Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-06
DRAMATIC LIFE
MADE HIM FAMOUS
[Continued from First Pagc.l

lCOntinued from First Pagc.l
took the children abroad. A porch
gymnasium at his home provided
him with physical exercises with
which he combatted a troublesome
| asthma. His father, a glass inn
porter and a man of means, was his
constant companion; he kept a diary:
he read so much history and fictional
books of adventure that no was
known as a bookworm; he took box
ing lessons; he was an amateur
naturalist; and at the age of II he
entered Harvard University. There,
he wa snot as prominent as some
others in an athletic way, as 1t Is
lnot recorded that he made" the
baseball and football teams, but his
puny body had undergone a meta
morphosis and before graduation he
became one of the champion boxers
of the college. This remarkable
| physical development was empha-
sized by something which took place
shortly after he left Harvard in
1880. He went to Europe. climbed
the Matterhorn, and as a result was
| elected a member of the Alpine Club
| of London - an organization of
men who had performed notable
| feats of adventure.
A few months after his graduation,
! Roosevelt married Miss Alice Lee ~
| Boston. She died in 1884. leaving
one child. Alice, now the wife of
Representative Nicholas Longworth
of Ohio. In 1886 Roosevelt married
Miss Edith Kermit Carow, of New
York, and to them five children were
born-Edith, now the wife of DIR.
Richard Derby, and four sons. The
odore, Jr, Kermit, Archibald and
| Quentin.
The public career of the man who
was to become Presidnt began not
/ long after he left college. His pro-
| fession was law, but the activities
that were to come left him no time
in which to practice it. 1882,
1883 and 1884 he was elected to the
| New York State Assembly where his
efforts on behalf of the good govern
| ment and civil service reform at
tracted attention. When the Reuub-
| lican National Convention of 1854
was held, In Chicago, he was chair
man of the New York State delega-
! tion.
After this experience he dropped
/ out of politics for two years. Going
west. he purchased ranches along
| the Little Missouri River, in North
) Dakota and divided his time be-
tween outdoor sports. particularly
hunting, and lierary work. Here
! he laid the foundation for his series
of books, 1.-The Winning of the West.''
which was published from 1889 to
] 1895, and of other volumes of kin
/ dred character.
Defeated For Mayor ....
4 - - = T.
| the Republican candidate for mayor,
in 1886. He was defeated. Presi-
dent Harrison in 1889 appointed him
member of the United States Civil
! Service Commission and President
| Cleveland continued him in this Of
| flee. which i" resigned in 1895 to
become New York City's police COM
| missioner.
"a thing that attracted me to this
| office" Roosevelt said at the time
he accepted this appointment, was
that it was to be done in the hurly-
/ hurly, for l don't like cloister life."
Honesty was the watchword of this
administration, and the two years of
| his occupancy became memorable
through the reforms he inaugurated,
attracting the nations attention while
| holding a position which was OBJ
scure in comparison with the events
| to come. Illicit liquor traffic, gamb-
ling. vice in general--of these evils
| he purged the city in the face of
corrupt political opposition. and the
reputation he established as u re-
| former won him the personal selec-
| ton by President Mckinley as AS
sistapt Secretary of the Navy, in
1897. A year later the Spanish
| American War broke out.
The Roosevelt temperament did
not allow the man to retain a deputy
! cabinet position with war offering
something more exciting. Leonard
Wood, now a Major-General, was
then President McKinley's physicion
and one of Roosevelt's staunchest
friends.
The famous Rough Riders were
organized by Wood and Roosevelt
a band of fighting men the mention
of whose name to-day suggests i'm
mediately the word Roosevelt" ("
They came out of the west-plains-
men, miners, rough and ready
fighters who were natural marks
men. and Wood became their Colonel
and Teddy" as he had been famil-
iarly called by the public, their
Lieutenant-Colonel. In company
| with the TeBuidTS VI tnc ARMY tnGy
took transports to Cuba, landed al
Santiago and were soon engaged in
the thick of battle. Among the pro-
motions which this hardy regiments
raliantry brought about were those
of Wood to Brigadier-Generai and
Roosevelt to Colonel-and this title
Theodore Roosevelt cherished until
the end. Some of the Rough Riders
formed the military escort when he
was elected President a few years
later.
When Cuba had been liberated,
Roosevelt returned to New York
A gubernatorial campaign was in
swing, with the Republican party I'm
need of a capable candidate. Roose-
velt was nominated. Van Wyck, his
Democratic opponent, was defeated.
The reforms Roosevelt had favored
as assemblyman he now had the op-
portunity to consummate, together
with others OF more Importance, and
it was during this administrator
that he Is said first to have earned
the hostility of corporations. When
the Republican national convention
/ was held in Philadelphia in 1900 his
party in New York state demanded
and attained his nomination for Vice
president on the ticket with Will