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Show elebrates Hlonel Fifty-four Years m Old Yesterday Many H Messages HFi OjBtor Ear, Oct. 28. Yesterday Bl ). s Theodore Roosevelt's fifty-fourth Hi '' birthday and be celebrated it quietly HL' In doors with his family. Mrs. Roosq-ft Roosq-ft -velt, Miss Ethel, Theodore, Jr, and Ht' Jtile wife and Quentlu sat down at B. tho table for the birthday dinner with H the head of the family. Kermit, E"-'; Archie pnd Mrs. Nicholas Lonvotth B'l v.cre unable toJbo there. K ' lu the afternoon, the Emlon Roose-Bf-' veJts dropped in to extend their con-Hm! con-Hm! gratulatlons and Oscar Straus, Fro-- .gressive candltlate for governor of K New York, and Mrs. Straus came Hl3 from Nev,' York by automobile. Colo-HV Colo-HV ntl Roosevelt 1 asked Mr. and Mrs i Kf fir,ra"& r-O- siay Vfor tea, but thoy fell: Hlyiuld be better for the colonel to rest and remainod only a few minutes. min-utes. ' Colonel Roosevelt did not leavo the hoaee today. His walk yesterday tired him so much that it vras thought best for him to have a complete tobL This afternoon Dr. Alexander Lamr bert and Dr. George B. Brewer came1 from New York to dress Ills wound and found that their patient was continuing to Improve. Wire From Pugilist. Birthday telegrams came in all day long. One was from John L. Sullivan. Sulli-van. "Every good wish to you on your fifty-fourth birthday.' the former for-mer pugilist wired," and God's "blessings "bless-ings as woll all your life." The colonel wired back. "Good luck to you John.' Automobiles by the score filled with sightseers, climbed Sagamore Hill from morning to night. At one tizno the rond at tho foot of tho hill xvub blocked with motorcars, each driver awaiting his turn to go up the hill for a sight of the house. Of all the. birthday gifts that cam to him from many parts of the country Colonel Roosevelt was especially proud of a painting of a Eull Mooac by a Now York artist The painting which 1b six feet square, was pre-Ronted pre-Ronted to him by AuguBt Heckshcr, of Ho neighboring tovn of Huntington. P?Tho gift most peculiarly givon o:mo from a woman whose name is asm unmjjjfm,, not known to the colonel or his family. fam-ily. Tho woman, about sixty vears old, dressed in black, with a "largo bundle under her arm stepped from" tho noon train and inquired the ivav to Sagamore Hill. She walked the three miles through the village, along the shore of the bay and up the hill. When Colonel Roosevelt's butler, "Jim" cam to the door in answer to her ring, sh0 gav "him the bundle. bun-dle. Not to See Him. i "I didn't come to see him," she said, "I have come from Boston to glv him this present on his fifty-fourth fifty-fourth birthday." W-lth that she turned away and started down tho hill. "Jim" opened the bundle and saw that It was a email oil painting. Ho carried it to the colonel. Tho woman was sqen as she trudged trudg-ed back to the station to take the next train for "New York. Sho re- fused to gve her nanio or any lnfor- ' matlon about herself, oxcept that she war. from Boston ''It is nothing." she said "I just came from Boston to leave the painting paint-ing for Colonel Roosevelt, whom I admire ad-mire very groatly. Now I am going back to Boston," Continued improvement in Colonel Rcosovelt's condition was roported by his physicians. They Issued thia bnjlelln: I "Colonol Roosevelt's wouud shows marked progress in healing There is no reatcnablo doubt that ho will speak on Wednesday night. There Is oedema of the chest muscles which makes it necessary to forbid his shaking hands. Colonel Roosevelt will return to Oyster Bay immediately immediate-ly after the meeting. (Signed) "DR. LAMBERT. "DR. GEO. BREWER." Dr. Lambert expla fried that by the term oedema tt.s meant a bad bruise due to tho impact of the bullet. Colonel Roosevelt expects to do more work today than on any previous previ-ous day sine hts return. Kik physicians physi-cians said it would be opt of tho question for him to speak In Brooklyn Brook-lyn on Saturday night as ho has been urged to do by Brooklyn Progressives. the fact that Art was .so numbed rora the cold he must have tilted the plpnes too much in volplaning and that accounts for the machine burying bury-ing its noso into the ground and turning turn-ing over. "As soon as we are able, we are going to Corpus Christi, Texas, where he Is going to be ,nn instructor In the Mills school and fly hydro-aeroplanes on tho bay." |