Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-19
COLONEL ROOSEVELT
To REACH NEW YORK.
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Sound to Oyster Bay where he will be
landed at the private pier Of his
cousin, w. Emlen Roosevelt. only a
short distance from his home. Mrs.
Theodore Roosevelt, Mr.. and Mrs.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and w. En-
len Roosevelt will make up the fam
lily party.
There is much apprehension as to
the Colonefs physical condition. Moth
ing was said in the wireless message
last night concerning the ex-Presi-
dent, but Capt. Andrew Alexander Of
told frankly of the extreme weakness
of Col. Roosevelt when the latter
boarded the Dunstan at Manaos.
Capt. Alexander report of the
ColonePs health, combined with the
arrangements made by the ex-Presi-
dents family to take him off the
steamship at Quarantine and hurry
him to Oyster Bay, increased the con-
Germ as to his condition.
Only the members of Col. Roose-
velt's family will go down the bay
with Mr.. Stanford to meet him. "A Dali
zell tug has been chartered to take him
off the boat at Quarantine and go di-
lrectly to Oyster Bay. That it Is the
Colonels wish not to have public re-
ception there is on doubt, because he
sent messages to his family and to
his political friends insisting that any
plans for a reception be abandoned.
The arrangements made by his fam
| lily have led many to believe that the
Colonel still may be suffering from the
hardships he endured in the jungle.
Colonel Shows Weakness
Capt. Alexander of the Dustan told
the reporters last night of his meeting
with the Colonel and described his ap-
pearance. Colonel Roosevelt came to
the landing place of the Dunstan at
Manaos in an automobile with Profs.
naturalists of the expedition; Kermit
Roosevelt and Dr. Cajazeira, surgeon
of the Brazilian navy, who had been
attending the Colonel.
1t was noted that the Colonel had
lost much flesh and was quite weak,
being unable to board the ship with
out assistance. He went Immediately
to Capt Alexander's room and re-
manned there nearly all the time until
the last day of the trip down the
Amazon, when he came out and spent
most of the day on deck. He had inn
proved much in appearance in the
four days, but still looked thin and a
| bit peaked.
He said his loss in weight and
health had been partly due to short
ened fare, the party going on less than
half rations much of the time, and
partly to the hardships of the Brazil
| ian wilds.
A photograph shown to Capt. Alex
ander by one of the Roosevelt party
depicted Kermit Roosevelt with a ho-
boish growth of beard grown in the
jungle. After shaking hands with the
| skipper and the officers, including the
engineer, Col. Roosevelt left the Dun
ston in the harbor of Para and board
the Aidan. He was still weak, but
much brisker than when he boarded
the Dunstan.
Col. Roosevelt, it was announced
yesterday, will spend ten days al
Oyster Bay and this vicinity and then
sail for Madrid to attend Kermit's
marriage to Miss Belle Willard. He
has expressed impatience to see his
little grandson, born in his absence to
Mrs. Richard H. Derby, who was Miss
Ethel Roosevelt.
| The collections Of the expedition in
clude 1000 mammal and 500 speci-
mems of birds. The mammal collec-
ton is the largest received at one time
by any American museum of natura,
history and one of the largest that has
ever come out of South America.