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Show wsmm mm and is given I AN OVATION SELDOM EQUALED I The Mighty Traveler Goes Buoyantly Through a I Long and Trying Reception-Parade, Showing I Lively Interest in Everything American I The White Cbmpany Receives Unique Compliment for the Sturdy Reliability of Its Steam Car I From Mr! Roosevelt and Family I Theodore Roosevelt and Party In White Steamer.) (, 's I After fifteen months absence, exactly exact-ly ns scheduled, Colonel Theodoro Roosevelt disembarked from tho Kal-serin Kal-serin Augusto Victoria, Saturday morning, morn-ing, Juno 18, nt 11 a. m. To tho keen disappointment of a largo group of nowspaper correspondents, Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt absolutely rofuscd, as heretofore, to bo interviewed or to talk on political politi-cal subjects, but his rapid flro of questions ques-tions showed tho samo vlrllo Interest In public affairs ns before If Uio wolcomo tendered by tho vast throng may bo considered a criterion upon which to bnso a "ro-turn "ro-turn from Elba,", surely thoro was no discordant noto in tho Immense reception-parade, nor in tho wildly clamorous clamor-ous crowd which cheered at every glimpse and hung on his very word. Tho Incidents of tho day in Now York wero many, but perhaps nono hotter illustrated tho nervous energy and vitality of tho man, the nenr-mnnla to bo up-and-dolng, which ho has brought back to us, than tho discarding discard-ing of horses and carriages for tho nwlftor and moro rollnblo automobiles. Tho moment tho Roosovolt family and linmedinto party landed, thoy wero. whisked nway In Whlto Steamers to tho homo of Mrs. Douglas Robinson at 133 Fifth avenue. A llttlo later, when, tho procession reached tho corner of Fifty-ninth street and Fifth avenue. Colonel Roosovolt ngnin showed his proforenco for thp motor car in general gen-eral and tho Whlto cars In particular, when ho, Cornelius Vandorbllt and Coir lector Loob transferred from their car-rlngo car-rlngo to Whlto Steamers, which were in waiting for them. After luncheon at Mr. Robinson's, house, tho entlro party, including1 Colonel Roosovolt, again entered Whlta cars and wero driven to Long Island City, whero they woro to tnko a special spe-cial train to tho ex-Prcsldcnt's boms at Oyster Bay. Tho supremacy of tho Whlto cara with tho Roosovolt party yns again demonstrated on Sunday, when the party was drlvon to church In tho Whlto Steamers, nnd n group of somex forty prominent Rough Riders were taken in a Whlto Gasolino .Truck to at clnmbako at tho Travcrs Island club-houso club-houso of tho New York Athletic Club. |