NATION GREETS COLONEL ROOSEVELT. 



" But I am going to ride in that parade on Saturday," Crockett 

 told the doctor. But the doctor said if he did it might kill him. 



^ " I lay there two or three days," Crockett said in telling about 

 it, " and then when the doctor wasn't about and the nurses weren't 

 over watchful I slipped on my clothes and here I am. And I am 

 going to ride in that parade if it does kill me." 



Among those at the Buckingham was Captain Martin Crim- 

 mins, U. S. A., son of John D. Crimmins, of New York. Captain 

 Crimmins, who is an old Rough Rider, was on his way to Alaska, 

 where he has been ordered by the Secretary of War on special duty. 



And then there was Guilford Chapin. 



" Look at that little cuss. He was the oldest man in the red- 

 ment. Look at the beard on him. We called him grandfather." 

 said one Rough Rider. 



OLDEST MAN IN THE REGIMENT. 



" Yes," said Chapin, " that's my name, G-u-i-1-f-o-r-d Chapin," 

 from Nutriosis, Arizona. Yes, sir, I reckon I was the oldest man 

 in the regiment. I'm sixty-three now; that makes me fifty-one 

 when I went in. But I didn't tell 'em that. I didn't go back to the 

 Bible. I gave my military age, forty-two— just right to slip in." 



Among the Rough Riders from New Mexico were former 

 Governor George Curry, of New Nexico, who was a captain in the 

 regiment; Major W. H. H. Llewellyn, Lieutenant D. J. Leahy and 

 Captain Fred Muller. 



Curry had led an active life since the war. He went out to the 

 Philippines in the volunteer army, became Governor in turn of three 

 provinces, and was chief of police in Manila for three years. He 

 was engaged in writing his reminiscences of the Philippines. 



Captain Muller brought along the flag which was presented by 

 the ladies of New Mexico to the second squadron of the regiment. 



" New Mexico furnished more than 300 of the 1,200 Rough 

 Riders," said Curry. " It's a pretty long way for our boys to travel 

 to get to the reunion, but all the boys would have liked to get here." 



The morning mist hung low over the bay when the Kaiserin 



