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Show ROYAL ILCBI FOnR00SEVELT Vast Throng Greets the Former President at New York. HE IS MET AT QUARANTINE Escorted to the Battery by a Great Flotilla Speeches and Land Parade Pa-rade Affair Is Spontaneous and Non-Partisan. New York. He lias come back! Theodore Roosevelt returned to his native land June IS, and was given a welcome home such as was never before accorded to a citizen of this republic. The whole country joined in it, and it was so spontaneous and so utterly non-partisan that it could not but be most flattering to the former for-mer president. Since emerging from the """African jungle the latter part of March, Mr. Roosevelt has been the guest of nearly near-ly every European ruler and almost unprecedented honors have been shouted their greetings to "Teddy" as he passed and the factories and mills added the noise of their whistles whis-tles to the general diu. So It went all the way up to Twenty-third street, where the parade turned and made its way back to the Battery. At that historic spot at the lower end of Manhattan island Colonel Col-onel Roosevelt landed to receive the formal welcome home. Welcomed by Mayor Gaynor. In an enclosure in the center of Battery Bat-tery park were 200 distinguished guests, including senators, representatives, represent-atives, ambassadors and close personal per-sonal friends of Mr. Roosevelt. Surrounding Sur-rounding this enclosure was another reserved space which was occupied by about 2,500 prominent men and members mem-bers of the big reception committee. The cheering and music were almost al-most continuous as the colonel entered en-tered the park, but finally quiet was restored and Mayor Gaynor stepped forward and delivered a cordial address ad-dress of welcome on behalf of the nation na-tion a nil I lie city. Mr. Roosevelt responded re-sponded briefly but feelingly, and short speeches were made by several other prominent men. Much as he would have liked to be present to greet bis predecessor, President Taft was kept away on account of his official offi-cial position and by a previous engagement. en-gagement. Parade Through the City. When the speech making was over, , 3 r '; 'A 4 ' -1 t V- v ! - - - c "" J r-.r . . v ' s s - -y:r ' y v j : -y v. '-, 1 ' '; f t v. : - fir ' r s : Lz2Vhi iJ BEFORE AND AFTER THE TRIP heaped on him. The reception by his fellow citizens was a fitting climax cli-max to his triumphal tour and must have been the most satisfactory event connected with it. Flotilla Meets Him at Quarantine. More than a month ago every available avail-able craft in New York harbor had been engaged for the day, and numerous nu-merous big organizations, like the Republican Re-publican club of New York and the Hamilton club of Chicago, had chartered char-tered regular coast line steamers. Early in the morning this immense flotilla sailed far down the bay, and when, about 9 o'clock, the scouting tugs and motor boats came flying in with the word that the Kaiserin Au-guste Au-guste Victoria was approaching, all made ready for the first greeting. As the big liner came into sight, every ev-ery whistle on every vessel was tied open and shrieked the welcome to the the parade through the city streets started. It was originally intended to conclude the reception with a monster mon-ster parade, and invitations were issued is-sued to various organizations throughout through-out the country. Within a few day3, however, the committee was flooded with so many applications that the parade feature had to be in part abandoned. aban-doned. Organizations from Maine to California and from the Gulf to the Great Lakes requested places in the line of march, and if the project had been carried out, the procession would have extended from the Battery to the Harlem river and back again, a distance of 20 miles, and the people who had traveled hundreds of miles to see Roosevelt would have been deprived de-prived of the pleasure. In order to overcome this obstacle so that no one would be offended, a unique arrangement arrange-ment was adopted by the committee. ' r"' ' , ' i - " I , ' - - - , a:,vtT , f e. - . - ,. - , ' .., 1"" - "' ?" ! , ' ' r " ,f ' " i "i " -f"," '-Ki-- ,"-.- is ?-'S ::,. :. s r i'..V-- 4i 1'rom sreoffruph,cop-rlKht. by Underwood & L' mlcrwood. X. Y THE VOYAGER HOMEWARD BOUND returning wanderer. Colonel Roosevelt, Roose-velt, with Mrs. Roosevelt and Ker-mit Ker-mit by his side, stood on the deck, waving his hand and smiling the familiar fa-miliar smile, and the waiting thousands thou-sands cheered him again and again. Reception Committee Takes Him. At Quarantine the necessary for-1 for-1 malities were quickly over and the official reception committee took the colonel and his party aboard its revenue rev-enue cutter. That vessel at once started up the harbor and all the gaily decorated craft, filled with clubs and private parties, fell in behind and formed a most spectacular water pa-) pa-) rude. On almost every boat was a .'band, ami all the way ll.- musicians 1 pluye I til I he lop of their lungs. The ! shores were black with people who All organizations that wished to participate par-ticipate in the parade were assigned certain blocks along the line of march; for instance, one or two blocks were assigned to some visiting club, and the next to the public, and so on. The procession itself was comparatively compara-tively small and was led by the mounted mount-ed police of New York, who were followed fol-lowed by the police band on foot. Then came the escort of 500 Rough Riders under the command of Robert Hunter of Oklahoma city, president of the organization. Colonel Roosevelt Roose-velt came next in a earriagV. and his carriage was followed by a long procession pro-cession of vehicles containing the members of the committee and tho speakers. |