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PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY. JUNE 21, 1910
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ROOSEVELT HOME
IDOL OF AMERICA
Distinguished Traveler Aboard Liner
Came in Port Saturday
WIRELESS BRINGS SHIPS NEWS
Messages Indicate That Vessel Docked at
Early Hour. Eighty Warships Fall in
Line Behind JFormer President
The home coming of Colonel Roose
velt completes what is generally
considered the most remarkable trip
other than exploration adventures,
ever made by an individual, whether
in public or private capacity.
Sailing from New York on the steam
er Hamburg on March 25, 1909,
ii mill Rfpncs of unnreecetenteu enthu
siasm, the colonel returns just 052 days
later after a journey of nearly 30,000
miles, laden with honors and almost
universal acclaim, to find the plans
for his welcoming far outrivaling
those that marked the send off given
upon his departure.
A world figure before he left, he
returned probably the most talked
of man of the present day, due to the
fact that he had traversed two con
tinents, nearly all the capitals of which
and millions of people have come into
close touch with him and learned what
manner of man he is. '
That his journey through a part of
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SNAI'SUOTS AT Mtt. HOOSEVELT'S TOUK.
0- The itart 2. Colonel Roosevelt reviewing Norway's fleet. 3. Riding a camel In
Egypt i. Kermlt and Colonel Koosevelt and African buffalo.
Africa and through Italy, France,
Austria, Belgium, Holland, Germany,
Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Eng
land was nothing short of a triumphial
march, is plainly attested by a niere
unadorned recital of his movements.
Whether it was when Daudi Chwa
the twelve-year-old king of Lganda,
did him honor at Karpala, or when
Einporer William of Germany enthus
stically called him "Mem Freund
Rossevelt" at a special review of the
flower of the German army, whether
it was in the thatched huts of interior
Africa, or riding in the imposing fun
eral cortege of the late King Edward
of England as the special ambassador
of the United States, it is no exagger
ation to say that he was the central
figure; adding a note of expectancy
- and' Joepest interest to evry gathering
f in which he mingled. j
Four other ex-presidents of the
United States made trips abroad
VanBuren, Fillmore, Grant and Ben
jamin Harrison and while their jour
neys particularly .hat of Grant, were
memorable in many ways they were
hardly to be compared with that of
Roosevelt, lacking, as they did, its
many spectacular features.
When it is remembered that the
colonel spent nearly an entire year
from April 21, 1909, when he landed
at Mombasa, to March 16, 1910,
when he arrived at Khartoum, in
the interior of Africa when practically
the only news of him was furnished
by the United Press correspondent,
who followed him through Africa,
as the only accredited newspaperman
in the party.
The hunt was under the auspices
of the Smithsonian institution, though
at the colonel's initiative. The cost
of it, excepting the personal expenses
of the colonel, and his son, was met
by contributions, said to be $25,000,
made by a group of friends. The names
of these friends have never been pul
lished. The cost of mounting the
specimens secured by the expedition
will, it is estimated be $55,000. The
colonel paid his and Kermit's expenses
though this outlay will be reimbursed
to him many times over by proceeds
from his magazine articles and his
forthcoming book on his hunt. For
a tides now running in Scribner's,
Roosevelt receives $1 a word.
The colonel's feat in spending
eleven months in the jungles of Africa
without suffering so much as a day's
illness and the practical immunity
of his son, Kerniit, was a great sur
prise to the medical world. All sorts
of dire predictions were Jinade
that fever would lay hint low, the sleep
ing sickness seize him, the tse-tsc
fly poison him or the beasts of the
jungles maim him, but with character
istic "Roosevelt Luck" he escaped
them all and came out of. Africa look
ing like a fighter trained for the ring.
It remained for the effete civilization
of European capitals to overtax his
strength and endurance.
Every college he visited tacked a de
gree on him until now the better part
of the alphabet is required to designate
all the colonel's titles. Even the Uni
versity of Egypt, a large part of whose
students he so deeply offended by his
anti-nationalist sentiments, made him
an honorary doctor of laws. ; ,
King Victor Emmanuel of Italy
President Fallieres of France, Emper
or Franz Jose of Austria, King Albert
of Belgium, Queen Wilhelmina of
Holland, King Haakon of Norway,
Emporof William of Germany, King
George of England and the crown prin
ce's of Denmark and Sweden all strovo
to the utmost to honor Roosevelt
and in every capital he visited he was
the nation's guest, despite the fact
that he traveled wholly as a private
citizen.
KAISERIN AUGL'STE VICTORIA
I A, by Marcni wireless to Sagaponack
L. I., June 18 At 12:50 o'clock this
morning the steamer Kaiserin Auguste
Victoria, on which Theodore Roose
velt is a passenger, was about 115
miles from the Ambrose channel
lightship. Owing to the heavy fog
the vessel was proceeding at reduced
speed, but should pass Fire Island
abiu."; 0 o'clock and bo abreast the
Sanyhook lightship at fi a. m. y-
Theodore Roosevelt, tired after a
strenuous day spent in disposing of
his voluminous correspondence, was
happy tonight over the prospect of
two months of quiet at Oyster Bay.
He is s.iincvvhat stouter than when he
emc.gc I from the jungle, and his face
is b - ..izcJ. He admits that the weeks
of tra.el and banqueting have tired
him, i 'tt 1 says he would not care to
undertake a hard walk.
Colonel Roosevelt tonight gave out
the following interview: "I have been
away a year and a quarter. While I
enjo3'cd Africa most, I enjoyed Eu
rope a great deal. In fact I fail to
see how anyone could have had a more
interesting or plcasanter trip than I
have had.
"I wish to express my very deep ap
preciation of the more than generous
courtesy and hospitality with which I
was treated by the people, and the
rulers of the countries through which
I passscd. But of course, I am very
glad to get home.
"I appreciate deeply the kindliness
of a multitude of friends who have
asked me to speak in different places,
and hope they will unedcrstand that it
is simply a physical impossibility for
me to consider accepting more than
one in a hundred of these imitations,
I shall not speak for more than two
months, and then will speak first at the
John Brown celebration in Kansas
City at the Cheyenne frontier gather
ing, at the conservation congress in
St. Paid, and possibly at one or two
other places.
"I shall have nothing whatever to
say in the immediate future about
polities, and will hold no interview
whatever on the subject with anv one
and anything purporting to be an in
terview with me that may appear can
be safely set down at once as an in
vt ntioii.
"I take this opportunity of aeknow
.cldg'mg with the heartiest of thanks
the numerous mareonigranis and let
ter greeting I received in London before
starting, and which it has lxen im
possible to acknowledge. I need not
say how deeply I am touched by these
,kind messages, and am sure the
senders will understand 1 hat my fail
ure to answer all of them is due simply
to the fact that they are so num
erous that it is an absolute physical
impossibility."
NEW YORK, June 17-At a quar
ter of eight tomorrow morning, Theo
dore Roosevelt will be delivered into
the hands of his fellow countrymen,
barring the accidents Roosevelt's good
luck has always dodged. He has been
absent for nearly fifteen months.
Once the first private citizen of the
country is under an American flag.
there will begin the national welcome
planned for him.
The downtown press today was
swelled by thousands of out-of-town
visitors, governors, United States sen
ators, members of President Taft's
cabinet, congressmen, political clubs
and a host of individual pilgrims
are here from every part of the country
even so far as distant Alaska, Spanish
war veterans wil he in line for the pa
rade. All preparations for the former
president's welcome has been complet
ed. When the vessd drops anchor
off quarantine Colonel Roosevelt and
his family will go aboard the revenue
cutter Manhattan for breakfast, after
which they will be transferred to the
larger cutter Androscoggin, which
will had the water parade up the
Hudson and back to the battery,
where Mayor Gaynor will welaomc the
returning hunter.
The exercises at the battery will be
followed by a parade up Broadway
and Fifth avenue, visiting organiza
tions having positions assigned them
ulong the line of inarch. Colonel
Roosevelt goes to his home at Oyster
Bay late in the afternoon.
All incoming trains brought large
numbers of visitors to tile city today.
Twenty-one guns, the national sa
lute will greet former President Roose
velt as he first enters the outer har
bor of New York on his return to this
country. The battleship South Car
olina to be stationed in the Ambrose
channel, will thus notify the cxpect
cnt city that the Kaiserin Auguste
Victoria and its distinguished pas
senger is close at hand, at last.
In completion of the naval demon
stration that will follow, Chairman
R. A. C. Smith of the harbor display
committee, announced tonight the
list of vessels and the line formation.
Final instructions were given to all
captains. Eighty warships harbor
patrol boats and other steamers will
tnke ollirkd part in the parade up the
Hudson river and Back to the Battery
In addition a flotilla of 150 merchant
steamers will carry sightseers down the
bay to witness the transfer of Colonel
Roosevelt from the ocean lir.rr to
the Androscoggin, the revenue cutter
that will bear the welcoming paiiy and
Colonel Roosevelt in the parade.
As the formcf president boards t!e
Androscoggin, a second salute .ill
announce that he is once more under
the American flag, For iwo ir-Luics
following the couu mod fleAillas will
join in a blast of whistles.
Escorted by revenue steamers, police
patrol boats, the South Carolina,
five torpedo boat destroyers and the
government dispatch boat Dolphin,
the Andrewcoggin will lead the river
parade. When Colonel Roosevelt
is landed attl e battery t he formal wel
come hy Mayor Gaynor will
proceed. His speech and that by Mr.
Roosevelt) will be the only addresses
and the land parade will start immed
iately. Former Governor Benjamin B.
Odell announced last night that he
had declined to serve on the committee
to receive Colonel Roosevelt, appoint
ed by Chairman Timothy L. Wooel
rulT of the republican state com
mittee. He had no explanations to
make.
Announcement was made in the
afternoon that Governor Hughes, who
will be unable to take part in Satur
day's demonstration had appointed
Adjutant General Vcrbeck as his rep
resentative. Mr. VerlH'ck will go
down the bay em the revenue cutter
Manhattan with Collector IxK'b aiu
board the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
The ex-president's wife and chil
dren will occupy a private box at the
battery while the speeches are being
made there. The reception committee
has solved the problem ui finding a
way of escorting Mrs. Roosevelt
through the crowds to and from the
box by const ructingar private entrance
under the grand stand leading directly
to t he box. For this purpose the reven
ue cutter Manhattan, with Mrs. Roose
velt and her party aboard, will dock
at the fire department's wharf directly
opposite the entrance.
Notice to Pay Up.
To the Ladies and Gentlemen: I
have purchased a business in Omaha an
and expect soon to move to that city
to make my future home, and as there
is considerable money outstanding on
my books I would like to get all these
matters srtaightcned up before I
go away, I shall leave about July 4,
and ut that time will place all my busi
ness in the hands of an attorney,
who will take charge of the remaining
stock here and also attend to my col
lections in this vicinity. If those who
know they are indebted to me will
kindly call and settle on or before
that date it will be greatly appre
ciated. . M. Fangcr
Mr. Dunbar of the Riley hotel was
in Fremont yesterday straightening
up some business affairs.
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g Eva Porter, Mynard, - -James
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The News-Herald's Grand Subscription Contest is now
on in earnest and promises to be the greatest thing in the
subscription getting ever attempted by a Cass county news
paper. Every day new names are being sent in and the
enthusiasm is hardly begun. When the candidates become
thoroughly warmed up to their work there will be hot time
in old Cass that will make the oldest settlers sit up and
take notice. Every contestant has an equal chance, there
being no one place with a cinch on the prizes to be given to
the News-Herald hustlers. Here is a list of contestants
who are inthe field actively at work soliciting subscriptions
Help your friends to win a prize and if you have a friend
who would like to enter the contest send us his or her name
and it will be placed with the rest, ,
The names of the contestants and their standing will be
publishedJune 28 and after that the standing of the eon-;-testants
will be given the first issue of each week. We
want more to enter this contest especially do we want con
testants in Union, Wabash, Manley and Weeping Water. '
Contestants in towns nieutioned have a good field to work
in and we are surpised that some of the well known hustlers
have not signified their intention of winning one of the
handsome prizes. Send in your name at once, Dcn't de
lay, but do it now.
Mr. Windham at Springfield.
Papers received from Springfield
Illinois, the scene ef the national con
vention of the Kuights and Ladies of
Security, portray the gathering to be
a large one, the attendance running
as high as twelve hundred, which in
cludes pe-ople from every branch eif the
erder in the country. Mr. R. B. Wind
ham who eleparted for that city the
first of the week, is representing
Plattsmouth and vicinity at the an
nual meeting. The c o n v e n t i o n
opened Tuesday morning by the for
mal address of welcome by the gover
nor of Illinois, who tendered the dele
gates the use of the state house, the
armory and other state buildings they
might desire to use. The; key of the
city was turned over to the members
of the order by the mayor, who deliv
ered the second address ef welcome.
Many special trains carrying two ami
three hundred delegates arrived during
the first day. In the evenings, the
armory building with a seating capa
city of 5,000 was crowded w ith people
to witness the work of the different
drill teams.
The big day of the convention was
yeasterday and the star attraction
of the elay was the parade, followed
by a reception and dance nt the ar
senal. DRUGGISTS CONVENTION AT
OMAHA DRAWS TO A CLOSE
Pill Mixers Say Things About
Plattsmouth's Business
Methods.
(From Saturday's Dally)
The state convention of druggists
closed hist night at Omaha with sev
eral Cass county men among the list
of new ofliee-rs which were elected
last evening. J. O. Meier ef Weep
ing Water was elected as second vice
president and D. D. Adams of Ne
hawka as treasurer. One or two
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Mattsmouth men were present at
some of the meetings and report geod
attendance and an entertaining time.
The ladies of the convention enjoyed
an automobile ride Friday and a lun
cheon at Happy Hollow club. A
group of twelve autos, arranged for
the publicity bureau of the Commer
cial club, carried the visitors back and
forth. One of the unpleasant features
for the Plattsmouth men present was
the way one speaker referred to thi
City at the end of his speech as fol
low 1 g, when the giving of fees to
physicians was under discussion:
"A previous speaker has said that
it does not exist," said Mr. Beckwith,
"I know it does, because years ago
I did it myself, and since then I have
seen indubitable evidence of such a
practice. Why one druggist in Platts
mouth openly confessed to me the
other elay that he is doing it riirht
along."
Making Month's Pleasure Trip.
Miss Ellen Windham left yesterday
to meet her father R. B. Windham
at Chicago. Mr. Windham has been
at Springfield, 111., atteneling the na
tional convention f the Kniehts and
LLadie-s of Security which has just
closed. At the windy city they will
visit at the residence of Ernest O'Nie l
a man who was formerly a Cass county
resident. From Chicago, they will
preioeed to Michigan w ere they will
visit Mr. Windham's sister at Plain
well. At Detroit, the two will take
one of the Big lake boats to Bay View
a pretty summer re-sort, rcmaininir
there a week er two enjoying the iigh
ing tnd boating along the water.
Their trip will probably consume
about a month's time.
Lorenz Brothers, the progressive
grocerymen, have felt the effects of
the warm weather and have installed
a big electric fan that makes a breeze
like a hurricane. They have ordered
a large oscillating fan and are using
the present one until the new machine
arrives.