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Show ROOSEVELT I INTERVIEW H Ex-President Able to H Talk Without Pain H Prepares Speech M Oyster Bay, N. Y.. Oct 29. "i don't j feel a bit as though I had been shot," H Eaid Colonel Roosevelt yesterday. 1 The colonel was so much better that H his physicians gavo him permission to H re-establish communication, through H the correspondents at Oyster Bay, with the outside world. It was the first interview he had given since ni3 return to Sagamore Hill and he talked for twenty minutes without a sign of fatigue. "This seems like being alive again," said the colonel, as he entered his library. li-brary. "It seems good to get back into the old channel onco more." Ho walked with a brisk, vigoroun step and his face had lost none of its color. When he shook hands, however, he gave the first indication that he was feeling tho effects of his wound. Instinctively In-stinctively he held out his right hand. His face twitched with pain which he sougt to conceal and he thrust his hand into the pocket of his riding coat and put out hfo left "I haven't much use of rav right fiBt yet," ho exclaimed. "I am" feeling well, but I suppose there are always tome small complications. Tho chet muscles on the right side are sore. The broken rib seems to have knitted and I feel no pain from it unless I breathe deeply." Colonel Roosevelt said he felt well enough to make his speech in Madison Madi-son quare Garden on Wednesday night and that if he suffered no serious effects ef-fects he might make a few other speeches before election dav. Tho j hardest problem, ho said, was "to keen I out of crowd for he is in no condition to pet into the struggling masses of I people which often surround him op. his campaign trips Precautions aro Molng taeu to keep him out of tho 1 crowd in Madison Stjuaro Garden. He ' has now gained sufficient strength ( the colonel said, to walk about the grounds near the house With ease Hi-I Hi-I right .ide did not pain him when he 1 walked, as, long as he kept his right hand in his pocket. His plans for tho rest of the campaign cam-paign depends upon the outcome of Wednesday night's journey to New York. "I'll see how it goes" then," ho said. "If I get through that all right, I may make a few more speeches." One of the speeches, he added, might be at a second Progressive rally ral-ly in Madison Square Garden. There had been some talk, he explained, of a meeting thero In behalf of the Progressive Pro-gressive state ticket Next Monday Colonel Roosevelt h6pes to be able to speak in the neighboring towns of MIneola and Huntington and In Oytor Bay. YeBterday's mail brought Colonel Roosevelt more than one thousand letters let-ters and three hundred telegram's. Moat of them were messages of congratulation con-gratulation for his birthday, or be- cause of his recovery. A blrthdaj gift winch Interested him camo yesterday fiom Mrs Richard Jordan of 0stor Bay. It was a cake six feet in diameter. Beginning in tho middle where half a dozen four-leaf four-leaf clovers were set in the icing, a road wound in and out over the top of the cake, with electric lights on poles, one for each state, along the way. Tho tiny incandescent lamps were lighted by a ston?ge battory concealed con-cealed in tho cake. At the end of the road is the White House. At the front door Is an eight-inch automobile, containing Cojonel Roosevelt, just 1 about to enter. |