Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-25
[From the New York Timesl

LILLIAN "1NGAIE SEW ALL,
wv guide for the late Colonel
Roosevelt when he hunted in
the Maine woods, and for two years
foreman of his ranch at Medora, N.
the Roosevelt home at Sycamore
Hill yesterday. To-day he will con-
fer with the Roosevelt Permanent
National Memorial Committee so as
to assist them from his intimate
knowledge OF the Colonel in select
ing a memorial such as he himself
would have liked.
"Old Bill" as he was affection
ately known to Colonel Roosevelt,
was full of "reminiscences yesterday
and everything he saw that was
connected with the Coloneps life re-
called to him some incident that
would in one way or another Illus
trate a phase of the former Presl-
dents character. When he returned
to the Hotel Commodore, after the
day at oyster Bay, he admitted that
it would be difficult to exhaust hlm
of all the significant occurrences
during his experiences with "Theo-
dore." Theodore" was what he al
ways called the Colonel, for he said
that "Teddy" seemed too small a
name for such a great man.
When Mr.. Sewell viewed the mod
est grave of the Colonel, nestled
away in an obscure spoC in the
woods, his first words were: A
quiet place, close to nature, ana
away from the hustle of the world.
That's just like the Colonel Then
he tramped the paths that were the
favorite Roosevelt haunts, and when
he came to the numerous bird
houses which are scattered about
the estate, he remarked ferVently
that 1.-The Colonel did love the birds!
His Opinion About Memorial
sThen he renewed his acquaintance
with the negro, Charlie Lee, VINO,
when Roosevelt was President, drove
his horse and carriage, and in the
later days was his chauffeur. 1t was
all a wonderful treat to him, he sald'
to come back and live again Tor
| few brief minutes in the haunts OF
the Colonel, and when he got back
| to New York in the evening he was
brimming over with memories.
During the day he was accom-
| panied by his daughter Nancy, VINO
| lives in New York during the win
ter. Later he was entertained at
the Lotos Club by Harold Pulsifer
of The Outlook, Eversley Childs, the
hunter, and A. w. Erickson.
AS to- the particular type of MEM
orial to be selected by the Roose-
welt Memorial Committee, at whose
f! invitation he has come to New York.
Mr.. Sewell is much concerned, and
he has decided opinions as to what
would have pleased the Colonel.
"He would have liked something" j"
he said, "in the way of an institution
that would teach Americanism-
that would put into men a sense
of justice and truth. l know that
no statue or monument would have
pleased him. He would have want
ed nothing that had no practical
use.
"The kind of institution 7 mean
would be a school to teach boys to
! be Americans along the lines that
his own boys were taught, because
there could be no better kind. or
course, there would be woodcraft
and ut-of-door sports, and all that
sort of thing. The boy would be
taught to take care of himself, and
to use other men as he ought to.
"The Colonel knew how to take
care of himself, and he never gave
up. Most people have the idea that
he was a strong man. He was
! far from that: he was physically
weak all his life. but he never let
it be known except to those with
whom he was most intimate. The
reason people did not know about
it was that he never gave in. He
was full of grit, and did not know
how to complain.
"Iis sudden death was no surprise
to me, for knew that he had many
weak spells when he suffered from
heart trouble. The only way one
could tell it was lhs unusual silence
for two or three days at a time. He
| always treated the attack as If it
had not happened at all, and I
doubt whether his immediate fam
lily always knew that he was suffer-
ing.
AFTER he was graduated from COL
Iege, they tell me, he was examined
along with number of other gradu-
ates by a doctor, who told him that
he should choose a profession in
which he would have to do nothing
strenuous, such as running up and
down stairs, for if he did, it would
probably result fatally. Well. he
said to that man: Now, doctor I
1 am going to do all the things you
have told me not to do, for if I
had to live a life such as you have