Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-01-09
ATTACK OF RHEUMATISM AND SCIATICA
SUFFERED new YEARS PROVES FATAL
TO FORMER UNITED STATES PRESIDENT

candidate, William Howard Taft.
Woodrow Wilson, democrat, was
elected.
Col. Roosevelt's enemies agreed
with his friends that his life, his
character and his writings represent
ed a high type Of Americanism.
OF Dutch ancestry, born in New
York City on Oct. 27, 1858 in a house
in East Twentieth street, the baby
Theodore was weakliLg. He was
one Of four children who came to
Theodore and Martha Bulloch Roose.-
welt. The mother was Of southern
|stock and the father OF northern, 2
situation which during the early
years of Theodore Juniors boyhood
was not allowed to interfere with
the family life of these children dur
ing the Civil war days.
So frail that he was not privileged
I to associate with the other boys of
his neighborhood, Roosevelt was tu-
tored privately in New York and dur
: ing travels on which his parents took
! the children abroad. A porch gym
nasium at his home provided him
with physical exercise with which he
combatted troublesome asthma.
His father, a glass importer and a
man of means, was his constant COM
panion; he kept a diary; he read so
much history and factional books Of
adventure that he was known as a
bookworm; he took boxing lessons;
he was an amateur naturalist; and
at the age of II he entered Harvard
university. There, he was not as
prominent as some others in an ath-
letic way, as it is not recorded that
he made" the baseball and football
teams, but his puny body had under
igone a metamorphosis and before
graduation he became one of the
champion boxers of the college. This
remarkable physical development was
emphasized by something which took
place shortly after he left Harvard
In 1880. He went to Europe, climb
! ed the Matterhorn, and AZ a result
was elected member of the Alpine
club Of London-an Organization Of
men who had performed notable feats
of adventure.
A few months after his gradua-
|tlon, Roosevelt married Miss Alice
Lee of Boston. She died in 1884,
leaving one child, Alice, now the
wife of Representative Nicholas
Longworth Of Ohio. In 1886 Roose-
velt married Miss Edith Kermit Car
ow Of New York and to them five
children were born-Edith, now the
wife of DR.. Richard Derby, and four
sons, Theodore, Jr., Kermit, Archi-
bald and Quentin.
The public career of the man who
was to become president began not
long after he left college. His pro-
fession was law but the activities
which were to come left him no time
in which to practice it. In 1882,
1883 and 1884 he was elected to the
New York State assembly where his
efforts on behalf of good government
and civil service reform attracted at
tention., When the republican ma
tional convention Of 1884 was held in
Chicago he was chairman Of the New
York State deleHatlon
After this experience he dropped
out of politics for two years. Going
west, he purchased ranches along
the Little Missouri river in North Da-
3kota and divided his time between
outdoor sports. particularly hunting
and literary work. Here he laid the
foundation for his series Of books,
"The Winning Of the West which
was published from 1889 to 1898,
and Of other volumes Of kindred
character. IF
III Returning to New York he became
the republican, candidate for mayor
in 1886. He was defeated. Pren-
dent Harrison in 1889 appointed him
q member Of the United States Civil,
Service commission and President
Cleveland continued him in this Of
fce, which he resigned In 1896 to be-
come New York City's police COM.
missioner. 5.,.ss tsSit3 ST 4.
't A thing that attracted me to this
ONCE, Roosevelt saidsat the time he
accepted the app ointment; was that
1t was e be done In the huriy-burly,
for i don't like cloister life. 3 Hon
esty was the $watchw Of this ad-;
ministration, and the two years Of his
occupancy became memorable thru
the reforms he inaugurated. attract
Ing the nation q attention while hold
Ing position which was Obscure In
comparison With the events to come
Illicit liquor tram bling. vicsa
- general 81 these evils 10 purged7
tho IN tho face of corrupt politi-