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Show ROOSEVELT CANNOT ESCAPE CROWDS New York, June 28 Col. Theodore Roosevtlt departed at 10 o'clock this morning for Boston, where ho will attend at-tend the Harvard commencement exercises. ex-ercises. Col. Roosevelt came from Sagamore Hill to New York and kept secret the hour of departure to avoid tho crowds. He will preside at a meeting of the. Harvard alumni tomorrow and will make a short speech. Outside of this, he has refused to disclose his plans for the trip. He expected to ro'urn home on Friday. It had been ra'nlng all night In Oyster Bay, but Col. Rooa-vHt decided de-cided not to give up the trl Ly automobile. auto-mobile. "I thought I would roch my compartment com-partment unseen," he said, "but an old letter carrier, who first nominated me for the assembly neal (hirty years ago. recognized me and came up to shake hands. 'Then the station employes gathered around, but I managed man-aged to reach my car. Some poi sons followed me in here, but I was reading read-ing very studiously and they , didn't stop." Col. Roosevelt was alone In his compartment when the train started. |