The Washington herald., 1912-10-28
7. R. CELEBRATES.
54TA BIRTHDAY
Colonel Forced to Stay Indoors.
I. Members Of Family
with dim. ~

Oyster Bay. N. T., Oct. N.-Cooped up
in his house by the inexorable command
Of his physicians. Col. Roosevelt passed
his fifty-fourth birthday in quiet fash
ion. A mirthful noon dinner. restricted
to the immediate Roosevelt family, COM
prised the chief event Of the day.
The wounded candidate yearned to get
out and roam around the woodlands
stretching out from Sycamore Hill. but
DR.. George Faller. his Oyster Bay ply
sician. and DR.. Alexander Lambert, of
New York. having in mind the exhaus-
ton experienced by the colonel after his
half-hour ramble Of yesterday. declined
to let him 70. DR.. Faller called at the
house in the morning and warned the
colonel that II he persists In wasting his
strength he will not be able to make his
scheduled speech next Wednesday night
At Madison Square Garden. SO Roose-
welt meekly stayed indoors- To swell the
accumulation OF kilograms Of feiicita-
ton that poured into Sycamore Hin yes
terday half . hundred messages were
taken up to the colonel to-day. Among
them was this from John L Sullivan.
yester-year prize fighter. who recently
turned Bull Moose:
Abingdon. Mass, Oct. q.
Every good wish to you on your nifty
fourth birthday. and Gods blessing As
well all your life.
CsisneD JOHN L. SULLIVAN"
Pleased by Remembrance.
by George. the old warrior didn't for
get me-" exclaimed Roosevelt radiantly
a. he read the telegram. To his stenog-
rapher who put in the coloners birth
day working hard. Roosevelt dictated
this reply:
Good luck to you. John. Am very
much pleased by your telegram.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
A solitary gift went to Sycamore Hill,
to add to the stock delivered by the ex-
pressman yesterday. It was q painting
by Millais. the French master. conveyed
by an elderly woman who walked the
three miles from the Oyster Bay depot
to the coloners home. The woman. COM
ing from Boston. declined to reveal her
name to the neyspaper correspondents.
merely explaining that she was ''an ad-
mirer Of the colonel
The mysterious stranger trudged up
the hill. the painting under her ARMAND
was met at the door OF Sycamore Hill
by the former Presidents butler Jim. %
When she explained to him who she was
and that she wanted the colonel to get
the birthday gift, Jim" assured her that
he, would deliver It but that she could
not see him. She asked after the col
onePs health and when assured that he
was recovering. murmured . fervent
thank God" She walked back to the
depot. getting there at dusk.
Family at Firesiae.
At the family fireside. talking with the
colonel over his narrow escape from
death ~at the hands Of the assassin In
Milwaukee and breathing thanks for his
recovery were these members Of the
Roosevelt family: Mrs. Roosevelt, Mise
Ethel Roosevelt. Quentin, Theodore
Roosevelt. jr.. his wife. and the Roose-
welt srandchild. now . year old: W. EN-
lin Roosevelt. q cousin. and George
Roosevelt. son Of the latter.
Oscar Straus called for fivs minutes
In the afternoon and talked with the
colonel over the recent trip the Pro-
gressive candidate for Governor made in
the West Mr.. 6traus pfofesoed 10 be
hopeful ever Rooseyelt's prospects OF
beating Wilson out in the Middle West.
Roosevelt ventureA NO opinion.
The townspeople. hoping to catch .
glimpse Of the colonel, clustered this
around the Episcopal Church,
which Roosevelt attends, but the only
membsrs Of the Roosevelt family who
appeared at worship were llrs. Roose-
welt and Miss Ethel After the service
the conofegation. anxious for direct
word - to TIE colonsrs condition,
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