The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19


must be solved If we of this, the
greatest democratic republic on
which the sun has ever shone, are
to see it's destinies rise TO the
high level of our hopes and its op-
This is the duty of every citi-
zen, but it is peculiarly my duty;
for any man who has ever been
honored by being made president
of the United States IS thereby
forever after rendered the debtor
bound throughout his life to re-
member this as his prime obIlga-
tion and in private life as much as
in public life, so to carry hlmset
that the American people may
never have cause to feel regret
that once they placed him at their
head.
JOKES WITH REPORTERS
Did 1 follow copy, boys?" he asked
as the cheering still fingered over his
closing sentence.
Ito word" came back an apprecla-
tive chorus from the press stand.
The exercises at the battery were
surprisingly brief and simple, and al
most before half the people realized 1t
they were over.
Roosevelt the mayor and Cornelius
Vanderbilt were moving toward their
carriages in the line of parade. Long
after they were swallowed in the null
"reminiscences. They had their fill of
impressions, but the real excitement of
the day was only beginning.
ROUGH RIDERS GREETING
While Colonel Roosevelt and his es-
cort were waiting in their carriage for
the head of the parade to form the 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. Il certainly love all my boys
he shouted back, and again there was a
yell almost hysterical in intensity
THE LONG PARADE
The parade started at 1880. Leading
the line was a detachment of mounted
police. Then came the mounted band of
Squadron A, New York national guard :;
the Rough Riders, the Roosevelt car
riage and so other carriages. in which
rode the visiting mayors, governors.
members of the house and the United
States senate and members of the re-
ception committee. Eight mounted po-
licemen, 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 speckled
with faces al the windows. Everything g
ina ginable was waved, below and aloft.
Whirls of descending ticker tape
thrown from windows in the financial
district filed the air with \spirals. Colo
mel Roosevelt was as enthusiastic as
the crowd. His face grew redder, his
smile broadened. His hat was contin-
ually in his hand as he waved and
bowed, standing erect in his carriage.
He remained standing almost constant
ly throughout the two hour journey.
HAS A BULLY TIME
The convolutions of ticker tape wound
about the necks of the horses and
fairly enmeshed the colonel himself,
when it seemed as if he had fallen into
ticker basket. But he seemed to like
it. and waved string of tape in one
hand while he raised and lowered 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 a half dozen
tiny bonnets toward the coloners car
riage. Leaning forward, he dexter
ously caught one of them, inspected it
gravely. and then broke into a broad
her arms stood at the curb His keen
eye spied her instantly and up went
two fingers, one for each baby. Some
thing that he shouted was lost in the
din.
CROWD YELLS "TEDDY!-
Above BIeecker street, still in the
downtown district, a man with meg
aphone yelled: Who'll be our next
president?"
AS though by prearranged signal the
crowd answered, Teddy" in one stem
torian shout.
All through the parade it was TEDDY,
Teddy, bully for you, Teddy, eat 'em
alive. good boy. Teddy" The colonel
bowed, smiled and bowed again.
AS the parade swung through Fourth
street into Washington square and
thence into Fifth avenue, the Spanish
war veterans-other than the Rough
Riders-fell into line behind. with the
Roosevelt neighbors and many polit-
ical clubs winding up the procession
Then the band played the classic of the
Spanish war, "There'll Be a Hot Time
in the Old Town Tonight"
At Fifty ninth street, where Central
park begins. the parade disbanded
Colonel Roosevelt was driven to the
home of Theron Butler, where he met
for the first time, at luncheon, all the
members of his family reassembled.
VIEWS WEDDING PRESENTS
He left the house at p m. in an
automobile for an inspection of the
wedding presents TO Miss Alexander
who will become the wife of Theodore
Roosevelt Jr. next Monday. With him
went Mrs. Roosevelt, Theodore Jr., Mr.
and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Captain
Archibald Butt. President Tafts mill
tary aide; Senator Lodge of Massachu-
setts and Richard Parr, the special
agent of the treasury department, who
was recently awarded a moiety of $780,
600 for his aid TO the government in the
sugar frauds
At Ais he left the Alexander house
and drove to the East Thirty-fourth
street ferry TO Long Island in an auto
rnohile With him were Mrs Rooea-