Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19

rapher, Mayor Gaynor began to speak
Most of the newspaper men had the
colonel's speech in their pockets in ad-
vance. He made but one departure
from it.
Replying to Mayor Gaynor, Colonel
Roosevelt said:
ROOsEVELT's REPLY
"I thank you, Mayor GaynOr.
| Through you | thank your committee
and through them l wish to thank the
American people for their greeting. l
need hardly say I am most deeply
moved by the reception given me. No
man could receive such a greeting
without being made to feel very proud
and very humble.
Il have been away a year and =
quarter from America and have seen
strange and interesting things alike in
the heart of the froWning wilderness
and in the capitals of the mightiest
and most highly polished of civilized
nations I have thoroughly enjoyed
myself and now l am more glad than
/ can say to get home, to be back in
my own country, back among people
[ love. And I am ready and eager TO
do my part, so far as / am able, IN
helping solve problems which must be
cratic republic on which the sun has
ever shown are to see it's destinies
rise to the high level of our hopes and
its opportunities
This is the duty of every citizen,
but it is peculiarly my duty, for any
man who has ever been honored by be-
ing made president of the United
states is thereby forever after rendered
the debtor of the American people and
is bound throughout his life to remem-
Der this as his prime obligation and in
nrivate life as much as in public life
so to carry himself that the American
people NAV never have cause to feel
regret that once they placed him at
their head"
"FoLLOWED COPY"
Did l follow copy, boys?' he asked
as the cheering still fingered over his
closing sentence
ITO a word" came back an appreci-
ative chorus from the press stand
The exercises at the Battery were
surprisingly brief and simple and al
most before the people realized it they
were over.
Mr.. Roosevelt. the mayor and Cor
nelius Vanderbilt were moving toward
their carriages in the line OF parade
Long after they were swallowed in the
multitude the crowd fingered to eX-
change "reminiscences. They had their
fill of impressions, but the real excite
ment of the day was only beginning.
While Colonel Roosevelt and his es-
| cort were waiting in their carriage for
the head of the parade to form, 144
Rough Riders who had come from every
part of the country-some of them from
| as far as Alaska-had their first chance
| to greet their old chief.
| AS the Roosevelt carriage drew up
behind them they gave long, wild
Yell The colonel was on his feet in
an instant.
81 LOVE MY BOYS"
Il certainly love all my boys" he
shouted back, and again there was a
yell almost hysterical in intensity.
The parade started at 11:S0 Lead
! ing the line was a detachment of the
mounted police. Then came the mount
ed band of Squadron A, New York
National guard, the Rough Riders, the
Roosevelt carriage and eighty other
| carria ges in which rode the mayors,
governors, members of the house and
senate and members of the reception
committee. Eight mounted police, all
| formerly caValrymen who served in the
| Spanish American war, surrounded the
| Roosevelt carriage.
! The line of march in the lower city
was through a seething whirlpool OF
enthusiasm. The tall cliffs of the can
yon that is Broadway were speclIled
with faces. Everything imaginable
was waved, below and aloft Whirls OF
descending ticker tape, thrown from
| windows in the financial district, filled
| the air with spirals Colonel Roose-
welt was as enthusiastic as the crowd
His face grew redder. His hat was
continually in his hand as he waved
and bowed, standing erect in his car
riage He remained standing almost
constantly throughout the two hours
| journey
TICKER TAPE
The convolutions of ticker tape
| wound about the neckS of the horses
| and fairly enmeshed the colonel him
self, when it seemed as if he had fallen
| into a ticker basket But he seemed
to like it and waved a string of tape
in one hand while he raised and low
cred his hat with the other.
Shortly after the parade passed City
| Hall park a woman, leaning from a
window of a factory in which babies
hats are made, tossed out half dozer
tiny bonnets toward the colonels car
riage. Leaning forward he dexterous-
| ly caught one of them, inspected il
| gravely and then broke into a broad
! smile. A woman with two babes ir
her arms stood at the curb. His keer
eye spied her instantly and up went
| two fingers, one for each baby. Some
| thing that he shouted was lost in the
| din. Above Bleecker street, still in the
| downtown district, q man with meg
| aphone yelled:
| who'll be our next presidents?