Milford chronicle., 1910-06-24
NATION GREETS
COL. ROOSEVELT
Receives TumuItuOuS Welcome
al New York.
HUNTER GREATLY PLEASED
Naval Pageant and Land Parade
Viewed by Hundreds of Thousands,
Who Tender Him Great ovation.

Theodore Roosevelt is home. His re-
ceptlon on Saturday exceeded in en-
thusaism any ever given to private
individual in this country or else
where for all of that That the eX-
president appreciated the honors be-
slowed upon him was plainly evident
1 from his vigorous mods to right and
/ left accompanied by his usual smiles.
Flags. bunting. Teddy bears, G 0.
/ P. elephants and welcome signs we're
/ seen everywhere.
The din was at its height when the
/ Roosevelt party was espied on the up
per forward deck, the colonel boyish-
/ ly waving his hat to Collector William
Loeb and other friends on the revenue
cutter AndrOscoggin.
BY his side we're Mrs. Roosevelt,
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. Miss Ethel
and Kermit Roosevelt and Secretary
Of the Navy Meyer, who met the
steamer at Sandy Hook Friday night.
There was but one warship and five
torpedo boats in the feet but it lack
ed nothing of dignity because OF the
necessary omission. There were
twelve divisions. each commanded by
a vice commodore under the general
supervision of Fred B. DalzelI. In the
first and second division were steam
boats carrying members Of various po-
litical organizations.
Straight up the North river the pro
cessiou moved. factories and vessels
along the shores adding their whistles
TO the din that carried for miles. The
boats we're in two lines 200 feet apart
and kept to the New Jersey side Of
the river to Fifty-ninth street where
a stakeboat was placed On the return
trim the boats followed the New York
side and enabled Colonel Roosevelt to
review the procession. the Androscog-
gin passing through the center of the
dotilla. BY the time Colonel Roosevelt
arrived at the Battery the boats were
still moving up the river.
Col. Roosevelt and the reception com
mittee disembarked at the Battery
where Mayor GaynOr awaited them.
Every available foot Of ground not
guarded with physical force by the po-
lice was occupied, and it was with dif-
fculty that Broadway was kept clear
for the land parade.
The debarkation was the signal for
the start OF a hOarse roar from the
crowd which was but temporarily
checked by the presidential salute OF
twentv-one Guns from the North Caro-
lima The arrangements at the Battery
we're so perfect that Colonel Roosevelt
was landed without inconvenience and
made his way on a raised walk from
the pier to the platform facing Battery
mark in compa atiye comfort Iht
windows and roofs Of the surrounding
skvscrapers reflected the masses o
people on the Hudson's shores, and No
point of vantage was too dangerous tC
lack an occupant.
According to the committees pro
gram. the ceremonies Of welcome wer'
brief The advance OF Mr.. Roosevelt
to the front of the platform was th'
signal for a marvellous demonstration
during which time he renewed his ac
ouaintance with Mayor Gaynor AM
others and then waited for the tumul
to subside The noise would die away
and then the colonel, catching sight o
some child in the crowd who was way
ing a handkerchief would smile broad
" and wave his hand, and the nois
p began again.
\ The mayors remarks were maud
y HE to those within the charmed rope
circle in front OF the stand and to tn
committeeman and others on the It
served section of the stand. The pee
D nle seemed content with looking at th
Q ex-president and occasionally cheerin
without other incentive.
Hence the same conditions prevaile
when Colonel Roosevelt made b
?, brief reply He thanked the committe
- and through it New York and tn
- states generally which had tendere
him the welcome, which he felt moi
=. deeply than any honor yet tendere
ic him.
" If the naval parade was a succe'
the parade up Broadway and FIT
avenue was trebly So 1t was here thi
the thousands upon luOuSdAu9 W
= lined the streets could see the ma
" who had caused this uproar and gre
II him. and tn canyon of Broadway
sounded with cheers. Here, as at Il
~ Z, Battery. the Office buildings we're
~ iammed with sightseers. Even Il
p wonderful height of the Singer tow
y was no obstacle to privileged on
le who gazed at a spectacle that mu
s have resembled an ants procession
their eyes.
~ The band of Squadron A, the era.
ne cavalry troop of Manhattan, led u
Spanish war veterans, of whom Sc
y. eral thousand we're in line IN q
lu khaki of the Cuban and Philippr
Us campaigns. Bringing up the rear we
oi Captain Jack Abernathy, federal ms
OF shal of Oklahoma, and his sons, Lot
p and Temple, aged ten and six yea
respectively.
m ne From the Narrows to Central "a
u It was the same. a continuous ovatiC
but Colonel Roosevelt seemed nev
ne too tired to bow and smile, and th
ie satisfied the people.