Show GREETED BY Y NEIGHBORS Colonel Roosevelt Talks of His Trip and Says ays it is Good to be Home Oyster Bay Every Every resident of the town was at the station to greet Theodore Theodore The The- odore adore Roosevelt upon his return to tc his home n the 6 G o'clock special BowIng BowIng Bowing Bow- Bow Ing and shaking hands with his old friends he walked through the mud to the park where a grandstand had b been en erected Ab About ut persons poisons gathered on the gre green green n. n Five hundred high school pupils were the first to todo todo todo do the honors They sang Home Again Then William J. J Youngs United States district attorney delivered de de- livered the address of welcome Colonel Col onel Roosevelt replied as follows My friends and neighbors I hope I need not say how glad I am to see you you and be with you again My Iy trip began the of March a year ago when you bade me good bye at the station and this is the ending when I get through speaking It is good to toto toto to see you again at the station and walk up behind the band I enjoyed hearing the children sing and I hope that there are arc some children present from the same school that my children chit chil dren attended J 1 I am glad to see you all again men women and little Oysters A normal school boy passes his time ina in ina ina a state of warfare semi at his elbows and I suppose I was no exception to the rule but those who knew me a aa as asa asa a small boy seem to have forgiven me by this time I cant can't say how much these homecomings homecomings home home- comings to Oyster Bay have meant to me in the last dozen years I know you all and I do not think there IE h hone one among you with whom I am not noton noton noton on good footing I never forgot the welcome you gave me when I came back from the Spanish Spanish American American war warI I have had a most Interesting trip and enjoyed it very much lions and everything Perhaps I enjoyed it a little more on account of the lions 1 I started at the headwaters of of- the he Nile where the people are In a state ol of savagery and finished up at the most highly civilized capital in the world I enjoyed everything In Africa and Europe and the capitals of Europe and their rulers But this is not the occasion to talk of my trip Some Someday Someday Someday day I shall tell you all about it This Is merely a greeting and I wish to thank you all It touched me deeply to have so soman man many of m my neighbors come to New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and take part in the welcome and in the parade But it touched me more moie deeply to see you all here to live among you rou again as I have for tor forthe forthe the last forty years rears to take up my duties The first duty of ofa a man is in his own faro fain ly Iy Before Defore a man can aspire to reform a nation he must turn tum his attention to the folks folks at t home |