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Show ' B Roosevelt. There he took .an automobile auto-mobile to the church, where his son was mailed.' - From;the church the RoobcvoU party par-ty rode to Ihe wedding reception at the home of Mr?. B. Alexander, the bride's aunt. EX-PRESIDENT HAS VORMSY DAY NEW YORK, June 20. Theodore Roosevelt began leday the life he baa choben for himself as a private citizen. citi-zen. Me has his own ideas of what the country shall do wltii Us ex-presi-dr-nts. antl after a single day of rest at Sagamore Hill took up his work today to-day as a contributing editor to the Outlook. ' Answers Correspondence.' Not eveu the fact that liio sou was to be married this afternoon detained hi in from bis desk. The despatch boat Dolphin, on which Mr Roosevelt left Oyster Ray laic last night with Secretary Mejer as his host, brought him into New York early this morning. morn-ing. Ho went direct to his office aDd Immediately pungeri into the mountain of correspondence accumulated. Two hours later he appeared on the street and was immediately recognized by the ciowds. Before he had walked half a block westward, toward Fifth avenue, ho was followed by a throng that blockaded the sidewalks. Buy a. Straw Hat. Tbe sun was beating flown with an Intensity that made a top hat unendurable. unen-durable. The colonel plunged for a hatters at a speed that made tho crowd behind run to keep up As ho passed the offices-of the publishing mm win uiiiip qui his rorm-coming rorm-coming book on hU hunting trip h spjod a tall p.irtralt of himself, framed in red, white and blue. "That's dandy, Isn't it?' was his comment. A hatter was close by. It took the colonel just two minutes to buy a wide brimmed straw hat with a black band Then he fooled It at the same amazing speed to his ofllec again. Editor Roosevelt's Quarters. Kdltor Roosevelt's Quarters hereafter here-after will be on tho seventh floor of the. United Charities huildincr at Fourth avenue and Twenty-second stieet, when? a suite of three rooms has been specially engaged for him. ? On tho entrance door appears the legond In big gtlt letters, "Oflice of Theodore Roosevelt." . The rooms themselves, although businesslike In appearance, are furnished with a magnificence mag-nificence unusual for an otllce building. build-ing. The huife comprises a room for Mr. Roosevelt's secretary, a room In which visitors will wait and Mr. Roosevelt's own room, large and airy, frontinR on Fourth avenue. The walls' ire newly covered with bronze burlap. The furniture Is of mnhogany, and the deok Is a reproduction of George WnshinKton's desk at Mount Vernon. a rjch rug of tan. green and dull pink covers the polished parquettry of the floor, riclures of WashlnRton. Lin- ; coin and a copy of Ihe Declaration of Independence written in old Kngllsh "1 characters, hang on tno bronze bur- !j lap. If It should prove, that visitors are too insistent there is an auxll-llary auxll-llary exit by which Editor Roosevelt may escape through a hidden hall to the street. 2 1 Goes to Wedding of Son. i f After his morning's work In his new I 3 offices Mr. Roonevcdt went for lunch- e n at tbe home of his cousin, Frank |