Show INITIAL DAY I AS CITIZEN Tramps About Hi His Oyster Bay Estate Climb Climbs the Hills and Closes Closed Day ty by I Almost Felling Giant Tree I WILL VILL DEPART MARCH F 23 FOR HIS AFRICAN TRIP ater Later He Will Make a Round ol oi of the Principal Capitals of ol of Europe Giving Lectures and Seeing All the Sights IS 5 S IN EXCELLENT HEALTH ot 4 Hn 4 New ew York March 5 ln In In a ten- ten tennI nI nil nib suit and with leggings and T Heavy hea spiked shoes sl T Th Theodore odoro t Roosevelt l tOday day spent the tho first day clay In twenty years year a 0 private 4 citizen f ot of the thc republic of ot which I IhL hL ho he has 5 for tor seven and arid a n. half halt years ear 1 been President stalking R about his estate nt at l re Hill huh near near- 4 Oyster Ov r Bay Da He lie wore wora a ti dark daik- T brown flannel shirt and a blue tio o- o v T with the lie enthusiasm of a a. boy hunting rabbits ho trudged ed- ed t through snow clambered chambered up hills hillsand 4 and ond romped down steep inclines T ate J-ate Late In the afternoon ho it wandered 4 into the tho forest or and nearly chopped 4 away awny a giant tree lIe He promises I Ito to tomorrow complete the tho task lask of ot felling lelline b It X T Tf s' s sOn 0 f 4 4 4 M M M M M H 4 0 On March arch 22 23 Mr Roosevelt In his hla capacity as DS a naturalist will leave New Newark ew York ark harbor for tor the lie jungles of ot Africa on i i tho the steamship Hamburg of tho the Ham 1 I transfer burg American to the th line steamship At Naples Admiral h he j will ol 01 I tho the German G erman East Ea t African compan Not ot later Inter than thon April 21 ho expects t be landed at tho the little port near Mom om- om busa I n. n Last East Africa whence ho tip wt wil plunge into the tire Jungle ot of the th l Dart Dar continent na s 9 a n duly authorized n ent of tho the Smithsonian of ot Wast Wagn Will VIII Tour l Within a 0 year from day or on which Iho ho he tho tire first t of or Africa ho lie expects to n. n round lound of Vist to to the principal of of i M u. u lecturer V before eforo lIo i of tho the o world worm This trip win will tako Hn Ato Be un Un and arid ID In the ard I I named Should he tire Ure or ot hi hla mU U UIn In Africa ho lio ht cut stay the Here Hereto I which I to seven on or ht In lii event he ho- h probably ly would be Jc hack hock i In InI tire tho th United States In n the thc spring of ot 1910 I This much of ot tho the cx ex Pre x-Pre plan for the Immediate future was learner today tadO Of 01 other plans lIe io would no not anI only otter after of err talk It It wan va th the tho forts torts that U at ho lie was Induced to give g exact date of his Ills departure for Africa returned fron frona All Air Roosevelt had hull Just a walk through the tho snow whon when u a dale delo- Cation gatlon atlon of ot ci newspapermen hi his from froni the tho cold coM besieged cd residence lilY His cheeks checks were aglow V am and his lute eyes gleamed His vitality and nna high a ahe as ashe ashe pronounced spirit never lIe were more declared to hl hI visitors he citizen I am private I 1 cm em now ft a again Mr 1 noo and am between and tire the time I leave eave here now no Africa I t want to remain as quietly for shall l with my family I 1 possibly as I accept no rio Invitations to public or social functions I 1 mo may make mako two and possibly possibly pos pos- three visits to the city on business business busi busi- sibly sister arid and and to see mv my m aunt ness floss off orf this shall not get but I probably for tor a week place seemed to indicate In that I he His Ills was manner frankly Crank proud prou to display his only I boyish health Ills His attire robust the accentuated It He had hall discarded scholarly scholar nose glasses Vh which Ich for years ears softened the vigor of oC his countenance countenance have spectacles of ot such ance and wore design and prodigious lous size as asto asto asto unique touch of to give to his expression a 0 Hung Chang His Ills halt half haltI tho ho look of LI of a n cropped as that closely I as was v prize fighter It stuck out defiant pugnacious and quivering Sc I In Washington the tire President ox-President or of your our of ot the members many mony sr l said among my ray warmest procession m aro with talked closest fiends I 1 havo have them theta freely for tor tho the past seven years the credit of ot your calling calling- I can cansay cansay anti ind to been rarely has confidence say that m my I been boon Imposed od or otherwise Im I'm So Ou see set Its It's not riot because you jou upon said I to talk with you but as I 1 with Before this tIring thins of ot my talking i nc mOil men for publication ha haa got gut to fo stop right now the tire President ex-President This declaration of ot of ofa ofIL emphasized by a mighty thump a n was palm of the left hand with the fist t of the th right right- But Colonel ono one of ot the reporters InAh InAh In broke Roosevelt you OU Ah chuckled Mr tack lack You are now are arc taking a new flattering me roo by calling me Colonel Instantly he grew rew more grave g started as he he President began besan The to aid his hla visitors in their then quest I Ifor for news Ho lIo stopped abruptly and laughed uproariously up up- Just listen to mo me now he ire ex exclaimed e ex- ex claimed I 1 am not the President now Mr 11 plain It Is all aU over I am Just There Thero was a 0 tinge e of oC sadness In the tho tone tono and expression as he said this In spite of or his laughter Mr hr Roosevelt noo Yes he wont went o on I am am Just plain plait Mr Roosevelt and I J was going to say suy mi might ht say for foi me mc something that you That would v much appreciate that 1 I impossibility It Is an absolute ab physical Continued on OD Page P e Three ROOSEVELT'S ROOSEVEL L TS T'S r rAS FIRST DAY DAYAS Y YAS AS PRIVATE CITIZEN Continued cl roni I I IK On Ono for tor ma m. to ever Ott to reply to the by telegraphs and mall kind In messages Kell that are pouring pouring- In irs upon mo me 1 have hind had stenographer 1 1 r rand and and n. n I 1 S secretary just cant can't t cJ nor do 1 th the tho a it I work that would be bo Involved Involve In replying replying reply reply- ing as S I should to these theno m messages Nordo Nor Nordo Nordo do I expect to call to my aid 1 either cither or stenographer If you a secretary ry make mention of oC this tho President Again his explosive lau laughter rang rons through h tho the house There Thorn I go KO ho said Sl continuing If IC you again will friends make mention of oC this my I understand And now cant can't you ou give s-Ivo us ua a 8 message message mes mes- sn sage c to lo the tho American people pleaded a reporter Nothing o Si- Si absolute absolutely nothing re replied replied re- re Roosevelt There Thero Is nothing Mr fl I plied piled present t an and If 1 at presen that I want to sa say should now be quoted on the tho weather I other equally harmless topic or any would demand next that I somebody like tariff or something talk about time the I I that thaL I r- r r |