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Show ROOSEVELT COMES" OUT OFJLDERISS Sends Cablegram Announcing Announc-ing Success of Expedition ; Puts New River on Map. .NKW YORK, April 30. Henry Fair-field Fair-field Osborne, president of the Ameri-cun Ameri-cun Museum of Nulural History, today received tho following cablegram from Colonel .Roosevelt. who with his sou, Kcrmit, have safely arrived in Mannos, Brazil: Hard but very successful trip. Cherrio is best" man possible for such a trip. Miller doing admirably. admir-ably. They havo collected toOO birll skins, all told, and 500 mammals. mam-mals. Wo have also put on map river tunning from north of thirteenth thir-teenth degree to south of fifth degree, de-gree, the largest affluent, of the Madeira, the upper part hitherto utterly unknown to anyone, and the lowor part utterly unknown to cartographers. Inform Mrs. Chcr-ric, Chcr-ric, KOOSEVELT. The message was dated Manaos, .'xpril 30. Cherrie is George K. Cherrio, Cher-rio, attached to rhc staff of ihc museum, mu-seum, and in clmrgo of tho bird collection collec-tion of tho expedition. Miller is Leo JS. Miller, also attached to tho museum nnd the man in charge of the collection collec-tion of tho skins of mammals. Miller left (he Roosovelt party near tho new river. Ho returned to Manoas two weeks ago. Anthony Finla, tho explorer who accompanied ac-companied tho Roosevelt parly, will arrive ar-rive in New York tomorrow "from Iiio Janeiro. The Colonel Has Boils. MAXAOS, Brazil. April .10. Colonel Roosovelt niul members of bis expedition arrived here today on board a steamer sent to mefet Ihem by the governor of tho state of Amazonan. Colonel Roosevelt wan suffering from bolls, but was not seriously affected, although al-though they caused him inueb Inconvenience. Inconveni-ence. All tho other members of the expedition ex-pedition were In excellent health. The Colonel, with Kernilt Roosevelt and Colonel Rondon. chief of tho Brazilian mission which accompanied the expedition, expedi-tion, took up their finartcrs at tho International Inter-national hotel. The former president Intends to leave immediately for the United States The Journey made by Colonel Roosevelt Roose-velt and his companions was carried out under particularly favorable conditions. The party explored the river Castanna, which was renamed tho River Roosevelt. The river Duvida. or "river of doubt," was found to be unquestionably the river Gyparana. The party followed this river from the end of th teloKraph line to Its Junction with the Madeira, a distance of about fi30 miles. Tho results of the expedition .are con-Fldered con-Fldered here to bo of splendid service to Brazil and to science. |