Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-22
ROOSEVELT LOST SIGHT
OF ONE EYE WHILE BOXING
Accident Which Occurred While He
Was President Made Public
for First Time.
BACK TO OYSTER BAY TO-DAY
Newspaper Men Received by Colonel
Mt Health Farm Near Stamford,
Where He Has Been Taking Course
OF Treatment

STAMFORD, CONN. October ol.-
Weighing 202 pounds. and with Il Eirth
of ~ Ga inches. former President
Theodore Roosevelt received newspa-
per reporters and posed for camera
men and moving picture photographers
this afternoon at a health farm here.
When Colonel Roosevelt began his
course of treatment at the health
farm on October s he weighed GIG
pounds. and his waist line measured
forty-siX inches.
During the two weeks his daily
schedule has been this:
Arise $50; breakfast Sis: attend to
correspondence until 10. then four
miles brisk walking on the half-,nIle
track at the place. followed in the
gymnasium by shadow boxing and ad-
vanccd abdominal exercises and baths
TO free his system Of poisonous Sc
cretion3 and to break down old tissue
and build up new. The session in the
gymnasium lasted until 12:l5. Luncheon
was taken at LIS. This was followed
by period for his correspondence,
and the track gym exercises of the
forenoon were repeated.
Dinner wac served ut GAS and every
night at the Colonel went for 4 two
mile walk. He was thoroughly mas
saged before retiring at 10 T.. NJ No
restriction was placed on his diet lie
ate Whatever he wanted and as much
as he wanted. Although he did not
say 1t to the reporters, he was quoted
as saying that he felt fifteen years
younger than when he came here.
me Colonel this afternoon gave first
rate proof of his excellent physical
condition. First he posed for the cam.
eramen with William Warren Barbour.
q Princeton graduate and wealthy New
York clubman. who some years ago
won the amateur heavyweight boxing
championship of New York; Mayor
John j. Mitchell. Of New York: A. Nc
Alec, millionaire copper dealer. and
William ZeiGler, the millionaire baking
powder man.
COLONEL SETS FAST PACE
FOR DASH AROUND TRACK
Colonel Roosevelt. with Mr.. Barbour
on one side OF him and Gus Nowka
on the other. then started on n cir
cult OF the half-mile track on the place
which was sort Of hill-and- dale dash
up and down hills and through cab.
page patches along the borders OF
lake Colonel Roosevelt hit I'D SO fast
4 pace that Mayor Mitchell turned back
before half the circuit had been made
and the little army of newspaper mer
ana cnlookers were all winded wnen
the dash was over. He covered the
distance In six ana 4 half minutes.
Later in formal statement he said
he intended to make some campoIen
speeches for Mayor Mitchell. He said
he MAD been anxious to have William
warren Barbour meet Jack John.on
in the prize ring, and that he would
have bet all he could afford on Bar
bour to win. lie made public for the
hrst time the fact that the sight OF
one OF his eyes was destroyed at Wash
ington when he was President. during
poNiHe exercises with a young captain
OF artillery who was on his stan there
Colohel Roosevelt expects to return to-
morrow to Oyster Bay.
colonel Roosevelt was in knicker
oockers OF khaki-likc texture ue
wore an olive drab army shirt. reddish
brown WOODEN stockings. and tan army
SHOES He was without 4 hat.
Colonel Roosevelt denounced a clergy
man who was quoted in dispatch TO a
.New York newspaper under date of
''c'oper ~ from Atlantic City. as sayS
ing mat Colonel Roosevelt had an
hounced that he would be unable to
Keep tentative speaking engagement
there tonight because his physician
had ordered him to cancel all speakinr
engagements and take a complete rest.
That" said Colonel Roosevelt. lis a !
complete fake. They asked me to
speak and I declined. I haven't seen
A physician for months No human be-
ing told me either TO cancel a speakIne
engagement or to take n complete
rest"