NATION GREETS COLONEL ROOSEVELT. 



but who look upon him as the champion of the rights of the common 

 people, the determined foe of unjust privilege, and the militant 

 exemplar of civic righteousness. It is a remarkable position which 

 Roosevelt occupies and one that has great opportunities for useful 

 service." 



The New York greeters poured into New York City by the 

 thousands. New York never really knows when it is crowded. 

 That is why the resident who strolls the streets casually doesn't 

 know that the town is filling up like a balloon. 



Down in the Wall Street section were hundreds of a decidedly 

 Western aspect sauntering through streets where the New Yorker 

 always feels that it is necessary for him to walk at a third sped clip. 

 They were seen also, thousands of them, in upper Broadway and 

 Fifth Avenue. 



The clerks of the Fifth Avenue hotels had their troubles. All 

 the clubs from out of town wanted outside rooms in the Fifth 

 Avenue hotels, and they wanted rooms on the lower floors. It was 

 not their purpose to stand in line along the curb as the Colonel passes. 

 It was their intention to greet him joyously from the windows, from 

 which they waved flags and sent forth wild yells of greeting. 



THE ROUGH RIDERS' HEADQUARTERS. 



The Rough Riders, strangely enough, were quartered in the 

 staid Buckingham, at Fiftieth Street and Fifth Avenue. The 

 Buckingham is what one might term a hotel of the old school. The 

 wild and breezy atmosphere that the Rough Riders bring with them 

 appeared strangely out of place in this placid place of abode. 



Fifty former members of the Rough Riders swept into the 

 hotel as if they were charging up San Juan Hill again. Twenty- 

 five, including Colonel '* Aleck " O. Brodie, of St. Paul, Minn., who 

 succeeded Colonel Roosevelt as commander of the regiment, arrived 

 in advance of the others, and there were some fifty or more who 

 live in and near New York. They were all there, and such a round 

 of handshaking the hotel clerks admit they never saw before. San 

 Juan Hill was recaptured a dozen times between 6 and i r o'clock. 



