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Show ROOSEVELT IN VIRGINIA. President Spends Part of Say Hunting, Hunt-ing, and Then Visits the Historic Battlefield of Bull Run. Rrandy Htutlon, Va., Nov. 1 President Presi-dent Roosevelt, Secretary Root, Secretary Secre-tary Cortelsou and Kurgeon-nen. Rlxey arc tonight tho guests of Representative Representa-tive John Rlxey, at his country home, about ten miles from this cits'. The special bearlni the party arrived shortly short-ly before " o'clock. There was no demonstration dem-onstration upon the arrival of the parts'. par-ts'. The President will remain until J. 30 o'clock Monday morning. When the President reached his spe-clnl spe-clnl train at Manassas on his return from the hunt, he found a crowd of 200 or 300 people uwaltlng him. The Ties-Ident Ties-Ident briefly addressed tho people, sas-Ing sas-Ing , , "1 wish to thank sou very much for the wny sou havo come to greet us. I have thoroughly enjosed mssclf here. I regret to state that the turkess did not materlallie. ln the flrst place, I had n good walk. It Is the first I have had In six weeks and I appreciated It. I was delighted to have a chance to visit the great battlefield here, and It is a very pleasant thing to any man who has the least desire to be a good American Amer-ican to come through sour historic town and see tho two avenues named In memory mem-ory of Grant and of Lee. I feel that all of us In any part of this country now havo nn cquil right to glory In tho valor nnd the devotion to duts, as each mw his duty alike, of those who wore the blue and those who wore the gra, 1 thank sou for having greeted me." As the speclil triln pulled out of the station the crowd gave the President n parting cheer. This morning the party hunted over a fine picserve of 1900 acres, known locally lo-cally us tho Ren Lomond plac? and oi-iiipled oi-iiipled by Representative John P. Rlxes. a brother of Surgeon-Hen For two hours this nfternoon the President walked over the Rull Run battleflell. the points of historic Inter-ist Inter-ist being indicated and explained by Henry been, who now occupies the Hears house |