Show ROOSEVELT GREETS HIS OLD FRIENDS FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS AT OYSTER BAY I I OYSTER BAY N. N Y Sept 16 Pr Pres- Pres s- s I flent Ident nt Roosevelt yesterday esterday received his I II I friends and neighbors neighbor of ot Nassau u I county and between six and neven cn thousand p pole people orle shook phool his hand A r re reception re- re was held at his country home on Sagamore Hill lIlli and from Crom 3 o'clock until nearly C G he was busy husy shaking hands and renewing old acquaintances Ho He met people whom he had haj not nOl teen seen for far thirty years ears and shook hands with men who had known him h n nhe he was a child The President thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- enjoyed the affaIr atTale and was as fresh when it as over as when he ho began besan He expressed res ed his feelings to a In the crowd who asked him If It he was yas not getting Not a abIt abit bit he replied It takes more than a a. trolle trolley oar ear to knock me out or a u crowd to Q tire he me The precautions to guard the Pre I harm were dent possible against an any I of the tho most thoroll thorough h character InI In I addition to Sheriff Johnson JohnsonS s special a it large TK number of secret service men and arid policemen from fromI I New York In plain clothes were on ont onI the porches and about the grounds I t No one was allowed to go past the President with a camera camero or a stick sUck of oC I any description Cameras valises I canes umbrellas and III lit man many cases overcoats and women's wraps were 1 I taken from rom their owners and piled plied up upI tine the porch under tinnier a i tree near All ports of people In tn all conditions I I I of life tiled Hied b by the tho President White I and black poor and well well-to-do women with babies hables In arms and several with with I dogs small boys boyn and anti little girls all allI allgot I got a plea pleasant ant smile and a of oC I the hand hand- Mann Ian Many were In line lino who had hadI I known the President most of ot his lila 11 life fe I and their delight del in renewing an old I acquaintance was ivas apparent None gave have the President more pleasure pleas pleas- I ure than the greeting of oC two old family servants Maggie Ia-gle and Bridget Mitchell I who had been servants In his fathers father's family a II They came New York 1011 where thc they now nos' live to greet the President nn and to show how him a photograph photograph photo photo- o- o I graph of oC his Ills father and one of himself him him- self when he waN vas 4 1 years ears old The Tine President was delighted to see fee the I pictures and the old servants and pre pro presented presented tine the sisters to Mrs Roosevelt A pleasing Incident occurred toward I the close of the reception The New Ne' NewYork NewYork York policemen wanted their picture ta taken en with the President hen When the request was made of thi the PIc President he I complied at once This la is one time I really want irant a picture taken talen he hc saidI said paid I know these there men and admire them I am proud to have my picture taken with them Before the reception inception closed the bands hands which came from Brooklyn and nd villages 1 on Long Island tiled past the President He shook each man nan by th the hand and thanked him bun for tor the music he had made |