New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-28
I. R. IS 81 AND BETTER
Has Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar StrauS
as Guests at Family Dinner.
GETS MANY MESSAGES
John L. Sullivan Favored with
Immediate Answer-Woman ,
in Black Brings Present.

III DldCh oI ing hS1SA"
Oyster Bay, Oct 27.-Theodore Roose-
Welt was fifty-four years old to-day The
anniversary was modestly observed with
dinner at 2 o'clock, at which oscar S.
Straus, Progressive candidate for Gov
ernOr Of New York, and Mrs. Straus were
guests. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Roose-
welt, jr, and their little daughter mo-
tored In from their New York home, and
| Quentin Roosevelt was home from Groton
School. George Roosevelt, the Colonefs
| cousin, was there, too.
| Colonel Roosevelt looked better than at
any time since he was shot. He was
surrounded by birthday gifts, and con-
gratulatory kilograms kept pouring In on
! him up 20 a late hour last night Among
those who sent kilograms was John H.
| Sullivan, one time champion pugilist'
| This was his message:
North Abingdon, Mass.
/ Dear Colonel Roosevelt: Every good
wish TO you on your fifty-fourth birthday
| and Gods blessings as well, all your Ire
JOHN l.. SULLIVAN.
To this Colonel Roosevelt replied at
once:
| Good luck to you, John. Am very much
! pleased by your telegram. .,-,,.,,,
| THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
There was big increase in the number
Of automobiles that whirled up Sycamore
, Hill and darted around the circular drive
way fronting the colonel's house to-day
| One Of the servants said there were more
than one hundred of them, from which II
was deduced that the outside world took
an interest in the birthday Of the Pro-
eressive Presidential candidate. The colo
! mel ventured out on the grounds once, but
casual visitors did not get a glimpse Of
! him.
| An elderly woman, dressed in black,
alighted from one Of the afternoon trains
| to-day, and, making her way through the
| cab stands, started off on foot in the d.
| rectIon of Sycamore Hill Under her arm
\ she carried a package nearly two feet
| square. She walked steadily along the
Cove Road, and only stopped two or three
| times TO catch her breath until she was at
! the porch on Sycamore Hill. She rang
the bell and told a servant she had an
oil painting TO present to Colonel Roose-
welt as a birthday gift
The same woman was seen half an
hour afterward walking back to the viii
lage without the package. To questions
the newspaper men piled her with she re-
piled she would not give her name. She
appeared TO be nearly sixty years old,
but her blue eyes were bright and she
seemed to have been rejuvenated by the
six-mile walk. 1t was said at the railroad
station that she came from Boston.
The gossipers at the station also said
the painting was one of the last made by
Frank d. Millet, who went down on the
Titanic last April. At Sycamore Hill 1t
was said she was the sister Of a promi-
nent Frenchman, and her desire to have
her name withheld would be respected.
Tonight Colonel Roosevelt gave in
structions TO John McGrath, his secretary,
to make his appearance bright and early
on Sycamore Hill tomorrow morning, and
to come prepared to get away with lot
Of work, answering letters and kilograms
received while the colonel was a patient
at Mercy Hospital, in Chicago More
work will be done on the Madison Square
Garden speech.
The secretary said to-day that Colonel
Roosevelt had not planned to address the
Brooklyn Progressives next Saturday
night, as had been announced His ply
sicians say he will not be we'll enough to
do so. DR.. Alexander S. Lambert was the
only physician who saw the colonel to-
day. He came out in the evening to dress
the wound which continues to heal salts
factorily.
Colonel Roosevelt took a lot Of pleasure
tonight in making announcement through
James Amos his most trusted servant.
that he would see the newspaper men
tomorrow afternoon TO the first time
since he was wounded
A. Hecksher, Of Huntington, one Of the
stoutest supporters Of Colonel Roosevelt
in Nassau County, gave the colonel
large oil painting Of a bull moose by Carl
Rungius, painter OF big game. The gift
pleased Colonel Roosevelt immensely, so
much so in fact that he sent an invita-
ton at once for Mr.. and Mrs. Hecksher
to take tea at Sycamore Hill tomorrow
The invitation was accepted.
DR.. Lambert issued this bulletin late
this evening:
Colonel Roosevelt's wound shows
marked progress In healing. There is no
| reasonable doubt that he will be able to
speak Wednesday night. There is some
ndema Of the chest muscles, which makes
it necessary to forbid him to shake hands.
Colonel Roosevelt will return to oyster
Bay Immediately after the Madison Square
Garden meeting"