New-York tribune., 1919-01-07

lnalanapolis and Bloomington, Ind, re-
turning to New York apparently little
the worse for the attack Within a
week he was reported free of the dis
ease.
Refuses to Rest
The Colonel then agreed to take
Ohlngs easier during the height of sum-
mer, but he made an exception to his
rule OF no speeches for a while in
order to speak to PASSAGES large for
lgn-born population on July A. Again
on Labor Day he spoke at Newburrh
a. the launching of vessel III the
,Srh1lpyard Of which his young friend
Thomas c. Desmond was the directing
genus BY this time he was apparent-
" fully recovered.
within the month the Colonel was
to receive the btterest blow of his
l1e-thc death of Quentin. 1t did not
come exactly, without warning, for in
dispatch to his paper the correspond
ent OF New York publication advised
ms office to watch Oyster Bay "for
news Of the censor cutting the dis
patch at that point. This was sub
m!tted to him and, by process of
ELIMINATION, Quentin was decided to
nave been TT least injured
1T cannot be Ted and it cannot be
Archie.' said he. for both are recov-
[.
tor he is not in the danger zone at
lust this moment. SO it must be Quen-
TN. However. We must say nothing of
this TO his mother tonight"
Bears Quentins Death Bravely
The next next day the censor rel@sed the
colonel, hard hit. in q public statement
expressed the pleasure of Mrs. Roose-
veit and himself that the boy had had
his chance to do his bit. On the fol-
lowing day, with the characteristic
Roosevelt explanation that It was
publican State Convention in Saratoga
TO try and heal party differences.
II, however, the colonel did not show
his grief, it was not because he did
not feel grief. His closest intimates
SAID he grieved in solitude while
maintaining a smiling face in public.
When he spoke of the boys, more espe-
cally to the soldiers who visited him
from nearby camp on Saturday, it
never was with regret for Quentin,
only pleasure that his boys had done
we'll. HIS grief was sacred to himself
The Colonels last public appearance
of Importance was in the closing days
OF the state campaign, when, at a meet
ing IN Carnegie Hall, in the interest of
Governor Whitman, he made answer to
President Wilson's appeal for a Demo
cratic Congress. He seldom was in
better voice, and those who heard him
that night said it was "the same old
Roosevelt"
Last Public Appearance
few days later he made his last
public appearance at meeting in
honor of negro hospital unit. After
this he developed symptoms of rheuma-
tism and on November II, the day the
armlstlce was signed, sciatica having
developed. he went to Roosevelt Hos
pital, in this city, partly for treatment,
but most of all to be near his physician,
Dr.. Richard.
There the diagnosis that defective
tooth was responsible for the trouble
was substantiated, and, after it had
been extracted the sciatica cleared up.
Then came infammatory rheumatism
which, however, SO yielded to treat
ment that he was fit to return home on
Christmas Day to play Santa Claus for
little Richard Derby and the children
OF Theodore, jr
Family Reunion at Christmas
al of the Roosevelt children in this
country We're at home that day. For
the event Mrs. Longworth came from
with her babies, and Captain Archie,
home disabled, with the Colonel and
Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Archie, made
UP the family party
1t was the first Christmas in years
when d young roast pig raised on the
place had not been the piece de re-
sistance. Because of doubt as to when
the Colonel would come home the
staying of the porker had been DELAYED
too late, and turkey was roasted in
stead. 1t also was the first Christmas
IN many years that the Colonel had
not played Santa to the children of the
Cove school. where his own children
received their primary education.
After the holiday the children scat
tered, Mrs. Derby, who left home for
the South on January 3, being the first
to go away. This left Mrs Roosevelt
and the Colonel alone in the big house
tnere beng no apparent reason whv
the children should longer remain.