The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-06

according to Oyster Bay. where more
than one Johnnie Roosevelt Smith and
Teddy Jones has been named these last
two decades.
Parties OF japanese students were
visiting the grave. Some of them signed
the book in Japanese characters. ]
saw a large. comfortable party of
Americans. middle Western folks by
the way they talked. posing for back
ground across the grave while three
studious Japs levelled folding cameras
Later | found the Japs taking pic
lures in the Sycamore Hill drive-and
heard a tourist in a broad felt hat
tell his wife that these Japanese were
n sharp lot, always everywhere photo
graphing everything. and Uncle Sam
had better be mighty careful. In the
visitors book half the nations of the
earth are written down as home adj
dresses. If there had been time.
think could have found all forty
eight States.
One who Has Seen Them All.
one visitor has remarked that he
has now visited the grave OF every
former President-except, as he eX
cepted, Mr.. Taft's. Never made a
point OF it. happened to be in the
places and looked the graves up. A
bystander who heard Reynolds tell me
| about him wondered If all the Presi-
dents graves are guarded day and
| night. Another said Lincoln's remains
are under seven feet of concrete now.
Why should they guard James Blu
chanan or Johnson or Hayes" a third
voice put in. Who'd take the trouble
OF disturbing them?"
The commonest question put to Rey-
nolds Is whether the public authori-
i ties or the Roosevelt estate provides
/ the guards. He does not consider it
everybody's business, SO l omit tho
answer.
| A lot has been written from time to
! time on the Colonel in the hearts Of
his fellow townsmen. He IS still there.
! As we'll as stranger could make out,
each one OF the older residents was
particularly close to him, particularly
deep in his local counsels. particularly
welcome any time in the trophy room.
More recent settlers cannot say so
much but. 81 knew him as every one
here did. He knew every soul in
town" And you are not stranger,
IL your errand is to write about him.
] began by inquiring for the home OF a
man who had been mentioned to me
I didn't find it, Didn't get past the
first door where asked to be directed.
In no time was ! seated in the parlor.
looking at a bound copy of one of the
Colonels addresses. with, "To my
friend -. Theodore Roosevelt" on
| the fly leaf, and hearing all about
everything since 1888. when he bought
the place at Cove Neck he named
Sycamore Hill
How He Voted I'm 1912.
And before l could stop him this
gentleman was ordering his car
brought around, and he and his wife
were driving me TO the cemetery and
on to Cove Neck. They couldn't do
enough. No one could in Oyster Bay.
I'm a rock-ribbed Republican. first
and last" said my escort.
"And how did you vote In 1922"
THE straight. regular ticket. Only
between ourselves-I split the head
OF 1t. I'm-I was a Roosevelt man,
too"
All spoke Of the shock the Colonels
death had been. OF course he'd been
in the hospital. but no one ever
dreamed No, he hadn't aged, to
notice 1t. during the last year. though
seeing him so much you might not
notice. Now when he came back from
South America-he did look dreadfully
then. But he picked up. We've often
said. II only he hadn't made those
tropical trips, Was to have spoken
to the Sunday school as usual Christ
mas Day, but the Sunday before the
family were at church and said he
wouldn't be able, The children wars