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Show ROOSEVELT RETURNS AND IS GIVEN AN OVATION SELDOM EQUALED The Mighty Traveler Goes Buoyantly Through a Long and Trying Reception-Parade, Showing I Lively Interest in Everything American i : . The White Company Receives Unique Compliment I for the Sturdy Reliability of Its Steam Car From Mr. Roosevelt and Family j : it SvV i Theodore Roosevelt and Party In Whit Steamer.) After fifteen months' absence, exactly exact-ly as scheduled, Colonel Theodore i Roosevelt disembarked from the Kal-serin Kal-serin Augusta Victoria, Saturday morn-: morn-: ing, June 18, at 11 a. m. To the keen j disappointment of a large group of ' newspaper correspondents, Mr. Roose-; Roose-; velt absolutely refused, as heretofore, to be interviewed or to talk on politi- cal subjects, but his rapid fire of questions ques-tions showed the same virile interest j in public affairs as before. If tEe welcome tendered by the vast throng may be considered a criterion upon which to base a "return "re-turn from Elba," surely there was no ! discordant note iu the immense recep-; recep-; tion-parade, nor in the wildly clamor-j clamor-j ous crowd which cheered at every I glimpse and hung on his very word. I The incidents of the day in New : York were many, but perhaps none j better illustrated the nervous energy i and vitality of the man, the near-mania ! to be up-aud-doing, which he has I brought back to us, than the discard- ing of horses and carriages for the i swifter and more reliable automobiles, j The moment the Roosevelt family and immediate party landed, they were whisked away in White Steamers to the home of Mrs. Douglas Robinson at 433 Fifth avenue. A little later, when the procession reached the corner of Fifty-ninth street and Fifth avenue, , Colonel Roosevelt again showed, his preference for the motor car in general gen-eral and the White cars in particular, when he, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Collector Col-lector Loeb transferred from their carriage car-riage to White Steamers, which were in waiting for them. After luncheon at Mr. Robinson's house, the entire party, including Colonel Roosevelt, again entered White cars and were driven to Long Island City, where they were to take a special spe-cial train to the ex-President's home at Oyster Bay. The supremacy of the White cars with the Roosevelt party was ag;un demonstrated on Sunday, when the party was driven to church in the White Steamers, and a group of some-forty some-forty prominent Rough Riders were taken in a White Gasoline Truck to a clambake at the Travers island clubhouse club-house of the New York Athletic Club, |