New-York tribune., 1921-10-27
|63d Birthday
Of Roosevelt
|Honored To-day
Former Presidents Grave at
Oyster Bay To Be Mecca
for Many, With Formal
Exercises Later i'm City
5000 Girls in Pageant
Women to Render Tribute
at Carnegie Hall; Beatty
Boy Scouts Dinner Guest

The sixty-thiid anniversary of the
birth of the late Theodore Roosevelt
will be observed throughout the land
to-day by friends and admirers OF the
former President. In this city and
vicinity the ideals which gave Roosevelt
his power and influence will be extolled
at gatherings arranged by civic, social
and memorial organizations
One of the most impressive cere-
monies of the day is to take place at
the little cemetery at Oyster Bav.
which has become the shrine of pill
grims from all parts of the world.
Delegations of Spanish and World War
veterans and Boy Scouts will place
flowers on the grave Of the statesman.
while foreign diplomats will bring tes-
timonials Of respect from their gov
ernments.
The school children OF Oyster Bay
have been selected to express the es-
TEEN OF the residents of the little town
where Colonel Roosevelt made his
home. They will march to the grave
and lay great wreath upon the rest
ing place of one who always had the
interests Of children at heart They
VIII also take part in exercises in the
Oyster Bay Cove School, where Roose-
velt often played Santa Claus.
Pageant To Be Women's Tribute
The Woman's Roosevelt Memorial
Association will do honor to Roose-
velts memory At a birthday pageant
to be held at $3.50 o'clock this after
noon at Carnegie Hail. in which 5000
nigh school girls will take part. The
proceeds are to be devoted to fund
for the restoration of the birthplace
of Roosevelt at 90 East Twentieth
Street, as nearly as possible with the
original furnishings, family portraits
and heirlooms, which will be given by
m EN- bers of the family.
The program will include addresses
dealing with the life of Roosevelt by
Mrs. John Henry Hammond, president
Of the association, and Mrs Douglas
Robinson, who will speak OIL Child
hood Memories" Mrs. Nathan l.. Mil
Ter, wife Of the Governor. will be the
guest of honor.
Plans or a monumental memorial in
Washington and memorial park at
Oyster Bay in honor of the great
American will be discussed this after
noon a, meeting of the board of
trustees of the Roosevelt Memorial As
soclation. At the same time the trus-
tees will consider the location of per-
manent Roosevelt museum which is to
! house the relics and mementos now
being collected by the association.
Governor Miller will attend exercises
to be held at the Garden City Hotel
under the auspices of the Nassau Coun-
ty Historical Society
Beatty at Boy Scouts Ceremony
More than 1900 Boy Scouts will
gather tonight in the ballroom of the
Hotel Commodore to do honor to the
memory of Roosevelt Troops will
mobilize in the various boroughs and
march to the Commodore, where a din
ner is to be given at which distin-
! guished representatives of the city,
state and nation will be present. Among
! the speakers will be Will H. Hays,
Postmaster General; William Boyce
/ Thompson, president of the Roosevelt
{ Mem orial Association, and Earl Beatty.
| Admiral of the British Fleet Military
/ officers. members O. the Inter-Alied
Military Supply Board. will attend.
The Americanism OF Roosevelt will
be explained to foreign born men and
women who have just been naturalized
at meeting TO be held tonight at 1874
Second Avenue, under the auspices of
the League of Foreign-Born Citizens
| In Brooklyn, the Roosevelt Club will
hold exercises at the Academy of
Music. William Hamlin Childs, presi-
dent Of the club, will be the chief
speaker.