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Show IS II SIS 10 RIDE PAST PRESIDENT? Roosevelt and Daughter Alleged to Have Shown Lack of Ordinary Ordi-nary Courtesy to Girls. Under tho headlines: "Girls Declare President Itude; Miss Ethel, Too." "Young "Women of Forest Glen Seminary Sem-inary Confirm Details ot' Horseback Incident In-cident and Striking Girl's Iorse,;, Mra. Roosevelt. Alone, Maintained Jlcr Dignity,'7 Mav Rhodes, the Victim Vic-tim of tho Presidential "Wrath Father Had to Silence Ethel: it is Asserted," the Rochester Herald hns a curious dispatch dis-patch from Chicago under date of December De-cember 18th, which reads as follows: Corroboration of the story of President Roosevelt's conduct when he took offenso at a party of young women on Thanksgiving Thanks-giving day for riding past him and his party uear the Forest Glen seminary came today with the arrival In Chicago of more than a score of young women from tho school. In addition to the charge that President Presi-dent Roosevelt had struck the horso upon which one of the young women was riding, rid-ing, it was also alleged that Miss Ethel Roosevelt joined in the upbraiding of the young women riders. Kuflianly, She Says. "It was the most brutal and ruffianly thing that I ever could have thought of," was the way one of the young women characterized the episode. The young woman whose horse was struck by President Presi-dent Roosevelt Is Miss May Rhodes, the daughter of a wealthy resident of Los Angeles. Cal. The shock of tho episode I unnerved the young woman for several i days. She is now ut Forest Glen seminary, semi-nary, having decided that the long trip across tho continent would not pay her for the few hours she would bo able to spend at her home. Another member of the party was Miss Henrietta Greer of Beaumont, Tex. A third girl, whose name has not yet been learned, and Mjss Sisson. an instructor at Uie school, composed the party. An additional addi-tional feature of the story is that after the occurrence the young women were reprimanded by tho school authorities, according to one of the girls, and an apology apol-ogy was sent to the president. One of the young women when assured that her name would not bo used -m connection con-nection with any statement she might make, lold the full story of the incident. She said: Blames Ethel Roosevelt. "May Rhodes, a girl from Los Angeles, was out for a horseback ride on that day, and two other girls were, with her. They had gone a long way and were hurrying to got back to the seminary. There was a man riding ahead of them with a woman wo-man and a young girl, and Miss Rhodes and the others whipped their horses past them. They had not tho slightest Idea who tho other riders might be. And then tho man that they had passed rode up beside them and struck Miss Rhodes's horse with his riding crop. The horse swerved to the side of tho road and Miss Rhodes pulled up just in time to prevent being thrown. " 'You should not have passed me, tho man cried, and then she saw that he was President Roosevelt. She did not know what to sav or do and the President kept scolding her and the girl who was with him and whom they recognized as ISthcl Roosevelt was moro vociferous than her father. .3ai'2 Compliments Mrs. Roosevelt. " 'You had no business to pass us.' sh? said, 'von should have kept back.' and she wo'uld have said more If Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt had not silenced her. Mrs. Roosevelt was the only ouo of tho three who acted in a sane manner." i |