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Show GREETED BY NEIGHBORS. Colonel Roosevelt Talks of His Trip and Says It Is Good to be Home. Oyster Rny. Every resident or tho town was at tfie station to greot Tho- odore Roosevelt upon his ruturu to his homo n the (5 o'clock special. Rowing, Row-ing, and shaking hands with his old friends, he walked through the' mud to tho park, where a grandstand had been erected. About If.OOO persons gathered oir the green. Five hundred high school pupils- wero the llrst to do tho honors. They sang "Homo Again." Then William J. Youngs, United States district attorney, delivered de-livered tho address of welcome.. Col-oneB Col-oneB Roosovelt replied as follows: "My friends and neighbors: 1 hope I ne2d not say how glad L am to see you and bo with you again. My trip began, the 23rd of Marcli a year ago when- you bade me good-bye at tho station, nnd this Is the ending, when I got through speaking. It is good to to set! you again at tho station and wulk up behind the band. I enjoyed hearing the children! sing and I hop that there are some children present from tho same school that my cliil-dr.en cliil-dr.en attended. "I am glad to see you all again, men, women nnd little Oysters. A normal school boy- passes his time In a state of semi-warfare at hfs elbows and E suppose I was no exception to tho rule, but tlioae who knew mo aa 41 small boy seem to have forgiven ms by tills time." "I can't say how much these Homecomings Home-comings to Oyster Bay liave meant to me in tho last dozen years. I know you. all and I do not think there is ono among you. with whom I am not on, good footing, t never forgot tho welcome you gave me when I came back from the Spanlsh-Ajuerlcaa war. "E have had a most Interesting trip, und enjoyed it very much, lions and overything. Peraaps 1 enjoyed It n little more on nccount of the Hons. I startod at tho headwaters ot tho Nile, where tho peoplo are In a state of savagery, and finished up at tho most highly civilized capital In the world. I enjoyed everything in Africa and Europe, and the capitals of Enropo nnd their rulers. But this Is not the occasion to talk of my trip. Some day I shall tell you all about ft. This Is merely a greeting, and I wish to thatik you all. "It touched me deoply to have so many of my neighbors como to Now York and tnke part in tho welcome aud lit the parade. But it touched mo moro deeply to see you all here; to live nmong you again as I have for the hist forty years; to take up my duties. "Tho first duty of a man Is In his own family. Beforo a man can aspire to reform a nation, ho must turn his attention to tho folks at home." |