The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-18
Especial from United Press)

New York, June 1S.-IdeaI Roosevelt weather, bright skies, strong sun and gentle breeze greeted the steamer Kaiserin Auguste Victoria as she sail ed up the lower bay to quarantine ear- ly today. The German liner. bedecked with signal flags and her colors, pass eG in the Ambrose Channel at 7:05 and proceeded slowly to quarantine, all of the vessels in the lower bay whistling a mighty salute in honor of Colonel Roosevelt and his party.
 Theodore Roosevelt returned to America today after an absence of fifteen months, during which time he hunted big game in African jungles, hob-nobbed with kings and royalty in Europe and acted as American Am bassador at the funeral of King Ed ward VII.
 He went away on March g, 1909, shortly after his retirement from the highest office in the gift of the. Amer ican people. He came back today a private citizen, but one to whom was rendered the most enthusiastic greet ing ever given a returning country man.
 The reception to Colonel Roosevelt started at daybreak this morning, when the Hamburg-American liner
 
 abreast of Fire Island, down the Long Island coast, 50 miles out of New York harbor. It continued at Quar- antine and in a naval pageant up the Hudson River; it reached climax in Battery Park where the official well coming took place, and became a real American greeting in which Theodore Roosevelt was the guest of his friends the common people," in the march up Broadway and Fifth avenue.
 It had been publicly announced that the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria would o'clock, at which hour the formal re- ception was to begin. It was secret ly arranged. however, that the vessel should come up to Quarantine at 7:45 this morning, so that Colonel Roose- velt's immediate family should have some time with him before the public took him in charge.
 Off the Ambrose Channel Light the baLlesnp South Carolina and a half dozen torpedo boat destroyers were anchored under orders from President Taft. As the Kaiserin Auguste Vic tOria came alongside the saluting guns from the warshipS boOmed out their Presidential salute of 21 guns. the highest honor ever accorded a private American citizen.
 The torpedo boats fell in behind the kaiserin and came up the bay. later taxing part III the naval pdTdO0 up and down the Hudson river.
 A large number of excursion boats, yachts and press tugs gathered at Fire Island last night and were there when the Kaiserin hove in sight. Among the boats were the Albany, bearing the Republican Club of New York, the Nassau, carrying 300 of the Roosevelt Neighbors' Association of Oyster Bay; the Commodore with the Hamilton Club of Chicago and several private yachts which gave Colonel Roosevelt a noisy salute as soon as the Kaiserin was close enough for the figure of the returning hunter to be discerned.
 The Kaiserin did not slow down, but continued to Quarantine, where she anchored promptly at 7:45, while the health officers went on board No one was allowed to board the liner until she had been formally inspected and given her health clearance papers.
 As the Kaiserin passed through the Narrows at Quarantine. she was re- ceived with 21 gun salute from the guns of the Fort Wadsworth reserva- tiGn. The big liner broke out signal flags and National emblems from reached to her decks. The lofty heights of Fort Wadsworth were man. red with coast artillerymen who gave cheer after cheer as the vessel passed. The harDor craft JO1ned m with IOoI- ing whistles and soon created an old time New York Bay pandemonium.
 The instant the Kaiserin halted be- fore Quarantine. the health officer, Dr. Doty, and his deputies boarded her and inspected the 1889 immigrants who were lined up.
 As soon as the health officers had passed the ship a launch darted along side the Kaiserin and Captain Archi- bald Butt. President Taft's aide. to- gether with Secretary Wilson. Senator Lodge and Nicholas Longworth came over the side and greeted the former President who still held in his hand an embossed set of resolutions from the Pilots Union which had been handed to him by the pilot who boarded the ship off Sandy Hook and brought her up to Quarantine.
 At five o'clock, just about daybreak. the revenue cutter Manhattan, which had been placed at the disposal of the Roosevelt family by Collector of Gus