Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-06-24
NATION EXTENDS
ROYAL WELCOME
TO ROOSEVELT
FORTS AND BATTLESHIP SALUTE
FORMER PRESIDENT AS HIS
SHIP GLIDES INTO PORT.
PANDEMONlUM ON ALL SIDES.
Guest of Enthusiastic Americans Waves
Acknowledgment from Bridge of
the Steamer.
REFUSES TO DISCUSS POLITICS.

REFUSES TO DISCUSS POLITICS.
NEW YORK, June 18.-Theodore
Roosevelt, ex-President of the United
States, sta tesman and cosmopolitan trav>
eler, was greeted back to his native land
today by such demonstration of popular
enthusiasm and personal devotion as had
seldom if ever been accorded to a re-
turning American traveller.
Each step in this eventful home COM
ing. from the time he debarked from the
steamship kaiserin August Victoria I'M
til he moved up Broadway amid the tu-
multuOus demonstrations of vast throngs
of people brought forth a continuation
of the ovation and fresh tributes of pop
ular enthusiasm.
The stages in this stirring welcome
were crowded into hardly more than
three hours. At $50 this morning Mr..
Roosevelt left the steamer amid roar or
big guns from battleships and land forts
and a pandemonium of steam whistles
from craft and the factories along the
water front. Then, aboard the revenue
cutter AndrOscoggin he moved at the head
of an imposing marine parade up the
Hudson river to Riverside drive and
back again to the battery, amid the con
tinuous demonstrations of water craft
and the assembled multitude along the
water front.
The landing at the battery was the sig
nal for another clamOrous ovation. Here,
too, Mayor Gaynor extended official
greetings, and Mr.. Roosevelt spoke brief
ly, but significantly of the interest and
part he will continue to take in public
affairs. At II o'clock the start up Broad
hnncnlU M u
throngs extending for five miles along
the main thoroughfares of the city.
Everywhere the returning traveller met
the same whirlwind of demonstrative
greetings as he passed Wall street, fur
Their on as he moved through Park place
through the throngs in Union and Madi-
son squares and through the long reach
eS of Fifth avenue.
Stands Erect in Carriage.
Mr.. Roosevelt stood erect in his car
riage most of the time, his silk hat in
his right hand waving responsive greet
ings to the echOing cheers. By noon
the popular welcome was practically con-
cluded and Mr. Roosevelt joined rela-
tives for lunch preparatory to returning
to his home at Oyster Bay later in the
day.
The steamer Kaiserin Auguste Vic
toria, on which he sailed from England,
June 10, entered New York harbOr at
o'clock this morning and was greeted
by the battleship South Carolina with
the national salute Of twenty-one guns.
At half past s o'clock Mr.. Roosevelt
was transferred from the Kaiserin
Auguste Victoria, to the revenue tug
Manhattan, where he was welcomed by
a number of personal friends and rela-
tives and Capt. Archibald w. Butt, rep
resenting President Taft.
Shortly after this he was transferred
from the Manhattan to the revenue
cutter AndrOscOggin, which led the
water parade that took him up as far
as Fifty-ninth street, North river, and
down to the battery, where he was Off
cially welcomed by Mayor Gaynor of
New York at II o'clock.
Battleship Statutes Him.
Bedecked with signal flags and with
+hn guns from Fort WadsWOrth and
Fort Hamilton booming out in welcome,
the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria glided
into quarantine at 1888 o'clock. Immedi-
otelv behind the big liner came six ships
of the navy, the battleship South Caro-
lima in the van. while at anchor in the
r0adstead, awaiting her coming, was the
limited States dispatch boat Dolphin
with the secretary of the navy on board.
The battleship already had saIuted the
returning of the former President at
SANDY 11OOh with - = uuS, DuL Ou COUlOS
to anchor alongside the liner, the South
Carolina hoisted long strings of pen
nants and the river craft Joined in the
| demonstration with loud and prolonged
| blasts from their whistles.
Thanked by Mrs. Roosevelt his daugh-
ter. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, and his
| SON. Kermit. Col. Roosevelt stood on
the flying bridge of the liner high above
all the decks of the ship, and with his
| characteristic smile overspreading his
tanned countenance and a shiny silk hat
| in his hand he waved Acknowledgements
to the pandemonium on all sides of him.
! Mr.. Roosevelt lost no time on board
the Auguste Victoria. The usual Gus
toms and health inspection formalities
| accomplished, he at once transhipped to
| the revenue tug Manhattan, where, with
| the immediate members of his family and
| Il few intimate friends, he sat down to
| a hasty breakfast.
Water Parade Begins.
There was more firing of big guns as
! Mr.. Roosevelt left the Manhattan for the
| Androscoggin. Then comparative quiet,
while in the upper bay patrol boats
| darted back and forth among hundred
and one craft of every description, mar
| shaling them in line for the parade.
The United States steamship Dolphin.
| leading the parade and closely followed
| by the Androscoggin, got away at twelve
| minutes past Q.
The first address of welcome presented
to Mr.. Roosevelt was handed him by the
boarding pilot, on behalf of the Pilots
association. This association was the
last to speed the colonel on his departure
from New York. Health Officer Doty
was the first of those from shore to pay
his respects to Mr.. Roosevelt.
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, Con
gresham Nicholas Longworth of Ohio
and Capt. Butt boarded the Kaiserin
from the Manhattan and were received
BY Mr.. Roosevelt in his stateroom.