Show ROOSEVELT OFF EX PRESIDENT SAILS AWAY TO DARK CONTINENT TO BE IN AFRICA A YEAR then he will travel and speak in europe three skilled natural ats and his son kermit accod pany him new ork theodore roosevelt ex president ot the united states sailed out 0 new york harbor tuesday on the steamer hamburg of the hamburg american line on the way to his much heralded hunting trip in british east africa on the dock was a large assemblage of mr roosevelt friends who had gathered to bid him godspeed and who cheered him as he stood at the rail of the steamer waving his hand and smiling with delight beside him stood the three n en selected from hundreds of applicants to accompany him and assist him in collecting the specimens of african fauna which he hopes to send back tor the enrichment of the smithsonian Smiths onlan institution these fortunate ort individuals were ma ed gar A mearns J loring alden and edmund heller they comprise the smithsonian Smiths onlan a expedition the fifth member of the little party and not to be considered of least importance was living ally to the type 0 the extinct Ti chorine or woolly rhinoceros which lived in england at the close of the glacial period journey across uganda leaving nairobi in october tha parti will proceed bs the uganda railway to port florence on the shores 0 lake victoria nyanza where a short stop will be made then a steamer will be taken to entebbe miles away there a caravan will be formed and the journey across uganda to the nile will be begun it is expected that the white nile will be reached about the first of the year 1910 lake albert nyanza will be touched at cibira in a general way the cobrae ol 01 the nile will be followed to Gond and thence to khartoum at this city amr roosevelt and kermit will be joined by mrs roosevelt and they will continue down the nile slowly to cairo visiting many i oats of interest on the way to speak in european cap tala plans tor the remainder of the ex president s two years tour have not been decided upon definitely but the time will be spent in europe and sev eral matters of importance have been announced he will visit berlin at the invitation of emperor william and while there will deliver an address upon the one hundredth anniversary of the founding ot the university of berlin from germany he will go to france and deliver an address at the sor bonne it has not been learned how long mr roosevelt intends to stay in berlin and paris after his visit in france mr roosevelt will go to eng land where a reception of great warmth undoubtedly will be accorded 7 1 VH RT a E 0 S xan ROUTE OF THE ROOSEVELT PARTY IN AFRICA the ex president a second son kermit who will be the official photographer 0 the expedition and next to his father the chief hunter to via naples mr roosevelt will go via gibraltar to naples where he will board a steamer of the german east african line for harbor the port of at the latter place the party will be joined by R J cun ning hame an englishman of long ex per lence in africa who has been en as general manager and guide the party will spend a short time in and then proceed by train on the uganda railway to nairobi headquarters of the of british bast africa protectorate a city of 13 inhabitants of whom are europeans on s ranch william northrup macmullan Mac MUlan for tor meri of st louis owns a large estate near nairobi and his big lux urious farmhouse will be headquarters for about si months while the hunt ers and scientists make trips of vary ing length in all directions it Is in this section that mr roosevelt hopes to obtain most ot his specimens tor it abounds with animals of all kinds the smaller mammals will be trapped the supplies of the party are packed in tin lined boxes these boxes when they have been emptied will be used as packing cases for the various sped mens many valuable natural history specimens have been spoiled by ants and other insects it has been found from experience on other elpe lotions and it is to guard against this that the tin lined boxes are being taken along caring for specimens when the specimens have been pre pared they will be carefully packed la the boxes and sipped to nairobi where they will be forwarded to the united states one of the mists will always be with mr roose velt and as soon as any big game is shot by him it will be skinned and prepared on the spot mr roosevelt will be greatly di appointed it he falls to kill several specimens of the white rhinoceros this animal is the same as the square mouthed and is the nearest to him he has accepted an invitation to deliver the romanes lecture at ox ford university and in all probability the honorary degree of D L which oxford has bestowed on emperor will lam will be conferred on mr roose velt the versatility of mr roosevelt will be shown by the fact that he will speak german in his address before the students of the university of ber lin french in his lecture at the sor bonne and english in delivering the romanes lecture at oxford pays his own expenses mr roosevelt will defray the ex benses of himself and his son on the african trip but those of the eclen fists and the cost of preparing the specimens and shipping them to amer lea will be paid out of a fund secured for the purpose by the smithsonian institution one ot the 0 beats of mr roosevelt in taking this trip Is for the purpose of collecting material tor writing sev eral books regarding his experiences during last summer he contracted with charles scribner s sons ot new york giving that farm all the rights tor the erial and book form publication of whatever h might write on his visit to africa it Is said that the contract price agreed upon is 1 per word but this never has beep verified no slaughter of animals the british colonial govern ment should offer to throw open to mr roosevelt and his companions the at rican game preserves anler its con arol the ex president ill refuse to take advantage of this opportunity like other true sportsmen he believes that the utmost protection should be given to wild animals on reservations and that permission to kill them should not be given or accepted under any circumstances unless possibly when predatory animals are becoming too numerous moreover the killing of animals for sport is not the main object of his trip mr roosevelt hopes to send back to the smithsonian institution two adult specimens one of each sex and a specimen of their young ol 01 animals he meets with on the dark continent beyond this the killing will be allm cited to the demands of the commis sary |