaiserin Augusta.
victoria, slowly poking her nose
through dense fog, cleared early in
the day and the bright sun shone,
through a thin haze, assuring COM
plete success Of the great pageant
prepared for the wanderer.
1t was just 7:40 A. M when the
liner reached Quarantine. and the
DoIphln, yacht of the Secretary of the
Navy, swung alongside, bearing be-
sides Secretary Meyer. Secretary OF
agriculture Wilson, the two members
OF the Cabinet who served as Mr..
Roosevelt's advisers. and Captain Ar
chibald Butt aide to President Taft
and formerly aide to Mr.. Roosevelt.
bearing a letter from the President to.
his predecessor.
Meets Newspaper Men.
Before the sun had reached the no.
rizon the first greeting to the express
ident was extended by the newspaper
pick up the liner off Sandy Hook.
From the moment the big vessel.
which had made the last stretch OF
the trip under forced draught, slowed
down to the pace of the tug, it was
one rousing, continuous ovation of
greeting.
Every craft in New York waters and
many from foreign ports. in the lower
bay, had ship dressed and flags aflut-
ter, as the liner moved majestically to
Quarantine for the official greeting
from the nation.
Along the west water front of Man
haitian hundreds of thousands of per-
sons were banked to catch a glimpse
of the ffteen-mile water parade from
Quarantine up the bay and the North
River to Fifty-ninth Street, and then
back to the Battery at the lower tip
of Manhattan.
The fog had held the Kaiserin up
somewhat, but early in the morning
the wireless flashed the word that she
would be approximately on time. At
the appointed hour the fleet of well
coming boats took up the journey
down the bay.
In the van were the revenue cutter
Manhattan. bearing members of Mr..
Roosevelt's family; the cutter Andres
coggin. with the reception committee,
and the Dolphin.
OF all the events or the busy ar
rival, the one that stood out most
prominently was the meeting between
Mr.. Roosevelt and the members of
his family whom he had not seen in
fifteen months The close friends and
the relatives Of the eX-President were
on board the revenue cutter Manhat-
tan.
Far down the bay. with the lines of
ships reaching for mile upon mile as
a background and the skyscrapers of
Manhattan visible beyond them, the
little cutter swung alongside the gil
gantic liner.
Peering over the rail Of the Kali
serin. high above the smokestack of
the Manhattan, stood the former Pres
ident, surrounded by members of his
party, getting his first taste of the
splendors arranged for him.
For the moment he was not the
man of the day-he was a man of
family back from long trip.
Wells Hello. Boy"
Archie he saw Srst piping shrlly
and shaking a handkerchief and his
hat. Leaning far over the railing. Mr..
Roosevelt called in a Stentorian voice:
| Hello, boy"
Then he made out the other way
ing STRIPPING below as Quentin.
You look bully, Quentin" was his
salute.
And the lads yelled back together.
But the smile that they got was
dim compared with that the express
ldent gave to pretty girl ciinging
70 the arm of robust young man.
She fiuttered a dainty handkerchief as
Mr.. Roosevelt bowed. She was Miss
Eleanor Is. Alexander, who on Mon
day becomes the bride of Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr.
Then there were more greetings
when Mr.. Roosevelt boarded the Man
haitian. Aboard her was Congress-
man Nicholas Longworth, greeting
not only his father-in-law, but his
the eX-President.
ON the Manhattan when she went
down the harbor were also Rear Ad-
miral and Mrs. w. S. Cowles, W. S.
Cowles, Jr., and Mr.. and Mrs Doug
las Robinson.
Mrs. Cowles and Mrs. Robinson are
Mr.. Roosevelt's sisters
Besides them there were Mr. and
MRS. t. Douglas Robinson. Monroe
welt, G.. Hall Roosevelt Miss l. S.
Hagner, Secretary to Mrs. Roosevelt;
Mr.. and Mrs. w. e. Roosevelt and
George r. Roosevelt.
At Quarantine, too, there was a
Heet of newspaper tugs, the cutter
Seneca, turned over to the newspaper
men, and the cutter Mohawk bear
ing congressman and other dignita-
ries.
AS the eX-President and his party
Mrs Roosevelt, Mrs. Longworth. Miss
Ethel, Kermit and his secretaries
went down the side ladder the pas
sengers on the Kaiserin set up a great
cheer, and the Manhattan answered
with blast of the whistle.
breakfast OH Manhattan.
! Greetings over, the party assembled
about the breakfast table in the Man
haitian s saloon. In the meantime the
shlps 10 participate in the marine pa
rade or bearing spectators were as
sembling off Clifton, S. l.. the narad-
ing Ships being in double column. 400
teet apart with the head off Staple-
ton. In the same formation the other
vessels lay in lines extending to a
point of Robins Reef lighthouse, at
the mouth of the XIII Won KriI
headed up stream, ready to fall in
Dehlnd the parade leaders, the CAV
mes in the morning sun stretched
IKE a decorated avenue across the
wide bay. 0