Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-07

my deepest sympathy on the ire
parable loss you have suffered"
From former President Taft came
the following:
II am shocked to hear the bad
news. My heart goes out to you and
yours In great sorrow. The country
can Ill AFFORD in this critical period
of history to lose one who has done
and could in the next decade have
done so much for 1t and humanity.
we nave lost great patriotic
American, a great world fgure-the
most commanding personality in our
pupi1c life since Lincoln. l mourn
ms going as a personal loss. Mrs.
Ialt and l tender you our sincere
and deepest sympathy"
when the delegation of United
states senator's and representatives
arrive here tomorrow and men of
national and international fame
have assembled to pay their final
trlDute to the great American, they
VIII nnd oyster Bay people regret
t1ng not the passing of world
known figure but of neighbor be-
loved by all here for his pure demo-
cracy as fellow voter and a fellow
worshipper.
The honors which the rulers of
nations are to-day bestowing upon
Colonel Roosevelt in the form of
cablegrams meant little to Oyster
Bay residents in comparison with
their own messages of sympathy
sent to Mrs. Roosevelt sitting brave
ly In her hill top home, surrounded
by those of the Roosevelt children
who have been able to come to her
side at this time. To these residents,
the Colonel was townsman rather
than noted statesman.
The flood of, "reminiscences which
has swept Oyster Bay brought to
public notice circumstance regard
ing which the outside world per-
haps has never known and which is
eloquently characteristic of the gem
tie home life of the Roosevelt FAM
lily. 1t was said that not until about
four months ago was the Sycamore
Hill home equipped with electric
lights.
Servants Demand Electricity
Noted visitors from many lands,
private men of renown and inter-
national missions sent by foreign
governments have come to the Saga
more Hill house to find the Colonel
writing or reading by the light of
oil lamps. Throughout his great
home oil-burning lights only were
to be found. Neighborly reminis-
cence today revealed why oil at
last surrendered to the more mod
ern electricity in the Roosevelt
homestead.
You know" the Colonel was
quoted by neighbor as saying, half
| apologetically, 1--WE just had to put
in electric lights. The servants de-
manded it."
London, Jan. This morning s
London newspapers print full ac-
counts of Theodore Roosevelt's s
death, together with long sketches
of the former President and lengthy
editorial comment.
with Roosevelt there disappears
from the world great, American
and a great friend of Britain" says
the Daily Mail. "He was ever a
fighter, continuously challenging
criticism, as must man whose pri-
NAL quality is pure energy rather
than pure reason. We think of him
as a man who also made a great
place in the world by dint of his
great and very American qualities"
The daily Telegraph says:
"In Roosevelt the world loses one
of its elemental figures. one of those
who not more than twice or thrice
1
tion of mankind as personifying to
a supreme degree some human force
at work in the history of the times.
No man did so much tc
awaken the spirit of an effective
world power in the American people
and his famous phrase for the right
diplomacy for national greatness in
world of competing ambitions,
| speak softly and carry a big stick,
only summed up the wisdom of
| generations in the old world which
still thinks of war as thing in
certain cases inevitable"
Paris, Jan. 7.-Theodore Roose-
velt's death came as a shock to Paris,
which was unaware of his illness.
The public had been expecting the
Ifuifillment of his proposed visit to
France.
The news of Colonel Roosevelt's