Show GREETED BY NEIGHBORS colonel roosevelt talks of hit his trip and says it Is good to be home oyster bay bat every resident of the town was at the station to greet theodore roosevelt Hoo sevelt upon his return to his home on oil tile the 6 special bowing and shaking hands with his old friends lie he walked through the mud to the park where a grandstand had been erected about persons gathered on the green five hundred high school pupils were the first to do the honors they sang home again then ihen william J youngs united states district attorney attorn ei delivered the address ot of welcome colonel roosevelt replied as follows aay y friends and neighbors I 1 hope I 1 rl need d not say how glad I 1 am to see you ou and be with you ou again my trip began the of march a year ago when you bade me gaoa goodbye be at the station and this Is the ending when I 1 get through speaking it is good to to see you again at the station and walk up behind the band I 1 enjoyed hearing the children sing and I 1 hope that there are some children present from the same school that my children at attended tendel 1 I 1 an am I 1 glad to see you all again men women and little oysters A normal school boy passes his time in a state of semi warfare at his elbows and I 1 suppose I 1 was no exception to the rule but those who linew knew me as a small boy seem to have forgiven me by this time 1 I cant say how bow much these homecomings to oyster day have meant to me in the last dozen years I 1 know you QU all and I 1 do not think there Is one among you ou with whom I 1 am not on good footing I 1 never forgot tho the welcome you ou gave me when I 1 carna came back from the spanish american war 1 I have had a most interesting trip and enjoyed it very much lions and everything perhaps I 1 enjoyed it a little more on account of 0 the lions I 1 started at the headwaters or of the nile where the people are in a state of savagery aava gery and finished up at the most highly civilized capital in the world I 1 enjoyed everything eer thing in africa an and europe crupe anil and the capitals of europe and their rulers hut but this is not the occasion to talk of my trip some day I 1 ahall tell you yon all about it this I 1 Is s inertly a greeting and I 1 wish to thank you ou all I 1 it me deeply to have so many of my neighbors come com e to new york and take part in the welcome and in the parade but it touched me more deeply to see you all here to llo live among you again as I 1 have lave for iha last forty years eara to talie take up my jeitles the firt fir t duty of a roan man Is in his own film fain ay 1 before a man mail can aspire to reform getonn a nation lie roust must turn his af attention to tho the folks at homo home |