New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-25
ROOSEVELT BACK:
FOUND NEW BIRD
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"with everything calm and quiet. Then
we ran into A northwest gale and very
heavy seas that just cut our. speed IN
two. The storm lasted until this morn
ing.
night, when the waves were breaking
over the ship. The Colonel, who IS an
excellent sailor, was about the only
one Of the fifteen passengers on ooaId
who was getting very much sleep lie
was asleep in his cabin on the orldge
deck when an enormous wave swept
completely over the SNIP hoodihs ms
cabin and mussing things up general
Is. That woke him up, and he spent
much of his time bailing his room out,
with the aid Of steward. He dld not
have any more water IN his room thah
anv one else, but we all had enough.
1T did not disturb him very much.
On the contrary, he thought 1t a good
Joke to be awakened in such man,
ner. After he had the room bailed
out and the steward fixed him up with
dry bedding he went back to sleep; II
takes more than a little thing Ike
that 70 disturb the Colonel.
"Cautain Kirkly afterward told US II
was the worst storm he had expert
enced in all his years at sea. 1t was
so severe that AZ times 1t was neces-
sary TO head the ship into the wind.
Colonel Feted at Islands.
Everywhere in the islands. in the
time that | was with him at least,
! Colonel Roosevelt received splendid
receptions. In Trinidad. at the Union
+ Club, the club of the island, there were
/ 200 at a dinner given in his honor.
/ President Gordon of the club told me
| il was the largest dinner in the his
/ tory Of the organization.
1T was the same at Port OF Spain,
where the Chamber Of Commerce and
/ the Agricultural Society Of Trinidad
united in entertaining him. Sir Nor
man Lamont, who presided, said II was
] larger and more representative than
/ he had ever been able 70 get at regu-
/ lar meeting Of the society, which IS
made up Of planters Of cacao and CO.
coanuts. There the Colonel dealt chief
4 lv on his taking Of the Panama Canal,
again confessing his part IN the affair.
/ He told his hearers that he did not
/ have to start any revolution in Panama.
/ For years his efforts had been TO keep
down a revolution. All he had 10 do
was TO stop keeping II down.
"He also spoke Of his life in the
West. and that interested those folks
greatly.
down there there is an amazing
lack of news, so that neither Colonel
Roosevelt nor any one else heard much
Of American affairs. You see they only
get about 500 words Of cable every day
and the bulk Of that is devoted 10 the
.,,. ~, 90 ,,t.,, homo Colorel RoCep-
Welt spent his mornings playing tennis
on deck, tennis and ship billiards; his
afternoons were given up to writing,
and the evenings 10 playing whist and
chatting with his fellow passengers.
BY this time Colonel Roosevelt had
concluded his conference with Secre-
tarv McGrath, and of his plans for to-
dav said that he proposed the first
thing to see Henry Fairfield Osborn,
curator OF paleontology at the Museum
Of Natural History. and William /.
I Uorraday. of the New York Zoology
cal Society, to tell Of "the splendid
work that is being done at its biology
cal laboratory in Demerara."
New Bird Night Hawk.
"The work has been given q splendid
I start down there" said Mr.. Roosevelt,
. and ] want 10 tell lUcIH All dbOuL H.
/ You know that IN much interested in
F zoology. Any Of you men know much
about night hawks? Yes. they live on
insects. Well. / found kind Of nigh.
hawk in Trinidad that lives on nuts.
at is something like whlppoorwill,
lut. unlike that bird, D. will not touch
insects. 1t is named the gauchero, is
about the size Of "a barn OWL. IS noe
turual and lives in caves
Bark like "a dog?' suggested re-
porter -,
"No; no nature taking, please
laughed the Colonel. mo dog ever
made such noises as that bird makes IN
its cave and out Of il. Because OF
these noises and its actions generally
the natives call il diablotan. or little
devil Bats are 20 be found IN the
same caves, only further back than yoI
will find the gauchcros. IL has bristlcs
or whiskers like the whippoorwill and
other insect eating birds, big mouth
and little feet.
"In the daytime il remains in its
cave. BY night II flies about, eating
the nut Of the royal palm, palmiche
nuts, bctel nuts and that sort Of thing
l. is IA remarkable bird and one little
known.
Tomorrow ! think will see Serb
LeTs' and see II | cannot interest .hcm
in an article on II. II was so interest
ing 20 me when heard Of il that ! put
/ IN quite little time studying the
thing. {. Williams Bcebe was one Of
tho men who went with me on the lit
Tie trip l made 10 the caves in the hills