The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-06-17
GOTHAM AWAITING
ROOSEVELT
Day Cold and Sodden and
Does Not Promise Well
for Celebration.

Roosevelt today is nearing New
York, where a welcoming demon
stration awaits him tomorrow on his
return from foreign lands. The
steamship Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
on which Roosevelt and family are
travelling, will arrive off Sandy Hook
about O'Clock tomorrow morning.
The weather is cold for the welcome
and seemed dubious today. A fog
hung like pail over the bay and a
heavy driZzle made New York a sod
den spot today. The weather man
held out little prospect of clear
ing. A fog at sea tonight might de-
lay the steamer. but as the program
does not call for the steamship to
be in quarantine until o'clock there
is some leeway. At any rate there
will be no postponement of tomor-
rows program if the steamer gets in
on time. When the vessel drops an
Choir off quarantine, Roosevelt and
family will go aboard the revenue
cutter Manhattan for breakfast, af-
ter which they will be transferred
to the larger cutter Androscoggin,
which will lead the water parade up
the Hudson and back to the battery,
where Mayor Gaynor will welcome
the returning hunter.
The exercises at the battery will
be followed by a parade up Broad
way and Fifth avenue. Visiting or
CARNATIONS have positions assigned
them along the line of march.
Colonel Roosevelt goes to his home
at Oyster Bay in the afternoon.
Fluttering flags, pennants and
and pictures of Colonel
Roosevelt are everywhere. Broadway
is a longvista of bunting in the ma
tional colors, while the fronts of the
great skyscrapers facing Battery
Park, where the formal welcome of
the distinguished home conner is to
take place, have been handsomely
decorated. Visitors are coming in
from the north, south and west to
assist in the demonstration and it is
estimated there will be more than
half a million strangers in New
York by tomorrow morning.
Railroad and steamboat officials
believe the estimate of half mill
lion visitors is altogether too small.
Many expressed the opinion today
that the number will approach close
to million and may possibly exceed
that figure. The trains, boats and
trolleys early tomorrow morning are
expected to pour veritable flood of
humanity into the metropolis from
the surrounding cities and towns of
Long Island, Connecticut and New
Jersey.
Accommodations at the leading
hotels are already at a premium.
The Waldorf, St. Regis, Knicker-
booker, Astor, Belmont and scores of
other prominent hotels are filled
from ground to roof and nearby
rooming houses are taking care of
the overflow. Delegations from sin
gle cities or states have taken entire
floors at some Of the big hotels. The
Waldorf, for example, Is housing
nearly thousand visitors from Chi
cago, while an equally large delega-
ton from Ohio has found accommo-
dations at one of the big hotels
little farther up Fifth avenue.
Mr.. Roosevelt's personal escort
will consist of the members of his old
regiment of Rough Riders, under the
command of Charles E. Hunter, pres
ident of the National Roosevelt
Rough Riders association. The
three honorary members of the asso-
citation will ride in the parade.
They are Lieut.. Gen. s. B. N. Young,
U. S. A, retired; Brig. Gen. Samuel
S. Sumner, U. s. A., retired, and
Brig. Gen. Charles Cooper of Phila-
delphia. The Rough Riders will be
mounted on horses furnished by
Troop C of Brooklyn, and will ap-
pear in the regulation United States
army khaki uniform.