New-York tribune., 1919-10-27

the world to advocate the true doc
trines OF Americanism."
II believe the Colonel's choice of q
memorial would be something to do
good" said Major La Guacdia. "He
was responsible for clean politics. He
was the ideal statesman and politician.
His policy made it impossible for any
| domination of political boss"
To-day, Roosevelt Day. the sixty-frst
anniversary of the Colonel's birth,
will bring Roosevelt Week to an end.
The first event of the day will be the
flight of the Roosevelt flag to Oyster
Bay, where ceremonies will be held
this afternoon and tonight.
The Roosevelt flag waved from a
specially constructed flagstaff in
rise to sundown yesterday, guarded by
the Quentin Roosevelt battalion Of the
Junior Naval and Marine Scouts. The
Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band fur
nlshed music. Thousands visited the
flag during the day. At sundown the
flag was placed in the library.
Goes to Oyster Bay To-day
Leaving the Public Library this
morning the flag will be relayed to
Oyster Bay via the Greensboro Bridge
to Queens, Flushing. Manhasset, Port
Washington, High School, Roslyn, Sea
Cliff, Glen Cove and finally the Cove
Neck schoolhouse, where Colonel Roose-
velt used to play Santa Claus for the
children.
After the forty eighth star is sewed
on at the schoolhouse the flag will be
placed on the Colone's grave. At sun
set taps will be sounded. The flag will
remain in the possession of Mrs. Roose-
velt.
Special exercises in New York City
to-day include services at Public
night at the American Museum of Nat
ural History. at which Carl Akeley will
speak, and dinner at the Waldorf
Astoria, at which Herbert Hoover will
be the guest of honor.
John Hays Hammond will preside
and Alton B. Parker will be toast
master Elihu Root will make the
principal address. Other speakers will
be Jules Jusserand, French Ambassa-
man of the American Legion, and
Major General Daniel C. Shanks, COM
mander of the port Of embarkation.
DIR William T. Manning, of Trinity
Church, will pronounce the bendiction.
Two or more tables will be reserved
for former Rough Riders.
Coudert and Hays to Speak
Al Oyster Bay William Loeb, jr.,
who was Colonel Roosevelt's secretary
during his two terms as President, has
arranged for meeting in the theater
tonight. Frederic r. Coudert will pre-
side and Will II. Hays, chairman of
the Republican National Committee,
will speak.
Fellow members of the class of 1880,
from Harvard, will gather tonight at
the Harvard Club. The principal
address will be delivered by Regis
Post, former Governor of Porto Rico
and warm friend of Colonel Roosevelt
A ball will be given this evening at
the Pennsylvania Hotel, at which Cap
tain A. L. Boyce, of "Boyce's Tigers"
will tell some "reminiscences of the
Colonel At the dinner to be given
in Roosevelt's honor at the Union
League Club in Brooklyn tonight Su-
preme Court Justice Crane will be the
principal speaker.
Replies from Mayors to requests sent
out by the American Defense Society
indicate that Roosevelt Day will be
celebrated in hundreds of other cities
over the country today. The society is
urging the adoption of the slogan, eve
have room for but one flag, the Amer-
can flag, and this excludes the red flag,
which symboliZes all wars against lib
erty and civilizations" an expression
embodied in the last message written
by Colonel Roosevelt to the society on
the night before his death.
The Woman's Roosevelt Memorial
Association will to-day raise over the
Colonel's birthplace, % East Twentieth
Street, large American flag presented
to the association by ex-Rough Riders.
Three airplanes from Mineola will
drop wrcaths on the birthplace at 3
o'clock this afternoon. Mrs. John
Henry Hammond will speak and Girl
Scouts will pledge allegiance to the
flag. The flag will 20 in the evening to
Greenwich House, where Mrs. Fred
erick Nathan will speak.