NATION GREETS COLONEL ROOSEVELT. 



is now a lieutenant colonel in the regular army station at St. Paul, 

 in the adjutant general's office. About one hundred and fifty 

 former members of the regiment rode in the parade, wearing new 

 uniforms, but carrying the tattered old battle flags. The Abernathy 

 boys, who came all the way from Oklahoma on horseback, were in 

 the parade. 



The Colonel's carriage followed immediately behind the Rough 

 Riders. Mayor Gaynor and Cornelius Vanderbilt were with him. 

 In the carriages immediately following were the representatives of 

 the President and the various States. The committee of the New 

 York Senate and Assembly occupied five carriages. The three 

 hundred members of the reception committee followed, and after 

 them marched the Seventh Regiment Band of one hundred pieces. 



A high tribute was paid to Theodore Roosevelt by Governor 

 John Franklin Fort, who addressed a throng of Freemasons at the 

 ceremonies of the laying of the cornerstone for the first Masonic 

 Temple in East Orange. He declared that the ex-President was 

 an ideal Mason and the leading citizen of the world. 



GREATEST CITIZEN OF THE WORLD. 



The Governor offered his eulogy by a coincidence from the 

 very platform from which a week previous he had roused the en- 

 thusiasm of another crowd, by calling for three cheers for Roosevelt 

 and leading them with a will. The Governor alluded to the time 

 when the Fredericksburg Lodge of Masons in Virginia celebrated 

 its sesquicentennial. Roosevelt, then President of the United 

 States, addressed the celebrants, but in the lodge he was not '' The 

 President," but just " Brother Roosevelt." 



'* I say to-day that that same man is the greatest citizen of the 

 Republic," said the Governor. " He is the greatest citizen of the 

 world, and recognized as such, I believe, in every nation. I thought 

 of that occasion at Fredericksburg when to-day I saw 500,000 pay- 

 ing such a glorious tribute to one single man." 



Fully a million and a half people stood and waited for the 

 moment when, in ship, or in carriage, the returning Roosevelt should 



