Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-04-13
ROOSEVELT IS GUEST
Oregonians ThrORg Portland Streets
10 Meet Noted Visitor.
Distinguished American Greeted With
Affectionate Familiarity BY
Waiting Thousands.

Portland, April.6 .6.-No such greet
ing has Portland ever given any in
dividual as that which was extended
by the populace to Theodore Roosevelt
yesterday.
Once before Portland welcomed him
when he came here as president of the
United States. Then he was received
with all due pomp, ceremony, dignity
and enthusiasm.
But there was delightful informal
ity, spontaniety, about the Roosevelt
reception yesterday that leaves the oc-
casion altogether unique and without
precedent.
Portland, for the most part, took an
afternoon and evening off and Joined
in series of informal demonstrations
which must have served to make it
clear to Colonel Roosevelt that he is
held in high regard by everybody here
abouts. 1t was not the mere cheering
and applause that revealed the public
mind and heart, but the evidences of
intimate regard that were manifested
on every hand.
1t was Hello, Teddy" and "Hurrah
for Teddy" everywhere along the
crowded streets where he appeared.
None thought of shouting "Hurrah
for Roosevelt. t." And to have the pop
ulace calling one by his first name un-
restrainedly is significant in itself.
Teddy in 1927" shouted hundreds
of his admirers, as he was taken
through the crowded streets in a big
automobile, attended by members of
the reception committee.
To this significant exclamation he
gave no fuller acknowledgment than
to the other greetings that came from
the crowds. There was nod and a
barring of teeth in that irresistible
Roosevelt smile for everyone. The
only ones who received especial atten-
tion were women with children, vet
Grams of the Civil or Spanish-Ameri-
can wars and groups of workingmen
for a few moments from
LlISlI COll 70 see MIN pass.
1t was a strenuous day-not ar
duous, or fatigueing, or wearing, or
strenuous. The over
worked Roosevelt adjective alone ap-
plies. Into the nine hours that he
spent in Portland there was crowded
event upon event with but little inter
val for rest.
The hour and half of respite from
public demonstrations that the com
nittee provided was spent not in rest,
out in attending to private matters.
Seemingly that famed reservoir of re-
serve energy is as remote from dimin-
ltion as ever.
Exacting as were the demands made
lpon his time, the genial colonel en-
Dyed it all immensely. He said as
much before leaving the city late last
light and his manner was more ex-
)ressive than his words. In at least
me event he was presented with a fea-
ure altogether new in his experience,
md he said he will always remember
t as special event in his travels.
1t was the jungle dinner given early
n the evening in his honor at the
Commercial club. Here the large
banquet hall was made over into the
eplica of an African jungle.
1t was intensely realistic, with an
rray of grinning Africans in Jungle
own full dress, monkeys climbing
bout in the rank jungle foliage, lions
caring, hunting horns sounding and
II the atmosphere of a Roosevelt
uniting camp in the land of the rhino-
eri.
ut is the first time in my exper-
ence that l have been provided with
cal entertainment rather than being
eft to furnish the entertainment my
elf, the colonel said delightedly.