NATION GREETS COLONEL ROOSEVELT. 



Auguste Victoria, the Hamburg American Liner that bore the 

 former President loomed up at Sandy Hook. It was just 630 

 when the press tug J. K. Gilkinson sighted the incoming steamer, 

 and a few minutes afterward a salute of twenty-one guns boomed 

 forth from the gray battleship South Carolina. Five torpedo boat 

 destroyers, the Flusser, Reid, Smith, Lamson and Preston were 

 hovering around as a naval escort for the liner. 



Decked out from stem to stern with flags of every color and 

 nation the Kaiserin dropped her anchor off Quarantine at 7.55. 

 Another salute for Colonel Roosevelt had boomed from the muzzles 

 of Fort Wadsworth, and he stood gazing till the last flicker of smoke 

 had died away. 



WELCOMED BY THE RECEPTION COMMITTEE. 



Mr. Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt, Kermit, Theodore, Jr., Mrs. 

 Alice Longworth, and Miss Alexander, the fiancee of young Roose- 

 velt, with half a dozen intimate friends were in earnest converse on 

 the deck of the Manhattan with the returning big game hunter a few 

 moments afterward. The committee boat Androscoggin with Cor- 

 nelius Vanderbilt and a couple of hundred members of the Reception 

 Committee named by Mayor Gaynor was speeding down the bay 

 and at 8.45 a gangplank was swung from the Manhattan to the 

 committee boat. 



From every point of the compass steamers were coming up to 

 witness the debarkation of Colonel Roosevelt from the Manhattan. 

 The air reverberated with the shrieks of steam whistles and cheers 

 could be heard on every side. All eyes were on the silk-hatted, 

 frock-coated figure of Mr. Roosevelt. 



As the gangplank was made fast he looked up and beamed at 

 the row of committee members leaning over the Androscoggin's side. 

 Suddenly he made a dash toward Collector Loeb. 



" Hey, Billy, Billy," he cried, startling his former secretary 

 with the suddenness of the call, " Don't forget my overcoat." 



A little laugh \Aent round the boats as the faithful Loeb iook 

 charge of the coat, and then vrhile another salute of twenty-one guns 



