Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-20

Oyster Bay. N. Y. June 19-This
was Theodore Roosevelt's first day OF
rest in months. The return to privacy
is a delight to him and he made it
known that it is his desire to drop
just as far out of public sight as the
| public will let him. In the autumn he
will make a tour of the country.
| Col. Roosevelt went to Christ church
| in oyster Bay this morning and took
long walk in the afternoon. Senator
Lodge and Rep. Longworth were at
Sycamore Hill all day and later in the
afternoon. Secretary Meyer of the navy
department came for a visit. The
colonel is to take an early train for
New York tomorrow to attend the
wedding of Theodore Roosevelt. Jr..
and Miss Eleanor Alexander On
Wednesday he will visit his editorial
Office in New York.
It WIS after o'clock tonight when
nc returned from walk of several
r les with Mrs. Roosevelt, He spied
a group OF interviewers waiting for
him and headed for them.
Not one word to say" he began be-
fore a question had been asked IF
received you it would mean that
everyone would come here and should
have no peace or privacy. | shall be
at my editorial office in New York
twice a week and any statement l have
to make will be given out there"
He paused to survey the expanses
of grassy slopes that stretch as far as
the eye can reach from his home on
the crown of Sycamore hill. There
tn hoard
the laughter of his children on the
veranda and the spluttering of a mo-
torboat on the bay The contrast with
the tumult of the last few months
seems to please him and he said he
hoped to screen his private life wholly
that he might have a true rest for the
summer.
What do you think Of your welc
home Yesterday" he was asked
You know very well what | thought
of that"
What have you been doing today"
Just that kind of a question is
what | don't want to answer"
Col. Roosevelt made it plain that the
daily pilgrimages of interviewers from
oyster Bay to Sycamore Hill must
cease and that he does not wish q
single detail of his private life made
public.
In spite of the long, hard day he had
Saturday. Col Roosevelt was up early
this morning. After breakfast he went
to the veranda with Senator Lodge
and Rep. Longworth. The three We're
seen walking enegertically in circles,
the colonel leading and talking in his
.&,,I@ I Or q
afterward that the colonel was telling
them of his experiences IN Africa ana
Europe.
There was an innovation today IN Gus
toms at Sycamore Hill. All the ia nily
except Kermit and Mrs. Longworth rode
to church in an automobile, with Miss
Eleanor Alexander, the fiance of Theo-
dore Roosevelt, Jr., and her mother, Mrs
H. A. Alexander, in second car. Mr.
Roosevelt does not like automobiles and
has always ridden to church in the fam
lily carriage.
The Rev Percy Traford Olton OF
Greene, n. Y, who preached. made nc
direct personal reference, although he die
| touch on things in which Col Roosevelt
i is very much interested. He said that
the rise of corporate power had produc
| ed a corporate conscience which was
! so inferior as to be a serious menace t.
| the country
| THE leader of men," he said elsewhere
has the vision of the Kingdom of Coo
and pledged his life for the establishment
| of righteousness and good
Speaking these words all eyes wore
shifted to Mr., Roosevelt. who sat i'm
movable in his pew.
| After services the Roosevelts walked
quickly out of the church to their auto
mobiles. From the tonneau the coone