NATION GREETS COLONEL ROOSEVELT. 



Captain Arthur F. Cosby, in the dual capacity of a Rough 

 Rider and secretary of the Roosevelt Reception Committee, was on 

 hand with Colonel Brodie to welcome the newcomers, most of whom 

 had arrived on the special car in which they traveled from St. Louis. 

 They stopped over in Washington a few hours to meet President 

 Taft. 



The newcomers had some rare experiences to tell when they 

 had begun to unbosom themselves. But the talk lingered longest 

 about Theodora, the new daughter of the regiment, less than forty- 

 eight hours old, with a bank account of $41. This is how she came 

 to be the daughter of the regiment : 



While the train was speeding east between St. Louis and Cin- 

 cinnati a baby girl was born in the coach just ahead of that bringing 

 the Rough Riders. Several of the wives of the Rough Riders heard 

 the news, and " Bill " McGinty, described by Colonel Roosevelt as 

 the best broncho-buster in the world; Louis Maverick, of San 

 Antonio, Texas, whose father gave his name to unbranded cattle, 

 and a lot of the others formed a committee to start the young woman 

 in life with a bank account. 



AN ADOPTED BABY GIRL IS NAMED "THEODORA." 



When the wives of the Rough Riders conveyed the purse to the 

 mother and told her the Rough Riders wanted to adopt the little 

 pink stranger and name her Theodora in honor of the great 

 " Theodore," the mother sent back word that she would be " de- 

 lighted." 



Many of the Rough Riders wrung the hand of Warren Crockett 

 until his knuckles cracked. Crockett is a deputy collector of internal 

 revenue in Marietta, Ga., and for the eleven years since the war has 

 been chasing moonshiners in the mountains of that State. He 

 arrived in New York ten days in advance of the Colonel's arrival, 

 and went to Yonkers to visit some friends, when he was taken ill. 

 They put him in a hospital, and the doctor told him he was still 

 suffering from the effects of the yellow fever he caught in Cuba, 

 with a touch of appendicitis. 



