The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-14
7. RS old GUIDE
VISITS CRAVE At
SYCAMORE HILL
Maine Woodsman Says APP
propriate Memorial Would
be School of Americanism.

OYSTER BAY, April 14.-William
Wingate Sewall, guide for the late
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, when he
hunted in the Maine woods. and for
Two years foreman of his ranch in
Medora. N. D.. visited the coloners
grave and the Roosevelt home at Sag.
more Hill the other day.
old Bill" as he was affectionately
known to Col. Roosevelt. was full Of
"reminiscences, and everything he saw
that was connected with the colonels
Ire recalled to him some incident that
would in one way or another illustrate
a phase OF "Theodore's" character.
Theodore" was what he always call.
ed the colonel. He said TEDDY" seem
ed too small name for so great a
man.
When Mr.. Sewall viewed the modest
grave OF the colonel, nestled away in
an obscure spot in the woods, his first
words were:
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
the estate, he remarked fervently
that "the colonel did love the birds!"
His Idea of Memorial
AS to the particular type of me-
mortal to be selected by the Roosevelt
memorial committee, at whose invita-
ton he came to New York, Mr. Sewall
was much concerned, and he express
ed decided opinions as to what would
have pleased the colonel
HE would have liked something"
he said, 'in the way of an institution
that would teach Americanism-that
would put into men sense of justice
and truth.
The kind 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 out 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 ex-
cept 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.
T. r. Bore All Ranch Loss
Il don't think it is generally known
that the North Dakota ranch lost the
colonel about 100000. He took Will
Dow and me out with him, but there
was no business arrangement. We
were practically partners, but when
half the cattle died, the colonel saw
that it was his half that died, and
THAT Dow and | had nothing to lose.
But the big thing about the col
onel was that he was an American.
After travelling all through Europe, he
said to me: The more | saw of for
eign lands the better l was satisfied
with my own, where a man is free
born citizen When he was in Swift
zerland he climbed the Matterhorn
Just because he had run across an
Englishman who had an idea that an
American couldn't do it. That was
Roosevelt.
Bill Sewall was born in a little
clearing in the heart of the Maine
woods seventy-six years ago. He used
to stand six feet four when he was
in his prime, but his shoulders are
bit bent now. From above a white
beard peer two keen blue eyes, as
alert rs those of youth. And he is
proud Of his profession, for, when
his daughter gently reproved him for
coming to New York wearing a blue
flannel shirt he declared he was Il
nd oI RI
it.