The evening world. Newspaper, March 4, 1905, Page 3

Study, Full of Interesty of the Career of the\’s Man Who at 46 To-Day Realizes His Ambition and Becomes President by Overwhelming Vote of the People. OFFERS A MODEL FOR THE YOUTH OF THE NATION. Won First Health and Mental VigorThen, Steady in Purpose, Resourceful and Coura- geous, Prowed His Ability in Many Places Before Reaching the Highest, e ambition of Theo@ore Roosevelt's e, to assume the highest office in the land of his birth by direct’ ohotce of the people, Is «being, realized to-day, ‘The author, ranchraan, athlete, Civil Bervice reformer, hurohman, born a pale and alckly ch! in this olty forty- lx years ago, is to-day a central figure fm the affairs of the world, called first to graver respon abilities than any man uf his years wer before assumed in this country by the hand of an assas- ein, and bade continue them by his countrymen at the national eleollan of &@ few monthaago. The career of Theodore Roosevelt is Well held up to the youth of the coun- try as a model to be followed. Hie mental and physical vigor, the dom- fmant characteristics of the man, com- bined with a remarkable gift of initin- tive and unusual powers, of concentra- thon, havo been responsible for his ecutive success In the varloua flelds In which ‘he had been ative, whilo his cleanly life, his great personal courage ‘and a certan pleturesqueness which fate seems to have linked to him, have made him perhaps the most generally beloved man with all classes in the country, ‘When Willlam MoKiniey died in Buf- falo Theodore Roosevelt was elevated to an ofice toward which he had cast ‘embbtious eyes since the day he was graduated from Harvard College, Yet no man ever took the Presidency with @ deeper despondency or with a more thorough eenwe of the calamity which had befallen the country than he, To be President under such melan- eholy circumstances was no part of ‘Theodore Rooseyelt’a ambition, His ‘waa the laudable dream of being chosen to the office by the votes of the people, as he was chosen in November last by an overwhelming popular vote, and to- day he ts entering upon the four years of stowardship with which the people hove Mntrusted him, strong in mind and body, and ready to grapple with the gl- artic problems confronting the United States in common with the other coun- tries of the world, His Ancestry, Birth and Beginning of His Lobe for Open-Atr Life. "Dheodore Roosevelt waa born at No. %® Wast Twentieth street, this city, Ocr, 27, 1858, He was a frail, ectieate child, end for some years his parents doulwed their abllity to bring him even ¢9 a.pe- Hod of advanced childhood, But, he cams of reve old stock, which some Benealogists have traced clear bagk to Robert Brice, The common ancestor of the Roose- velts wom Claes Martenszen ) Rogen- volt wa arrived in derlands, «uw Naw York, In 161%, a momentous pertod in the world’s histery, The, Roosevelt renew is compiled by Mr, Charles Barney Whittlesey. has 1,308 | bames in numerical record, There wan Jacobus Rosdnyelt, who bought ten clly lote In the Swamp in rf veral other Rosenyelts, until the anes was changed to Roosevelt, of whom thwre is a contin- uous and Interesting Jae, coming up to the present Presider, of tho United tates and his children, ‘The old recorda of New York sparkle with the achieve. M@ents of Rosenvelts and Roosevelts in Gable ie, aud headers | branches of clean sport. |B, Roogevelt to study jaw. But he soon ring |soon wrested recognition from the Joad- t how they handied the young Assembly's (most of dls fellowshunters were sidux | ~N Comes honorably by his vis wri. y ambition for The father of the President of the Uniked Statos was Thoodore Roosevelt, his mother was Martha Bullock, of Georgia, wister of James D, Bullock, who built the famous privateer Alabama, The Preeldent of the United States, by the loving care and devotion of his mother, was metambrphosed from a slokly lad into a atrong and healthy youth, His boyhood life was largely wpent A) MMe father's farm at Oyster Bay, where he ran, swam, played and fubsorbed health and strength with every breath, Theodore Roosevelt, the boy, crossed the Atlantic Ocean with his father & great event in 1859 to cross the ocean, SOME CHARACTERISTIC "POSES OF THE PRESIDENT, the Republican eae m Sharer on thing that iy boy a ‘ beh) ‘eleoted which renominated Wilitat Philadel na that heodore | honor to come, No" ne t am ever to the candh for “ he sang ae fat tevelve it, Val eral Meoretary of the Navy to jt him to alt in Washington at most people believed meant politl- ; was Batis te Pith vaonard ow thi cal rps lon, for him, He 0} G, Blaine's Bombe ten for dente ‘and as ohalrman of the New Yor! delegution to thé Republican National Convention helped to swing gation away from Blaine, of that famous shoe He went West iat ranching in ta) A) Lands of ae a ge sta S él then @ mero great personal & man of terrific energy, Roosevelt formed the famous regiment Rough Riders, reorudting !t from af Darta of the country, thowe sections of cowboy Whtoh he had spent #0 many Adventur: Vices Preaident. ty with al it his petwonal Magnet; Takes Up the Work of as & #peal an the Murdered McKinley monded. hits tonal glasses. of Reputll mon . i ‘Ray by day the demand. tar and Battles for His Plans. ew Enforcing abi and Making Host of Enemies as Head of Police Board. He was the st Pa In this pl etucaied noes roved the class 19.60 valuable to Government that he was retained in ofice by President Cleveland, cans, ond day te the stories told of the Pre (denver Ite among cowboys, ranch- bad men and othe; His introduction to thelr life was a ruther starting one, and pen $ fale auill told in the Wi t wi big round-up and Roorevelt ita his Ing white teeth looked tft bully. In the only he olta cf the Rough from, the ‘iret fight at Las (uasimas to nown io heed recount! neal writers: have ae victory Marah i Roush Riders, ‘Pheodore Roo: Mé nomination ae well, Theodore Ri as He shared he view. and went to Airoodéakh only, to many astute politicians af both parties, | have to come in @ few days to took, that he wus to be buried In the] take the oath of offiuo as President of And over and) the United States, It wag then, Mi that he would not {ng in the parlor of whe Wilcvx house In Buffalo, that he sol Curlously ent fought acainst ployment, and ciate: tmp: ‘vig and ome over peain he @ mark for the o' tako the nomi Equally clever students A GROUP PICT URE OF THE PRESIDENT s FAMILY. Win okinay en ve PRY of oie months away, and important questions when he was eleven years old. It was] and young Theodore was the envy of all hls ¢riends,. George Cromwell, of Philadelphia, who crossed with him, de- eerlbes the President then as ‘a tall, ‘thin lad with bright eyes and legs like pipe atems."' It may Intereat some of the thousands of children who play In Central Park to-day to know that the President of the United States used to skate and coast there in the winter and frollo on {ts broad lawna in the summer when ho was not at Oyster Bay, Tt may interest them, too, to know that he used to read Capt, Mayne Reid's stories and the Indian tales of James Fenimore Cooper, In tact, he was just Ilke any other boy, save for @ masterful, commanding way, which gave him @ leadership among his play- mates hardly in keeping with his frall constitution, Edacation, Entry Into Poltiics and Life on Western Ranch. From Cutler's echool In New York, where ho wad @ student, Theodore Roosevelt went to @ preparatory school, and in 1875 entered Harvard College, He became éditor of the Harvard Advocate, and as his constitution responded to the careful training he had given ft, be» came prominent in athletics, boxing and rowing, achieving distivction In all He was graduated in 1880 and went to RHurope, where he climbed mountains and became a member of the Alpine Club. He returned here at the age of | twenty-three possessed of a comfortable fortune and entered the office of Robert gave that up and devoted himself to politics and literature, publishing sev~ eral minor works, He settled In the Murrty Hill district and tried to wrest the leadership from |the lute Jake Hoss, He was nominated for tho Aasembly, lost, was nominated Jagaln in 1882 and won,’ He entered Legislature triendiess and Ww ‘tige, but he sailed Into the ors, His actiylty stunned some of the old hands, and. they were very careful man after the first few bouts with him, Hia abnormal appetite for adventure and sport took Theodore Roose to | the Rocky Mountains in 188, where he | achieved a reputalion as a hunter after big. qume, taking part in the famous buffalo hunt at Pretty Buttes, where Indiang, He was tromondously popular In the West, fraterning with the cows boys, living thelr lives and undergoing whe PA sired PR hardships without mur nt, “ha or Sh faueial Roabivels’ tools « ote % irked ty lace of shelter on the prairie, a saloon, Roosevelt and his comrades lined up for Buddonly the horny hand of Long Ike, the bad man of tho outfit, extended Itself from tho crowd and Itt. | Tt was In May, 1895, ‘that Theodore Pomerat accepted the office which led ht to the Prosldent's chalr, Pollee Commissionorship of New York was offered to him thiee times, and he finally accepted It, to Muyor Strong were that he should dave an absolutely ipa dene and this being granted, he pli made himself the mi man Wah ever ruled ithe Police Depart- Ho enforoed the taws as ? them on the statute books, and into tho legnd net many persons who, from long protection, had come to ce- gard thomselyes us immune, 1897, when far-eretn that A war with drained the glass at a The cowboys laughed, lenge to the tenderfo oot, ho tenderfoot stared fmotion of a second, Then he leaped In the alr and landed on Long Long Ike was hurled to. the n, rellaved of his fously Kloked out of . He didn’t come back elther, and Theodore Roosevelt was tho idol of tho outfit from then on. his motile In this lp and grinned, Wy cordially hated ground, stamped uy pistols ‘and Ignomin Ho had to show y many timeg dur- Ing the early days of his experiences but there Is no record of his ever having failed to make good. Altar two years of this adventurous Yost, Thoodore Roosevelt came back to New York. He plunged Into politics again, and was offered the nomination for Mayor against the late ‘oram §, Hewitt, He accepted and was | beaten by over 30,000 votes, detoat for any man but |ing avound for men to strengthen the | different departments of the G Theodore Roosevelt | to Washington and told iii he wanted him to be Assistant Secretary of the epted, and went ce as he did at je at the duties of We o} | everything else, with ar the red-tapers off their foe been a student of seemed to know He stirred th’ and It was due to what Was needed, up from the start, | him, more than to any other one man In the United States, that the was found In condition of perfect pro- the war broke out. alt who saw that Dewey | GUTTA and jis PANY Coryrr6nw? t908 Sy FRANCES B YOUN STON, | he shocked the Republican | | who dofed all precedent “by initlathay, sc seieeanaal aa <a Aicanien Preparations which even his superior, » Bocratary of the Nayy, did not ap: of the craft of war have given the vic~ to the men that | Wherever the bull rit belongs, No one | doubts that Thood mon acquitted ¢ that ox anton and 1) tn “Tt was finally made a matt Ine accepted reli A marvellons vampangn for Willan | and early in his term as Prosident he ih every part of] 8ave the matter serlous attention, tt was Theodore Roosevelt who or- | dered flye-inch rifles from the W: [ton ordnace stores to the Now u Navy-Yard for the speedy equipment of merchant vessels, countermanied by the Secretary of the | to bo put Into effeot a little jlater from absolute necessity. Work tn Navy and With “*Roagh Riders;’” Election as Gobernor. | Roosevelt_made a spletidid record in| a the Navy Department during h.s short | of 18,079. le mastered ever, ‘of this mighty arm of the gervice, and when the war actually came there was no man In the country whose services spative Hina aaa at were nhs After thta election ‘Ty sth] held to his ambition te Wien the landing er man at that time im going to be Thoodore Roose cell’ be tae candidate tor Governor of this SHite Wu hi | Is no secret taat to the Repuhlioa and would have ‘en shu | there been any wy of J welgbt of publi The people ema and they gar him | sail to @/ In his frst message President Roose: | volt made strong recommendations for cunddate for! the adoption of some scheme to oo cet [can tO} pel corporations doing an interstate oe {f 1 do} commerce business to make public at will be the} and he also favored a law regulating He was in polities from a} {sense of duty, not for n. took more vhan @ defeat Iike this to discourage him | During his service In the Legislature | Roosevelt had devoted nimvelf to secur | ime. there, ing various reforms for New Y had taken the Mayor's police a Ay ho ‘nat cm hy are 6 hould | fall ry be shall ombitter my 1 shot in Butalo in he sald, peaking of ‘the possible death | ment to the constitution, The Pregl of the President: “To become Pr Means novhing to me. horror of having die, there is an additional coming bis successor 2. 189%, te was the gan an Qdministration a Will vot soon ba forgotten, s efforts that tho pissed and that dotatl auquratod und Pig ete ern. from Franchise Tax law wv: Bia Coe improvement Jegielation was @ toregone conclusion when ok in| rhe Preakient, T want the Confident that th Boarlaypl UI ca Ka ue thal ¢ ore fy ea hrs ly malsed his ight hand and maids tr will. do ad) in my power to oy A_neenion of Contes was but two were Se Ce on yd oun Y, pa ca a one, proc! the Cuba rege i, meee me je laying ‘actfic je | i ere the bai Ml at otlt Rete i he fin ‘the’ rintereat ‘ot recipr trade Rita in, all matters si mpl it WK dvelt speech th 2 The ‘pecoh eB men. of “atand-patters)'"s known, who made a © Feel wi “he 1901 and ae of Ci I pe it ad at ssaslon one Prelaent bag! Bley td in if Gi fe to obtain far Mia aaa aoa We feat dest HP nce The ey nae te Panama Renublic, ani ohiy a tle te tone pay a hepouate ae ww ought a —— Defends His Polley and Strengthens His Hold on His Part y, |'° It has been openly charged that Prew ident Rocaerel am (aout ‘ade g M4 samara hee A inte le a of ai internaltonal be iY ther the ten peta ild or Heri Lie fact that i ane Tehips were al that ‘prevented Colom bia From descend | perolus, Bate and wallop: levees tho matter of the Pacifio exe [a Pres dent Roosevelt was eminently suc Wt tn carrying out the Diane 6 of President McKinley, but In then upbulld- ing of the American sli marine no headway has ever been made, Having carried out the tite? of rsa {400s a ele ty) all matter of ad) e1 oR: ronan. ‘sor himaett f which fellgiously followed ever since, here fs no denying that the President has been a politician as well as a aa {dent, and that Federal patronag been. oxtenalvaly used In politieat pat during hbe administration. Tile removal of Collector ‘of the Port Bidwell greatly angered Benator Platt And the Republicans of New York ihe but thelr anger was somewhat Miayed by the removal of Wilbur F, | Wakeman and the retention in, office of ithe Inte eee Van Cott, Postmas- ter of New York, after exposure of ad In the Post-Ofice hnd been made, i mWnen the reat factional fight In Chi- {ena Jed on ee side by Senator Hop- King, peepee roto and Representa. |tive Lorimer, on the other by Charles 8, Deneen, wan at its helght, President Rocmeyelt frecly allowed the tie fehl | nd hy fed ree fe vat cl 1e, which crushed Denee! 4 th he eater ae Pcspendents, aa a tle wh he had L) oroey era ic on ate n as Btate’s anton orn the Yeldely Lyd lamison as Collector of Chicagd | a reat public Indigmation, ant tho subsequent defeat of for Alderman, Ultimately amie Was stripped of his f ottowing | 2 at ely, On the whole, President Roos |Velt's record for elevating the }of men in public office has heen pone [but there have been numerous. in: Oars vie tHe Jamleon ineldent, rou My local indignation The Battle for Lontrol of Trusts and Regalation by National Supervision, Th no one fleld of ende | dent Roowovert hag “ingerian hy a conduct been met qi th such varying omotions as in the matter of corporas ate bie he Was Governor of New fenders Oy writing a messay we in whi ot parry] Ne brought such matters as over. cap vai | talization and trust evils to the tront, If trust legislation wae ever a | Roosayelt| of the McKinley polte Assasatn| © President| ated President nover gave a hint of it, the result] statements of thelr internal a ‘alr, my life | trusts in addition to the Sherman. lew, andidate of my | which he regarded as Inadequate, ; allow Ht 10) When the charge was made that the} ing. Sherman liw was unconstitutional the | works, y had | President went so far as to say that It] which are, a history of the Mite ‘of Thomas H, Beni or, 1001, ] It was We ought to have an amends! a dent's advisers fought against ad Ba ident In that way regulation, the Presi tet raipted, “Aside from the | th "the so tion: a0 che MoKit hee ley | a auger ; seat b; od Hare? Q tho'B att { orate th trust pald itt attention 0 the tng and never changed ti Prosldent had tong: but recent evel bail, has kept the: famous Northern. the decision In whic! new page in legal history, was, a great tri way | Tite “Qeclaion, bj y high fi ought, ollclt; il art Bao ublicl ra dened and a!B ns attached ae which was Jy) eecure 08 When gtd of ie ser Atrtoth eat ea | LOR nt Phehent a | a ver Ice, a reached the re, oO stirred: ow pf yi \o1 thing ree Roosevelt @ Lag rate! move, @ President's only: that remident Cleveland game sess for yeterans at STE ae S482 one's mind, was election his cxeauiive, “hota hardly less startling than receded it, His ret ls come out strong and there more startling evidences: of on executive powe: The Prestdent’s Home, His Family, His B B wite of President Allca Lee, of Bost hile at Marval dn 1893, After a brief but hat Dy. lite she died, leaving a a ! Miss Alice Roosevelt, one of conspicuous young women Jn, the present time. ‘whe pests M. triond “of wen President, , helghbors and riends ofthe Roosey aro five children by thls marth 4 Kermit, Quonilm, athe’ President's family rent possitle of thelr thine at 8 Hill, Oyster Bay, and the Py bt his old home t any oth he country when soeking Fe President Roosevelt hag reat Intorest In terstan es a great deal of his th He has written man, some of the best