The sun., 1918-07-20
OUENTIN'S AIRPLANE
SEEN TO HIT EARTH
Owed, Not VOlplaned, but May
Have Been Under
Control.
MRS. TEDDY JR. CABLES
Says Chance Exists He Is q
PrisOner-COlOnel Crate
full for Sympathy.
MRS. TEDDY JR. CABLES

Col. Roosevelt upon his arrival at sag.
amore Hill yesterday afternoon received
a cablegram from his daughter-in-iaW
in Paris, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr"
which was not very encouraging ABOUT
the fate Of his youngest son. Lieut.
Quentin Roosevelt, who fell behind the
German lines In an air battle on July IL.
The cableyram read:
"Quentins plane seen to owe DIV
meters. Not in flames. Seen to STRIKE
ground. Could have been under CONTROL
as did not spin. Chance exists he - ="
prisoner"
The Colonel had been greatly encour-
aged over the cablegram received iats
last night from his son-in-law. surgeons
Major Richard Derby, which stated that
a companion aviator believed quentin
had landed safely.
Mrs Roosevele's cablegram does not
say he volplaned to earth, but that u
Owed. SO 1t would seem to Indicate that
the Coloners son may have been killed.
Col. Roosevelt and his family are still
hopeful that good news will be re-
ceived.
The Colonel motored to his home from
New York city early yesterday after
noon. He was accompanied by Mrs-
Roosevelt and his two daughters. Mrs.
Alice Longworth and Mrs. Richard
Derby They will remain at Sycamore
Hill for several days. Hundreds of tele-
grams and cablegrams and letters were
delivered to him during the day.
When the Colonel was asked about
them he said
| I'VE have received many hundreds OF
kind and friendly kilograms and letters
They will all be acknowledged In time.
and l ask the forbearsnce OF the senders
because 1t will necessarily take some
! time.
| II do not intend to make any of Them
public. Some were from prominent rso-
pie and some from people who were rot
prominent some from old friends and
some from strangers. They were not
meant for publication, but to express
sympathy with Quentin's father and
mother and sorrow for a gallant boy
who had been doing his duty like hun
dreds of thousands OF young Americans
Many Of them indeed. think, were
really an expression of sympathy Tor
the many mothers and fathers who have
gladly and proudly and yet with sor-
row seen the sons they love go forth
to battle for their country and the rigkt
Many of them were from fathers and
mothers who had sons at the front, ana
some of them from those whose sons
had been killed at the 'front.'
Col. Roosevelt at this point turned to
his desk and picked up several letters.
As he glanced through them he said:
This is from a father OF two boys
fighting in France. one In the Marine
Corps and in the Chateau Thierry fight.
! He writes: We have no knowledge OF
, what happened to our own in the last
2 battle
/; Another writes: One OF my two sons
D in service. a naval aviator. was killed
{ in February last Another writes that
he is a father of "A service aviator who
fell in action March IL The son was
25 years old and fell in his second ac-
4 ton.
/ And here. another writes We lost our
orly son. Lieutenant in aviation ser
, vice. over there's
Another expresses sympathy and
! concludes. My ls-year-old son enter
a the aviation service on Saturday
/, And yet another from a mother ant
I father OF three boys, all in service. who
send their heartfelt sympathy. and say
. Our youngest is an aviator. eager Il
o take your boys place in France
y These are only few among man,
. lelo grams and ] know they show thu
, | Spirit of our whole people"
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