Show ROYAL iL WELCOME FOR ROOSEVELT SEVELT Vast Throng Greets the Former President at New York HE IS MET AT QUARANTINE Escorted to the Battery flattery by a Great Flotilla Speeches Flotilla Speeches and Land Parade Pa Pa- rade rad Affair rade-Affair Affair Is Spontaneous and Non Non Partisan New York He He has come como back Theodore Roosevelt returned to his Ills native land June 18 and was given Iven givena a welcome home bome such as was never before accorded to a citizen of at this republic The whole country joined In it and It It was so spontaneous and so utterly partisan non-partisan that It could not but be most flattering to the former former former for for- I mer president Since emerging from the African Jungle th the latter part of March 1 Mr Mi- Roosevelt has been the guest of nearly nearly nearly near near- ly every European ruler and almost J I unprecedented honors have hao been r shouted their greetings to If Teddy I as he ho passed and the factories and mills added the noise of or their whis whis- whistles ties to the general din So It went all nil the way up to ty-third ty street where the parade turned and made its way back bacle to the Battery At that historic spot at the lower end of or Manhattan l island Colonel Colonel Colonel Col Col- onel Roosevelt landed to receive the formal welcome home Welcomed by Mayor Gaynor In an enclosure in the center of at Battery Battery Bat Bat- tery p park rk were distinguished guests including senators representatives representatives representatives represent represent- ambassadors and close personal personal personal per per- per per- fi friends lends of Mr 1 RoosevelL Roosevelt Surrounding Surrounding Sur Sur- rounding this enclosure was another reserved space which was occupied by about 2500 prominent men and mem- mem boys bers of or the big reception committee The cheering and music were al almost almost al al- most continuous as the colonel entered entered en en- the park but finally quiet was restored and Mayor Maor Gaynor stepped forward and delivered a cordial address address address ad ad- dress of welcome on behalf of the tho naton na na- ton and the cit city Mr 1 Roosevelt responded responded re re- briefly but feelingly and short speeches were made by several other prominent men men Much as as he would have liked to be present to greet his predecessor President Taft was kept awn away on account of his official official ofil cial dial position and by a previous engagement en en- par Parade de Through the City When the speech making r g. g wa was over v wY fJ BEFORE AND AFTER THE TRIP heaped leaped on him The reception by I his ils fellow citizens was a fitting climax climax cli cli- i max to his triumphal tour and must have been the most satisfactory event connected with it Flotilla Meets Him at Quarantine More than a month ago every available available available avail avail- able craft in New York harbor had hadeen hadeen hadeen een engaged for the day day- and numerous numerous nu nu- big organizations like the Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican club of New York and the Hamilton H club of or Chicago had chartered chartered char- char ered regular coast line steamers Early in the morning this immense flotilla sailed far down the bay and when about 9 o'clock the scouting tugs and motor boats came flying in with the word that the Auguste Auguste Au Au- guste Victoria was approaching all made ready for the first greeting As the big liner came Into sight every every every ev ev- ev- ev ery whistle on ev every ry vessel was tied open and shrieked the welcome to the the parade parade- through the city s streets reet started It was originally intended to conclude the reception with a monster monster mon man ster parade and invitations were is issued issued Is is- sued to various organizations throughout through through- out the country Within a few days daya however the committee was flooded with so many applications that the par parade de feature e had to be In part aban aban- Organizations from Maine to California and from the Gulf to the Gr Great at Lakes requested places in the tho theline theline tholine line of march and if Ir the project had been carried out the procession would have extended from the Battery to the Harlem river and back again a n distance of 20 miles and the people who had traveled hundreds of miles to see Roosevelt would have been deprived deprived de de- de of the pleasure In order to overcome this obstacle so that no one would be pe e offended a unique arrangement arrangement arrange arrange- ment was adopted by the committee y f i 1 gp P w iY S 0 t s NYA 1 Oa gib f- f iJ f x M t. t t i k f j 4 th p. p v J l d q tAIf I i f j 1 t r t t Pi oX t r v p 4 j fJ J t. t l Nl f. f f t r f t t Y i. i K i u x f- f j t 7 9 i Ji f j 1 J sq- sq r j t j h fX f r i tL ax ti Ara Y w x K s 7 f j iron sur o rapa copyright by b Underwood c d A Underwood N N. N Y Y THE VOYAGER HOMEWARD BOUND i returning wanderer Colonel Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt with Mrs Roosevelt and Kermit Ker Ker- mil mit by his side stood on the deck waving his hand and smiling the familiar fa fa- millar smile and the waiting wafting thousands thousands thou thou- sands cheered him again and again Reception Committee Takes Him At Quarantine the necessary formalities formalities formalities for for- I were quickly over and the official reception committee took tool the colonel and his party aboard Its revenue revenue rev rev- cutter That vessel at once started up the I harbor arbo and all the gaily decorated decorated craft filled with clubs and I private parties fell In behind and formed a most spectacular waiter pa pa- rade On almost every bc boat at was a band and all the way the musicians played at the top of their l lungs The shores were black with people eople who All organizations that wished to participate par par in the parade were assigned certain blocks along the line lino of march for Instance one or two blocks were assigned to some visiting club and the next to the public and andI I so flO on i The procession Itself was comparatively small and was led by the mounted mount mount- ed police pollee of New York who were followed followed fol fol- lowed by the police band on foot Then came the escort of Rough RoughRiders RoughRiders RoughRiders Riders under the gourmand command of Robert Hunter of Oklahoma city president of the organization Colonel Roose Roose- Roosevelt Roosevelt velt came next In a carriage and his carriage was followed by a long procession procession procession pro pro- cession of f vehicles containing the members of or the committee and the i speakers kerR I |