[*Iowa*] [*Morningside Col.*] PHILO Philomathean-Ionian Inter-Society Debate Morningside College 1911 Question RESOLVED, that the Initiative and Referendum should be adopted by several States. Affirmative Team M. P. Briggs R. W. Hess H. G. Merten Sloux City, Iowa October 1st 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. Dear Sir:- We have the above stated question for inter-society debate and we would be pleased if you would give us your position on the matter. Very respectfully, Mitchell P. Briggs[*[Dowe]*] [*4.*] St. Pauls Rectory, Ossinning, N.Y. October 1,1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt: Oyster Bay , L. I. N.Y. My dear Mr Roosevelt: Allow me to introduce myself as a middle-age clergyman of the Episcopal Church Rector of St Pauls, Ossinning I have also worked in my vacation for three [years] summers past with the Evangelical Committee of New York City (541 Lexington Ave) preaching at the Open Air meeting on Wall St in front of the City Bank I am quite sure that Bishop Greer or Rev Arthur J Smith (Supt of the Evangelistic Com'ttee) or Mr Wm. Jas Schieppelin who has taken an active interest in this work would doubtless inform you if you cared to inquire of them that I am neither a fanatic nor a crank Ever since you left the White House I have been convinced that you are the man to undertake and accomplish the most important work that can be done for the world today: the awakening of the church of all communions the revival of our religion I know how widely your interests and your reading and study extend but I doubt if you know or realize how far the modern church has drifted away from its original position and how rapidly this drift has gone on during the past fifty years and is still going on She is the deadest institution of importance in the world today She is failing utterly to discharge her appointed function in human society and is trying to salve her conscience by a half -hearted activity in fields for which she is wholly unfitted You are aware of course how the splendidly vital religion of Israel which shines out of the Old Testament had degenerated at the beginning of an era into that dead and putrid thing which we forever associate with "Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites", andwhich evoked the bitter and scathing denunciation of Christ. The religion of Christ today is just as degenerate as the religion of Israel was then. The church has unconsciously corrupted and altered the religion of Christ until the modern thing as it is held and taught in practically all the Churches is not even a decent imitation of the real thing. The Church has unwittingly lost the central articles of her faith, and has practically substituted for them some of the very falsehoods which she was organized to fight. She has lost or forgotten her message to mankind. She no longer preaches the Gospel of Jesus Christ to man: She preaches a false or perverted gospel in place of the true. She no longer knows what her office and function are in human society, and naturally she is not trying to discharge them - She has unconsciously changed the meaning of every important term which must beemployed to present the Truth of Christ to men: so that the average man could not possibly learn from the Church; preaching or teaching what Christ wants him to know. In a word she is not trying to do the work she was sent to do. She does not employ Christ's methods and she practically, despite her profession, disbelieves in the power by which alone her proper work for the world can be done. The pity of all this is that the world is suffering while the Church sleeps. For she is not only Christ's messenger to man: she is also His body, the instrument through which to bring the wisdom and the power of God to bear on human life, to solve the world's problems, to supply its needs, and to deliver it from the evils which curse it. Christ knows what to do, and He is able to do all that is necessary for the deliverance of the world from its woes; He is eager to establish the Kingdomof God, a heavenly condition of things, a perfect social order on the earth. But He can do nothing with the Church in its present condition. He is like a man with a paralyzed body. And yet the Church as dead as it is, as faithless to her Lord, cannot be ignored and flung aside. Despite its paralysis it is the body of Christ, the only instrument He has for doing His work for men. Many earnest men disgusted, unconsciously perhaps, with the Church's feebleness, and troubled by the world's sore needs are trying to solve its problems and supply its need by human wisdom and power. It cannot be done. It is not in us, the wisest or strongest. The one hope of the world which every true friend of humanity should try to realize is to restore the Church and let Christ, through His body, get at the work for mankind which He is so eager and able to do.I am convinced that the world was never so ready to turn from sin to righteousness as it is now. It is sick of sin, and would welcome the suggestion to arise and go back to God. And if the Church were awake the world could be turned to God almost in a day. And I am equally convinced that the Church is ready to awake at almost a word from the right man. All through the Church, in all communions men are becoming aware that there is something wrong with the Church, they do not know what. I believe that we are on the eve of the greatest revival or reformation that the Church has ever known; the final turning of the Church to her Lord and their complete surrender to Him for His service of mankind. And you, I believe, can touch the button that will then change the whole course of human history. A very little study would convince you that the Church is far astray, that like [B???ya?]oarsmen, she is looking one way and going another. If you were thoroughly persuaded of that, you could induce the church to re-examine her position, to compare the Gospel that she holds today with the Gospel that she originally received. She would hear your voice: for we all honor you as a righteous- man, trying to serve others. As soon as she can be induced to stop and think, she will discover that she is lost and take steps to find her way back to Christ. You could not do the Church and the world a greater service. I trust that you will not take this as an intrusion. I feel deeply distressed at the evil condition into which the Church has fallen, and I long to see her Arise and shine. And I believe that you can do for her what no one else in the world can do. Therefore I write. I am, with many apologies for this long letter. Yours very faithfully Nelson P. Daweoarsmen, she is looking one way and going another. If you were thoroughly persuaded of that, you could induce the church to re-examine her position, to compare the Gospel that she holds today with the Gospel that she originally received. She would hear your voice: for we all honor you as a righteous- man, trying to serve others. As soon as she can be induced to stop and think, she will discover that she is lost and take steps to find her way back to Christ. You could not do the Church and the world a greater service. I trust that you will not take this as an intrusion. I feel deeply distressed at the evil condition into which the Church has fallen, and I long to see her Arise and shine. And I believe that you can do for her what no one else in the world can do. Therefore I write. I am, with many apologies for this long letter. Yours very faithfully Nelson P. DaweHOLLAND HOUSE 5TH AVENUE AND 30TH STREET NEW YORK CITY October 1. 1911 [[shorthand]] Dear Colonel Roosevelt When I last had the pleasure of seeing you, you were kind enough to tell me to let you know when I will next be in New York with my family. I have just arrived again, for a few days, with my wife and my step. daughter on our to Costa Rica where I have been appointed minister. It will be a matter of very great gratification to me if it will be convenient and agreeable for you to receive me during my stay here. Very respectfully yours Lewis Einstein [Eliot] 304 Hoyt St Portland Ore Oct 1 1911 My dear Mr Roosevelt:- Words are weak to express my appreciation of the kindly courtesy of one so occupied with the affairs of a full life as yourself in writing me as you did on the 22nd ultimo and in complying so graciously with my request for an autographic note in Mr Burrough's book Then your generous offer to write in your own "Outdoor Pastures" quite over came me. I had wanted this much but could not of my own initiative ask this further favor at your hand I have forwarded "Outdoor Pastures" under separate cover and will greatlytreasure anything you may write therein. I fear I may never be able to prove the sincerity of my appreciation by acting- but if at any time, in anyway I can be of service to you, it will be not only a pleasure and a privilege, but an honor, to render you any service one in my position is capable of. Faithfully yours Charles N.Elliot. Mr Theodore Roosevelt 287 Fourth Avenue New York.[*P.*] [*[Gabriel]*] 656 Auburn Ave Buffalo NY G Oct 1st [*[1911]*] Hon Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay N.Y. My dear Sir I take pleasure in sending you under seperate cover a book written by my late Son, who lived in Georgia, and therefore was able to write his story from material gathered from personal observations. The situation deals with the child labor question in the Southern cotton mills, an evil which greateconomic writers have given much consideration to. Knowing that you always are interested in works which refer to that class of our great American people, I address you because I am anxious to have the attention of the public drawn to the real conditions which are vividly and patheticaly described in this volume, and I can think of no better way of it reaching the people then by the voice that commands attention. Respectfully yours Mrs M Gabriel[*ack 10-5-11*] El Viceconsul de Cuba Washington, D.C. Particular [*12*] October 2nd, 1911. My dear Colonel Roosevelt:- I have read with sincere regret in to-day's issue of the "Washington Star" of the painful accident to your good and distinguished wife, and beg you to accept, and extend to Mrs.Roosevelt, my fervent wishes for her prompt recovery. César A. Barranco To the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y.[*ack 10-6-11*] CHAS. S. BARRETT, PRESIDENT UNION CITY, GA. A.C. DAVIS, SECRETARY-TREASURER ROGERS, ARK. FARMERS' EDUCATIONAL AND CO-OPERATIVE UNION OF AMERICA UNION CITY, GA. [*4.*] Oct. 2nd., 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. My dear Colonel:- In accordance with my promise made to you several days ago, I am sending you under seperate cover a copy of my history of the Farmers' Union. Appreciating your broad sympathy with the farmers of this country, I believe there are several chapters in it such as will appeal to your interest. I learn [of] with much regret of the accident to Mrs. Roosevelt, and sincerely trust it will prove not to be of serious import. With best wishes, I am, Very truly yours, CS Barrett CSB/LR[*[For 1 enc. see 2-1-12 Barrett]*]GWB-B. [*Geo W Bricker*] [*W.*] October 2nd, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, N. Y. My dear Mr. Roosevelt;- Under date of October 6th, 1910 I extended you an invitation to attend the Annual Dinner of the Men's Club of the Bay Ridge Reformed Church which was held on Monday evening, November 14th. Through the stress of the campaign which was in vogue at that time you found it impossible to accept. I wish at this time to ask you to be present at the Annual Dinner which will be held Monday evening, November 13th, 1911. As I stated in previous letter, many of the active members of this organization are leading business men who make their residence in the Bay Ridge section and is also one of the few organizations of its kind which maintains a waiting list. At present our membership is limited to 125 with a waiting list of 40, many of whom have been on the list for over a year. At this time we will induct into office the tenth president of the Club. I appreciate the fact that in extending you this invitation I am asking a great deal of one who has very little time to spare; but at the same time, knowing your interest in men and in men's organizations, which are formed for the bettering of their social conditions, I feel that if it is within your power you will be glad to offer your encouragement by your presence and a word of greeting. In order that you will suffer as little inconvenience as possible arrangements will be made whereby an automobile will be at your service to see you from your home or office and return you to your home after the Dinner. I earnestly hope that you will see your way clear to accept our invitation and awaiting your reply, I remain, Yours truly G. W. Bricker Chairman of Committee.The National McKinley Birthplace Memorial Association PRESIDENT J.G. BUTLER, JR. YOUNGSTOWN,OHIO VICE PRESIDENT JOHN G. MILBURN NEW YORK N.Y. TREASURER J.G. SCHMIDLAPP CINCINNATI,OHIO SECRETARY W.A. THOMAS NILES,OHIO [*17*] EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MYRON T. HERRICK, CHAIRMAN J.G. BUTLER, JR. W.A. THOMAS Youngstown, Ohio October 2, 1911 My dear Sir:- As is well known, the late President McKinley was born at Niles, Ohio and lived there during the greater part of his youth. It is the intention to raise a sufficient sum of money to build a proper Memorial at his birthplace. I have had informal talks with perhaps more than one hundred people, many of them engaged in the Iron and Steel business, and others not connected in any way with manufacturing. They have all given me encouragement, and I believe a substantial sum of money can be raised. I have myself, definitely subscribed five thousand dollars - the initial subscription. It is my intention to prepare an artistic booklet, setting forth in as brief a form as possible, the objects of the proposed Memorial. These books, with personal letters, will be sent to probable subscribers. The matter is now a National affair, as it has been chartered by Congress, under the name of THE NATIONAL McKINLEY BIRTHPLACE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. The incorporators are as follows:- Myron T. Herrick- Chairman Executive Com. J. G. Schmidlapp John G. Milburn W. A. Thomas J. G. Butler, Jr. The organization has been completed, by the election of the following officers:- J. G. Butler, Jr. - President John G Milburn - Vice-President J. G. Schmidlapp - Treasurer W. A. Thomas - Secretary I have in mind raising a sum of not less than one hundred thousand dollars, with which may be erected a Monument and Memorial Hall; the hall to be fire-proof and to be a recep- tacle for such relics and other matters connected with theThe National McKinley Birthplace Memorial Association PRESIDENT J. G. BUTLER, JR. YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO VICE PRESIDENT JOHN G. MILBURN NEW YORK N.Y. TREASURER J. G. SCHMIDLAPP CINCINNATI, OHIO SECRETARY W. A. THOMAS NILES, OHIO EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MYRON T. HERRICK, CHAIRMAN J. G. BUTLER, JR. W. A. THOMAS Youngstown, Ohio Oct. 2, 1911 Hon. Theo. Roosevelt- Page #2 late President, as can be obtained. We have already obtained letters commending the project from President Taft, Hon. Myron T. Herrick, Hon. Whitelaw Reid, James M. Swank, and other prominent men. I will be glad to have a letter from you, and the same will be published in the proposed booklet, along with the other letters already in hand, and letters that we expect still to get. Your early attention to this request, will greatly oblige, Very respectfully yours, J G Butler Jr President Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y.Oct 2 1911 13 Dear Mr Roosevelt Please accept my heartiest wishes for the speedy recovery of Mrs Roosevelt and with loyal greetings to yourself I remain Yours sincerely R E Carey R. E. CAREY 209 WEST 80th ST. N.Y. CITY.MINNESOTA CONGRETIONAL CLUB MCC Minneapolis, October 2" 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York. Dear Mr Roosevelt:- The Minnesota Congregational Club with 300 members mostly from the Twin Cities have asked me to write a very urgent letter asking you to deliver the address on "Forefathers Day" which will be observed on December 18. The plan would be to have you dine with the members of the Club at the Plymouth Congregational church, the largest Congre- gational church in the west, at 6 o'clock and to deliver the address at 8 in the Minneapolis Auditorium. There will be an honorarium of $200, which will cover the expense of your trip. We wish it might be a great deal larger but our Club is educational and is not in large funds. I surely speak for Minneapolis and the Congregationalist denomination of both St Paul and this city when I assure you that you will be most cordially and heartily received. Very truly yours, James W. Coal. Secretary.sometimes- I am hopeing if Edith is well to write and ask, if, I can pass a couple of days at Sagamore about the 24th or 25th I meant to write E today but, now my only desire is to know how she really is. I thought Archie had gone West. I just hate to think of Edith having had such a shock she who is so marvellously brave Devotedly Anna Roosevelt Cowles October 2d 1911 TELEPHONE NUMBER 80 FARMINGTON OLDGATE FARMINGTON CONNECTICUT Dearest Theodore- First of all business, will you send me an autograph of yours, for an Englishman, Mr Weeks our former governor while abroad was under many obligations for courtesies shown him by this man & asked if there were any thing he could do for him in in the papers we saw the notice of Edith's accident I do hope & trust it was not as bad as it sounded let some one send me a line what a terrible moment for you and Archie there is nothing I more dread than a saddle horse rearing- if there were anything at any time Theodore you would always surely send for me? I feel far away from you all this country the prompt response being I get him your autograph! Do write Teddy Robinson of course you have done so but, I mean urgeing him to actively interested he has made such a tremendously plucky fight just keeping right at it all summer & with no really understanding man to talk it over with constantly- [October?] 3 - 1911. Last night [?October] 3-1911, Last night[*[10-2-11]*] Davis & Sanford Artist-Photographers 246 Fifth Avenue New York [*21.*] Charles H. Davis Artist and Sole Proprietor Rudolf Eickemeyer Associated October Second Nineteen Eleven. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook Office, New York, N.Y. Dear Sir: Several years ago (it seems but yesterday) I had the honor to send you two pictures by Frederic Remington, faithful Carbon fac-similies of his drawings. You acknowledged these pictures with a letter of thanks, and in response to my request, made at that time, for a sitting you said you would endeavor to give me a sitting as soon as you had the time. I have been waiting patiently all these years for you to find the time and for you to remember your promise to me. I know that you are a very busy man and I have not thought it proper to insist. In fact I believed that you would appreciate my failure to intrude upon your busy days, but it seems to me now that you must certainly have an hour that you could devote to letting me make some better pictures of you than I have ever seen taken. I am quite sure I can do this. Will you not be good enough to afford me this opportunity soon! and greatly oblige a life-long Republican and one of your faithful adherents. Yours truly, Charles H. Davis Dictated.UTICA PRESS, DAILY AND SEMI-WEEKLY. Editorial Rooms: Geo.E.Dunham,Editor: Utica, N.Y. October 2, 1911 [*19.*] My Dear Colonel: I am sending you under separate cover by this mail a copy of this morning's Press, with a particularly extended report of the Republican County convention at Herkimer, in which your nephew figured quite prominently. He gave a pretty good account of himself and declares his determination to try it again. Any one who reads about the proceedings will not need to be told that they were pretty raw. Believe me, Sincerely yours, Geo E Dunham Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y.WILLIAM E. GLASSCOCK Governor State of West Virginia Governor's Office Charleston October 2, 1911 Hon. Richard Randolph McMahon, Harpers Ferry, W. Va. Dear Mr. McMahon;- I am certainly very glad to know that you approve the suggestion made by me that the challenge of Senator Chilton would be accepted and an investigation of the election of Senators Watson and Chilton would be had at the proper time and before the proper tribunal. Only those who were here during the regular session of the Legislature can have any conception of what was really done in order to secure the caucus nomination for these gentlemen, and to permit such conduct to go unchallenged and acquiesced in by the people of the State, in my judgment, would be a disgrace to our State and I am willing to do anything I can in order to have the charges preferred by Democratic members of the Legislature thoroughly probed. Your letter is such a splendid one, and argues the case so well for an investigation, that I am going to take the liberty of giving it to the press without using your name, and without incorporating anything in it that would indicate from whom it came. I wish I had your authority to use your name because I am certain that if the author were known it would add-2- additional weight to the reasons which you give for an investigation. I thank you for this letter and hope you will come to Charleston nest week and attend the meeting of the Republican State Committee. At that time we expect to promulgate plans for this investigation and I assure you it is going to be pushed as rapidly as possible. It is my present intention to have the petition asking the Senate of the United States to investigate these charges ready to be filed with that body at the opening of the next session of Congress. This I am giving to you con -fidentially because I think it not best to talk too much about it before the petition is filed. Again thanking you, I am, Yours very truly, Wm. E. GLASSCOCK[*[Enc. in Glasscock 1-1-12]*]BOARD OF MANAGERS. J. A. BILLINGSLEY, D.D. C. L. GOODELL, D.D. J. M. FARRAR, D.D. SR. CLAIR HESTER, D.D. L. JOS, BROWN, D.D. PROF. G.H. FAYERWEATHER EDW. F. ROBINSON O. M. WALLER, D.D. G. H. SIMS, D.D. GEO, W OAKLEY S. W. TIMMS, D.D. A. C. POWELL, D.D. M. B. SNEVILY EDGAR McDONALD, PRes. Nassau Nat. Bank REV. GEO. N. SPENCER D. MACRON WEBSTER, Attorney-at-Law J. F. CARSON, D.D. Phone 515 Bedford Brooklyn Howard Colored Orphan Asylum CITY OFFICE: 545 Herkimer Street, near Troy Avenue ROBT. M. WHITING, President M.B. SNEVILY, Vice-President EDGAR McDONALD, Treasurer PROF. G. H. FAYERWEATHER, Secretary REV. JAS, H GORDON, Superintendent ADVISORY BOARD HON. H. A. METZ, Ex-Comptroller City Of New York MR. EDW. R. LYON, President Brooklyn Y.M.C.A REV. S. PARKES CADMAN D.D., Pastor Central Congressional Church BISHOP W. B. DERRICK, of the M. E. Church REV. NEWELL W. WELLS, D.D., Pastor South 3Rd St. Presbyterian Church REV. A.W. H. HODDER, D.D., Pastor Baptist Church Of The Redeemer REV. W.H. HUBBARD, D.D., Pastor Tabernacle Bap. Church, Poughkeepsie REV. J.F. CARSON, D.D., Pastor Central Presbyterian Church REV. ROBT. BAGNELL, D.D., Pastor Janes M.E. Church REV. JOHN HUMPSTONE, D.D., Emmanuel Bap. Church Kings Park, N. Y., October 2, 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Ex-Pres. U. S., "Outlook Office," - 284 Fourth Ave., New York City, New York. Dear Mr. Roosevelt;- I received your favor of September 29th, for which you will kindly accept my sincere thanks. We had hoped to have your communication to read at the Dedicatorial Services held on Wednesday, the 27th, however, we are grateful for your interest and for the kind words that you have spoken for our work. We trust that your letter may be a stimulant for some one to assist in the great work that must be done for the Negro boy and girl of the North. Much has been done for the Negro in the South, however, the problem is working its way North which will be a very much harder battle ground for the black man than the South. A century from now, there will be more Negroes North of Mason and Dixon than there are here in this country to-day, and living in this high civilization without preparation will be a task that is going to put the black man to his full test. I do wish, if it be possible, that you would run over to Kings Park in your automobile some day, and look this work over, You might be able to make some suggestion to us that would be helpful inPhone 515 Bedford Brooklyn Howard Colored Orphan Asylum City Office: 545 Herkimer Street, near Troy Avenue Robt. M. Whiting, President M. B. Snevily, Vice-President Edgar McDonald, Treasurer Prof. G. H. Fayerweather, Secretary Rev. Jas. H. Gordon, Superintendent Board of Managers. ----- Robt. M. Whiting J. A. Billingsley, D.D. C. L. Goodell, D.D. J. M. Farrar, D.D. St. Clair Hester, D.D. L. Jos. Brown, D.D. Prof. G. H. Fayerweather Edw. F. Robinson O. M. Waller, D.D. G. H. Sims, D.D. Geo. W. Oakley S. W. Timms, D.D. A. C. Powell, D.D. M. B. Snevily Edgar McDonald, Pres. Nassau Nat. Bank Rev. Geo. N. Spencer D. Macon Webster, Attorney-at-Law J. F. Carson, D.D. Advisory Board ------ Hon. H. A. Metz, Ex-Comptroller City of New York Mr. Edw. R. Lyon, President Brooklyn Y. M. C. A. Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, D.D., Pastor Central Congregational Church Bishop W. B. Derrick, of the M. E. Church Rev. Newell W. Wells, D.D., Pastor South 3rd St. Presbyterian Church Rev. A. W. H. Hodder, D.D., Pastor Baptist Church of the Redeemer Rev. W. H. Hubbard, D.D., Pastor Tabernacle Bap. Church, Poughkeepsie Rev. J. F. Carson, D.D., Pastor Central Presbyterian Church Rev. Robt. Bagnell, D.D., Pastor Janes M. E. Church Rev. John Humpstone, D.D., Emanuel Bap. Church Kings Park, N.Y., -2- the further development. Again thanking you, I remain Yours very respectfully, James H. Gordon Dict. per-M.G.D.Oyster Bay N.Y. 15 Oct 2nd 1911 My dear Col. Roosevelt I just took up the evening paper and was shocked to read of the terrible accident that happened to our dear Mrs Roosevelt, but we are very thankful that she is out of danger and hope she will soon be able to go about again Yours sincerely A. F. Groebe New York Oct 2 1911 18 Dear Sir, Knowing your interest in the Naval service I write to you for aid and advise I am overdue from my ship at present but as I am willing to go back and serve out five years under probation you can readily see that I did not stay overtime with any intentions of deserting I have one year more of my present enlistment to serve I am however willing to sign up for four more years immediately and get five years probation I really think one chance in the Navy is good for any American young fellow and it aids him more than it injures if you can aid me or be of assistance to me sir in getting back into the service honorably again you can have the thanks of my mother and self Hoping you will excuse me writing to you for adviceI remain Yours Respectfully George L Hall 4611 Park Ave New York CityJamestown. N.Y. Oct 2 1911. To whome these presents may come. Greeting: We are personally acquainted with Perry C Maynard. this has been his home for nine years. he is a man of good moral, mental physical and spiritual strength, as a citizen, his talent adapted him for most all kind of work, as well as for Detective work he is held in the highest esteen by the citizens of this community. Yours Truly Howie Hitchcock. real estate Dealer. Jamestown. N.Y. Dr A.J. Robbins " " " " " " Nor Furniture co " " " " " " H.C. Sterdevant. Pres Comon Council. City of Jamestown N.Y. Copy. Copy.[*[Enc. in Maynard 1-1-12]*][*[Jordan]*] [*10.*] DOSORIS LANE GLEN COVE, LONG ISLAND. October 2nd 1911 My dear Mr Roosevelt. Mrs Jordan and I hope the item we saw in this evenings papers is exaggerated and that Mrs Roosevelt was not severely injured in the accident on Saturday,and we trust she will soon be restored to her accustomed health. Very Sincerely Francis Jordan Hon Theodore Roosevelt[*A3*] [*[Kersey]*] Dayton. O. 10-2-11 Hon T. Roosevelt: Christian Friend: I believe from what I know of you and what I have read that you are a man who will lend aid when you can to a worthy & Noble cause. Now I believe here is one that will appeal to you, I am enclosing a pamphlet which I desire you to read carefully and then you will see somewhat of our work but, here is my point we need $500 to pay for our chairs in the Church Auditorium and I come to you at this time to ask you for a donation to aid us if you cannot send the full amount we will be very thankful for any amount you may send although we would be verymuch pleased and feel sure you would be blessed indeed if you would send the entire amount and we could say Hon. T.E. Roosevelt furnished the chairs for our church. Thanking you in advance I remain yours in Christs work Raymond Kersey treas 140 Indiana Ave[*[King]*] [*P.*] Germantown, Tenn. Oct. 2, 1911. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, New York. Dear Sir:- Enclosed please find a copy of my first edition of 500 copies. Hope it will meet with your approval. If so you will please speak in behalf of it. By so doing it would aid me in selling thereby assist me in educating my seven children. I am a farmer my reference Commercial Trust & Savings BankMemphis Tenn. Yours very respectfully A. M. King Germantown, Tenn.my happy letters from Kipper at Groton- where, as near as I can make out the Chief occupation is to see how near you can come to killing yourself at football without entire disablement. Ever yours, C. G. LaFarge [*6.*] 124 East Twenty-Second Street Tuesday: 2 Oct [*[1911]*] Dear Theodore, I meant to come in to see you today, but I've had a rather hectic day of it and so couldn't manage it. I'm so awfully sorry to hear of Mrs. Roosevelt's accident, which I only learned of this morning. I hope it is not serious or too painful, and I should take it very kindly of you to let me know something about it. Do give her my love and best wishes. We have HOTEL MARLBOROUGH BROADWAY, 36TH & 37TH STS. SWEENEY-TIERNEY HOTEL CO E. M. TIERNEY, MANAGER c/o Louis [Sachange?] 1123 Broadway NEW YORK. Oct 2nd 1911 My dear Colonel Roosevelt. I am extremely sorry to read of Mrs. Roosevelt's accident, shall watch papers for news of complete recovery. Yours most sincerely Charles Crane Lander.ENSE PETIT PLACIDAM SUB LIBERTATE QUIETEM The Commonwealth of Massachusetts STATE ARMORY LYNN, MASS. Oct 2, 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir & Comrade The enclosed was in the Boston Globe of yesterday and thought you would like to read same- Yours fraternally James Otis LomanENSE PETIT PLACIDAM SUB LIBERTATE QUIETEM The Commonwealth of Massachusetts STATE ARMORY LYNN, MASS. Oct 2. 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt. New York City. Dear Sir & Comrade - I want to thank you for sending Maj Perry your photo. I wish when you are in Boston you would let me know where and when I can see you I would like to present Maj. Perry who is also a Spanish War Veteran I remain Cordially yours James Otis Loman State Armory Lynn Mass -[*D*] FRANK M. LIFE, B.S., Professor and Laboratory Director Department of Physics and Higher Mathematics Marion Normal College (Accredited by State Teachers Training Board) Marion, Indiana October 2, 1911. Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Sangamore Hill, Oyster Bay, New York. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: As a feature of our Brotherhood work we are planning to have a banquet once each month. Following each banquet we are arranging for an after dinner address to the brother hood and its guests. Our membership embraces members of almost all the Protestant churches of the City besides quite a few who have no church affiliation. It is our purpose to make these meetings as inspirational as possible, for here as elsewhere we are seeing the necessity of interesting the men of our cities in the Church and its principles as the hope of solving the municipal social problems that are confronting this entire country. In accord with this idea the Executive committee of our Brotherhood is hereby, through its President, addressing you to know whether it would be possible for you to attend one of these banquets for the purpose of being the speaker of the evening. If you can be with us any time from October 15th to June 1st will you kindly state what price you would be willing to give us the evening for? We sincerely hope you may be near enough us some time during this period that you can without serious inconvenience be with us. You state the date and if we can possibly arrange our time to suit we shall be happy, Sincerely yours, Frank M. Life President M. E. Brotherhood.Supervisor Board of East Lampeter Township Lancaster County, Pa. President: Donald McCaskey, M. D., Witmer, Pa. Secretary: Jacob E. Bachman, Witmer, Pa. Treasurer: David L. Kreider, Lancaster, R. F. D. No. 6, Pa. Witmer, Pa., Oct. 2, 1911 191 Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, Long Island. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: When the police affairs of New York City, some years ago, needed a little systemmatic and aggressive attention, I remember that I was studying in New York, preparing for Yale, when you called at the "Sun" office one time upon Mr. Jacob Riis, and sent up your card, stating that you were willing to help. The road situation in the country districts is gradually evolving into a more definite tendency towards improvement -- and so that you may be kept posted at first hand as to just what is going on in the rural country districts I am enclosing to you under separate cover the September issue of a little monthly magazine termed better Roads, which contain s two makked articles for your perusal. In this letter there are enclosed three road bulletins which are copies reprintedfrom a little country newspaper circulating among the farmers in my community where we have actively been employing the split-log road-drag in the hands of road patrolmen after every rain. The purpose of this letter is merely to keep you posted regarding one important phase of rural improvement. I do not expect a reply from your busy self -- howeverm, I know that our farmers wold very greatly appreciate seeing a letter from you, commending their active interest in actual road improvement as compared to the"old-timer" political methods of road making in the past. With highest respects, I am Yours very truly, Donald McCaskey, M.D. Transcribed from the Phonograph DMcC/P[*D.*] PURDUE UNIVERSITY LAFAYETTE, INDIANA HISTORY AND ECONOMICS Oct. 2, 1911. Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, New York, N.Y. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: -- The people of this state are making plans for the observance of the 100th Anniversary of the Battle of Tippecanoe. The Centennial exercises will be held in this city, and at the Battle-ground, on the 6th and 7th of November next. The Committee on arrangements would be pleased to have you as their guest on that occasion. If this is impossible, we would like to have a letter from you touching upon the historical significance of the battle. This letter would be read at one of the public meetings, and published in a Memorial Volume. In case you cannot be present, we trust that you will write us a letter. With best wishes, I beg leave to remain, Yours very sincerely, Thomas F. MoranForm 2589 B DAY LETTER The Western Union Telegraph Company Incorporated 25,000 Offices in America. Cable Service to All the World This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following Day Letter. 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National Horticulural congress convenes in St Joseph November twenty third to Dec 2 1911 now arrangeing program we want you for conservation day any date agreeable to you during session please favor us with acceptance by wire. Fredk Neudorff, Director Genl 239P[*6.*] E PLURIBUS UNUM TUEBOR SI QUAERIS PENINSULAM AMOENAM CIRCUMSPICE STATE OF MICHIGAN EXECUTIVE CHAMBER STATE HOUSE, LANSING Oct. 2, 1911. Dear Col. Roosevelt:- Mrs. Osborn and I deeply hope Mrs. Roosevelt was not permanently hurt by her unhorsing. Some day I must tell you of a conversation I had with President Taft with yourself as the entire subject. Faithfully, Chas. S. Osborn Col. Theodore Roosevelt, New Yorkfor service-- A little band of only twelve members organized, what is called, a fraternal Parish for the purpose of promoting the growth and development of this church where our children can have the benefit of Sunday service as well as people of mature years. With so small a number --altho we are increasing-- we find it hard, up-hill work - and the ladies of this society are asking friends from outside to help us. I am a member of this [*[Parker]*] [*A3*] Greene ME-- October 2, 1911. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, My dear sir-- Can you, possibly give just a moment of your precious time to my little story? I will be brief as possible. I want you to help a small church organization here in Greene, who are striving and struggling with all the power they can muster to rebuild or repair an old church building to make it suitable parish and so I come to you, believing you to be still a "father" to this nation. and also believing you to be amply able to help us. I come in strong faith that you will help us. I shall be very much disappointed if you fail. May I count you as a friend to this work? If so please send your contribution to my address. I can give you abundance reference if you so desire -sincerely- Mrs. Fred B. Parker Greene Corner- Maine- R. F. D. #1.[*[Peabody]*] [*15*] Oct 2.1911 CUI SERVIRE EST REGNARE GROTON SCHOOL GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS My dear Theodore, We may look for you on the Thursday: mayn't we? We have a real Turkey on Thanksgiving Day & all the 'fixings' — & you will make it a perfect festival for the Boys & Master's family & the young ones & Ihave to be at my Aunt's in Boston, where we have met all through the happy years. But I shall be up early the next morning & we'll have a game of squash or something of that nature, if you say so , in the afternoon. Ever yours, E. Peabody.Adams Memorial Sanitorium, Denver, Colo. Oct. 20.1911. [*15*] Col. Theo. Roosevelt, The Outlook, New York City. [*File under Royster*] My Dear Colonel: You will probably recall the writer as the mascot of Troop H. of your regiment. Colonel I am a victim of Tuberculosis and in the advanced stage and have been treating it for the past eighteen months and have only received relief since I have been in Colorado. about nine months. I have exhausted my finances and am practically an invalid and need the treatment more than ever as I am improving very rapidly and an another yearof rest will enable me to resume my activities of a saleman, machinery. There are no charitable tuberculosis institutions in the west except those conducted by the Jews and I not eligible. What I wish of you is to use your influence to get me into the Goverment Sanitorium at Fort Boyard, N.M. where they are very sucessful in treating the disease I have refrained from asking you for help before this as I have been very successful as a young man and have not needed it until present. Trusting you will give this your consideration and a favorable reply. with best wished for your continued success, I, am, Your obedient servant, Dabney S. Royster Mascot troop H. R.R.R. 1st Vol. Calvery139321- 1st INDORSEMENT, WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL. ASSISTANT AND CHIEF CLERK OCT 9. 1911 WAR DEPT. OCT. 7, 1911 Respectfully returned to the [*Actg Secy*] SECRETARY OF WAR. Civilians in special cases have been from time to time admitted to the Army General Hospital at Fort Bayard, N.M., although an effort is made to limit the number to special, deserving cases in order not to embarrass the administration of the hospital. The patients are subsisted either by the commutation of rations to which each is entitled or by the payment of board, and there is no fund from which a civilian can be subsisted. It will be necessary, therefore, that Mr. Royster be provided with funds for subsistence and laundry. It is believed that $25 a month will cover his absolutely necessary expenses and it is desired, if possible, that payment for the first month be made in advance. Honorably discharged soldiers are entitled to the benefits of the National Homes for Disabled Volunteer soldiers, a branch of which is maintained at Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, S.D., for those suffering from tuberculosis, Information as to the admission to the Home may be obtained upon application to the President, Board of Managers, Rooms 932-934 New York Life Building, New York City [?] A. [?] Acting Surgeon General, U. S. Army. (1 encl.) [*Enc. in TR & [H???] 10-6-11*]Carnegie Institution of Washington Department of Experimental Evolution Station for Experimental Evolution Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N. Y. Oct. 2, 1911 Dear Mr. Roosevelt: -- I am in receipt of your very kind letter of the 29th ult. Doctor Johannsen will arrive in New York next Sunday, and I will let you know as soon as possible after his arrival when he will visit Cold Spring Harbor and also at what time we can accept your invitation. I have in mind the following Wednesday, Oct. 11, as a favorable date in case the Doctor has no other engagement for that day, of which I am not at present informed. Thanking you for your consideration, I am, Very sincerely yours, Geo. H. Shull.Mary Todd Lincoln Memorial For the erection of a memorial building to the wife of Abraham Lincoln in Lexington Kentucky, her home town, upon the campus of Sayre College, which is one of the oldest institutions in the South for the education of young women and girls. All of her relatives have been educated in this venerable institution, and it has been decided that this is, and should be, the place for such a monument. E. T. Sanford, Publicity Committee J. M. Spencer, Secretary and Treasurer 44 Astor Court Building, New York Telephone 5620 Murray Hill Honorary Vice-Presidents Hon. Levi P. Morton Gov. John A Dix Hon. Henry W. Taft Col. Henry Watterson Henry Clews I. K. Funk Hon. WM. Sulzer W. G. McAdoo Edw. Lauterbach Col. Bennett H. Young J. M. Horton Rear Admiral A. V. Wadhams, U.S.N. Dr. Reginald H. Sayre John S. Allen, D. D. Robert J. Collier Hudson Maxim Gen. Frederick D. Grant Matthew White, Jr. Hon. John J. Freschi Prof. Charles Prelini A. Lincoln Seligman Admiral George Dewey David Homer Bates Hon. Horace White A. L. Erlanger William O. Stoddard Hon. Cornelius N. Bliss Hon. Martin W. Littleton Malcolm D. Riker Gerard J. Cuoco Honorary Vice-Presidents Mrs. Cyrus H. McCormick Mrs. Henry Fairfield Osborn Mrs. James Borden Harriman Mrs. A. V. Wadhams Mrs. Belmont Tiffany Mrs. Desha Breckinridge Mrs. Emmons Blaine Mrs. Harold S. Buttenheim October 2, 1911. Mr. Frank Harper, 284 Fourth Ave., New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Harper: I have your letter of September 29th, informing me that Mr. Roosevelt will be glad to see me on Friday, the 6th, at 11.00 A. M. I shall be at his office at this hour and date. Thanking you both for this courtesy, I am, Yours faithfully, J. M. Spencer "Mary Todd Lincoln has no public monument to commemorate her life, which deserves recognition before the American people, as well as that of her destinguished husband." F. W. STETSON HEMET, CAL. Hemet, Cal. Oct. 2. 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir: This is just a request from one citizen that you run for President again. You are the "white man's (Republicans) hope." Taft may be able to get the nomination but he'll never get the election. La Follette is my choice, if you wont run. It is a question though whetheror not he can be elected, but you can be and I think you owe it to the country to run. We want tariff revision, but we don't want a free-trade democrat in the White - House to boss the job. Taft may be honest, but he is non-progressive and a bungler and has too much regard for precedent and the Divine Right of the judiciary and the people don't want him again. P. S. I am a fruit grower oranges, apricots, peaches. Yours Truly, Frank W. StetsonRev. Cyrus Kellogg Stockwell, Pastor Congregational Church Sycamore, Illinois Oct 2 / 1911 [*1.*] Dr. Lyman Abbott, My Dear Sir: -- In 1909 I came across a series of sermon subjects which I am very anxious to use here It was "the Favorite Texts of Famous People" and among others it had the name of Ex President Roosevelt Now I have been able to obtain the favorite text of Hon Bryan, Fanny Crosby; Dr. Clapman and the rest but have not been able to learn what Mr. Roosevelt's favorite text is. I feel that this will be a very attractive series of sermons and accomplish much good and am very anxious to complete the list with Mr. Roosevelt's name. Can you help me out? Can you mention by information or memory his favorite text or one of them? This will be a great help to me and I will greatly appreciate your kindness. Sincerely Cyrus Kellogg StockwellGEO. E. MAJOR, PREST. ALEX, WILLSON, VICE-PREST. GUY WHITE, SEC'Y AND TREAS. MAJOR & LOOMIS COMPANY MANUFACTURERS OF DRESSED NORTH CAROLINA PINE, THIN CEILING A SPECIALTY BOX SHOOKS AND CRATING MATERIAL [*6.*] [HERTFORD] Winfall, N.C., October [2,] [?]n 1911 191 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Outlook Magazine, New York City, Dear Sir:- I am very anxious to become a Midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. I have written the Congressman from this District and the two Senators from North Carolina, and they have advised me that they have no appointments at their disposal at this time, and that they will have none until such a time when I shall have passed the age limit, assuming young men now at the Academy maintain the requisite standard in their work at the Academy this year. I have learned by reading the Regulations Governing the Admission of Candidates into the Academy that the President is allowed to make five appointments from the United States at large each year, and I write to ask if the President ever gives one of these appointments to any person other than the son of an Army or Naval Officer, and if so could you not use your good influences with the President in behalf of a Presidential appointment for me. I feel that if you would use your influence it wouldGEO E. MAJOR, PREST. ALEX WILLSON, VICE-PREST. GUY WHITE, SEC'Y AND TREAS. MAJOR & LOOMIS COMPANY MANUFACTURERS OF DRESSED NORTH CAROLINA PINE, THIN CEILING A SPECIALTY BOX SHOOKS AND CRATING MATERIAL HERTFORD, N.C., 191__ Sheet #2- Col. Theodore Roosevelt - Oct. 8, 1911, be of great benefit to me. As to my character and habits, I am very glad to be able to refer you to the following gentleman L. W. Norman, Cashier Hertford Banking Co., Hertford N.C.; Geo. E. Major, President of the Company, by which I am employed, Hertford N.C. and Hon. John H. Small, Congressman from the First Congressional District of North Carolina, Washington, N.C. I trust you will pardon my taking the liberty of writing you in regard to this matter, and I assure you that anything you may be able to do for me in this matter will be highly appreciated, and that you will never have a cause to regret it. Thanking you for a prompt reply, which I trust will be a favorable one, I remain, Very truly yours, K. C. Dorre5 Northfield 10/2/11 Hon Theodore Roosevelt New York City N.Y. Dear Sir I have in my possession a pair of dueling pistols that were made in Germany. I supposed about the time that percussion caps first came into use, they are octagon shape Barrells 9 1/2 in long and the total length of pistols are 15 in, 1/2 in rifled Bore, and are hand carved and engraved, made by F lourfflein in Ansbach and of very fine workmanship, on the lock plate they have IOH lourfflein a Ansbach the stock extends along the barrell 5 1/4 in and they are in a splendid state of preservation. I have been told they were worth several thousand dollars and thinking possibly that you could give me some information as to their value from the description which I have givenwill have be my excuse for taking the liberty for writing you in regard to them also that I am in need of money and if I could realize $3000.00 by the sale of them I will sell them, otherwise I shall keep them Any information that you can give me will be thankfully received and will be greatly appreciated. Thanking you in Advance I am very respectfully A. R. Dickers Northfield N.Y. Box31Court of Common Pleas Second Subdivision Fourth Judicial Subdivision C.G. Washburn, . . Elyria} R.M. Wanamaker, Akron} Judges D.A. Doyle, . . . . Akron} Lee Stroup, . . . . Elyria} Akron, Ohio, October 2, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt care The Outlook, New York. My Dear Mr. Roosevelt, Your very kind letter received, and it gives me great pleasure to accept your hospitable offer of lunching with you next Friday noon. Will defer all other suggestions until that time. Very respectfully, R.M. WanamakerTHE COLONIAL AND INDIAN EXHIBITION, LONDON, 1996. THE REPRODUCTION OF THE JUNGLE AND INDIAN ANIMAL LIFE Was designed and Arranged, and the Animals Modelled by ROWLAND WARD. THE AUTHORITY ON PRACTICAL TAXIDERMY. THE SPORTSMAN'S HANDBOOK To Practical Collecting, Preserving and Artistic Setting up of TROPHIES AND SPECIMENS, together with a Guide TO THE HUNTING GROUNDS OF THE WORLD. BY ROWLAND WARD, F.Z.S. 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Yours faithfully, pp Rowland Ward Ltd.For 2 encs see 10-2-11[*[10-2-11]*] [*9.*] UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL KENTUCKY Governor's Mansion Frankfort, Kentucky Dear Col. Roosevelt, We are startled and worried to read of Mrs. Roosevelts serious accident. We are stirred by the instant help that you gave her, and it saved us from having all of our glad thoughts about her changed to sorrow. We are thankful that her life was spared. We send a greeting of good cheer and mostearnest good wishes. Yours faithfully Augustus E. Willson Colonel Theodore Roosevelt October second nineteen hundred and eleven[*K*] JAMES YEREANCE, 128 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. TELEPHONE, [6860] 6336 CORTLANDT October 2, 1911 My dear Colonel: We are to hold a Public Service in memory of our mutual friend, the late Rev, John Bancroft Devins, D. D., in our Central Presbyterian Church, West 57th St., on Sabbath afternoon next, 8th inst., at 4 o'clock. Brief tributes will be made by Rev. John F. Carson, D. 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Big Game Shooting in Cooch Behar. By the Maharajah of Cooch Behar. Being Personal Reminiscences of thirty-seven years Shikar. With about Two Hundred Illustrations. Price 21s. net. London: Rowland Ward, Limited "The Jungle." 167 Piccadilly, W.Enc in O'Laughlin 10-17-11 10-2-11[*- 10/2/11 -*] 6 * KANSAS AND IOWA CENTERS OF FIGHT Republican Factions Probably Will Wage Hottest Battles in States. SENATE SEATS AS PRIZES. Taft Will Win Great Favor if He Can Force Early Tariff Legislation. [BY A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.] Des Moines, Ia., Oct. 1. -[Special.]- The most spectacular political fight between the standpatters and the progressive Republicans in the forthcoming presidential contest will take place in Iowa. In Kansas the warfare between the two factions will be wages as ruthlessly, but in Iowa the outcome will be fraught with unusually interesting effect upon political history. In Iowa, as well as in Kansas, there is not only a tremendous amount of insurgency against the standpat Republican organization but there is the additional opposition evoked by the Canadian reciprocity treaty end the Aldrich-Payne tariff law. In each state a bitter contest over the election of a United States senator is beginning, with the prospect of complicating the struggle for the presidency. In Kansas the old line Republicans will support President Taft and Senator Curtis, one of the members of the "old guard" in the upper house, whose term expires in 1913. The progressive Republicans, led by Senator Bristow, are preparing to oppose Taft with La Follette and Curtis with Gov. Stubbs. Cummins Complicates Issue. In Iowa the situations is much the same, although a bit more complicated by the position of Senator Cummins and his potential relation to the Republican nomination for the presidency. The standpatters are rallying to Taft, with Lafayette Young as their candidate for the senate, while the progressives, headed by Senator Cummins, are opposing the president and are seeking to reelect Senator Kenyon. Both Young and Kenyon are loyal to the administration. By his tour of both these states Mr. Taft undoubtedly has allayed opposition to his administration, though to what extent it would be impossible to say. From the opinion obtained by THE TRIBUNE corespondent from not only the politicians but from citizens it would appear that the president has conciliated many standpat Republican farmers who were incensed by the Canadian reciprocity treaty and progressives who believe he ought to be given full opportunity to put through a scientific revision of the tariff on the tariff board principle. Next Session Counts Much. Whatever the amount of this support it unquestionably will be greatly increased if Mr. Taft succeeds in obtaining tariff reduction from the next session of congress. But, as the president and his advisers realize, there is great opposition to the Taft policies, in Kansas. This opposition is crystallizing in the advocacy of the nomination of Senator La Follette for president. The progressives are confident that in a primary La Follette could carry Kansas against Taft. The regulars are as confident Taft is invincible. In Iowa the opposiiton is as apparent, but so far it lacks a rally point. Cummins and the progressive leaders are for La Follette, but many anti-Taft men doubt that the Wisconsin senator could defeat the president even in a primary contest for the delegation to the national convention. Few Progressives seem to doubt that Cummins could beat Taft in the primary. Cummins Seen as Compromise. It is believed Senator Cummins is regarded by regulars and progressives alike as a possible compromise candidate for the presidency in the even that Taft should be eliminated and an attempt made to harmonize the factions. Cummins himself is fighting for La Follette, and he has told his friends he will not allow himself to be boomed for the place under any circumstances. Cummins' followers say that the senator would not consider the proposition so long as La Follette is in the running. For every Iowa progressive who declares Taft cannot be reflected there are at least two regulars who think La Follette will never reach the presidency. Such prophets see only Democratic victory wrought by Republican bolters one way or the other. The movement for Cummins as a conservative-progressive compromise originated largely in such views of party prospects. There will be a meeting of the Iowa Republican committee within a few weeks to decide whether a presidential primary shall be held. Lafayette Young and the other standpat leaders are advocating a primary, and the progressives are willing. Such a primary would afford the Republicans opportunity to say whether they prefer Taft or La Follette. While the progressives are working hard to solidify the anti-Taft sentiment, it is noticeable that most of their leaders believe his nomination is inevitable. In this connection there is a good deal of talk of a third party. If Taft and Harmon should be the nominees, leading progressives profess to believe the La Follette Republicans and Wilson Democrats would form another party. If Taft and Wilson oppose each other, a third party is regarded as less likely, for a large proportion of the anti-Taft progressives would vote the Democratic ticket.[*ack 10-31-11*] [*10-3-11*] [*11.*] THOMAS BARBOUR CAMBRIDGE, MASS. U. S. A. Dear Colonel Roosevelt: On my return from a long visit to my family's park in the Adirondacks I found your "coloration-paper." To say that I grabbed it and devoured it piecemeal is to put it altogether too mildly. I have studied it carefully, word by word, and I believe in it absolutely. It is really a source of considerable satisfaction to have fired the first gun in the short battle which ended with your, I think, absolutely unanswerable volley. I understand, however, thatold Thayer has taken to writing again and I cannot but wonder what we shall read next from his pen. I often look back with the greatest pleasure upon the delightful Sunday I spent at Oyster Bay last August. Phillips is hunting in north of Lake Edward in Quebec. He has probably written you already. I am ashamed to have been so tardy in my own appreciation. I saw by the paper this morning that Mrs. Roosevelt had suffered a fall from her horse, which I certainly hope was not serious. With best wishes, I am, Sincerely yours, Thomas Barbour Oct. 3, 1911.ack 10-6-11 4 SAINT NICHOLAS CLUB 7 WEST 44th STREET Oct 3/11 My dear "Colonel": Mrs. Bingham & I have been distressed beyond words to learn of Mrs. Roosevelt's illness. If only there were something we could do! I can never forget her thoughtfulness of one year ago — nor the kindness of both of you to me at that time We hope to hear very soon of her complete recovery With very real & affectionate regard Very sincerely, Theo A. Bingham Hon. Theodore Roosevelt & c & cCHARLES J. BONAPARTE ATTORNEY AT LAW 216 ST. PAUL ST. BALTIMORE [*8*] October 3, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Office of the "Outlook", 287 4th Avenue, New York, My dear Colonel Roosevelt;- Mrs. Bonaparte and I were much concerned to see in the newspapers yesterday that Mrs. Roosevelt had met with an accident in riding and suffered some injury. In matters relating to you I have found it wise to believe the half of what I see, the twentieth part of what I hear and the two hundredth part of what appears in the press, and I hope that this standard of faith may be applied in the present instance, and that the report is either without foundation or very grossly exaggerated. Pray believe me, as ever, yours most truly, [*HON.*] Charles J. Bonaparte. Dictated. can "deliver the goods". Now Mr Roosevelt, I have the bigest proposition ever presented to help the people, and I have come to the bigest man I know to talk about it: I want your help. It means a great deal to me, and, believe me when I say that I think I am not egotistical in saying, I believe it will mean a great deal to you. You will become as inthusiastic over it as I am, when you hear it. It is of National importance. I shall, if possible, like to obtain some material advantage, to my pocket, if the plan is addopted —compensation, as it were, for my twenty years work, and to keep me from the poor house in old age—so kindly remember that in unbusoming myself to you, as I must, that I have that only selfish motive. I believe it fair to you to make this statement here. Kindly let me have an interview, and, above all else, kindly give me your advice and help. I ask it in behalf of a suffering humanity Sincerely yours W. M. Butterfield Oct. 3d. 1911 217 Tompkins Ave, Brooklyn [*[10/3/11]*] [*10.*] Theodore Roosevelt 287 Fourth Ave. New York City Dear Sir: In a speach of yours, published in the daily press some time ago, you said that you believed that the middle man should be removed, so that the cost of living could be brought down to meet the demands for cheaper food products. I am under the impression that you would like to assist in doing this. I am convinced that you would like to round out your work for the public by bringing a lasting relief from extortion, by this eniquitous chap the "middle-man." I am sure that there is fight enough left in the Colonel yet, to assist in his distruction. No ammount of argument will convince me that you are unwilling to aid in bringing hapiness and contentment to the American People. In addressing you as one "unknown to fame", or ever heard of beyond my small circle of acquaintances,it is natural that you will consider this foregoing remarks as a trifle brisk, forward, unconstitutional. I address you as, in my humble opinion, one good citizen should address another good citizen. I believe you will wish it so, particularly as I am not approaching you for the purpose of obtaining some trifling personal favor. I wish the assistance of one who is familliar with the machinery of government; who has a large acquaintance with the finantial conditions of the country; one who is acquainted with those of influence and with capital; and with one who would wish to be useful to his people Why do I wish the assistance of such a person? I will tell you Mr Roosevelt why. Because I too want to be of use to my people. That is a laudable ambition is it not? There is nothing unreasonable in such a wish, is there now? For twenty years I have been studying to find a means to do away with all needless expense in transporting all of the various products of our country. Hundreds of plans come to me, only to be regected. Dozens of inventions were thought out and discarded. At last I have a simple and efficient plan. Do not think that I am some crank inventor with a patent, or patents, seeking capital to put them upon the market. I have no desire to put my inventiones upon the market. It is too dangerous to put them in general use. We have too much manopoly as it is. Neither is this [ide?] a dreamy notion of the Looking Backward variety. I have a legitimate business proposition. Sound as a nut, and simple as A. B. C. When I tell you that I can reduce the cost of food stuffs from 25 to 75 percent, without the farmer losing a cent of his present proft; that every variety of transportation line will receive the same ammount of business, with the same amount of profit, you will probably say "impossible." It is a demonstrable fact Mr Roosevelt, nevertheless, and I will knock the middle-man higher than Gilderoy's kite, in doing it. But I can do more than that, I can save at least 25 percent in the shipment of all other kinds of products. I will do all that I claim, without altering a railroad car, motorcar, truck, or boat, now in use. Sounds like a fary tale, dos'nt it? But I assure you that ICARROLL, SCOTT & FISHER LAWYERS EXCHANGE BUILDING MEMPHIS, TENN. [*21*] October 3rd, 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, NY [written over Mass.] Dear Colonel:-- I am sending you a clipping from the News Scimitar that contains a copy of the letter that I wrote Judge Young on my return from Holland. The Dutch take a very lively interest in you and you are about the only American I heard spoken of a great deal on my trip. If I am able to get a fine wild turkey this season, I will send you one, but they were very scarce last year. Very sincerely yours, C-C. W. H. Carroll [Carroll] G. M. GREENE. R. B. GREENE. ESTABLISHED 1867. GREENE BROTHERS, MANUFACTURERS OF LADIES' BOOT AND SHOE HEELS, ALSO DEALERS IN LEATHER REMNANTS. BOSTON OFFICE, 67 HIGH STREET. Milford, Mass.,Oct.3,1911. Hon. Theo. Roosevelt, Editor of Outlook, New York City. Dear Col. Roosevelt:- In the name of the Boy Scouts of Milford, permit me to thank you for your kindness in sending us your autograph portrait. I shall see that the same is suitably framed and hung in our room. Respectfully yours, R. B. Greene Scout Master[*12.*] Yonkers N.Y. H My dear Mr. Roosevelt, It was with deep concern that I read of Ms. Roosevelt's accident. I sincerely hope that it will notprove serious and she will soon again be able to ride her favorite horse_ Prayerfully yours Walter F Haskett Oct. 3-1911.Men's Federation of East Orange, New Jersey Officers President Alfred H. Holbrook 16 Burnett Street Vice-President J. McTyier 16th Street Secretary J.Y. Cochran 2 Prospect Terrace Treasurer J.F. Smith 146 Hollywood Ave. Chairmen Religious Committee Edward H. Dutcher 87 North Munn Ave. Civics Committee Howard Marshall 230 Glenwood Ave. Finance Committee Everett R. Harris 463 North Grove Street "The object of this Federation shall be to bring the men of East Orange into close relationship with the active life of the churches, for the improvement of the moral and physical condition of the community; to initiate and support movements looking toward civic righteousness, and to do such other work as can and should be done in the name of Jesus Christ." October Third Nineteen-Eleven Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Dear Sir: - On behalf of the Federation of church men's clubs in East Orange, I beg to invite you to attend and address the men of the Federation at a dinner to be given at East Orange on the evening of Monday, November 13, 1911. Members of the fifteen and more clubs represented in the Federation are expected to attend this dinner in large numbers. Our plan for speakers was to have the addresses focused on the topic "Church Men Active for Civic Righteousness". Our Executive Committee is very desirous to have you as the first speaker upon the above subject, or such subject as you may suggest. I earnestly hope that you will find it possible to accept this invitation, and I will be glad to see you personally at such time or place as will be convenient if you desire and further information about the matter. Awaiting your early reply, I am Respectfully yours, Alfred H. Holbrook President Address 128 Broadway New York City Form No. 1516 WESTERN CABLE MESSAGE WESTERN UNION UNION THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY ---------INCORPORATED---------- ROBERT C. CLOWRY, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER THE LARGEST TELEGRAPH AND CABLE SYSTEM IN EXISTENCE. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD 25,000 OFFICES AND 35,000 ADDITIONAL TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CONNECTIONS IN NORTH AMERICA DIRECT AMERICAN CABLES NEW YORK TO GREAT BRITAIN CONNECTS ALSO WITH ANGLO-AMERICAN AND DIRECT U.S. ATLANTIC CABLES. 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We have had Judge Cary of the State of New Jersey, Judge Crane of the Supreme Court of New York, Judge Orlady of the Superior Courts of this State and men of this type, believing that they would be able to raise men to a higher standard of Christian citizenship and usefulness. Believing that this is your object in life, we would be very glad if you could possibly make it to come to our town. We usually have between 250 to 350 men. It is a meeting for men only and gathers in the First Baptist Church of this town. Any date that would suit you, we will make to suit us. Yours truly, Wm. T. Johnston. Pastor of the First Baptist ChurchGeo. W. Perkins 71 Broadway New York [*11.*] October 3rd, 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook 287 Fourth Avenue, City. Dear Sir:- Mr. Perkins left for Detroit this afternoon, to deliver an address before the Detroit Board of Commerce to-morrow noon. He asked me to send you the enclosed advance copy of what he is going to say, and hopes it will meet with your approval. Very truly yours, M. Kihm Private Secretary566 W 182 St N.Y. City, Oct. 3, '11. Mr. Frank Harfier, Sec'y, 287 Fourth Ave, New York My dear Sir: Your reply to my letter is received. I am obliged to you for your kind answer to my inquiry. Thanking you, I am Yours very truly, John W. Klenck10-3-11? Form 1 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD This Company transmits and delivers messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. 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CLOWRY, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BOOOKS, GENERAL MANAGER NUMBER SENT BY REC'D BY CHECK 16 ny [?] 19 paid RECEIVED AT ______________ 20 191 DATED Hot Springs Va Oct 3- TO Col Theo Roosevelt Oyster Bay Local paper report Mrs Roosevelt serious injured I hope they are greatly exaggerated Mrs Knox joins in affectionate sympathy PC KnoxGUSTAV KOBBÉ — "THE LOTUS" — BABYLON, N. Y., October 3d., 1911 [*[10-3-11]*] Frank Harper Esq. "The Outlook," N.Y. Dear Sir, I fear your letter to me, of the 2d. inst., is a mistake. The MS., which you enclose, had in it no letter to Mr. Roosevelt, when I sent it to "The Outlook," and was not addressed to him, either personally or by his title as one of the editors. I should not think of troubling him, as I am aware of the demands upon his time. My object in calling your attention to this matter is to enable you to write to the person to whom, possibly, your letter to me may have been intended. Very truly yours Gustav KobbéProvidence, R.I. Oct. 3, '11 Dear Col. Roosevelt: You may recall the long type-written article I sent you, was really the same thought that Cardinal Gibbons expressed last Sunday. Sincerely yours, Herbert W. LaddOctober 3rd 1911 To The Honorable Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir= Would it be possible for the people of our town to have the honor of hearing you deliver an address for the benefit of our Children's Playgrounds? If so will you kindly give us dates and terms? Washington is a place of about twenty-five thousand inhabitants, situated thirty miles south of Pittsburg, and is reached by Baltimore and Ohio and Pennsylvania Lines, and by trolley. Respectfully Yours Margaret B Linton Secretary Playground Com. address- Mrs. Edwin Linton 400 East Maiden St. Washington Pennsylvaniait is a pleasure to see him, & I am sure you will like Margo- Dr. Bigelow was with us when we read of Edith's accident & of course he was full of interest & sympathy. He is really very well n ow, & it is good to have him at home. With all love to Edith & [*to all of you, [Ever yrs?] A,C,?. L. *] [*[LODGE]*] Nahant Oct 3- [*[1911]*] Dar Theodore We were very much worried when we read in last nights paper of Edith's accident. It was out first news of it, & Cabot telegraphed at once, &your answer was an immense relief. I hope now that she will soon be herself again, but the shock must have been very great, & I tremble to think of her narrow escape, & of all you must have suffered in the first anxiety. Thank Heaven it is all well now. You write a very sweet note to John, dear Theodore, & I am most grateful. you know what the happiness of his children means, I John is very happy & so well & alert thatJOHN A. LUTZ COMPANY [*[10-3-11]*] DRY GOODS - CARPETS COATS AND SUITS MILLINERY SHOES [*2*] Dear Col Roosevelt LINCOLN, ILLINOIS, Oct 3, 1911 I have taken the Outlook for many years and I may say, I am an admirer of Theodore Roosevelt. Your "Our Neighbor the Ancients" is the finest thing I ever saw in print - pardon my taking this much of your time Yours John A Lutz[*[10-3-11?]*] Form 1 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD This company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case beyond the sum of Fifty Dollars, at which, unless otherwise stated below, this message has been valued by the sender thereof, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. ROBERT C. CLOWRY, President BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER NUMBER SENT BY REC'D BY CHECK 15 Ny Di Via Newyork RECEIVED AT [*19.*] 191 DATED Bryn Mawr Pa 10/3 To Hon Theo Roosevelt [*Brookfield Mass Very sorry to hear of accident Bryn Mawr How is Mrs Roosevelt this morning Pa.*] Wayne McVeagh [Baxx][*[Meyer]*] [*16*] THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY. WASHINGTON. Personal. October 3, 1911. My dear "President:" I was shocked to read that Mrs. Roosevelt met with an accident while riding. I am much worried by the fact that the papers stated she was unconscious for awhile. I do hope that it has been much exaggerated and that when this reaches you she will be on the rapid road to recovery. I had hoped to see you at the first meeting of the Board of Harvard Overseers as there were a number of things I should liked to have talked with you about. Do you expect to be at the next meeting on October 11th, and could you pass the night of the 11th with me at Hamilton? I am planning to attend this meeting.With kind regards to Mrs. Roosevelt, believe me always, Most sincerely yours, G v L Meyer [Meyer] Mon. Theodore Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, New York.TELEPHONE BEDFORD 495 THE MUNCIE SANITARIUM 117-119 MACON STREET, CORNER MARCY AVENUE BROOKLYN, N. Y. EDWARD H. MUNCIE, M.D. ELIZABETH HAMILTON-MUNCIE, M.D. SURGERY AND GYNECOLOGY CURTIS HAMILTON MUNCIE, D.O. OSTEOPATHY AND ORTHOPEDICS October 3d, 1911. Mr. Frank Harper, 287 Fourth Ave, New York. Dear Sir: Under separate cover I am mailing a copy of Four Epochs of Life for Mr. Roosevelt. Thanking you in advance for this courtesy, I am Sincerely yours, Elizabeth H Muncie. Per Sec'y. [Muncie] Form 1 [10-3-11] THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case beyond the sum of Fifty Dollars, at which, unless otherwise stated below, this message has been valued by the sender thereof, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. ROBERT C. CLOWRY, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER NUMBER 7 NY SENT BY REC'D BY [?] CHECK 22 RECEIVED AT 18. 191 DATED Washin DC 1 of 3- TO Col Theo Roosevelt So very sorry to hear of accident Do hope that it was not serious We all send very much love And sympathy Robert Shaw Oliverwere in Reno, Nevada- I was lying ill, in Carson City same state. I sent my love to you by my foster mother, Mrs Clas and said I longed to ride horse back with you - I have never thanked you for the kind reply you sent me. I do so now. My mother sat on the elevated stage with you and you conversed (in French. You undoubtedly [*12*] BEAUX RIVAGES Oconomowoc Lake, Wisconsin October 3rd, 1911. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. My dear Col. Roosevelt. I am taking the liberty of writing you owing to the fact that I am an American citizen and you belong to the American people. Some time during April last I know you recall the incident. I know General Charles King of our state and I told him of my ambitions. He encouraged me greatly. I wish at our future date to ride my horse from Oconomowoc to New York to see you. I have ridden the prairies of Minnesota and the Mountains and Mesas of Colorado on some of the best and meanest horses that live. I have also ridden the cavalry horse of the District Federal but my own horse Maud - the picture of which I enclose, is the best of all. She is tall, raw boned and honest and we often take a five mile run in fifteen minutes to show we possess American like to see you President of the United States of America if I could be certain a bit of foreign scum would not float in and do what like bits of scum have done to our other beloved Presidents. Some times a man's greatness is not realized until we lose him, there comes the transformation activity. I enclose another picture, one of the writer taken in San Luis Potosi, Old Mexico. I like this picture chiefly because the smile and hat remind me of one man I greatly respect, deeply admire and long to know. Col. Theodore Roosevelt. One thing I should but I cannot say this of you. You are great in life and we feel your greatness and we need you - I am not a suffragette just a plain girl. You have been in the presence of royalty, with claws and without. I am not royal but from my heart I invite you to come and see us. If you come, your greatness will be confirmed in my mind. We have not the ocean breeze but we have the beautiful blue Oconomowoc Lake, with its wooded banks and sandy shores. The Oconomowoc Lake Yacht Club & Golf Club, also perfect roads for riding and motoring. I hope you willaccept. It must be in summer season - I know you will enjoy it. We have fine fish in our lake. No lions or tigers - only rabbits in this locality. I hope I have not bored you and that you will find time to write one, if only a note. I think it would hurt me if I did not[*[For enc see Parson 10/3/11]*] hear especially after you told mother I did not need to wait until you became President, to ride horse back with you. I trust this letter finds you and your dear family in the best of health. My best wishes to them. I am in and through all things Your sincere friend Louise M. Parsons c/o Mrs. A.C. Clas P.S. Mother is in Washington State. I know she would send her regards to you - so I send them for her L.M.P.FORBES CO. BOSTON. EUROPEAN PLAN CABLE ADDRESS NEW WILLARD THE NEW WILLARD PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, FOURTEENTH & F STREETS F. S. HIGHT, MANAGER. [*7.*] WASHINGTON, D.C. 3 Oct. 1911 My dear Colonel Roosevelt;- I most earnestly hope that the newspapers correctly report Mrs. Roosevelt's accident as not serious. Please convey to Mrs. Roosevelt my heartfelt sympathy. Yours very sincerely Eugene A. Philbin The Honorable Theodore RooseveltI sincerely trust, Colonel Roosevelt that you will use your valued influence in assisting to secure this fund, as it certainly is for a good cause. I may relate that our total membership is nearing six thousand, with two hundred and eighteen Auxiliaries located throughout the various states, including one at Manila, P.I., and also two under process of organization, one at Gatun, Canal Zone, and one in New York City. We have thirty-two Auxiliaries in the State of New York, and as there are ninety-seven camps, you will note there is opportunity or sixty-five more Auxiliaries. The proportion of Auxiliaries to Camps throughout the States is about the same as in the State of New York. Camps have, and are being, organized in the Southern States. There are four Camps in the State of Florida, each one having been organized last year, and I desire to have organized this year an Auxiliary to each one of these camps. There were one hundred and one new Camps organized from September 1, 1909 to September 1, 1910, with but forty new Auxiliaries; from September 1, 1910, to September 1, 1911, am informed there [*3*] Effie M. Record PRESIDENT-GENERAL AUXILIARY UNITED STATES WAR VETERANS 43 PEARL STREET DENVER. : COLORADO Oct. 3, 1911 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. Dear Comrade:-- Having been elected President General of the National Auxiliary, United Spanish War Veterans, at the recent National Convention, held at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Aug. 21, 22 and 23rd, I have assumed command, and am busily engaged with the many duties of my office. My writing you at this time is prompted by the knowledge of your known interest, and sympathy with organizations, whose objects are worthy of consideration. Our Auxiliaries, as you no doubt are aware, are to the United Spanish War Veterans, as the Woman's Relief are to the Grand Army of the Republic. They promote and teach patriotism; are incentive for the good; their activities both inward and outward cause to be recognized a deeper reverence by the public for our flag. Their activities also inspire the spark of patriotism among children. A great amount of relief work is done by them in their respective localities, by assisting the worthy unfortunate comrades, their wives, widows and children. Not a small number of our comrades who lost their health in the service of our country during the Spanish War (my husband among them) have been obliged to come to Colorado during the past few years in a last effort to regain their health. Many have died, some are lingering, and others have been benefited. As I have been directly connected with the work of our organization in various capacities since its origin, am sensitive to our deeds and needs. We are yet in our infancy and passing through the trying period of the organization of new Auxiliaries and the addition of eligible women to existing Auxiliaries. The loyal, patriotic women who are giving their time, money and labor to advance the progress of our organization are certainly doing a duty which is an inspiration for all citizens of our Grand Republic. We have not, however, in the past, nor are we at present increasing near so rapidly and thoroughly as, I am sure, we should, due to a great measure to the limited amount of funds necessary to carry on successfully this part of our organization– Field Organization work; and I hereby take the liberty of asking you these questions, viz: Do you think it advisable to explain of our organization's objects and needs to someone, or more, of our wealthy public spirited citizens, as Col. Astor, Miss Helen Gould, Mr. Carnegie, or Mr. Rockefeller, and ask of them a voluntary, or stipulated, sum, to be donated to our organization for organization work, and also if one or more of them were asked would you favorably recommend to them to make the donation? And to which would you write? Or, could or would you care to desire to secure the contribution for our organization yourself? The amount we could advantageously use would of course depend on the scope of our organization work, but I should say from fifteen hundred to twenty-five hundred dollars would make it possible to carry on successfully this branch of the work of our organization during my incumbency or until the time of our Ninth Annual Convention at Atlantic City, New Jersey, which is to be held in September 1912.Effie M. Record PRESIDENT-GENERAL AUXILIARY UNITED SPANISH WAR VETERANS 43 PEARL STREET DENVER. : COLORADO Page 2. were seventy-seven new camps organized and only twenty-four new Auxiliaries, so you will note our increase is not nearly so great, as the proportionate increase of the Camps of the U.S.W.V. National headquarters Income is derived by an assessment of an annual per capita tax of twenty-four cents, and also in addition to the per capita tax, a small profit on the sale of a portion only of our supplies. Our total income this year will approximately be from sixteen hundred to eighteen hundred dollars. Our expenditures for the same period will approximately be about fifteen or sixteen hundred dollars, itemized as follows: Postage four hundred dollars; printing four hundred dollars; National officers and Headquarters expense, 1912 convention, five hundred dollars; Secretary's salary fifty dollars; Treasurer's salary fifty dollars, and National headquarters office expense one hundred andfifty dollars; total fifteen hundred fifty dollars. Believing I have explained to you, as clearly as possible in reference to our organization, I will anxiously await a reply. Should a contribution be made, I will bring the matter officially before our organization, as regards the donor or donors, should it be their sanction. However, am sending this letter to you as a personal letter. With best wishes that your useful life shall be spared for many years to come, I remain Very fraternally yours, Effie M. Record[*[10-3-11]*] National Society of United States Daughters of 1812 (National Headquarters, 332 West 87th Street, New York City) State of Alabama [*A3.*] R F D Route 3 Birmingham Ala Oct 3 Hon Theodore Roosevelt - Dear Sir - The enclosed tells the tale - It takes money for a highway campaign as well as a senatorial one. Knowing your admiration and belief in the sterling qualities of "Old Hickory" I ask you for at least one dollars contribution to the [Jackson] campaign fund Jackson Highway - Thanking you I am sincerely Alma Rittenberry Send check to Miss Alma Rittenberry Chairman R F D Route 3 - Birmingham AlaWilliam M. Kingsley Chairman Francis Louis Slade Chairman Finance Committee Gilbert Colgate Treasurer Walter T. Diack Secretary West Side Young Men's Christian Association 318 West 57th Street New York Telephone 3800 Columbus Educational Department Edward L. Wertheim, Director R.N. Roraback, Assistant Director John G. Olmstead, Assistant Director H. C. Brokaw, Principal Automobile School Capt. H. Patterson, Principal Nautical College Dwight Wiegman, Registrar Educational Committee Walter L. Hervey, Chairman W.H. Britigan William Sloane Coffin Harrison S. Colburn John Nicolson John Clyde Oswald Frederick W. Stevens Charles W. Stoughton Willis D. Wood B New York, October 3, 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. My dear Colonel Roosevelt, May we have the honor and pleasure of a short talk from you, sometime during the coming winter, before our "Finance Forum"? The enclosed announcement of last year's work will give you an idea of the scope and character of the "Forum". This is the seventh year we have been conducting this work (considering and discussing the principles and problems of Finance, using the word "Finance" in its most comprehensive sense) and it is widely recognized that the work is thorough, practical and of high educational character. We endeavor to secure as speakers the ablest men in their respective fields. The West Side Y.M.C.A. is the largest Y.M.C.A. branch in the world, our membership numbering over 5000 men. This branch was the pioneer in vocational training, is pre-eminent in this field, offers over fifty practical courses, some not taught elsewhere, has over 2800 students -- many of them leading business and professional men. The meetings of the "Finance Forum" are held every Wednesday evening, commencing in November and continuing until May. Our announcement will go to press within a few days and we are extremely anxious to include your name. The announcement will contain names of speakers but without dates or subjects. Therefore, neither the date nor the subject of your talk need be decided until later. Any subject you may later select and any date you may name will be entirely satisfactory. Even a short, informal talk from you will be highly appreciated. May we have the pleasure? Sincerely yours, Channing Rudd[*14*] 1405 15th St N.W. Washington, DC 10/3/11 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, LLD. Oyster Bay, N. Y. My dear Sir and Brother: Mrs. Schick and I, as well as all the rest of our family enter very sympathetically into your anxiety and solicitude for the complete recovery of Mrs. Roosevelt from the results of the accident, which our papers this morning, record to have happened on Saturday. We are all glad that you were so near at the time, for our hearts stood still when we thought of what might have been to consequences if her horse should have been free to dash off with your wife's food fast in the stirrup. We thanked God, at our family worship, for the deliverance and hope you will be able to say to Mrs. Roosevelt that we will pray for her entire recovery. It may interest you to know that John has gone to Mercersburg Academy to prepare for College and that he is earning his way in a working boys position there. With fraternal regard Yours J M SchickTell her, please, that I will not cease to pray until she is able to be about again - May it be soon. One thing consoles me, is that the newspapers may have exaggerated the matter, we know they are seldom authentic. I hope her fall was a slight one and that good news will soon reach me. Begging God to bless you all, always, and wheresoever. I am sincerely yours, Sister M. Sebastian [*13*] Dominican Convent 196 Wayne Ave. Paterson, N.J. Oct. 3, 1911 Colonel Roosevelt:- Esteemed & dear Friend, On taking up the "Paterson Morning Call" this morning, I was grieved, very much grieved, to read the account of an accident to dear Mrs. Roosevelt. Words fail me when I attempt to express how deeply I feel this. But I hope & pray that she was not seriouslyhurt. I have begged God to preserve her precious life. This morning when I came to my class-room, the children told me about it, "Yes," I said, "I read it myself before I came over, and we will now do what I had intended to do, i.e., pray for her, that she may soon recover." We shall continue to pray, until she is well again. I need scarcely add that the good Sisters, and Your humble servant will do the same. The account stated that she was unconscious for several hours, but out of danger now. I am so happy to know the danger is over oh, may God grant it! I realize however that she must have gotten a bad fall. May God restore her to her wonted health, & preserve her therein for many, many, long & happy years to come, for there are very few Mrs. Theodore Roosevelts, I mean, very few such women.Oct 3 ― 1911 [*[Sheldon]*] WICKAPOGUE SOUTHAMPTON, NEW YORK Dear Col Roosevelt: Many thanks for your letter. I have sent a copy of the book to Selina. Scribner will publish another book in the spring on the Wilderness of the North Pacific Coast Islands. This will include trips for bears in Admiralty and Montague Islands, also [?] for Caribou in Queen Charlotte Islands and Wapiti in Vancouver Island. Then comes my book on the Wilderness of Alaska's Far Interior which includes over fifteen months in the vicinity of Mt McKinley. The first two books contain many a picture of the Wilderness as I saw it. The last will include my observations in the habit of mammals and birds, though perhapsit will require a separate book to treat them as fully as my notes seem to justify. Your pamphlet in Concealing Coloration has quite overwhelmed me. It reflects completely my own opinions on the subject and leaves little for me to say, except to [corolate?] it with some of my own observations. Nobody else could have written so fully and clearly on the subject but from the scientific and practical point of view. It is unanswerable, you have given so much evidence of the paradoxes [in???ed] in the Concealing Coloration theory. I think that warning colors, direction colors, mimicry colors must all share the same path which you have established for Concealing Colors. Osgood of the field Columbian Museum writes me that he agrees with your views. Also Nelson writes his agreement. No other man in the country has had so much field experience as Nelson. I shall be interested to know what Merriam think about it after his reading of your pamphlet. For many years he had never questioned Concealing Coloration. I predict, however, that now he must revise his views. I shall be here with Mrs Sheldon until Oct 12 when we come back to New York for the winter. I was delighted to hear that Mrs Roosevelt escaped so fortunately from serious injury. Sincerely Yours C. Sheldondown, and I shall be so glad. Then I shall hope to have you and your husband some time, in my home. Please remember me to Mr. Roosevelt, and with best wishes for your self for a speedy recovery I remain Very Sincerely Harriet T. Stevens. We will stay at the Waldorf until we go to house keeping. [*2.*] Tuesday morning October 3, 1911. The Waldorf-Astoria New York. Dear Mrs. Roosevelt - I was so shocked to see the account of your accident in the paper last might and I do hope there will be no serious consequences - and that your recovery will be very rapid. I had been intending to write you a little note of congratulation on the new granddaughter ever since my return form Europe - but have been so busy trying to get things straightened out for Fall that I had not been able to get he spoke of Mr. Roosevelt - and when we told him that we really know Mr. R. we went up in his estimation immensely and he things he said about him were very interesting. We are going to live in New York. Mr. Stevens is working out the plans for an organization in his line of work - that will be the Greatest career of its kind in the world, I think - very far reaching, and with immense capital. As soon a s he gets started I shall take a house, or apartment , and settle to it. We were two days late in sailing from Liverpool on account of the strike - and so it was a rush to get Eugene ready for school, as we only had a day and a half. We had a delightful summer in spite of the heat, which was terrific for about a month. We were in Berlin some little time, and while there had a courier, as none of us know any thing of German - he was a most intelligent man, and had been over here several times; when we went to Potsdam LAW OFFICES WILLIAM H. & J. R. THOMAS FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING MONTGOMERY, ALA. [*1.*] Oct 3 1911 Personal Col Theodore Roosevelt New York Dear Friend:- There is a persistant rumor that the Dist Atty for Middle Dist of Alabama will be removed. I have had no part in the efforts to that end. If there should be a change I am wondering if you could not get the President to give me the position. Of course you know I went off the bench often a long expence because my views in the labor Control Cases I am most sincerely William H. ThomasFor encl see 10-3-11BUSINESS ESTABLISHED JULY 1847. TELEPHONE, 1547 CORTLANDT. BRYAN L. KENNELLY, REAL ESTATE BROKER, AUCTIONEER AND APPRAISER, Money loaned on Bond and Mortgage 156 BROADWAY, MEMBER OF THE REAL ESTATE BOARD OF BROKERS AND N.Y. REAL ESTATE SALESROOM. New York, Oct. 3, 1911. [*4*] Col. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N. Y. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: I was very glad to learn from Mr. Douglass Robinson this morning that Mrs. Roosevelt was so much improved. From the newspaper reports, I feared that the accident was more serious even than it is. I wish to express to you my sympathy and hopes for her speedy recovery. Very sincerely yours, [?]Officers CALVERT K. MELLEN, Pres. Lafayette High School, Buffalo F. R. PARKER, Vice-Pres. Elmira EDWARD P. SMITH, Sec. North Tonawanda A. B. VOSSLER, Treas. Great Neck Associated Academic Principals State of New York TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING SYRACUSE HOLIDAY WEEK 1911 Executive Committee SEWARD S. TRAVIS Greenport FRANK A. GALLUP Albany CHARLES W. LEWIS Canton [*W*] Greenport, L. I., Oct. 3, 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I. Esteemed Friend: I have been informed that you have been asked by the Chamber of Commerce of the City of Syracuse to deliver an address on Friday evening, December 29th, before the meeting of the State Association of Academic Principals and allied organizations at the forthcoming annual convention of these bodies. These organizations wish to urge you to give them the inspiration and uplift of your presence and power. If you accept you will be doing a splendid thing for the cause of Education in the Empire State, and the enthusiasm which your presence and address would create would through the delegates at this convention by disseminated to all sections of the State. Hoping that I may hear from you that you will be able to render this splendid service to the cause of Education, I am, Very sincerely yours, S. S. Travis Chairman Ex. Com. SST/AMM[*[Thompson]*] [342 WEST 27TH STREET] Oct. 3d 1911. Hon.Theo. Roosevelt. The Outlook. N.Y. City. My dear Sir:- I was greatly disappointed last Friday when I was too ill to keep the appointment. I shall be at your office this Friday, Oct. 6th, andhope you will favor me with a short interview at 12:30. Respectfully yours, Mary G. Thompson Mount Hope N.Y. Southgate Ave.WM. D. WANZER Groceries and Provisions ROSE CREAMERY 53 SHERMAN ST., ROXBURY DISTRICT BOSTON MASS. TELEPHONE 1506-3 ROXBURY Boston, Mass. Oct. 3, 19[0]11, Hon Theodore Roosevelt 287 Fourth Ave N.Y. City. Dear Sir:- Your kind acknowledgment of the 2d through your Secy Frank Harper, at hand. I have no deaire to bore you, but write witht eh hope, that in my case you will make an exception and give me a place here in Boston. Have you not a party here to whom you could say "Give Wanzer a medium position" I can assure you I would greatly apprecatesuch a kindness and will, as I always have, pass it along to some other worthy one. Hoping you will favor me, I am, believe me, as ever Your Friend W D Wanzer[*5*] OPEN ALL THE YEAR French Lick Springs Hotel THOMAS TAGGART, PRESIDENT French Lick, Ind. Oct. 3d 1911 My dear Roosevelt,- I was so sorry to see by the paper this morning that Mrs. Roosevelt had had a bad fall. I hope it will not prove serious, but that sort of thing is not pleasant. Will you kindly express to Mrs. Roosevelt my hope for her speedy recovery. It all seemed so charming at your place the night wedined with you, that I most sincerely hope the newspaper's account was exagerated. Believe me, with kind regards, y’s most sincerely Edward Wharton.be quite herself again. I hope "Pine Knot” was not the guilty horse. Maybe Archie will send me a line. Do not take the trouble to answer this. Very sincerely yours, Joseph Wilmer Oct 3. 11 THE HORSE SHOE. RAPIDAN, VIRGINIA My dear Colonel Roosevelt, I have been greatly disturbed to hear of Mrs Roosevelt’s accident, & I must write to tell you of my solicitude & sympathy. I trust most earnestly that she has recovered from the shock and will soon A Pawn in the Struggle for Freedom By Ray Stannard Baker Author of "Following the Color Line," etc. ALONZO BAILEY Whose case has been decided by the United States Supreme Court We publish this month the full-length portrait of a black man. We had it taken, purposely, just as he came in from his work, in his old soiled overalls, his old greasy hat, his old shoes, the stub of a half-smoked cigarette in his fingers. We wanted to show him exactly as he is. However you will probably not be able to distinguish him from a thousand - or a million - other black men whose backs are bent daily to the heaviest burdens of the South. Look well at the dull black face and you will see there the unmistakable marks of ignorance, inertia, irresponsibility. If you are given to reflection, you may well ask: Is this the thing the Lord God made and gave to have dominion over sea and land? Is this the dream He dreamed who shaped the suns And pillared the blue firmament with light? And yet, curiously - or not at all curiously, as you happen to look at such matters - this thing which the Lord God made, he has used in dreaming his greatest dream - the dream of human freedom. A few months ago the name of this apparently inconsequential black man resounded in the Capitol; his apparently unimportant history was related and discussed before the highest court of the land, and the legal decision which bears his name is one of noteworthy importance. Slavery did not perish from off the earth in 1863. We thought it did, but it was only scotched, not killed. No evil is ever instantly abolished by a revolution or a legal enactment: it takes time and training and a deeper revolution in the human soul. The name was changed but the thing itself - involuntary servitude - has continued to this day. Under the guise of a contract for labor many negroes, and, indeed, some white men have been held - and legally held - in a form of peonage not essentially different from slavery. See how it worked out in Alabama in the case of the negro Alonzo Bailey. In 1908 Bailey signed a contract to work for a white planter for one year at twelve dollars a month. He got an advance payment of fifteen dollars in cash. After working for a little over one month, Bailey left the plantation. It is not in evidence why he left, whether he was himself sick or lazy, or whether the master was cruel. It matters little; the point is, he broke his contract to work for an entire year. Ordinarily when a man breaks a contract which he has with you, you may sue him and get damages. But the negro is penniless, and besides that, he wants the service of those black hands and that bent back. Bailey was not sued but arrested. For the Alabama Statute at that time said that any person who received money under such a 608 A Pawn in the Struggle for Freedom: By Ray Stennard Baker 609 contract and stopped before it was worked out, the presumption was that he intended to defraud the employer, and therefore that he was criminally punishable. Moreover, when he came into court the law said he might not even testify to what his own intent was, the contract being made prima facie evidence of the intent to defraud. In short, the workman had the law loaded against him. No matter how honest he might have been in signing the contract, no matter what might have arisen afterwards - death or illness or marriage - when he stopped work the law presumed him guilty of fraud and made him criminally punishable. Well, Bailey was tried, and of course punished. He was sentenced to serve one hundred and thirty-six days at hard labor - absolutely without a hearing, the only witness against him being his white employer with the contract in his hand - which, by the way, was an unacknowledged and unwitnessed contract. This meant that Bailey would have to go to the chain gang - a criminal - unless, perchance some white man would pay his fine and get him out. But in that event he would have to work for the white man under new and more difficult obligations, for the debt now would include lawyer's charges and court fees. Under such conditions it might take him years to work free again, as indeed, it has taken many a Southern negro. But in the end the white man would get what he wanted - the enforced labor of the black man. When Bailey was arrested his wife sought out Edward S. Watts, an able young white attorney, and asked him if he could not free her husband. Now, there are many public-spirited white men in the South who have long seen the rank injustice of such a system of peonage as this. One of these is a just judge, William H. Thomas, of Montgomery, who had already decided, in another case, that the contract labor law was unconstitutional. His decision, fought by the planters to the highest court of the State, was finally reversed. Mr. Watts, however, believing in spite of what the Supreme Court of Alabama had said that the system was wrong, carried the case into the federal courts, where, assisted by Fred. S. Ball, one of the leading lawyers of Alabama, they fought the case of Bailey through the Supreme Court of the United States. Here in a decision written by Justice Hughes, the Alabama law is overturned. "The State," Photograph by Chamber: Edward S. Watts Photograph by Coleman Fred S. Ball. The Southern lawyers who believe that peonage is wrong. They handled the negro's case and carried it to the Supreme Court of the United States where Alabama's bad law was overthrown.[*[Encl in Thomas 10-3-11]*] 610 The American Magazine says Justice Hughes, "may impose involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime, but it may not compel one man to labor for another in payment of debt by punishing him as a criminal if he does not perform the service or pay the debt." This case is especially notable because a Southern man, Justice White, was the supreme judge of the court which rendered the decision. Of course, Bailey was a mere pawn in the battle. He stands as Dred Scott stood in the great slavery cases before the war, as a sort of symbol in this new struggle for freedom. Another vigorous opponent of the peonage system, Federal Judge Emory Speer of Georgia, a Southern of Southerners, in a strong recent charge to a Grand Jury said: "And, gentlemen, to no other people in any State of the Union should this crime be more abhorrent than to the people of our own State. It was founded by the noble Oglethorpe as a home for helpless debtors. The ancestors of some of the proudest families whose names have honored Georgia, and who came over with the noble and benevolent patriot and philanthropist, were doubtless quite as unable to pay their debts as the poorest and most helpless negro in the land. "Shall we not in the language of Oglethorpe himself, 'leave the world a little purified of ancient crime and folly?' Is imprisonment for debts in cells of the debtor's prison in London less severe than peonage for debt in stockades, or under the pistol and the lash of those who indulge in this most reactionary and demoralizing of all crimes in this day of Christian civilization? However apparent the temporary advantage, nothing but financial disaster and ruin and increase of crime can result to that misguided man who seeks to hold a human being, protected by the law." Thus, in the Bailey case, another legal barrier to the progress of the negro has been broken down. The decision, however, is no final panacea. Neither individual men nor races rise merely by decisions or laws. While so many negroes are densely ignorant and poverty stricken, and while so many white men are shortsighted enough to take advantage of this ignorance and poverty, so long will forms of slavery prevail, but another bar has been placed in the way of the strong white man who would take advantage of the weaker colored man. A little less slavery is possible in this world! Photograph by Coleman Art Studio JUDGE WM. H. THOMAS, OF MONTGOMERY, ALA. A public-spirited and highly intelligent man who helped to destroy legal slavery in AlabamaEnc in White 10-14-11 10-3-11NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1911. HOPES ITALIANS WILL HAVE ANOTHER ADOWA Vahan Cardashian, of the Ottoman Chamber of Commerce, in conversation with a HERALD reporter yesterday said that he had spent Sunday with the Turkish Ambassador, and that he was in a position to know that the Turks have no idea of yielding peacefully to the Italian attack on their dominions. Advise Resistance Now. "The feeling of surprise and disappointment at Constantinople," he said, "has given way to a feeling of aggressiveness, and the pacific disposition of the government officials has been replaced by a feeling that some blow should be struck in return. Those who express the view that Turkey will make a feeble resistance decided ignorance of conditions in Turkey and of the temper of the Turkish people. "The intense indignation felt by everybody at Constantinople and throughout Turkey at the apparent shortsightedness of Hakki Pacha, the late Grand Vizier, is the manifestation of that dogged determination the Young Turks feel and have to preserve the integrity of the country. Hakki Pacha failed utterly to understand the impelling passion of Italy to extend her influence in Tripoli at any cost. "He should have seen the approaching cloud from the pressing attitude of the Italian government. Of course, he could not build battle ships in six months, but he could have fortified the Tripolitan ports and put the country in some state of preparedness for a war. Hakki Pacha was Grand Vizier for thirteen years and retired only the other day. Under his guidance Turkey has relied entirely too much on the friendship and support of Germany. Germany's negative attitude in the present crisis is a monstrous example of international hypocrisy. Hopes for Italy's Defeat. "If, instead of leaning on Germany's friendship, the Young Turks had befriended the triple entente the present disturbance, I believe, would never have occurred. Now that it has occurred, however, I want to say that Italy is in danger of being speedily disillusioned of the idea that Turkey will accept her act submissively. She certainly will not find that she has undertaken a mere military promenade. The present feeling in Constantinople seems to be confident hope that Italy is facing a repetition of her Abyssinian expedition. "I have read and discussed with our Ambassador the manifesto of the Marchese di San Giuliano, the Italian Foreign Minister, setting forth the Italian view of the Tripoli matter. He certainly must have had a large amount of uncertainty in his mind as to sufficiency of the grounds on which he attempts to justify the rash act of his government. In an effort to obscure the reason and intelligence of the public he recites instances of alleged injustice to Italian subjects by Ottoman officials, and in this difficult task has constituted himself complainant, prosecutor, jury and judge. "Denial of justice presupposes a trial of the point at issue. If the Ottoman government, after inquiry and investigation, had recognized the justice of the alleged complaints and had been remiss in their correction, then a denial of justice would exist. "The royal Italian note of September 23 shows that the alleged omissions were in course of adjudication. I shall not attempt to rebut each allegation made by the Foreign Minister. But the rashness of the Italian action can be reasonably shown by the fact that only on September 23 the Italian Charge d'Affaires presented an ultimatum to the Porte, couched in a sullen and provoking tone, and put a period of twenty-four hours within which to respond affirmatively to all the Italian demands. "Again the Imperial government responded in a friendly and pacific tone and promised to do all that could be reasonably expected. The alleged grievances were numerous and their scenes of occurrence far removed from the central government, and their merits and natures unknown to the central government. "The dates of the Italian notes alluded to and the nature of their contents convince a reasonable observer of a decided disposition on the part of the Italian government to bring about a rupture with Turkey. Replies to Froeign Minister. "The Italian Foreign Minister innocently recites a larger number of wrongs and excesses committed in territories other than Tripoli, and evidently, to justify his government's action in regard to Tripoli, naïvely adds that the authorities there acted a little more harshly and unjustly than those elsewhere. "If the Foreign Minister knew that for a long time his countrymen in those regions were talking and acting impudently and imprudently; that their behavior was calculated to be offensive to the natives and the authorities; that their words and manners were the unmistakeable signs of a strong passion in them to replace in Tripoli the Turkish power, perhaps he would excuse a substantial part of the severity of the Turkish authorities. "If the alleged Italian grievances are just, why should their correction necessitate a protectorate over Tripoli? If only a protectorate can effectively right wrongs of this particular class why should not the same line of reasoning apply to Mersina, Brusa, where a larger number of excesses or instances of injustice are alleged to have occurred? "The action of the Italian government is rash, unjust, unstatesmanlike and a severe blow to the spirit of international compacts and peace movements."[*[Encl in Parsons 10/3/11]*] [*[10/3/11]*] [*Enc in O'Laughlin 10-17-11*] [*10-3-11*]_10/3/11_ THE CHICAGO DAILY PEOPLEOF OMAHA | DIVIDED ON TAFT Business Men Commend President’s Attitude Toward the Tariff and Trusts. WORKERS SEEM IN DOUBT. Many Think Change of Administration Would Prove of Benefit to Them. {BY A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.) Omaha, Neb., Oct. 2.—[Special.]—On account of the disarrangement of his schedule by the Missouri washouts, President Taft did not get much of an opportunity to convert Republican insurgents in this city and vicinity. When he arrived last evening the big audience in the Omaha auditorium, which he was to have addressed on world peace, had been dismissed, and, as it turned out, his only public utterance during his stay in the city was directed to a gathering of school children. The disappointment of the people generally in being unable to greet the chief magistrate of the republic and hear his views of national questions was apparent today. After waiting for hours, the thousands who flocked to the auditorium were reluctant to leave so long as there was any chance of the president arriving in time to deliver his address. The indications are that, had the program been carried out, the president would have received one of the most enthusiastic receptions of his trip through the country. Good Showing for Taft. It is apparent that there are more genuine supporters of the president in this city than in most of the cities in the insurgent middle west. Omaha Republicans in the main are loyal to the regular party organization. The progressives in the city seem to lack the organization possessed by the regulars, who follow the lead of National Committeeman Victor Rosewater and State Chairman John L Kennedy. Omaha is a Democratic city. Bryan's former friend, Cowboy Jim Dahlman, is the mayor, and its representative in congress is a Democrat. United States Senator Hitchcock lives here. Consequently it is not surprising that the majority of the persons whom THE TRIBUNE correspondent interviewed today were Democrats and against Taft anyway. These Democrats seemed to be far from united on any favorite for the head of their ticket. Harmon and Wilson were mentioned most frequently. Approved by Business Men. Enough Republicans were found, however, to make it possible to gauge the attitude of the community towards the president and his administration. The result of the canvass shows the business men of the city overwhelmingly approve the stand of the president on the tariff, trusts, reciprocity, and conservation. In South Omaha, however, in the heart of the packinghouse district, the showing is different. There the majority of the smail shopkeepers and workingmen interviewed were either against the president or lukewarm. The chief complaint against the president in that section of the city was that he seemed to be “ hooked up with the interests." Admirers of La Follette were more numerous there than elsewhere. “We think a good deal of Taft around here," said Emil Brandels, secretary of the corporation which operates a large department store. “He is a good, sound man to have at the head of the nation. Of course he has been a little unfortunate with some of his cabinet officers, but on the whole he has given a good administration. The business men of the city are strongly for him for re-election.” Attitude of Workers. A wholesale hardware merchant said although he and other business men are satisfied with Taft, he realized the president had lost favor to some extent with the working people. We thought Mr. Taft would regain popularity with the employed classes if he should succeed in getting the tarifr reduced. “I was for Taft in 1908, and will be again,” said F. D. Wead, a real estate dealer. “It is my opinion, and the opinion of most of those with whom I come in contact, that Taft did the best that could be done on the tariff and will continue to do so.” The proprietor of a shoe store said Taft didn’t “seem to be strong,” but thought he was as good as the average president. “My opinion is that Taft could not be improved on as a president,” said M. T. Barlow, president of the United States National bank. A trunk manufacturer said he and others with whom he had talked were inclined to regard the president as a good deal misunderstood, particularly with reference to the tariff. He thought the president's tariff board plan ought to have a fair trial before the people give their final verdict on the Taft administration. “Yes, I voted for Taft last time,” said a German proprietor of a little meat market. “I guess I will again. He ain’t done me no harm.” The head salesman of the Nebraska Clothing store is a progressive Republican. (He thought “Taft is running the country to suit the rich,” and favored La Follette or Cummins.[*Benjamin G.B*] George G. Benjamin Correct Dress for Men Fifth Ave Building Broadway Cor 24th St NEW YORK, October 4, 1911. Mr. Frank Harper, 287 Fourth Avenue, City. Dear Sir:- I beg to thank you for your letter of October 2nd, informing me that Mr. Roosevelt would see my daughter and myself on Friday next at 12:30. We shall be very pleased to take advantage of Mr. Roosevelt's courtesy. Yours very truly, George G. Benjamin M.[*Chas H Bliss*] FIDELITY UNDERWRITERS OF NEW YORK The Continental Insurance Company of New York Fidelity-Phenix Fire Insurance Company of New York WESTERN DEPARTMENT 332 SOUTH LA SALLE STREET CHICAGO, ILLS. CHAS. H. J. BLISS, Agent, 601 Grant Bldg, 355 South Broadway Phones: Main 3740, A 4124 LOS ANGELES, CAL. Los Angeles, California, October 4, 1911. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Care of "The Outlook," New York Dear Sir: Believing that every transaction has a certain relation to the public, and knowing your interest in all matters affecting the public welfare, I submit to you the enclosed papers concerning an attempt now in progress to control the fire insurance business on the Pacific Coast in the hands of a body of associates, to the exclusion of disadvantage of all others engaged in that business not members of said association or operating thru it exclusively. As wide publicity is helpful in defeating such harmful combinations in restraint of trade, I place the facts before you for such action as your judgment approves. The papers transmitted to you herewith consist of the following, to wit: 1. A circular (No. 574) from an association known as the Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacific, advising of resolutions by the Board adopted August 9, 1911, stating that from September 1, 1911, certain rates of compensation will be paid only to such agents as represent exclusively companies members of said Board. The rates of compensation named in this circular are, as a matter of fact, the same as then customarily paid by Board companies to their agents generally, in this city, without discrimination. 2. Circular dated August 18, 1911, from the same Board, explanatory of the above, and repeating the statement that only agents representing exclusively companies members of said Board would be paid certain rates of commission (which, as above mentioned, are the rates heretofore usually paid here), and that the compensation of other agents shall be at a much lower rate. 3. Blank form furnished by the Board, on which agent is required to state the names of all the companies he represents, as a condition precedent to being compensated at the rates heretofore current in this city, and to sign an understanding that if he represent at any time any company not a member of the Board his commission will be cut to the lowest rate. FIDELITY UNDERWRITERS OF NEW YORK [*FIDELITY UNDERWRITERS OF NEW YORK*] The Continental Insurance Company of New York Fidelity-Phenix Fire Insurance Company of New York WESTERN DEPARTMENT 332 SOUTH LA SALLE STREET CHICAGO, ILLS. CHAS. H. J. BLISS, Agent, 601 Grant Bldg., 355 South Broadway Phones: Main 3740, A 4124 LOS ANGELES, CAL. TR 2 October 4, 1911 4. Extract from official letter of the Hon.Perry A. Ballard, Insurance Commissioner of Oklahoma, on this subject. 5. Copy of my letter of August 21,1911, to Manager of one of the Board companies at San Francisco, concerning this matter. I received no reply to my said letter, nor even an acknowledgment of its receipt; but nine days after I sent it the traveling representative of that company visited my office, terminated his agency and removed his supplies. 6. Copy of circular letter which I sent out after the defection of my Board company, in order that my business acquaintance might see how my action received the support of the best independent companies, when I "went out on thin ice," as the President of one company expressed it. Any action which you see fit to take to assist the principle of equal rights in this particular will add to the debt of thanks and personal loyalty to your always gratefully acknowledged by Yours very respectfully, Chas. H. J. Bliss[*[For attachment see 10 - 4 - 11]*] [*2*] HOTEL MANHATTAN HAWK AND WETHERBEE MADISON AVE. & 42ND ST. NEW YORK. 4th Oct 1911 Dear Sir:- Referring to the Enclosed I will take the Liberty of calling at The Outlook office tomorrow at noon in the hope of having the honor of a brief personal interview with you on the Vital Subject I have Endeavored to outline in the Enclosed letters. Believe me to be Yours faithfully Harry J. Crowe. Hon T Roosevelt New YorkTHE CIVIC FORUM NON-PARTISAN , NON-SECTARIAN A NATIONAL PLATFORM FOR THE DISCUSSION OF PUBLIC QUESTIONS AND THE PROMOTION OF INTERNATIONAL GOOD-WILL VICE-PRESIDENTS HON. WILLIAM H. TAFT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HON. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN LINCOLN, NEBRASKA RT. REV. DAVID H. GREER, D.D. EPISCOPAL BISHOP OF NEW YORK PRESIDENT SAMUEL GOMPERS AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR HON. NAHUM J. BACHELDER EX-GOVERNOR F NEW HAMPSHIRE MASTER OF THE NATIONAL FARMER'S GRANGE JOHN GRAHAM BROOKS SOCIOLOGIST HON. OSCAR S. STRAUS EX-SECRETARY OF COMMERCE AND LABOR MOST REV. JOHN IRELAND ARCHBISHOP OF ST. PAUL REV. LYMAN ABBOTT, D.D. EDITOR OF THE OUTLOOK DR. ALBERT SHAW EDITOR OF THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS AUTHOR ELGIN L. GOULD, TREASURER ROBERT ERSKINE ELY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR BOARD OF TRUSTEES ISAAC H. SELIGMAN J. AND W. SELIGMAN & CO., BANKERS WILLIAM H. BLISS LAWYER MARCUS M. MARKS PRESIDENT NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS ELGIN R.L. GOULD, PRESIDENT CITY AND SUBURBAN HOMES COMPANY HENRY CLEWS BANKER ROBERT J. COLLIER EDITOR COLLIER'S WEEKLY JAMES B. REYNOLDS FORMERLY SPECIAL COMMISSIONER FOR PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT JOHN MITCHELL EX-PRESIDENT UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA ROBERT ERSKINE ELY EDUCATOR CABLE ADDRESS CIFORUM, NEW YORK TELEPHONE 4897} 4898} BRYANT OFFICE 23 WEST 44TH STREET NEW YORK MARY B. CLEVELAND EXECUTIVE SECRETARY MICHAEL KLEY FINANCIAL SECRETARY October 4, 1911. [*2.*] Frank Harper, Esq., Secretary to ex-President Roosevelt, 284 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Dear Mr. Harper:- Please accept my thanks for your letter of September 28. The announcement of the Carnegie Hall meeting to be addressed by Mr. Roosevelt has been sent out in the way you suggested. Will you please advise me regarding the choice of a chairman? Dr. Albert Shaw, we have just heard, is now in Europe and is not expected to return by October 20. We have approached no one else and shall not do so until receiving some intimation from you, if you are disposed to give it, as to what chairman would be especially acceptable to Mr. Roosevelt. The following persons have occurred to us: - President Finley of the City College; Walter H. Page editor of the World's Work; Justice Charles E. Hughes of the Supreme Court. You may think of some persons who would be better than any of these. It is understood that the chairman will make brief introduction and no one else will speak except Mr. Roosevelt. Yours sincerely, Robert E. Ely226 FIFTH AVENUE New York, Oct. 4, 1911 Mr. Frank Harper 287 Fourth Ave New York City:– My dear Sir, I have received your courteous acknowledgement of my recent letter to Colonel Roosevelt. I shall be very glad to come to Mr. Roosevelt's office this Friday about 12.30 as you suggest. Sincerely yours, Edwin EmersonCITY OF NEW YORK [*3*] CHAMBERS OF WARREN W. FOSTER JUDGE OF THE COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS. 32 FRANKLIN STREET, NEW YORK. October 4th, 1911. Dear Colonel Roosevelt: While you were enjoying your remarkable experience in the heart of the Dark Continent, Pearson's Magazine published a story I wrote entitled "Hereditary Criminality and its Certain Cure." It became an old story before you returned and, therefore, I did not honor myself by sending you a copy. Only a few days ago, however, Father Lynch, the Probation Officer of the Catholic Church, told me of your great interest in the work, and that you expressed regret that you were unable to come to Court to sit with me on an interesting morning – a pleasure which I hope is but deferred. Father Lynch suggests that you would be interested in my story, and accordingly I am sending you a reprint of it. I have sought to make a "popular" abstract of the science of penology and at the same time bring to public attention its most recent developments. If it interests you, I shall value and treat in confidence your frank personal criticism of it. I beg to express the high consideration which I entertain for you, and to remain, Yours truly, Warren W. Foster To the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York.R.R.R. 6. BUFFALO NY OCT 4TH 1911 HON THEODORE ROOSEVELT OYSTER BAY NY DEAR COLONEL = "I am so glad & give my heart felt thanks, that Mrs. Roosevelt came out so nicely & fortunately in that accident = we would all be pained to hear of the mother of our old regiment meeting with any serious mishap as the boys all worship their dear Colonel & wife = please give her my sincere & hopeful wishes of a speedy recovery also from my wife & daughter - Alberta. With all love & best wishes Comrade Tony Gavin =# 276 Hampshire St. Buffalo N.Y.MERCER COURT OF COMMON PLEAS TRENTON, N.J. FREDERICK W. GNICHTEL JUDGE [*3*] Trenton, N. J. Oct. 4, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. Dear Colonel: Have just received a letter from Mr. C. F. Connolly, and write to say that I am very sorry I was unable to come to New York on the day fixed, but my public engagements would not permit. My duties have been somewhat increased because of the new election laws which place greater responsibilities on the County Judges. I have never had the honor of meeting you, but have followed your interesting career from the early eighty's when as a contributor to the Century Magazine you wrote of your experiences in the West and the New York Legislature. Mr. Connolly informs me that he starts for Los Angeles, Cal. this week and I hope upon his return a day may be arranged and I shall have the honor of meeting you. Yours very respectfully, F W Gnichtel FWG/SF.[*[Oct. 4, 1911]*] [*[Goiran]]*] 109 Orange Road Montclair New-Jersey [*11*] Mr. Roosevelt, Excuse me of taking the liberty to write to you. I am the wife of the french Deputy Consul General in New-York whose Father General Goiran is an ancient member of the french cabinet. I have a sister and afriend, in France who are most enthusiastic persons about United States, they simply love Americans, and nothing would give them a greatest joy, a greater honour, than to have an autograph of you! It is to much to ask you this? and for my sister, could you dedicate a few words at her name Miss Cécile Chouanard! Indeed, they would be so thankfull to you! Excuse meagain, Mr. Roosevelt, the trouble i am giving you and believe me yours sincerely. Madame L.H. Goiran. 4th of October 1911.AMERICAN PAPER AND PULP ASSOCIATION ARTHUR C. HASTINGS, PRESIDENT. C. I. MCNAIR, SEC'Y. & TREAS. ARTHUR G. MAURY, ASST. SEC'Y. & TREAS. 50 CHURCH STREET, ROOMS 1460–1462 TELEPHONE CORTLAND 3762 NEW YORK, October 4, 1911. [*18*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Chairman, Advisory Committee, Sanitorium Gabriels, Gabriels, N. Y. Dear Sir:– I have been approached several times by one of two brothers, each one calling himself Senator McCrane, both claiming authority to solicit money for the above institution. I have subscribed in the past but my information is that they are asking these subscriptions and getting a very large percentage of it for their personal work. I hardly think that this is charity, and would be glad to know how your committee looks upon this soliciting agency. I understand that Sister Mary Kiernan in charge of the Institution, rather sanctions their activity or at least does not reply to any criticisms. Yours very truly, Arthur C Hastings PRESIDENT. A.C.H.–C.K.The Syracuse Social Survey UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, THE TRADES ASSEMBLY THE MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION, AND THE ASSOCIATES CHARITIES Shelby M. Harrison, Director 331 South Warren Street, Room 3 Central Committee MURRAY S. HOWLAND, CHAIRMAN PAUL E. ILLMAN, SECRETARY CHARLES W. ANDREWS M. JOSEPH CHAMBERS JOHN R. CLANCY C. S. ESTABROOK ADOLF GUTTMAN LOUIS KRUMSHAAR PHILLIP A. PARSONS A. E. THISTLETON EDWARS V. WOOD CHARLES A. YATES [*D*] Syracuse, N.Y. Oct. 4, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir: Under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce, Trades Assembly, Ministerial Association and the Associated Charities, a social survey has been made of Syracuse. It has been fairly extensive covering housing, health and sanitation, foreign population, city planning, courts and crime, and indus- tries, giving especial attention to child labor, labor of women in stores, and hours and wages of men. The director has been Mr. Shelby M. Harrison, one of the editors of the Survey Magazine. The work has had the sanction and support of all classes and of the public press. The Committee in seeking to make the Survey of more value in social betterment, is planning a "Know Your City Week," November 19th to 24th. For Sunday November 19th, the clergymen and leaders in other forms of christian work areThe Syracuse Social Survey UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, THE TRADES ASSEMBLY, THE MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION, AND THE ASSOCIATES CHARITIES Shelby M. Harrison, Director 331 South Warren Street, Room 3 Central Committee MURRAY S. HOWLAND, CHAIRMAN PAUL E. ILLMAN, SECRETARY CHARLES W. ANDREWS M. JOSEPH CHAMBERS JOHN R. CLANCY C. S. ESTABROOK ADOLF GUTTMAN LOUIS KRUMSHAAR PHILLIP A. PARSONS A. E. THISTLETON EDWARD V. WOOD CHARLES A. YATES Syracuse, N.Y., Oct. 4, 1911. TR-2 to make the Social Betterment of Syracuse, the topic of addresses. Monday is to be educational day, in which the school children will take prominent part. In the evening J. Horace MacFarland will give his lecture on the "Crusade Against Ugliness." On Tuesday evening housing and foreign population will be the theme of discussion. Lawrence Veiller, Secretary of the National Housing Association, and John Daniels of the North American Civic League for Immigrants and Director of the Buffalo Polish Survey, will speak. Wednesday evening will be given over to health and sanitation. We are trying to get Dr. Woods Hutchinson for one of the speakers. Thursday the topic will be, The Industrial Conditions in Syracuse. Paul U. Kellogg, Director of the Pittsburg Survey, and Mrs. Florence Kelley, Secretary of the National Consumers League, will speak. For Friday evening we are planning a big civic rally.The Syracuse Social Survey UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, THE TRADES ASSEMBLY, THE MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION, AND THE ASSOCIATES CHARITIES Shelby M. Harrison, Director 331 South Warren Street, Room 3 Central Committee MURRAY S. HOWLAND, CHAIRMAN PAUL E. ILLMAN, SECRETARY CHARLES W. ANDREWS M. JOSEPH CHAMBERS JOHN R. CLANCY C. S. ESTABROOK ADOLF GUTTMAN LOUIS KRUMSHAAR PHILLIP A. PARSONS A. E. THISTLETON EDWARD V. WOOD CHARLES A. YATES Syracuse, N. Y., Oct. 4, 1911. TR-3 For this Friday evening meeting, November 24, 1911, the committee has asked me as Secretary, to invite you to speak. We want this subject of civic responsibility brought before the public, and we feel that we would be very fortunate if we might have you present the message. May we hear soon your pleasure in regard to this? Very truly yours, Paul E. Illman Secretary of Committee. PEI - ET H E P E O P L E [*[10-4-11]*] A WEEKLY PUBLICATION DEDICATED TO A WORK FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE PEOPLE, THE GREATEST GOOD TO THE GREATEST NUMBER, ACCORDING TO HONESTY AND INDUSTRY, ABILITY AND MERIT, AND FOR THE GENERAL GOOD OF THE COUNTRY, INDEPENDENT OF ANY PARTY OR ORGANIZATION (5c a copy) I wish to place before the people under the above Title and Dedication, the following and separate Master Subjects on practical business lines for the people to organize, each in separate and permanent business organization. To co-operate with the people in thus organizing, and act as their official publication thereafter. All has been thought out in detail for the greatest success and permanency. FIRST: Co-Operative Stores throughout the country, placing the Consumer and the Producer together and divide the savings between them. Eliminate many unnecessary middle men (bosses) and much of their help and expenses. To be organized and controlled by the Customers, but the entire Executive Management to be in the hands of the most efficient and practical men and entirely on salary or salary and percentage. The organization and business to finance itself. SECOND: Co-Operative financing, settling up and cultivating the waste or poor lands throughout the Country, buying the supplies and marketing the products. All under the most advanced and scientific business methods and with the co-operation of the Land Department of the Railroads and the Agricultural Department of the States, assuring the best possible net results financially, socially and morally, and for greatest good of the country in general. An organizing foundation fund of $50,000 to be raised through issuance of ten year 5% notes. The work and properties beyond this point to finance themselves and to retire the notes with interest on or before due. The organization to be under a Governing Board composed of one member from each State, selected by the Governor, but from the strongest opposite political party to that of the Governor. The organization to charge no net profit. THIRD: Bringing Capital and the Dormant Resources of the country together, through directing and safeguarding the Investment Money of the masses, through the organization of "THE NATIONAL INVESTIGATING ASSOCIATION" with a 5% Foundation Fund of $500,000, to be raised throughout the country by States, pro rata, according to population. The Association to be under a Governing Board composed of one member from each State, selected by the Governor, but from the strongest opposite political party to that of the Governor. The Governing Board to select an Executive Board, outside of their own members, composed of the most efficient and practical business men for their respective departments to carry on the active work of the Association as may be mapped out by the Governing Board from time to time. Producing Stable and Liquid Securities. Partially or wholly eliminating watered securities. Greater harmony between Capital and Labor. No net profits to be charged by the Association. FOURTH: A general education along financial lines. A remedy for abuses of the money and speculative power, through an organization which may possibly be formed as a result of the National Investigating Association. FIFTH: A more complete enforcement of the Criminal Laws of the Country, and up to National Prohibition, through uniting the enormous powers of the Ministers of all the Churches in the Country in a Central Organization of themselves, with State and County Branches SIXTH: All advertisements accepted for publication to be in harmony with the work to which the publication is dedicated. D. C. Imboden 115 Broadway, New York Telephone, Cortlandt 1598 October 4th, 1911.[*Enc in Imboden 10-6-11*]THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON October 4, 1911. My dear Mr. Loeb: In going through some old files yesterday I came across the enclosed letters which I think should go to Col. Roosevelt for his personal file. I am sure that he would wish to keep the Bryan letters - the others have possibly outlived their usefulness. Will you be good enough to look them over and use your judgment about forwarding them to him? I trust you, Mrs. Loeb and "Little Billie" are quite well. We have another boy in our family and we have loaded him down with the name of Maurice Theodore Ingling which is a pretty heavy load for such a little chap to carry- he seems to thrive, however. Very truly yours, C. E. Ingling Hon. Wm. Loeb Jr., Collector of Customs, New York. [*Mr Harper Col Roosevelt may want these for his files WL Jr*]Broadway Paving Committee COMMITTEE: JUDGE WM. RASQUIN, Jr. 261 Barclay St. Tel 125 CHARLES K. OLSEN, 23rd St. Tel. 683-L Flushing CHARLES M. BOUGGY, 615 Sanford Ave. Tel: 446-L EDWARD J. SULLIVAN, 800 Broadway. Tel. 302; or 45 Main St. Tel. 423. COMMITTEE: S. M. JACKSON JACOBS, Chairman; 26th St. Flushing, Tel. 1548 B. F. EGAN, Secretary; 22nd St. Flushing. Tel. 1545-W WM. H. SULLIVAN, Treasurer; 800 Broadway. Tel. 302; or 45 Main St. Tel. 423 IRA L. TERRY, Asst. Treasurer; 98 Main Street. Tel. 252. Flushing, N.Y., October 4th, 1911. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Ave., N. Y. CITY. Dear Sir:- We wrote you some time ago regarding paving Broadway with Granite Blocks and up to the present time have had no answer. We should be very glad to hear from you by return mail, if not with a subscription, giving us your moral support. Thanking you in anticipation, Yours very truly, BROADWAY PAVING COMMITTEE S.M. Jackson Jacobs Chairman.FRANK B. KELLOGG CORDENIO A. SEVERANCE ROBERT E. OLDS [*8*] Davis, Kellogg & Severance. ATTORNEYS AT LAW MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK BUILDING. St. Paul, Minn. Oct. 4, 1911. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, C/o The Outlook, New York. My dear Colonel: The last time I saw you we were discussing the question of federal incorporation and control of the trusts. I remember stating to you that I had prepared a bill and expected to make a speech outlining my view. I delivered the address at the Palimpsest Club in Omaha, and I am sending you under separate cover two or three copies. I shall be pleased if you should have time to read it. The first seven pages are generalizations. From there on I make concrete recommendations on what seem to me to be the vital points in such legislation. At that time you asked me to state briefly to you what I had done in the Standard Oil case. I do not know exactly what you desired to know. Perhaps these matters have passed from your mind. You will remember that after I finished the Paper Trust Case I was employed by the Attorney General, (I understood by your directions), in June, 1906, to investigate, report upon and prosecute a suit against the Standard Oil combination. I commenced about July 1st, and the case was finally decided May 15th, 1911. For nearly fuve years I devoted substantially all of my time to that case. It came out exactly as I suggested to you I thought it would and in line with my recommendationsT R 2 made in the autumn of 1906. The fact is that the decree of the court below was unanimously affirmed by the Supreme Court, and the Government obtained all that it was possible to obtain by a decree under the law in this case. Judge Harlan, as you know, only dissented from some of the reasoning of the court. He concurred in the affirmance of the decree of the court below. This decree separates the Standard Oil combination into thirty-three separate companies. But that is not all. Under Section 6 of the decree the defendants, including the leading large stockholders, all the officers and the thirty-three separate, independent corporations are enjoined and prohibited from continuing or carrying into further effect this combination or any like combination, or by consolidating these companies, or making any express or implied agreement between these companies relative to the control and management of each, or the price of the products, etc. There was no way known, under the law, of stopping this combination except by breaking it up. Holding the stocks of all these companies, as the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey did, it had the power, which it mercilessly exercised, to drive its competitors out of business one at a time, and I believe that if you had not started the investigation and prosecution of the Standard Oil when you did, it would not only have had the control of the petroleum business of this country, but its influence in the controlT R 3 of banks and railroads would have been tremendous and harmful. But I did not start out to write you a dissertation on the Standard Oil case. I thought you probably wished to know something about what the judgment really accomplished. In the first part of my speech I stated why, in my opinion, these suits were necessary. Of course you know that I gave personal attention to this case from the beginning to the end in every detail, and personally argued it every time it was argued, and as I said to you, I feel that it never could have been accomplished without the aid and backing which you and your administration gave. Sincerely yours, Frank B KelloggPrices subject to change without notice. Contracts subject to strikes and all delays beyond our control. BELTING HOSE AND MILL SUPPLIES PHONE RANDOLPH 1017 J.T. KENDALL MANUFACTURES' AGENT 749 FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING CHICAGO, October 4, 1911 19 Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York, N. Y. My Dear Sir & Brother: The writer who has long been your loyal supporter, begs the favor of your autograph upon his Masonic credential, which you will find herewith enclosed. You will note I have the autograph of Mexico's Ex-President, Mr. Porfino Diaz, and the one from the only living Ex-President of the United States would be greatly appreciated. Fraternally yours, J. T. Kendall JTK-TUnited States Senate, Washington D C 4 October 1911. Dear Colonel Roosevelt: It was good to know that you had read the beginning of my story and liked it. I hope it may help a bit in the direction in which we are all moving. Never before have I done anything that gave me the real pleasure I get in this review of our work in Wisconsin. Yes, Colonel, the right attitude, with resolution and judgment behind it is basic. The tools of democracy are necessary, but there is little good in loading men down with them before they are willing or ready. The bungler may give a good set of tools a bad reputation because he does not know how to use them. Everything worth doing takes time and the years teach us all patience. Sincerely yours, Robert M. LaFollette [*La Follette*] Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City.[*3*] Live Oak Villa On the Trespalacios J.B. Leaman [*Editorial Department Oct 9 1911 ACK_____ No Ans. _____ Ans._____ By _____*] P.O. Address Blessing, Texas Oct. 4, 1911 The Outlook New York Dear Sir: As a reader of the Outlook, I kindly ask you the favor of sending me the address of The United Storer association, as per clipping. Please return clipping. Find stamps for reply and oblige Yours very truly JB Leaman [*[Leaman]*] Pres. Farmer Institute P.S. A suggestion, or opinion as how to handle farm products direct to the consumer, and eliminate all unnecessary middlemen, would be very much appreciated, this is coming, but how to systematize and legalize it is the question. J.B.L.RICHARD RANDOLPH MCMAHON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. COPY HARPER'S FERRY, W. VA. Oct. 4, 1911. The Honorable William E. Glasscock, Governor of West Virginia, Charleston, W. Va. My dear Governor: I receive your appreciated letter of the 2nd just as I am about leaving home. The cause is one in which no man should falter– one in which every man of strength and courage and character should step out into God's clear sunlight and daylight. You have my full authority to use my name. I am ready and willing to subject what I said in behalf of the cause of Justice to the light of the universal world. Faithfully yours, [*[McMahon]*]Enc in Glasscock 1-1-12University Club Fifth Avenue & 54th Street [*13*] NY Oct. 4, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay Dear Mr. Roosevelt: You are perhaps, next to the Congressional Library, the chief recipient of books in the country. Nevertheless I am sending you another, "Tom Strong, Washington's Scout," which Holt & Co. will publish about Oct. 7. This an attempt to inspire in youth that passion of patriotism which is the salt of the earth in a nation's life. If it succeeds, Tom Strong and his descendants are to appear in a series of books until his great grandson figures as a forest ranger under Gifford Pinchot, fighting for your policies. If you saw fit to refer to the book in The Outlook, it would of course give me great pleasure. Yours faithfully, Alfred Bishop MasonAMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NEW YORK OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT [*17*] 4 October, 1911 Dear Theodore: I take pleasure in sending you the recently published map showing the free public educational institutions of the City of New York for the year 1911. Always faithfully yours, Henry Fairfield Osborn President Col. Theodore Roosevelt. [*With notes for suggestion*]courtesies of your royal husband and yourself to me personally, to the New York State Assembly of Mothers and the National Congress of Mothers. You and Colonel Roosevelt are enshrined in the hearts of the mothers all over our land with abiding loyalty and devotion. Fine photographs of you both ever adorn our home and are a continual inspiration. With respect and esteem Mary Grinnell Mears (Mrs David O) [[shorthand]] [*1.*] Orchard Home Essex Mass Oct 4 1911 Mrs Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N. Y. My dear Mrs Roosevelt: I sorrow with a host of friends the world over in your recent accident, but we are gladdened to learn that you are steadily gaining and hope and pray that you may be restored very soon to your usual health and strength. I can never forget theTELEPHONE, 1773 COLUMBUS DAVID C. OUTLEAR COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW 233 WEST 63rd STREET [*15*] New York, October 4th. 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y., Dear Sir:– This will inform you that representative colored republicans from twenty three Assembly Districts, with in the County of New York, have organized an organization known as the (New York County Colored Republican Organization) and have elected me its president. Am sending you a copy of my address to the members in which I have sought to set forth in part, our principles. Am frank to state that our effort is known to the Chairman of the County republicans. Feel that a word of encouragement conveyed to our colored republican voter will add materially to our and the Regular Republican cause. Yours truly, D. C. Outlear. [*(Outlear)*][*[For encl see Outlear 9/30/11]*]Henderson House Mohawk Herkimer CO N.Y. Oct 4th 1911 R. R. Station} Telegrams} Herkimer N.Y. Telephone} U.S. Express & Trolley Station Jordanville, N.Y. Darling Theodore, I have just received the enclosed—probably your letter to me which has evidently gone to Bamie, had nothing personal in it, but I felt that it might have, & therefore draw your attention to the factthat your Secretary has made this mistake - I'm writing to you & Edith earlier this morning, I spoke of her accident not knowing that she knew nothing of it. I do hope I did nothing unwise. Most lovingly Corinne [*[Robinson]*]P. O. BOX 1222 CABLE ADDRESS, ROOSEVELT. Roosevelt & Son, 33 Wall Street, New York, October 4, 1911. Dear Sir: There will be a meeting of the Directors of the Broadway Improvement Company at this office on Wednesday, October 11th, at 11 o'clock A. M. Please be present. Yours truly, George Emlen Roosevelt, Secretary. Col. Theodore Roosevelt.PRESIDENT FRANK A. SCHMIDT 420 WEST 147TH STREET, N. Y. VICE PRESIDENT MRS. F. D. JACKSON MANHASSET, L. I. SEC.-TREAS. MISS LIZZIE E. RECTOR 88 MADISON AVENUE, N. Y. Association of the Doctors of Pedagogy New York Univeristy [*9.*] NEW YORK, October 4th, 1911 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York. Dear Sir I beg leave to request the honor of an interview for a very few minutes on Saturday, October 7th or on any afternoon after three of next week. Very respectfully, Frank A. Schmidt12 J. & W. Seligman & Co. Bankers. New York Oct 4/11 My dear Mr Roosevelt, I see from the papers that your wife sustained quite serious injuries from a fall from her horse. I trust that the reports are exaggerated & that permanent convalescence has set in. Will you kindly convey to her my & Mrs Seligmans sympathy & greetings with regards Sincerely Isaac N. Seligman Hon Theo. Roosevelt Oyster Bay Douglas Robinson 128 Broadway Cable Address, "Ryraport," New York New York October 4th, 1911. Dear Sir:- Your favor of October 3rd, enclosing bill from Mr. L. O. Wilson for $701.01, has this day been received. A cheque has been sent to Mr. Wilson today. Yours very truly, Frank C. Smith, Secy Frank Harper, Esq., The Outlook, #287 Fourth Avenue, S New York City.Jos. Szold & Son, SUCCESSORS TO EISLER & SZOLD Jobbers and Retailers of General Merchandise, 2204=3=5=7=9 South Adams Street, [*2.*] Peoria, Ill. 10/4 1911 To the honorable Theodor Rosevelt, Expresident of U. St. Oyster Bay. Dear and respected Sir : When in Vienna on your return trip from your African expedition, I thought best to show my respect to our honored Ex president and adressed to you a lengthy letter touching several political and economical subjects. To insure a speedy & sure delivery, I entrusted my letter to the head porter (Portier) of the Hotel on Karntner Strasse. To my sincere regrets I have never recieved an aknowledgement of my letter, and ever since I am in doubt if that gold-laced functionary had ever delivered my letter. At the reception given at our Embassy at Vienna to American residents I had the great pleasure to shake hands with you and your kind son Kermit.Jos. Szold & Son, SUCCESSORS TO EISLER & SZOLD Jobbers and Retailers of General Merchandise, 2204=3=5=7=9 South Adams Street, Peoria, Ill. Now, dear and honorable sir, would you have the good as to tell me if you have received my letter at Vienna, referred to above. To the honorable Theodor Rosevelt Yours, very Respectfully Joseph SzoldFRANK B. NOYES, Washington Star, PRESIDENT. R.M. JOHNSTON, Houston Post, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT. FRANK P. MACLENNAN, Topeka State Journal, SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT. MELVILLE E. STONE, GENERAL MANAGER. J.R. YOUATT, TREASURER. DIRECTORS. THOMAS G. RAPIER, NEW ORLEANS PICAYUNE. HERMAN RIDDER, NEW YORK STAATS ZEITUNG. VICTOR F. LAWSON, CHICAGO DAILY NEWS. ALBERT J. BARR, PITTSBURG POST. CLARK HOWELL, ATLANTA CONSITITUTION. CHARLES W. KNAPP, ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC. FRANK B. NOYES, WASHINGTON STAR. ADOLPH S. OCHS, NEW YORK TIMES. W. L. MCLEAN, PHILADELPHIA BULLETIN. CHARLES H. TAYLOR, BOSTON GLOBE. W. R. NELSON, KANSAS CITY STAR. V. S. MCCLATCHY, SACRAMENTO BEE. A. C. WEISS, DULUTH HERALD. CHARLES H. CLARK, HARTFORD COURANT. W. H. COWLES SPOKANE SPOKESMAN REVIEW. The Associated Press. EASTERN DIVISION, CHARLES T. THOMPSON, SUPERINTENDENT, 195 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY. October 4, 1911. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, New York City. My dear Sir: It comes to our notice that you are scheduled to deliver an address before the Civic Forum the evening of October 20th. We would appreciate the receipt from you of your remarks in advance to be handled to our papers in the customary manner. Yours very truly, Charles T. Thompson Superintendent, HM. [*Thompson]*][*[10-4-11]*] Beechmont New Rochelle Hon Theodore Roosevelt- Would petitions with several thousand signatures sent to the respected congressmen accomplish anything toward getting a Parcels Post, or could you tell us a better way to work for it - Would you help us with an allusion to it in this weeks Outlook Very sincerely. Oct 4, 1911 (Mrs. L.E.) Elizabeth B. Van Etten[*3*] Museum of fine Arts Boston. October 7 [*[1911]* Dear "Cousin Theodore" Lorraine writes that so far there have been no complications from Mrs. Roosevelt's fall and I do most sincerely hope that she will go on improving. It sounded like a nasty business. This is just to thank you for sending the pamphlet on protective coloration. Curiously enough, the first you sent has turned up in my Japanese library religiously filed by Tomita my clerk next to "color prints." As you know I have longbeen much interested in that theory and felt vaguely that there were holes in it. Now that you have cited chapter and verse on the other side it is even more interesting. I wish you would get hold of Mr. Mayer and talk it out with him. You would find him much more logical than his writing shows. He is a queer faun - like sort, very impatient of mental or physical restraints but no nature - faker to use your phrase. On the whole I don't know a truer sincere man. Next I want to hear him get eloquent on your pamphlet. With best wishes for Mrs. Roosevelt's quick recovery I am Yours Very Sincerely Langdon WardenThe State University of Iowa Iowa City Department of Greek and Archaeology [*14.*] October 4, 1911. Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir:– A foot-note to your review in the Outlook of July 29 has encouraged me, after some deliberation, to call to your attention a field in which a direct article by your trenchant pen will, I am sure, do much good. I refer to the lamentable decadence of the study of Greek in this generation. Far be it from me to desire the reestablishment of the old hard and fast requirement--- although, pedagogically, that had much to say for itself as against the coddling, snap-encouraging system of today. Nor do I deprecate in the least the establishment of trade schools and the like; let us have more of them. But I do deem it a misfortune that so few students who are intellectually and temperamentally capable of appreciating the best in literature and in life are going to the sources, the "magnificent Greek literature" for their foundation and inspiration. The silly and irrelevant notion that Greek is hard and not "practical" has been fostered not a little by teachers who have allowed the incubus of syntactical grind to be foisted on the literature--- indeed, almost to be substituted for it. This I believe very unwise, but it is a detail, though an important one. At present, Latin hasThe State University of Iowa Iowa City Department of Greek and Archaeology "the call," Though I fear in part through a manifest and vicious circle of reasoning. A little clear thinking is greatly needed. I venture to send you a slight brochure of my own on the subject, which you will perhaps deem worthy of your waste-basket. What a professional teacher of Greek can say does comparatively little good. I know that you are interested in these things, and believe that you can do much good in this way. I do not write this letter for publication, and I desire not to be mentioned in connection with the subject; but I do beg of you to take the matter into careful consideration. Very respectfully yours, C.H. Weller. CHW/BFACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES J. G. HART, SECRETARY 20 UNIVERSITY HALL HARVARD UNIVERSITY CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS October 4, 1911. Dear Bro. Roosevelt: Many thanks for your letter of October 2nd with its interesting information in regard to Archie and Kermit. I am forwarding to you by registered mail Archie's examination books in History and Civics, and also a copy of the examination papers, that you may see for yourself how the boy did. I am delighted to know that Kermit has been successful in New Brunswick, and I am sure that the Dean will agree with you in thinking that the extra time has been well spent. I am forwarding the second sheet of your letter for his information. It is very kind of you to ask me to spend a night at Oyster Bay when I am in your part of the world, and nothing would give me more pleasure, for among my pleasantest remembarances are the occasions when I had the pleasure of dining at the White House and lunching at Oyster Bay three years ago.I cannot understand why you should not have received a notice of the meetings of the Overseers. The first meeting was held on September 27th, and the next meeting will be Wednesday, October 11th. I am sending word to the Secretary of the Board, Winthrop H. Wade, that the mistake may be rectified at once. With kind regards, I remain, Sincerely yours, E. H. Wells Colonel Theodore Roosevelt[ca 10-4-11] Crowe Halifax Hotel Halifax Nova Scotia[*[attached to Crowe 10-4-11]*]Encl in O'Laughlin 10-17-11 10-4-11[*-10/4/11-*] NEBRASKANS LIKE TAFT'S DOCTRINES President's Speeches Make Favorable Impression on Voters of the State. VIEWS OF MANY CHANGED Farmers Divided as to Reciprocity, but Pleased with the Country's Prosperity. (BY A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.) Hastings, Neb., Oct. 3 -[Special.]- President Taft created a favorable impression throughout his journey across Nebraska, which came to an end last night. All day The Tribune correspondent has traveled in the wake of the presidential party, talking with the townspeople and farmers in the communities through which it passed and finding a preponderance of favorable comment upon Mr. Taft and his administration. The president talked tariff and reciprocity in his two principal speeches of the day at Lincoln and here, and he could not have selected any issues of his administration more interesting to the people of this state. As in Iowa and Kansas, the reception given the chief magistrate was wholly nonpartisan, the pleasure in honoring the man and his office being apparent among Democrats as well as Republicans, insurgents as well as standpatters. Taft Changes Many Opinions. It is difficult to determine accurately the political effect of the president's visit. But the interviewer today has been impressed particularly by the number of persons who have testified to a change of opinion as a result of hearing Mr. Taft present his side of the case. In Nebraska, as elsewhere, the majority of the business men say they approve of the Taft administration. But the hostility of the farmers to the president's policies, particularly reciprocity, is noticeable here, although apparently not so strong as in other insurgent states. In that part of the state through which the president passed there is also a prevalent belief that he ought to have signed the wool and cotton bills of the last session. This sentiment was reflected in the vote of Senator Brown and Congressmen Norris and Sloan for the Democratic wool bill. Congressman Kinkaid, from the wool growing northwest part of the state, voted against the Democratic bill, but later for the La Follette-Underwood compromise. Norris voted to pass the wool bill over the president's veto. Views Differ on Reciprocity. "I don't think reciprocity hurt Taft much around here," said one farmer. '[?] independent Republican [?] [?] ought to be reelected." A business man who was talking with the farmer said he would "not vote for Taft again unless he changes his policies." "President Taft made an extremely favorable impression here," said A. L. Clarke, president of the First National bank. "Of course there are some farmers around here who did not like reciprocity, but, on the whole, Taft is decidedly popular in this community." "There was not much enthusiasm for Taft but it was a cold, wet day," said William Brach, a clothing and dry goods dealer who peddled papers in Chicago forty-five years ago. "I have been against him ever since he wrote that letter to Theodore Shonts calling him unpatriotic for giving up the Panama canal job." Speech Wins Many Votes. The proprietor of a little bakery said he had been against Taft on account of his fail "I am for Taft and, according to [?] [?] with whom I have discussed the matter, he made many votes here yesterday," said C. E. Pratt, proprietor of a large plumbing establishment. "Taft made a good talk here," said another farmer. "I did not like reciprocity, but I don't know that it would have hurt us farmers much after all." In a group of a half a dozen farmers who were loading their automobiles with supplies from local stores the comment was varied. "I voted for Taft last time," said one. "Don't know whether I will again. Folks around here seem to speak light of him." "Taft is too much for helping out the millionaires," said another. "I'm for La Follette." Two Democrats said the president "made a fine impression" on the people, and one of them said he might vote for Taft if the Encl 10/5/11 Coweset 10/4/11Founded 1882. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Morning and evening editions Wednesday, October 4, 1911. Review and Outlook. Civilization and the Backward Peoples. Without passing upon the merits of the Italian intervention in Tripoli, Italy clearly rests her case largely upon the fact that she has protested in vain against insults and injury to her citizens and that the government of Turkey, whatever its intentions, is apparently unable to maintain order and fulfill its international obligations. Italy, perhaps too willingly, is ready to play in Tripoli the part of England in Egypt, of France in Algiers, of Russia in Central Asia -- the messenger of order and of modern civilization. This difficulty in character reveals one of the weak points in the present movement for international peace and the submission of every sort of difficulty to arbitration. Of what use would it have been to Italy to have submitted to a tribunal at The Hague the question of damage for the murder of her merchants or the outrage of one of her daughters, if Turkey showed no capacity to bring such outrages to an end? How can there be international peace when there is no power to keep local peace? In provinces like Tripoli at the present day the mechanism of modern civilization and orderly government seems not to be in effective operation. Turkey exercises only a precarious sovereignty and needs herself to be reconstructed according to modern conceptions of honesty and efficiency in government to maintain order even where her sovereignty is unquestioned. In spite of peace foundations and arbitration treaties nations must rise and fall in proportion to their economic force, which is closely allied with physical force. If universal arbitration meant the settlement of all difficulties by apologies and money indemnities it would mean the stereotyping of existing national boundaries. Who could arbitrate the right of Russia to extend order in Central Asia by putting down the Kirghiz tribes? Where would Western civilization have been to-day if Rome had been bound by arbitration treaties with Carthage, Numidia, Egypt, Persia, Parthia, Pergamon, Gaul, Syria and the other states of antiquity? Would King Mithridates have been bound by a treaty which required him to maintain and protect the rights of Roman traders in Pontus? The Mediterranean would hardly have been freed from pirates under a system of petty states of varying degrees of civilization. Could Horace have congratulated Augustus that under his benign rule civilization was safe from Parthian, German and Scythian, and that each man closed a day of peace in his native hills, training his vines to the widowed trees, returning home, light of heart, to quaff his wine and end the feast with blessings on the emperor, who had spread the pax Romana over the shores of the Mediterranean? Advocates of peace and arbitration will do good if they prevent needless quarrels, and they probably cannot do much harm; but they never need hope to subdue the titanic forces which make for the rise and fall of nations.[*ack 10-24-11*] F.B. Reynolds, President. H.B. Clark, ) Vice Prest's. C.C. Batchelder, Treasurer. E.N. Eames,) Boston Lumber Company, Wholesale Lumber Merchants, [*34*] 79 Milk St. Rooms 605-606-607. Telephone. Main 981 Boston, Mass. Oct. 5. 1911 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City, Dear sir, I trust that you will excuse the liberty I take in calling to your attention the article in the Engineering News of March 17, 1910, Vol. 63, #11 in regard to the original failure of the Austin Dam. It sums the situation up as follows" The water getting under the dam at a depth of 6 Ft. below the concrete base exerted a much greater upward pr pressure than was anticipated when the cross section was designed and reduced the factor of safety against sliding to an unsafe limit." According to the newspaper accounts of the engineers, nothing adequate was done to remedy this condition, and the loss of life was certainly due to criminal carelessness. There are large numbers of small dams all over the country, which if unsafe undanger many lives, and the only remedy is some kind of State or National Inspection. I hope that you will be able to comment on this matter in the "Outlook", as what you say on a subject like this will have more weight than anything that is likely to be done. I thought it possible that you might not have had your attention called to this article, otherwise I should not have trespassed on your time, as I understand from my friend, Indian Commissioner Valentine, that[*ack 10-24-11*] F.B. Reynolds, President. H.B. Clark, ) Vice Prest's. C.C. Batchelder, Treasurer. E.N. Eames,) Boston Lumber Company, Wholesale Lumber Merchants, [*34*] 79 Milk St. Rooms 605-606-607. Telephone. Main 981 Boston, Mass. Oct. 5. 1911 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City, Dear sir, I trust that you will excuse the liberty I take in calling to your attention the article in the Engineering News of March 17, 1910, Vol. 63, #11 in regard to the original failure of the Austin Dam. It sums the situation up as follows" The water getting under the dam at a depth of 6 Ft. below the concrete base exerted a much greater upward pr pressure than was anticipated when the cross section was designed and reduced the factor of safety against sliding to an unsafe limit." According to the newspaper accounts of the engineers, nothing adequate was done to remedy this condition, and the loss of life was certainly due to criminal carelessness. There are large numbers of small dams all over the country, which if unsafe undanger many lives, and the only remedy is some kind of State or National Inspection. I hope that you will be able to comment on this matter in the "Outlook", as what you say on a subject like this will have more weight than anything that is likely to be done. I thought it possible that you might not have had your attention called to this article, otherwise I should not have trespassed on your time, as I understand from my friend, Indian Commissioner Valentine, thatF.B. Reynolds, President. H.B. Clark, ) Vice Prest's. C.C. Batchelder, Treasurer. E.N. Eames,) Boston Lumber Company, Wholesale Lumber Merchants, 79 Milk St. Rooms 605-606-607. Telephone. Main 981 Boston, Mass. you are overburdened with correspondence. Yours very truly, Charles C. Batchelder[*oul 10-9-11*] "THE TUB" 132 STATE STREET, Headquarters of NEWSPAPER MEN. GARRETT J. BENSON, PROPRIETOR. New York Herald, " " Sun, " " Tribune, " " World, " " Times, " " Press, " " Eve. World, " " Mail & Express, " " Eve. Post, " " Staatz Zeitung, " " Eve. Telegram, " " Telegram, Buffalo Inquirer, " News, " Express, " Times, Brooklyn Eagle " Standard Union, " Times, Rochester Post Express, " Times, Syracuse Standard, " Herald, Boston Herald, London Times, United Press, Publishers Press, Laffen Bureau, ALBANY, N. Y. Oct. 5, 1911. [*9*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. My Dear Colonel: Inclosed please find clippings from the Press Knickerbocker which will explain themselves. The Probe Committee commences here to-morrow and from what little gossip I can gather it seems to me that before they are through there will be some sensations and interesting disclosures of how things are done here in Albany. The new Editor of the Press Knickerbocker now is Robert Fuller who probably you know. Formerly he was Correspondent of the New York Herald and afterwards Secretary for Governor Hughs. If there is any service that I can be to you up here please let me know. With best wishes, I remain, Yours respectfully, Garrett J. Benson32 Liberty Street New York October 5, 1911 My dear Mr. Roosevelt: In view of your attitude in regard to international arbitration, you may be interested in the enclosed article which I wrote for the Wall Street Journal. I do not know whether I am in accord with your attitude in regard to the treaties, because I do not think they can do much harm, but I think upon the fundamental issue, we are in accord. Yours very sincerely, Charles A. Conant. The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, The "Outlook," New York City.Encl dated Oct. 4, 1911Louisville, Ky Oct - 5-1911 Ex. President Theodore Roosevelt. Sagamore Hill, N.Y. Dear Colonel: I thought I would drop you a few lines this evening to let you know you are the only man for our redemption. There is no other man outside of you, to my positive knowledge. If everything points in other states as does in Kentucky, please accept the nomination and save the country from a great disaster which I know is coming. Yours truly, G.W. Coons, 1608 Millwood Ave.THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE (B 1506) OF YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS Lucien C. Warner, Chairman Alfred E. Marling, Vice-Chairman William D. Murray, Vice-Chairman Frederick B. Schenck, Treasurer Richard C. Morse, General Secretary C. J. Hicks, Associate General Secretary Student Department Committee Cleveland H. Dodge, Chairman William M. Birks William F. McDowell Charles W. McAlpin William D. Murray J. Ross Stevenson John R. Mott, Senior Secretary E. C. Carter, Executive Secretary Advisory Committee on Bible Courses Prof. Frank D. Adams, D.Sc., Ph.D. Prof. Edward I. Bosworth, A.M., D.D. Prof. O. E. Brown, D.D. Prof. Martin G. Brumbaugh, A.M., Ph.D. Prof. Ernest DeWitt Burton, D.D. Pres. Robert A. Falconer, Litt.D. Pres. W. H. P. Faunce, A.M., D.D., LL.D. Prof. Henry T. Fowler, Ph.D. Dean George Hodges, D.D., D.C.L. Prof. M. W. Jacobus, D.D. Prof. Jeremiah W. Jenks, A.M., Ph.D. Rev. Howard Agnew Johnston, D.D. Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, D.D. Prin. John Meigs, Ph.D. Prof. Edward C. Moore, Ph.D., D.D. Prof. W. W. Moore, D.D., LL.D. Rev. Henry Mottet, D.D. Pres. Francis L. Patton, D.D., LL.D. Prof. Robert W. Rogers, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.G.S. Pres. Frank K. Sanders, Ph.D., D.D. Pres. Augustus H. Strong, D.D., LL.D. Pres. W. W. White, Ph.D. Prof. Henry B. Wright, Ph.D. Student Department Bible Study 124 East Twenty-eighth Street, New York Secretaries for Bible Study Clayton Sedgwick Cooper, Secretary Neil McMillan, Jr., Associate Secretary Harrison S. Elliott, Associate Secretary [*A2*] October 5, 1911. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. Dear Sir: I am asking fifty of the leading businesses and public men of our country to kindly give their personal attention to the enclosed three questions concerning the college graduate and his relation to business life. Some of the answers received will be used in a series of articles upon "The American Undergraduate" which I am preparing at the request of The Century Magazine. I shall not quote any names, however, unless I ask special permission to do so. May I ask you to give me your very frank opinion concerning the kind of man which our colleges should turn out to meet the needs of modern business. I shall deeply appreciate your favor. Yours very truly, Clayton S. Cooper [*[Cooper]*] CSC/M.University of Washington Seattle Spokane, Wash. 10/5/11. [*10*] Mr. T. Roosevelt, Oyster Bay. N.Y. Dear Sir: -- For a number of years I have intended to ask this favor of you, but have delayed to do so, owing to the fact that I am a stranger to you and your house hold. I should prize a picture of Kermit, very much if you have one of him at the age when this picture was taken. I am a great lover of boys and his face in this particular appeals to me very much. I am intending to go to Europe next summer and I may get to see him on my tour. Thanking you for a reply and trusting that I may secure one like the enclosed picture. I Remain. Prof. F.C. Copp, % Saylor School Spokane, Wash. P.S - Copp's Hill and Burial Ground of Boston is historicaly ground of my ancestry.[*[croly]*] Post Office Windsor Vermont Cornish New Hampshire [*4*] Oct. 5th 1911 My dear Mr. Roosevelt: The most important part of the late Senator Hanna's public life from 1901 to his death concerns his relation to you, and in attempting to discuss these relations I am never sure that I am getting correct your side of the story. Could you give me an interview during an approaching visit to New York, whichwould enable me to put certain questions to you. Of course I understand that you may prefer not to talk about this matter [a] at all. Will you please let me know whether you care to say any thing and whether you will give me this appointment. I shall be in New York from Thursday the 13th of October until about the 20th & will keep any appointment you may make. Sincerely yours Herbert Croly Honorary President Andrew Carnegie, LL.D. President Alexander Cumming, LL.B. A.M., Ph.D. Secretary Almeron W. Smith, A.M. Treasurer Henry Clews, Ph.D., LL.D. UNIVERSITY FORUM Practical Lectures by Men of Action Office of the President 557 West 134th Street, New York, U.S.A. Phone Morningside 5780 Thursday, Oct. 5, 1911 President Theodore Roosevelt, LL.D., New York City. My dear President Roosevelt: The Western Club of Columbia University, composed of the students from west of the Mississippi River, will hold their opening Reception and Annual Meeting at 8 P.M. on Friday, October 6th, in the large hall of Earl Hall, 116th Street and Broadway. About one-half of those present will be young ladies. The evening will be entirely informal, and will be characteristically Western in sociability. The first part of the evening will be taken up with introductions and getting acquainted. We would be please if you and your wife would be the guests of the evening, and if you will consent to speak for us at 8:30 for about 20 minutes. You can choose your own subject and method of treatment. You will certainly secure the interested attention of the young people present. Kindly let me know at once whether you can come, so that the plans for the evening can be completed as soon as possible. Awaiting your pleasure, believe me, with highest regard and esteem, Most sincerely yours, Alexander Cumming P.S. If you will have several copies of your address made, I shall see that it gets all possible publicity. A.C. (see other side.) Honorary President Andrew Carnegie, L.L.D. President Alexander Cumming, L.L.B., A.M., Ph.D. Secretary Almeron W. Smith, A.M. Treasurer Henry Clews, Ph.D., L.L.D. UNIVERSITY FORUM PRACTICAL LECTURES BY MEN OF ACTION ---------------- Office of the President 557 West 124th Street, New York, U. S. A. Phone Morningside 5780 UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE EDWIN A. ALDERMAN, D.C.L., LL.D. VIRGINIA FRANK ALLEN, A.M., PH.D., F.R.S.C MANITOBA JAMES B. ANGELL, LL.D. MICHIGAN SAMUEL AVERY, PH.D., LL.D. NEBRASKA JAMES H. BAKER, A.M., LL.D. COLORADO RT. HON. LORD BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH, LL.D., K.T. ST. ANDREWS HILL MCCLELLAND BELL, A.M., LL.D. DRAKE GUY POTTER BENTON, A.M., D.D., LL.D. VERMONT GEORGE FINLEY BOVARD, A.M., D.D., LL.D. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SAMUEL PALMER BROOKS, A.M., LL.D. BAYLOR HENRY B. BROWN, A.M. VALPARAISO ELMER BURRITT BRYAN, LL.D. COLGATE ENOCH A. BRYAN, A.M., LL.D. STATE COLLEGE OF WASHINGTON M. L. BURTON, B.D., PH.D., D.D., LL.D. SMITH PRINCE LUCIAN CAMPBELL, A.B. OREGON EDWIN BOONE CRAIGHEAD, A.M., D.C.L., LL.D. TULANE EDWIN GRANT DEXTER, A.M., PH.D. PORTO RICO SIR JAMES DONALDSON, A.M., LL.D. ST. ANDREWS WALTER T. DUNMORE, A.M., LL.B. WESTERN RESERVE HOWARD EDWARDS, A.M., LL.D. RHODE ISLAND STATE COLLEGE ALSTON ELLIS, PH.D., LL.D. OHIO ROBERT ALEXANDER FALCONER, A.M., LITT.D., LL.D. TORONTO HENRY J. FORD, A.B. PRINCETON HARRY AUGUSTUS GARFIELD, LL.D. WILLIAMS FRANK W. GUNSAULUS, A.M., D.D., LL.D. ARMOUR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ARTHUR TWINING HADLEY, PH.D., LL.D. YALE ALLEN G. HALL, LL.B., LL.D. VANDERBILT ARTHUR ARTON HAMERSCHLAG, SC.D. CARNEGIE TECHNICAL SCHOOLS FREDERICK WILLIAM HAMILTON, A.M., D.D., LL.D. TUFTS OLIVER A. HARKER, A.M., LL.D. ILLINOIS WILLIAM G. HASTINGS, A. B. NEBRASKA ALBERT ROSS HILL, PH.D., LL.D. MISSOURI SIR ALFRED HOPKINSON, A.M., B.C.L., LL.D., K.C. MANCHESTER HARRY B. HUTCHINS, LL.D. MICHIGAN JEREMIAH W. JENKS, PH.D., LL.D. CORNELL FRANK BYRON JEVONS, A.M., LITT.D., F.R.E.S. DURHAM DAVID STARR JORDAN, M.S., M.D., PH.D., LL.D. LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR GEORGE W. KIRCHWEY, LL.D. COLUMBIA VERY REV. GEORGE WILLIAM KITCHIN, D.D., F.S.A. DURHAM JOHN D. LAWSON, LL.B., LL.D. MISSOURI WILLIAM DRAPER LEWIS, LL.B., PH.D. PENNSYLVANIA FLAVEL S. LUTHER, A.M., PH.D., LL.D. TRINITY RICHARD C. MACLAURIN, A.M., SC.D., LL.D. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FRANCIS J. McCONNELL, S.T.B., PH.D., D.D., LL.D. DE PAUW FRANK L. McVEY, PH.D., LL.D. NORTH DAKOTA RT. HON. DODGSON HAMILTON MADDEN, A.M., LL.D. DUBLIN KENNETH GORDON MATHESON, A.M., LL.D. GEORGIA SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY JOHN MILTON PUTNAM METCALF, A.M., D.D. TALLADEGA JOHN GRANT NEWMAN, A.M., D.D. WESTERN COLLEGE FOR WOMEN ERNEST FOX NICHOLS, Sc.D., LL.D. DARTMOUTH JAMES K. PATTERSON, PH.D., LL.D., F.S.A., F.R.HIST.B. KENTUCKY ELLEN FITZ PENDLETON, A.M. WELLESLEY WILLIAM PETERSON, A.M., LL.D., C.M.G. MC GILL RT. HON. SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, A.A., D.C.L., LL.D. OXFORD THOMAS ERNEST RANKIN, A.M. MICHIGAN RT. HON. LORD RAYLEIGH, Sc.D., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., P.C. CAMBRIDGE HARRY S. RICHARDS, LL.D. WISCONSIN WILLIAM PAYSON RICHARDSON, LL.D. ST. LAWRENCE CHARLES ALEXANDER RICHMOND, A.M., D.D., LL.D. UNION WILLIAM ARNOLD SHANKLIN, A.M., D.D., L.M.D., LL.D. WESLEYAN ANDREW SLEDD, PH.D., D.D., LL.D. SOUTHERN ALBERT EDWIN SMITH, PH.D., D.D. OHIO NORTHERN EDGAR F. SMITH, Sc.D., PH.D., LL.D. PENNSYLVANIA FREDERICK STARR, Sc.D., PH.D. CHICAGO WINTHROP ELLSWORTH STONE, B.S., PH.D., LL.D. PURDUE EDWARD ROBESON TAYLOR, M.D. CALIFORNIA JAMES MONROE TAYLOR, A.B., D.D., LL.D. VASSAR EZRA RIPLEY THAYER, A.M., LL.B. HARVARD CHARLES F. THWING, S.T.D., LL.D. WESTERN RESERVE JOHN N. TILLMAN, LL.D. ARKANSAS SIR WILLIAM TURNER, Sc.D., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., K.C.B. EDINBURGH FRANCIS P. VENABLE, PH.D., Sc.D., LL.D. NORTH CAROLINA GEORGE M. WARD, A.M., D.D., LL.D. WELLS HERBERT WELCH, A.M., D.D., LL.D. OHIO WESLEYAN MARY E. WOOLLEY, A.M., LITT.D., L.M.D., LL.D. MT. HOLYOKE ADVISORY COMMITTEE HON. NELSON W. ALDRICH, LL.D. LEWIS WILLIAM ARMSTRONG, A.B. HON. GEORGE E. BARSTOW, A.B. HON. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, A.M., LL.B. HON. JOSEPH H. CHOATE, LL.D., D.C.L. SENATOR ALBERT B. CUMMINS, LL.D. BARON D'ESTOURNELLES DE CONSTANT, LL.D. HON. ANDREW S. DRAPER, LL.D. PHANOR J. EDER, A.B., LL.B. HON. ELBERT H. GARY, LL.D. HON. JOHN HAYS HAMMOND, D.E., LL.D. HAMILTON HOLT, A.B. REV. CHARLES E. JEFFERSON, S.T.B., D.D., LL.D. REV. J. H. JOWETT, A.M., D.D. AMBASSADOR JEAN JULE JUSSERAND, LITT.D. HON. DARWIN P. KINGSLEY, A.M., LL.D. GEORGE F. KUNZ, SC.D., PH.D. SENATOR ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE, LL.D. HON. ST. CLAIR MCKELWAY, D.C.L., L.M.D., LL.D. ARTHUR R. MARSH, A.B. WILLIAM H. MAXWELL, PH.D., LL.D. HON. LESLIE M. SHAW, LL.D. MELVILLE E. STONE, LL.D. COUNT JOHANN H. VON BERNSTORFF, LL.D. HON. CHARLES D. WALCOTT, LL.D. ROBERT S. WOODWARD, Sc.D., PH.D., LL.D. REV. EDGAR WHITAKER WORK, D.D. (SEE OTHER SIDE)Honorary President Andrew Carnegie, LL.D. President Alexander Cumming, LL.B., A.M., Ph.D. Secretary Almeron W. Smith, A.M. Treasurer Henry Clews, Ph.D., LL.D. UNIVERSITY FORUM PRACTICAL LECTURES BY MEN OF ACTION ---------------- Office of the President 557 West 124th Street, New York, U.S.A. Phone Morningside 5780 UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE EDWIN A. ALDERMAN, D.C.L., LL.D. VIRGINIA FRANK ALLEN, A.M., PH.D., F.R.S.C MANITOBA JAMES B. ANGELL, LL.D. MICHIGAN SAMUEL AVERY, PH.D., LL.D. NEBRASKA JAMES H. BAKER, A.M., LL.D. COLORADO RT. HON. LORD BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH, LL.D., K.T. ST. ANDREWS HILL MCCLELLAND BELL, A.M., LL.D. DRAKE GUY POTTER BENTON, A.M., D.D., LL.D. VERMONT GEORGE FINLEY BOVARD, A.M., D.D., LL.D. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SAMUEL PALMER BROOKS, A.M., LL.D. BAYLOR HENRY B. BROWN, A.M. VALPARAISO ELMER BURRITT BRYAN, LL.D. COLGATE ENOCH A. BRYAN, A.M., LL.D. STATE COLLEGE OF WASHINGTON M. L. BURTON, B.D., PH.D., D.D., LL.D. SMITH PRINCE LUCIAN CAMPBELL, A.B. OREGON EDWIN BOONE CRAIGHEAD, A.M., D.C.L., LL.D. TULANE EDWIN GRANT DEXTER, A.M., PH.D. PORTO RICO SIR JAMES DONALDSON, A.M., LL.D. ST. ANDREWS WALTER T. DUNMORE, A.M., LL.B. WESTERN RESERVE HOWARD EDWARDS, A.M., LL.D. RHODE ISLAND STATE COLLEGE ALSTON ELLIS, PH.D., LL.D. OHIO ROBERT ALEXANDER FALCONER, A.M., LITT.D., LL.D. TORONTO HENRY J. FORD, A.B. PRINCETON HARRY AUGUSTUS GARFIELD, LL.D. WILLIAMS FRANK W. GUNSAULUS, A.M., D.D., LL.D. ARMOUR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ARTHUR TWINING HADLEY, PH.D., LL.D. YALE ALLEN G. HALL, LL.B., LL.D. VANDERBILT ARTHUR ARTON HAMERSCHLAG, SC.D. CARNEGIE TECHNICAL SCHOOLS FREDERICK WILLIAM HAMILTON, A.M., D.D., LL.D. TUFTS OLIVER A. HARKER, A.M., LL.D. ILLINOIS WILLIAM G. HASTINGS, A.B. NEBRASKA ALBERT ROSS HILL, PH.D., LL.D. MISSOURI SIR ALFRED HOPKINSON, A.M., B.C.L., LL.D., K.C. MANCHESTER HARRY B. HUTCHINS, LL.D. MICHIGAN JEREMIAH W. JENKS, PH.D., LL.D. CORNELL FRANK BYRON JEVONS, A.M., LITT.D., F.R.E.S. DURHAM DAVID STARR JORDAN, M.S., M.D., PH.D., LL.D. LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR GEORGE W. KIRCHWEY, LL.D. COLUMBIA VERY REV. GEORGE WILLIAM KITCHIN, D.D., F.S.A. DURHAM JOHN D. LAWSON, LL.B., LL.D. MISSOURI WILLIAM DRAPER LEWIS, LL.B., PH.D. PENNSYLVANIA FLAVEL S. LUTHER, A.M., PH.D., LL.D. TRINITY RICHARD C. MACLAURIN, A.M., SC.D., LL.D. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FRANCIS J. McCONNELL, S.T.B., PH.D., D.D., LL.D. DE PAUW FRANK L. McVEY, PH.D., LL.D. NORTH DAKOTA RT. HON. DODGSON HAMILTON MADDEN, A.M., LL.D. DUBLIN KENNETH GORDON MATHESON, A.M., LL.D. GEORGIA SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY JOHN MILTON PUTNAM METCALF, A.M., D.D. TALLADEGA JOHN GRANT NEWMAN, A.M., D.D. WESTERN COLLEGE FOR WOMEN ERNEST FOX NICHOLS, SC.D., LL.D. DARTMOUTH JAMES K. PATTERSON, PH.D., LL.D., F.R.HIST.B. KENTUCKY ELLEN FITZ PENDLETON, A.M. WELLESLEY WILLIAM PETERSON, A.M., LL.D., C.M.G. MC GILL RT. HON. SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, A.A., D.C.L., LL.D. OXFORD THOMAS ERNEST RANKIN, A.M. MICHIGAN RT. HON. LORD RAYLEIGH, Sc.D., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., P.C. CAMBRIDGE HARRY S. RICHARDS, LL.D. WISCONSIN WILLIAM PAYSON RICHARDSON, LL.D. ST. LAWRENCE CHARLES ALEXANDER RICHMOND, A.M., D.D., LL.D. UNION WILLIAM ARNOLD SHANKLIN, A.M., D.D., L.H.D., LL.D. WESLEYAN ANDREW SLEDD, PH.D., D.D., LL.D. SOUTHERN ALBERT EDWIN SMITH, PH.D., D.D. OHIO NORTHERN EDGAR F. SMITH, Sc.D., PH.D., LL.D. PENNSYLVANIA FREDERICK STARR, Sc.D., PH.D. CHICAGO WINTHROP ELLSWORTH STONE, B.S., PH.D., LL.D. PURDUE EDWARD ROBESON TAYLOR, M.D. CALIFORNIA JAMES MONROE TAYLOR, A.B., D.D., LL.D. VASSAR EZRA RIPLEY THAYER, A.M., LL.B. HARVARD CHARLES F. THWING, S.T.D., LL.D. WESTERN RESERVE JOHN N. TILLMAN, LL.D. ARKANSAS SIR WILLIAM TURNER, Sc.D., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., K.C.S. EDINBURGH FRANCIS P. VENABLE, PH.D., Sc.D., LL.D. NORTH CAROLINA GEORGE M. WARD, A.M., D.D., LL.D. WELLS HERBERT WELCH, A.M., D.D., LL.D. OHIO WESLEYAN MARY E. WOOLLEY, A.M., LITT.D., L.H.D., LL.D. MT. HOLYOKE ADVISORY COMMITTEE HON. NELSON W. ALDRICH, LL.D. LEWIS WILLIAM ARMSTRONG, A.B. HON. GEORGE E. BARSTOW, A.B. HON. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, A.M., LL.B. HON. JOSEPH H. CHOATE, LL.D., D.C.L. SENATOR ALBERT B. CUMMINS, LL.D. BARON D'ESTOURNELLES DE CONSTANT, LL.D. HON. ANDREW S. DRAPER, LL.D. PHANOR J. EDER, A.B., LL.B. HON. ELBERT H. GARY, LL.D. HON. JOHN HAYS HAMMOND, D.E., LL.D. HAMILTON HOLT, A.B. REV. CHARLES E. JEFFERSON, S.T.B., D.D., LL.D. REV. J. H. JOWETT, A.M., D.D. AMBASSADOR JEAN JULE JUSSERAND, LITT.D. HON. DARWIN P. KINGSLEY, A.M., LL.D. GEORGE F. KUNZ, SC.D., PH.D. SENATOR ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE, LL.D. HON. ST. CLAIR MCKELWAY, D.C.L., L.M.D., LL.D. ARTHUR R. MARSH, A.B. WILLIAM H. MAXWELL, PH.D., LL.D. HON. LESLIE M. SHAW, LL.D. MELVILLE E. STONE, LL.D. COUNT JOHANN H. VON BERNSTORFF, LL.D. HON. CHARLES D. WALCOTT, LL.D. ROBERT S. WOODWARD, Sc.D., PH.D., LL.D. REV. EDGAR WHITAKER WORK, D.D. (SEE OTHER SIDE)Replying to ___________ Date of _______________ United States Postoffice West Grove, Pa. Wm. T. Dantz, Postmaster M.R. McCommon, Asst. [*3*] October 5 - 1911 Hon Theodore Roosevelt. My dear friend - Please accept assurances of my heartfelt gratitude that Mrs Roosevelt's recent injury was no worse, Altho' it has been many years since we have met her gentle and kindly consideration for our little family has not, nor ever will be forgotten. Mrs Dantz who has now been dead more than three years was ever one of her warmest admirers and champions. My two boys whom am trying to raise to be useful, self-respecting men are no less loyal to you and yours. "Teddy Roosevelt" now in his fourteenth year is in grammar school. He is a bright manly boy and keeps close to me for I am very lonely since their dear mother's death. Assuring you of my warmest regard and earnest support wherever you may be I am, Faithfully your friend, Wm. T Dantz. Honorary Members THEODORE ROOSEVELT WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT JAMES R. CLARKSON JULIUS FLEISCHMANN JULIUS M. MAYER WM. LOEB JR. JOHN HAYS HAMMOND WILLIAM N. COHEN Hungarian Republican Club of the City of New York (Incorporated) 108 WEST 116TH STREET Telephone Morningside 3312 Cable Address: "Hungaricus Newyork" OFFICERS Marcus Braun, Pres. Bernhard Hirsch, 1st Vice-Pres. Louis S. Bruenn, 2nd Vice-Pres. Sigmund Neustadt, Rec.-Sec'y. Gustave Hartman, Cor.-Secy. Edward Kohn, Fin.-Sec'y William Farkas, Treasurer Edmund Loeffler, Sgt.-at-Arms. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Wm. Blau, Chairman Maurice Fischer Harry Kopp Joseph Horvith Dr. F. L. Marshall Jules Roth Louis Suess New York, October 5th, 1911 Col. Theodore Roosevelt "Outlook: Office New York City Dear Sir! In accordance with the wishes of a majority of our members out club has moved uptown and we are going to celebrate this important change by a housewarming to be held on the 20th and 21st of this month. As you, the Clubs favored honorary member, who has been identified with us for many years and to whom we have always look for inspiration, have always shown us warm, personal interest, we are encouraged to hope that you will call here for Luncheon on one of the days aforementioned. Your pleasure as to the above is respectfully solicited Yours most sincerely Ernest J. Euphrat Sec'y Housewarming Committee[*[Fielding]*] Los Angeles Calif. Oct - 5 -1911. [*7*] Dear Mrs. Rosevilt Please pardon the liberty I take in addressing you. Enclosed find a letter from Mr. Magee which I wish kept confiditial sending to you & Mr. Rosevilt. Last Dec. I was visiting a lady who had a Jap student in her house his father is a political man in Tokio. he sent him to U.S. to learn & they get in houses here - & learn the ways they work for a little & go to school - This young man I don't see now - But while I was visiting he told us - that Japan could take Los A in 1/2 hour he told us this in Dec. he said that Russia would help Japan takes Manchuria in - 2 years & be successful & he said all the little islands around was laid with mines = & he drew the map of Japan. I can give more details if you wish to know more. and the Box I wish to send is a small paper box cost 25c by express. it has the photo of the young man - and other things on paper that should overonly fall into the hands of the war dept or Anthony Comstock = I have sent data & clippings that the young Jap clipped out of papers all the spring alluding to [the] Mexico & Southern California he certainly was a spy, and this city is honeycomed with young Japs - all means a soldier he said they are not afraid to be killed as they believe that their spirit enters another Jap soldier I helped him with his essay on the morals of the Japs and immunity of the American schools But if you would see what was found under his mattress after he left = showing what the Japs are doing bringing literature to this Country = I sent to the war dept. 3 mo ago a postal card a Jap postal card showing the ships of the Jap navy & how they ply on American side the Postal Card was made in France = they young man[*2*] said that they were going to get Coaling stations in Alaska or UC. BC. he has been on all the ships & the last I knew he wanted to get to Washington D.C. if they could have gotten him in D.C. they could have got some information All these Jap boys must work their way they are not sent any money - I have his name & address & if the war dept. or Mr R. can use any of this data will send it to you = I was going to send the Box to Miss Boardman But I think they would not do any thing with the information - I was going to tell Mrs LaFollette or Mr La Follette But they are too busy - Mr LaFollette is fromWisconsin & knew my Father well. Pa said he was the comming man I have been from Washington 1 1/2 years lived there 12 years raised in Wisconsin. When I was in D.C. I heard a lady say her husband worked at the Navy Yards & Japs was taking drawings & he stoped them this is 3 years ago - Thanking you - I remain Respectfully Miss, E.R. Fielding 1011 Miguell Ct Los A. Mr. & Mrs La Follette " " Senator Stephenson will voch for meas I said before - they said they would take Manchurea in two years & be successful did you notice how vexed they were when America secured China money to build R.R. they wanted to get a pull there If you will allow me I will send the box and if Mr Roosevelt should come here as I see he is going to he can have detectives look this up - I didn't give it to any one here as every thing gets into the paper - the Japs are silent they are not telling anythingDo you remember me writing to you + Mr R. and telling you that Mr R would be President + not to worry Mr. Hal Cooper also knows us + our family I have no ax to grind only to let some one have this that I have GatheredMatinecock Lodge, No. 806. F. & A. M. Oyster Bay, L.I. [*1.*] October 5th 1911 [189] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Dear Sir and Brother- At a regular communication of Matinecock Lodge No 806 F. & A. M. held in the Lodge room October 4 inst the Secretary was requested to convey to you the sympathy of the Lodge for Mrs. Roosevelt in the recent accident sustained by her in being thrown from her horse and the earnest hop of her speedy recovery to accustomed health. Fraternally yours, Walter Franklin Secretary[*H*] Washington, D.C. 140 Seaton Pl.N.W. Oct. 5th- 1911. Ex-Pres. Theodore Roosevelt,- Oyster Bay, NY. My Dear & Hon. Sir:- May I be allowed to express to you my sincere sorrer on learning of the unfortunate accident that Mrs. Roosevelt met with in being thrown from her horse? I hope by this time she has nearly if not entirely recovered. I trust you will not regard it as out of place in me, an humble citi man, to say that you are very much needed at the head of affairs in our Nation at this time. It is becoming notorious that there is much graft and corruption in some of the Departments of the Government here, and very many people are earnestly hoping that you will allow yourself to be nominated at the next Republican Convention. It goes without saying that if nominated your certain election would follow. And it is reasonably certain that you are the only man now that could bring harmony and be elected president. As ever Most respectfully & truly yours, A.W. Graves. Form 1 [* Cable Cable Cable Cable*] THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following Day Letter. Errors can be guarded against only be repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of toll paid thereon, nor in any case beyond the sum of Fifty Dollars, at which, unless otherwise stated below, this message has been valued by the sender thereof, nore in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. ROBERT C. CLOWRY, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER NUMBER SENT BY REC'D BY CHECK 1 Ny Dr 7 Cable RECEIVED AT [*[1911]*] DATED Garschow 10/5-[*[11]*] To Roosevelt Oyster Bay LI Very sorry for accident Heenan[*11*] New York Athletic Club Central Park South New York Oct. 5/11 Hon. Theo. Roosevelt Dear Sir Will you kindly oblige me with two seats for your Carnegie hall address. Ihave not had the pleasure of hearing you speak and would appreciate this favor Thanking you in advance believe me to be Cordially yours Washington Irving[*3.*] J Washington, D.C. Oct. 5th, 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Sir: I take the privilege of addressing you to express my heartfelt simpathy for Mrs. Roosevelt. Hope she will soon recover from injuries, and be well and strong again. I am Sir: Your obedient Servant. J. S. Jamison 141 E St. S.E.October 5 - 1911 [*35.*] My dear Sir Is it asking too great a favor to request a copy of your book-plate? I would esteem it a great honor to possess this, and I trust you may therefore feel inclined to comply with my request. I also enclose my own plate, by way of exchange, which, while it does not possess any remarkable degree of merit, may at the same time prove of interest in that the design is original with the owner. Very truly yours, D. Allen Knight 1129 Mt. Vernon St Philada, Pa. To Col. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay L. I.Emile Kuntz [710 COMMON STREET] INVESTMENTS MORTGAGES PHONE MAIN 393 UPTOWN 1124-L [*4.*] NEW ORLEANS, LA., October 5th, 1911 Hon.Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. My dear Mr. Roosevelt:- It was with much regret that I read of the accident which has befallen Mrs. Roosevelt. I earnestly hope and pray that the results therefrom will not be serious and that an early recovery is expected. I had the honor in 1904 to be a member of the Notification Committee which notified you of your nomination for President. That visit to Oyster Bay will always be one of my most pleasant rememberences. I hope when this letter reaches you that Mrs. Roosevelt will be on the road to a speedy recovery from her accident. With best wishes for your good health and success, I am, Sincerely yours, Emile Kuntz. 331 Carondelet St. (new office)CHARLES ROOME PARMELE 54 & 55 SOUTH STREET, NEW YORK October 5, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. My dear Mr. Roosevelt:– In response to my letter of September 27th, I have received a letter from your secretary, Mr. Frank Harper, dated September 30th, stating that you will be able to see me for one minute on Friday, October 6th, at the office of The Outlook. I can talk about as fast as any man on earth, and I am sure that you can listen as attentively as any one that I know. I asked for five minutes and your secretary gives me one. It will be a waste of my own time and also of your own, for me to keep any such appointment. If you can give me a few minutes, I will call. If you cannot, then I will of course with great regret let the matter drop. Matters representing hundreds of millions of dollars, cannot possibly be covered in sixty seconds. If this whole subject is one so indifferent as to only entitle it to sixty seconds, then I can only regret that I have pinned a large portion of my faith to a situation which must in advance be concluded as "Love's Labor Lost". If you are willing to see me and hear what I have to say, and will give me five minutes to say it, I will with great pleasure call. It is for you to decide and I ask for your valued reply. Yours very truly Chas Roome Parmele P. S. Nothing can possibly be more completely discouraging than for a man to try and do something for his fellow men and then be shoved off to so small an end of the plank as to make it almost impossible for him to maintain his balance[*[Peabody]*] GROTON SCHOOL GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS Oct. 5, 1911. My dear Theodore : – I am extremely sorry to hear that Mrs. Roosevelt was injured the other day while riding. Quentin tells me that the accident was not very severe and I do hope that there will be no serious after effects and that Mrs. Roosevelt will soon be about again. Yesterday, Quentin went again to the chiropodist. Mr. Cross, the physical director, accompanied him and other boys who were going to consult different specialists. Mr. Cross tells me that Dr. Armstrong's place was not particularly clean and that Dr. Armstrong told him that he was not pursuing the same course that your New York man proposed to him. Mr. Cross says that as a matter of fact, the chiropodist simply washed the cavity from which the wart had been extracted with peroxide and hot water, and then told Quentin to come again on Saturday. The boy may of course go if you think it well; but I should count Dr. Cowles a much safer person to deal with this kind of thing inasmuch as his methods are absolutely clean and aseptic. But it shall be just as you say. Mr. Gladwin tells me of a man who is quite remarkable in removing warts. Gladwin has been to him and has been cured, and two or three other patients whom he has recommended have met with entirely successful treatment. Gladwin's man is the person whom I should myself consult if I went beyond theGROTON SCHOOL GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS ordinary doctor; but I am perfectly willing to leave the matter in your hands to decide. With kindest regards to Mrs. Roosevelt, I am Sincerely yours, Endicott Peabodyhave always taken in the making of citizens. We believe your coming into our midst could be most inspiring and encouraging to us. Your address to us formal or extemporary on a special topic, or on a general subject would be most welcome and long remembered. I feel, personally, as if I were a neighbor of yours, now entering upon my fifteenth year's service as Principal of P.S. 5, Borough of Queens. When we, in Queens, were in rather dire straits after consolidation [*D*] New York Schoolmasters Club MATHEW D. QUINN Chairman of Reception Committee 101 East 92d St., City of New York October 5, 1911 Col. Theodore Roosevelt Ex-President of the United States Sagamore Hill Oyster Bay N.Y. Dear Col. Roosevelt: I am commissioned by the New York Schoolmasters Club to tender you a most cordial invitation to be the Club's guest of honor at dinner, and to make an address on a subject ofof Superintendent, Principals, Directors and Professors in and about the City of New York. Among our guests have been Dr. Eliot, Dr. Wilson, Justice Hughes, Dr. McCracken, Dr. Finley, Dr. Adler, Prof. Schumacher of the University of Bonn and many others distinguished in Education, literature, law, science, and Theology. We should feel most highly honored by your acceptance of our invitation. We are well aware of the very great interest you your own choice at the Hotel St. Denis, Manhattan, on the evening of Saturday November 11, or on the evening of Saturday December 9, 1911, as might better suit your convenience. Our Club is an organization of twenty-one years standing. Its first president was Dr. Seth Low. Its constitution was draughted by Dr. N.M. Butler. We have a membership of one hundred seventy-five, composed New York Schoolmasters Club MATHEW D. QUINN Chairman of Reception Committee 101 East 92d St., City of New York You may remember Mr. Clark of Flushing and myself appearing before you in the Executive Chamber at Albany for relief. We remember that you signed the relief measure giving our teachers $117,000.00, balance of salaries, which the city financial authorities failed to provide If you can spare the time, and makethe sacrifice to accept our invitation it would be a red letter event in the history of our Club, and your consideration would have our lasting appreciation and gratitude. Very respectfully yours, Matthew W. Quinn, Secretary.JOHN C. ROSE, DISTRICT JUDGE. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, DISTRICT OF MARYLAND. [*7*] Baltimore, Oct. 5, 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. My dear Colonel:– Mrs. Rose and myself trust that Mrs. Roosevelt is suffering no inconvenience from the accident. That's a fine article of yours in the Outlook this week! Sincerely, John C. Rose [*[Rose]*] R/b–The Traffic Club of Philadelphia N.E. Cor. 13th and Market Streets PHILADELPHIA October 5th, 1911; [*W.*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. Dear Sir: The Traffic Club of Philadelphia are desirous of the honor of your presence, to address them at their Fourth Annual Dinner, to be held in the Ball Room of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, this city, February 17th, 1912, at which time also will be present to address us, Hon. James M. Beck of New York, and Chancellor James R. Day, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y. This Club is composed of over three hundred members, engaged in the pursuit of transportation, consisting of railroad officials, and those handling the freight shipments of large industrials, known as industrial traffic managers, many of whom having previously been trained in the railroad. This dinner is an occasion when there are present many representative and distinguished men of our country, in every walk of life, up to a number aggregating between four hundred and fifty to five hundred; and I assure you, nothing would accord them greater pleasure or honor than to have you present at this gathering. By way of some identification of myself in extending this invitation, on behalf of the Traffic Club of Philadelphia, I will state that I am the son of the late Major Edwin E. Sellers, United States Army, and a brother of Lieutenant Commander David Foote Sellers, United States Navy, who, during your first administration as President of the United States, was one of your Naval aides. President: Frank A. Bedford, Division Freight Agent, American Bridge Co. of N.Y. Vice-Presidents: Geo. W. Mitchell, Agent Lehigh Valley R. R. Co. Chas. W. Bowden, General Traffic Agent, Pennsylvania Salt Mfg. Co. John S. Donal, General Agent, Northern Pacific Ry. W. J. Ferdinand, Traffic Mgr., The J. G. Brill Co. Howard M Newlin, Freight Agent, Pennsylvania Steel Co. Secretary: C. W. Summerfield, Secretary, Merchants & Manufacturers Ass'n. Treasurer: Alfred J. Ball, Agent, Empire Line Historian: Don C Hunter, General Agent, Chicago, Great Western Ry. Directors: Walter B. Grieves, Traffic Mgr., S. L. Allen & Co. Edwin F. Sellers, Traffic Manager, Harrison Bros. & Co., Inc. Harry E. Heller, District Freight & Passenger Ast., C. B. & Q. R. R. Co. William H. Holt, Willian Holt & Son, Riverside, N. J. William H. Montgomery, Traveling Freight Solicitor, Canada Southern Line. L. S. Moore, Traffic Manager, Keasbey & Mattison Co. Robert S. Perry, President, Harrison Bros. & Co., Inc. William M. Wilshire, Manager, The Consolidation Coal Co. I. Elkin Nathans, Special Agent, Freight Dept. P. R. R. Co. Entertainment Committee: Edwin F. Sellers, Chairman Publicity Committee: Wm. Pedrick, Jr., Chairman Membership Committee: Wm. V. Massey, Chairman Auditing Committee: J. W. McFarland, Chairman The Traffic Club of Philadelphia N.E. Cor. 13th and Market Streets [*TC OF PHILA*] PRESIDENT: FRANK A. BEDFORD, DIVISION FREIGHT AGENT, AMERICAN BRIDGE CO. OF N.Y. VICE-PRESIDENTS: GEO. W. MITCHELL, AGENT LEHIGH VALLEY R.R. CO. CHAS. W. BOWDEN, GENERAL TRAFFIC AGENT, PENNSYLVANIA SALT MFG. CO. JOHN S. DONAL, GENERAL AGENT, NORTHERN PACIFIC RY. W. J. FERDINAND, TRAFFIC MGR., THE J. G. BRILL CO. HOWARD M NEWLIN, FREIGHT AGENT, PENNSYLVANIA STEEL CO. SECRETARY: C. W. SUMMERFIELD, SECRETARY, MERCHANTS & MANUFACTURERS ASS'N. TREASURER: ALFRED J. BALL, AGENT, EMPIRE LINE HISTORIAN: DON C HUNTER, GENERAL AGENT, CHICAGO, GREAT WESTERN RY. DIRECTORS: WALTER B. GRIEVES, TRAFFIC MGR., S. L. ALLEN & CO. EDWIN F. SELLERS, TRAFFIC MANAGER, HARRISON BROS. & CO., INC. HARRY E. HELLER, DISTRICT FREIGHT & PASSENGER AGT., C.B. & Q.R.R. CO. WILLIAM H. HOLT, WILLIAM HOLT & SON, RIVERSIDE, N.J. WILLIAM H. MONTGOMERY, TRAVELING FREIGHT SOLICITOR, CANADA SOUTHERN LINE. L. S. MOORE, TRAFFIC MANAGER, KEASBEY & MATTISON CO. ROBERT S. PERRY, PRESIDENT, HARRISON BROS. & CO., INC. WILLIAM M. WILSHIRE, MANAGER, THE CONSOLIDATION COAL CO. I. ELKIN NATHANS, SPECIAL AGENT, FREIGHT DEPT. P.R.R. CO. ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE: EDWIN F. SELLERS, CHAIRMAN PUBLICITY COMMITTEE: WM. PEDRICK JR., CHAIRMAN MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE: WM. V. MASSEY, CHAIRMAN AUDITING COMMITTEE: J. W. MCFARLAND, CHAIRMAN PHILADELPHIA 10/5/11 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, #2 Our object is seeking you at such an advanced date is by reason of the knowledge of the great demand upon your time; and if you should find it agreeable and favorable to consider being with us at this dinner, it will give me a great deal of pleasure to visit you in person, in order that you may become more familiar with our organization. I trust that I have not intruded upon you, and that I may have the honor of a favorable reply. Believe me, with great regard, Very respectfully yours, Edwin F. Sellers Chairman, Entertainment Com. P.S. please send your reply to 3500 Grays Ferry Road. E.F.S. efs-far. [*[Sims]*] MA U. S. NAVAL WAR COLLEGE, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, October 5, 1911. [*10*] My dear Sir: Upon the completion of my cruise on the Minnesota, I applied for duty at the Naval War College, and have been here since June. As a part of the summer course, a number of officers were required to write papers on the tactical employment of various types of men of war, and I was assigned the subject of the handling of the whole fleet. The result was the enclosed paper, which I feel sure you will be interested in glancing over, for I believe it will show that the naval actions of the future must necessarily differ widely - - almost fundamentally - - from those which have taken place in the past. All former actions under steam have been between single groups of ships under the immediate direction of the commander-in-chief, and none of the writers on the subject have carried their discussions any farther; so I had to take two great fleets, such as the leading maritime nations could now muster, pit them against each other and see what would come of it. The resulting conclusions seem to indicate not only that all features of tactics will have to be extensively modified, but-2- that the underlying method of control must be radically changed in accordance with the great changes in the conditions. The principle changes in conditions which necessitate the modification of tactics and control are as follows: 1. The increased speed and gun-power of the all-big-gun battleships. 2. The much greater speed and almost equal fun power (but less protection) of the battleship cruisers. 3. The introduction of the new 10,000 yard torpedo, and the probable development of greater ranges. 4. The increased size, power and numbers of the torpedo destroyers. 5. The development of the sea-going submarine. The new design will have a displacement of nearly 1000 tons, a speed of about 18 knots on the surface and a radius of 5000 miles. 6. The introduction of floating mines for use in fleet actions. 7. The great increase in the effective range of naval guns. 8. The increased facility of communication by wireless telegraphy. 9. The great number of armored ships comprised in modern fleets, and the consequent impossibility of direct control by personal leadership. All of these new or modified conditions will necessitate such differences in the methods of control that future sea battles-3- may bear almost no resemblance even to those of the immediate past; and as it would appear that war between some of the great naval powers is probable in the not distant future, it occurred to me that you would be interested in my conclusions, even though subsequent discussion shows that they do no more than indicate the general character of the changes in tactics which seem inevitable. The paper has been discussed before the conference, and though there were of course the usual differences of opinion regarding details that new ideas always encounter, still it was recognized that new methods of tactical control must at once be developed on the main lines indicated in the paper. Rear Admiral (just promoted) Winslow has read the paper and thinks well of it. Very sincerely yours, Wm S Sims Captain, U.S.N. Hon Theodore Roosevelt– Oyster Bay, N. Y.[*[Thompson]*] [*13*] On board S.S."CEDRIC." Oct 5th 1911 Dear Col. Roosevelt: After having read and digested all that you and the other fortunate hunter, have written about Africa and worked ourselves up to a hi poetics pitch- as A. Ward says- over it - then having obtained the consent of the governed- the wives- to go- a party of four us are planning a trip for next year, to leave about May and return home in December. Our plans and arrangements are well under way, but before getting things started definitely I should greatly appreciate getting some information from headquarters. I know how much your time is taken but if some time, later on, you have leisure and care to talk Africa for a few moments I should be much indebted for the opportunity to discuss a few of the points concerning the trip - I can meet you in New York or come to Oyster Bay at any time or if you will give us the pleasure we can have a little dinner and have all of the would be shown, one hand, too - With best wishes, Sincerely Yours L.S. Mourpron Red Bank, N.J. To Col. Theodore Roosevelt- Oyster Bay L.I.I. H. TROWBRIDGE DRUGGIST [*6.*] MARSEILLES, ILL., Oct. 5 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt N.Y. City My dear sir I have just read Your article in the Outlook on "How the U.S. acquired the right to build the Panama Canal" And I want to say to you that I think it the greatest act in your career. If every thing else you have done should be forgotten this alone should give you a place in world history equal to any ofI. H. TROWBRIDGE DRUGGIST MARSEILLES, ILL., _____________________ a dozen greatest named. I hope Congress will by Act change the name for the "Panama" , to the "Roosevelt Canal" I am very truly yours I. H. TrowbridgeOct 5th 1911 [*[Wadsworth]*] THE HOMESTEAD GENESEO LIVINGSTON COUNTY N.Y. [*7.*] Dear Mrs. Roosevelt, I am so sorry you had a tumble, they are such horrid jarring things, even when not serious, as I am delighted to hear yours was not.We had a very satisfactory trip abroad- we did not succeed in getting "Philippine" but another did well enough - I do hope you will come to The Homestead. Perhaps if the 28th does not seem possible you will suggest another date. My love to Ethel- Yours very sincerely Elizabeth Wadsworth Austin and I are very anxious to see you all. Wont you come up on the 28th of October and spend a week with us? I want Ethel too, and perhaps Kermit can spare us a few days. Austin will write to Colonel Roosevelt himself. CHARLES L. H. WAGNER 136 PROSPECT AVE. WOLLASTON MASS. [*3.*] October 5, 1911. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir:– I am sending under separate cover copy of song entitled "O Land of Mine," referred to in clipping of BOSTON JOURNAL of October 3d also enclosed therewith. From comments received from those whose opinion I have reason to value, I am led to hope that the production may fill the demand for a song patriotic in nature, lofty in sentiment, which shall appeal both to the musical critics and to the popular taste, thereby lending itself to general use in schools and patriotic gatherings. With this in view, it was written to conform to the range of the average voice and in march time, features lacking in certain of our well known songs. Would it be possible for you to give sufficient of your valued time of examine the same, and, if you deem the composition of merit, send me a word of endorsement. Such an expression, emanating from you, would be deeply appreciated by me and would be of untold assistance in furthering the general introduction of the song. Thanking you in advance for such attention as it may be possible to extend, I beg to remain, Yours respectfully yours, Chas L. H. WagnerCONFIDENTIAL PERSONAL. [*1.*] JAMES C. OTTS, S. McB. WETMORE. SOLICITOR 7TH CIRCUIT OTTS & WETMORE ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS SPARTANBURG, S.C. October 5th '11. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, C/C Out Look, New York City, My dear Sir:- May I presume to intrude on your most valuable time jut for a moment? In the beginning let me tell you that I am one of your many personal admirers in the South and while I am a citizen of a state which could not,under any circumstances, by reason of a couple of centuries of prejudice, go republican or support a republican nominee for president, yet individually there are a great many of us who realize the necessity of placing you again in the executive chair and would exert all our power and influence to put you there. I am not an alarmist but on the contrary have an optimistic belief as to the final outcome but why wait until we are on the brink of a revolution before doing something? We need a man at the head of this government who has a back bone and a brain as well as the desire to remedy conditions as they now exist. There is no denying the fact that this country is now practically in the hands of the money powers and the common people are not represented or considered in the general scheme of the government's policies. We are not living under a Republican form of government,excepting in name,but rather a rank plutocracy which is growing more and more each day. We need no new laws, the common law of England or so much of it as has always been the law of thisJAMES C. OTTS, S. McB. WETMORE. SOLICITOR 7TH CIRCUIT OTTS & WETMORE ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS SPARTANBURG, S.C. T.R.#2. country will suffice to overthrow all the unlawful monopolies. What we need is the execution of the laws that now [e] exist; to do this we need a strong executive officer at the helm. It is generally believed throughout [the] this country that we need legislation and the long suffering people are waiting patiently for Congress to act and when the public wake up to the realization that laws exist, which if executed, would overthrow the trusts, and realize that they are not executed simply because the very unlawlawful monopolies, which are the subjects of these laws, are in virtual controle of the machinery of the government and are blocking the administration of the laws, then it will be that nothing can stop the fearful indignation and stampede of the common people n their determination to stop this unrighteous lawlessness in high places and whatever you may call it, a revolution will be hanging over us with all its errors and horrors. The American people, so far, respect an have confidence in the law but woe be unto us when they learn the truth, namely, that the laws exist that are sufficient but are dead letters because of the inactivity and inability and lack of inclination on the part of those, whose business it is to execute these laws, to execute them. The sole question involved in determining whether or not any monopoly is unlawful is a question of fact, when reduced to the last analysis, as to whether such a monopoly is a combination for the purposes of economy of administration or whether JAMES C. OTTS, SOLICITOR 7TH CIRCUIT S. McB. WETMORE. OTTS & WETMORE ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS SPARTANBURG, S.C. T.R. #3. it is a combination for the purpose of restraining trade and putting in an artificial value upon commodities. The former being legitimate and lawful the latter being unlawful, illegitimate and the curse of the times. All of which is a question of fact for a petit jury. The law is sufficient already but the people do not know this and when they find it out it will be too late to reason with them then. Something must be done and in my humble opinion you are the only man in the United States who could and would do it. I must confess that I do not know how to accomplish it and were I given the absolute power of a Dictator I could not remedy matters but I have an absolute confidence in your ability to make the crooked paths straight. The very fact that the trusts and those who are interested in them and those who are rolling in ill gotten gains hate you is the strongest argument possible that you are the friend of the people. I believe in giving every man the right to accumulate all the wealth he can but confine him to legitimate means. I am not against corporations nor money or any other evidence of success, but let every man have the same chance, let supply and demand regulate prices and not the scarcity of things brought about by locking them up in a warehouse of a monopoly until the people begin to starve and are willing to sell their souls for bread. When during the flood in Paris last year the bakers attempted to take advantage of that awful situationJAMES C. OTTS, SOLICITOR 7TH CIRCUIT S. McB. WETMORE. OTTS & WETMORE ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS SPARTANBURG, S.C. T.R. to create a monopoly on bread refusing to sell it excepting for a double price, the people dragged them from their places and thew them into the Sein. This is always what happens when monopoly makes the last fatal mistake of taking the bread and meat from the populace. It is only a question of time when the American monopolies attempt to take the bread out of the mouths of the people and lock it up in the warehouses expecting the people to sell them selves for it. Will they do it? No. Then comes the end. Why wait until this happens before throttling this financial octopus? It seems that the world will learn nothing by experience of the past generations. The experience must be personal and individual before it becomes a teacher. No sane man can dispute that the ideal government is no government at all or in the broad sence anarchy, for we would need no government if all men were perfect both in wisdom and goodness. The next best form of government would be socialism, PROVIDED we were all good but lacked perfection in wisdom. Then next to this would be a pure Democracy or direct government by the people, then the next is what we are supposed to have, the Republican form of Government and so on until we get back to the absolute monarchy. I have about come to the conclusion that the American people need an absolute monarchy. We have not advanced far enough into civilization to be capable of government by the people, and a monarchy presupposes a JAMES C. OTTS. SOLICITOR 7TH CIRCUIT S. McB. WETMORE. OTTS & WETMORE ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS SPARTANBURG, S.C. T.R. #5 people least capable of governing them selves, just as no government presupposes a people so perfect that they need no government, and socialism presupposes a people who are so near perfect that they need but little government and so on. Well I dare say you have gotten enough of this but I felt that you would be the man to lead the people and while of course I know that you can not stop to listen to every crank who wants to talk with you yet I wanted to tell you that there is one man down here at least who would like to see you take hold of the reins of government once more and do something. The American people need you more to day than ever before. you alone can save us from a revolution in my humble judgment. It is coming and nothing can stop it excepting some drastic action and that right soon. Mr. Taft is a good man and all that but he is unequal to the task before him. He lacks executive ability. He is too easily lead astray by false prophets. Begging your pardon for this rambling letter if you have read it through, I am, Respectfully yours, Silas MacBee Wetmore Dict. SMW/w. [* P.S. If the Republican party hasn't sense enough to nominate you run as an independent candidate S.M.W.*] I may be more closely associated with men of your kind. I attend The American Mining Congress (Of which I am a member), at Chicago the last of this month, and may the Natural resources of this Country continue to receive the highest possible protection for the general good of all. With all that makes for the best form of government. I am Truly Yours, Nat H Wheeler Decatur, Illinois October 5th, 1911. [*7*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: I hope you will pardon the liberty I am taking in addressing you thus. However, since reading Mr. Gifford Pinchot's article in this weeks issue of the Saturday Evening Post I was so much impressed in what Mr. Pinchot hadpossible standard of right and wrong in government. You, will note from the enclosed, my position, however, tho' small it may be, I want to do all, within my power, at any, and all times either in public, or private life, as the case may be, to further the powers of such characters and leaders as you and Pinchot. My hopes are that some day to say on the whole situation, and especially his views at the time he wrote you, under date of December 31, 1909 regarding your principles, and how they have been treated under the present administration. It is these facts that prompted me to express my highest admiration for the keen feeling that must exist between you and Mr. Pinchot in upholding the Public interest to the highest CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, NEW YORK REV. WILTON MERLE-SMITH, D.D. PASTOR CLERK OF SESSION JAMES YEREANCE 67 WEST 55TH STREET NEW YORK Telephone 4073 Plaza [*39.*] October 5, 1911 My dear Colonel: Following my respects of 2nd inst., I hand you herewith enclosed a program of the Memorial Service of Dr. Devins on Sabbath afternoon next, 8th inst. If it is your pleasure to comply with my request of 2nd inst., will you kindly send me your tribute to Dr.Devins, to my house, 67 West 55th St., for there we have mail delivery till 9 P.M., whereas my office closes at 1 P.M. on Saturday. It will be read at the Service and published in "The Observer" of next week, with the other tributes. Our mutual friend, Mr. Jacob A. Riis, has complied with my request and has written me a brief, but eloquent tribute. I trust that Mrs. Roosevelt had entirely recovered from the accident of several days ago, and am Faithfully yours, James Yereance Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I., N. Y.October 5, 1911. Mr. Egan has the honor to introduce to the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Rehling-Quistgaard, son of Hofjaeger Rehling-Quistgaard, and the most distinguished mineature painter in Denmark. His pictures of the late Princess Marie and of Mr. Roosevelt's friend, Prince Hans, are justly celebrated. It would give him great pleasure if Mr. Roosevelt would look at his examples of the beautiful art, which he is seeking to revive.[Encl in Rehling Quistgaard 12-31-12]11-5-11 American Legation, Copenhagen. The Honorable Theodore Roosevelt. Introducing Mr. Rehling-Quistgaard.Encl in Rehling Quistgaaro 12-31-12UNITED STATE SENATE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DOCUMENT ROOM October 6th, 1911. Sir: Senator Lodge has directed me to send you copies of the enclosed Treaties. There are two other Treaties pending, from which the injunction of secrecy has not been removed, and are still held in confidence for the use of the Senate. Very respectfully, George H. Boyd Superintendent. Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York.[*Brinkerhoff*] Riverside County Ohio Society DR. E. HENRY WAY- President JOHN MEHARG- 1st Vice President MRS. EDWARD HYATT,- - - - - - - 2nd Vice President R. C. BRINKERHOFF, - - - - - Secretary and Treasurer 789 Main Street [*IMPERIUM IN IMPERIO*] Riverside, California, Oct 6 1911 To the Editor of the Outlook, Mr Theodore Roosevelt, Dear Sir, Allow me to express my admiration for the answer (in todays papers) to your reactionary critics about the Panama canal incident. Your action at that time is endorsed by all true Americans, and we hope you won't let the other fellows worry you. Respectfully Yours, R.C. Brinkerhoff (Member of the Holland Society of New York) "Who knoweth but thou wert come to the Kingdom for such a time as that." Book of Esther.815-08 8 2000. Edgar J. Lauer} Frank D. Sturges,} Fred De Witt Wells} Justices. William C. Wilson} Wm. J. Chamberlain, Clerk Charles Healy, Deputy Clerk Municipal Court of the City of New York BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN. Ninth District Southwest Cor. Madison Ave & 59thSt. October 6th, 1911. [*8.*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Dear Sir: If not asking too much could you give me a few minutes of your valuable time some day when you are at your office in the City as I have a matter which I should like to speak to you about. Awaiting you answer. Respectfully yours., Wm. J. Chamberlainpolitics seem to be rather tangled & the Democratic nomination will be a very interesting thing Is not the Italian raid on Turkey a indeed outrage? Yours sincerely [*[Curzon]*] Curzon [*[Curzon]*] TELEGRAMS: BROADSTAIRS, TELEPHONE: BROADSTAIRS 24. NALDERA, BROADSTAIRS Oct 6 1911 My dear Roosevelt A man named Lorat Fraser who was in India in my day, though wholly unconnected with me has written a book about my administration of which hispublisher is sending you a copy He has asked me to explain to you that he is not a nonentity[?] and he seems to think that he would be immensely helped if the book were noticed in the "outlook" I myself pass on his request. He is a responsible person and acts as the Foreign Editor of the Times How are you? biding your time I hope and soon again to emerge. AmericanHon. Robert F. Wagner, Chairman Hon. Alfred E. Smith, Vice-Chairman Hon. Charles M. Hamilton Hon. Edward D. Jackson Hon. Cyrus W. Phillips Mr. Samuel Gompers Mr. Simon Brentano Mr. Robert E. Dowling Miss Mary E. Dreier Mr. Abram I. Elkus, Chief Counsel No,. 170 Broadway, New York City Mr. Frank A. Tierney, Secretary FACTORY INVESTIGATING COMMISSION (Authorized by Chapter 561 of the Laws of 1911 to inquire into manufacturing conditions in first and second class cities of the State of New York) Office of the Commission, No. 165 Broadway, New York City New York, October 6, 1911 [*2*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, 287 Fourth Ave., New York City. Dear Sir: As you will see I am counsel for the Factory Investigating Commission which has been appointed in pursuance of an Act of the Legislature to investigate conditions surrounding manufacturing in the cities of the first and second class in this state. The objects of the Commission are more definitely stated in the annexed circular letter, which I submit for your perusal. The Commission is now engaged in accumulating evidence and facts upon which to base opinions, will take testimony and thereafter suggest remedial legislation. I have been informed that you have prepared an article or address upon the subject of "Child Labor" and "Employment of Women in Manufacturing." The Commission would be very glad if you would appear before it at one of its public hearings, to be held in the Aldermanic Chamber of the City Hall during next week and give them your views upon the subject. If you will do so I shall be glad to have you come on Tuesday, October 10th, or Wednesday, the 11th, any time between the hours of 11 and 3 which will be most convenient to you. If you will have someone telephone me or make an appointment I shall be pleased to place myself at your disposal. Trusting to have the pleasure of an early reply, informing the Commission that you will appear before it in pursuance of this invitation, I remain Very respectfully yours, Abram I Elkus Chief Counsel. A–S Enc.For enc see ca 10-6-11Hon. Robert F. Wagner, Chairman Hon. Alfred E. Smith, Vice-Chairman Hon. Charles M. Hamilton Hon. Edward D. Jackson Hon. Cyrus W. Phillips Mr. Samuel Gompers Mr. Simon Brentano Mr. Robert E. Dowling Miss Mary E. Dreier Mr. Abram I. Elkus, Chief Counsel No. 170 Broadway, New York City Mr. Frank A. Tierney, Secretary Factory Investigating Commission (Authorized by Chapter 561 of the Laws of 1911 to inquire info manufacturing conditions in first and second class cities of the State of New York) Office of the Commission, No. 165 Broadway, New York City New York [*[ca 10-6-11]*], 191 Dear Sir: - Pursuant to an act of the Legislature of the State of New York, Governor Dix and the Legislature have recently appointed the above Commissioners to inquire into conditions under which manufacture is carried on in the cities of the first and second class in the State "to the end that such remedial legislation may be enacted as will eliminate existing peril to the life and health of operatives and other occupants in the existing and new structures." The scope of the investigations to be conducted by the Commission embraces the following main divisions: 1. Hazard to life because of fire: covering such matters as fire prevention, inadequate fire-escapes and exits, number of persons employed in factories and lofts, arrangement of machinery, fire drills, etc. 2. Accident prevention: guarding of machinery, proper and adequate inspection of factories and manufacturing establishments. 3. Danger to life and health because of unsanitary conditions: ventilation, lighting, seating arrangement, hours of labor, etc. 4. Occupational diseases: industrial consumption, lead poisoning, bone disease, etc. 5. An examination of the present statutes and ordinances that deal with or relate to the foregoing matters and to what extent the present laws are enforced. The Commission will recommend such new legislation as may be found necessary to remedy defects in existing legislation and to provide for conditions not now considered. The field of the investigation is a very broad one and is very important to the thousands of employees of manufacturing establishments in the different cities of this State and to the public at large. To properly perform its duties the Commission needs the help of those who, by reason of special study or practical experience with the subjects under investigation are able to furnish suggestions or recommendations that would be of aid to the Commission in its work. The Commission is informed that you may be able to help it. It will appreciate any information which you may have concerning existing defective or dangerous conditions in manufacturing establishments, conditions that impair the health and threaten the safety of operatives, suggestions as to any of the matters to be examined into, or particular industries to be investigated, and also any recommendations as to remedial legislation. Public hearings will be held by the Commission in the Cities of New York, Buffalo, Troy and elsewhere, which will be duly announced. Will you notify the undersigned if you can and will aid the Commission? Yours very truly, [*[Abram I. Elkus]*] Counsel to the Commission.Enc in Elbus 10-6-11The Presbyterian hospital of the City of Chicago. Asa Bacon, Superintendent S. E. COR. CONGRESS AND WOOD ST. N. W. COR. ASHLAND BLVD. AND CONGRESS ST. Chicago Oct. 6, 1911 My dear Mr. Roosevelt: Having had tonsils removed I feel that I have now an added channel that the reporters will understand me; but you know how uncertain those chances sometimes are. If convalescence proceeds as now expected I shall go to Washington early next week and expect to be in New York on the 20th and 21st. If either of these days will be convenient for me to lunch with you, kindly advise me at 1810 Connecticut Ave, Washington and oblige Yours Sincerely, Walter L. Fisher Hon Theodore Roosevelt The Outlook, New YorkAmerican Civic Reform Union, Inc. INTER-PARTISAN INTER-DENOMINATIONAL Objects.- To suppress "graft", gambling, the white slave traffic, cigarettes, intemperance, Sabbath desecration, and other evils. MAIN 2547 CENTRAL 3319 W HEADQUARTERS, 707 CAXTON BUILDING, CLEVELAND, O. OFFICERS Rev. W. W. Bustard, D. D........President Miss Frances H. Ensign...Vice President A. L. Boyden......................Sec.-Treasurer Rev. A. S. Gregg...............Superintendent A. H. White.......Manager Lecture Bureau Harry Brolaski..............Chief Investigator Rev. Geo. V. Reichel, Ph. D., Legislative DIRECTORS Rev. J Edward Kirbye. D. D., Medina, O,; Miss Frances H. Ensign, Madison, O.; A. L. Boyden, E. R. Root, Median, O.; Rev. W. W. Bustard, D. D.; Rev. R. R. Bigger, D. D.; F. M. Barton, Cleveland, O.; Rev. C. L. Smith, D. D., Hon. J. A. Rice, Mrs. Sarah K. Meredith, Canton, O.; Judge Hiram B. Swartz, Wooster, O.; J. H. Miller, Newark, O. BUSINESS COMMITTEE Rev. R. R. Bigger, D. D., F. M. Barton, Rev. W. W. Bustard, D. D. We work along three lines: Civic Education, Legislation, Investigations. We attack graft, gambling, intemperance, impurity and all forms of vice. We furnish detectives, speakers, legal advice and information on civic reforms. Any local, county or state organization may join this Union by accepting our constitution and by-laws and paying $5 a year. An individual may join for $2 a year. SOME OF OUR SPEAKERS Rev. A. S. GREGG: "Bad Citizens." "How Lobbyists Make Our Laws." FRANK S. REGAN: "The Fool Taxpayer." HARRY BROLASKI: "Graft and Grafters." "The Fool and His Money." A. H. WHITE: "Whose Boy Is He?" "Robbers! Six, Seven, Which." C. N. HOWARD: "On the Water Wagon." HON JAMES ALLEN RICE: "Pearls and Swine." "Social Parasites." "For Man or Mammon." HANS P. FREECE: "Mormonism Exposed." REV. GEO. V. REICHEL: "What a Mayor Can Do." O. O. WIARD: "Conquest of Crime." MRS. L. E. CORRY: "Secrets Our Girls Ought to Know." REV. LYMAN R. MEARS: "American Tomorrow" "Elements of Success." Oct. 6, 1911. [*38.*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York. My Dear Sir:- In this mail I am sending you a copy of The "Fool and His Money," written by Mr. Harry Brolaski, our chief investigator. Will you look it over and give me a few lines in commendation? We are using the book in our general crusade against all forms of gambling. The "Fool and His Money" is published by the Searchlight Press which is controlled by The American Civic Reform Union. Very truly yours, A. S. Gregg ASG-RD Ohio Building and Construction Company E.E. HARRIMAN, MANAGER OFFICE 539 I. W. HELLMAN BUILDING OFFICE PHONE 62278. RESIDENCE PHONE 71010, WESR 436 REFERENCES: C. I. C. MOORE, SECRETARY PACIFIC MUTUAL INS. CO. W. F. CALLANDAR, VICE-PRES. HOME SAVINGS BANK DR. H. W. BRODBECK, 222 1/2 SOUTH SPRING STREET A. J. WALLACE, 22ND AND HOBART BOULEVARD LEE C. GATES, TITLE INSURANCE & TRUST CO. [*12*] LOS ANGELES, CAL. Oct. 6, 1911. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, New York, N.Y. Dear Sir: Since reading the article in the May Outing by Mr. Wallace on the starving elk of Wyoming, I have been very much interested in the proposition of stocking our own mountains with some of these elk which otherwise would starve. I have been conducting a still hunt after the money for the purpose and am assured that an abundance will be forthcoming. I wrote the state game warden, Mr. Hudson, and he tells me that the state law will not allow elk to be shipped out of the state except for the Smithsonian or like organizations. Can I interest you to the extent of using your influence to obtain for us the right to take those elk from the Yellowstone Park. Mr. Dillon Wallace says they summer in the park and winter in Jackson Hole where they perish by thousands because of lack of adequate food supply. In our state it is a felony to kill an elk and our food supply is abundant and unfailing. I lived in the great hardwood forest region of Minnesota from June 1862 to December 1880,have been in California since February 1886 and as an ardent love of all animal life and can crowd as much enjoyment into a week in the mountain as even you can.Ohio Building and Construction Company E. E. HARRIMAN, MANAGER OFFICE 539 I.W. HELLMAN BUILDING OFFICE PHONE 66275 RESIDENCE PHONE 71010, WEST 436 REFERENCES: C. I. D. MOORE, SECRETARY PACIFIC MUTUAL INS. CO. W. F. CALLANDAR, VICE-PRES. HOME SAVINGS BANK DR. H. W. BRODBECK, 222 1/2 SOUTH SPRING STREET A. J. WALLACE, 22ND AND HOBART BOULEVARD LEE C. GATES, TITLE INSURANCE & TRUST CO. LOS ANGELES, CAL. I believe the introduction of these elk would add much to the pleasure of all our people and save a few from slow death by starving. As you no doubt ate well aware, our forest reserves would furnish an ideal range of great extent. I would personally be glad to give my time and most earnest effort for the consummation of this idea. I see no way in which we can succeed unless we get the permission suggested. I can see success ahead if we do get it. For my responsibility and general character I refer you to our Lieutenant Governor A. J. Wallace, Mayor George Alexander, Senator Lee C. Gates, Congressman Stephens and U. S. Senator Works, Yours most sincerely, E. E. Harriman& shall be solicitous until we know all is well. With best wishes & greetings to Mrs. Roosevelt. I am with high regards Most Cordially Yours Sarah Rodgers Henry. [*(Mrs Nelson H Henry)*] [* 59 W 9- N Y City *] 6 - October - 1911 [*[Henry]*] [*8*] CHALFONTE ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. My dear Colonel Roosevelt. We are much concerned over Mrs. Roosevelts mishap & am sending you this line to express the sympathy & interest of General Henry & myself. We do wish fervently for a speedy recovery & no aftermath. D. C. IMBODEN 115 BROADWAY NEW YORK CITY TELEPHONE CORTLANDT 1598 [*6*] October 6th, 1911. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. Honorable dear Sir:- Here is an opportunity for you with and for the people for untold good to the country in general and satisfaction to yourself. This opportunity is for the financing of a publication as and for the purposes set forth in the attached sheet under the title head "THE PEOPLE." It is possible for such a publication to acquire a circulation and power second to none other in the country. And considering the position in which you stand before the eyes of the public to-day, I feel that you are the one to most quickly and economically bring this about. If you would please I would like that you take up the entire financing of the publication in a way of a 5% loan, money to be advanced as needed and you receive therefor 51% of the stock. Dividends to be restricted until the loan has been fully paid. I consider this opportunity an unusual one and of greatest importance and trust it will receive your serious consideration and your co-operation. I am ready to give my time i shaping up and handling the work as far as the controlling stock interest may desire. Respectfully yours, D. C. ImbodenFor enc see 10-4-11With kindest regards from my wife and myself, Believe me, Yours sincerely, H. H. Johnston [*Johnston*] [*[Johnson]*] 6th October 1911 Dear Mr. Roosevelt, I should have acknowledged earlier the receipt of the bound copy of your essay on "Revealing and Concealing Colouration in Birds and Mammals," had I not been away in France when it arrived, taking the waters at Vittel, to the great benefit of my health. It was very good of you to remember me, and I shall prize this Essay, not only on account of the many shrewd Nature observations it contains, but quite as much from a personal point of view, as I have retained a very strong regard for you and belief in you which the lapse of time does not weaken. I was sorry to see the other day in the papers that Mrs. Roosevelt had an accident whenout riding, which might have had very severe consequences but for the presence of mind not only of yourself but of that sturdy boy who once glowered at me across the breakfast-table as he was finishing his porridge; annoyed to find suddenly a stranger thrust into the domestic intimacy of the breakfast-table when he wished to tell you both about something which had occurred at his school the day before. I am just starting now for another tour through Germany, and I am also going to visit Holland again to see what changes have taken place in your ancestors' country since I went there twenty years ago. My chief inducement on this occasion in both countries is to study the breeding in Europe - and Northern Europe too - of beasts and birds for the great part associated with the tropics. Have you ever seen Carl Hagenbeck's wonderful Tierpark near Hamburg? I went there last year and am now going again. He is breeding a super-ox and a super-ostrich, and is putting on the market ostrich plumes plucked from birds bred and born in Northern Germany which are superior to anything South Africa can show. My chief objective in Holland is Blaauw's breeding-park for antelopes and cranes. I am also going to see some marvellous collections of Paradise-birds recently received from Dutch New Guinea. So I expect to have a very interesting time. Booker Washington has invited me to attend the Negro Conference in Alabama next April. But I am afraid by the time I have carried out my other plans I shall not be able to find either the time or the money for another American journey just then. Moreover, it is just the time - April - when my wife and I like best to be at home in our apple and plum orchards.Indiana Federation of Clubs 1910-1911 President, Mrs. Grace Julian Clarke 115 S. Audubon Road, Irvington, Indianapolis First Vice-President, Mrs. O. P. Kinsey 252 Greenwich Street, Valparaiso Second Vice-President, Mrs. Lewis J. Cox The Roost, Terre Haute Recording Secretary, Mrs. Edwin A. Knapp The Westminster, Winona Lake Corresponding Secretary, Miss Vida Newsom 820 Franklin Street, Columbus Treasurer, Mrs. G. C. Markle, Winchester Auditor, Mrs. E. B. Hyatt, Washington General Federation Secretary, Mrs. W. S. Major, Shelbyville Office of the Recording Secretary Winona Lake, Ind., Oct. 6th 1911. [*4.*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York, Dear sir: Will you kindly advise where I can secure literature and other information in regard to the Country Life Commission? I wish to engage in the work. Can you tell me if there is a Commission in each state and also how a position on the Commission may be secured? The Indiana Federation of Clubs wishes to include this work in its activities. Thanking you in advance for any information which you may give me, I remain, Yours respectfully, Annie M. Knapp, (Mrs. Edwin A. Knapp.)H. C. LODGE, CHAIRMAN. E. T. CLARK, CLERK. United States Senate, COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION Nahant, Mass., October 6, 1911 Personal– Dear Theodore: Thank you very much for your letter of the 3d. We were very much alarmed when we read in the newspaper about Edith's fall. I have seen such falls in the hunting field and they are very unpleasant to see. I am relieved that it is no worse, but it seems to me to have been pretty severe and I do hope that all continues to go well. Give Edith a great deal of love from both of us. The Honduras treaty was reported out from the committee, although there was not a majority for it. I thought myself that they had agreed on a larger amount than Honduras should have been called upon to pay for of all the swindles of that kind that I have known the Honduras debt went beyond anything. The face value of their debt was 127 millions and they appeared, as far as we could find out, to have received two millions. The settlement was on 10 millions, which I thought was rather unreasonable. My impression is that the President was to choose one of five names, but I have not looked at the treaty for some time and am not absolutely sure. I will have a copy sent to you at once. The Nicaragua treaty I have not examined with any care. It has never been reported out. I will have a copy of that sent to you also. Cummins' proposition is very like him. I understood him to say in the Senate that he was going to require the assent of the Senate toH. C. LODGE, CHAIRMAN. E. T. CLARK, CLERK. United States Senate, COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION TR-2 the submission to the high commission. Of course, to give us the confirmation of the commissioners is simply to give us power to help the President pack the commission so that it shall not decide in any way adversely to our wish. It would be better to have no commission at all than to undertake to protect ourselves by such a method as that. If the commission is not to be properly selected we had better leave it out. Moreover, we should, as you say, be exposed to the same kind of attack and criticism that we were on the Alaska Tribunal. Then, too, the commission scheme involves a year of delay before the commission meets and that would be quite time enough for anybody who had seized a coaling station in this hemisphere to make their hold secure before the commission could pass upon their right to do so. John got your letter and was very much gratified by it. Ever yours, H. C. Lodge Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y.Box 101 Mt. Lebanon, Pa. Oct. 6, '11. [*A2*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Outlook Publishing Co., New York City. Dear Sir: - In considering or studying the subject of Governmental Efficiency" may I ask you to kindly advise me whether it should be viewed from the angle of smoothness of operation or its effect upon the people, or, in other words, does the merit of Government lie in its perfect operating qualities in its departmental relations or in its good or bad effect upon its people? I have had both views presented and should like to be informed as to which of the two is correct. I trust you will find it convenient to advise me on the subject and desiring to express my appreciation in advance, I am, Very respectfully, A. V. Mason AVM/MGEO. A. KESSLER & CO. 20 BEAVER ST. NEW YORK. AGENCY OF MOËT & CHANDON CHAMPAGNE WHITE SEAL IMPERIAL CROWN BRUT "VERY DRY" 'CUVÉE A. A." October 6th, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, c/o The Outlook Co., 287 Fourth Ave., N.Y. City. Sir:- From time to time, the writer, a Stenographer connected with the above concern, has endeavored to report your speeches in New York City, but owing to the lack of a permit, has only been enabled to report your Oration at Great's Tomb, on Decoration Day, 1911. I have applied to Commissioner Waldo for a Police Permit, but he has paid no attention to my request; and I feel sure that a few words from you would remove this obstacle, which greatly hinders my reporting practice. Assuring you of my deepest gratitude for any attention you may give the matter, I am, Dear Sir, Your humble servant, Wm. J Paegelow, Jr. 221 East 122nd St. N.Y. City.The Boston Post ESTABLISHED 1831 E. A. GROZIER, Editor and Publisher BOSTON, MASS. October 6, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island; N.Y. My dear Mr. Roosevelt:– On several occasions I have covered stories of which you were the central feature; and I have often wished that I had an autographed photograph of you by way of a more concrete reminder of the occasions. Tommy Luke and I were sent to New York when you came back from your hunting trip a year ago last June, and Tommy yesterday finished up one of the photographs which he made of you at that time, and gave it to me. I am sending it to you with a stamped and addressed return envelope; and if you will be kind enough to sign the photograph and mail it, the gratitude of Robertses to the fourth and fifth generation will follow you. Very sincerely yours, Kenneth L. Roberts x[*[see verso]*] [*[10-7-11]*] [*ASSISTANT AND CHIEF CLERK, OCT 7 1911 WAR DEPT.*] [*SECRETARY [?CE] OCT 7 1911 WAR DEPARTMENT.*] [*P.G. for report*] The Outlook 287 Fourth Avenue New York Office of Theodore Roosevelt October 6th, 1911. My dear Harry: The writer of the enclosed was in my regiment, and naturally I want to help him if I can. Can I get him into the Government Sanatarium at Fort Bayard, New Mexico? I earnestly hope so. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt The Hon. Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War, Washington, D.C.[*OFFICE SURGEON GENERAL OCT 7 1911 139321 WAR DEPARTMENT*] Washington, D.C. No-date. Sec. of War encloses letter from Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, 287 Fourth Ave., New York, N.Y. Oct. 6, 1911, Requesting Dabney S. Royster, Mascot, Troop H, R.R.R.,1st Vol. Infty, be admitted to Government Sanatarium, Ft. Bayard, N.M. 1 encl. [*[For enc. see Royster 10-2-11]*]The Trustees of the Peabody Education Fund 725 SOUTHERN BUILDING WASHINGTON, D.C. WICKLIFFE ROSE GENERAL AGENT [*37.*] October 6, 1911 Hon Theodore Roosevelt 487 Fourth avenue New York City Dear Sir: I am sending you under separate cover copy of the printed report showing the results of the activities of the Southern Education Board for a definite period. This report is the result of painstaking effort to get together a body of facts that would be conservative and at the same time show in a definite way something of what the work has accomplished. It has occurred to me that the Trustees of the Peabody Education Fund may be interested in this work because this fund has contributed toward these results during the last two years and because both Funds are now devoted to the improvement of the rural school. Very sincerely yours, Wickliffe Rose H. Novoa Spada 82 Wall St. Blanco y Negro of Madrid El Figaro of Havana Leading Weeklies Illustrated Largest Circulation in Spanish Countries New York Oct. 6th, 1911. Dear Sir:- While I exceedingly regret your inability to give me at present an expression as to the method of realizing the plan submitted to you for the Free Commercial School, I appreciate your kind letter of the 15th ultimo. It was not the indorsement I most desire, but the suggestions of the man I most admire amongst all living Americans. In order to accomplish my purpose I need help, and I do hope that you will in the near future find a few minutes for the writer. I am a Porto Rican, thirty years of age, one of the first to serve under the American Government during the occupation of Porto Rico after the Spanish-American War, married to an American lady and father of a boy three years old; I must labor for the future of my children. Respectfully yours, H. N. Spada B/S Hon. Theodore Rooselvet, #287 - 4th Ave. N. Y.MARY TODD LINCOLN MEMORIAL For the erection of a memorial building to the wife of Abraham Lincoln, in Lexington, Kentucky, her home town, upon the campus of Sayre College, which is one of the oldest institutions in the South for the education of young women and girls. All of her relatives have been educated in this venerable institution, and it has been decided that this is, and should be, the place for such a monument. COMMITTEE HON. LEVI P. MORTON GOV. JOHN A. DIX HON. HENRY W. TAFT COL. HENRY WATTERSON HENRY CLEWS I. K. FUNK HON. WM. SULZER W. G. MCADOO EDW. LAUTERBACH COL. BENNETT H. YOUNG J. M. HORTON REAR ADMIRAL A. V. WADHAMS, U.S.N. DR. REGINALD H. SAYRE JOHN S. ALLEN, D.D. ROBERT J. COLLIER HUDSON MAXIM GEN. FREDERICK D. GRANT MATTHEW WHITE, JR. HON. JOHN J. FRESCHI PROF. CHARLES PRELINI COMMITTEE A. LINCOLN SELIGMAN ADMIRAL GEORGE DEWEY DAVID HOMER BATES HON. HORACE WHITE A. L. ERLANGER WILLIAM O. STODDARD HON. CORNELIUS N. BLISS HON. MARTIN W. LITTLETON MALCOLM D. RIKER GERARD J. CUOCO MRS. CYRUS H. MCCORMICK MRS. HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN MRS. JAMES BORDEN HARRIMAN MRS. A. V. WADHAMS MRS. BELMONT TIFFANY MRS. DESHA BRECKINRIDGE MRS. EMMONS BLAINE MRS. HAROLD S. BUTTENHEIM MRS. JOHN A. HOCKADAY E. T. SANFORD, PUBLICITY COMMITTEE J. M. SPENCER, SECRETARY 44 ASTOR COURT BUILDING, NEW YORK TELEPHONE 5620 MURRAY HILL [*4*] October 6, 1911. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, 287 [Fifth] Fourth Ave., New York City. My dear Col. Roosevelt: I want to express to you my appreciation of our brief interview of this morning. I feel very much encouraged after my conversation with you to know that you are in deep sympathy with the movement while in a position not to give a written indorsement, yet I feel warranted in my addresses in the East to mention this interview, and that you are in sympathy with the movement. If you object to my quoting our interview thus, I will not even do this. Thanking you for your courtesy of to-day, I am Yours very truly, J. M. Spencer.[*[Winslow]*] [*6*] Somerset Club Boston 6th Oct [*[11]*] My dear Colonel Roosevelt I read in the papers of the accident to Mrs. Roosevelt and thought it was only a sensational newspaper report, but as the reports continue, I fear that she was seriously hurt.entirely recovered. Believe me, With great respect, Very sincerely, C. M. R. Winslow. I sincerely hope that my fears are groundless and that the accident was only trivial. Please express my sympathy to Mrs. Roosevelt. I trust that she has not had much suffering and that I shall soon hear that she has Oceanside, New York 6 October 1911. The Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. Dear Sir: On the 26th of September I addressed a letter to you at 287 Fourth Avenue, New York, but having received no reply I assume that the letter was never received and therefore take the liberty of rehearsing the substance of my former communication. "The First Presbyterian Church of Christian Hook" was organized in this community in the year 1871 and on Thursday, October 12th, we are to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of its founding with meetings in the forenoon, afternoon, and evening, to be addressed by representative ministers and laymen. The evening session is to be devoted to considerations of the practical aspects of Christianity, and our people at first expressed the hope that you could be prevailed upon to come and speak to that meeting. If there is any chance now of such an arrangement being made,the president of our Board of Trustees, Mr. Rufus H. Smith, (who, I believe, was a delegate to the State Convention last fall from this district) would be pleased to call upon you and discuss plans. With assurances of high esteem, I beg to be Your obedient servant, Arthur Charles Watkins Pastor of the Oceanside Presbyterian Church. [*Watkins*]Standard Life Insurance Company of America HOME OFFICE, PITTSBURG, PA. FRANK A. WESLEY VICE PRESIDENT - DIRECTOR OF AGENCIES [*K.*] October sixth, Nineteen hundred eleven. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. Dear Sir: The Young Men's Christian Association of PIttsburgh is planning a course in Salesmanship, beginning October 23, 1911. We believe this course will do much good for the young men of PIttsburgh and we have been able to work up considerable enthusiasm over the course among Pittsburgh business men. Our opening night is the twenty-third of this month and we anticipate having about a hundred young men present. We have secured for this occasion, letters from men of national reputation, to the effect that a course of this nature should mean increased efficiency and earning power to those taking it, and in a general way endorsing the course. If you would be kind enough to send me a letter of this nature it would be most heartily appreciated and would do much good. It might be the means of deciding some young man to take the course who otherwise might not do so. I am taking charge of this course myself without compensation and will do everything in my power to make it a success. A letter from you will help us start right. Dictate it today. Thanking you for your courtesy, I am, Very sincerely yours, Frank A. Wesley Vice Pres. & Director of Agencies FAW-BTHE FREE SYNAGOGUE NEW YORK STEPHEN S. WISE RESIDENCE, 23 WEST 90TH STREET [*9] Oct. 6, 1911 The Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Ave., City My dear Colonel Roosevelt: I have just learned from Mr. Elkus, who is counsel to the New York Legislative Commission on Public Safety, that he has invited you to appear at [the] a hearing of the Commission to be designated by you, in order that the Commission may have the benefit of your thought with respect to conditions in industry, with special reference to the work of women and children. I do hope, my dear Colonel Roosevelt, that you will find it possible to accept this invitation. It will, as you know, be difficult, if not impossible, to enact needed legislation unless the attention of the community be directed to the evils which obtain and that can best be done through a strong and earnest word of your own, fortified as it would be by our own leadership it may truly be said [of] in championing the cause of children in industry for many years. Trusting that you will find it possible to render this service, I am, Faithfully yours, Stephen S. WiseThe Analytic System School of Music Produces result that are simply marvelous, as compared with other methods of teaching. It easily saves 50 to 75% in time and money. CORRECT MUSICAL EDUCATION. NEW LIGHT ON OLD SUBJECT ANALYTIC Music teaching system piano. harmony. song. With Average Technical Knowledge of Piano We guarantee mastery of the science of harmony in 20 lessons, in manner superior to a course of 3 to 5 years in any school of other methods. [*1.*] 14516 Detroit Ave. } Cleveland, Ohio. }10-6-11 Mr Frank Harper c/o The Outlook, New York Dear Sir I have your favor of the 2nd inst. stating that my communication to Mr Roosevelt has not been received. The envelope bore return address and has not come back and so it seems it was duly delivered, but owing to the very large mail you speak of, it was overlooked or mislayed. I understand, as you say, that properly I should have addressed it directly to the Managing Editor, but it was my desire to have Mr Roosevelt to read it first and if it appealed to him he would naturally see that it got into the proper hands and: I still feel so about it and to that end I enclose a copy herewith, you will do me a great favor if you will bring it to his attention and if it does not meet his approval I would rather have it returned than try the Managing Editor Yours truly D. Zuckriegel NEXT TO Y. M. C. A., CLEVELAND, O.-BANGOR BUILDINGtw Mrs M Yahiel 656 Aulreru Ave Buffalo N.Y [Oct. 6, 1911] [*ack 10-19-11*] Oak Harbor, Ohio October 7th 1911 [*[Bauch]*] [*5.*] Honorable Theodore Rooseveldt New York, N.Y. My dear sir: - Kindly permit me to present the following for your attention. I have a son (Herbert W. Bauch) who has been two years at the U.S. Naval Academy. During past year he made good grades except at annual examination in June he failed slightly in Mathematics. As is customary he was granted a re-examination in September. He came home from the cruise, on leave feeling perfectly safe as to the outcome.To make doubly sure however he planned to return a week before day set for reexamination and spend the time in review. Unfortunately about a week before the time set for his departure I became very ill with Pneumonia. At his mother's request he remained with me until after the crisis. This gave him but two days for review. Worry over my condition together with despondency and disappointment in another matter that bore heavily on him put him into a state of mental stress that made successful study and work impossible. He failed the reexamination but was not notified of the fact until after theAcademic Board had passed on his case and he was notified that he might resign. He asked to be allowed to make a statement to the Academic Board and was told it was too late. He asked of the Superintendent permission to make a statement to the Secretary of the Navy. This was refused. Later he was permitted to lay the matter before Admirals Porter and R.F. Nicholson the latter Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, both representing the Secretary. They recommended that my son ask Academic Board for reconsideration. The Secretary would uphold their findings. Or the Secretary would act for himself if sufficient political interestis shown in my sons behalf. I feel positive that my son can hold his place in class if permitted to do so. I wish to most respectfully ask for your aid, if you are in a position to give it. Very respectfully yours, Carl T. Bauch P.S. You will probably rember me as the Progressive Republican candidate for State Senator that made the trip from Toledo to Norwalk Ohio with you . I was defeated by 242 votes - Governor Harmon carried the district by 6971 C.T.B.THE COLORADO CHAUTAUQUA DIRECTORS EDWIN CHAMBERLAIN, President. ALFRED A. GREENMAN, First Vice President. J. A. DAVIS, Second Vice President. J. J. BERNARD, Third Vice President. J. BERGHEIM, Treasurer. CHAS. H. CHENEY, A. R. COUZENS, EBEN G. FINE, FRED G. FOLSOM, WM H. LANEY J. L. LONG L. M. TEMPLE ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO THE SECRETARY. F. A. BOGGESS, SECRETARY [*W*] Boulder, Colorado. October 7, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, c/o The Outlook, New York City. My dear Sir: You will possibly remember that last year we made an effort to secure you for an address at our Chautauqua Assembly during the past summer. Failing in that, I am taking up the same subject with reference to the summer of 1912. Our Chautauqua Assembly will open July 4th and continue for six weeks, and we would like very much to arrange with you for a day. I think we can very safely guarantee to furnish you a large and appreciative audience. I trust that you will give favorable consideration to this invitation, and that you will write me at your earliest convenience. At this time we could give you almost your choice of the dates of our Assembly, but we would especially appreciate having you on July 4th. Thanking you in advance for an early reply, I am, Yours very truly, F.A. Boggess Secretary FAB-GBELLA VISTA October 7, 1911 My dear Col. Roosevelt, I write at once, on receipt of your letter of yesterday to say how very, very sorry we are to learn that Mrs. Roosevelt's accident was serious and how earnestly we hope she will soon be herself again. Mrs. Bonaparte would write to say this, and much more for herself, but she has been a good deal indisposed of late, and although now much better, is not yet quite up to correspondence Pray assure Mrs. Roosevelt of our most cordial sympathy and believe me, as ever, Yours most truly, Charles J. Bonaparte. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 4th Ave., N.Y.LOGAN LODGE NO. 79, K. OF P. BLAIR LODGE NO. 281, K. OF P. WHITE CROSS LODGE NO. 354, K. OF P. ALTOONA COMPANY NO. 26, UNIFORM RANK, K. OF P. PYTHIAN TEMPLE ASSOCIATION Altoona, Pa. Oct. 7th, 1911. ....191..... [*D*] Theodore Roosevelt, Ex-President, New York City, N.Y. Dear Sir:- Altoona Company No 26, Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, are planning a series of lectures for the coming winter, the proceeds of same, to help defray the expenses of the Uniform Rank in attending the Supreme Lodge, to be held at Fortworth, Texas, during August of 1912, and we write to know if it will be possible for you to arrange to come here for a lecture. We await your reply with interest. Yours very truly, M. B. Burley Committeeman.The Canadian Club Boston OFFICERS 1911-1912 Dr. Wilfred E. Harris, President 488 Beacon Street, Boston John B, Patterson, 1st Vice-President Dr. Wm. M. Ruddick, 2nd Vice-President Col. S.O. Bigney, 3rd Vice-President D.J Macnichol, Secretary, Room 84 378 Washington St., Boston S.W.C. Downey, Asst. Secretary John F. Masters, Treasurer Thos. F. Anderson, Historian Rev. J.L. Campbell, Chaplain R.J. Dysart, Auditor Secretary's Phone Fort Hill 1844 HONORARY MEMBERS The Rt. -Hon. Sir Wilfred Laurier, F.C., D.C.L, S.C.M.S., LL. D. R. L. Borden, Esq., K.C., M.F., LL. D. The Rt. -Hon. Sir Charles Tupper, Bart., F.C., G.C.M., G.C.B. The Rt. -Hon. James Bryce, British Ambassador, Washington, D.C. Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, K.C.M.G., F.C. The Hon. Sir Frederick W. Borden W. Saturday Boston, Mass., Oct. 7th 1911 My dear Colonel Roosevelt. On Tuesday evening, November twenty first, we shall hold the annual dinner of the Canadian Club of Boston. We have invited several of the leading public men of Canada to be with us at that time, and deliver addresses on subject of international interest. I am directed by the executive2 Committee of the club to extend to you a most cordial invitation to be present on the said occasion, and address us on some subject of your own choice. For a long time we have indulged a hope of one day being honored by your presence; but we were conscious of the futility of urging this favor at a time when you were burdened by the great responsibilities of the office of Chief Executive of the United States. 3 Just now, we are specially anxious to foster a feeling of friendliness between the leading men of Canada & the United States, in the hope of setting at rest any fear that the result of the recent elections might have unduly strained these happy relations we desire to have. We shall do all within our power to make your visit a pleasant one. Believe me, my dear Colonel Roosevelt. Yours sincerely, Wilfred, E. Harris, Pres. To The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York.[*[Hill]*] [*✓ ck +*] [*11.*] My dear Mr. Roosevelt: I have not forgotten that you were so kind as to say to me when we met at the Outlook lunch last April that I might come to see you when I come home to the United States. I expect to arrive in New York about November 1, and shall be for some time at the Holland House. I shall be very happy to come and see you when and where it is most convenientto you. We have had a splendid summer here in Switzerland, and I am feeling fine. I would be glad, however if the newspapers would let me alone. They seem to go off without anyone touching the trigger--- very dangerous weapons. Mrs. Hill wishes to join me in expressions of regard to yourself and Mrs. Roosevelt. She will not accompany me on my return voyage. With great esteem, I am as ever Faithfully yours, David J. Hill[*6 *] OFFICE OF CHAIRMAN GOVERNING DIRECTORY BROOKLYN MASONIC VETERANS AURORA GRATA CATHEDRAL. 429 FULTON STREET Brooklyn, New York, Oct 7th, 1911. THE BEST OF LIFE IS YET TO COME BROOKLYN MASONIC VETERANS 1889 [*21*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt My Dear Sir & Brother. your letter received through R.W. Wm. M. Calder to me, and regret very much that you feel you cannot be with us and make a speech on behalf of the Bklyn Masonic Veterans. I ask you to be with us. You can smile on us and sit with us. This I will guarantee will be enough to please your Bro Masons. Only accept on your own terms. we want you. Fratly yours James McCullough[*18 *] FINANCE COMMITTEE A. J. HOLDERMAN R. Y. TALIAFERRO W. F. MCGINNIS HOLT HITCHCOCK C. H. PATTISON Butler County Kaffir Corn Carnival EL DORADO, KANSAS, OCTOBER 18, 19, 20, 1911 COME EL DORADO, KANSAS, Oct. 7" 1911. Hon. Theadore Roosevelt. Oyster Bay, N.Y., Dear Colonel, we are going to have something new, the only one of its kind ever attempted in the United States, and I have been requested to write many of the leading Magazines and Newspapers, and get some kind of a writeup, it being in the way of advertising a coming crop of this country, and what is for our part of Kansas, a reality NOW. What I allude to is a Kaffir Corn Carnival, to be held in our small city, October 18", 19" and 20", I hand you some literature herewith, that you may get some idea of what it will be. We now have ready and partly harvested, the greatest crop of Kaffir corn ever seen or raised in any part of the World, I venture to say. Just think of its immenseness, this County alone has fully 100,000 Acres of Kaffir corn ready for harvest, and say it averages 40, or even 80 bushels per acre, see what [??] our harvest will be and that is putting it moderately, at that, and at .50¢ Per bushell. I know it requires a great deal of gall to so address you, But I suppose I have it, having been born in bleeding Kansas, when she was yet a Territory in 1880, My Father and uncles having fought the Border ruffians, and later in the War of the Rebellion, and all went from Kansas, and later my only brother became Captain of troop 'I' of the Man that Kansas prefers for her next President: Regiment during the English American unpleasantness. I trust you will give us a little notice in your Magazine, and send me a copy, we would of course be very proud to have you be with us, especially during School children's day the 20" instant when we expect every child, or nearly so in our Couty to be with us. I know you are so burdened with such letters as this, that I scarcely hope for a reply, though several Metropolitan Newspapers have sent me subscriptions to offer as premiums. Trusting that I have not presumed too much on your good nature, of which I know you are well supplied I remain. Very truly yours, W. F. McGinnis. P.S. It has occurred to me that perhaps you could tell us more about Kaffir Corn than we ever knew, having visited the land of its Nativity, and the Kaffir King, in Africa, on your hunting trip. WFM [*7 *] GEO. E. MILLER CORRESPONDENT THE DETROIT NEWS 903 COLORADO BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C. Oct. 7, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, c/o The Outlook, New York, N.Y. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: It occurred to me that perhaps you might find a little interest in glancing over the enclosed article from my paper. The expressions regarding yourself in this meeting do not surprise me at all. In knocking about the country since the adjournment of congress I have found very many people who talk the same way. Of course there is La Follette, but it would astonish you to know how many sincere progressive republicans believe him politically dishonest. This has been especially the case since he took the position on the tariff in 1909 that tariff legislation ought to wait for an investigation by a tariff commission, and then this [last] year he flopped to the exact opposite view and insisted on immediate revision. I have talked with many republicans who do not think Taft has made good, who believe the tariff ought to be revised, but who said this peculiar turning about on the part of La Follette made them sick. Invariably such men have uttered a wish for your return to the White House beforeTHE DETROIT NEWS 903 COLORADO BUILDING WASHINGTON, D.C. GEO. E. MILLER CORRESPONDENT -2- my conversation with them was over. I met one Roosevelt democrat in Iowa who said: "Your bet your life [xxxx] if Teddy had been on the job that bunch of tariff revisionists (meaning congress) would not have put him into the hole the way they did Taft. He would have given them fits seven ways for Sunday with a line of messages that would have made the capitol smoke, demanding that they quit their fooling with the tariff and vote him money enough to properly equip the tariff board for investigation purposes. And if they did no do it he would have had the whole country stirred up over the recklessness of a congress which persistently disturbed business by making another unguided, guess-work revision, and refused to provide the means by which to secure a scientific revision." This man was a fine, up-standing fellow, and I heard him say a dozen times that you are the only republican who can be elected president next year. With sincere regards, Faithfully yours Geo. E. Miller Thomas M. Mulry, President John J. Pulleyn, Comptroller Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank, 51 Chambers Street. New York, October 7, 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, "The Outlook," New York, N. Y. My very dear friend: It is a great pleasure to see your familiar signature once more. I have been intending to call and see you when you were at leisure, as I cannot forget the many pleasant experiences we have had in the past, but unfortunately, up to two months ago for almost two years I was unwell and scarcely able to get about. However, I am now back to my usual good health and hope to have the privilege of seeing you occasionally. It will give me great pleasure to meet you on next Friday, at The Outlook Office, to visit the House of the Holy Family. I will be sure to be on time. Should anything unforeseen prevent my going I will let you know. With very best wishes, I remain, Yours sincerely, Thomas M. Mulry [*[Mulry] *] GROTON SCHOOL GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS [*12*] Oct. 7, 1911. My dear Theodore:- That's very nice. We shall look for the three of you on Thursday, the earlier the better. Perhaps Amory Gardner can send his auto- mobile over to Southborough to fetch you back here on Wednesday, or on Thurs- day morning. How about the talk? We can have some sort of a professional entertainer on Thanksgiving even- ing and then your lecture on Friday. Personally, I should very much prefer that if it suits you; for i am obliged, as I mentioned in my former letter, to be away on Thanksgiving evening. I am ever Sincerely yours, Endicott Peabody [*I am so sorry to hear that Mrs. Roosevelt's accident was so severe. Pray give her our warmest regards.*]DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE COUNTY OF NEW YORK CHARLES S. WHITMAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY October 7, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, 287 Fourth Avenue. Dear Colonel Roosevelt.- May I introduce Mr. Gilman, the head of the University Settlement, where I spent eight strenuous years of my life? He wants to see you on a matter which I think you will consider. I hope you will allow him a brief audience. The matter is not a speech. Very sincerely, James Bronson Reynolds JBR/a [*12-6 [Tusday] Tuesday*] AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE PHILADELPHIA PRESIDENT L.S. ROWE, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA VICE PRESIDENTS SAMUEL M. LINDSAY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ROBERT W. DE FOREST, NEW YORK EDUMUND J. JAMES, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS SECRETARY CARL KELSEY, UNIVERSITY OF PENNA. TREASURER STUART WOOD, PHILADELPHIA WEST PHILA. STATION Oct. 7, '11. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: I need not say to you how deeply disappointed I am that you cannot be with us as the guest of honor of the Academy come time during the coming winter. We have not given up hope to have you with us at some time or other,even if this is not possible at the present time. I will take the first opportunity to avail myself of your cordial invitation to lunch with you some Tuesday or Friday at the Outlook office. Yours very sincerely, L S Rowe Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, "The Outlook" #287 Fourth Avenue, New York, N.Y.[*[Schuyler]*] Highland Falls. N.Y Oct. 7. 1911 My dear Colonel, The accounts I have received about Edith, since her fall, are not reassuring, & I hope and trust are exaggerated. Would you be willing to send me a few lines(or ask some one else to do so) telling me how she is. Is there anything like concussion of the brain? This has been suggested - but I hope is not true. that I hope she does not suffer much. Give my love to her - and my love to you all through these anxious days. Sincerely yours Louisa Lee Schuyler To Col. Theodore Roosevelt.N. Allen Travis Born in Catawba Co North Carolina Sept. 19-74. Effie May Canipe Born in Lincoln Co North Carolina Sept-3—84 Rosa May - June 7th. '01. William Barnett - Sept 8th. '02. Gordon Long- Sept 12th '03. Theodosia Eames - Aug 28th '04. Robbie Nelson - Sept 18th '05. Samuel Allen - Oct. 26th. '06. Joseph Rodney - Dec 1st. '07 Marnie Everett - Dec 19th. '08. Emmit Hershaw May 19th. '10. Clara Louise Oct. 7th '11. N. Allen Travis and Effie May Canipe married July 1st 1900 From July 1st. 1900 to Oct. 7th. 1911 = 10 children have been born to us as above; all living. 7 boys and 3 girls, 1st, 4th. and 10th being girls. [*[Travis]*]OFFICE OF Board of Education UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 7 JAMES W. HUSTED, PRESIDENT FRANKLIN MONTROSS, SECRETARY P. W. O'BRIEN, M. D. LANNING G. ROAKE WILLIAM LAWSON MARTIN MOSES, TREASURER DRUM HILL HIGH SCHOOL FRANKLIN SCHOOL PARK STREET SCHOOL WALTER H. YOUNG, SUPERINTENDENT AND DISTRICT CLERK. [*D*] PEEKSKILL, N. Y., Oct. 7 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L.I. Dear Sir: The Board of Education of this District have requested me to extend to you an earnest invitation to deliver a lecture in the auditorium of our new building at the earliest date convenient to you, and on any subject you may choose. Our new building, of which we are justly proud, is unique in structure and has been pronounced one of the most beautiful and workable in the State of New York if not in the United States, and we desire to use the auditorium which will seat 850 people, for educational purposes. The proceeds of the lecture are to go to equip the gymnasium, the manual training, and the domestic science rooms. Hon. James W. Husted, son of General Husted who was Speaker of the Assembly for manyOFFICE OF Board of Education UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 7 JAMES W. HUSTED, PRESIDENT FRANKLIN MONTROSS, SECRETARY P.W. O'BRIEN, M.D. LANNING G.ROAKE WILLIAM LAWSON MARTIN MOSES, TREASURER DRUM HILL HIGH SCHOOL FRANKLIN SCHOOL PARK STREET SCHOOL WALTER H.YOUNG SUPERINTENDENT AND DISTRICT CLERK. Peekskill, N.Y. 191 years and with whome you were doubtless acquainted, is chairman of the Board of Education, and very anxious to have you speak in the new building. I shall be glad to hear from you as to terms and date. Hoping that the people of Peekskill may have the pleasure of hearing you, I am Very truly yours, Walter H. YoungEnc in Miller 10-7-11NEWBERRY MICHIGAN DELEGATE Favored Because Detroit Republicans Want Roosevelt Man. Local Leaders Feel Shaky With President Taft As Leader. Truman H. Newberry will very likely be a delegate-at-large from Michigan in the next republican national convention and he will go because the Detroit republicans want a man on the job who will certainly work to swing the state for Theodore Roosevelt if these seems to be a chance for the ex-president's nomination, it was started by a local official today. Mr. [Newberry?] has expressed himself to men who have approached him in the matter that he would like to go to the convention, it is stated. The situation came out in a discussion among a group of local republicans today of the state central committee meeting at Grand Rapids Thursday, which developed such a strong foreboding for party success with President Taft at the helm in 1912. Mr. Newberry was put forward as a candidate for delegate to the convention of four years ago, but he withdrew at the request of President Roosevelt to preevnt a threatened disruption of the party in Michigan that might hurt the chances of President Taft's election. Mr. Newberry was a member of President Roosevelt's cabinet and is regarded as very close to the ex-president politically. "There isn't any question about the feeling among Michigan republicans that President Taft is woefully weak," said one man during the talk today. "As I have been given to understand Mr. Newberry's position, he would not necessarily vote against President Taft in the convention. As things stand now, he would unquestionably be for the president. There is a strong feeling among Michigan republicans, however, that in some manner Mr. Taft will be withdrawn when the time comes, and if he is, Michigan wants to be prepared to make a fight to put the state in the Roosevelt column."Enc in Miller 10-7-11The D ROOSEVELT HOVERS O'ER G. O. P. MEET Veritable Banquo at Leaders' Feast in Grand Rapids. Distinct Atmosphere of Chill for President Taft. State Central Committee Conclave Brings Out Some Significant Political Palaver. (FROM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.) GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Oct. 6- Michigan republicans dressed up pessimistic utterances in pleasant garb today when members of the state central committee, congressmen and state officials met to cheer each other's political souls with fights of party oratory, but foreboding which predominated in the gathering was thinly veiled. With astonishing frankness the congressmen who took part in the talkfest, which followed the luncheon tendered by Aurthur Van Denberg, spoke of the danger the party will face with President Taft as standard bearer in the campaign of 1912. Senator William Alden Smith referred with distinct sarcasm to the president;s tendency to ignore the game of politics in selection of his issues. Former Congressman Diekema apparently struck a responsive chord in the minds of his hearers when he largely forgot the president and held up the political methods of Theodore Roosevelt as a model the party must follow in Michigan if it expects to retain its point of vantage. Only Senator Townsend eulogized President Taft in stirring fashion and he drew meager applause from his hearers. There was no lack of fighting spirit evidenced among the men assembled. With particular earnestness the speakers pleaded with the leaders to stand firm with the republican party which Congressman Hamilton declared is facing the greatest crisis in the history of the country and correspondingly its greatest responsibility, but there was an unusual frankness shown in meeting the dangerous situation that the leaders see face to face See Dark Future "There is a feeling of dissatisfaction, of discontent or at least of uncertainty," said Senator Townsend. "Republicans seem to have gotten into the habit of predicting dire things," The senator went on to take issue slightly with Senator Smith. He declared that he approved of politics, but of the variety [?] th[?] [?] issues above purely party [?]deration. Senator Smith opened by referring with complimentary band[?] to exactly 14 individual members of the audience before him. Then he referred to the defeat of reciprocity in Canada and added with a touch of sarcasm: "In Denver President Taft talked his policy of universal peace with federal regulation of divorce. It looks to me in view of the fact that in Colorado women vote and will cast their ballots for president in 1912, as if our president has at last found a combination of issues on which he can appeal to the public on a common ground. "President Taft is not a politician. Some people believe that it is better that he should not be. For my part I believe in politics. I hope there will never come a time when there is less politics in the government of this country. There is not a nation on the face of the earth that is not bettered by a free discussion of the fundamental questions of government. Favors Tariff Issue "I believe the tariff should remain in politics. I am a believer in the principal of protection. I believe that if our tariff wall is torn down we will come to methods of raising revenue much less satisfactory than the present plan. I believe that this question should be settled by congress. I think this government will take a step backward whenever it hands over any fundamental question for settlement to a body which sits upon a rostrum, free from direct influence from the people." That he regarded the utterance of Senator Smith as an argument against the tariff board was evidenced when Congressman Hamilton took direct issue with the senator in his remarks. "I like Senator Smith and he likes me," he said, smiling. "We agree on many questions, but I cannot agree with him in this. I have watched the work of the committee on ways and means of the house of representatives in making tariff schedules. I believe that the party laid down the great tariff principle when it declared in its last national platform for duties that represent the difference in cost of production at home and abroad. I believe further that we have taken a great step into the establishment of a tariff board to ascertain this cost of production. "The plan will work itself out slowly to be sure, but it is the way that will win justice in the end. I was surprised when the democrats voted for this tariff board. Now they have repudiated it and that should be a main argument that will work for republican success in the campaign to come." Congressman Hamilton also couldn't keep entirely a way from the issue of reciprocity. "I was against reciprocity," he said, suddenly. "I am still against reciprocity, but I'll not go into that subject. That is another story, an old story. You know our brothers across the [border?] voted it down, Charlie," he smiled, looking at Senator Townsend, the only congressman present who voted for the reciprocity pact. "Either you or they must have been wrong," countered Senator Townsend, dryly and he got a burse of applause. Thinks Canadians Wrong. "I believe they were wrong," said Mr. Hamilton, still smiling over at Townsend. "I'm glad they have voted the pact down," he continued, taking on an air of great earnestness. It clears the way for us to win next year, but, gentlemen, we cannot win by waving the American flag. We must win by speaking from the heart. That is the only convincing way a man can speak, from the heart." Congressman Diekeman urged the republican leaders that they must be progressive, "but not the progressiveism that is really radicalism," he concluded. "The reason Theodore Roosevelt was successful was that he never went against a fundamental principle of the republican party. He was alive to the spirit of the times. He had the courage to face and cope with new problems that arise for solution. We must follow these principles if we continue to success in Michigan." Theodore Roosevelt's name was on the lips of the republicans assembled more often than was the name of President Taft. More than once the former president was referred to as the one man who would satisfy the republicans of Michigan completely as a candidate in 1912. Not once was the name of Senator La Follette mentioned in the speech- making and there was not a single member of the central committee who declared himself for the Wisconsin man as a presidential candidate. Equally, however, there appeared to be a feeling that President Taft is woefully weak so far as popularity with the voters goes. For instance, as stalwart a party man as William S. Dever, of Detroit, said: "Michigan is for President Taft; that is, there is no question as to the sentiment as between President Taft and Senator La Follette. What Michigan voters would like, is for Theodore Roosevelt to be nominated. They are progressive and their progressiveness bears the Roosevelt, not the La Follette stamp.: Dr. A. W. Seidmore, committee man from Three Rivers, and candidate for the nomination for auditor-general, typified the opinion expressed by practically all of the representatives from agricultural districts. "We are farmers down in my county and with the farmers President Taft is certatinly a dead one. It will take a great deal to make the farmers forget his advocacy of reciprocity." "Are the farmers for Senator La Follette?" "No, I don't think they are. They don't talk of anybody in particular. The feeling doesn't seem to turn to any candidate yet, but there is a distinct sentiment against President Taft." "Our district is for President Taft," said Robert Babcock, of Manistee. That is, the republicans up there are for President Taft more than any one else. There is an unquestioned feeling of unrest among many of the voters that President Taft doesn't seem to satisfy. I mean just this: If Judson Harmon, as prepresenting the corporate interest of the country, is nominated by the democrats, the voters will be for President Taft against him. If Woodrow Wilson should be nominated I think he would draw many votes." Plan Many Banquets. The meeting of the state central committee proved a tame affair so far as the political developments that had been expected were concerned. Chairman Knox reported the progress in the school district organization of the state, which has been going forward since the last campaign. He declared that 16,000 workers are now on the card index lists at the "Soo" temperary headquarters, all of them men who stand ready to circulate republican literature and do political work for the party when called on. He stated that the number will be increased to 20,000 before the 1912 campaign. Plans for organisation of republican clubs in every congressional district in the state were discussed. Banquets will be scheduled in all corners of the state, beginning immediately after January 1, and arrangements will be made to use outside speakers at several banquets during their stay in the state. Last night the members of the committee and visiting congressmen and state officials, Governor Osborn among them, were entertained at the home of Regent Ben S. Hanchett, of the state University. HAYDEN. FAMOUS JESUIT ORATOR FEARS TASK OF WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE TOO GREAT FOR "NEW WOMAN" NEW YORK, Oct 6.-In a speech bristling with satire and wit, Father Bernard Vaughan, London's famous Jesuit orator, flayed grasping capitalists, made a plea for a higher and broader Christianity, and summed up his estimate of the "new woman" in the Twelfth Regiment armory, under the auspices of the Knights of Columbus last night. Here are some of Father Vaughan's aphorisms: "Some people work well at their meals, but not between them." "It is bad economy to starve the poor that the rich may wallow in luxuries." "Every human being has a right to live as a human being." "Any employer who does not give a living wage, or enforces extravagant hours of work, or does not provide sanitary surroundings for his employes, is a sweater, and the sooner he is taken by the scruff of the neck and shown the Hudson river the better." "Our spiritual vitality is threatened by material luxuries." "The Christian church today needs men to be lifted up to ideals." Father Vaughan, while expressly stating that he is not a foe of woman suffrage, declared that he does not FATHER VAUGHAN. believe that the "new woman" is capable of solving the complex industrial and social problems of the present century. Orrine for Drink Habit Any wife or mother who wants to save her husband or son from "Drink" will be glad to know that she can purchase ORRINE the standard liquor habit remedy that we have sold for years, and if no benefit is obtained after a trial, the money will be refunded ORRINE is prepared in two forms: No. 1. secret treatment, a powder absolutely tasteless and odorless, given secretly in food or drink; ORRINE No. 2, in pill form, is for those who desire to take voluntary treatment. ORRINE costs only $1.00 a box. Come in and get a free booklet about ORRINE. Central Drug Co. 187 and 96 Woodward avenue, 183 Grand River avenue. Wanted, Proposals For the paving of Beresford avenue with asphalt and reinforced concrete; also La Belle avenue with reinforced concrete. Plans and specification are now on file in the office of the clerk of Highland Park, 26 Cottage Grove avenue and in the office of George Jerome at 939 Majestic building, Detroit, Mich. Bids will be receivedup to 7:30 p.m., October 16, 1911, by the Clerk of the Village of Highland Park. All bids must be accompanied by a certified check, payable to the Village of Highland Park in the sum of five hundred dollars as a guarante of the good faith of the bidder R. MILTON FORD, Clerk. GRAND TRUCK RAILWAY SYSTEM No Change IN Summer Schedle Excepting BETTER SERVICE Grand Rapids Flyers 7:45 A. M. 4 Hours 4:45 P. M. CHICAGO LIMITED 11:45 a. m. and 10:00 p. m. THUMB SERVICE 7:50 a. m., 3:00 p. m. City Ticket Office, 118 Woodward Ave. Phone Main 39. Ten Dollar Sets for $5 Guaranteed for 10 Years. Teeth Extracted Free. Laughing Gas and [Vitall?] [A?]. Peerless Dental Parlors Corner Woodward and Jefferson Aves. [*[10-7-11]*] [*[Enc. in Carson 11-4-11]*] 8 the morning sun. on Shiloh's bloody plain. Dear Tribune: My father was in the army, and my half-brother was killed at Shiloh. I send some verses on his death: I had once a darling brother, His eyes were dark and deep, But now on Shiloh's bloody plain He sleeps his solemn sleep. He was so kind and noble, He was so brave and true; And when our country called for help He donned his coat of blue. "Come here' my little sister, For I must say adieu; You must be kind to mother, For now she'll have but you. Your brother will be fighting Our starry flag to save And maintain his country's honor, O, help him to be brave!" And so with tears and kisses, We bid our loved one go, He was so true and noble, And, O, we loved him so. But though we knelt in prayer That he might come again, God knoweth best; he sleeps the sleep On Shiloh's bloody plain. -L. Barnes, in National Tribune. The Morning Sun. a daily news-letter Vol. I. OCT. 7, 1911. No. 1 ARE YOU WITH US? We don't present this number of the Morning Sun as a fair sample of what we have in view in entering a field of journalism now almost deserted by the so-called public journalism of the present day. But we propose to make of it a country journal not only because it is printed and issued from a tent at the country residence of the editor at his Springlawn home-about a mile from the Sedro-Woolley P. O.-but we do intend to work for the betterment of the country taxpayers of the country sections, and all who are intent upon earning an honest living by the sweat of their own brow rather than of the other man's brow. In short, work for all we conceive is comprehended in that popular maxim of 'A square deal for everybody', and not for a favored few or any mere self-constituted class or a political machine. Get on the band-wagon now![*10-7-11*] 2 the morning sun. TO COMRADES AND OTHERS. Comrades and friends all over the east may call on Comrade F. D. Carson, L.L. B., Sedro-Woolley, Skagit county, Washington, for information about the country. He will gladly act as purchasing agent for any of his oll friends in Maine, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Washington, D. C., or Falls Church, Va., he having resided at successive periods during the past 35 or 40 years at these different points; having been in the Tenth Census office in Washington, D. C., in 1880-3, and Falls Church. Va., 1884-6. He was a member of Co. H, 5th Wis. Infty., Third Brig., First Div. Sixth Corps, Army Potomac, to close of war, being member of Army Quartermaster Spicer's Guards at Warren Station, in front of Petersburg from Jan. to April, 1885. He will be glad to hear from any and all old friend-and especially comrades of his old commands during the war. To old acquaintances he needs no introduction; to strangers he has permission to refer to Hon. M. F. Morris, U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and J. J. Darlington, Esq., Washington, D. C.: Ex-U. S. Senator W. D. Washburn. Hon. D. C. Bell, Col. W. W. Folwell, University of Minnesota (50th N. Y. Engineers), Minneapolis, Minn., Hon. Milton T. Simmons, cashier Commerical National Bank. Fond du Lac, Wis., Prof. Richard H. Thornton, LL.B., and U. S. Senator Geo. E. Chamberlain, Portland, Ore. He is also a member of the bars of the District of Columbia, Virginia, Minnesota and Oregon, being a graduate of the Law School of Georgetown (D. C.) University.[*10-7-11*] the morning sun. 3 A WORD TO HOMESEEKERS. Have you a home, climate that suits, good health and a reasonably assured income where you are? If so, then we do not advise you to sacrifice it even for a home anywhere about Puget Sound, or in Skagit county. You have already what many have not-even here-but what all should strive for. It is to those who have not that "The Morning Sun", would bring the good tidings of this favoral and delightful country in our successive issues. It is to fully depict and portray the facts concerning western Washington and Skagit county in particular, that our little "news letter" is issued. We will be ready and glad to send you copies of its successive issues on demand, to thus give you full information concerning our town or immediate locality. Our object and aim is to make you familiar with our county and its every peculiarity before you visit it, then you will know just what you will find here before making any material sacrifice by starting. Inclose a stamp in writing for copies. In the near future summer cottages in the mountain regions about the Sound will become the great attraction, and they will be as diadems in the crown of grandeur and picturesqueness that charms the eye in looking mountainward from the quiet homes about the Sound. It will mean a total change in climate and altitude in but 15 to 25 miles travel from Sound cities in the summer. The Puget Sound district has over 20 canneries in it which put up a half million cases of salmon in 1902.[*10-7-11*] 4 THE MORNING SUN. THE MORNING SUN A DAILY NEWS-LETTER. Published in the interests of Skagit county and other Puget Sound sections of the State of Washington. Terms. Single copy, 1c; per week, 5c; per month, 15c. By mail, 5 copies to one address, per month, 50 cents. Advertising rates furnished on application. Sedro-Woolley, Wash. Oct. 7, 1911. CALL THEM HOME! Now that Canada has decided that she wants no favors of this side of the line, will she please call home those native sons of hers who are here in Washington merely for grafting purposes or political machine-building, salary-grabbing, promoting of tax-dodging, ready so soon as they have accumulated their big swag or danger threatens, to grab their swag and get back home to laugh over what 'easy ones' they found us yankees over in Washington! The train is now whistling in! Get aboard your autos, or the train and speed homeward, Willie, Aleck., R. L., Harry, et. al., and give a chance to your honest countrymen who come here to earn an honest livelihood. [*Harry Fairchild died 2 days later at Olympia!*] THE MORNING SUN. 5 GARDEN OF EDEN NOTES. As the Sun rises in that small community of people who own from two to ten acres of tillage lands as yet but partially cleared and under cultivation, and now usually known as Garden of Eden, we shall commence there in pointing out the unjust, infamous, and shoddy method pursued in property assessing and tax-levying in Skagit county. We shall do this on the presumption that we have been treated as fairly as most other sections of the county, and that as it is at this point so it will be presumed to be elsewhere about the county. Our first number of the series will appear in our next issue; meanwhile send us in your reports of conditions prevailing in your section of the county, fellow citizen! The man who is influenced in a political campaign to vote for other than the best man for a public office by a drink of liquor, a cigar, or any other trifling favor, given as a bribe for his vote and influence, is just as big a knave as that other man he is thus aiding to put into the legislature to sell out the people by selling his vote and influence to some other rascal whose only ambition is to disgrace an honorable position by selling out the people's interests to the 'big interests' or trusts. All four criminals. [*10-7-11*] 6 THE MORNING SUN. "Logged off" land island upon which the fir or cedar timber - suitable for lumber or shingles - has been removed. Puget Sound is the greatest and the most central harbor of the world commercially and geographically considered. Seek not many acres to till but seek to raise the most you can from the smallest space of land. Thorough tillage always pays, if it be only on an acre or less. We have found two seasons of the year on Puget Sound. Wet and dry and this does not mean drenched and dried up either. It means simply wet enough or dry enough - just ideal conditions, nothing more and nothing less. Don't forget to plant a few horse chestnuts while you set out your ornamental trees. Our climate is adapted to their growth and they are "a thing of beauty" every springtime, with their wealth of purple blossoms. "Slashed" is a term used to designate the usual method of clearing lightly timbered land on the Coast. The trees and large brush are cut down or slashed in the wet season and set on fire and burned off during the dry season. If you desire to go to Washington and the Puget Sound country, to build up a home or enter business let us know what kind of a home you want and what occupation you follow and we will furnish you with both, or direct yo to them.[*10-7-11*] THE MORNING SUN FACTS ABOUT SKAGIT COUNTY. Potatoes do wonderfully well and no uncommon yield is 600 bushels per acre Cleared lands under cultivation are worth from $100 to $300 per acre according to location. The average yield for oats is 90 bushels per acre but tracts of 18 acres have exceeded 172 bushels per acre on the La Conner flats. Twenty-six well developed apples of the wealthy variety on a single stalk in a space of 18 inches in the Beatty orchards at Sedro-Woolley this season. Logged off lands adapted to raising fruit, grain, hay, vegetables and stock can be had from $10 per acre up and costing from $30 per acre up to clear. In the mountain regions will eventually be developed the most profitable orchards, notwithstanding the wonderful productiveness of orchards on lands of lower altitudes. Skagit county is 78 miles long from Puget Sound on the west to the Cascade mountains on the east, and 24 miles wide. Whatcom county o n the north and Snohomish county on the south. Good agricultural and fruit lands, termed "logged off" lands may be had in Skagit county at from $10 up, according to location and much of these lands have enough fir or down cedar to pay for them.1 bis rue Hardy, Versailles, France. 8th Oct. 1911. My dear Colonel:- If you have written any recent article or articles about the negro question, I am going to beg you to send them to me; and I wonder if I might also ask that your secretary send me something authoritative about your attitude after the Brownsville riots? I am writing i French, for a Paris publisher, a book "La Question du Négre aux Etats-Unis"; and I must devote a chapter to your attitude, since your administration marked an era in this question as in others, the Booker Washington episode I don't intend to mention at all the Crum episode I shall give as an experiment which had to be tried, and was to be most conclusive in a stronghold of the old aristocracy like Charleston. I have plenty of information about the Crum affair -- our talk on the "Admiral", my own recollections from Charleston, and a number of newspaper articles of the time, including your letter to the Mayor of Charleston about Hemphill. But I have nothing since this -- in print -- about your feelings, I mean [some]nothing that I can quote, [that] and I feel the need of a more recent statement. Also, I lack precise information about Brownsville. You will understand that I can't afford to commit an inaccuracy, however, slight, in dealing with you; and you know that in my appreciations I shall be as tactful as is within my power. I don't know if the book will appear in English translation; my publisher intends to try for that; but a certain number of press copies will go to America anyhow, so I have America to think of as well as Europe in whatever I say.-2- I am sorry to have to worry you about this; I had hoped that Mr Loeb might help me out, but he felt the delicacy of the position, and would not; and then I thought of Kermit, but as I knew Kermit would do nothing in the matter without consulting you, it seemed wiser to write direct to you and let you refer it to Kermit if you prefer. In the book I shall try to show the French that the American is not a brute crushing the life out of the unhappy negro who is still as much in bondage morally as he was during slavery. That's the general belief on the continent. Only this last July, a Northern woman published in the Revue Habdemadaire an article whose facts might date back to the period of the Beechers, telling of the awful fight a few enlightened souls in the North are having to humble the outrageous Southerners and obtain Education and Equality for the downtrodden black. Such people don't step to reflect that they cast discredit upon America as a nation and not only upon us Southerners when they circulate such rubbish abroad. My attitude will be to show how very much is being done for the negro, and how very difficult it is to do it, owing partly to the negro's character and partly to the wrong ideas jammed into his head by idealists forcing theoretical education upon him. For the past ten years I have been collecting newspaper articles relating petty incidents and crimes which, being brought together, show up the negro in a much stronger and truer light than do the statistics which writers too often take as basis for their books and articles. I shall quote some portions of my mother's War Diary about their own servants before and after Emancipation; I shall relate some of my own East African impressions; and I have an interesting list of authorities to quote, including interviews taken at various times during the past ten years. Ever devotedly yours, dear Colonel Warrington . DawsonT. COLEMAN DUPONT DELAWARE Republican National Committee Wilmington Del Oct 8 1911 [*15*] My dear Mr. Roosevelt I would like very much to have a talk with you and write to know if you will give me an appointment at any time and place that best suits your convenience. Wed Oct 11 I have an engagement in Boston, but will arrange to suit your pleasure. Sincerely yours Coleman du Pont OCT 8 1911 15. The Right ohrable Cornel T. Rosvelt Oyster Bay. new. york Dear Sir i am Riting you A few Lynes to Tell you my Progress in Life i am a stanch Republican and Tuck your Advic on the Family Line since i was married i Has Been married 14 years And Has Had 12 in Famly 8 of Which is still aliveAnd in good Helth thare names is J.P. Farrell Junior He is 11 years old Willam mcKinly is 8 T Rosvelt 6 J or Jorg[?] Edward is Ded He is the oldest Allis is Ded she would be the oldest girl . Har kat and Mary Lillie and Lenora and Zladio still a live the ar all in good Helth But Mr. Rosvelt i find my self in a Bad Shap i am A Car Repair on the Rail Rod and i Will not be able to Rais my Boys and girls in Town on my salrey i Wish you Would Advse me Whare i Would Take them so that i Could get them a Litel Farm and Rais them up to be good sittsnes[?] i am not able to Bye so if i Could get a. Homsted i think i Could Rais them up to be Worthey of thare names now ohnorable sir and find to Children if you Can do Anything Pease Do And Oblige Patrick J. Farrell Box 202 Eldon Wapla Co. Iowa[*4*] War Department, Bureau of Insular Affairs Washington DC 8 October, 1911 My dear Colonel Roosevelt: Allow me to thank you for the rare satisfaction which your Panama article gave me. It requires a shrivelled soul, indeed, to cavil at one of the few big things in our history really attributable to constructive statesmanship and not to the supporting help of bounteous nature. You have so completely cleaned up your cities in this and the Tennessee Coal Matter that Iam tempted to express the hope that, in the interest of accurate history, you will cover the relation by our Administration to the Sugar Trust while the facts are still fresh. Faithfully yours, Felix FrankfurterTWIN CITY LITHO. CO. ST. PAUL, MINN. ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF SIXTH ST. NEAR NICOLETT AVE. THE COMPLETE HOTEL RATES $1.50 UP HOTEL DYCKMAN HIGHEST TYPE OF FIRE PROOF CONSTUCTION EVERY ROOM WITH A BATH CIRCULATING ICE WATER TO ALL ROOMS EUROPEAN PLAN EXCLUSIVELY C.D. COLLINS [*9*] MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Oct. 8, 1911. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Outlook Office, United Charities Bldg. New York City, N.Y. My dear Col. Roosevelt: Have just read your "Peace of Righteousness" article. It is admirable. I heard Mr. Taft on the subject for an hour at DesMoines. Have been investigating public sentiment in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota and Minnesota. I find the farmers are ten to one against Mr. Taft - due to Reciprocity. With best regards. Sincerely yours, Gilson Gardner[*[10-8-11]*] Ameublements Tapisserie, Ébénisterie Meubles de Style Glaces et Encadrements Literie Complète Articles de Fantaisie Tapis, Rideaux Tissus En Tous Genres INSTALLATION Mme Marie Giroud 8 & 10, Rue de la Halle Pontarlier, le 8 Octobre 1911 (Doubs) Monsieur et Madame Roosevelt à New York Amerique [*3*] [*IMP. EM. THOMAS.-PONTARLIER*] Excusez-moi Monsieur je vous prie si je prends la liberté de vous ecrire; c'est au sujet d'une jolie collection de tableaux anciens que je desirerais vendre et dont j'ai l'honneur de venir vous offrir C'est 1= un tableau de Botticelli Sandro très joli pinture en ditrempe inestimable Peintre Italien né à Florence 1434 mort en 1515 dont les oeuvres sont a jamais innimitables a tableau represente la Vierge et l'Enfant tenant dans ses mains un collier c'est une marveille on ne peu se lassé de le voir il fait l'admiration de tousles Grands connaisseurs il mesure 1.30 m x 1 m. ovale 2: tableau portrait de Marise Therése reine de France epouse de Louis XIV fille âinée de Philippe IV d'Espagne peinture sur toile de l'ecole Espagnole Velasqeuez ce tableau est de taute beauté, les [couleurs?] sont chauds et la chair est nairée c'est une ravissante peinture qué mesure 1.10 m x 1 metre. Le Comte Olivàrês premier ministre de son pére peint par le même autuer que celui-ci à été rendu à Londres 2 millions 3: Napolèon I en costume de géneral [?] peinture sur toile de l'ecole Hollandaise de (Dieterbecq) mesure 0.90 m x 0.80 m 4: Le petit roi de Rôme portrait fait au point (Tsabey 1815) 5: Madame Latisia Bonaparte mère de Napolèon I portrait mignature sur èmail 6: Mademoiselle de Lavalière portrait peinture sur toile attribué à Mignard. 7: Louis Philippe roi de France par Amaury Duval éleve d'Ingres Portrait trés ressemblant (1829) 8: Petit portrait du General de Wasington 9: Madame de Lamballe executée à la revolution 10: Le comte des Loges gravure de l'epoque 11: Portrait petit bronze de Pyrée Je vendrais cette superbe collection pour le prix de 1.500.000 frs le tableau de Botticelli vaut cette somme à lui seul Monsieur peut acheté ces peintures en toute confiance elles ont èté achetées par moi pour la pluspart en vente publique dans des châteaux envirannants. de plus elles ont èté expertisèes par un expert trés en vu. nos Ministres l'empl[??] trés souvent pour leurs châteaux. Cette vent est de taute confiance etant ma collection personnelle.Ameublements Tapisserie, Ébénisterie Meubles de Style Glaces et Encadrements Literie Complète Articles de Fantaisie Tapis, Rideaux Tissus En Tous Genres INSTALLATION Mme Marie Giroud 8 & 10, Rue de la Halle Pontarlier, le 8 Octobre 1911 (Doubs) [*IMP. EM. THOMAS.-PONTARLIER*] Suite Li Monsieur n'etait pas acheteur de ces belles Oeuveres je le prierai de transmettre mes documents ci ses Amis et connaissances qui collectionnent je lui en serais tres reconnaissante. Je serais heureuse de recevoir soit acheteur sait expert pour se rendre compte de la realité. Cette collection est le fruit de trente années de recherches elle convient particulierement a des chefs d'Etats. J'avais offert ma collection au Louvre et comme les pourpalers trainent depuis un an. Je suis decidés a les vendrent a l'Etranger vu que je n'ai pas encore de solution [?]Dans l'espoir d'une reponse favorable J'ai l'honneur de presente a Monsieur & Madame l'assurance de ma profond respect. Marie Giroud Ci Joint deux photographies des principaux tableaux ainsi q'une copie de l'expertise faite pas maitre Jantet Linnsier de notre ville et l'egalisée par Monsieur Magnin maire de la ville de Pontarlier.CARL HAUSER P.O. BOX 2152 New York, Oct. 8th, 1911 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L.I. Dear Colonel: I take great pleasure in mailing you the enclosed clipping of a Dresden paper, merely to show you, how greatly your Kindness to the member of the Schlaraffia was appreciated. At the same time, please, accept my heartfelt sympathy & best wishes for the speedy recovery of Mrs. Roosevelt. With best regards, I am always your faithfully devoted Carl Hauser EnclosureThe Public Schools F. E. LURTON, Ph. D. Superintendent Anoka, Minnesota Oct. 8, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir:- The officials of The Northern Minnesota Educational Association unanimously decided to ask you to come to give th principal address at the annual meeting which is to be held in the city of St. Cloud early in April and I am writing to ask if you can come and what fee you would charge. We can promise you a fine audience composed of six hundred school superintendents and teachers and as many more citizens. Sincerely, F. E. Lurton President.We trust that it is entirely agreeable to you for us to use your letter in our appeal to the general public for aid in caring for several hundred orphans? Again thanking you for your interest I am faithfully yours Owen M. Waller Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 8 1911. [*[10-8-11]*] OWEN MEREDITH WALLER, M. D. 762 HERKIMER STREET BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK Hon. Theodore Roosevelt My dear Mr. Roosevelt. As chairman of the Committee of Arrangements for the Dedication of the new Howard Asylum, I thank you for your kind letter of commendation of our work.[*Belfast*] BELFAST EVENING TELEGRAPH, BELFAST. IRELAND. October 9, 1911. Theodore Roosevelt, Esq., Oyster Bay, Long Island, U.S.A., Dear Mr. Roosevelt, Would you kindly favour us with a message of greeting to the people of this country on the occasion of your birthday which we would publish on the 27th. Yours truly, BELFAST EVENING TELEGRAPH (SW for Managing Editor)[*Benson G J*] Garrett J. Benson 132 State Street Albany, N.Y. Albany, N.Y. Oct. 9, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. My Dear Colonel: Inclosed find clippings of the Bayne Committee now in session at Albany, N.Y. Will keep you posted every day of what is going on. In talking with some of the Powers that be, there is nothing in the story that you are to be subpoenaed but they are looking for all the information that can get. Respectfully yours, Garrett J. Benson4 and know they must have some help before winter is over. Father is a good man and has worked faithfully for 25 years for his family and loves everyone of them. He has no bad habits and every cent he earns is put to the best advantage. My salary is six dollars a month of which I have to clothe myself and buy the necessary books. Trusting, I am not asking too much I am sincerely Clara Card 141 South 6th Street Newark. N. J. "Nurses Home" [*17*] Newark New Jersey October 9-1911 Hon. Theo. Roosevelt. Dear Sir. For a long time I have been waiting to write you about our family, although I do not mean to ask for charity. I am one of seventeen children of whom ten are living, and am in a training school for nurses in New Jersey, trying to be proficient in that study to help my parents. I also have a sister younger who will enter the sameto make up what was lost as he took cold on that night and not having good health was unable to hold his position. He is 47 years old and mother is 41 years old who is in perfect health. I sincerely hope Mr. Roosevelt will not publish this and could in some way give the family help. This is the first time we have ever had to ask for help. My parents no nothing of this, as I dont know whither they would approve of this or not, but my heart aches for them 2 training school some time in February. We have both worked out in good society and have been able to clothe ourselves pay rent, or buy a barrell of flour, for the children, who go to school in a small country place called North Haven just out side of Sag Harbor, where the family is located just at present. Last year the house which we occupied took fire and burned to ashes nothing was saved and worst of all no insurance. Since then father has been working steady but is unable October 9th, 1911 [*[Conklin]*] Colonel Theador Rosevelt: Honored Sir I trust you will pardon the liberty I have taken in writing to you. I read an artical in the Monday Evening World which express your sentiments in regard to forming a police Force at Oyster Bay I have had fifteen years experience in that line having been instrumental in organizing a night patrol at Boro Park where I have been employed as special officer. I have been very successful in bringing many lawless Italians to Justice and I believe there are quite a number of them living at Oyster Bay at the present time. The regular police have taken away much of my work lately having established a Booth at Boro Park. I am desirous of obtaining another position and could give better service at lower rates than a police force formed by an association.I am a man of strictly temperate habits and faithful in the discharge of any duties can furnish the best of references. I was born in Cold Spring Harbor. and am a Grandson of Judge Conklin Deceased I would be willing to move to Oyster Bay could I obtain a position there. If you deem this letter worthy your consideration an answer from you will be gratefully received by me. Very Respectfully Oliver Conklin 197 Garfield Place Brooklyn.OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT [*BOSTON CHAPTER S.A.R. HOSTIBUS PRIMO FUGATIS BOSTONIUM RECUPERATUM XVII MARTII MDCCLXXVI CHARTERED OCTOBER 31, 1895.*] [*D*] Lowell School Boston, Oct. 9, 1911. Col. Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir: I enclose a copy of our program for the coming season and would extend you a cordial invitation to address us on "Dutch" night, November 18th. I hope the idea will appeal to you as a citizen of Dutch descent and that you would enjoy giving us a brief resumé of what was going on in Holland and her dependencies during the last half of the 18th century. We put Holland secondto France in assisting us through the Revolutionary struggle by loans of money. I hope some meeting of the Harvard Overseers may come at a conveniently near date of ours so that you can accept. If this is impossible, can you recommend a New York Hollander who would come on? There are very few of that nationality here, although Mr. Leon Van Vleet the violin cellist, is going to favor us by rendering some Dutch folk songs. Yours very truly Edward J. Cox[*File*] FREDERICK M. DAVENPORT DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE HAMILTON COLLEGE CLINTON, NEW YORK Oct. 9, 1911 Dear Colonel Roosevelt; I enclose a letter from a valued elderly friend of mine of as good insight into the heart of the decent people of the country as anybody I know. This all about you. and it is true, and so I think you ought to have the chance to read it. I received those letters for Fred all right, and I am very grateful to you for them. Fred is just past fifteen, and although he made a brilliant entrance into Harvard, the plans for the right kind of room mates in the freshmen dormitories, which the Dean had madefor him, fell through at the last moment- and so he has gone to Wesleyan for this year. I think he will get more out of Cambridge a little later, and he is bent upon going there as soon as things work out right for him. As Ever, Faithfully Yours, Frederick M. DavenportTHE PITTS FOUNDRY & CONTRACTING COMPANY FINE GRAY IRON CASTINGS & SPECIALTY ALL JOBBING WORK GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION [*R.*] SOUTH HOUSTON,TEXAS Oct. 9th 1911 Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Associate Editor "OUTLOOK," New York N. Y., Dear Sir:- I am inclosing an article that I would be glad would find its way into the columns of the "OUTLOOK." In the event you do not consider it opportune or to drastic in is bearings I would be glad of your kindly criticism. I believe in the substance of it with all my heart and believe these conditions are even now so near us and will eveolve so fast when we are just a little farther along that our very heads will swim because of the swiftness with which the things will move and materialize. Knowing you are not afraid to state that you believe am sure if you SEE this as I do you will not fear to have it in the "OUTLOOK." I just yesterday read a report of President Taft's Saturday or Friday's speech, in which he says if something is not done we are going to merge into, and which he would favor if the trusts wont allow being controlled, a condition of State Socialism. From what I understand about Socialism there are some wonderfully good things about it but as stated in my article I have never attended one of their meetings and am not versed in their belief further than Government Ownership of all public utilities. Then a lot of them would do away with the GOD that made them and provides for them. Also the HOME, the SABBATH and the CHURCH. All of these I firmly believe in and are and were made for man and for his good. Take J.D. Rockefeller's Wealth. If we consider him a man of only $100,000,000 to-day and that he started 50 years ago with $1,000 if it increases at the same RATIO the next 170 years as it has the past 50 years it will take a Freight Train 200,000 miles long loaded with 50,000 pounds of GOLD to hold what his ESTATE will have if converted into GOLD. I mean EACH CAR loaded with 50,000 lbs. of gold. Will appreciate your kindly criticism, as stated, and thank you for a reply, Yours very truly, Franklin P. Davis [*[10-9-11]*] STATE OF NEW YORK EXECUTIVE CHAMBER ALBANY Honorable Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay Dear Mr Roosevelt, Permit me to express to you my appreciation for your photograph and your goodness in the sentiment expressed. With expressions of my regard and best wishes to you and yours Sincerely yours, John A Dix Lake George October nine 1911SIDNEY W. EDWARDS, MISSIONARY, PORTO RICO. [*5.*] Utuado, P. R., Oct. 9 1911. Hon. Theodre Rosvelt, Sagmore Hill, New York, N.Y. Sir: Not having the opportunity of taking a Law course in one of our universities; and the circumstancies are now such that it is impossible to take one; I had decided to take a correspondence Law course. Consequently I have written to several advertised Correspondence Law Schools. Almost the very day I wrote these letters I saw in the Outlook an article denouncing correspondence schools. That is why i am taking the liberty of asking your opinion and advice about taking a course of law in a correspondance school. Under the circumstances, would you advise a correspondance law course? If so what schools, if any do you consider reliable? Your reply would be most appreciated. I am sincerely yours, Sidney W. EdwardsTHE CIVIC FORUM NON-PARTISAN, NON-SECTARIAN A NATIONAL PLATFORM FOR THE DISCUSSION OF PUBLIC QUESTIONS AND THE PROMOTION OF INTERNATIONAL GOOD-WILL BOARD OF TRUSTEES ISAAC N. SELIGMAN J. AND W. SELIGMAN & CO. BANKERS, WILLIAM H. BLISS LAWYER MARCUS M. MARKS PRESIDENT NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS ELGIN R. L. GOULD PRESIDENT CITY AND SUBURBAN HOMES COMPANY HENRY CLEWS BANKER ROBERT J. COLLIER EDITOR COLLIER'S WEEKLY JAMES B. REYNOLDS FORMERLY SPECIAL COMMISSIONER FOR PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT JOHN MITCHELL EX-PRESIDENT UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA ROBERT ERSKINE ELY EDUCATOR VICE-PRESIDENTS HON. WILLIAM H. TAFT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HON. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN LINCOLN, NEBRASKA RT. REV. DAVID H. GREER, D.D. EPISCOPAL BISHOP OF NEW YORK PRESIDENT SAMUEL GOMPERS AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR HON. NAHUM J. BACHELDER EX-GOVERNOR OF NEW HAMPSHIRE MASTER OF THE NATIONAL FARMERS' GRANGE JOHN GRAHAM BROOKS SOCIOLOGIST HON. OSCAR S. STRAUS EX-SECRETARY OF COMMERCE AND LABOR MOST REV. JOHN IRELAND ARCHBISHOP OF ST. PAUL REV. LYMAN ABBOTT, D.D. EDITOR OF THE OUTLOOK DR. ALBERT SHAW EDITOR OF THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS AUTHOR ELGIN R. L. GOULD, TREASURER ROBERT ERSKINE ELY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CABLE ADDRESS CIFORUM, NEW YORK TELEPHONE { 4397 } BRYANT { 4398 } OFFICE 23 WEST 44TH STREET NEW YORK MARY B. CLEVELAND EXECUTIVE SECRETARY MICHAEL KLEY FINANCIAL SECRETARY October 9, 1911 Frank Harper, Esq., Secretary to Mr. Roosevelt, 284 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Dear Mr. Harper:- Enclosed you will please find eight tickets for Box 33, and a dozen orchestra seats. Am I right in assuming that these box sets will provide for Mr. Roosevelt's family? If not, please let us know. With many thanks for your good counsel about the chairmanship, Yours sincerely, Robert Erskine ElyCAT CAÑON SILVER CITY NEW MEXICO. Oct 9/11. My dear Theodore-- we were much worried--on returning from a short motor trip with John Greenway--to see a report that Mrs. Roosevelt had been hurt by a fall from her horse, and do sincerely hope that by now she is all right again and none the worse for the shock. Do give here our love and tell her we hope she is all well. It was ever so good to have had that visit from Kerm. & it was indeed dear of him to come all this way. Our only consolation was his success in the hunting trip into that deadly hot desert of Lower California at a time when everybody was wilting all over the country. As he was handicapped by that digestive trouble we were for a term quite worried, but with the handicap he appears easily to have outstaged even the native Mexican or his own burning sands. I fear he cannot altogether have been glad he made us the visit! For I at any rate must have made myself quite obnoxious on the subject of his future start in business & life. I am so afraid of his jumping in too quickly & taking some offer that may somehow have beenmade with your name (not the boy's naturally.) as an ulterior motive. I told him there was no monopoly of honesty. (even in business!) & that a concern that needed your name would stand a good deal of close inspection. A concern like the Phelps-Dodge corporation certainly would not need it. And in such a concern any man wd. have to make his own way & name by his own efficiency & merit. In other words as John Greenway puts it- "Walk into the office & apply for a job. If you get it hang up your coat, take your dinner pail, & make good." Kerm may not fancy this section of the country. If he did I have an idea that the above corporation has a great future, & opportunity. I am not so decided that their future efficiency of management will be what it ought to be. But just there lies a young man's future opportunity (in ten or fifteen years.) if he can prove himself efficient & capable when needed. The opportunity I feel sure is good. But Kerm may find plenty of others in other sections he may prefer better. He has only to ask--but ask of people whose judgement he can depend on. Incidentally I added to this he asked for advice! that if ever he needed means--either for his own support (while serving a good apprenticeship) or for the support of another, that he should go to you, & you only for it--That you would give it to him, & if necessary deduct the advances from what you might some day leave him.CAT CAÑON SILVER CITY NEW MEXICO. I trust this meets with your approval! but I was bothered somewhat by a high offer he said had been made him by some company, which seemed to me to imply putting your name on their advertising bill-board. It seemed for safer for him to have some share deducted from his possible 'prospects', and to serve a good training apprenticeship. At little or no pay, not with a sound & certain future in view as the result of a thorough & efficient training in some line or other-(made especially under the right kind of people). Of course it takes time! Thank you (long ago!) for the "Foundations"--and still made for the light thrown upon the book in Jan 'Outlook' criticism of it. It has interested me more than anything in a long while, & kept me idly chewing. As you say its strange, such a muddled genius could have written such chapters as the one on Xtianity--or the personality of its Founder, rather--(& without quoting any Dutch musician or poet in the middle of it!) Am enclosing a couple of Kodaks of Kermit & his children for Mrs. R. She was awfully patient with them & they tagged him to Death. But they are very adorable & tell the cañon tale of joyous life & are devoted to their "Mitty", as they well may be. Ever yours R.H.M. Ferguson. [*[Ferguson]*][*16.*] FRANCISCO FÍGUERAS. HABANA, CUBA. October 9th, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt. Oyster Bay. New York. Dear Sir:- Just yesterday I finished a book that I have written about hunting and it's last page, your name dropped from my pen as a splendid sample of what can do this sport in order to affirm the will power, to elevate the soul and to harden the body of those that love it and follow it. To-day ended my labor, I am looking for a name to decorate the first page of my book and your name come back again at my pen's end. And it is only natural to happen so. I am a cuban born and my heart beats with gratitude, remembering San Juan Hill; I am a naturalized american citizen and I feell veneration for one of the most representative figures of my adoptive country; I am a hunter myself and my simpathies are runing high for the most illustrious of the contemporaneous hunters; I am too a writter, a very modest one, and I must confess that reading your valuable books about hunting, so instructive and so interesting, I got the first suggestion of mine. Will you be so kind as to give me your leave to writte your name on the first page and illustrate it with your authentic picture? Anxiously I expect your answer. With my best regards, I am respectfully yours, Fran'co Fígueras 10th, Str n° 8 - Vedado.FITZ-HUGH, LUTHER COMPANY RAILWAY EQUIPMENT MONADNOCK BUILDING CHICAGO [*8*] CHICAGO NEW YORK October 9, 1911. The Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, c/o The Outlook, New York. My dear Sir: We are submitting a proposition to the Panama Commission for handling such equipment and material as shall be released for sale when the work is completed. Some, or possibly much of it, will doubtless be turned over to the Government for its own use, as it should be. The remainder will have to be offered to buyers in this and the foreign markets. We have a plan in effect on some of the trunk lines, like the Lackawanna, Burlington, Illinois Central and others, which has been effective and, I believe, very satisfactory, for ten years past. We have letters from Judge Dickinson and Mr. MacVeagh to Mr. Stimson, and an offer of a letter to Col. Geothals from Judge Dickinson. we happen to know Col. Hodges of the Commission, and have written him fully on the subject. I venture to ask if you will permit our Vice President, Mr. Joseph T. Schlacks, of 141 Broadway, New York, to submit to you a brief outline of our method of disposing of such equipment and material, as the Commission will have for disposition. As you doubtless know, the Government's present method is to advertise and sell its material to the highest bidder. We or some one other concern fully equipped can take this material and put it in proper shape and sell much of it for possibly from 50 to 150% in excess of what it would bring as scrap, or if sold in lots in its then condition to the highest bidder on the canal. If I were in New York at this time I would ask my good brother-in-law Scribner to give me a line to you. I should not ask any of our friends to solicit this business for us from the Secretary of War, but i have no hesitation in asking that the plan be considered if it should appear to be largely in the interest of the Government. If we can accomplish this end we will then take our chances of satisfying Mr. Stimson and the Commission that we have the organization and, I believe, the experience, to handle this business to the satisfaction of the Commission, under whose orders and direction it must of course be sold. Col. Hodges writes me that they are not unfriendly to our suggestion but it is a question of whether the Commission ought to accept the service of experts without following the method now in vogue of advertising for the highest bidder. I think I understand how careful the Commission and the engineering corps of our army must be to avoid any suggestion of favoritism or preference. Mr. Schlacks' office is at 141 Broadway and his telephone is 2070 Cortlandt. If it is convenient and agreeable to you he will call at any time you can give him fifteen minutes to explain the plan in detail. After reading your article in the Outlook I made up my mind I would like to know if this plan meets with your hearty and full approval. The present method of the Government, as the Commission well knows, is in many respects obsolete and works to its great loss, and our good Commission at Panama and the engineering corps are helpless to prevent collusionamong bidders. I venture to enclose you a copy of Mr. MacVeagh's kind letters on the subject. Judge Dickinson's are of the like. I am, with great respect, Very truly yours, Carter H. FitzHugh [*The Commission may see fit if the plan is approved to plan it- with some other man. But we we of course must take our chances*]For enc see 10-9-11[*[10-9-11]*] [*13*] Theodore Roosevelt Esq with the best wishes of the Author Ernest High Fitzpatrick [N B C H?] Ed. Pontiac Illinois Oct 9- 1911 Care H.W. Rokker Publisher Springfield Ill.[*Gurney 10-9-11*] [*D*] Brockton, Mass., October 9, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Dear Sir: Would it be possible for us to secure a date for your appearance in Brockton on the occasion of the Good Citizenship night of the Wadsworth Baraca class, the largest class of men in the city? Any date that would be convenient to you would suit me. The class is well able to carry out a program that would stir the city. Would refer you to Rev. Dr. J. Francis Cooper, the pastor of the Central M.E. church of which the class is a part and also to His Honor Mayor Harry C. Howard. Sincerely yours, E. B. Gurney, President 521 Warren avenue.BOY'S BUILDING THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION DAYTON, OHIO [*GIFTS AND BEQUESTS TOWARD THE ENDOWMENT FUND WILL GREATLY AID AND MAKE MORE PERMANENT THE WORK OF THE ASSOCIATION*] THOMAS ELDER, PRESIDENT HERBERT P LANSDALE, GENERAL SECRETARY BOYS' DEPARTMENT COMMITTEE O J BARD, Chairman C E BICE A H DUNHAM G N BIERCE W L KUHNS B B BRADY J I LAMBERT RALPH W BUCK J H PAINTER W D CHAMBERLIN C H VOLLBRECHT CARL B KERN, BOYS' WORK SECRETARY ADVISORY BOARD F J ACH EUGENE J BARNEY F P BEAVER EDW E BURKHART EDWARD CANBY CHARLES B CLEGG S W DAVIES E C HARLEY F T HUFFMAN WILBUR C KENNEDY JOHN A MURPHY FREDERICK H RIKE JOHN W STODDARD TRUSTEES OSCAR J BARD H G KITTREDGE CLARENCE E BICE DONALD A KOHR GEORGE N BIERCE GEORGE B LEWIS VIRGIL L BROOKS KARL K LORENZ H B CANBY B F McCANN W D CHAMBERLIN EDWIN K SHUEY FRANK O CLEMENTS GEORGE B SMITH A H DUNHAM J M SWITZER THOMAS ELDER E M THRESHER E F KIMMEL LOUIS H VINSON S S KING A S WEUSTHOFF [*K*] 10/9/11 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City My dear Mr. Roosevelt, A plan has suggested itself to me which I feel sure will be very helpful to the boys in our Bible classes, and may be the means of getting others interested in the study of the Bible. My plan is this - to write to prominent men in various walks of life, who are doing things and who are Christian men, asking them to write a letter showing the value of Bible study to boys and young men. I could not do otherwise than include you in this list. I had no more than thought of this plan than I thought of writing you. Thanking you in advance for doing us this very kind favor and wishing you success, health and happiness, I am Yours very truly Earl N. Hale Ass't Boys' Sec'y [*[Hoebermann]*] New York October 9th 1911. Hon: Col: Theodore Roosevelt Leader of Republican Party Dear sir: This letter comes from one of you old admirers. I think you remember the name on the end of this letter I know that you lickt to be informed of the general situation You know that I am an old entrullt Republican that had stud with you so manny years and we never last a battle and for our kindness and loyalty to the republican party we never had ben reginise by the Party only an election to help the party in passation for there own goods and after the election we let go - - - even wenn I helped Governor Hughes for 3 1/2 years to marke him bills and give him new Politics in the Democracy for all my work and labor even no postel stamps had been returned to me for that reason we organise a organization of the minit men and we dont fine work. first we move from the rank and file the sellfish Bosses. Second we fought the Interborough Rappitransit Co and third we tuck the leaders thereforth it hes been for a long time out of publick lief. but we allways fought for our Direct nomination bill where ever we had a change. this bill has been made by me direct personelly and I have fought for that bill since 1886 in the Henry Gorge Campain Comittee on platforms. I have put it in in our platform and caried it to Randolph Hearst and after his downfall I gave it to Gov. Hughes and from Hughes I transferred to Banner he woulden aswer of it in Cooper Union and we burst hi meeting then we transferred it to Gov Dix and know we have a start it issen the bill we taking for but we going to emprove it better an we will do it in the same way as I have done it wit the 8 hours work day and saturday the halfe holliday. I can understand why the Republicanallways eggnor the peoples will and wishes we got the bill to day by the Democrats waz haven the Republicans us not given it under Governor Hughes? The Republicans have opposed this bill for the last minnit and have worket aginst the peoples will for the reason best known to them selfs. but we the people know it too know it is to late. I held yesterday a Executive meeting and tuck all my congratulatings cold and [quiet?] and told the members it was my duty to help my fellows citizens where ever I could I prommis them a brand new platform and for the next campaign or the campaign after and I told the members it where there duty to help those that have helped them and then return it to those ennemys wit interest that have opposed the peoples will and that was taken up with great etusiasm- I think the Republican party at pressent time issen the right party that the people seeking. I think the party has not handet the government by peoples will and wishes but by sellfishness in Order to fetten their selfs. An the hole community and suche party is unworthy to rule in anny government and should be brought out off existens -- is it wer to establish a new party wit a new name or is it that the party was be reorganise under no circumstances shall this pressent party be allowed to rule the people agin we the people seeking only an honest government wit honest policys for the people by the people and wit the people in order to restore confident in privat buisness wit privat capital so that the people are abel to assist and [?] hold there government. A Hoebermann 972 Boston Road Bronx 33d Ass dist (Ex Leader Ed Healy) District Taxpayers' Convention Committee under the auspices of the United Real Estate Owners' Associations OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK THOMAS KREKELER, President MICHAEL J. HORAN, Chairman CHARLES H. SCHNELLE, Sec'y 257 Broadway, New York City 1324 Lexington Ave., New York City GEORGE H. BECK ADOLPH BLOCH JOHN VOLZ CHARLES H. SCHNELLE CHARLES W. EIDT THOMAS KREKELER DR. HENRY W. BERG THEODORE C. UHINK HENRY J. SCHUMACHER DR. GEORGE WENNER MICHAEL J. HORAN FRANK DEMUTH LOUIS SCHRAG JOSEPH S. SCHWAB IRA J. ETTINGER FRANK E. CARSTARPHEN LEO. STRAUSS DR. ABRAHAM KORN HARRY BIERHOFF MORTON H. C. FOSTER CHARLES J. F. BOHLEN CHARLES F. LEINING JOHN WEYMAN SAMUEL RUBINSTEIN HAROLD M. PHILLIPS BERNARD GOODMAN SIGMUND FEUST HENRY F. A. WOLF GUSTAV A. REH October 9th, 1911. [*5.*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, c/o "The Outlook" 287 Fourth Avenue, N.Y. City. Dear Sir: As First Citizen in this great land, I take it that you are rather indulgent with those admirers who persist in making know to you their troubles. The enclosed circular may impress upon you the fact that the taxpayers in this community or many of them, consider that they have a grievance. If you agree with us that $210,000,000 of a budget is unjustifiable and that we have every reason to complain of many other oppressive conditions, no greater honor could be conferred upon the convention than to receive a line from you. Yours very truly, Michael J. Horan (Enc.)EDWARD HYATT, SUPERINTENDENT STATE OF CALIFORNIA OFFICER SUPERINTENDENT PUBLIC INSTRUCTION SACRAMENTO Oct. 9, 1911. C. R. Reese, R.F.D. 1, Watsonville, California. My dear Sir: I have read with great interest your letter of October 5th, concerning the use of the schoolhouses of the state for general social meetings among the people. I think your ideas are good and timely. You will find in the new School Law, which will be out during the month, that greater provision has been made by our statutes for that sort of a thing. The trustees are given greater power than ever before for using their schoolhouses for the general good. You may count on me to do everything I can in that direction, and I shall always be interested in hearing from you in regard to it. Very respectfully yours, Edward Hyatt EH CSPLaw Office of Holter, Ingalls & Guthrie 52 Wall Street Edwin O. Holter Fay Ingalls C. Stuart Guthrie Cable Address "Hoinguth" [*14*] New York Oct. 9, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I. Dear Sir: I am sorry that I was not present at the meeting of the Oyster Bay Improvement Association on Saturday, at which I understand you made an address referring to the law and order conditions in the Town of Oyster Bay. This is only my second summer at Oyster Bay, but I have become very much interested in the place and it is of course my plan to make it my permanent home. I am writing you this because I have a few ideas on this subject of police protection for this part of the country, which I should like to see discussed a little. I have talked the matter over with some of my friends, but I have not made any effort to put my ideas in any particular concrete shape or to approach any of the town authorities. Since I learned that you are interested in the general matter, I thought that I would write a note to you and perhaps if you thought that there was anything in my ideas, you could suggest some way in which I could push them. It has seemed to me that it never will be possible to get efficient police force maintained by the Village of Oyster Bay itself. There are numerous difficulties. In the first place the Village can hardly afford to employ over oneTR #2 (10/9/11) or two men. These men will never belong to any organized body. They will be left very largely to their own resources and discipline will be only such as they see fit to enforce on themselves. Of course it may be possible to get men of the very highest stamp who do not need the incentive and the pressure of belonging to an organization in order to make them efficient, but I very much doubt if it is possible to get such men for this position. In addition these men would probably be from Oyster Bay and too closely in touch perhaps with the life of the town. Therefore I have thought that we should have a County police force. If the County itself would not join in such a movement, it seemed to me that it ought to be possible for the Town of Oyster Bay to accomplish the same result- - as you know this will include the following villages:- Oyster Bay, Bayville, Glen Cove, Sea Cliff, Jericho, Hicksville, Farmingdale, Massapequa, East Norwich, and a number of settlements such as Syosset, Woodbury, Brookville, Mill Neck, Locus Valley, etc. I would suggest for the town that it might be possible to have a force of say 15 or 20 men mounted on motor cycles. They should have certain definite stations of call where they could be reached in case of trouble in any part of the district; for instance,- two men each in Oyster Bay, Sea Cliff, Glen Cove, Hicksville, Farmingdale, Jericho, and one each in some of the others. I think it should be possible with that number of men toTR #3 (10/9/11) introduce an esprit de corps and sense of discipline, resulting in a general spirit of efficiency which the small local units could never get. We have many examples of rural police, such as the Aqueduct police force. I am hoping that I can get some information about this whic may be of value. The chief difficulty with my scheme is to provide duties for those men when there is no active crime for them to combat. I do not think that they should be excise men or even traffic policemen. It does not seem probable that a patrol by them would be productive of any great benefit. The Town is so large that a man riding down a road might pass within 50 years of a crime and know nothing. We would therefore want these men ready at certain central stations of call to go to any portion of the district at once hearing of trouble. In the meantime some sort of a scheme must be devised to keep them busy, such as keeping tab on new laborers, etc., coming into the Town, acting as fire patrol, etc. It is the working out of just what their duties would be that I think is the greatest difficulty in any plan for a County police, but I am not sure that it is any more difficult than it is to provide something for a police officer to do in such a village as Oyster Bay. Probably 49 nights out of 50 he only sits on the corner and talks with passersby.TR #4 (10/9/11) If we had this County or Town police, in such a case as the recent murder at Oyster Bay we could have the whole force in the town in a short time and watch the railway stations and the roads leading from the town. Or, in another case, you may have heard that Mr. Carlton's house was recently entered by burglars. The fact was discovered shortly after the burglars had been there, and to the best of my knowledge, these burglars have never been caught. If we had such a police force as I am speaking of, they could have closed in on the house and there would at least be some possibility of apprehending the offenders. I think also the Long Island Railroad would help us. I understand the Mill Neck station has been broken into three times in the last two years. But there is another side to the need of police protection than the punishment of an occasional robbery or murder, although the two things are very closely connected The Italians in Oyster Bay are subject to almost no restraint. If, somehow or other, a row should be started between the Italians and the townspeople, it would need very little to set the whole place in a blaze. It is just the sort of a condition which it has always struck me has given rise to so many distressing outrages throughout the country. Of course the existence at Oyster Bay of a large number of wealthy and substantial citizens is a certain insurance against such an occurrence, exercisingTR #5 (10/9/11) as they do a somewhat restraining influence, but this influence is only a moral one and whenever we have a celebration in the Town of Oyster Bay I wonder if it is not going to break up into a shooting scrap. This sort of a condition can only be met by a real police force. Perhaps the old-fashioned constable can keep order in a country village, but when it comes to a number of foreigners, nothing has the same effect as the appearance of a man in a uniform that means an organization behind it and with the soldierly bearing and authority that discipline always carries with it. Not only could a Town police force restrain such a row if it got started, but it would by its very existence put an end to a condition that makes the starting of such a row possible. I realize that this letter is somewhat indefinite. I did hope to find time to prepare a more definite plan and take time before I tried to make any public issue of the matter. I should like to be able to say that if there were a certain number of man in the force, the gross cost to the county or the town involved would amount to a certain sum and then also to be able to give a definite plan for the organization of the force and a definition of the duties with the men would be called upon to perform. However, since I heard of your interest in the subject, I thought I would at least call your attention to the possibility of a County or Town force instead of a Village force and would not wait until people generally had been committed toTR #6 (10/9/11) the one before suggesting that there were other possibilities which might be of much greater value. It would of course be even more valuable if the Town of North Hempstead should join Oyster Bay, but if we could set an example they would all follow if it was a success. It may be that we would need a special act of the legislature - I am not sure of the power of the Town to act. This, however, is one of the details that can be easily arranged, I have no doubt. My idea of the way to get this accomplished is to go to our supervisor. If some of the influential persons hereabouts think the idea is a good one, we may be able to show him how he can make political capital out of it. I trust that I am not intruding in writing you at such length, but if my idea is worth anything, I can never get a hearing for it except by calling it to the attention of those who are influential in the community. Yours very truly, Fay Ingalls [*[Ingalls]*] FI-M [*[Jan 21-1911*] Form 19-5m. East High School CLEVELAND, O. DANIEL W. LOTHMAN, PRINCIPAL. P.J. TWIGGS, FRANCIS A. ADAMS, Assistant Principals. DEPARTMENT OF Debates. CLEVELAND, O., 10/9/11. 191 Mr. T. Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Dear Mr. Roosevelt,- Will you kindly furnish us with your opinion of the "Initiative and Referendum?" This is to be used for debating purposes only and we should appreciate any service which you might render in the way of making some statement in regard to this question, either upon the affirmative or negative side. We hope that you will attend to this personally. Thanking you for your aid, we are, Yours very truly, H. C. Jackson.Hugh N. Johnston's Law Office Cedarville, Virginia [*D*] Oct 9th 1911. Hon. Theo. Roosevelt Ex Pres. of the United States Oyster Bay - N.Y. My Dear Sir - I am a candidate here for County Treasurer for November 7th election and I want to know whether or not you can consider coming here and joining us in speech making at a Barbecue to be held along about this time. If so I will write you again something certain for you to depend upon. I am also writing Pres. Taft and Mr. W.J. Bryan along the same line. Awaiting a favorable reply from some of the three distinguished gentlemen. Yours Truly, Hugh N. Johnston. Form 2289 B [*12*] NIGHT LETTER THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following Night Letter. 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Always Open [*[10-9-11]*] [*16*] [*172 5th Ave. OCT 10 1911*] [*X 19 Ms*] 624 CH K 46 N L H CHICAGO ILL 9 MR.THEODORE ROOSEVELT THE OUTLOOK NEW YORK UNION LEAGUE CLUB ANXIOUS TO OBTAIN JOSEPH H COATE AS SPEAKER NEXT WASHINGTON BIRTHDAY I KNOW HIS SITUATION MAY MAKE COMING DIFFICULT VERY IMPORTANT FOR CLUB AND FOR CHICAGO AM HOPING YOU MAY BE ABLE TO SAY A WORD IN OUR INTEREST AM TELEGRAPHING MABIE ALSO. HARRY PRATT JUDSON [Senator Benone Belmont]GORDON S.P. KLEEBERG Counsellor at Law 100 Broadway New York TEL. 1785 RECTOR [*2*] October 9th 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay Long Island Dear Sir: I have the honor accompanying this letter of sending you one of the first copies from the press of my work on the formation of the Republican Party as a National Political Organization. This book was completed by me some months ago in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctorate in the Faculty of Political Science in Columbia University. I trust these pages will recall many pleasant memories because of your active association with the party, a phase of whose political history it chronicles. It will be a great pleasureGORDON S.P. KLEEBERG Counsellor at Law 100 Broadway New York TEL. 1785 RECTOR to me to be favored with a word of judgment from you after its perusal. I beg to remain, Sir, Most respectfully Gordon S.P. Kleeberg Hon. Theodore RooseveltThe Academy of Political Science in the City of New York AFFILIATED WITH COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES Robert Erskine Ely League for Political Education Frank J. Goodnow Professor of Administrative Law, Columbia University A. Barton Hepburn President Chase National Bank, New York Thomas W. Lamont J.P. Morgan & Company, New York William R. Shepard Professor of History, Columbia University Henry R. Seager Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University Edwin R. A. Seligman Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University Munroe Smith Professor of Comparative Jurisprudence Columbia University Frank A. Vanderlip President National City Bank, New York OFFICERS President Samuel McCune Lindsay Professor of Social Legislation, Columbia University Vice-Presidents Albert Shaw Editor of "The Review of Reviews" Paul M. Warburg Kuhn, Loeb & Company Secretary Henry Raymond Mussey Assistant Professor of Economics, Columbia University Treasurer George A. Plimpton Ginn & Company, New York Assistant to the President Emma S. Lake ADVISORY COUNCIL Nicholas Murray Butler President of Columbia University J. Pierpont Morgan J.P. Morgan & Company Elihu Root United States Senator from New York Francis Lynde Stetson New York Bar Editor of Political Science Quarterly Munroe Smith Editor of Proceedings of the Academy Henry Raymond Mussey Executive Offices Kent Hall, Columbia University New York Telephone: Morningside 1400 October 9, 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, % 'The Outlook' 287 Fourth Avenue. Dear Colonel Roosevelt: The New York Academy of Political Science will hold its annual meeting in New York City on November 10 and 11, and the subject will be 'Business and the Public Welfare', with four sessions devoted to the following sub-topics: I. The Improvement of Labor Legislation II. The Relation of Government to Business (dinner meeting) III. Social Efficiency in Business IV. Wage-earners' Loans and Investments The dinner meeting at the Hotel Astor on the evening of November 10 promises to be an unusually interesting one and I write to ask you to be a guest of honor at the dinner on condition that you will not be called upon to speak unless you so desire. Judge Gary of the Steel Corporation has accepted, and we are asking Attorney-General Wickersham and Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. We had hoped to have Judge Gary as one of the speakers, but he is unwilling to say anything at present, but has consented to attend the dinner and to allow his name to be announced as a guest of honor. The speakers we expect are: Senator Cummings, Mr. Frank B. Kellogg, Mr. George W. Perkins, Mr. John Hays Hammond, and one other representing large business interests or organized labor. I would mightily like to turn over the President's chair to you and have you speak and act as Toastmaster for the occasion, but I know what you will probably say to that request, and therefore I am making a more modest one that you will let us have the use of your name and the support of the educational purpose which the Academy has in view. I know of no one who will present your views of this question, which as a matter of public policy I am confident that both representatives of governmental administration and those who represent theMr. Theodore Roosevelt -2- interests of large corporations will ultimately accept as a fair solution of present difficulties. Mr. Harper told me on Friday that possibly I would be able to have a word with you if I called at your office tomorrow, which I shall do and at which time you can give me your answer to this letter. With kindest regards, I am Yours very truly, Samuel McCune Lindsay PresidentThe Academy of Political Science in the City of New York AFFILIATED WITH COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES Robert Erskine Ely League for Political Education Frank J. Goodnow Professor of Administrative Law, Columbia University A. Barton Hepburn President Chase National Bank, New York Thomas W. Lamont J. P. Morgan & Company, New York William R. Shepard Professor of History, Columbia University Henry R. Seager Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University Edwin R. A. Seligman Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University Munroe Smith Professor of Comparative Jurisprudence, Columbia University Frank A. Vanderlip President National City Bank, New York OFFICERS President Samuel McCune Lindsay Professor of Social Legislation, Columbia University Vice-Presidents Albert Shaw Editor of "The Review of Reviews" Paul M. Warburg Kuhn, Loeb & Company Secretary Henry Raymond Mussey Assistant Professor of Economics, Columbia University Treasurer George A. Plimpton Ginn & Company, New York Assistant to the President Emma S. Lake ADVISORY COUNCIL Nicholas Murray Butler President of Columbia University J. Pierpont Morgan J. P. Morgan & Company Elihu Root United States Senator from New York Francis Lynde Stetson New York Bar Editor of Political Science Quarterly Munroe Smith Editor of Proceedings of the Academy Henry Raymond Mussey Executive Offices Kent Hall, Columbia University New York Telephone: Morningside 1400 [*1.*] October 9, 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, % The Outlook, 287 Fourth Avenue. (Duplicate) Dear Colonel Roosevelt: The New York Academy of Political Science will hold its annual meeting in New York City on November 10 and 11, and the subject will be 'Business and the Public Welfare', with four sessions devoted to the following sub-topics: I. The Improvement of Labor Legislation II. The Relation of Government to Business (dinner meeting) III. Social Efficiency in Business IV. Wage-earners' Loans and Investments The dinner meeting at the Hotel Astor on the evening of November 10 promises to be an unusually interesting one and I write to ask you to be a guest of honor at the dinner on condition that you will not be called upon to speak unless you so desire. Judge Gary of the Steel Corporation has accepted, and we are asking Attorney-General Wickersham and Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. We had hoped to have Judge Gary as one of the speakers, but he is unwilling to say anything at present, but has consented to attend the dinner and to allow his name to be announced as a guest of honor. The speakers we expect are: Senator Cummins, Mr. Frank B. Kellogg, Mr. George W. Perkins, Mr. John Hays Hammond, and one other representing large business interests or organized labor. I would mightily like to turn over the President's chair to you and have you speak and act as Toastmaster for the occasion, but I know what you will probably say to that request, and therefore I am making a more modest one that you will let us have the use of your name in support of the educational purpose which the Academy has in view. I know of no one who will represent your views of this question, which as a matter of public policy I am confident that both the representatives of governmental administration and those who represent the -1- Mr. Theodore Roosevelt -2- interests of large corporations will ultimately accept as a fair solution of present difficulties. Mr. Harper told me on Friday that possibly I would be able to have a word with you if I called at your office tomorrow, which I shall do and at which time you can give me your answer to this letter. With kindest regards, I am Yours very truly, Samuel McCune Lindsay President[*[10-9-11]*] [*1.*] Mr Roosevelt, Dear Sir The Woman's Literary Club of this place is making a study of United States affairs during the last thirty years and the work and influence of Jacob A. Riis has been assigned to me. I have his autobiography "The Making of an American" and several articles published in the "Century " magazine, but so far have not been able to get up to date authority concerning his life and work.One man who is usually posted says he thinks he died more than a year ago. If so I have not read of it. Knowing of your commendation of Mr. Riis' efforts in behalf of humanity in the metropolis I ask for information concerning any recent publication or other means of learning about his later life and i work. Very sincerely Mrs W.E. McClellan Birmingham Mich. Oct. 9, 1911.PROPRIETOR LOOKOUT FARM. [*MORGAN HOUSE POUGHKEEPSIE*] CARL H. F. KOHL. Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Oct. 9, 1911. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt: Dear Sir: Some time ago I wrote to you in regard to a proposition relative to raising the battleship Maine by popular subscription from the children of the public schools of this country. Up to the present writing I have received no reply and as I asked for your opinion, I am forced to believe that either the letter never reached you or that you have been too busy to reply. I realize that the country is full of frauds and cheats who are playing just such "skin games" to get money from unsuspecting PROPRIETOR LOOKOUT FARM. [*MORGAN HOUSE POUGHKEEPSIE*] CARL H. F. KOHL. Poughkeepsie, N.Y., .................................. people and also it is very embarrassing to interfere with government projects unless one is fully informed as to government action. And still there may be diplomatic reasons for the suspension of operations, if they are suspended, so permit me to advise that I have given up the plan. For my part I should be quite content to let the dead sailor lie in the quiet of the ocean, and I think he is likely to be as content as I - to lie in the quiet depths of the blue waters. Very sincerely Geo. H. Maines [*D.*] [*[Moran]*] PURDUE UNIVERSITY LAFAYETTE, INDIANA HISTORY AND ECONOMICS Oct. 9, 1911. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. Dear Mr. Roosevelt:- The people of this locality, and to a certain extent, the people of the entire state of Indiana, are making plans for the observance of the 100th Anniversary of the Battle of Tippecanoe. The exercises will be held in this city, and at the Battle-ground, on the 7th of next November. In behalf of a committee of citizens, I take great pleasure in inviting you to deliver the Centennial address on the after-noon of that date. We feel that you are the one man to give this address on account of your twofold interest in public questions, and in historical matters. Governor Marshall, of this state will be present, and preside over one of the meetings. We are also hoping to have a number of prominent men on our program from this and adjoining states. The committee is aware that you are a very busy man, but hopes that you will find it possible to spend the 7th of November in Lafayette. Hoping to hear from you soon as may be convenient, and trusting that it will be possible for you to give us an affirmative reply, I beg leave to remain, Yours very sincerely, Thomas F. Moran Chairman of Committee P.S. We would, of course, expect to meet your expenses. T.F.M. WAR DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY, WASHINGTON, D. C. October 9, 1911. Dear Colonel Roosevelt: In returning correspondence regarding the wish of Mr. Royster to enter the Army Hospital at Fort Bayard, N. M., I invite your attention to the report indorsed on his letter by the Acting Surgeon General of the Army. If you will indicate to me your wishes, I shall be most happy to do anything in my power to carry them out. Sincerely yours, Robert Shaw Oliver [*[Robert Shaw Oliver]*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. (Inclosure – Letter of Mr. Royster).10/9/11 [*13*] My dear Mr Harper: I received your letter in answer to mine and thank you for the courtesy. I appreciate only to well that Mr Roosevelt's time is in too great a demand to allow him to grant interviews to all that wish them, but somehow I hoped that he might read between the lines a most urgent request in fact a cry--and if yourMr Harper will arrange an interview how ever brief you will be doing one of the kindest act you ever did in your life--and one that you will never need regret--you might say to the Colonel that I am the Sister of a A.K.E. If it were not so vital to me, I never would presume on your or the Colonel's time as I am now doing. But I want to see him so badly that I feel the if he only knew he would not refuse me. Thanking you again for your courtesy. I remain Sincerely yours Lilian M. Ott 190 Riverside Ave Newark, N.J. Oct 9th 1911Pittsburgh Pa. [*1.*] Oct 9.11, My dear Col. Roosevelt:-- I enclose a letter to the Pittsburgh Dispatch & an editorial thereon, which may interest you. I hope that you are enjoying good health; I know you are active. Yours Sincerely John D PringleH. B. JAYNE EDITOR AND MANAGER CAPT. E. FRANCKE ASSOCIATE EDITOR Pacific Marine Review First Established and Only Exclusive Marine Paper Published on the Pacific Coast 379-380 ARCADE ANNEX SEATTLE COMPILATION DEPARTMENT SEATTLE NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO VANCOUVER, B. C. [*20*] October Ninth 1 9 1 1. COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York. DEAR SIR:–– We respectfully direct your attention to the attached, extracted from the June issue of the Pacific Marine Review, which might prove of interest to you. We shall appreciate the favor of an acknowledgement. Respectfully submitted, PACIFIC MARINE REVIEW. PER M. Dee Rochie MD-FFor enc see ca June 1911Directors C. R. Richey Mearle Lerew John. H. Kirby C. A. Elmen A. C. Swanson R. P. Christian Officers JOHN C. PENN - - Treasurer MAX ROSEN - Gen'l Manager Texas Land Exposition and Northern Settler's Convention January 15-28, 1912 18 Rail Roads Houston, Texas 10/9/11. [*W.*] Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. Dear Sir: Ever since the days of the "Rough Riders" you have been a popular idol of the people of Texas, regardless of politics, and it is for this reason that I am writing you in behalf of the Texas Land Exposition, at Houston, January 15-28, 1912, and the people of Texas generally, to attend the Exposition and deliver an address. The Texas Land Exposition will combine the features of a great land show with those of an industrial and agricultural fair. Its purpose is to bring to Texas northern farmers and others who may desire to engage in agricultural pursuits. There are thousands of worthy people in the crowded cities of the North and East struggling for existance, to whom Texas offers great opportunities with its millions of acres of fertile lands awaiting cultivation. You can appreciate this, and your knowledge of Texas will enable you to also appreciate wherein it would help the struggling masses of the crowded cities to better their condition. Thus, you can understand the purposes of the Texas Land Exposition, which will not only benefit the State of Texas, in aiding in its development, but will also prove a blessing to thousands of home seekers. Three days of the Exposition, January. 17, 18 and 19, will be devoted to the Northern Settlers' Convention, when thousands of prosperous farmers in Texas, who came from the northern states, will greet their friends from the North and East. This Convention will be a great school of instruction for those who till the soil. Many well known men will address this Convention. Among those whom we have invited are Hon. Gifford Pinchot, Luther Burbank, Prof. Liberty Bailey, Secretary Nagel, Secretary Wilson, Senator Joseph W. Bailey, and Senator Jonathan Bourne, but we do not restrict your coming to any date. Any time from the beginning to the close of the Exposition, that you may find most convenient, will be made "Roosevelt Day" in honor of your presence, and our program will be arranged accordingly. Advisory Board Hon. O. B. Colquitt, Governor of Texas, Austin Hon. Ed. R. Kone, Commissioner of Agriculture, Austin Hon. H. B. Rice, Mayor City of Houston, Houston Col. R. T. Milner, President A. and M. College, College Station E. W. Kirkpatrick, President Texas Farmer's Congress, McKinney G. A. Martin, President Texas Dry Farming Congress, El Paso M. B. Yeary, President Texas Cotton Growers' Association, Farmersville B. F. Frasher, President Texas Dairymen's Association, Cleburne H. H. Harrington, Pres. Texas Feed and Forage Growers' As., Kingsville W. B. Dunlap, Pres. Southern Rice Growers' Association, Beaumont J. R. Mayhew, President Texas Nurserymen's Association, Waxahachie E. S. Stockwell, Pres. Texas Orange Growers' Association, Alvin John W. Pharr, Pres. Texas Beekeepers' Association, Berclair P. I. Gill, Pres. Citrus Growers' Association, League City J. D. Randolph, President Texas Corn Growers' Association, Austin T. F. Harwood, Pres. Texas Cotton Mfrs. Association, Gonzales A. C. Van Velzer, Pres. Texas-Louisiana Fig Growers' Ass'n, Houston W. S. Holman, Pres. Midcoast Industrial Congress, Bay City Edwin J. Kiest, Pres. State Fair of Texas, Dallas Vorhies P. Brown, Pres. San Antonio International Fair, San Antonio Wm. L. Hoefgen, Pres. Texas State Federation of Labor, San Antonio Hall P. Street, President Texas State Realty Association, San Antonio F. T. Crittenden, Pres. As. Adv. Clubs of Texas, Fort Worth T. J. Anderson, G. P. A. Sunset Central Lines, Houston Joseph Hellen, G. P. A. Texas & New Orleans. R. R., Houston George S. Pentecost, G. P. A. Chicago, R. I. & Gulf Railway, Fort Worth H. S. Sperry, G. P. A. Texas Central Railway, Waco George F. Lupton, G. P. A. San Antonio & Aransas Pass Ry., San Antonio A. A. Glisson, G. P. A. Ft. W. & Denver City Ry., Fort Worth W. G. Crush, G. P. A. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Ry., Dallas D. J. Price, G. P. A. International & Great Northern Ry., Houston E. P. Turner, G. P. A. The Texas & Pacific Railway Co., Dallas John A. Hulen, G. P. A. Trinity & Brazos Valley, Railway, Houston C. W. Strain, G. P. A. St. Louis, S. F. & Texas Ry. Co., Fort Worth F. B. McKay, G. P. A. Texas Midland Railway Terrell S. E. Hopkins, G. P. A. Texas & Fort Worth Railway, Texarkana J. F. Lehane, G. P. A. St. Louis & Southwestern Railway, Tyler Eugene Fox, G. P. A. El Paso & Southwestern Railroad, El Paso William Doherty, T. M. St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Ry., Kingsville W. C. Connor, Jr., T. M. Frisco Lines, Houston Louis C. Brenner, Pres. German Immigration League, Gonzales David Burks, President No-Tsu-Oh Carnival Association, Houston E. A. Hudson, President Retail Dealers' Association, Houston Minor Stewart, President Real Estate Exchange, Houston S. T. Swinford, Secretary Lumbermen's Association of Texas, HoustonPage 2-- T.R. I realize that you are a very busy man and that every day is occupied but I also realize the fact that your interest in humanity and your desire to aid in the common good, prompts you to make sacrifices of your time for the welfare of the people who honor and esteem you, and I sincerely hope that you may find it convenient to come to Houston on one of the days of the Exposition and give to the people of Texas another opportunity to hear and greet you. Kindly favor us with a reply at your earliest convenience in order that we may arrange our program accordingly. I have the honor to be, Yours very truly Max Rosen General Manager.Carnegie Institution of Washington DEPARTMENT OF EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION STATION FOR EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION COLD SPRING HARBOR, LONG ISLAND, N.Y. Oct. 9, 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt- c/o The Outlook, New York City Dear Sir:- I met Dr. Johannsen's Steamer to day - a day behind schedule - and owing to the lateness of his arrival it is deemed best to postpone his visit to Cold Spring Harbor until a later date. I shall advise you again when a date has been decided upon. The arrangement of his lectures at Columbia, - Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays - make it probable that his visit here will occur some Sunday and Monday. Very sincerely yours, Geo. H. ShullDouglas Robinson [146] Broadway Cable Address, "Ryraport", New York. New York, October 9th, 1911. Dear Sir:- I beg to acknowledge receipt of your favor of October 6th requesting a deposit of $100.00 to be made to the account of Mr. Archibald B. Roosevelt in the Fifth Avenue Bank. The deposit has this day been made. Yours very truly, Frank C. Smith Frank Harper, Esq., #287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. SC. W. STINE, County Superintendent. York, Pa., October, 9th, 1912 Hon. Daniel F. ? York, Pa. Dear sir: A large number of the teachers have been urging me to get ex-president Theodore Roosevelt to give one of his lectures before our teachers' institute, Thanks Giving week, Nov. 27 to Dec. 1, 1911: If he could arrange to come on Friday night, that would give him a chance to spend Thanks Giving Day at home, of course we could arrange for Tuesday night if that might would be more convenient for him. Any thing that you can do for us in the matter will be greatly appreciated. Very respectfully yours, C. W. Stine, Co. Supt. of Schools. A. L. W.[*12*] Kansas City Mo. Oct. 9, 1911 The Honorable Ex. Pres. Theadore Roosefelt New York City Dear Sir- Will you kindly inform me if you gave a Mr Charles J Thompson a Gold Medal for services rendered for the government at the Panama Canal. I understand he had charge of a number of Steam Shovels. Can you tell me if the government bought the Patent rights of the Thompson Steam Shovel which was manufactured at Bucyrus Ohio and how much they gave for it and who is being paid the royalty. If you can not inform me will you please tell me where I can get this information. Respectfully Mrs. A. B Thompson 2109 Kansas Ave. Kansas City, Mo. I have championed your efforts since the beginning of your public career. Both in private & public circles I have defended your honorable name & argued with "Captains of Finance" during and since your administration of the Government in favor the principles you set forth. I feel that sense of relationship that comes of loyalty to a "Chief Executive" & therefore have the courage to ask for your assistance. An early reply will not [*[10-9-11]*] [*D*] Thirty-five Lincoln Park Newark, New Jersey Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L.I. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: On December fourth at eight o'clock in the evening all the New Jersey Suffrage Organizations will hold a mass meeting in the new Symphony Auditorium corner of Broad and Hill Streets Newark New Jersey. Mrs. Emmeline Parkhurst of England will speak on strength of our appeal at this meeting our movement must rise or fall. It is our first great attempt. First I appeal for your favorable answer for the sake of the Cause, secondly for the sake of the people of New Jersey who honor& love you because of your great service as an inspiration for good in the youth of our land and lastly for myself. on "Equal Franchise." We need a man in the chair. Only one Statesman is capable of enthusing a large audience and he is the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt. The auditorium holds nineteen hundred persons. The meeting will cost us about one thousand dollars We have sold six boxes at fifty dollar each and money has been pledged by Mrs. Everett Colby, Mrs. Alexander and several others. According to theThirty-five Lincoln Park Newark, New Jersey only be much appreciated but it will aid our cause throughout the State. Respectfully (Mrs. A) Mina C. Van Winkle October ninth.RUNDSCHAU ZWEIER WELTEN THE GERMAN CURRENT LITERATURE 134 WEST 29th ST., NEW YORK Published for The Viereck Publishing Company Under the management of Current Literature Publishing Company Oct. 9, 1911. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, 287 Fourth Avenue., City. My dear Mr. Roosevelt: I can say nothing to you except "thank you." You have done me a great service, far greater than the immediate occasion called for, because you have given me a new ideal. It seems to me as if I had listened to the voice of the Zeitgeist, and sat at his feet, when you spoke. Mr. Wheeler said that meeting you is like reading Shakespere; one is impressed by the universality of the man. "I always knew he was great" he added, "but he is even greater than I thought," This seems to have been the general feeling of all those who were at the luncheon. You spoke of a picture which the Kaiser has given you, and which you will some day show me, I am looking forward with great pleasure to that occasion. Meanwhile I remain, Sincerely and admiringly yours, George Sylvester Viereck REV. S. P. PRYOR, Pres. Dothan, Ala. REV. Wm. MATHIS, V. Pres. Kinsey, Ala. "'TIS EDUCATION THAT TRAINS THE HUMAN MIND, JUST THE TWIG IS BENT THE TREE IS INCLUDED." Dothan Orphan Home and Industrial Institute PROF. P.C. PRICE Principal. MISS ROSA J. YOUNG 1st Asst. and Preceptress. MISS MAGGIE R. SIMPSON 2nd Asst. and Director of Music MISS ALLIE B. HERRING 3rd Assistant. MISS RETA MAY CLARK 4th Assistant MRS. LOTTIE MCMAKIN Matron [*40.*] Dothan, Ala Oct, 9, 11 There will be special training in the following: Music, Sewing and Manual Training, Blacksmithing, Carpentry, Agriculture, Horticulture, Theology. The School is located in the Northwestern part of the city, better known as "Fairview." Ample arrangements have been made to board students at $6.50 per month. Great care and pains will be taken of your children who board with us. They will be allowed to work out part of their board and incidentals. I Heard Them Say: "Let us go to Dothan" Gen. 37.17 Mr. Theodore Roosevelt New York N.Y, Dear Friend, We beg the privilege to bring be for you the present condition of our above named school. Seeing the great demand for a school of this kind in this section of the country. We the colored people have established a school for the Orphan children. We have thirty acres of land. two Dormitories for girls and boys one two story brick building for our main school building. We have 100 students here in our charge. If you will please send us some books, papers, magazines, etc. We will pay all the freight charges. We just ask you to donate us something along this line to help our Reading Room for the Orphan children please let me here from you by return mail. Yours for humanity Rosa J. YoungEnc in Wright 10-11-11 10-9-11[*Taken from Sav'h Morning News, Oct. 9, 1911, Savannah, ga.*] WANTS ROOSEVELT TO ADDRESS EX-SLAVES President Wright Sends Invitation in Behalf of Colored Fair. It is probable that a feature of the colored state fair to be held in Macon will be an address to the ex-slaves of Georgia by Theodore Roosevelt. An invitation has been sent to Col. Roosevelt to deliver an address to the former slaves at the state fair on Nov. 17. The letter was written by President R. R. Wright of the Georgia State Industrial College, who is also president of the fair association. President Wright is very hopeful that Col. Roosevelt will be able to accept the invitation and make the trip to the colored fair at Macon. With the assistance of the ordinaries of the state a fairly complete list of the ex-slaves has been secured, and President Wright plans to have them hold a reunion in Macon during the fair. It is his desire to have the former president of the United States make them a talk at this time. There are about 600 ex-slaves on the roster in the possession of President Wright. It is expected that a large percentage of them will visit the fair that is doing so much for the uplift of the negroes in Georgia.[*[Ca June 1911]*] PACIFIC MARINE REVIEW VOl. VIII. SEATTLE, WASH., U. S. A., JUNE, 1911. No. 5 Anglo-Arbitration Treaty We find it difficult to believe that there is any serious support for this in either House of Congress, or in the United States at large, and we do not regard same very seriously and as much more than an effort of President Taft, who between the divisions of the Republican party and the Democratic party, is practically a President without any strong party support and party affiliation, to create a new issue and possibly some measure of public popularity, a procedure in which his predecessor, Roosevelt, was highly skilled. We prefer that the United States should preserve its traditional policy of "freedom of action" and "freedom from and entangling alliances or treaties." The financial and commercial relationship between the United States and Great Britain, which is practically our largest foreign commercial customer, and wherefrom we borrow large sums of money, as from other European countries, for railway bond issues, is sufficient to maintain intimate and natural connections, but we see no reason for involving these with the many political problems which confront Great Britain in Europe, in Dominions over seas, and with other foreign countries. Candidly, what has Great Britain to offer us? In point of resources and security, nothing; the fact that the United States has been able to place its Panama Canal 3 per cent bond issue at par and over, whereas these securities, including the much valued British consols, if compared, on a 3 per cent basis, stand at from 96 1/2 to 98, and new securities are issued with difficulty at these prices, proves that the credit of the United States is intrinsically the highest in the civilized world. Conceive that Great Britain had serious native risings in India, Egypt and Africa simultaneously and that Germany, or any other first or even second class European power, took the opportunity to attack her. What would be the result? Annihilation! Any special alliance with Great Britain could only be of value to us on the Pacific, where she is already committed to Japan and in any case, without over taxing our resources, after we have completed and opened the Panama Canal and are relieved of those expenditures we can easily make sufficient additions to our navy to dominate the Pacific, for centuries to come, at least until China has developed equally with Japan. A small country like Japan, however, patriotic and enterprising, cannot measure resources with the United States, and the exigencies and taxes upon Great Britain's resources at home, to confront Europe and abroad throughout the Empire, make her comparatively a negligible factor, in naval defense in the Pacific, in fact her alliance with Japan was primarily to relieve her from burdens which she could not continue on Oriental stations. It is apparent, therefore, that any special treaty and/or alliance with Great Britain would not materially assist us in Trans-Pacific trade and that it would simply be a case of the strong allying with the weak. We do not wish to be misunderstood as opponents of International Arbitration, on the contrary we are much opposed to war and often wish that it were possible to assess the cost thereof, as a property improvement, only upon those immediately concerned, as most wars are provoked by special interests involved, or by special interests seeking to benefit, but as long as Europe continues to amass military and naval armaments, we protest against the United States adopting any arbitration agreement with Great Britain, or any other European power, and so pulling its "chestnuts out of the fire" and relieving it from Trans-Atlantic anxiety, so that it can continue aggressive policies in Europe and elsewhere. The United States, while probably regretting, would absolutely have no cause to be alarmed at the prospect of war with Great Britain. As soon as it was publicly known that Great Britain was involved either in war, or in the possibility of war, with the United States, Germany, or some other first or even second class European power, could attach her and native risings would probably ensue throughout India and Egypt, combined circumstances sufficient to paralyze Great Britain and to shatter its credit. Great Britain has recognized this since the time of the war between North and South in the United States and the "Alabama" controversy, from which she sought to escape regardless of expense and almost prestige, because important enemies in Europe were threatening. The situation remains practically the same today. As far as any actual war is concerned, without going into any dissertation, as to relative strength and efficiency, even assuming that Great Britain could concentrate, which is always possible, her entire strength against United States, all the latter need do would be to arrest the export of cotton, without waiting to overtake it on the Atlantic, and thereby provoking issues under contraband declarations, etc., to plunge Great Britain in accute distress, and if necessary, the rest of Europe. On the other hand, United States cotton producers would be embarrassed, but the United States Government could come to their rescue by making advances against cotton, which is always almost equivalent to gold in warehouses, and which could subsequently sold, whereas lost mill time in Lancashire and Yorkshire and consequential starvation, would not be a liquid asset after any war. Naturally Great Britain is anxious and eager that such an arbitration treaty should be arranged, but, under present circumstances what has the United States to gain by such? As far as Trans-Atlantic relations are concerned, it seems unlikely that there would be any very serious difficulties between the United States and Great Britain, and as long as the present extensive and intimate financial and commercial intercourse continues, any difficulties and dispites will settle themselves along natural lines and it seems unnecessary to commit ourselves to any special arbitration treaty or to any particular political relationship. Although the United States will never probably become an actual ally, for offensive or defensive purposes, of Great Britain, inasmuch as it has to equally consider the other national units e. g. Germans, which combined, compose the greatest race of all, namely "Citizens of the United States," it is unlikely that the United States, as a simple business proposition, could stand idly by and permit Great Britain, if ever it should be unfortunately overwhelmed in some European war, at a time when she was entangled in India or elsewhere, to be mulcted by some extortionate and unreasonable war indemnity such as followed the Franco-Prussian war, for if such were permitted we shouldPACIFIC MARINE REVIEW 5 practically witness the bankruptcy and embarrassment of our largest customer, and should have to seek elsewhere for financing our large railway bond issues, an increasing proportion of which already go to the Continent. These arguments and views may seem scandalous and heretical to the old and fast disappearing school of diplomatists with their endless "pour-parlers" and "precis," and time wasted in court intrigue, but none can deny that these are the fundamental causes and connections which govern the relationship between modern nations. The day has gone for the diplomatist who seats himself upon some pedestal, and in some world of which only he is conscious, and scorns commercial relationship as something outside and beneath his functions. The extraordinary rise to international power, almost international domination of the United States, is the best example of the success of straightforward commercial diplomacy. Finally we repeat we hope the United States will preserve its present freedom from all entangling treaties of every kind, and hope that this article will reach and be read by our numerous friends both in the House of Representatives and in the Senate. H. B. J. CANADIAN NAVAL SERVICE PROGRAMME, AND CANADIAN ACT TO ENCOURAGE DRY DOCKS. We note with interest that a number of prominent British shipbuilders, in conjunction with Canadian associates continue to file applications under the above programme and/or ac and to announce their intention to qualify as residential shipbuilders. Among the more recent filings we note that of the Fairfield Shipbuilding Co., which has executed much important construction for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, in conjunction with Messrs. Beardmore & Co., and a British combination which as the Coventry Ordnance Co., Ltd., is one of three combinations which control the manufacture of ordnance in Great Britain. This combination proposed to establish a shipbuilding yard in Nova Scotia, and meanwhile the programme of Messrs. Vickers in connection with a floating dry dock at Montreal, which we have previously recorded, is advancing to actual construction and completion. Under the Act the shipbuilders receive 3 1/2 per cent interest for 35 years, on the cost of their plant and auxiliary equipment. Although so guaranteed, it is not very attractive finance, as the Government does not guarantee the principal or redemption fund, and we question if these bonds could be negotiated for much more than 85 per cent. It will for many years be difficult to make a commerical success of more than one first-class shipbuilding and dry dock company on the St. Lawrence, and it seems to us improbable that the numerous projects for Montreal, Quebec and the Maritime Provinces can either succeed or reach fruition. We note with interest that Messrs. Denny Bros. of Dunbarton, the well-known builders who have done so much to establish marine steam turbine propulsion, have allied with the B. C. Marine Railways Co., Ltd., of Victoria, Messrs. Bullen Bros., and that it is announced that they have secured a contract under the Act. It is impossible that a first-class plant can succeed both at Vancouver and Victoria, and we have always thought that Vancouver would be the proper station. Vancouver, however, cannot complain that a contract which practically makes the Vancouver contract worthless in the world of finance, and vice versa, have been granted to contractors at Victoria, inasmuch as over two years have passed since the Vancouver company secured its contract under the original Act, granting 3 per cent, which was confirmed under the amended Act granting 3 1/2 per cent, and no real progress has yet been made. After all, the B. C. Marine Railway Co. and Messrs. Bullen have for years been established as shipbuilders on a small scale and ship-repairers, and probably their existing plant and connections is the best foundation for a first-class establishment. For all we know, the Vancouver and Victoria applicants may have united, as obviously there is no business both public and private, sufficient for more than one first-class yard in British Columbia waters, and financial interests, as well as the Canadian Government, would be unwise to encourage more than one on the Canadian Pacific Coast, and possibly two on the Canadian Atlantic Coast. The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Co. is also reported to have filed under the Act for a large dry dock at Prince Rupert. Notwithstanding these numerous filings throughout the Dominion there is very little actual progress made under the Canadian Naval Service Programme and invidious comparisons are constantly made between the actual progress of New Zealand, Australia, and other British Dominions which simultaneously announced their naval programmes. We support the Canadian Government in its determination to make this construction domestic if possible and appreciate the many difficult problems which this involves. The British shipbuilders complain that the Canadian programme is not sufficiently large, extended and attractive to justify an important entry on a large scale, and turn in preference to the more tempting programmes such as those of the Brazilian Navy, the Chilian Navy, the Portuguese Navy, etc., wherein domestic construction is not a condition. We respectfully suggest that the Canadian Government should extend its invitation for tenders to United States shipbuilders, two of which participate in the Argentine Naval Programme, as we believe that conditions, costs, etc., of naval constructions in Canada present a closer parallel in similar conditions in the United States than to those in Great Britain. Canada is destined to become a great cosmopolitan nation and to remain an independent nation, like the United States, wherein all good Canadian citizens are welcome from wheresoever they come, and Canada's greatest loyalty and participants in the defense of the British Empire will be found in its own domestic strength and prosperity, and we can discover no reason why first-class shipbuilders on the East Coast of the United States should not be invited to tender. Reciprocity is likely to bind us in closer industrial and commercial relationship and as for any suggestion or irresponsible declarations of annexation both sensible Canadian and sensible United States citizens know that it is unfounded and ridiculous. H. B. JAYNE. MEXICAN REVOLUTION. Events have moved both rapidly and violently and we confess have far exceeded our anticipations. Nevertheless we believe that men like former President Diaz and former Finance Minister Limantour will be missed and very difficult to replace. We do not so much dread prolonged revolution in Mexico as the result of the comparative inexperience and incompetency of the new Administration, as so far no very strong or experienced members have been proposed, and apparently all the old members have given notice of early retirement which indicates their confidence in the former administration and policy of President Diaz, although the country at large has apparently condemned him. H. B. J.C.D. BERCAW BOX 304 CORDELE, GA. Cordele, Ga., Oct. 10, 1911 Mr. R.W. Crowell, 366 Broadway, New York. Dear Mr. Crowell:- Talk about criticising the courts: Edward Parker and I leased and managed a theatre. Mr. Parker had a voice that would hold ships out at sea in a fog. We played a show called "Ship-a-Hoy;" a few nights previous to this show one of the housemen found a boy chopping in a gallery door with an ax. The way of a free pass. Manager of "Ship-a-Hoy" show collected tickets at the main door, a boy tried to dart through his legs and it irritated the Manager who slapped the boy. Foxy boy got a warrant in police court. At the trial next morning, after listening to the tale of the boy, the Judge fined the Manager ten dollars. Sprang up Mr. Parker: "Judge! what the hell, - are you going to fine that man ten dollars without listening to a single witness for the defense?" "Ah, in that case, " said the Judge, "I will reduce the fine to five dollars." Yours very truly, [*[Bercaw]*] Enc in Benaw 5-31-1356 BEACON STREET [*3*] 10-10-11 Dear Theodore Your welcome telegram to Nahant ten days ago after I found the account in the paper was a great relief. You said itI suppose you have a good doctor, and it is not for me to meddle anyway. But pain as such does no good to anybody. Yos. always WSB Bigelow was nothing but shock. That normally takes care of itself. But a line from Cabot this A.M. speaks of wrenched vertebrae and pain, which is another story. Vetebrae mean time. But why pain? Why not morphine? Oct. 10 [*[1911]*] [*10.*] [BIGHORN SHERIDAN COUNTY, WYOMING RAILWAY TELEGRAMS AND EXPRESS SHERIDAN, WYOMING] Dear Mr. Roosevelt You very kindly said I might let you know when I was passing through New York on my way back to England. I have not fixed my plans till now but am arriving in New York on Monday or Tuesday Oct 23 & 24 & sailing on Thursday October 26 I feel with this short notice it is very likely that you will be very full up with engagements in which case I know you will let me know if it is inconvenient to have me. I shall be leaving here on Oct. 18th if there is not time to write here will you write to the Wolcot Hotel as I have never been in New York before & do not know how to get to you. I have been having a most delightful visit here with the Willie Moncrieffs the country is so lovely. Yours sincerely Theresa Buxton141 So. 6th St. Newark, N.J. Oct 10 -1911 Newark New Jersey Hon. Theo Roosevelt: Dear Sir, I ask especially, of you not to have the letter, which I mailed, on the 8th, published. As I do not care to have the public know private family affairs. Thanking of you in advance, and trusting to hear from you soon. I am Respectfully Clara Cardof much more original work -that is work of the wilder sort, as in Africa, the Spanish Sierras, Norway, &c. The only fresh work I have in hand is a third edition of "Bird life of the Baden". May I add that it amazes me to find that you, a man of such infinite preoccupation, should ever have found the time to read with such ardent care, a purely local book - dealing with a single foreign country! Again, I cannot express the sense of pride it gives me. WARK STATION. N.B.R.. [*[Chapman?]*] (2 MILES) HOUXTY, WARK-ON-TYNE, NORTHUMBERLAND. Oct 10, 1911 Dear Mr. Roosevelt I have just read your review in "The Outlook". I am quite at a loss to express the sense of pride & gratitude which your most kind appreciation inspires. Never before in my life have I felt so honoured - do I really deserve it? I have always been soConscious (painfully conscious) of my limitations, mental & physical, that the only merit I was aware of was that of absolute honesty in the attempt to set out my experiences of wild Nature & her ways. All my books (though least so that on "Wildfowling", which I wrote by request of "The Field") have been written under the sheer conviction that they conveyed something new-_gave new light on their subjects-_something that people ought to know (whether they want to know, or not!). Your article (& more than that, your Nature-writings generally) sets a far higher ideal & to that I much strive to attain _ would that the impulse had come earlier! for, having entered the seventh decade, I can no longer hope to be capableWARK STATION. N.B.R. (2 MILES) HOUXTY, WARK-ON-TYNE, NORTHUMBERLAND. (2) Believe me, with great respect & gratitude, Sincerely yours Abel Chapman P. S. During this spring, I motored 2000 miles thro' the Seven Border counties in the study of Bird-life, had many more miles I climbed, waded & bog-trotted, was not registered!State Charities Aid Association, UNITED CHARITIES BUILDING, 105 EAST 22ND STREET. NEW YORK BOARD OF MANAGERS. MR. JOSEPH H. CHOATE, PRESIDENT MRS. WILLIAM B. RICE,} MR. GEORGE F. CANFIELD, } VICE PRESIDENTS. MISS LOUISA LEE SCHUYLER,} MR. EDWARD W. SHELDON, TREASURER MRS. HENRY OOTHOUT, LIBRARIAN MRS. TUNIS G. BERGEN, MR. JOHN A. MCKIM, MISS M. KATE BRICE, MISS RUTH MORGAN MISS HELEN C. BUTLER, MR. EUGENE A PHILBIN, MR. CHARLES S. FAIRCHILD, MISS FLORENCE M. RHETT MR. THEODORE L. FROTHINGHAM , MR. ELIHU ROOT, MR. WILLIAM E. HARMON, MRS. CHARLES CARY RUMSEY, DR. CHARLES HITCHCOCK, MR. P. TECUMSEH SHERMAN, MR. FRANCIS C. HUNTINGTON, MR. FELIX M. WARBURG, MRS. MORRIS W. KELLOGG, MISS DOROTHY P. WHITNEY, MR. CHARLES H. MARSHALL, MRS. MARY HATCH WILLARD, MR. HOMER FOLKS, SECRETARY. MISS MARY VIDA CLARK,} MR. BAILEY B BURRITT,} ASSISTANT SECRETARIES [*2.*] October 10th, 1911 Mr. Frank Harper, Secretary The Outlook, 105 East 22nd St., New York. Dear Sir: Your letter of the 9th instant, addressed to Mr. Folks, has just come to my attention. Mr. Folks is in Europe and will not be back before the end of December. There is no one connected with our staff who is especially familiar with the subjects of either child labor or workmen's compensation. I should think that Mr. Owen Lovejoy, of the National Child Labor Committee, would be able to give Mr. Roosevelt the information that he wishes regarding the former subject, and Mr. John B. Andrews, of the American Association for Labor Legislation, at #1 Madison Ave., telephone 5974 Gramercy, would probably have full data regarding the latter subject. I remain Very truly yours, Mary Vida Clark Assistant Secretary[*D*] 226 S. Mathilda St. Pittsburgh, Pa. , Oct. 10th, 1911. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, % Outlook Publishing Co., New York City. Dear Sir:- We are taking the liberty of writing to you in the hope that we may enlist your help in an endeavor to render the greatest possible financial aid we can to the missionaries of our Church - United Presbyterian. Many of these missionaries recently had the pleasure of meeting and knowing you during your recent tour of the Sudan and Egypt, and it was because of the evident interest you manifested in the American Missionaries in these Countries that we felt free to write to you. Our plan is to have you come to our City to lecture during the latter part of February or the early part of March; might we suggest Tuesday, February 27th as a desirable date subject to change by you if inconvenient. We will make all preparations for the lecture and would be glad to receive any suggestions you might care to make, or any literature you might have on the subject of your lecture. May we hope to receive a reply at an early date stating what terms and time would be satisfactory to you. Most respectfully yours, PERMANENT MISSIONARY COMM. 4TH U.P. CHURCH By A.H. Colwell. Chairman References: Geo. M. Padin, Cashier Union National Bank, Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Wm. T. Lyon, Pres. Guardian Trust Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. Chas. R. Watson, D.D., Sec'y, U. P. Foreign Board, 200 N. 15th St.,, Philadelphia, Pa. Babylon Oct. 10th 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt. Oyster Bay L. I. [*D*] Dear Sir: The people of Babylon have through their own efforts and at a cost of about $10,000 have erected a Free Library it will be opened to the Public any time after the 20th inst. It is the wish of the trustees that you address us that evening the Library will seat about 200 persons. If you can spare the time we can wait your convenience on the evening of either the 20th or the 23rd inst. Trusting that you will be able to help us out at that time I am Yours very Rspectfully James W. Eaton Chairman &cSECURITY BUILDING LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Oct. 10. 1911. [*24*] Ex President Teddy Roosevelt, Oyster Bay Long Island, N.Y. Dear Sir Am writing you to learn from you about the Salt River Valley in Arizona under the Roosevelt Dam. I am a young man just starting out in life and have about $8,000.00 which I want to invest. Have read about this district some and would be pleased if you could find time to give me some information on same. About the water rights, soil and productive qualities of this valley. All information you can give me will be highly appreciated. Hoping to hear from you at your earliest convenience. Yours very truly H.A. Evans 1004 Security Bldg. Los Angeles Cal.his countenance & leaven his heart. This though is only by the way. We shall be so glad to have Arch with us again & will, you know, care for him as our own. Much sympathy with Mrs Roosevelt over her accident & best wishes from us both Faithfully yours, Henry David Evans The Evans School Mesa, Arizona October 10, 1911 Dear Mr. Roosevelt, We were exceedingly sorry to hear of Mrs. Roosevelt's accident, through Archie's letter, but, as no telegram has come to say that he would not reach us today, hope she has made a good and rapid recovery. Of course I was perfectly delighted at the good news about Archie's exams. It was most kind of you to write to me, and I much appreciate your tribute to the school and its environment, which is of untold value in my work. Nick's mother asked me what I thought he should take up after graduating, where at I suggested a private secretaryship to enable him to mature & observe the working methods of those in authority before he entered on a 'career'. But she does not at all approve. On my part I merely was following out my strong belief that youth & adolescence only become[s] strong & broad by the influence of & association with a fine character. And Nick would worship at such a shrine, lighten [*[10-10-11]*] [*15.*] [[shorthand]] 35 Nassau Street New York Theodore Roosevelt Esq. Oyster Bay, N. Y. My Dear Mr. Roosevelt I am writing to you in reference to a brother of mine, Mr. Chas. H. Griffiths, who is an applicant for one of the vacancies which exist in the District Attorney's office. He has been practicing for several years and is well recommended as to his ability etc. I should greatly appreciate it if you could grant him a few minutes interview while you are in the city this week in order that you may judge his prospectivefitness, and do what you can for him. Yours very truly D. Walter [Guffalis?] October 10th, 1911. [*[Hall]*] [*9.*] Creston, Iowa Oct/10, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir:- Pursuant to agreement made with you while in New York a few weeks ago, I am sending to your New York office some articles for your perusal and advice, on a proposition to relieve the public of the unjust transportation tax, which enters into almost everything we have to eat and wear. We are submitting this proposition for your approval for the reason that there is no other man whose judgement would be accepted by the high class men that are desired to manage this great movement, who could be called together for the purpose of affecting an organization with a complete knowledge before hand of the mode of procedure to accomplish the results. We feel it would almost be criminal to permit this knowledge to become public before these men of high entegrity had gathred together and decided if or not they would take charge of the movement which is national in its scope. We are hoping that you will consent to be President, Mr. Roosevelt, bit if you find it absolutely impossible to accept it we would like you to take the matter up with some man, whom in your judgement would be the proper person. When this party accepts, we will furnish him with a list of the Governors or other men whom we have a line on and as being progressivewho stand for the rights of the people, that he may write them stating he has envestigated the SYSTEM AND MODE OF PROCEEDURE as formulated by the Golden Rule Rate Adjusting Co. and inviting them to a conference with him to complete the organization.-:2:- There are only two other pareties as yet who have knowledge of this mode of procedure. For that reason we hope you will read the the three articles and leaflet we have sent to your New York office. I have made them as brief as possible and feel I have only given you a shadow of the idea, depending on your own great knowledge of the existing conditions, as I fear others might not grasp the situation. The article entitled "Millions and Millions of Money Unlawfully Taken" is almost entirely copied from the "findings and orders" rendered by the Inter-State Commerce Commission. The system and policy pursued by the Golden Rule Rate Adjusting Co., we have tried out in Fifty-one law suits with the "Burlington", forty-six involving sums varying from five dollars to twenty- four dollars and ninety-five cents in Justice courts, and we know there is no doubt of making them throw up their hands. I have spent four months over the territory west of the Missouri River, have seen most of the Governors, getting a line on men we should secure for state officials etc. The salary of the President we expect to be at least $25,000 per year. Thanking you, I am Very respectfully yours, John Hall [*13.*] Anchor Woolen Mills R. H. Hanna Proprietor Manufacturers of Pure Woolen Goods and Yarns St. Petersburg, Fla. [Maryville, Tennessee] Oct 10th 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt. Dear Sir: I have run across an old german Bible which I believe because of its age, is of value to the book collector-but do not know where to address one Will you please refer me or my enquiry to some such. The old Bible is in german test, the pages are 16 inches by 9 1.2-. The back and title page having disappeared there is no date of publication. It is illustrated with rude cuts all through. The first pages contained full page cuts or engravures, wonderfully exact in detail of Frederick, der Dritte order Wiese, Johann der alteren und Beftandige Johann Frederick, der Erste, und Stand haste, John William, der Erste, and so on down to the eleventh cut, which is of Bernhard, der Grosse.. The 12th page is a cut of Martin Luther a young man, and the portraits of his family, hanging on the walls of the room, where he sits at a desk. From this description, a book expert can likely locate the edition The least help that will enable me to get the age and value of this old book, will be greatly appreciated. Yours most respectfully Roy S. Hanna St. Petersburg, Fla.W.D. LACY, PRESIDENT. S.M. McASHAN, VICE PRESIDENT L.B. BLACK, CASHIER. NO. 3135. CAPITAL PAID IN...................$100,000.00 CAPITAL FROM EARNINGS..$150,000.00 TOTAL CAPITAL..$250,000.00 THE CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK. UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY. [*17.*] WACO, TEX. Oct. 10, 1911. My dear Mr. Roosevelt:- Replying to your kind letter of the third inst., will say that it will be perfectly agreeable for you to give the documents to the New York society. I have already given the Texas society a supply and am a life member. With best wishes, and thanking you, I am, Very truly yours, R. A. Hanrick Col. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, New York City. Copy Supreme Court of the United States Washington October 10, 1911. My dear Mr. Ely:– I thank you for your letter of the 9th instant. It would give me great pleasure to attend the meeting of the Civic Forum and particularly to have the opportunity of introducing Colonel Roosevelt and of hearing his address. I wish that I could accept your invitation and I am very sorry that it is impossible. The work of the Court is very heavy--our calendar is crowded-- and the absence of any Justice means not only his own loss of time, which he can ill afford, but so much extra work for the other Justices on the cases heard and submitted in his absence. In addition, I have this fall the closing of the work of the Commission on Second Class Mail Matter. My experience last year showed me conclusively that I could not properly attend to my duties here and take engagements outside; and for this reason I have declined a large number of very important invitations for the fall and winter. I have made only one exception and that is the banquet of the national convention of the college fraternity of which I am the president. I have not been able to attend a convention during my incumbency of that office, and as they are holding the convention in the east I have promised to be there next Saturday night. I mention this so you will understand what the real situation is. I remember speaking at one of the meetings of the Forum when the late Mr. Justice Brewer delivered an address; but as you know the calendars of the Court are much heavier now and as I have said above the work cannot be done if the Justices do noy give their whole time to it. With cordial regards, I am, Sincerely yours, (signed) Charles E. Hughes. Mr. Robert Erakine Ely, Executive Director of the Civic Forum, 23 West 44th Street, New York CityEnc in Ely 10-17-11UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT 184 ELDRIDGE STREET NEW YORK October 10, 1911. Secretary to Col. Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Dear Sir:– Mr. Gilman wishes me to ascertain from you if it will be convenient for Col. Roosevelt to meet him tomorrow, Tuesday morning. at 11:30 instead of 12:30, as he finds that he has a luncheon engagement. Kindly telephone me tomorrow morning, and oblige, Yours very truly, (Miss) Annie B. Jeter Sec. to Head Worker.SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. RICHARD BARTHOLDT, MO., CHAIRMAN EDWIN C. BURLEIGH, ME. BENJAMIN F. HOWELL, N.J. JOHN E. ANDRUS, N.Y. DANIEL F. LAFEAN, PA. EBEN W. MARTIN, S. DAK. FREDERICK LUNDIN, ILL. JOHN G. GRANT, N.C. RICHARD W. AUSTIN, TENN. CHARLES E. CREAGER, OKLA. CHARLES R. THOMAS, N.C. MORRIS SHEPPARD, TEX. JOSEPH T. JOHNSON, S.C. JOHN L. BURNETT, ALA. FRANK CLARK, FLA. JAMES C. CANTRILL, KY. S. A. RODDENBERRY, GA. EDWARD E. MILLER, CLERK. COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES U.S. WASHINGTON, D.C. York, Pennsylvania, October 10, 1911. [*21*] Col. Theodore Roosevelt, New York, N.Y. My dear Colonel:- If you will recall, just about one year ago I wrote you in reference to delivering a lecture before the York County Teachers' Institute. At that time you advised me that it was impossible for you to do so. As you will see from the enclosed communication from Superintendent Stine, the teachers are very desirous of having you deliver a lecture sometime during Institute, the week of November 27th to December 1st. I shall be pleased to have you advise me whether or not you will deliver such lecture; also the price for same. Should you see fit to deliver this lecture, I will be only too glad to entertain you while in York.T.R..........................2 10-10-11 With kindest regards and best wishes for your health, I am, Yours very sincerely, D.F. LafeanV. A. McCLANAHAN, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. VIOLA, ILL. [*D*] Oct. 10th. 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York; Dear Sir: - For six years we have had here a "Lincoln Chautauqua." These chautauquas are on the circuit plan and have been held all over the state of Illinois. The aim has been to encourage and promote honesty, temperance and good citizenship. We sold enough tickets for next year's assembly to justify the manager, Mr. A.E. Wilson, of Chicago, in promising us a "headliner" for the opening day of the assembly. The ones named to use were.- Mr. Bryan, Senator La Follete , "Billy" Sunday, Ex. Gov. Folk or some one in their classand to cost as much as one of them. But our guarantors voted unanimously to ask Mr. Wilson to try to secure you for us. This may seem presumptuous to you, but we really want you or we would not ask. The guarantors asked me as secretary to write to you and express our earnest desire for you to come. You have many sincere friends in this part of the countryand few of them have had an opportunity to see or hear you. As to terms, time &c, Mr. Wilson will write to you as that all remains with him, I write to plead with you to, if possible, give him a favorable reply for us. Don't turn us down-please come. With best regards, Yours truly, V. A. McClanahan UNION BANK BUILDINGS, ELY PLACE LONDON E.C. 10th October, 1911. ALFRED MOSELY, TELEGRAMS:- "BLUEBOTTLE-LONDON". CODES{ A. B. C. {4TH EDITION) {MOREING & NEAL. TELEPHONE: 9164 CENTRAL. [*18.*] [[shorthand]] Col: the Honble. Theodore Roosevelt, "The Outlook," New York, U.S.A. Dear Mr. Roosevelt, I am leaving England on the 19th inst. for New York, which I hope to reach on 26th and shall be staying at the Netherlands Hotel in your City for certainly two weeks. I trust I may have the pleasure of meeting you whilst there. If you will let me know what day and time I can see you I shall be pleased to call and pay you a visit, or, alternately, should be delighted if you could call and see me at the hotel. Looking forward to the pleasure of meeting you. Allow me to remain, Yours faithfully, A. Mosely. THE competitive system has ended. The channels of enterprise are closed to big new business. Monoply under private trusts must give place to monopoly under public trusts. "For us to love our country, our country ought to be lovely." - Edmund Burke. "Co-operation is the hope of humanity" - Horace Greeley. National and State Auto-Highways, by Commissions An industrial plan that treats and settles, at the same time, the six basic problems - labor, land, money, production, distribution and how-best-to-live - that underlie society and government, by getting the people together and systematizing their industries into a continuous series of coherent, inter-dependent and inter-sustaining public "communities of interest," or public trusts. It is a reflection upon the sanity of the people of the United States to have so much of everything in this country and not to have a plan to encourage and assist every person to enjoy to the full equivalent what he or she renders to the commonwealth. "There is nothing on earth so strong, so enduring, so irresistible as an idea if it happens to be a great and noble one. Civilization is nothing but a series of incarnations of the ideal." - G.B. Thomas. "Make the country life large and lovely for the country child." - Miss Mabel Carney. Public Trusts put in competition with Private Trusts is the only way to see which are the better business concerns. New York State College of Agriculture At Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. L. H. Bailey, Director A. R. Mann, Secretary. Office of the Director. June 4, 1911. Mr. Albert K. Owen, Baldwinsville, New York. Dear Mr. Owen: * * * I am very greatly obliged to you for sending me your articles. I have gone over these with a good deal of interest. I have no personal opinion on auto-highways but I think you have struck a very suggestive line of constructive agitation. I had not got hold of your full idea before. I shall be glad to follow it. It is interesting to see these new things projecting themselves into the public consciousness and to see some of them now and then work themselves out. Yours most truly, L. H. Bailey. Auto-highways or multi-roads are planned to attract men, women and children to get upon their own wheels and to be masters of their own transportations. They are the basis for the "automatic machinery" and the "scientific agriculture" urged by Edison. Private Trusts should not be meddled with before there are bigger and better incorporated business concerns to take their places. Private Trusts are beneficial and all- powerful for the few. Public Trusts will be more beneficial and more powerful for the many. Private Trusts give us the greatest lessons in combination, co-operation and coherency. They are "communities of interest" governed by private directors. The Steel Trust is a confederacy of holding and subsidiary companies which include 14,239 industrial establishments and 124 railroad companies, together with banks, steamships, mines, water powers, villages, etc. , and the private directors manage everything for their own personal profits and advancements. Public Trusts will select, improve and enlarge upon everything that is good in private trusts, and the public commissioners will manage everything for, by and to promote the welfare, primarily, of those who do the work. There will be no need of tariffs for protection or revenue after auto-highways are inaugurated. Tariff uses have passed into tariff abuses. Industries once suppliant are now despotic. Henceforth, "infant" and other industries can find encouragement and perfection only in a comprehensive and coalesced system of inter-dependent, inter- sustaining, diverse and co-ordinated industries unified by auto-highways made general. [*16. Baldwinsville, New York. Oct. 10th 1911. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, Long Island, N. Y. Col. Roosevelt: You say: "the only thing which makes it worth while to hold a big office is taking advantage of the opportunities the office offers to do some big thing that ought to be done and is worth doing." However, it is not necessary for a person, like yourself, who has the attention immediately of the public to whatever subject you speak or write upon, "to hold a big office x x to do some big thing that ought to be done and is worth doing." National and State Auto-Highways, respectively, by commissions, as set*]City government by public Commission is rapidly being substituted for City government by political Boss. Evolution demands that Public Trusts by Public Commissioners be substituted for Private Trusts by private Directors. Wagon roads were not sufficient by themselves, and railroads were not able, in 1907, to haul our crops. Auto-Highways combine, perfect and keep distinct, secure and separate, respectively, wagon roads, electric roads, automobile roads, cycle roads, roller-skate roads and pneumatic-tube roads. The immorality of the existing industrial system finds its indictment in the fact that under its sway the working class is the poor class. it is they that live on the back streets, that eat the bad foods, that wear the shabby clothes, that take the gallery seats, that do the walking, that pay the taxes, tariffs, interests and dividends, that fight the battles, and that get o encouragement to be cultured. Auto-Highways will attract those who work to use and enjoy what they grow, make and do. "What will posterity think of our violent social inequalities, of our slums, workhouses and prisons? * * * I believe that with all our motors and dreadnaughts and flying machines, we shall be regarded for the most part even now as still sunk in barbarism." —Sir Oliver Lodge. "We do not ask your sympathy. You have failed — failed utterly — to abolish poverty. All your churches, all your governments, all your institutions, all your laws have failed. you are admitted failures, all of you, but, by Heaven we are not going to fail. "We are going to abolish poverty, and to do it ourselves without asking help of any but ourselves." —Tom Mann, the Strike Leader, Liverpool, Aug. 9, 1911. "The people whether justly or unjustly are very largely of the opinion that the daily press is under bonds to certain big interests. * * When the railroads increase your freight rates to a point that imperils your living profit; when the banks cut off your credit because you have dared to struggle against some tentacle of the Wall street octopus; when the cost of living has increased ten, twenty, fifty, a hundred per cent. higher than it is even now, and your earning capacity has not increased proportionately, to what source can you look for help?" —Bishop Williams, of Michigan. The answer is: You must look to National and State Auto-Highways, respectively, by commissions—to the Bill, H. R. 9446, i1st session, 62nd Congress. There is not another plan and bill that can meet and overcome the socio-economic-industrial choas that confronts this people. Republicans, Democrats, Socialists, Progressives, Insurgents, and Conservationists are still confining themselves to "platforms," because they are either dishonest, or are not sufficiently intelligent upon what this country needs to make a plan and to specifically set it forth in a bill or bills to cover just what they want and will make into the law or laws of the land if they get into office. For a party to offer a "platform" again to bamboozle voters to vote candidates into office is an insult. "What makes the few rich and the many poor, that suits not a commonwealth." —Cromwell. "Business is civilization, think many of us; it creates and implies it. * * Business and material well-being are signs of expansion and parts of it; but civilization, that great and complex force, includes much more than even that power of expansion of which they are parts. It includes also the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty, the power of social life and manners. To the building up of human life all these powers belong. If business is civilization, then business must manage to evolve all these powers; if a widely spread, material well-being is civilization, then that well-being must manage to evolve them all. it is written: 'Man doth not live by bread alone.' " —Matthew Arnold. "Within the past few hundred years science has undoubtedly accomplished wonders. Yet we have barely crossed the threshold of ultimate, scientific achievement. More progress will be made in the next fifty years than has been made since the world began. "I am no dreamer and I do not regard speculation upon the future profitable. On the other hand one cannot close one's eyes to the inevitable, and the progress of the world along certain lines is already assured, though none the less remarkable. * * * "Physically and morally, science will make the world over. And the best part of this great triumph will be witnessed, I believe, within the next fifty years." —Thomas A. Edison, June 4, 1911. "I look to Science for the cure of crime; To patient righting of a thousand wrongs; To final healing of a thousand ills. * * * "I look to Science for the growth of Faith. That bold denier of accepted creeds— That mighty doubter of accepted truths— Shall yet reveal God's secrets to the world, And prove the facts it seeks to overthrow." —Ella Whealer Wilcox. "Each apringtime we remember the voice that announced a resurrection in which we see the promise of a resurrection for all mankind. * * * "If it has given you a soul, it has robbed you of the privilege of forgetting the souls of your fellows. 'if ye then be risen with Christ,' you have got to remember something higher than your own comfort; you have got to remember the mortal needs of your immortal companions Man shall arise. "Or, you don't believe it: * * * This is your only chance. Whatever of evil you do cannot be undone; whatever of good you mean to do cannot be postponed to an eternal tomorrow. if you are to help man, you must help him now. "Believer or unbeliever, you must, then, lend your hand to all those millions of hands that are slowly raising the burden of our common lot. There is much to do, but we are doing it. Our industrial system is corrupt but it will be purged, and you can help purge it. Our political system is dishonored, but it will be cleaned, and you can help clean it. * * The big fact of social evolution you cannot deny; your duty in regard to it you cannot evade. * * "Whatever happens in another world, in this one, from the protoplasm to your own cerebrum, we are marching forward; through despotism and republicanism we are plodding toward that Democracy of man which is the Kingdom of God. Man shall arise!" —Reginald Wright Kauffman. "During every hour of the day society is wasting a vast store of latent human ability and power and heedlessly creating untold misery and suffering. The loss and the pain are both due to social conditions which are remediable through education and legislative action. "Could we succeed but a little in showing that old things are often old only because they are traditional, or,conversely, that in the evolution of new things lies social salvation; that the 'submerged tenth' is submerged because of ignorance and low wages, and that the community abounds in latent ability which awaits the opportunity for development, we should perform a service of untold social value—turning men forever away from the outgrown things of the past, and leading them to a vision of social adjustment in the future." —Scott Nearing. "I should like to live long so that I might see what is to come, and what is to come will be a wonderful improvement on the past. There is no limit to the triumphs and power of man and no limit to his character. In my opinion, we are living on this earth to serve our fellow man. "God needs no worship. He needs none of our services: He is too high; but we can best serve Him by service to our fellow man." —Andrew Carnegie, Jan. 11, 1911. "The Money Trust is our greatest peril. Action against the concentration of the money power must come quickly if it is to afford relief. It is today recognized in American financial circles that a meritorious and profitable enterprise with even millions of capital has no chance of success if it interferes with any enterprize controlled by or allied with the banking interests." —Samuel Untermyer, Paris, Sept. 7, 1911. "If the present trend of events by which the money power of the country is rapidly falling into the hands of a few is not changed, the economic health of the nation is doomed." —Gov. Woodrow Wilson, Sept. 9, 1911."Be one people! forget everything for the public." —Lord Chatham. The call of home, innate in man, bird and beast, is the mightiest call that can stir a nation. "Life has many avenues for enjoyment; for amusement, for passing pleasures. But for real, enduring happiness we must look to just one place—the home." —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. "New times demand new measures and new men, The world advances, and in time outgrows the laws That in our father's time were best; And, doubtless, after us some purer scheme Will be shaped out by wiser men than we, - - Made wiser by the steady growth of truth." —Lowell "Where combination is possible, competition is impossible. —Geo. Stephenson. The dream of happiness of every city dweller is a home in the country. The industrial Re-formation will explain how a man or woman by hypothecating one-half of his or her services for one or two years, can at once enter into the comforts of a garden-home, located, built and furnished as he or she orders. "Government by commission is government by the people and more. It is the ideal substitute for a system of government which has been tried and proved a failure." —MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER. "Commission government for cities is merely the applying of general business principles to municipal business. The commission, the board of directors as we would say for a commercial house, simply runs the business of the city. By a system of fixed responsibility and authority to transact the business of the city without the logrolling inseparable from large assemblies of lawmakers, the business goes on in a businesslike way and brings results that have so pleased the people trying the new plan that no amount of effort on the part of believers in the old way has persuaded them to change back again." But towns and cities will yet come to understand that what they, respectively, must do is to take out charters to bank and to do for all their citizens everything else that groups of citizens take out charters to do for themselves. National or Interstate and state Auto - Highways, by commissions, will solve the problems of economic production and distribution. These are the basic factors in the cost of living. These civic roads, by commissions, will settle the questions of "back to the farm" and the congestion of cities by putting city entertainments and social enjoyments into the country. "What we are looking for is the right kind of a bottle to put the new wine in. We want to get a new garment, instead of patching up the old one. We are trying to work out the necessary changes that will enable us to meet the new problems. Each of us has his part to play."—Theodore Roosevelt, Jan. 6, I9II. "I realize that a new order of things has come about and that a city must have a business administration just like a merchandise company." —MAYOR REYBURN of Phila., Pa. "Herr Singer's death and Herr Bebel's ill health, open up the problem as to whom the Socialists will chose as their new leader in the Reichstag. The indications are that the leadership will go to the new school of politicians, who favor a revision of the party's creed in the direction of practical present-day problems rather than the theoretical mapping out of the condition of society in a socialized state." As soon as farmers, mechanics, miners and general helpers realize that any five men incorporated to carry out a specific plan can brush out of their way any hundred thousand or more men who are simply organized, they will, at once, follow the object lessons given by the private trusts and incorporate to do and to get what is needed. "Not until the people cease to recite political platitudes and shibboleths and seek in them a panacea for governmental wrongs, shall we have a real democratic government in this country. . . . The greatest good for the greatest number has passed its day. That ideal excuses misery for the sake of prosperity. The new idea is the greatest good for all." —PROF. CHARLES ZUEBLIN. Auto-Highway Public Companies will sell their bonds at par only. They will not issue stock or other security. Their subcompanies will sell their stocks at par only. They will not issue bond or other security. These 3.65 bonds shall be interconvertible with auto-highway bank notes and 7.30 preferred subcompany stocks; and shall be exchangeable, at par plus interest, for lands, houses, supplies and transportations. These 7.30 preferred stocks shall be interconvertible with said 3.65 interconvertible bonds, and shall be exchangeable, at par plus dividends, for lands, houses, supplies and transportations. "I can not forget that the laboring class, so-called, must, like any other, stand up for its own rights, or be content to see them trampled under foot; and that the strength given it by organization, superinduced upon members, is its only effectual defense against the else unchecked tyranny of capital, eager for profit and reckless of other's rights. The power developed by combination may be abused, like any other power; but labor is helpless and a prey without it." —HORACE GREELEY. "The laboring class" has measurably organized, but organized labor against incorporated capital has been and is as a fly against an elephant. The INDUSTRIAL RE-FORMATION will show labor a plan how to incorporate and to be the Mastodons of the jungle as long as there has to be a jungle. Auto-Highway Companies will give 3.65 interconvertible bonds in receipt for deposits in their banks; will pay 7.30 dividends to investors in the preferred stocks of their sub-companies before allowing dividends to be paid on the stocks held by founders and directors; will protect the ultimate consumer by restricting prices for their manufactured articles to cost plus I0 per cent or less; and whatever profits auto-highway companies make shall be used to insure the lives, homes and usefulness of their denizens, and to make substantial their institutions and beautiful their environments. "If I may venture an opinion as to the most important question in political economy before the American people, it is this: 'Shall the chief and controlling means of production in the United States, including mineral and forest resources, water power sites, railroads and means of communication, patent rights and the enormous funds of loanable capital be owned by a billionaire four hundred, who, by virtue of such ownership, will be able for all practical purposes to own a hundred or more millions of us ordinary human beings; or shall we ordinary human beings, in our collective capacity, own the means of production ourselves and proceed to work out the reality of a democratic republic?' " —FRANKLIN H. GIDDINGS, professor of sociology, Columbia University.2 The Industrial Re=formation A Sixteen-Page Illustrated Weekly Folio PUBLISHED BY THE HOME PUBLISHING COMPANY [*x*] [*x Not yet organized.*] Our Motto: "The People." Good roads, garden homes, and the best of everything for everybody that works. Only where there is a perfect trust can there be a permanent peace. The Industrial Re-formation will preach the gospel, the new message, of Higher Association. We rise or fall to the level of our ideals. Not individualism, but social labor will dominate. National and State Auto-Highways the basis for the Industrial Republic. "Progress is measured by happiness, not by dollars and cents. The average man fails to realize this." -- Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard University. Auto-Highway Companies make helpfulness and correct living a science and do away with charities. They put governments-city, state and national - upon a business basis and do away with taxes. They associate, with order and system, the coherent industries of the whole people and do away with tariffs. The first and greatest step for the people to take is to get themselves in quick, safe and economic personal touch one with the other, and co-related with order into a general system of coherent industries. THE INDUSTRIAL RE-FORMATION will explain just how to do this. It is as difficult for a city, state or nation to run itself without owning its thoroughfares, common roads and railroads, as it would be for a hotel, department store or office building to run itself without owning its passageways, stairways and elevators. "Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun." - EMERSON. "The corporation was a Roman device for carrying out a big public work which no man could do by himself. But the application of the idea to a private business was declared a scheme of oppression and a grinder of the individual." - ELMER HUBBARD. In a Republic, private companies can rightfully - can constitutionally - exist only when in competition with public companies. It is impossible for an individual to compete with an incorporated group of individuals. THE INDUSTRIAL RE-FORMATION explains just how public companies shall be put in competition with private companies in a way that the people can be served best, and by a plan that uses all profits publicly to serve the public. The problems of our complex society are industrial - not political; not moral. They must be solved by industrial methods - not by political ways; not by moral teachings. Their solutions rest with the civil engineer and man of constructive affairs rather than with the statesman and minister. National or Interstate-Auto-Highways shall be made the ways and means to pay the current expenses of the National Government; and State-Auto-Highways shall be made the sources of revenue to meet the current expenses of their respective States. [*forty in the bill, H. R. 9446, 1st Session, 62nd. Congress, introduced by Mr. Hobson of Alabama, will be found, if seriously studied, to be "the right kind of a bottle to put the new wine in," that Col. Roosevelt was looking for Jan. 6, 1911. More than this! auto-highways are the only "bottles" that the whole people can be aroused, quickly and with enthusiasm, "to put the new wine in" as soon as what auto-highways will do for them is explained. The leaflets enclosed will be found interesting reading on the only plan coextensive with this nation that has ever been set forth in a bill, to be passed by Congress, that will out trust the trusts and bring order, system and security out of the disorder, demoralization and insecurity that now reign in every section of this so called "Republic". If Col. Roosevelt is ready to act in the line of his expressed wishes and sentiments,3 National and State-Auto-Highways Gunston, Fairfax Co., Va. Dear Mr. Owen: I have given your bill and accompanying documents as much study as I could in the pressure of work here. It is a grand enterprise, worthy of the age and in line with the aspirations of its best minds. The methods by which it is to be realized seem practical and wise. The thing now is to secure adoption. The first step is a propaganda to make it known and to work up a public sentiment. Among the many men who are strivng to build up better conditions and to have better ways of doings things there should be some one or more who might achieve immortality thus. * * * As ever, your friend, EDWARD DANIELS. This proposition of good road building is a live question, and will continue to be a matter of much concern to all the people of this country until it is settled, and settled right. * * * * Good roads have made the glory of the nations of the past, and good roads will add to our greater glory and make us all that we hope to be, - the most beneficent power that ever blessed humanity. HON. WILLIAM SULZER. My experience with the American people has convinced me that the greater the undertaking the greater the interest. * * * * It is the part of wisdom to adopt, not a jumble of unrelated plans, but a single comprehensive scheme for meeting all of the demands as far as possible at the same time and by the same means. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The social need which seems to over- shadow all else is a practical method for placing the government in the hands of the people - the real sovereigns. The voters must get into their own hands the tools of democracy, and then the barriers that interest and corruption have erected can be held in check. * * * * The nineteenth century on its material plane was dominated by one great word or idea - union, combination, co- operation. System and organization (incorporation) are the handmaids of cooperation; Let us have Public Trusts for public properties. Public Trusts will regulate Private Trusts, not by law but by competition, and private property will be respected by both. As long as there is one family without a home there is a misgoverned nation. It is a bad state of affairs when there is one person in a nation who wants to work and is not able to find employment. National and State-Auto-Highways will solve, by industrial ways and means, the problems that now vex the government and the people. [*I will gladly go and explain how the people can be aroused and enthused to carry everything for the Industrial Re-formation in November 1912. Or better still, Col. Roosevelt can come here to Oneonta Hall - "to the place where one takes the pack from off ones back" - to the home of Mrs. Owen and myself where I have data, maps, etc. to explain every detail, and where Col Roosevelt can see beautiful Onondaga County in its autumnal colors and can canoe on the Seneca - The highway of the six nations - as lost to the world as he might be in the arctic regions. Respectfully, Albert R. Owen.*] [*[Owen]*]and in the trustification of industry, our labor barons have builded a gigantic labor saving device for the better civilization that is coming. They have constructed a social machine which, in its eternal operation, is a masterpiece. The thing in its way is worthy of all admiration; but, alas, it has no soul. It is moved only by the brute instinct of selfish gain. The supreme need of the world is to breathe a humane spirit into our industrial order - to create a soul under those ribs of death. We need to make the Golden Rule the working principle of our existence. The State (the incorporated public commission) must become the organ of Fraternity. EDWIN MARKHAM. Here is a very true bit of philosophy taken from a personal letter written by Albert K. Owen, of Baldwinsville, New York, that man who is forever struggling to open wider paths for the masses to march to prosperity and happiness: "A people who do not see visions have lost the only spark of religion that is worthy of a thought. It is the realization of dreams that has blessed the world most. The American nation does not see visions. It is too much a devotee before the shrine of the Almighty Dollar. But there is a way to make a vision of to-day a reality of to- morrow - the broad and magnificent park-multi-roads, that will give homes in exchange for the labors of the millions of the homeless, will lead to a Heaven here on Earth, and now! * * * * " Then Mr. Owen proceeds to explain his magnificent idea of National and State-Auto-Highways which would give work and homes to millions of families. [*x x x x *] There is nothing impossible in this dream. All it needs is the concentrated thought of the men and women in America who care to see the unemployed given work, the homeless assisted to get homes, the difficult places made easy, the desert and jungle made into parks and highways, and the United States bound together by roads excelling any which older countries builded by the toil of slaves. Give your encouraging thought to this vision; believe that it will come true; help by word and deed also if you can. * * * It is no more impossible a dream than was the ocean cable. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. "Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other." "The flower of the Twentieth Century's economical advancement is and will be co-operation." ANDREW CARNEGIE "The great and the little have need of each other." SHAKESPEARE. "The atmosphere of our time is full of the thought of correlation of all persons, all facts, all forces - the idea that society is an organic growth, in which everybody is somehow indissolubly related to everybody else." CHARLES FERGUSON. In these three quotations we have the text for "good roads." The whole question just now before the United States is how can we, as a people, best get together to associate, exchange services, and co-operate to do little and big things that are necessary to socialize and unify ourselves in order to better and make beautiful our private homes and environments, and to upbuild and advance our nation? ALBERT KIMSEY OWEN.[*14*] DeLeon Texas. Oct. 10, 1911. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: Seeing in the paper an account of Madam Roosevelt accident while out Riding. it called to mind 3 year ago When our Sweet Little Boy came into our Home We were undecided as to a name for Him My Aunte at that Time was With me She was Reading in a paperone afternoon and she said to me, lets name the Baby for President Roosevelt Two Boy's Kermit & Quinten and it suited me exactly. So our little 3 year old is called Kermit Quinten - Owen. We live on a farm 6 mile from DeLeon Texas in Comanche Co. if you are ever in this part we would deem it a very great Honor for you to call on us. I am (Mrs) Maxie Owen. R.4 DeLeon TexasHERBERT PARSONS 52 WILLIAM STREET NEW YORK October 10th, 1911. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, No. 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: Of course, we will nominate Scott, although we may be in error in being so willing to re-nominate judges, and perhaps should exact from them assurances that they have made no promises to Tammany. Pendleton and Fowler were never elected. If we should nominate them, they would, of course, decline. They were appointed by a Democratic Governor; they, therefore have the right to expect that the Democrats will nominate them, and they owe their own Party the obligation of being its candidates. But if we should nominate them, and they declined our nomination, the argument in their behalf would be that we should leave blanks opposite their names and nominate no candidates against them; that if they were good enough for us to nominate, then they ought to be elected, and we ought to do nothing to interfere with that. I can see no possible excuse for our nominating Fowler. He could only serve a small fraction of his time, as he would shortly be retired. No man as old as he is ought to be nominated. I am also informed that he has not efficiently conducted his office. It has been my own thought that we ought not to nominate Pendleton. We are fighting Tammany Hall. His appointment was requested by the leader of Tammany Hall. He was nominated by Tammany before, and we beat him. Why then should we nominate him now? Whether any fusion could be effected if Pendleton and Fowler were endorsed, I very much doubt. I do not believe it could. We could, of course, arouse no enthusiasm in our ranks if we followed such a course. I showed Koenig your letter and he thought that he had already explained the situation to you. Sincerely yours, Herbert ParsonsM. E. PERRY, EDITOR. PERRY & CRISWELL, PUBLISHERS. G. R. PERRY, MANAGER. THE PASS-BOOK A monthly magazine devoted to Economy, Industry and Coöperation 210 SOUTH LA SALLE STREET TELEPHONES, FRANKLIN - 2841 AUTOMATIC 51-710 Chicago, Oct. 10-11. [*17.*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir:- Under separate cover I am sending you a copy of "The Pass-Book" designed to help its readers to understand the importance of thrift. If it were possible for you to approve of the publication and designate that approval by writing a word or two urging young men and women to save you would be doing a kind act as well as a public benefaction. Men like yourself, who have reached the topmost round of the ladder of success, are the ones that can compel attention and influence people to look to the conservation of their moral and material forces while they may. Although you are no doubt a busy man, you have ever shown a disposition to help along worthy efforts by your encouraging words as well as by your example. In the event that you should like extra copies to give to others whom you believe would enjoy the special diary feature, we shall be pleased to send all the copies that you may ask for. Assuring you that we shall endeavor to merit any courtesy that you may extend to us, we are Yours very truly M. E. Perry Editor. [*W.*] [*[10-10-11]*] HDP To The Honorable Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir 4 year ago, we, the McKeesfort Free Kindergarten Asso. tendered you an invitation to lecture in our town, under our auspices. To our great regret you were unable to accept the invitation. Again we present our compliments and beg to say that if you can grant usthe honour of your presence this year. We shall be truly delighted. We shall be pleased to hear from you naming date, terms, and subject. Very cordially yous The McKeesfort Free Kindergarten Per (Mrs) Helen Dale Peters 1110 Park St. McKeesfort Pa. October tenth 1911.316 W. 52 st. [*[10-10-11]*] N.Y. City. [*3*] Hon. Theredore Roosevelt:-- Will you please speak in interest of the Hope Day Nursery for colored children one Sunday afternoon during October or November at one of our large colored churches. You see by the inclosed circular letter just what we are trying to do for our babies. We want to have the work more generally known amongour own people and have them feel a greater responsability of the work. There are so many of us that have not had the pleasure of seeing or hearing you that I am sure your coming to us would be a great inspiration. Collector Chas. W. Anderson, Fred R. Moore, editor of The New York Age, or Mrs. A. M. Dodge, president of the N.Y.Federation of Day Nurseries can tell you just how deserving the Hope Day Nursery is of your aid. I shall be very glad to have you give me an opportunity to tell you more of the work either at your house or office. Respectfully (Mrs) A. S. Reed 316 W. 52 st. Oct. 10, 1911[*[10-10-11]*] [*7.*] To the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Who has done so much to create a National interest in Athletic Sports. With the compliments of A.G. Spalding Am. Sports Publishing Co. New York Oct. 10. 1911.[*[10-10-11]*] [*Stimson*] HIGHHOLD HUNTINGTON LONG ISLAND Dear Colonel Roosevelt When I called at Sagamore Hill yesterday after-noon I was shocked beyond measure to hear from Miss Ethel how serious Mrs. Roosevelt's accident has been. I had been away in Washington all last week and knew nothing except what appeared in thewould be. I hope most earnestly that the worst is over and your anxious fears are allayed. If there is anything I can do in any way you know I am sure what a genuine pleasure and comfort it would be. Very sincerely yours Mabel W. Stimson October 10th 1911. newspaper. I cannot bear to think of dear Mrs. Roosevelt's sufferings and I feel the keenest sympathy for you all. Nothing is harder to bear than acute anxiety for those we love and to see them suffer is indeed a crucifixion. Harry is still away with General Wood in the South West - out of reach at present - of the mail but you know of course how distressed he FORM 115 6940 POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY OFFICE OF MANAGER. [*POSTAL TELEGRAPH INDEPENDENT COMPETITIVE PROGRESSIVE COMMERCIAL CABLLES*] Brewster House, Freeport, Ill. Phone No. 112 [*9*] Freeport, ILL. Oct. 10, 11 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, NewYork. Dear Sir:- I beg to notify you that I shall soon address a package of letters and send through the Unites States mail to your address Oyster Bay, N.Y. I ask you to kindly read the letters which will enlighten you as to the work that I am interested in. I shall map out that which I would like to see accomplished, and shall ask for your loyal support. The package should reach you about the 20th of October. Very truly yours Mary A. Swan Manager. [*[Swan]*]JOHN ADAMS THAYER CORPORATION Telephone 7878 BRYANT Cable Address SMARTSET,NEWYORK [*[13]*] The SMART SET A Magazine of Cleverness 452 FIFTH AVENUE,, NEW YORK October 10, 1911. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: I have evidence that my book "Astir" has put a lot of "sand" into many young men -- it is an "Epistle to the Unambitious," as one wrote, and I propose to get out a popular edition. In this edition there will be printed some criticisms by noted authors, such as Howells (who gave it four pages of his Easy Chair in the April Harper's), and some quotations from newspapers. I should like very much to use that part of your private letter of July 5th which reads: "I genuinely enjoyed your book; especially what you said about your fight for clean advertising. Theodore Roosevelt," May I do this? Sincerely yours, John Adams Thayer Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City.A.H. WILLIAMS, JR., MANAGER T.S.MCMILLAN, CAPTAIN University of South Carolina Athletic Association BASEBALL TEAM SEASON 1912 Columbia, S.C. Oct. 10 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York, N.Y. [*4.*] Dear Sir: I am on a very important debate on the Initiative, Referendum, and Recall. Knowing that you have made a thorough investigation of this subject I am writing you and asking you certain questions which have been suggested to me. I know that you are extremely busy but if you can possibly find time to answer these questions I will be very grateful indeed to you. If your time does not permit you to give me a short answer to the questions I will appreciate it very much if you will let me know as soon as you can.The debate comes off within a mont month and it is very imporattant to hear from you soon. I hope that you can find time to accomodate me in this matter. The first questions are about the Initiative and Referdum: 1. What of its educational advantages? 2. Is it practical ina state like S.C. which has not a very highly educational citizenship? 3. We have very little corruption in our legislature comparative-A. H. WILLIAMS, JR., MANAGER T. S.McMILLAN, CAPTAIN University of South Carolina Athletic Association BASEBALL TEAM SEASON 1912 Columbia, S.C., Under such conditions is it needed? 4. Does it end to make voters more independe[a]nt? 5. Does it increse individual responsibility? 6. Why do we need Initiative when we can get one of our representatives or senators to propose any measure we want? Would not the referendum be sufficient? 7. What would the state do if the people should hold up a very important appropriation bill? How would the government get along without money? You cannot imagine how much I would appreciate a prompt reply to this letter. I assure you that it will not soon be forgot[t]. Hoping to hear from you in the near future, I beg to remain, Most respectfully, A. H Williams Jr. [*Would the Recall of the judiciary make it less independent? Why do we need the Recall of the judiciary in South Carolina when no suspicion ever rests upon the judges?*]GEORGE N. WISE LAW OFFICES NEWPORT NEWS, VA. [*22*] Oct. 10, 1911 To the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City-- Dear Sir, I enclose an article that I prepared for publication on the Republican situation in the South. I wrote it to aid in a just cause. If you think its publication would not aid I would prefer not to publish it. If I could get your indorsement of the policy therein suggested I would not care particularly to publish it. May I ask that you will interest yourself in the matter. Except during your administration the National organization has never had an organization in the South either holding the respect of the South or of the National organization, nor entitled to the respect of either. If this is to continue we had better go into the Democratic organization & fight for its betterment. For decency is more important than tariff.GEORGE N. WISE LAW OFFICES NEWPORT NEWS, VA. By recognition of the ballot box thieves or these beneficiaries the Republican party in Virginia is thoroughly disorganized. I enclose envelope for return of the manuscript. Hoping that my love for the cause has not led me too far in troubling you with this matter. I remain with great respect, Your obedient servant Geo. N. Wise.CABLE ADDRESS, "YOUNGMAN," BOSTON TELEPHONES, MAIN [?] WILLIAM S. YOUNGMAN ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW 84 STATE STREET BOSTON, MASS. October 10,1911. [*11.*] Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, c/o Outlook Publishing Company, New York City, N. Y. Dear Colonel Roosevelt: I do not know whether you recall me, a member of the Harvard Class of 1895 and an instructor in the University in American History under Professor Albert Bushnell Hart. I was accepted by you for transfer to your regiment, but never had the honor of getting to the front with you. Your services to the country have won my hearty approval and support, and it is that which causes me to dislike the use that is just now being made in Boston of your name and portrait. I enclose a clipping from the Boston American of October 5th, 1911, connecting you with the solicitation of members for the order of Moose, which solicitation is obviously for the benefit of some individual. From what I know of that order it can work out only disappointment to the people who put in their money. In some localities the men in it may be all right, but this use of your name and portrait for advertising purposes I believe is fraught with danger to you and your influence in this community. I never had the slightest connection with the order of Moose and have no reason for writing you this letter except to protect you from a possible injury on account of a thing which is doubtless being done without your knowledge or consent. Very truly yours, William S Youngman Enc-1. WSY/EPThe National McKinley Birthplace Memorial Association PRESIDENT J. G. BUTLER, JR. YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO VICE PRESIDENT JOHN G. MILBURN NEW YORK N. Y. TREASURER J. G. SCHMIDLAPP CINCINNATI, OHIO SECRETARY W. A. THOMAS, NILES, OHIO EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MYRON T. HERRICK, CHAIRMAN J. G. BUTLER, JR. W. A. THOMAS Youngstown, Ohio October 11, 1911 My dear Mr. Roosevelt:- I wrote you a letter on October 2nd, with reference to sending me a commendatory letter, in regard to the National McKinley Birthplace Memorial Association. I have not yet received reply, and I do not want to put the booklet to press without your letter. I sincerely hope, therefore, that you will give it attention quite soon after the receipt of this. Respectfully yours, J. G. Butler Jr Hon. Theo. Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y.32 LIBERTY STREET NEW YORK [*6. *] Oct. 11th [*[1911]*] Dear Theodore: I am just back from the Canada woods & hear with a real shock the news of Mrs. Roosevelt's dreadful accident. Your Secretary tells me that she is now in no danger & is more comfortable & able to take nourishment without difficulty. Every time I hear of these horse accidents to people I know well it fills me with dread for my own woman & girl folk. So easy to happen & so impossible to foresee. One goes along year after year & then suddenly the thing comes. I do hope she is doing well & is quite on the road to recovery. Please give her my best love & sympathy. I have written Daisy today, telling her she & all the band save Laura & Beatrice sailed on the 23d ult. & cabled their safe arrival. I shall join her later on in November. While in New Brunswick, my friend & I saw 50 moose & over twenty deer.3 caribou, mink, beaver etc. My pal got a nice moose, but I saw none worthy of my bow & spear. Grand country for game it is. With my best & warmest sympathy for you, old friend, in this trial I am Ever yours Winthrop Chanler P.S. Love to what children are with you.Young Men's Hebrew Association LEXINGTON AVENUE AND 92ND STREET TEL.828} LENOX 829} New York, Oct. 11th. 1911. [*19*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Contributing Editor "Outlook", Honorable Sir, I should like to obtain a copy of your address delivered at Grants' Tomb, last Decoration Day, on which occasion I had the pleasure of listening to same. Thanking you in advance, I am, Very respectfully yours, Benjamin Davidson 24 West 112th. St. City.[*[Depue]*] [*41.*] 933 Security Bldg. Los Angeles, Cal., Oct.. 11, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, L.I. Dear Sir:- I am taking the liberty of sending you for inspection, a report and numerous photographs of an extensive and valuable land Grant in the Territory of New Mexico, my object being to interest yourself and associates in the purchase of the same. I assume that sound and profitable investments appeal to you, particularly when they include extensive mineral deposits, power and timber projects, hence I solicit the most careful consideration of the facts set forth in this report. This Grant is one of the most valuable and extensive tracts of virgin land remaining intact in the U.S. The extensive tract of virgin timber; its numerous living streams of pure water; extensive agricultural, fruit and grazing lands; the vast deposits of sulphur; its probable valuable deposits of coal, copper, silver and iron; together with its hot and cold mineral springs, prehistoric Cliff dwellings; ancient Spanish ruins; hunting and fishing; the latter features forming the attraction and nucleus of an extensive Tourist and Sanatarium Resort: all under an equitable climate, insure beyond the question of doubt the safety of the original investment, with the certainty of a sharp advance in present values, through settlement and development, inviting the cautious investors, and offering the fullest scope, activity and pleasure to the investor-operator.T.R., #2. This Grant, developed to its fullest possibilities, contains sound and sufficient foundation for seven distinct companies. 1. A railroad company--electric or steam--to serve the lumber, mining and transportation requirements. 2. A lumber company for the exploitation of the timber reserves. 3. A mining company for the development and marketing of the sulphur, coal, copper, and precious metals. 4. A colonization company for the sale and settlement of the agricultural and fruit lands. 5. A live stock company for the extensive grazing possibilities. 6. A Tourist Hotel-Sanatarium and Resort company for the attractions offered by the medicinal springs, prehistoric and old Spanish ruins, hunting and fishing. 7. A power company to develop the possibilities of the water falls, and supplying all the above with power, light, etc., in addition to the towns, mining and other interests within its commercial zone. The value of the timber of this Grant, estimated at the present prices for stumpage by the U. S. Forest Reserves, and owners of timber lands far from transportation, or $2.50 to $3.50 per M., together with one-half the price paid for ties, would vastly more than pay for the entire Grant, and interest on the investment. While the sulphur deposits have not been properly, or adequately prospected, sufficient outcroppings and area seem to warrant an approximate estimate of twenty million tons. This estimate is not, however, submitted as official. History of the early Spanish settlements, particularly in the mountainous districts, prove that they were only located at deposits of gold, silver or lead. The ruins of the Spanish churches and buildings on this property, are mute evidence of quite a settlement.T.R., #3. Nothing in now known of the value or extent of the mines then worked, as the village inhabitants were all massacred in 1680; all the workings willed up, and all traces obliterated. The grazing portion of this Grant is estimated to carry 50,000 head of cattle, sheep, hogs and horses. While snow covers the higher altitudes and timber reserves from about the middle of November until April, the valleys where the grazing and agricultural lands are located, have a climate permitting live stock to range in the open during the winter, while the surface is covered with gramma grass and red top, furnishing the most luxuriant feed. Albuquerque and other towns, together with the mining and irrigation districts within reach, would furnish a demand for, and give a splendid revenue, when supplied with the power generated on this Grant. The estimated 25,000 acres of agricultural and fruit lands would support a thriving farming community, bringing in a very substantial return in the sale of the lands, at the same time, furnishing a supply for laborers needed in the exploitation of the timber, mining and power propositions, and to some extent be consumers of lumber, power and light. The little town of Jemez Hot Springs (owning and covering about 400 acres independent of this Grant) already sustains a well-patronized Hotel and Sanatarium on a small scale. This property could be acquired, if wanted, at a modest price, when compared to its value. However, nearby, as well as at other points accessible, there are hot and cold medicinal springs upon the Grant. We believe that an individual investor, of a holding company of investors, can make a million dollars at least, by the organization of subsidiary companies, covering the various features of the Grant, as outlined, and by selling to said subsidiary companies the various individual holdings, retaining a large or controlling interest in the entire Grant. T. R. #4. For example we submit: To the U. S. Lumber Company the sale of the timber (not the land) for One Million Dollars, one-half cash, one-fourth in preferred stock, and one-fourth in common stock. This will give the original investors, $750,000 by the payment of the original 50% in cash, and eventual retirement of the preferred stock, leaving in the hands of the parent company 25% of the common stock of the lumber Company. Proceed to organize and sell the other propositions on the same plan, eventually paying for the property, making a margin equal to the original investment, and holding, without investment or personal effort, one-fourth interest in the entire Grant by the promoter. This merely suggests one way of development, but some such procedure can be soundly carried out, those interested in the subsidiary companies making good on their investments, and you, the original investor, getting a good and sufficient reward. We solicit your most careful reading of the report, and personal estimate of the possibilities presented. Then, let us hear from you immediately. If interested, we solicit your further correspondence. If not, the immediate return of the report and photographs. Show must be expected in the higher altitudes within the Grant by the 15th of November, hence we urge haste in your considerations, inasmuch as a satisfactory cruise of the timber, and thorough investigation of the exposed mineral deposits, should be made prior to snow fall. The timber, of course, could be cruised after snow falls, but it would add discomfort. Thanking you for your immediate response, I remain, Very respectfully yours, J. E. Depueit to others, but as I am quite unknown, fear this simple, but much needed knowledge would not become well known unless some prominent person like yourself, would encourage and endorse it. I have a very modest studio in Harlem, I've just taken, and if you will honor me by calling, can explain to you more fully. Respectfully, Marie DeRonne 2138 Fifth Ave. D New York, Oct. 11/11 2138 Fifth Ave. [*[Debonne]*] [*11.*] Dear Sir:-- In your last lecture tour, I read where you suffered so much from hoarseness, and I take this opportunity of telling you I know of a way to cure it. It is a fact, perhaps not generally conceded, but there are very few who know consciously how to use the voice correctly. For the past two years I've been learning to control my own, for though I was a professional singer for 13 years, I by no means used the voice correctly at all times, or I would not have had to go to the throat specialist, and have a node taken off the vocal cord. Even if you are not interested in this matter for yourself, I am going to ask you as a man who has held the highest position in our country to investigate it for the sake of that country, and the good it can be made to do countless hundreds, not only in an artistic way, but in the way of healthier throats and lungs to our people. God has given me the gift of this knowledge, and the perseverance to gain ability to use it, and I have only one desire to giveBOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Principal. WARREN LOGAN, Treasurer. INVESTMENT COMMITTEE SETH LOW, CHAIRMAN 20 EAST 64TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY GEO. FOSTER PEABODY, TREAS. 2 RECTOR STREET, NEW YORK CITY WILLIAM J. SCHIEFFELIN 170 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK CITY FRANK TRUMBULL 71 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY WILLIAM G. WILLCOX 1 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK CITY WARREN LOGAN TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, ALABAMA The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute For the Training of Colored Young Men and Women Tuskegee Institute, Alabama New York Office: 43 Exchange Place October 11th, 1911. Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. Dear Sir:- A joint meeting of the Executive and Investment Committees of Tuskegee Institute will be held at the office of Mr. Frank Trumbull, 71 Broadway, New York City, on Wednesday, October 18th, at 11:00 A.M. By order of the Chairman Edward W. Dodd Clerk. AJL/EWD[*[Drain]*] STATION TELEGRAMS } KILDARY BALNAGOWN CASTLE, ROSS-SHIRE. Oct. 11, 1911. My Dear Colonel Roosevelt: I have just come down from a fortnight's stay stalking at Benmore, one of largest and roughest deer forests in Scotland. It was surprisingly good sport. The deer were wild, and 18 to 25 miles a day over country as rough as we are accustomed to in the mountains at home helped to keep us from getting fat during the shoot. I killed seven stags, the first deer I have shot since I lost my hand and did not wholly disgrace our country either in shooting or climbing. Lord Brooke, eldest son of Warwick was of our party of three. He says he met you in London and wishes to be remembered to you. I have had some pheasant and partridgeshooting - walking them up - and a go at the grouse and black cock. I am going today to England for a three day's pheasant drive and am to have some other shooting. I expect to return home shortly after the first of the [Nov] month (Nov) and am going to write you soon after to arrange for luncheon with you and the other Outlookers. With all things considered I have never had a more pleasant holiday than this. I wish you would have been with us on some of the stalks, they were great. Yours very truly, James A. Drain[*[10-11-11]*] Edw. T. Campbell & Co. General Agents, Western Department Sun Insurance Company of New Orleans, 816 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. McIVER, CHENEY & CO., Resident Agents, Nashville, . . . Tenn. [*20*] Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt New York City. My Dear Sir:- As you spoke so highly of the works of my grandfather Timothy Flint several years ago, I write to ask if you have read his life by Prof. Kirkpatrick of Hartford, but now of Washburn College. Timothy Flint had many distinguished friends in the North and I have some very complimentary notices of this work, but I would appreciate something from you above all others, for my book of "Reminiscences" which when published I will be glad to present you with a copy. I believe it will interest you, as it pertains largely to frontier life in Texas during the Civil War. Having seen you here in Nashville, Tenn., during one of your visits, I feel as if you are no stranger. With my good wishes for your continued success as a public man and benefactor, I am most respectfully yours, James Timothy Flint Nashville, Tenn., October 11th, 1911.War Department, Bureau of Insular Affairs, Washington, D.C. 11 October 1911 My dear Colonel Roosevelt: Of course I shall esteem it a privilege to be at your service in the preparation of your Sugar Trust article and I hope you will call upon me if I can be of the slightest service. You may have noticed that the conviction of Heike has just been affirmed by the Appellate Court. That makes the prosecution successful all along the line. Faithfully yours, Felix Frankfurter[*[Hall]*] Creston, Iowa, Oct. 11, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt New York, N. Y. My Dear Mr. Roosevelt: -Enclosed are the articles I spoke and also wrote you about. I wish you would read them in the order they are numbered. You will see in #1 that there are billions of dollars being taken from the people that can be recovered for the rightful owner, and that the carriers are resorting to the courts when there is much involved in order that they may continue to make illegal charges. Article #2 shows how these large unlawful charges can be recovered and the carriers (stockholders) be made to pay the expences of the recovery, and will change the prevailing idea "that you cannot afford to fight a large corporation" to the fact that even the largest corporation cannot afford to fight a few individuals with any greater degree of success than a man could afford to fight a bunch of yellow-jackets or a hornest's nest; which demonstrates that the victory is not always to the largest or brainest mass of matter, but depends upon the implements of warfare and the battlefield. As stated in my letter, this has been tried out with the Burlington until its President, Mr. Darius MILLER, wrote me that " he did not feel like acting as sole arbitrator (in my large suit) as I had suggested, but would take up the matter of settlement with me and do what was right and fair, as he viewed it, to both me and the Company". This shows that any one can make a R.R.CO. do what is rightand the reason I request this to be confidential is to protect them from being harassed and blackmailed by every "shyster lawyer" in the country as the public has to pay the bills.3. T.R. Article #3 and the leaflet, will show you that extreme care is being taken to select the right kind of men to act with the president. Respectively submitted, John Hall Creston, Iowa.DAVID HARRIS 158 Warrington Ave., Pittsburg, Pa. [*10*] Oct. 11, 1911 Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, c/o The Outlook New York Dear Mr. Roosevelt:- I am nineteen years of age. I have a great desire to become a writer in the interest of children, somewhat like Mr. Jacob Riis. My education was dropped after finishing the seventh grade. I intend going to evening school this winter and study english and arithmetic. At the present time I am reading the Harvard DAVID HARRIS 158 Warrington Ave., Pittsburg, Pa. (2) Mr. Roosevelt classics edited by Dr. Eliot, formerly of Harvard University. I want you to kindly give me a few words of advice out of your broad experience as to how I might improve myself best, during my leisure, and enclose a two cent stamp for your reply, and am sir, Respectfully yours, David Harris"FOREVER O LORD, THY WORD IS SETTLED IN HEAVEN" PSALM 119:89 THE BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES 260-264 SOUTH MAIN STREET A TRAINING SCHOOL FOR CHRISTIAN WORKERS T. C. HORTON, SUPERINTENDENT LOS ANGELES, CAL. Oct. 11, 1911 [*17*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N. Y. Dear Mr. Roosevelt:- A am now expecting to sail again for Africa on the White Star steamer Baltic, and hope during this trip to reach the tribe in the far north east corner of the Belgian Congo. The effort made by two or three of our missionaries some time ago was not a success, owing to illness which obliged them to return after they had proceeded some distance to the north west from lake Albert. i am earnestly hoping that I may be able to make this journey and blaze the way for a company of workers who have volunteered for that country. I am leaving my family here in Los Angeles, where the boys are having a good opportunity to make their way through Occidental College. Mrs. Hurlburt will remain with them. I received not long ago a very earnest request from Bishop W. G. Peel of Mbasa for help to start some such work in Mombasa as you inaugurated in Nairobi, when you got the gift from Mr. McMillan. I now write to ask you whether you know of any one who would be willing to do a similar thing for Bishop Peel's effort in Mombasa, where a clean wholesome resort for young men is sorely needed. I trust you may understand how I feel free to make this request for Bishop Peel's work, much more freely than I could possibly do for any work of our own. I am warmly interested in all the work in that country, but have special confidence i Bishop Peel's wisdom and integrity, and would suggest that any gift you have be [remitted] subject to his direction, and may be sent direct to him at Bishop's Court, Mombasa, or if you prefer, I shall be pleased to convey it. My though was that you might know some one who, like Mr. McMillan, would be glad to give such assistance. With warmest personal regards from myself and entire family, Faithfully yours, Charles E Hurlburt P. S. Can you give me any information concerning some steam launches which have been used in the navy, capable of carrying some 10 or 15 tons? I understand that several such are to be disposed of at very low rates. If they would do for our work on Lake Victoria we might be able to get one, as we have a little gift for that purpose. If you can tell me how or where to get hold of the information, I shall be grateful. C. E. H TELEPHONE. 2750 STUYVESANT. October 11th 1911. 21, EAST ELEVENTH STREET. [*[Jones]*] Dear Mr Roosevelt We sailed in the Cedric on the 28th of last month, and didnt get in until the 7th- consequently, when Mrs Whitbridge remarked last evening that she was "delighted to hear that Mrs Roosevelt was better", it was my first news that anything had happened to her.I am deeply distressed for you both. Anyone so good and charming and unselfish as she is should never have pain or trouble, and I know it must be much harder for you than if you were the actual sufferer. I shall be very grateful if when you have a few minutes you will dictate just a line or two to let me know what the accident was, and especially how she is, - and if there is any possible thing I can do for either of you except think of you often with real affection and sympathy. Please tell me, and I shall be grateful to you. With love to Ethel, Always sincerely yours Mary Cadwalader JonesFRED H. WIGHT, CHAIRMAN Produce Exchange Annex SAMUEL KAHAN, SECRETARY 53-63 Park Row ANNA NISSELSON ASSISTANT SECRETARY ALEXANDER FICHANDLER TREASURER P. S. 114 Brooklyn, N. Y. PUBLIC SCHOOL 2 MANHATTAN CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Jasper Pryer, Chairman W. F. Macdonough Olivia Leventritt Thomas H. Wagner Hugo Kanzler Anna Nisselson Dr. Antonio Pisani Alexander Fichandler Julia Richman Harvey J. Cohen Samuel Kahan William Poillon Fred H. Wight Richard H. Poillon George B. Wight Mary J. A. Hanlon Henry Taylor Gray Samuel J. Brown [*D*] New York, October 11th 1911 Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. My dear Mr. Roosevelt: - As an active member of the great body of Educators of our City you will, undoubtedly, be deeply interested in the First Centennial Celebration to commemorate the founding of Public School No. 2 of the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan, which will take place during the week of November 13th, 1911. This school is well known as the oldest in the City, but one; and the most distinguishing feature about it, is that it has not changed its location since its foundation and to-day occupies the site upon which the first school building was erected. Commencing with a student body of fifteen, the school has become and to-day is one of the largest and most important of our City, and among its graduates are men and women whose names rank foremost in every line of endeavor. The purpose of the celebration is to foster a spirit of communal interest and love for old associations and to re-awaken and re-unite friendships that time and circumstance have rent asunder, and at the same time to incite a more profound interest and attention in the work and influence of our Public Schools. One of the features of the Celebrations, and in fact the most important event, will be a Public Meeting to be held under the auspices of the Committee in the auditorium of Public School 62, Manhattan, located at Hester and Essex Streets, on the evening of the 15th day of November, 1911. I hope that you will honor us with your presence at that gathering and favor us with a few remarks befitting the occasion. Awaiting your early and favorable reply, I beg to remain, Most respectfully yours, Samuel Kahan Secretary. SK/FGH The Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway Association MEMBERS OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE A. O. RULE, St. Louis, Missouri C. F. WIEHE, Chicago, Illinois CHAS. A. PLAMONDON, Chicago, Illinois JAMES J. HILL, St. Paul, Minnesota J. D. BARKDULL, Natchez, Mississippi F. N. ROBERTSHAW, Greenville, Mississippi THOMAS WILKINSON, Burlington, Iowa WM. M. KAVANAUGH, Little Rock, Arkansas WALTER S. DICKEY, Kansas City, Missouri JAMES S. WARREN, Memphis, Tennessee ALEXANDER Y. SCOTT, Memphis, Tennessee JOHN M. PARKER, New Orleans, Louisiana PHILIP WERLEIN, New Orleans, Louisiana ADVISORY BOARD OF STATE GOVERNORS EMMET O'NEAL, Gov. of Alabama R. E. SLOAN, Gov. of Arizona GEORGE W. DONAGHEY, Gov. of Arkansas HIRAM W. JOHNSON, Gov. of California J. F. SHAFROTH, Gov. of Colorado SIMEON S. PENNEWILL, Gov. of Delaware ALBERT W. GILCHRIST, Gov. of Florida HOKE SMITH, Gov. of Georgia JAMES H. HAWLEY, Gov. of Idaho CHALRES S. DENEEN, Gov. of Illinois THOMAS R. MARSHALL, Gov. of Indiana B. F. CARROLL, Gov. of Iowa W. R. STUBBS, Gov. of Kansas A. E. WILLSON, Gov. of Kentucky J. Y. SANDERS, Gov. of Louisiana FREDERICK W. PLAISTED, Gov. of Maine AUSTIN L. CROTHERS, Gov. of Maryland EUGENE N. FOSS, Gov. of Massachusetts CHASE S. OSBORN, Gov. of Michigan A. O. EBERHART, Gov. of Minnesota E. F. NOEL, Gov. of Mississippi HERBERT S. HADLEY, Gov. of Missouri EDWIN L. NORRIS, Gov. of Montana CHESTER H. ALDRICH, Gov. of Nebraska TASKER L. ODDIE, Gov. of Nevada ROBERT P. BASS, Gov. of New Hampshire WOODROW WILSON, Gov. of New Jersey WM. J. MILLS, Gov. of New Mexico JOHN A. DIX, Gov. of New York JOHN BURKE, Gov. of North Dakota JUDSON HARMON, Gov. of Ohio LEE CRUCE, Gov. of Oklahoma OSWALD WEST, Gov. of Oregon JOHN K. TENER, Gov. of Pennsylvania ARAM J. POTHIER, Gov. of Rhode Island C. L. BLEASE, Gov. of South Carolina R. S. VESSEY, Gov. of South Dakota BEN W. HOOPER, Gov. of Tennessee O. B. COLQUITT, Gov. of Texas WM. SPRY, Gov. of Utah JOHN A. MEAD, Gov. of Vermont WM. HODGES MANN, Gov. of Virginia M. E. HAY, Gov. of Washington WM. E. GLASSCOCK, Gov. of West Virginia FRANCIS E. McGOVERN, Gov. of Wisconsin JOS. M. CAREY, Gov. of Wyoming BOARD OF GOVERNORS President WM. K. KAVANAUGH, St. Louis First Vice-President E. S. CONWAY, Chicago Second Vice-President SIDNEY M. NEELEY, Memphis Third Vice-President JUDGE GREENFIELD QUARLES, Helena, Ark. Fourth Vice-President CRAWFORD H. ELLIS, New Orleans Fifth Vice-President CHARLES SCOTT, Rosedale, Miss. Treasurer GEORGE H. MUNROE, Joliet, Ill. Secretary THOMAS H. LOVELACE, St. Louis Honorary Secretary WM. FLEWELLYN SAUNDERS, St. Louis Sergeant-at-Arms THOMAS M. HUNTER, Chicago PHILIP WERLEIN, Louisiana W. M. KAVANAUGH, Arkansas R. R. BOURLAND, Illinois FREDERICK H. KREISMANN, Missouri JAMES F. BUCKNER, Jr., Kentucky THOMAS WILKINSON, Iowa DR. J. T. ATTERBURY, Mississippi NEWELL SANDERS, Tennessee CLARENCE B. DOUGLAS, Oklahoma FRANK J. WATEROUS, Minnesota DOUGLAS WHITE, California W. T. BLAND, Missouri A. B. BEALL, Iowa J. H. MOSS, Wisconsin M. J. CONNOLLY, Iowa P. P. BYRD, Arkansas LAWRENCE BECKER, Indiana CARL A. WESTBERG, Indiana M. E. LEMING, Missouri A. P. CLAYTON, Missouri WM. VOLKER, Missouri THOS. K. NIEDRINGHAUS, Missouri W. C. LUSK, South Dakota E. T. TUCKER, Oklahoma WM. STULL, Nebraska JOHN L. VANCE, Ohio WESLEY R. CHILDS, Missouri A. J. HOUSTON, Texas FRANK C. GOUDY, Colorado GEORGE PARSONS, Illinois J. D. DAVISON, Missouri O. B. BARROWS, Missouri STERLING J. JOYNER, New York WM. K. KAVANAUGH, PRESIDENT THOMAS H. LOVELACE, SECRETARY OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY NEW BANK OF COMMERCE BLDG. ST. LOUIS Oct. 11, 1911. [*40*] Honorable Theorode Roosevelt, Ex-President of the United States, New York, New York. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: I trust you will approve of the address which I expect to deliver before the largest convention the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway Association ever held, in Chicago, tomorrow, copy of which I am sending you under separate cover. If you do not read the entire speech, I wish you would read particularly my reference to you on page four. We have over ten thousand delegates on the roster, and the sentiment has been growing by leaps and bounds since you gave us such a splendid boost at the Memphis Convention several years ago. Our people of the Mississippi Valley are still talking about your trip down the Mississippi, and your address at the convention. With very best wishes, I beg to remain, Yours sincerely, W K Kavanaugh PRESIDENT. [*25*] Waldron Kan 10/11 1911 Mr. Theodore Roosevelt I would like to know where I can get your Book on cold and its efect on animals and what this Book will cost and how long will it take for me to get this Boook Yours very Truly O O Lamb [*[Lamb]*] Waldron Kan enclosed stamp for replyEXECUTIVE OFFICES Remington Typewriter Company 327 Broadway New York JOHN F. McCLAIN VICE PRESIDENT Oct. 11, 1911. Mr. Edwin R. Merritt, Union Trust Company, 80 Broadway, City. My dear Ed: Referring to our conversation by telephone: I am sending herewith the photograph of Mr. Roosevelt referred to. I like this particular picture because it exhibits those qualities which are so characteristically his -- discernment, courage and firmness. If at his and your perfect convenience you will obtain his autograph across the face of this picture, it will become a thing to be prized always in the McClain family. Yours very sincerely, John F. McClain[*5*] R. T. ERVIN J. N. McALEER V. B. McALEER ERVIN & McALEER LAWYERS MOBILE, ALABAMA [*REMOVED TO 403-404-405 VAN ANTWERP BLDG.*] Hon.Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N.J. October 11th, 1911 Dear Sir:- The Greenwood Hunting Club would be glad to have you join them in a hunt for black bear in the forks of the Alabama and Tombigbee R ivers at any time to suit your convenience during the months of November or December 1911. They feel assured that if you would come, that you would have an opportunity to kill one or more bear. Respectfully, T. D. McMillan Secty & TreasGEO. E. MILLER CORRESPONDENT THE DETROIT NEWS 903 COLORADO BUILDING WASHINGTON, D.C. Oct. 11, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, c/o The Outlook, New York, N.Y. Dear Mr. Roosevelt:- It seems to me I appreciate your exact state of mind in regard to the situation as it now exists. But it begins to look to me as if things might have an entirely different appearance by next Summer. Certainly any man who would do a thing to give color to the suspicions that you could intrigue in this matter would be no friend of yours. But it is a very big battle. The people are looking for a leader. The disappointment in Taft is intense. Every day I hear more and more harking back to what you did and it appears to me that the astounding list of Roosevelt things accomplished, which impressed me so profoundly, is just beginning to penetrate the thick skulls of a lot of people. The republican politicians are absolutely panic-stricken. I mean the ones who want the republican party to win. And nobody knows better than you that people in a panic are very likely to take a sudden tangent at a pace which nothing can stop. That is where I have commenced to think you will come in. If they once start for youGEO. E. MILLER CORRESPONDENT THE DETROIT NEWS 903 COLORADO BUILDING WASHINGTON, D.C -2- they could not be stopped with gatling guns. The question of whether you had anything to do with it [wi] will no be raised, because it will be a stampede. Even our friends of the big money, who were so pleased to shift from yourself to Taft, give evidence that now they prefer you to him, for you they knew where to find. They often disliked the position in which they found you, but they knew they could go to sleep and find you still there in the morning. Up in the old state of Michigan, which you made all but unanimous in 1904, you carried through practically every county and precinct ticket. Never before had so many republicans been elected. But now a good many people up there are saying that with Taft the republican nominee and Woodrow Wilson the democratic nominee, the state will go democratic. And you can bet when Michigan goes democratic there will be nothing left of the republican party anywhere else. Facing this sort of a disaster and being aware that they do face it, I am looking for the republicans to take a sudden plunge between now and the time of the national convention; and I shall not be surprised if it takes the form of what might be termed the Roosevelt Renaissance. Sincerely yours Geo E. MillerE PLURIBUS UNUM TUEBOR SI QUAERIS PENINSULAM AMOENAM CIRCUMSPICE STATE OF MICHIGAN EXECUTIVE CHAMBER STATE HOUSE, LANSING [*4.*] October 11, 1911. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: It occurs to me that you may be interested in the subject matter of the enclosed clipping. The article is not very full and I hope sometime to expand the idea. With highest regard, I am Yours very sincerely, Chase S. Osborn Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, c/o Outlook, New York City. HBGEO. W. PERKINS 71 BROADWAY [*5.*] New York City, October 11, 1911. My dear Col Roosevelt:- Doubtless you saw the enclosed editorial this morning's World. What a great thing hind-sight is! The World and a lot of other people seem to be overstocked with it at the moment. Sincerely yours, Geo. W. Perkins Col. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City.GIFFORD PINCHOT 1617 RHODE ISLAND AVENUE WASHINGTON D C Enroute Juneau, Alaska, October 11, 1911 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Dear Theodore; This trip in Alaska has been one of the most instructive and one of the most delightful I have ever taken, in spite of the fact that a man must expect to get wet at least from the waist down practically every day he spends in the woods. Considering the time I had, I have been most lucky in seeing men and places. I shall want to tell you about the whole trip as soon as I return. The essential fact I want to send now is that I have found no reason to modify the essentials of your position or mine after getting a pretty thorough knowledge of the facts on the ground at first hand. I am more convinced than ever that it was a serious mistake to exclude from the National Forest the shores of Controller Bay, and I am well satisfied from what I have heard and seen that a definite effort will be made to minimize the importance of Controller Bay and the2 GIFFORD PINCHOT 1617 RHODE ISLAND AVENUE WASHINGTON D C value of the Bering River coal field, by which effort we must not be misled. For example, Fisher saw very little coal, because where he went there was very little coal to be seen. The answer is that he went to the wrong place. Some of these days, I am coming back here to get a brown bear. I believe you ought to do the same thing for a good many reasons. Sincerely yours, Gifford Pinchot [*Will be home in about a fortnight*]United Neighborhood Guild Formerly Asacog House, Asacog Boys' Club, Maxwell House and Italian Settlement, 176 NASSAU STREET, TELEPHONE, 4231 MAIN. ITALIAN WORK AT MAXWELL HOUSE, 245 CONCORD ST. AND 29 FRONT STREET. DIRECTORS. FRANK C. MUNSON, PRESIDENT, 82 BEAVER ST., N.Y. CITY. MRS. H. EDWARD DREIER, VICE-PRES. 35 REMBEN STREET. RAYMOND V. INGERSOLL, SECRETARY. 261 BROADWAY, N.Y. CITY. ALVAN E DUERR, TREASURER. 99 LIVINGSTON STREET. MRS. F.C. MUNSON, ASST. TREAS. 105 COLUMBIA HEIGHTS. LOUIS HEATON PINK, HEADWORKER W.E. DAVENPORT, IN CHARGE OF ITALIAN WORK. DIRECTORS. LOUISE ATKINSON. ETHEL EAMES. GEORGE S. FRANK. FRED. W. HINRICHS. JAMES JENKINS, JR. MRS. STEPHEN LOINES ALVAN E. DUERR. FREDERICK B. PRATT. BERTHA STOCKWELL. HELEN VAN INGEN. WILLIAM H. CARY. Brooklyn, N.Y. October 11, 1911. Hon. Theo. Roosevelt, Outlook Office, My Dear Mr. Roosevelt: I do realise your position and hesitated long before asking you to speak. Thanks for your courteous letter. Sincerely yours, Louis H. Pink The Trustees of the Peabody Education Fund 723 SOUTHERN BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C. WICKLIFFE ROSE GENERAL AGENT October 11, 1911 Hon Theodore Roosevelt 487 Fourth avenue New York City Dear sir: I am sending you under separate cover copy of the report of Mr Jackson Davis of Virginia showing the results of his year's work as state supervisor of rural schools for the negro race. You will remember that we undertook this work in Virginia as an experiment. My own judgement is that this year's experience has demonstrated that the plan is thoroughly feasible. In view of the dissolution of the Peabody Trust I have arranged with the General Education Board to take over this work in Virginia. The General Board will also extend this service into other states that may desire it. Very sincerely yours Wickliffe Rose.F. DEKLYN HUYLER. PRESIDENT B. F. DEKLYN, VICE-PRESIDENT COULTER D. HUYLER, SECRETARY DAVID HUYLER, TREASURER D. HUYLER GAINES, ASSISTANT TREASURER HUYLER'S CHOCOLATES, BONBONS SATIN BOXES, BASKETS & NOVELTIES 152 BROADWAY, NEW YORK [*4*[ October 11, 1911. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: You may have read the editorial in this morning's World, but on the chance that you have not, I am sending it to you. I chuckled all the way through it, because it was what I have expected for a long time. The World's vindication of you may appear to you amusing; to me it is more; it is prophetic. I am just as positive now as I was a year ago. I left "The Sun" a while ago to try my hand as a business man. In many respects the future is much brighter than the newspaper game can offer, but it doesn't offer the fun, I must confess. I hope that you are well and that Mrs. Roosevelt is quite over the affects of her accident. With the most cordial regards, I am very sincerely Arthur H. SamuelsMinnesota State Dairyman's Association W. F. Schilling, President, Northfield Andrew French, 1st Vice Pres., St. Paul Chas. Nelson, 2nd Vice Pres., Atwater F. D. Currier, Secretary, Nicollet J. M. Jack, Treasurer, Stanton Jersey Holstein Guernsey Mr. Theodore Roosevelt. Oct. 11, 1911 Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: You will be surprised to receive a letter from me, a farmer in Minnesota but I was talking with several prominent politicians in St. Paul the other day and as my work takes me to county fairs and dairy meetings constantly I have sounded the temper of farmers and others and they all are of one mind as to who should be the standard bearer for the Republicans at the next election. It is a dead sure thing that Taft cannot rally the farmers in the west and much of the "dope" in the dailies is not typical of the situation with the masses. Lafollette is alright with those who have studied deeply but theMinnesota State Dairyman's Association JERSEY HOLSTEIN GUERNSEY W. F. SCHILLING, President, Northfield ANDREW FRENCH, 1st Vice Pres., St. Paul CHAS. NELSON, 2nd Vice Pres., Atwater F. D. CURRIER, Secretary, Nicollet J. M. JACK, Treasurer, Stanton work of the daily press has belittled him in the eyes of the people generally and it will be hard to break this down. The only way this can be done is to have you father him when the time comes and then the people will take him up. I feel that Taft, if he gets the nomination will get spanked to the tune of two million and while many would like to see this we as republicans want to have a leader that stands for something great and we can win. I hope you are keeping in touch with the true situation and will help us out of this predicament. The republican party is a dead one if you do not use the big stick. You will remember me as I rode with you from Springfield, Mass. to Meriden Conn. in June. Write me something of the situation East. Will hold same to confidence - W. F. Schilling Ed. of Minnesota Dairyman, and farmerPRESIDENT FRANK A. SCHMIDT 420 WEST 147TH STREET, N. Y. VICE PRESIDENT MRS. F. D. JACKSON MANHASSET, L. I. SEC.-TREAS. MISS LIZZIE E. RECTOR 88 MADISON AVENUE, N. Y. Association of the Doctors of Pedagogy New York University [*d*] NEW YORK October 11th 1911 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Office of The Outlook New York Dear sir: On October 4th I took the liberty of writing you requesting the honor of a short interview but have not received a reply. I trust that you will pardon me for presuming to write again regarding the matter concerning which I hoped to see you personally. May we have the pleasure of your company and an address from you on the occasion of the Annual Luncheon of the above named association, composed of teachers, principals, and superintendents, on Saturday afternoon November 18th 1911 at one o'clock, at the Manhattan Hotel? The association will be happy to welcome you. Very respectfully yours, Frank A Schmidt PresidentU S S NAVAL ACADEMY SCIENTIA TRIDENS ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND October 11th, '11. [*W.*] Sir: Would you consider coming to Annapolis during the winter to deliver an address before th midshipmen, officers and friends of the Naval Academy? The Superintendent, Capt. John H. Gibbons, and I are both recent arrivals, and are agreed that there is great need of reviving a lagging interest in an annual course of general, non-technical lectures. We feel that this can be done provided we can persuade the proper men to come. Knowing that you have always had an especial interest in our Service, and that any message you might care to bring would command the attention of every man here, we make bold to ask you to come to speak to us. I will say frankly that I can not now promise you more in the way of remuneration than your expense of travel. Practically all available funds had been parcelled out in various ways before I came, though I may be given more later on. I recognize that is asking a great deal of so busy a man as you always are, but I trust you will decide to come, and feel certain that we can find a date that will be agreeable to you, the authorities requiring that it be on a Saturday night. Awaiting your reply, I am, Very respectfully, E. W. Scott, Chaplain, U. S. N. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, New York. JOHN A. STEWART NO. 50 CHURCH STREET NEW YORK CITY [*16.*] October 11th, 1911. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L.I., New York. My dear Colonel Roosevelt:– I do not ask you to concur in all the propositions which you will find in the enclosed following page 7, but only that you approve of the question which introduces this brief. My suggestion as to revision and amendment are put out for purposes of discussion, although they represent fairly accurately my own views. I believe that here is an issue upon which we Republicans who are not a part of the old machine, and Democrats who are independent, can make a winning fight in this State. There is potentiality in an issue such as this; there does not seem to be any other in sight. I shall be greatly obliged for your comment. Sincerely, John A. Stewart [*Stewart*] J.A.S.C. Enclosure.POSTAL TELEGRAPH NIGHT LETTERGRAM COMMERCIAL CABLES POSTAL TELEGRAPH - CABLE COMPANY NIGHT LETTERGRAM The Postal Telegraph-Cable Company (Incorporated) transmits and delivers this message subject to the terms and conditions printed on the back of this blank. CLARENCE H. MACKAY, PRESIDENT. RECEIVED AT DELIVERY NO. 147 EAST 23rd STREET, Telephone, 1315 Gramercy. [*Fv*] Messengers Furnished. INDEPENDENT COMPETITIVE PROGRESSIVE 4-232 OCT 12 1911 [*M/O*] 451 DE WR 48 NL ANN ARBOR MICH OCT 11.11 COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT OUTLOOK OFFICE, NEW YORK CITY. A SUMMER'S NEGOTIATIONS WITH DOCTOR ALEXANDER CUMMINGS FOR LECTURE BY YOU ARE CONCLUDED. WE UNDERSTAND YOU WILL SPEAK WE DO NOT CARE HOWEVER TO MAKE PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT AND SUBSEQUENTLY DISAPPOINT A LARGE STUDENT BODY. PLEASE CONFIRM BY WIRE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AT OUR EXPENSE NEGOTIATION THANK YOU. STUDENT LECTURE ASSOCIATION. 1255AMEDITORIAL ROOMS Our Young People Teachers' Monthly Boys and Girls Children at Work Advanced Quarterly Juvenile Quarterly I. B. TROUT, Editor BRETHREN PUBLISHING HOUSE Publishing Agent GENERAL MISSION BOARD CHURCH of the BRETHREN Elgin, Illinois Elgin, Illinois, Oct. 11, 1911. Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. Dear Sir: I have read with no small degree of interest an article in the TECHNICAL WORLD (Chicago, Illinois), on "Military Maniacs," by C. F. Carter. You will pardon me for suggesting that you secure the current number of this magazine and read the article, and then help the peace-loving men and women of this great nation and our present President to bring about as near universal peace as possible and rid us, once for all, of the curse of militarism and its heavy burden of useless expense. Most sincerely yours, I. B. Trout. IBT/LFBR. R. WRIGHT, PRESIDENT. Commission for the School GEN. P. W. MELDRIM, CHAIRMAN. JUDGE W. R. HAMMOND HON. P. J. CLINE PROF. OTIS ASHMORE HON. M. V. CALVIN HON. J. W. BENNETT HON. BOWDRE PHINIZY HON. CLARK HOWELL Georgia State Industrial College For Colored Youths. [*15.*] Savannah, Ga., Oct. 11, 1911. 191 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir:– We received your telegram with profound regret. We are glad, indeed, that you regard our celebration with consideration. Our first was last year at which time Mrs. James Longstreet and Gen. Clement A. Evans were the principal speakers. I am enclosing you a letter which Mrs. Longstreet wrote in regard to the occasion. It seems to be absolutely necessary for the life, peace nad happiness of the colored man in the South that there should exist between them and the old ex-slave holders the best relations and friendship. I have undertaken to foster and perpetuate this in Georgia by holding each year a reunion of such old ex-slaves and old ex-masters as we could possibly get together. It would have probably pleased you much to have seen our gathering last year, to have witnessed them at their barbecue, to have heard Mrs. Longstreet's address and the various other addresses. This year we are hoping to have a very much larger number than ever before. We believe ourselves that it is a "unique celebration." We do not know of any other of its kind in the Country. Joined with it is a proposition to erect a monument to the ex-slaves and my proposition is to erect one to the ex-slave masters, also. These two monuments to stand side by side in some prominent southern city as a memento ofR. R. WRIGHT, PRESIDENT. Commission for the School GEN. P. W. MELDRIM, CHAIRMAN. JUDGE W. R. HAMMOND HON. P. J. CLINE PROF. OTIS ASHMORE HON. M. V. CALVIN HON. J. W. BENNETT HON. BOWDRE PHINIZY HON. CLARK HOWELL Georgia State Industrial College For Colored Youths. Savannah, Ga., Oct. 11, 1911. 191 2-Roosevelt. the fact that each would have peace, prosperity and happiness fostered and perpetuated among their descendants. I am writing to request that in case you favor our idea and that it is impossible to be present at our meeting, that you will send to us a letter to be read on the occasion which will show your own estimate of our undertaking. I am sending you also a copy of our Premium Book which shows you the inducements we are offering the colored farmers and industrial workers to encourage them along the line of industrial uplift. As you are half southerner and half Georgian any way, we feel that you are willing to help the Georgia colored man in his efforts for self-help and self-betterment. Very respectfully yours, R. R. Wright President. Enclosure.For enc see 1-17-11 10-9-11L. & A. U. ZINKE, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELORS AT LAW. DUN BUILDING. 290 BROADWAY, NEW YORK ISAAC L. ZINKE LOUIS ZINKE ALEXANDER U. ZINKE TELEPHONES 740} 741} 2116} WORTH [*11.*] Oct. 11th 1911. Hon. W. S. Bennet 60 Wall Street, City. My Dear Congressman: Wendell Phillips was born November 29th 1811. The Sixth District of the order of the Knights of Pytheus under the auspices of the Wendell Phillips Lodge, will on November 28th at Terrace Garden hold a meeting, the purpose of which shall be to enlighten the public further on the life and deeds of this greater agitator. It has occured to me: - and in this the members seem to be in accordance: - to have you and Colonel Roosevelt only, as our guests and to deliver addresses commemorative of the man. Can you arrange that I meet the Colonel and in behalf of Wendell Phillips Lodge as its Chancellor Commander and of the entire New York District extend to him, as I heartily do to you, this invitation. Truly yours, Louis Zinke LZ/NM [*My dear Mr. Harper:- Could Mr Zinke and I see Mr Roosevelt for this purpose? W. S. B.*][*White*] Private. No. 112/13 Cantonments, E. I. R. Cawnpore India. 11th October 1911 Sir, Pardon me for addressing you in the manner I am, but I mean to be plain and clear spoken. I am employed in a Government Department where the prospects are very slow but steady, and it will not do for me to seek elsewhere to better myself, especially when I tell you Sir, that I have my poor aged Parents to support, and look after the welfare of my younger sisters. I am of poor but respectable birth. I want to get married to avoid temptations of this world of which youth is generally2 a victim; my present circumstances will only allow it when I am too far advanced in age (at about 50 years). I appeal, Sir, to your kindness and generosity to assist me. I want no money, except as much would be needed to build me a small house; for before I marry, I must have where to tarry. In these parts a building generally costs about £ 300. I am of temperate habits, and should you consider me deserving of your bounteous mercy and aid, may I venture to ask you for the above amount, and as in duty bound shall ever pray. I am, yours appealingly, Sam White.THE HOLMAN ASSOCIATION (INCORPORATED) FOR THE PROMOTION OF RURAL NURSING, HYGIENE AND SOCIAL SERVICE TREASURER HON. EDWIN WARFIELD FIDELITY TRUST COMPANY BALTIMORE, MD. PRESIDENT DR. WILLIAM H. WELCH SECRETARY MRS. JOSEPH COLT BLOODGOOD 904 NORTH CHARLES STREET BALTIMORE, MD. SUPERINTENDENT MISS LYDIA HOLMAN RECORDING SECRETARY MRS. BOLTON LOVE BOARD OF DIRECTORS MRS. CALEB N. ATHEY MRS. JOSEPH COLT BLOODGOOD DR. DE WITT B. CASLER MR. NORMAN JAMES MISS SARAH MANLY MR. WILLIAM L. MARBURY DR. WILLIAM WOOD RUSSELL HON. EDWIN WARFIELD DR. WILLIAM H. WELCH October 12, 1911. Dear Miss Wells: If my sister Winifred were only home I would not have to bother you, but now I take the liberty of asking you a favor as I am much in need of your eloquence and friendship to help a cause that I am working for. We, here in Baltimore, have organized the Holman Association for the promotion of Rural Nursing, Hygiene and Social Service. We have been in existence for about a year and have a big opportunity of doing good, but we must be brought before the public so that we can gain their support. With this end in view, Dr. William H. Welch, the president of our Association will hope to see Mr. Roosevelt in New York on Thursday, October 19th, and to ask him then to come and address a public meeting here in Baltimore for us in November. I know that you are a good friend of the Roosevelt family, so I write to ask if you could mention the subject to either Mr. Roosevelt or Mrs. Roosevelt, and incline Mr. Roosevelt toward acceding to our request. We have the material to build up a splendid organization, but we have to have friends and money and Mr. Roosevelt, of course, could win both of these for us by giving us a few hours of his precious time. I hope that you have had a happy summer, and that another winter will not go by without my husband and my having the pleasure of seeing you. Does Baltimore never tempt you within its gates? With kind greetings from our household, Sincerely yours, Edith Holt Bloodgood Secretary. Enclosure. Miss Caroline Wells Care Henry Holt & Son, New York City.Enc Wells 10-16-11[*Bonaparte*] [[*Holman*]] THE HOLMAN ASSOCIATION (INCORPORATED) FOR THE PROMOTION OF RURAL NURSING, HYGIENE AND SOCIAL SERVICE TREASURER HON. EDWIN WARFIELD FIDELITY TRUST COMPANY BALTIMORE, MD. PRESIDENT DR. WILLIAM H. WELCH SECRETARY MRS. JOSEPH COLT BLOODGOOD 904 NORTH CHARLES STREET BALTIMORE, MD. SUPERINTENDENT MISS LYDIA HOLMAN RECORDING SECRETARY MRS. BOLTON LOVE BOARD OF DIRECTORS MRS. CALEB N. ATHEY MRS. JOSEPH COLT BLOODGOOD DR. DE WITT B. CASLER MR. NORMAN JAMES MISS SARAH MANLY MR. WILLIAM L. MARBURY DR. WILLIAM WOOD RUSSELL HON. EDWIN WARFIELD DR. WILLIAM H. WELCH October 12, 1911. Dear Mr. Bonaparte: I hope that you will remember my threat to call upon you again in this matter of getting Mr. Roosevelt to come to Baltimore to speak for the Holman Association this autumn. Dr. William H. Welch goes to New York on Thursday, October 19th, and expects then to see Mr. Roosevelt and talk the matter over with him. Will you be so kind now as to write to Mr. Roosevelt and ask him to receive Dr. Welch with an open mind, and, if it is in any way possible, to concede to our request. I know that this subject of District Nursing is close to Mr. Roosevelt's heart, and if presented to him in the proper light, I am sure that it would be a great pleasure to him to give us the start which he is so preeminently fitted to do. Trusting that you will forgive my bothering you again, and with appreciation of your help and interest, Very sincerely yours, E. H. Bloodgood Secretary. Charles J. Bonaparte, Esq., 216 St. Paul, St., Baltimore. Enclosure.Enc in Bonaparte 10-17-11VAHAN CARDASHIAN COUNSELOR AT LAW 55 LIBERTY STREET NEW YORK TELEPHONE 3402 CORTLANDT C O P Y Oct. 12th, 1911. Dr. Andrew D. White, Ithaca, N. Y, My dear Dr. White:– After a long and careful deliberation, I decided, very reluctantly, to address myself again to you, depending largely, or course, upon your broad sympathy, your Christian humanity and your statesmanship. The question that has been engaging my anxious thought for some time past has been the necessity of providing some means for the safety of the Armenians in Turkey against the chronic Turkish and Kurdish aggressions. As you well know, since the accession of the Young Turkey Party to power, the general conditions in Turkey have not changed. The central government has been either unwilling or unable to bring into play its authority in the provinces. The representations of the Armenian Patriarchate have met with the same avasive and dilatory attitudes as practised by the Old Regime. Under the circumstances, there is actually no reasonable hope for any amelioration or improvement in those conditions. To the contrary, there are frequently alarming reports of threatened Kurdish or Turkish massacres of the Armenians. In fact, each day records a case of kidnapping, forcible conversion, unprovoked murder, desecration of a church or monastery, etc. The unavoidable result of these occurences is a galling fear in the minds and hearts of the Armenians throughout Turkey of some approaching disaster. I am not condemning any person or persons for this abnormal situation. I am simply calling your attention to the unavoidable conditions and irrefutable facts which we cannot ignore. Under these circumstances, I see clearly the coming cloud. That is, one or more massacres of the Armenians will take place, unless some preventive measures are adopted. Such measures must necessarily be initiated by an outside agency; and such agency, for its weapon and power, must depend upon its moral influence and public opinion. So if a VAHAN CARDASHIAN COUNSELOR AT LAW 55 LIBERTY STREET NEW YORK TELEPHONE 3402 CORTLANDT -2- number of eminent Americans were to organize a Committee and make a declaration of intention, to the effect, that the Committee is a friend of Turkey; that, in view of the peculiar conditions prevailing in the Turkish Empire, it is solicitous for the protection of Christian life, honor and property; and that, in the event of mob violence against these Christians, the Committee will employ all its moral influence and other reasonable means for their protection; then, I believe, a step forward in the cause shall have been taken. I believe that the Turk in power would be anxious not to create any pretext that may be used by Europe as a justification in invading on his dominions. The Italo-Turkish conflict showed a decided change in the temper and disposition of Europe in its attitude to Turkey. For such a Committee, I will mention at random the following gentlemen: Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew D. WHite, Bishop Greer, Gov. Baldwin, of Conn., Andrew Carnegie, Seth Low, Lyman Abbott, Charles Eliot, Arthur Twining Hadley, Nicholas Murray Butler, Gen. Horace Porter, Chauncey M. Depew, Rollo Ogden, William Randolph Hearst, Henry Clews, etc. I know that the gentlemen whose names I mentioned are deeply interested in the Armenian race. I also know that they are very busy men. If they wanted or desired (and I know that they do) that the Armenian should be spared the result of the fanaticism of the Turk, they could, at least, spare a very little part of their time to serve on a Committee. They simply will lend their names to the movement, which, in itself, as a reserve force, will have its mandatory influences upon the policies of the Turkish government in regard to the Armenians. Will you, at your convenience, look into this matter and let me know as to wha t you think of such a step, as proposed. Yours sincerely, [*Cardashian*]Enc in White 10-14-11[*[Chase]*] Our Simplest Design ARNOLD DAMPER A. W. ARNOLD, Pres. & Gen. Mgr. New York F. S. STANLEY, Vice-Pres. Portland, Ore. F. E. ARNOLD, Sec. & Treas. New York ARNOLD DAMPER CO. Manufacturers and Distributors of THE ARNOLD DAMPER 489 FIFTH AVENUE Telephone Bryant 1420 Cable Address: "Ardamp" NEW YORK, October 12th, 1911 [*12*] Hon. Theo. Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I. Dear Mr. Roosevelt:- In addressing you personally, I may be guilty of "bad manners", yet I am taking the risk of being charged with such, in my desire to eliminate the possibility of one of your secretaries opening the letter first, and filing it away with other propositions (which no doubt are directed to you frequently) which he might construe as "emanations of an enthusiast" and not of sufficient importance to be worthy of your attention. I am a stranger to you, although I have relatives who I understand are intimate friends of yours -, both officially and socially. My only motive in mentioning this, is to indirectly suggest to your mind the fact that I am well connected, and therefore might reasonably hope to secure your consideration and co-operation in the proposition which I am presenting, the acceptance of which would make you in a sense, my "partner". For years past, I have been living on the Pacific Coast, having Just come to New York this summer. A gentleman by the name of Arnold - who was born and raised in Oregon - invented some time back, a little machine for attachment to the pipe of a stove or furnace, the purpose of which is to guarantee even heat, and a saving in fuel. Hundreds of contrivances have been exploited with this end in view, but none have ever been general in their application, or actually effective in a large way. Some have really produced results on certain styles of heating plants up to a certain point, but nothing has ever been marketed which would save an absolute guaranteed percentage of fuel, until Mr. Arnold perfected what he terms the "Arnold Patented Damper". This does. Constructed on the basic principles of natural law--gravity and heat-velocity, Mr. Arnold hit upon a practical and simple device which automatically regulates the draft necessary to bring about perfect combustion -- or as nearly perfect combustion as is possible to secure in the modern stove, furnace, or heating plant. This device operates as the brain to a stove or furnace, and actually saves from one third to one half of the fuel consumed, as has been evidenced by nearly 15,000 of them already sold out in Oregon where the machine was invented and where it was first thoroughly tested, and marketed to provide physical and financial worth before we came east to exploit it on a national scale. The little circular enclosed, headed "AN INTERESTING STORY" gives some of the details pertaining to this experience, and the other two circularsOur Simplest Design ARNOLD DAMPER A. W. ARNOLD, Pres. & Gen. Mgr. New York F. S. STANLEY, Vice-Pres. Portland, Ore. F. E. ARNOLD, Sec. & Treas. New York ARNOLD DAMPER CO. Manufacturers and Distributors of THE ARNOLD DAMPER 489 FIFTH AVENUE Telephone Bryant 1420 Cable Address: "Ardamp" NEW YORK included, furnish further data. Please note same. The machine can be installed in ten minutes, and the only requirements to make this proposition almost as important and almost as profitable as the telephone in its universal scope of usefulness, and consequent gain, is the education of the public to what it will accomplish, and then enter upon an aggressive and wholesale merchandising campaign. Every owner of a stove, furnace, or factory plant in the entire country, will have to have, from self protection, one of these machines. The cost to make the stove size is less than fifteen cents. They sell for $1.50 The cost of the furnace size is less than fifty cents. They sell for $5.00 The factory size cost about one tenth of what they retail for. In as much as these machines "burn out" or wear out inside of three years, and in lieu of the fact that a person who has once owned one will never operate again without one, there is a possible sale of millions of thses every year, as statistics show there are close to fifty millions of stoves, furnaces and heating plants in use in the United States alone. You may therefore appreciate the possibilities for profit for our "sales company" with the exclusive sales provision during the life of the patents (which by the way are absosointely BASIC ones) when we have once educated the masses to what they will do. I have just succeeded in securing Mr. Arnold's signature to a contract which gives me the exclusive sale of these dampers for three fourths of the territory of the U. S., with privilege (not exclusive, as he had already made arrangements for marketing with others on a general sales plan - though not exclusive) for most of the restricted territory. In the three-fourths territory on which we have exclusive, there is a population of over sixty millions. This contract I have secured I am told is worth over five millions of dollars, but it is in the shape of a ten day option. Thus my "personal letter". I want to know whether or not you would feel disposed to take a "half interest" in the "Sales Company" I intend incorporating. It will take about $25.000 to swing the whole deal, pay for the installment of dampers we will be required to take to start the ball rolling, the advertisng, and other expense items. In as much as this is as nearly a "philanthropic" proposition as it is a business one (we will save the poor people fully one third, if not more, of their fuel bill) and shows immense possibilities for gain I felt that you as ex-president of the United States could most consistently lend your influence from the philantrhopic standpoint, and your financial aid from the standpoint of a sane sound commercial basis. I imagine that you are like the ordinary run of men in that you are open to anyOur Simplest Design ARNOLD DAMPER A. W. ARNOLD, Pres. & Gen. Mgr. New York F. S. STANLEY, Vice-Pres. Portland, Ore. F. E. ARNOLD, Sec. & Treas. New York ARNOLD DAMPER CO. Manufacturers and Distributors of THE ARNOLD DAMPER 489 FIFTH AVENUE Telephone Bryant 1420 Cable Address: "Ardamp" NEW YORK, legitimate and honorable business proposition which shows a safe and generous return for efforts, or money invested. Therefore if, in spite of my being an absolute stranger to you, and come to you un-announced, and without an introduction, you would be willing to see me, and will advise a time and a place when and where it would be convenient for you to take the matter up, I will come either to Oyster Bay or to your New York headquarters, and produce records, data, and the machine itself, with which I feel most confident i can not only arouse your intense interest, but sincerely believe I can succeed in inducing you to join me in the enterprise, and gain your co-operation in my somewhat audacious plan to insure success by having as a partner the man whom hundreds of thousands besides myself consider the greatest President our country has had since Washington and Lincoln. Awaiting your esteemed reply, which I am taking the liberty to ask be "prompt" as I have so little time on my option, I remain, Most Respectfully yours, W. P. Chase 489 5th Ave. c/o Arnold Damper Co.The St. Johns News CHARLES S. CLARK, EDITOR. ST. JOHNS, MICHIGAN Oct . 12, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt , Outlook Office New York City . Dear Sir ; Knowing your feelings on the question of race suicide and preference for large families, I take the liberty of sending you a marked copy of THE ST. JOHNS NEWS that you may have the pleasure of seeing the picture of a family which is strictly a Clinton County product . As you will see, there are thirteen children and the children that any parent might well be proud of . Respectfully yours Chas. S. ClarkNorth Shore Development Company Capital Stock $150,000 350 BROADWAY New York City. THOMAS H. DINSMORE PRESIDENT DR. O. S. MARDEN 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT ALBERT L. WAKEFIELD 2D VICE-PRESIDENT DR. CHAS. W. HACK SECRETARY AND TREASURER [*10.*] Oct. 12th, 1911. Col. Theo. Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N. Y. Dear Sir: Knowing of your interest in the development of Long Island, and in matters pertaining to Agriculture, we are sending herewith, a Folder of information concerning farming property at Suffolk County. The larger part of 2600 acres is being divided into farms of from 5 acres to several hundred acres, to suit purchasers, and at prices varying according to acreage. We are placing an experienced, up-to-date farmer on the property for the purpose of demonstrating the productive possibilities of small farms, and to instruct beginners in intensive farming. The Board of Directors includes, Thos. H. Dinsmore, Prest. also prest. of the National Underwriting Co., Dr. 0. S. Marden, Ed. of Success Magazine, Mr. J. K. Griffiths, principal owner of the International Correspondence Schools, and others. Trusting that this matter may interest you at least in a general way, we are Yours Truly The North Shore Development Co. W. E. Clark Mgr.933 Security Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 12, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir:-- Under cover of yesterday's mail, the 11th inst., the writer mailed you a report of the Canon de San Diego Land Grant, New Mexico, together with numerous photographs taken of the property. By oversight, the price sheet was not attached to the letter, referring to the sale of said Grant, and we herewith make correction, by supplying the same. The price of the property is Six Dollars ($6) per acre, $50,000 payable on inspection and approval of the property: $322,000 on or before sixty days thereafter, making a total payment of cash of $372,000. The balance of the purchase price, or $300,000, can remain on mortgage, secured by the entire Grant, and payable in three annual payments of $100,000 each. interest at 6%. The property can be inspected to better advantage prior to snow fall. This is especially true in the higher altitudes in cruising the timber, hence we urge very prompt action, if inspection is intended. Very respectfully yours, J E DepueNew York American [*2*] October 12, 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, New York City. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: Mr. Hugh O'Neill, Editor of the Denver Times, has asked me to make a special and urgent request to you for an interview. The people of Denver are endeavoring to obtain lower freight rates from the Atlantic seaboard to Denver, by way of Galveston, where the United States government has expended millions of dollars in building jetties and wharves. When the Panama canal--with which you had such momentous connection-- is completed the Gulf of Mexico ports should become of great importance and the interior states, such as Colorado, should receive lower transportation charges. There is a combination, or understanding, between the coastwise steamship companies and the railroads by which the interior states are prevented from receiving reductions that are made in steamship freight rates from the Atlantic seaboard to Galveston. The people of Denver are urging other inland cities to take part in a movement to break up this combination, so that the freight rates to the Middle West will be based on Galveston or New Orleans, instead of on the Mississippi and the M issouri rivers, as at present. Because of your connection with the Panama canal and your influence which was exerted in strengthening the hands of the interstate commerce commision, and because of your great influence in the West, Mr. O'Neill is particularly anxious for you to say a few words concerning freight rates and the use of the Galveston gateway. I hope that you will be able to let me have five or six minutes of your time some m orning. Will you kindly let me hear from you. Faithfully yours, Marin Dunn, Editorial Dept., New York American.COLEMAN DU PONT WILMINGTON, DEL. October 12, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, c/o The Outlook, 287 Fourth Ave., New York City. My dear Mr. Roosevelt, You know H. A. duPont is Senator and not I. I will call at your office, 287 Fourth Ave. Friday at three thirty. Yours very truly, Coleman du Pont.ESTABLISHED 1877 The News Company THE DAILY NEWS THE WEEKLY NEWS JOLIET, ILLINOIS JAMES H. FERRISS, Editor H. E. BALDWIN, Advertising Manager [*19.*] Joliet, Illinois, Oct. 12, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. Dear Sir:– I enclose an editorial I wrote yesterday, and write to give you notice that I wrote it before I had read Mr. Pinchot's article in last week's Saturday Evening Post. I enclose Mr. Copley's speech also, marking a few passages to show which way the wind blows with our congressman. I am sure he can be safely enrolled among the insurgents. I am serving my second term as national chairman of the Populists, thus you can understand that my reputation and judgement in these matters are above reproach! In your speech a Osawatomie you touched finances just enough for those who understand. It swiped our last plank. This information is not for publication, to carry this great work along we need to be reasonably discreet. These are the greatest days the world ever saw and I am living in the hope that I may live long enough to see the time when all our kind will vote together. Yours in a cause, Jas H Ferriss[*[Fuller]*] [*a*] Peoria 10-12-1911 Mr Roosevelt Dear Sir: The Illinois Stat Federation of Women Clubs requested all clubs to devote one day in the year to Pure Food. Our club set apart Oct 25th with myself in charge. I have been much at sea as to the decisions of the Remsen Referee Board, when reading that they favor the manufacturers etc. I have read an article by Chairman Remsen in Scientific American of Aug 26th which seems to me so candid and straight-forward, that the criticisms are unjust and must be so regarded. We all hope the Com.will endeavor to do the right thing so far as they are able, but I tho't your opinion would clear all doubt from my mind and I would know better how to judge the controversy over Dr. Wiley. My Ford Magazine is decidedly partial to the Dr. I hope I am not presuming in thus writing to you. From one who with all her family greatly admire Mr Roosevelt and all his family, Sincerely Yours, Ada M Fuller[*17*] Fort Worth Tex, Oct 12-1911 Dear Sir - I will write you a few short lines telling you that a discussion came up in our room, the 7th Grade of the R. Vicary school of Fort Worth oct 9-1911 about the correct pronuncation of your name I will be pleased if you will write me at 509 Cromwell St Fort Worth an send the correct pronuncation of your name Yours Truly, George Pat Hill [*[Hill]*]ERWIN A. HOLT BURLINGTON NORTH CAROLINA COPY October 12th. 1911 Personal, Mr. David G. Evans, The Curtis Publishing Co. New York City My dear Mr. Evans:- It did me good to see you at the Aldine just one month ago to-day, and to feel like we would not gradually drift away from each other. While I have not written Dr. Marden recently, he is before me as much as ever and I do hope he will in some way get a square deal and his works and editorials get more and more universally circulated. In other words, I just hope "SUCCESS" will soon get in good hands with all the necessary financial backing and Dr. Marden given either full authority as to its Editorial policies or what is necessary to make it a regular "Marden Magazine" like it once was only to retain the old and well established title "SUCCESS." Can you not in some way get some one interested in taking it, like your Curtis Publishing Co., (and it does look like it is just what they would want), Crowell, McClure, Munsey or Everybody's, or if not any of them find some one like Pinchot, Rudolph Spreckles, Mrs. Russell Sage, Rockefeller Jr., George W. Perkins, or some one with some big altruistic vision. If I were a multi-millionaire, I would certainly try to get it and give Dr. Marden all kind of backing and sympathy and just tell him to "Go Ahead." Have been tempted to write Col. Roosevelt relative to this, thinking perhaps he may have some good suggestion which would at least put "SUCCESS" and Dr. Marden on the right track. Am now settled down at home again, and our family are very interested in getting the new Church ready for consecration on 5th. prox. The large Pipe Organ and handsome stained glass windows have just been installed and are admired by all most extravagantly. Shall be pleased to hear from you at your convenience and only hope "SUCCESS" will soon get all the necessary support iin every way and become liver than ever, as we really need it. My kindest regards to Mrs. Evans and all your good people and with best wishes for you always, I am, sincerely your friend, P. S. Am under the impression that this is your fifth wedding anniversary, or that it is a week from today. My very best wishes to you both. [*[Erwin A. Holt.]*]Enc in Holt 10-18-11-FAIR- FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE "Swedish Home for Aged People" Association (Incorporated under the laws of the State of New York) Fair to be held in the 71st Regiment Armory, 34th Street and Park Avenue, New York, Saturday, November 4th, and Monday, 6th, to and including Saturday, November 11th, 1911 Fair Committee Charles K. Johansen, President, 108 Park Row, New York Alfr. Wennerholm, v. President, 212 E. 70th St., New York Harald Nordkvist, Rec. Secretary, 108 Park Row, New York Charles F. Johnson, Fin. Secretary, 31 E. 27th St., New York N. Lorentz Malmros, Treasurer, Mills Bidg, cor. Broad & Wall Sts, New York Nils Grahn, 207 Wyckoff St., Brooklyn Charles A. Johnson, 629 3rd Ave, New York Albin Anderson, 291 137th St., New York Carb Dahlen 629 3rd Ave., New York Eric Hagstrom 647 Baltic St., Brooklyn John Olin 154 E. 84th St., New York Henry Johnson, 1375 Lyman Pl., Bronx, New York Ernst Winberg, 133 E. 52nd St., New York C. E. Nordmark, 147 Linden Ave, Brookly Mrs. M. C. North, 418 4th Ave., New York Mrs. A. Obert-Anderson 149 E. 44th St., New York Executive Committee Charles K. Johansen Harald Nordkvist Charles F. Johnson Carl Dahlen Mrs. M. C. North Manager of the Fair CHARLES A. JOHNSON, 629 3rd Ave., New York Telephone, Murray Hill 5331 [*D*] New York Oct. 12 1911 Col. Theodore Roosevelt My dear Sir: Fifty Swedish organizations of New York City and vicinity are planning to make the above bazaar a success The thousands of New York citizens of Swedish birth or extraction are at work enthusiastically to build this home for aged people Mayor William J. Gaynor has kindly consented to officially open the fair on Saturday, Nov. 4 At a meeting of the committee held last night it was unanimously decided to extend to you a cordial invitation to be present on Nov 4 or Monday Nov. 6. It would be most gratifying to us to have you as our guest on either of these nights and we would be more than pleased if you would make an address. Monday, Nov. 6., is the anniversary of Sweden's great King, Gustavus Adolphus, and 100 of our tall men will act as marshals dressed in uniforms from the time of the 30 years war. If you would honor us with your acceptance, this day would be very appropriate for an address on the great snow King and a mention of your reception in SwedenIt was the selected representatives of the United Swedish Societies who took part in the reception accorded to you on your return to New York from abroad. As far as I can recall, this will be the first and only time you will address a great Swedish audience since the days far ago when you were a candidate for Mayor. Our fondest wish is that you will be with us on either of these days, or, if this is not convenient, on any other evening of the fair. I need hardly assure you that your reception will be most cordial. Should you wish to confer with me, I will be glad to call upon you whenever convenient to you. Hoping to receive a favorable reply, I am Yours respectfully Charles K. Johansen Publ. Nordstyernan (Swedish North Star) P. O. B. 50, New YorkTHE SURVEY SOCIAL CHARITABLE CIVIC CHARITIES PUBLICATION COMMITTEE ROBERT W. DE FOREST, NEW YORK, Chairman JANE ADDAMS.....................................CHICAGO ERNEST P. BICKNELL...................WASHINGTON ROBERT S. BREWSTER.......................NEW YORK G. K. CUSHING..........................SAN FRANCISCO ARTHUR F. ESTABROOK........................BOSTON LEE K. FRANKEL..................................NEW YORK JOHN M. GLENN.................................NEW YORK WILLIAM GUGGENHEIM...................NEW YORK WILLIAM E. HARMON........................NEW YORK JOSEPH LEE.............................................BOSTON JULIAN W. MACK...................................CHICAGO JOHN F. MOORS....................................BOSTON SIMON N. PATTEN......................PHILADELPHIA JACOB A. RIIS.......................................NEW YORK FRANK TUCKER.................................NEW YORK S. W. WOODWARD.................... . .WASHINGTON THE STAFF EDWARD T. DEVINE........EDITOR GRAHAM TAYLOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR PAUL U. KELLOGG ARTHUR P. KELLOGG GRAHAM ROMEYN TAYLOR CONSTANCE D. LEUPP 105 EAST 22D STREET, NEW YORK Telephone 4066 Gramercy October 12, 1911. Mr. Frank Harper, The Outlook, City. Dear Mr. Harper: Mr. Roosevelt, after I had put the matter up to him Tuesday afternoon, suggested that i give him the basis for a letter to Mr. English which would buck the latter up. The point is that Mr. English is Chairman of the Pittsburgh Civic Commission, which is carrying forward a broad and aggressive civic campaign to make the Pittsburgh district big in the decencies and delights of life. He is also Vice Chairman of the Voters' League of which Mr. Weil is Chairman, which has been the aggressive local organization in fighting graft. During the recent city campaign the chairman of the Republican City Committee - an old line ring man, claimed in a public statement that they have "queered" the Civic Commission and the Voters' League with both Carnegie and Frick (who have given generously to both movements) because those organizations "besmirch" Pittsburgh; the old cry! As a matter of fact, both organizations have stood out for civic righteousness and stood in the path of some of the interests which have wanted to profit at the expense of the public. -2- English doesn't need bucking up to keep on fighting. He is a born fighter and will do that. But he questions whether he should not step aside and let some man who has not made enemies take the chairmanship. That would be a fluke. He is not only a fighter; but he is a builder. He has put constructive statesmanship into the work of the Civic Commission. If they can weather this year they can do big things for Pittsburgh. A word of appreciation from Mr. Roosevelt at this time would do more than anything else that I can think of to make Mr. English feel that he is needed at the helm and should not step aside because of antagonisms he has provoked in high places. Sincerely, Paul U Kellogg PUK-AHFor enc see ca 10-12-11[*[ca 10-12-11]*] Suggested lines of letter: My dear Mr. English: A year ago I came out to Pittsburgh and took part in the rousing demonstration organized by your Civic Commission. It was one of my first engagements on getting back to America and I take more than ordinary interest in the developments of the year since. My congratulations on the statesmanship which you and your associates are putting into the municipal movement in Pittsburgh; the fearlessness with which you take the hammering of the grafters and the people with little vision; and the practical means you are devising for turning one of the great work districts of America into a place for normal living. [*[Drafted by Paul U. Kellogg for T R's signature]*]Enc in Kellogg 10-12-11[*[10-12-11]*] BEWARE OF DEBS! Christian People:--Beware of Debs! Do not attend his Lecture! Debs is a Virulent Enemy of Our Churches and Charitable Institutions Debs called Christ Our Lord "the Tramp of Galilee" (in N. Y. Worker, April 20, 1907). He thus sneered at our churches: "The churches are always numerous where vice is rampant. They seem to spring from the same soil and thrive in the same climate" (in the Chicago Socialist, October. 25, 1902). In the same article he branded our charitable institutions as "monumental of iniquity" and as "whited sepulchres." Debs is a Furious Revolutionary Debs never gets tired of exciting the working class to a violent revolution. Speaking of the bloody battles in the past between workers and employers he asked: "How many and how fierce and bloody shall be the battles of the future?" (In the Appeal to Reason, March 27, 1906). "Our government is a republic in name only; it is a failure." Hence it must be overthrown by a revolution. "VIVE LA REVOLUTION! The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION. It thrills and vibrates; it cheers and inspires. The throne trembles when this throbbing word is lisped. Let us glorify the revolutions of the past and hail the Greater Revolution yet to come." (Debs' Writings and Speeches, pp. 142, 478, 306). In The Appeal To Reason for Sept. 2, 1911. Debs published a most sanguinary article under the glaring head-lines: "Wanted—A Few Men Not Afraid To Die." He says in this article: "Let us marshal our forces and develop our power for the revolt!" Debs a Champion of Free Love In the spring 1906 the Russian Socialist Maxim Gorky landed in New York, accompanied by "Madame" Andreiva whom he introduced as his wife. When it became known that Andreiva was not the legally wedded wife of Gorky, but only a common prostitute, the better society of our country closed the doors before the nose of the Russian free-lover. Debs got raging mad. He published in the N. Y. Worker for April 28, 1906, an article in which he compared Gorky to Christ, and stigmatized the American society as arch-hypocrites and keepers of harems. He wrote: "With open arms and hearts attuned to love and greeting, we of the proletariat welcome Maxim Gorky and his wife to these shores." "Christ-like is his love for the lowly and despised and his sacrifice of self, and Christ-like his persecution by the heartless pharisees." "The ruling class, to whom he has never crooked the knees, must find some excuse to pour their garbage upon his head and so they, arch-hypocrites that they are, affect to feel shocked at some irregularity alleged to have been discovered in his domestic relations, and now raise the cry that he is unclean." "No wonder their refined sensibilities are shocked by the advent of genius, healthy, moral and sane, in full possession of all the virtues, nobility of the soul, loftiness of mind and purity of heart; no wonder they bar the doors of their harems and hostelries and draw the blinds in dread and fear of a fresh and purifying breath of moral atmosphere." Debs is An Unmitigated Liar Debs maintains in his Writings and Speeches that "the workers produce all wealth." (pp. 391, 428); that, under the present system, "the worker receives in wages only about 17 per cent of the product of his labor and is robbed of about 83 per cent of what his labor produces." (p. 428); that, under Socialism, "the worker will get the full equivalent of what he produces." (p. 428); that today 80 per cent of the people of the United States have no property (p. 489); that the industrial tools, paid and owned by the capitalists, belong by right to the workers (pp. 395, 446); that Socialism will remove all shame and vice, all ignorance and crime (p. 155); that the Socialist Party represents the working class (p. 359), etc. Debs knows that all these ascertions are as false as Judas. Christian people, do not go to hear Debs, who sneers at our churches and charitable institutions; who uses—as President Roosevelt (quoted by Debs, Writings p. 247) rightly said—"a treasonable and murderous language;" who took the Russian free-lover Gorky, under his tender wings; who lies without conscience and compunction! Do not aid Socialism financially by the purchase of admission tickets! If the men who call themselves "proletarians," have enough money to buy 50 cents seats to hear Debs, let them go ahead. We "capitalists" cannot afford this luxury. REV. C. J. KLUSER. [*Morgantown, W. Va. Oct. 12, 1911.*]For enc see Kluser 12-18-11BEN. LA BREE, EDITOR LYRIC BUILDING CINCINNATI, O. [*21.*] October 12th. 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: I am preparing an exhaustive and authoritive work on the Diplomatic and Consular Service and am writing to ask you if you would write a few lines concerning this vast government department whose high standard and efficiency you are largely responsible for. I am enclosing some title pages and portraiture. The book, when completed, will be in the hands of our foreign representatives and everywhere along the path of our development and progress and anything you would say would not only receive the widest circulation for its practical application but would also contribute to the high standard I have set. Assuring you of my sincere appreciation of anything you might favor me with and believe me Yours very respectfully, Ben. La BreeCHICAGO RAILWAY EQUIPMENT CO. CHICAGO OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT [*8.*] Oct. 12, 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York, N.Y. Dear Sir:– In view of the great interest and importance which attaches to the construction of the Panama Canal, and having been able to secure a limited number of advance copies of a very unique relief map, graphically illustrating a location, character and magnitude of this unprecedented undertaking, we are sending you by this mail a copy which I trust you will find interesting. Very truly yours, E. B. Leigh PresidentH. C. LODGE , CHAIRMAN. E. T. CLARK, CLERK. United States Senate, COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION. Nahant, Mass. October 12, 1911 Personal Dear Theodore:- I have just read with great interest your article on the question of arbitration under the Russian treaty. That is a matter which has been troubling me very much. The clause you quote covers all inhabitants, but if you will examine the treaty (I have not a copy by me) you will see in a later clause that the Russians expressly except their own subjects who have emigrated. They have never given up the doctrine of indefeasible allegiance, a doctrine which we have never recognized and which has been abandoned by all countries except Russia and Turkey. Nevertheless, they excepted their own subjects from the operation of the treaty on the ground that once a Russian subject always a Russian subject. The violation of the treaty is confined therefore to the refusal to all treat native born [immigrants] Americans as the treaty requires. The violation is just the same, only not so extensive, as it would be without the exception of the Russian born. There is no doubt in my mind that they violate the provisions of the treaty in regard to America born Jews. They treat the Jews of all other countries in the same way but that, again, does not affect the violation of the treaty of '32. I do not think there is really anything for The Hague court to pass upon for it is impossible that there should be any doubt as to the terms of the treaty which you quote. If it went to The Hague court it might strengthen our position to have them say that the treaty meant what it obviously means. But I take it that Russia, like every other country, would absolutely refuse to have any tribunal pass on the question of their right to admit or exclude immigrants. All we could hope to get would be an interpretationH. C. LODGE, CHAIRMAN. E. T. CLARK, CLERK. United States Senate. COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION. T-R-2 from the Hague court agreeing with cure. It might be well to do this Still the question remains of what it is best to do. It seems to me intolerable to go on with a treaty which one party disregards and yet if we renounce the treaty we break up all our commercial and consular relations with Russia. we do her no harm and I imagine the Jews would still be kept out, and under these conditions, all other Americans too, probably, and the condition of the Jews in Russia would probably be made worse. Then, again, it is a very delicate matter for us, with our immigration laws against the Chinese and with the feeling which exists against Asiatic immigration, to insist on forcing any class of people upon another country. In other words, the only ground we can stand on is the violation of the treaty. If we renounced the treaty we could only make a new one to assent to Russia's right to exclude whom she pleased, and that would be a senseless thing to do. The fact is that it is a very puzzling matter and I do not see my way very clearly in it. Ever yours, H. C. Lodge Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N.Y.[*[McFadden]*] Phila., 10/12/11. Colonel Roosevelt Ex. President of U.S. Dear Colonel I hope you will pardon my ungratefullness in not answering your good and kind letter to me, and in not thanking you for your sincere interest in writing to the Postmaster of Philadelphia in my father's behalf, I was anxiously awaiting some definite good news to send you but as yet we are further back than ever, the ward leader and Senator Mc. Nichol introduced my father to Senator Penrose five weeks ago and he promised him he would take his case up with the Washington Officials.I intend if I am spared to keep your letter for years to come to show it to my friends, no more at present from, Your Sincere Friend Marguerite McFadden 1833 W. Huntingdon Street Philadelphia. The Postmaster also informed him personally that he would not stand in his way of being reinstated if he could reach the authorities in Washington, but as yet there seems to be nothing done. He has made inquiry of several men in the ward whom he thought were in a position to know as to his standing and they have all encouraged him by saying that they thought he would get his position back still it seems he can not get any definite information from any body. So I thought I would at last answer your favor with what information I had my father and brother and sisters join me in sending our thanks to you for your kind interest in us and if anything favorable occurs in the near future I will let you know at once. The standard is set and shows its forecast by those who have signed since I began on Sept. 25, - viz. Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Stephen H. P. Pell, Sidney S. Schuyler, James C. Bishop, Robert R. Livingston, George E. Turnure, Aug. Van Horne Stuyvesant, Howard Townsend, F. Augustus Schermerhorn, Goodhue Livingston Lewis Gouverneur Morris, Arthur D. Weekes, Robert Fulton Cutting, Dudley Olcott, Alfred van Santovordest, John R. Delafield, Sam'l Oakley Vander Poel Howard Conkling Louis Pinkard Bayard, John Jay Pierrepont, Cornelius Beekman, Theodore Ledyard Cuyler, J. Augustus Van Brunt, C. D. Van Tassell, Ottoman Van Norden, Mrs. De Lancey Nicoll, Will you not join with them? 197 Western ave. Albany, N.Y. [*[10-12-11]*] [*11.*] [*ESSE QUAM VIDERI*] My dear Col. Roosevelt, In our conversation Tuesday noon you had a misconception of my mission, I believe, and the matter is of importance to the future, so worthy, that I wish to make clear. I devoted 10 years as executive Director to the upbuilding of our Albany Institute, was then approved by Gov. Hughes Director of New York State at Jamestown, and then devoted some years to producing four large volumes of biographical genealogies of the old Albany families. This latter work came out in May, was well received and I have started upon similarwork for New York and environs, which will be a standard set of reference or I should be losing in reputation. I do not ask a buyer now, but as the expense will be $40,000 before one dollar is paid back, I must know beforehand where to expect to recoup to cover the cost, hence I ask people to sign their promise to own & pay for the delivered series, some years hence, where I have concluded my labors. The sum is as low as anyone of my expert ability would work and turn over the books. What is written is submitted for changes or additions. I claim it will be useful, and that it will be the most carefully made, - the best, so that you will be proud that you agreed to my proposition. Sincerely, Cuyler Reynolds, New York Oct. 12, 1911. The Van Rensselaer, 11 East 11th St.OFFICE OF FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK CHICAGO TORONTO LONDON AND EDINBURGH TELEPHONE, 6495-6 GRAMERCY CABLE ADDRESS "REVELL 158 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK Oct. 12, 1911. [*23*] Dear Sir: At the suggestion of Mrs. Raymond B. Patterson we are sending you, with our compliments, a copy of THE NEGRO AND HIS NEEDS, by the late Mr. Raymond B. Patterson; and hope you will have opportunity to examine this book. Any word of commendation that you might feel free to send either Mrs. Patterson or ourselves would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely yours, FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I., New York. [*Rich*] (C O P Y) Philadelphia, October 12, 1911. Dr. J. William White, 1810 S. Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia. Dear Sir:– I am very glad to see by the newspapers the steps taken by you to prevent a continuance of automobile races in the Park in future years. The handing over of a large part of Fairmount Park and the surrounding State highways, by the Mayor and Park Commissioners, to a number of automobile manufacturers for the purpose of conducting an automobile race thereon as a means of advertising their wares, the public in the meantime being forcibly excluded from using the same in order that the race may be run without interruption, is a most extraordinary violation of law. The Acts of Assembly under which the Park was created expressly provide that it is to be maintained forever as an open public place or park, for the health, free use and enjoyment of the citizens of the State, and the City of Philadelphia is required to see that this is done. These Acts further forbid any person from driving or riding in the Park at a rate exceeding seven miles an hour. The highways of the state, by which I mean the streets and roads outside of the Park, on which the race is run, are for public use, and no one can be excluded from using them by the Mayor or municipal authorities, in order that they may for the- 2 - time being be handed over to certain favored individuals for their exclusive use. It is, in addition, a criminal offence at common law to race or drive furiously on a public highway, to the danger or terror of other persons lawfully using the same; and all persons engaged in so doing or engaged in procuring the same to be done are liable to indictment, fine and imprisonment. Nor do I think that the Acts of Assembly, providing a set fine for driving an automobile in excess of the speed limits on the public highways, do away with the right to indict the persons committing such a nuisance on the highway, and to have them punished at common law. The Act of 1909, however, expressly provides that no person shall operate a motor vehicle on the public highways of the State recklessly or a rate of speed greater than is responsible and proper, having regard to the width, traffic and use of the highway, or so as to endanger property or the life or limbs of any person; and expressly forbids any person from driving a motor vehicle at a rate of speed exceeding one mile in two and a half minutes at any time. It is therefore a most extraordinary thing that the public authorities should deliberately set to work to violate the laws as thus declared, and grant for the time being the exclusive use of the Park and the public highways surrounding the Park for the benefit of a few automobile manufacturers. Again, where do the Mayor and park Commissioners get the right to give to certain favored persons, spectators of this- 3 - race, the exclusive use of portions of the Park, with the further right to make a profit out of it by charging an admission price to those who desire to enter into the spaces thus reserved ? That the money thus derived, after paying the expenses of the automobile manufacturers, is to be handed over to charity, is no answer to the objection, even if this is done. It would be far more to the purpose if it were handed over to the Park for Park purposes. There is, however, another and a very serious view to be taken of this condition of affairs. The mere seeing of an automobile going along at a high rate of speed, which, indeed, one may see almost at any time of day, has no particular attraction. The enormous crowds that frequent the Park to see these races, and who gather around the dangerous spots, go there, not for the purposes of seeing automobiles going along at a high rate of speed, but because they are attracted by the possibility of some fearful catastrophe, to give them what the newspapers call "thrills." Prize fights, dog fights, bull fights, and other amusements of a similar character, involving danger to life and limb, have been practically abolished, on the ground, among other things, of their bad moral effect on the people at large, educating them to cruelty and a contempt for life, etc. It is impossible to conceive of any greater education in this direction than these automobile races. They teach the owners and users of automobiles, as well as the people who do not own them, but go to see the races, a contempt for law and a disregard of human life, which- 4 - cannot fail to have the most disastrous effect on not only the people now grown up, but on the children growing up, who go there to see them, and read about them in the papers. I have been frequently tempted in the past to file a bill in equity for the purpose of having the courts grant an injunction against such a violation of law and decency. I have no doubt that if such a bill were filed, the injunction would be granted. I have also no doubt that all persons engaged in thus breaking the law, including the Mayor and Park Commissioners, would be liable not only to indictment for manslaughter in the case of the killing of anyone as the result of such a race, but also to an action for damages caused by the injury or death of some innocent person who, while using the Park for travelling along the roads, is killed as the result of such races. Very respectfully yours, (Signed) George P. Rich.MARY TODD LINCOLN MEMORIAL For the erection of a memorial building to the wife of Abraham Lincoln in Lexington, Kentucky, her home town, upon the campus of Sayre College, which is one of the oldest institutions in the South for the education of young women and girls. All of her relatives have been educated in this venerable institution, and it has been decided that this is, and should be, the place for such a monument. COMMITTEE HON. LEVI P. MORTON GOV. JOHN A. DIX HON. HENRY W. TAFT COL. HENRY WATTERSON HENRY CLEWS I. K. FUNK HON. WM. SULZER W. G. McADOO EDW. LAUTERBACH COL. BENNETT H. YOUNG J. M. HORTON REAR ADMIRAL A. V. WADHAMS, U.S.N. DR. REGINALD H. SAYRE JOHN S. ALLEN, D.D. ROBERT J. COLLIER HUDSON MAXIM GEN. FREDERICK D. GRANT MATTHEW WHITE, JR. HON. JOHN J. FRESCHI PROF. CHARLES PRELINI COMMITTEE A. LINCOLN SELIGMAN ADMIRAL GEORGE DEWEY DAVID HOMER BATES HON. HORACE WHITE A. L. ERLANGER WILLIAM O. STODDARD HON. CORNELIUS N. BLISS HON. MARTIN W. LITTLETON MALCOMB D. RIKER GERARD J. CUOCO MRS. CYRUS H. McCORMICK MRS. HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN MRS. JAMES BORDEN HARRIMAN MRS. A. V. WADHAMS MRS. BELMONT TIFFANY MRS. DESHA BRECKINRIDGE MRS. EMMONS BLAINE MRS. HAROLD S. BUTTENHEIM MRS. JOHN A. HOCKADAY E. T. SANFORD, PUBLICITY COMMITTEE J. M. SPENCER, SECRETARY 44 ASTOR COURT BUILDING, NEW YORK TELEPHONE 5620 MURRAY HILL October 12, 1911. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Ave., New York City. My dear Col. Roosevelt: You can never know how much your kind note of yesterday did for me. I appreciate it more than words can express. I have been a bit discouraged on account of the difficulties connected with reaching those who can be of practical service, but feel certain if our American patriotism is genuine that the cause will triumph. With sincere appreciation, I am Yours very sincerely, J. M. Spencer. the Meeting, and the crowd laughed & shouted and sang "Oh, where is my wandering boy tonight." - Colby says the average American is more intelligent than the same class in England. To confirm this some since since Hammerstein [*[10-12-11]*] [*[Suydam]*] [*6.*] S Hamilton Court 39 and Chestnut Phil'a. Dear Colonel Roosevelt: Could anything be more delightful than Colby's article on an English Election in the Outlook of Oct. 7th. The clear style,of three artists, artists whom you know all about, but so fascinating was the style that you waved aside the maid when she announced dinner! I am laughing yet about the Candidate that "eats oysters for lunch and could not appear in person to address the valuable information, the irony, the amusing incidents, the dispassionate view of English traits - how they amuse and charm one! Style is a valuable asset to genius. I once read Conan Doyle's "My Story," only a sketch Pennsylvania R. Road Station where de Quality can see how baid dat Opera is!" Dr. Tomkins is a man after your own heart - with high ideals, great moral courage, and active in the best interests in Phil'a. 2. brought over some vile Operas: and the houses were filled. Rev. Dr. Floyd W. Tomkins, of Holy Trinity came out in the Ledger in a strong convincing appeal to the people of Phil'a. So condemn "Salome" It showed great(they all read and write,) I was crossing the Court - yard when one of our Negros said to me, Miss Suydam, I saw Dr. Tomkins piece in de paper on John de Baptist's haid, and I jus cut out de hole thing, and tacked it up in de moral courage: he has a large fashionable Congregation. Our Mayor, (as poor an example as could be made,) was asked to stop it. He refused. Of course the Opera house was packed. Now to my point: We have many Negros in Phil'a, especially around Hamilton Court. Your picture hangs next to Dr. Suydam -- and they are both wreathed with Holly at Christmas. When you again visit Phil. can you not call and see me? I never had the pleasure of even If I had children I would not allow them to read Abbott's articles. May I send my kindest regards to Mr. Roosevelt. Very sincerely yours - Mary Frances Suydam, Rev. Mr J. Howard Suydam a glimpse of your face - but have had dream likenesses of you. It is a pity The Outlook never has anything commendable to say of Phil'a. If it were not for your contributions I would give it up.UNIVERSITY EXTENSION DIVISION LOUIS E. REBER, DEAN DEPT. OF GENERAL INFORMATION AND WELFARE CIVIC AND SOCIAL CENTER DEVELOPMENT EDWARD J. WARD, ADVISER DEPT. GENERAL INFORMATION AND WELFARE DEPT. OF INSTRUCTION BY LECTURES DEPT. OF CORRESPONDENCE - STUDY DEPT. OF DEBATING AND PUBLIC DISCUSSION THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON [*14*] October 12, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, THE OUTLOOK, 287 4th Ave., New York, N. Y. My dear sir:- I am enclosing a program of the first national conference on Civic and Social Center Development, which is to be held here under the auspices of the University of Wisconsin in cooperation with the Social Center Association of America, October 25th to 28th. When the program of this meeting was being arranged, we, of course, felt that it would be a tremendous help to this movement to have you speak at the conference, but we feared that the possibility of securing you was vain, in view of the fact that you had so recently spoken here at the University, but the great movement for citizenship organization with the schoolhouse as the working center, combining as it does civic education with recreational provision when it is needed most - in the evening - is aimed not so much to help Wisconsin, where the way is clear and the idea is established that the citizens own the public school and other public property and that education is a profitable investment, as to help other parts of the country where those who are seeking to open the schoolhouses for civic, social and recreational activities are having a hard time. I remember Dr Samuel Crothers came to Rochester when I was there and spoke in one of the Social Centers. You were in Africa at the time and Dr. Crothers said he looked forward to telling you what we were heading for. I do not know whether Dr. Crothers has told you, but I do know that what we are trying to express is in harmony with what you did more than any other to awaken in America. I am enclosing with a program for the conference an introductory statement upon civic and social center development, and under another cover I am sending you a copy of the "Story of the First Two Years of the Rochester Social Centers and Civic Clubs" which gives a detailed account of the beginning of the working out of the idea in one city. If you care to have me do so, I will be glad to send you other material giving an account of what has already been done and what is being planned in this movement. Very heartily yours, Edward J. Ward EJW/ACM (Encs.)The State University of Iowa Iowa City College of Liberal Arts Department of Greek and Archaeology October 12, 1911 [*9.*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. Dear Mr. Roosevelt:-- Your kind letter is just received, and I am much gratified at you attitude toward Greek. President Bowman of the University has suggested to me very pertinently that the publication of this letter would be one of the best methods of accomplishing the purpose which i have at heart; and I venture to bother you once more to ask if you have any objection to my doing so. I feel sure that it will seem to you proper, but I do not like to use the letter even for so good ends without first communicating with you. That I may not trouble you to write further in the matter, I will venture to assume your consent unless I hear from you in the course of a few days. Thinking that you may not recall what you wrote, I append to this a copy of the portion of your letter that I desire to use. Yours very respectfully, C. H. Weller Copy "If I get the chance I will gladly say all I can for the study of Greek. Unfortunately I never grew so that I myself really enjoyed Greek literature in the original, but Kermit in Africa read no book more steadily than his Homer, both the Iliad and Odyssey, which he had with him in Greek."encourages me to hope that you may be willing to see me when you happen to be in New York. I should, of course, esteem it a great honour if you were kind enough to do so, though I can hardly expect that you will have the time. I expect to be here at least another fortnight. Believe me, faithfully yours Alfred E. Zimmern [*3*] Republican Club 54 West 40 St New York City. Oct 12 . 11 Dear Sir, I am taking the liberty of sending you herewith a recently published book of mine on economic and political conditions in Ancient Greece. My excuse for thinking you may care to read it is the interest you have taken in Ferrero's book on Rome, the first two volumes of which I translated - though not tillafter about two years' delay in finding a publisher to take the risk. So I think I may claim to have discovered Ferrero for England as you did for America! My own book is much more modest in scope, but it is written in somewhat the same spirit and with the same eye to modern problems. Indeed my feeling is that the bearing of Greek history upon modern problems, though less direct and obvious than that of Rome, is even more vital and important. I have recently landed in this country having taken a twelve months leave of absence in order to see as much of it and its conditions as an ignorant newcomer can in the time. Mr. Francis B. Loomis, whom I met on shipboard,[*ack 10-19-11*] HEADQUARTERS U. S. MILITARY ACADEMY WEST POINT, NEW YORK Oct 13 1911 [*9*] [Memorandum for] Dear Colonel: You may have time to look this over & may be interested in it. Pages 10 & 11 as to improved results in Academic Instruction. Pages 40 to 47 will interest you I know. Faithfully Thomas H Barry Hon Theodore RooseveltJ. F. Budd, Pres't &Treas'r. J. E. Ryan, F. Pres't &Treas'r. C. R. Sapp, Sec'y. J. F. Budd Shoe Company. TRADE MARK. Budd Manufactures of Budd's Baby Shoes. Burlington, N.J. Oct. 13-1911 Hon. Theo. Roosevelt Ex President U.S.A. Dear Sir:- Groom yourself say as little as you can - and you will be the next nominee. I am a Democrat, but always admired you. Very truly yours, J. F. Budd.YMCA RAILROAD DEPARTMENT. YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. OF SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA Oct. 13, 1911. COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT A. C. LaMONTE, CHAIRMAN J. R. TROCH, VICE-CHAIRMAN H. E. YOST, REC. SECRETARY GEO. E. BATES, TREASURER W. G. VAN DeWATER R. F. McKENNA D. T. SWARTZ W. N. NORTHCOTT H. SHOEMAKER H. H. SHEPARD C. E. TOBEY A. J. FROUDE J. W. PROSSER A. A. ASHLEY OFFICE OF W. N. NORTHCOTT, SECRETARY SELDON S. LOWN, ASS'T SECRETARY ROSSMAN I. VAIL, EDUCATIONAL DIRECTOR L. THOMPSON, SHOP SECRETARY A. O. LEONARD, NIGHT SECRETARY CONTRIBUTING ROADS Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R. R. Delaware & Hudson Company Central Railroad of New Jersey Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley R. R. Scranton Railway Company. ROBERT B. KELLER SUPERVISOR APPRENTICES J. M. THOMAS ASSISTANT SUPERVISOR [*D*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir.- On behalf of our Committee of Management I extend you a most cordial invitation to be present with us at our Annual Dinner, as our guest of honor. At the dinner last year Mr. Truesdale the president of the DL&W was our guest and there were more than four hundred Railroad Men present. We are planning for that number this year, and I can assure you of a most enthiastic welcome by these noble fellows. We are located on the main line of the DL&W which makes it easy of axcess from your home. There are many points of interest in our city among them the great Anthracite Coal Mines. If you can plan to spend the day following the Dinner in town the Superintent will arrange to personally conduct the Reception Committee and yourself in an inspection of the Mines. As to the date may I say that we shall be delighted to select such as may best meet your convenience. Thanking you for your consideration, and again expressing the wish that you may find it possible to be with us this year, I am Very truly yours, W. H. Charles General Secretary. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES U. S. COMMITTEE ON THE CENSUS. SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. EDGAR D. CRUMPACKER, IND., CHAIRMAN EDWIN C. BURLEIGH, ME. JAMES A. HUGHES, W. VA. HOWARD M. SNAPP, ILL. JOHN W. LANGLEY, KY. CHARLES F. BARCLAY, PA. OTTO O. FOELKER, N. Y. CAMPBELL B. SLEMP, VA. ARTHUR P. MURPHY, MO. JOHN M. MOREHEAD, N. C. JAMES HAY, VA. JOSEPH T. ROBINSON, ARK. WILLIAM B. WILSON, PA. HANNIBAL L. GODWIN, N. C. COURTNEY W. HAMLIN, MO. JAMES O' H. PATTERSON, S. C. NELSON R. JACOBSON, CLERK. [*W*] Valparaiso, Indiana. October 13, 1911. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. My dear Mr. Roosevelt:- The Tippecanoe Battle Ground Memorial Association at Lafayette, Indiana, is arranging to celebrate the One Hundredth anniversary of the battle of Tippecanoe on the 7th proximo, and I am informed they have invited you to attend the celebration and, of course, make a speech. The battle of Tippecanoe had an important bearing upon the War of 1812 in that it destroyed the work of Tecumpseh to organize all of the Indian tribes against the Americans from the Lakes to the Gulf. I would be very glad indeed if you could find the time, and [felt] were disposed to attend the celebration. It will be largely attended and the people of Indiana and adjoining states would be highly pleased if you were present. With best wishes, I am Sincerely yours, E. D. CrumpackerInternational Brotherhood of Steam Shovel and Dredge Men Chicago, Illinois October 13, 1911 T. J. Dolan General Secretary & Treasurer [*5.*] Colonel Roosevelt, c/o The Outlook, New York City, N. Y. My Dear Colonel: - Attached find copy of editorial which will appear in the Steam Shovel and Dredge in the October issue. Thought you might be interested in same. Yours very truly, T. J. DolanNATIONAL WOMEN'S TRADE UNION LEAGUE THE EIGHT HOUR DAY A LIVING WAGE TO GUARD THE HOME. NEW YORK WOMEN'S TRADE UNION LEAGUE 43 EAST 22D STREET NEW YORK MARY E. DREIER, PRESIDENT LEONORA O'REILLY, VICE-PRESIDENT ROSE SCHNEIDERMAN, VICE-PRESIDENT CAROLA WOERISHOFFER TREASURER HELEN MAROT, SECRETARY TELEPHONE 411 GRAMERCY MRS. RAYMOND ROBINS NATIONAL PRESIDENT MRS. D. W. KNEFLER SECRETARY-TREASURER EXECUTIVE BOARD ELIZABETH DUTCHER CHAIRMAN LABEL COMMITTEE MRS. JOHN L. ELLIOT CHAIRMAN EDUCATION COMMITTEE MABEL GARSIDE TEXTILE WORKERS' UNION LILLIAN HEAFFELY NECKWEAR MAKERS' UNION CLARA LEMLICK LADIES' WAIST MAKERS' UNION MRS. PHILLIP MATHEWS CHAIRMAN WILLIAMSBURG BRANCH W. T. U. L. SUSIE MORGAN GOLD LEAF LAYERS' UNION VIOLET PIKE BOOK-KEEPERS', STENOGRAPHERS' AND ACCOUNTANTS' UNION IDA RAUH, CHAIRMAN LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE MELINDA SCOTT HAT TRIMMERS' UNION HILDA SVENSON COMMERCIAL TELEGRAPHERS' UNION [*2*] October 13, 1911. Col. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, Long Island. My dear Mr. Roosevelt:- Would it be possible for you to see me at any time before the meeting at Carnegie Hall when you are to speak on "The Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood?" I am very eager to discuss with you one or two points regarding the working women, and would greatly appreciate it if you could grant me a short interview. Any morning this coming week would be convenient for me. Believe me, with sincere regards, Very truly yours, Mary E. Dreier.FACTORY INVESTIGATING COMMISSION (Authorized by Chapter 561 of the Laws of 1911 to inquire into manufacturing conditions in first and second class cities of the State of New York) Office of the Commission, No. 165 Broadway, New York City Hon. Robert F. Wagner, Chairman Hon. Alfred E. Smith, Vice-Chairman Hon. Charles M. Hamilton Hon. Edward D. Jackson Hon. Cyrus W. Phillips Mr. Samuel Gompers Mr. Simon Brentano Mr. Robert E. Dowling Miss Mary E. Dreier Mr. Abram I. Elkus, Chief Counsel No. 170 Broadway, New York City Mr. Frank A. Tierney, Secretary New York, October 13th, 1911. [*12*] [[shorthand]] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, 287 Fourth Ave. New York City. My dear Col. Roosevelt: In accordance with my talk with you the other day, I submit to you a very brief statement of the New York State Factory Commission and its purposes, which I hope is in line with your desires. I am also sending you a copy of my opening remarks, which will give you fuller information. I might call your attention to the fact that Mr. Samuel Gompers and Miss Mary E. Dreier, President of the Women's Trade Union League, are on the Commission. If this is not what you want, if you will let me know I will try to meet your views. I remain Faithfully yours, Abram I. Elkus 1-S Enc. Deliver at once.407 Christopher Avenue, Bklyn N. Y. Oct 13, 1911 7. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt 287 Fourth Ave N. Y. Dear Sir; For the past three years it has been my pleasure to take the stump for progressive Republican candidates, last year having done so for Henry L. Stimson who if elected would have prevented the Tammany rule, or misrule for the last ten months at Albany. During the 1910 campaign "The N. Y. World" came to the aid of Dix, and bitterly attacked you, after the months of misrule the "World" prints on October 12, an editorial in which they offer you an apology for their action. The right man and true principle can never be defeated, they may be for a time, but as far as they are right, they are bound to triumph in the end. The American community may now know better and profit by their mistake in 1910. The writer of this letter is seventeen (17) years and one desirous of rising in the Republican Party, not as a politician, as you defined in a statement at the Saratoga Convention, but as statesman who would come to the aid of men of your kind in driving the politicians out of the party (over)I have risen to a fair footing without anybody's assistance, having struggled my way up; however I owe a great deal to the Ex-Alderman Bernard Goldschmidt of Mr. Krulewitch's district who helped me receive a Public School education, I have a great deal of faith in my future, hoping to be one of those rising from poor Jewish parents, then fighting my own way up and through faithful public service cast honor on my people. I enclose herewith the editorial of "The World" I referred to. Respectfully yours, Samuel E. M. Goldstein Note: If this letter comes to the hands of Mr. Frank Harper, as did the one of October 20, 1910, would he please refer it to Mr. Roosevelt, as I am anxious to have him read this, and have his signature on the reply of this letter. S. E. M. G. SEMPER PARATUS New York Oct 13th 1911 My Dear Mr. Roosevelt. Knowing your opinions of longevity & large families. I take pleasure in enclosing you an article which appeared in the N. Y. Herald. I am the youngest of 13. twins. 12 & 13. Sir James Grant of Ottawa 81 last August being the eldest. He is today hale, hearty & vigorous. He has taken an active part in Canadian politics for 60 years a strong Conservative in the last elections he came out strong for Reciprocity. He feels keenly the defeat of Sir Wilfred Laurier. I intend sailing for Europe on Str Baltic Oct 19th. If convenient it would give me great pleasure to call upon you at your office. Yours sincerely J P GrantOctober 13th 1911 'THE HOMESTEAD.' GENESEO. LIVINGSTON COUNTY. N. Y. Dear Mr. Harper: Your letter has been forwarded to me from the Harvard Club. I shall be in New York again next week and will come to the Outlook office in person for the Ms. of which you write. Yours very Truly David Gray Mr Frank Harper Esq The Outlook [*Gray*]M.A. Gunst San Francisco Cal. 2 October 13th, 1911. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Colonel:- Just a few lines to let you know that I am still in the land of the living, and I often think of you, your name being brought up quite frequently at luncheon by the gentlemen I lunch with. I want you to know you can depend upon me just the same as heretofore, and I am with you first, last and all the time. It is true that in politics a man should have no guardian, but I have, that is, wherever you are I am because I know you so well that I realize you would do only that which is best for all concerned. I write you these lines on the day Taft arrives. He pays us a visit to-night and there is to be a very large banquet, but there is less excitement over his visit than over the visit of any other President who has visited San Francisco. I do not wish to throw boquets, but you, as a private citizen, created ten times more excitement than Taft has upon his arrival. I want to say this to you: - My opinion is that Taft will surely be nominated for President of the United States but he will be beaten. Now we will wait and see whether I am right or not, as I have been very fortunate of late years, as a sporting man says "in calling the turn" to you as things will turn out. I see your Son often and he has become a friend of my partner with whom he is with a great deal. He looks well and feels well when I last saw him, which was a few days ago. At our election we elected Rolph over McCarthy by a large majority, and since then we had another election when the Recall, which you no doubt know, was carried by three to one, and also the Equal Suffrage has passed. These days a person does not know whether he is coming or going, but as far as the Recall is concerned, I think the same as you, - it is good for the State of California. I close these lines extending my kindest regards, wishing you and Mrs. Roosevelt the best of health, and with the hope of seeing you in San Francisco shortly. Yours very truly, M.A. Gunst MAG/EALCASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED. PUBLISHERS, LONDON, NEW YORK, TORONTO, MELBOURNE. NEW YORK OFFICE, 43 - 45 EAST NINETEENTH STREET. WILLIAM B. HADLEY, MANAGER [*18*] October 13th, 1911. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay., L. I. Dear Sir: I am now publishing in America, a work entitled "The Truth about Egypt." It contains many references to your comment on Egyptian affairs, and I have thought that you might be interested in the book. Under separate cover I am forwarding a copy. The name shown on title page as that of the author is a fictitious one. The work was written by a man who is thoroughly in touch with Egyptian matters, and who holds a very high official position. We were not permitted to use his name. Trusting that you will find its perusal of interest, I am with esteem, Very faithfully yours, CASSELL & COMPANY, Ltd. W. B. Hadleynone of its responsibilities. I wish we could have our staff luncheon here next Tuesday! We are waiting for Earl Grey to return, so that the organization of the English Committee on the Hundred Years may proceed. I think he will accept the Honorary Chairmanship, and if he does I may suggest that you send him a cable or a letter. It is fine that Senator Lodje accepts the commission for the brief history. With cordial [and][ greetings from us both, Yours sincerely William B. Howland I am sending a circular of the club, TELEGRAMS,BREDON. TELEPHONE, 4 BREDON. STATION, BREDON 1 1/2 MILES. [*[Howland]*] MANOR HOUSE CLUB, BREDON'S NORTON, TEWKESBURY. October 13, 1911 Dear Mr. Roosevelt Since the English papers do not speak again of the deplorable accident to Mrs. Roosevelt I venture to hope that she is making good progress toward recovery. Please give her our sympathy and very best wishes. I have just read your Panama editorial inThe Outlook of October 7- which by the way is a mighty interesting number -another written Harold that it ought to be read in every home in America. It is most interesting and most important, and I wish we had a million subscribers for it's wider dissemination. Even the intelligent people who read your messages, have forgotten details and will find their faith in the Canal and their approval of the efficient steps by which it was made possible greatly strengthened by this vigorous article. Mrs. Howland and I are have a particularly pleasant experience in this Manor House Club, where we have the exclusive use of a vine clad stone cottage bearing the date of 1370, and all the comforts of an English country house, withUnion Trust Company of New York, 80 BROADWAY All Communications should be addressed to UNION TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK. P.O. Box 1015 [*10.*] Cable Address, "UNITRUST." New York, Oct 13th, 11 Dear Theodore I trust you will feel like obliging my friend McClain. He is the one who wrote you to find out in what one of your addresses you had made certain remarks you advised him last year as to that which he greatly appreciated With regards faithfully yours E. Reeve Merritt [[shorthand]]SILAS N. LACY ESTABLISHED 1894 J. C. NOBLIT [*3*] LACY & NOBLIT ..Store Equipments.. BELL PHONE WALNUT 1610 1220 FILBERT STREET PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 19th, 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt New York, New York Dear Sir- The writer noticed by the newspapers that your son Theodore is connected with a carpet concern and the writer would like to get his address. The reason I should like to correspond with your son is that I control a now process of weaving, that every practical textile man, who has seen it, declares will revolutionise the carpet industry. By this process it is possible to make better goods and save material and labor at the same time. The fabric is stronger than anything new made except the hand made Orientals and we can sell our goods at the price the average goods cost the manufacturers and make a nice profit. What we want is for some one with capital to join us and put the goods on the market and we will give this person the full control of the process and factory. This is not an experiment but the goods are being made and sold and have been shown to the largest dealers in the country and they all are anxious to handle them. If your son contemplates staying in the manufacturing business it would pay him to investigate that we have. Thanking for your consideration Very respectfully yours Joseph C. NoblitG. P. PUTNAM'S SONS 2, 4 & 6 WEST 45TH STREET NEW YORK 24 BEDFORD STREET, STRAND LONDON [*1.*] October 13, 1911 Dear Colonel:–– I am writing to ask for a favor on behalf of my nephew George Palmer Putnam, who is the youngest son of my brother Bishop. George is the proprietor and editor of a paper in Bend, Oregon. He has made his home for some time in central Oregon, and is "growing up with the country." I think that he may in the near future be coming to Washington as a representative of Central Oregon. He is a correspondent of the Portland "Oregonian", and he has in his hands also from time to time commissions from the great Northern Railroad and from certain New York papers. He has come east for the purpose of getting married, and is taking back with him to his home in Oregon a very charming young woman. He is returning by the way of Panama, as he has commissions from certain papers for the writing of reports showing the actual present status of engineering operations and the conditions of things political. I thought it possible that you might have kept in touch with some of the canal or political authorities who are in residence on the Isthmus, and if this were the case, that you might be good enough to let me have a line or card of introduction for George to any correspondentwhose information or influence might possibly prove of service to him in his present task. Your name counts on this continent and elsewhere, and it would doubtless prove of no little service to my youngster. I am, with cordial regards, Yours affectionately, Geo. Haven Putnam Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York I think you will be interested in adding to your library the new Photographic History of the War that is being brought out by the Review of Reviews Co. The editors secured from me a general introduction to the work, and I was glad to have my name associated with those of admiral Chadwick, General Rodenbough, etc.STR LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON October 13, 1911. OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN [*22*] My dear Dr. Roosevelt: Through some mischance we seem not to have in the Library of Congress any copy of your Address at Hodgenville, Kentucky on the 100th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, nor the reprint of your article on Lincoln in Collier's Weekly for February 13, 1909. Could you spare us one of each? We should much appreciate them. Franking labels are enclosed. Faithfully yours, Herbert Putnam Librarian of Congress. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City.JOHN C. RICHBERG. PRESIDENT RECTOR BUILDING CHICAGO NATHAN WILLIAM MACCHESNEY, SECRETARY 108 LA SALLE STREET CHICAGO COMMISSIONERS ERNST FREUND, CHICAGO O. A. HARKER, CHAMPAIGN NATHAN WILLIAM MACCHESNEY, CHICAGO JOHN C. RICHBERG, CHICAGO JOHN H. WIGMORE, CHICAGO Commission on Uniform State Laws of the State of Illinois October 13th, 1911. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt: "The Outlook," New York City. My dear Colonel:- Permit me to call your attention to the fact that my son, Donald Richberg, lawyer, (Harvard Law 1904) has written a book, just published, called "The Shadow Men" dealing with criminal corporations. A copy has been sent to your address at Oyster Bay. During the last term of your adminstration he had occasion to write an article for the Gericht-Zeitung of Vienna,Austria, entitled "President Roosevelt and the Trust Problem." Secretary Loeb furnished him with speeches and other data in reference thereto. The article was written at the request of an attorney connected with the Ministry of Justice at Vienna, for the purpose of disabusing certain Vienna publicists who were speaking and writing in opposition to your policies. I trust that you may be able, in spite of the great demands upon your time, to glance over this book. The son was an admirer and supporter of your administration as well as the father, who first met you more than a quarter of a century ago. As ever, with feelings of highest regard- John C. RichbergJOS. G. SACHS, President Sachs' Law Building BENJ. FOLSOM, Vice President Evening Post EMILE PRAGOFF, Treasurer 119 South Fourth E. H. NOBBE, Secretary 410 W. Main St. Kentucky Fish and Game Protective Association LOUISVILLE, KY. Executive Committee V. A. Bate Pierce Butler W. T. F. Fiedler Ben Folsom Harry J. Meyer Wm. I. Morton Dr. Louis Rominger Dr. L. A. Seitz A. E. Walsh H. F. Willenbrink Board of Governors John W. Barr, Jr. Judge Robert Worth Bingham Judge James P. Gregory George L. Sehon W. W. Watts October 13, 1911. [*W.*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt c/o The Outlook, New York City. Dear Sir: Mr. Robert W. Brown has kindly consented to hand you our invitation to be the guest of our Association on a few days hunting trip in Kentucky shortly after the opening of the season, November 15. Our Association numbers about four hundred men, all of whom are very earnestly working for the conservation of the game of what was once the Nation's happy hunting ground. It is our hope that the incoming Legislature may be persuaded to give us some legislation that will bring Kentucky's game laws up to the standard of other States. We have several hundred thousand acres of land splendidly adapted for the propagation of deer, bear and small game and we have hundreds of streams that should be teeming with bass and trout and we think that a few forceful words from you would have more effect than an extended educational campaign. We are glad to say that for the present at least there are favored spots in which we can assure you good sport in bird hunting and fox hunting and you know enough of Kentucky to need no assurance of the heartiness with which you will be received if you will honor us with your acceptance. Very respectfully yours, Jos. G. Sachs Presd. Ky. F. & G. P. Asso.JOS. G. SACHS, President Sachs' Law Building BENJ. FOLSOM, Vice President Evening Post EMILE PRAGOFF, Treasurer 119 South Fourth E. H. NOBBE, Secretary 410 W. Main St. W. T. F. FIEDLER, Financial Secretary R. R. No. 22 Kentucky Fish and Game Protective Association LOUISVILLE, KY. Executive Committee V. A. Bate Pierce Butler W. T. F. Fiedler Ben Folsom Harry J. Meyer Wm. I. Morton Dr. Louis Rominger Dr. L. A. Seitz A. E. Walsh H. F. Willenbrink Board of Governors John W. Barr, Jr. Judge Robert Worth Bingham Judge James P. Gregory George L. Sehon W. W. Watts [*3*]` Oct. 13, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt c/o The Outlook, New York City, Dear Sir: Mr. Robert W. Brown has kindly consented to hand you our invitation to be the guest of our Association on a few days hunting trip to Kentucky shortly after the opening of the season, November 15. Our Association numbers about four hundred men, all of whom are very earnestly working for the conservation of the game of what was once the Nation's happy hunting grounds. It is our hope that the incoming legislature may be persuaded to give us some legislation that will bring Kentucky's game laws up to the standard of other States. We have several hundred thousand acres of land splendidly adapted for the propagation of deer, bear and small game and we have hundreds of streams that should be teeming with bass and trout and we think that a few forceful words from you would have more effect than an extended educational campaign. We are glad to say that for the present at least there are favored spots in which we can assure you good sport in bird hunting and fox hunting and you know enough of Kentucky to need no assurance of the heartiness with which you will be received if youJOS. G. SACHS, President Sachs' Law Building BENJ. FOLSOM, Vice President Evening Post EMILE PRAGOFF, Treasurer 119 South Fourth E. H. NOBBE, Secretary 410 W. Main St. W. T. F. FIEDLER, Financial Secretary R. R. No. 22 Kentucky Fish and Game Protective Association LOUISVILLE, KY. Executive Committee V. A. Bate Pierce Butler W. T. F. Fiedler Ben Folsom Harry J. Meyer Wm. I. Morton Dr. Louis Rominger Dr. L. A. Seitz A. E. Walsh H. F. Willenbrink Board of Governors John W. Barr, Jr. Judge Robert Worth Bingham Judge James P. Gregory George L. Sehon W. W. Watts -2- will honor us with your acceptance. Very respectfully yours, Jos. G. Sachs Presd. Ky F & G. P. Asso.JOHN A. STEWART No. 50 CHURCH STREET NEW YORK CITY [*4*] October 13, 1911. Mr. Frank Harper, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York. My dear Mr. Harper:– Apropos an acknowledgement to Senator Raoul Dandurand for the act of "History of Canada," the Senator's address is 548 Sherbrooke Street, West, Montreal, Canada. Yours very truly, John A. Stewart JASCSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Washington, U.S.A. ALL CORRESPONDENCE SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE SECRETARY UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE [*12*] October 13, 1911. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, Long Island. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: On my arrival here from the West yesterday I found your note of October 5th. When Heller left here he told me that he would send back the study of the White Rhino before taking the field. I do not know why he has not forwarded the giant eland paper except that research work seems to be more or less difficult for him to round up. Heller has notified the office that the paper on the White Rhino is on its way here. I quite agree with you that to have the collections unused would be a calamity. I am inclined to send Mr. Miller, who understands the condition of the work and knows Heller well, over to talk the matter over with you.[Colonel Roosevelt: 2] The white rhinoceros will be sent to the American Museum of Natural History. I am glad that you are pleased with having Jimmy Clark mount the white rhino group. I expect to be in New York within ten days and will try to see you. Sincerely yours, Charles Walcott[*Williams*] HOURS: COURT IN SESSION 9 A. M. DAILY. COURT ROOM OPEN FROM 8 A. M. TO 4 P. M. SATURDAYS FROM 8 TO 11 A. M. JUVENILE COURT BALTIMORE October 13, 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. Dear Sir: Recently you enclosed to me a letter addressed to you by Mrs. Jos. N. Huber, of this town, telling you she was at the age of 20 the mother of four children, in want and her husband out of work. I have investigated the case and find the young couple very worthy and in distress. The husband at a critical time happens to be without employment. He is industrious and was a Sergeant in the United States Army, having served in the Philippines and been honorably discharged. They have never asked for charity. The family willHOURS: COURT IN SESSION 9 A.M. DAILY. COURT ROOM OPEN FROM 8 A.M. TO 4 P.M. SATURDAYS FROM 8 TO 11 A.M. JUVENILE COURT BALTIMORE _______________________191 -2- now be cared for and I thank you for sending me the letter. I am with great respect, Your obedient servant, T.J. C. Williams Judge of the Juvenile Court. TJCW/F[*ack 10 -25 - 11*] Chicago Writing Machine Co. Galesburg, Illinois THE ADJUSTAPHONE THE CHICAGO, $35.00 [*9*] Galesburg, Ill. Oct. 14, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York, N. Y. Dear Sir:- The enclosed is Robert F. Bates who, though now only 5 years old, spent each day with you in Africa. An active imagination together with a great regard for yourself, enabled him to make the trip each day and each evening he reported the number of lions or other game the two of you had disposed of, giving very vivid descriptions of the encounters. An example of his "worship" of yourself was given one night when we awoke him to show him Halley's comet. Though just out of a sound sleep, he remarked "H'm thats nothing. Teddy Roosevelt showed me that long ago." You are doubtless often annoyed by correspondence of this nature, but Robert's plea to have his 'photo sent to you, was too strong to resist. If you, busy as you are with matters for the public good, could find time to send just a word of acknowledgement I know of one little boy who would probably be the happiest in this great United States of ours. Yours very truly, H. A. Bates 976 Beecher Ave., Galesburg, Ill.For enc see 10-14-11[*[10 - 14 -11]*] LEGISLATIVE LEAGUE OF NEW YORK Lex et Lux First Vice-President Mrs. MARGARET HOLMES BATES Second Vice-President Mrs. EDWARD AUSTEN TUTTLE Third Vice-President Mrs. ALFRED E. OMMEN Fourth Vice-President Mrs. MILLARD BARRY GUILFORD President Mrs. RICHARD MITCHELL BENT 63 West 50th Street Honorary President Mrs. LILLIE DEVEREUX BLAKE Honorary Vice-Presidents Mrs. CHARLOTTE B. WILBOUR Mrs. ESTHER HERRMAN Recording Secretary Mrs. THOMAS SLACK Treasurer Mrs. HARRY P. PFLUM 46 Bay 25th Street, Bensonhurst. L. I. Auditor Mrs. J. HEDGES CROWELL Corresponding Secretary Mrs. ROBERT EADIE To the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, ex-president of the United-States, Oyster Bay, Long Island. My dear sir:- In the hope that you will pardon the liberty I take in addressing you, a perfect stranger to me, I summon the courage to write you this communication. The public prints have announced that you will speak on "The Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood" at Carnegie Hall, on the evening of October 20th. The above organization is endeavoring to get some measure of legislative protection for the innocent, trusting young girls who, in their service to the state as mothers of the race, are ruthlessly infected with the venereal diseases in marriage. Strange as it may seem, the cattle of this country is better protected from degenerating, destructive diseases, than are the wives and children of men. To so thoughtful and well-informed a man as you, I need not point to the danger to our national existence, by the tremendously frequent infection of the wives and mothers of the United States. The object of my writingLEGISLATIVE LEAGUE OF NEW YORK Lex et Lux First Vice-President Mrs. MARGARET HOLMES BATES Second Vice-President Mrs. EDWARD AUSTEN TUTTLE Third Vice-President Mrs. ALFRED E. OMMEN Fourth Vice-President Mrs. MILLARD BARRY GUILFORD President Mrs. RICHARD MITCHELL BENT 63 West 50th Street Honorary President Mrs. LILLIE DEVEREUX BLAKE Honorary Vice-Presidents Mrs. CHARLOTTE B. WILBOUR Mrs. ESTHER HERRMAN Recording Secretary Mrs. THOMAS SLACK Treasurer Mrs. HARRY P. PFLUM 46 Bay 25th Street, Bensonhurst. L. I. Auditor Mrs. J. HEDGES CROWELL Corresponding Secretary Mrs. ROBERT EADIE is to most earnestly request you to utter some stirring words on this subject in your forth-coming lecture. For a number of years the women's organization, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, The National Assembly of Mothers, the various state Federations as well as, the New York City Federations of Women's Clubs have discussed this subject so vital to womanhood and childhood; and the wonder is often expressed why do not the state Boards of Health do something for our protection from the diseases of vice -- in the absence of a Federal Board of Health. We cannot understand why those in power do not come to the relief of those whose hands they have tied so that they are entirely unable to protect themselves. Our organization had the enclosed bill introduced at Albany but it was not reported by the committee As we are entirely without political power, our needs have been overlooked by the law-makers; therefor, our only hope lies in the help of thoughtful, right-minded men, who realize that the woman who elects to become a wife and mother, rather than to make a career for her own benefit and aggrandizement,LEGISLATIVE LEAGUE OF NEW YORK Lex et Lux First Vice-President Mrs. MARGARET HOLMES BATES Second Vice-President Mrs. EDWARD AUSTEN TUTTLE Third Vice-President Mrs. ALFRED E. OMMEN Fourth Vice-President Mrs. MILLARD BARRY GUILFORD President Mrs. RICHARD MITCHELL BENT 63 West 50th Street Honorary President Mrs. LILLIE DEVEREUX BLAKE Honorary Vice-Presidents Mrs. CHARLOTTE B. WILBOUR Mrs. ESTHER HERRMAN Recording Secretary Mrs. THOMAS SLACK Treasurer Mrs. HARRY P. PFLUM 46 Bay 25th Street, Bensonhurst. L. I. Auditor Mrs. J. HEDGES CROWELL Corresponding Secretary Mrs. ROBERT EADIE does the state a distinct service. The least that the state should do is to protect her and her children from the destructive diseases of vice. If it were suggested that even our worst condemned criminals should be destroyed by pathogenic germs, there would arise a mighty protest, but the ruthless inoculation of our innocent, trusting young womanhood with these deadly germs, the voters, the law-makers, the physicians and the Boards of Health have entirely ignored. Will you not, therefor, at this your opportunity say something to arouse those whose duty it is to give us the measure of protection which we have the right to expect from an enlightened government. I am very respectfully yours, Mrs. Richard M./Helen M. Bent President 63 West Fiftieth street, New York city, October fourteenth.For encl see 3-1-11[*Copy*] Legislative League of New York October 14th, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt President of the United States, Oyster Bay, Long Island. My dear Sir: In the hope that you will pardon the liberty I take in addressing you a perfect stranger to me, I summon the courage to write you this communication. The public prints have announced that you will speak on "The Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood" at Carnegie Hall, on the evening of October 20th. The above organization is endeavoring to get some measure of legislative protection for the innocent, trusting young girls who, in their service to the state as mothers of the race, are ruthlessly infected with the venereal diseases in marriage. Strange as it may seem, the cattle of this country is better protected from degenerating, destructive disease, then are the wives and children of men. To so thoughtful and well-informed a man as you, I need not point to the danger to our national existence, by the tremendous frequent infection of the wives and mothers of the United States. The object of my writing is to most earnestly request you to utter some stirring words on this subject in your forthcoming lecture. For a number of years the women's organizations, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the National Assembly of Mothers, the various State federations, as well as the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, have discussed this subject so vital to womanhood and childhood; and the wonder is often expressed why do not the State Boards of Health do something for our protection from the diseases of vice - in the absence of a Federal Board of Health. We cannot understand why those in power do not come to the relief of those whose hands they have tied as that they are entirely unable to protect themselves. Our organization had the enclosed bill introduced at Albany but it was not reported by the committee. As we are entirely without political power,our needs have been overlooked by he law-makers; therefore our only hope lies in the help of thoughtful, rightminded men, who realize2 that the woman who elects to become a wife and mother, rather than to make a career for her own benefit and aggrandizement, does the state a distinct service. The least that the state should do is to protect her and her children from the destructive diseases of vice. It it were suggested that even our worst condemned criminals should be destroyed by pathogenic germs, there would arise a mighty protest; but the ruthless inoculation of our innocent, trusting young womanhood with these deadly germs, the votes, the lawmakers, the physicians and the Boards of Health have entirely ignored. Will you not, therefore, at this opportunity say something to arouse those whose duty it is to give us the measure of protection which we have the right to expect from an enlightened government. I am, Very respectfully yours, (Signed) Helen M. Bent. President 63 West 50th Street, New York City.[*Bent, H. M. Helen*] Legislative League of New York. October 14th, 1911. To the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, ex-President of the United States, Oyster Bay, Long Island. My dear Sir: In the hope that you will pardon the liberty I take in addressing you a perfect stranger to me, I summon the courage to write you this communication. The public prints have announced that you will speak on "The Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood" at Carnegie hall, on the evening of October 20th. The above organization is endeavoring to get some members of legislative protection for the innocent, trusting young girls who, in their service to the state as mothers of the race, are ruthlessly infested with the venereal diseases in marriage. Strange as it may seem, the cattle of this country is better protected from degenerating, destructive diseases, than are the wives and children of men. To so thoughtful and well-informed a man as you, I need not point to the danger to our national existence, by the tremendous frequent infection of the wives and mothers of the United States. The object of my writing is to most earnestly request you to utter some stirring words on this subject in your forthcoming lecture. For a number of years the women's organizations, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the National Assembly of Mothers, the various State federations, as well as the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, have discussed this subject so vital to womanhood and childhood; and the wonder is often expressed why do not the State Boards of Health do something for our protection from the diseases of vice - in the absence of a Federal Board of Health. We cannot understand why these in power do not come to the relief of those whose hands they have tied so that they are entirely unable to protect themselves. Our organization had the enclosed bill introduced at Albany but it was not reported by the committee. As we are entirely without political power, our needs have been overlooked by the law-makers; therefore our only hope lies in the help of thoughtful, rightminded men, who realize2 that the woman who elects to become a wife and mother, rather than to make a career for her own benefit and aggrandizement, does the state a distinct service. The least that the state should do is to protect her and her children from the destructive diseases of vice. It it were suggested that even our worst condemned criminals should be destroyed by pathogenic germs, there would arise a mighty protest; but the ruthless inoculation of our innocent, trusting young womanhood with these deadly germs, the votes, the lawmakers, the physicians and the Boards of Health have entirely ignored. Will you not, therefore, at this opportunity say something to arouse those whose duty it is to give us the measure of protection which we have the right to expect from an enlightened government. I am, Very respectfully yours, (Signed) Helen M. Bent. President 63 West 50th Street, New York City.[*Benson G F*] Garrett F. Benson 132 State Street Albany, N. Y. Albany, N. Y., Oct. 14, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. My Dear Colonel: In answer to your letter of the 12th would say that I had a long talk with Mr. McCabe in reference to what you wrote about. He informs me that some busy-body had given him that information and the probabilities are that the Newspaper got a hold of it. There is nothing in it whatever and Mr. McCabe wished me to inform you that there would be nothing done. I told him that I wished this matter to be treated confidentially. I will see Mr. Fuller to-night and explain the situation to him. They are bringing out new developments every day and it looks as if some of the higher up ones may have to resign from office. Respectfully yours, Garrett F. BensonHERMAN BERNSTEIN 1880 BELMONT AVENUE NEW YORK October 14th, 1911. Dear Mr. Roosevelt:- Permit me to congratulate and thank you for your admirable editorial in this week's Outlook on the Passport Question. Your attitude in this case will, I am sure, do very much to help a speedy adjustment of America's case against Russia. With kind regards, I am, Faithfully yours, Herman Bernstein Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, New York.[* ack10-18-11*] [*7.*] SAINT NICHOLAS CLUB 7 WEST 44th STREET Oct. 14/11 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, L. I. My dear "Colonel": My name has been proposed for membership in the "Century". If you felt so inclined, I should be greatly pleased if you would write in my favor to the Com. on Admissions Hoping that Mrs. Roosevelt is progressing rapidly & with warm regard for yourself & her, in which Mrs. Bingham joins me Faithfully yours Theo. A. Bingham[*7*] Hotel Tivoli Under the Management of the Subsistence Department From Chas. C. Bull Troop A. 1st Vol. Cav. Ancon, Canal Zone, 10/14/11 My dear Colonel - In accordance with the promise that I made you while in San Francisco, I am writing you this letter. Shortly after you left S. F. I came down here to straighten out a few matters about moving freight across the Isthmus. The old methods used 20 to 25 years ago are still in vogue and the P. R. R. (Panama Rail Road), which is the beneficiary of this volume of freight now moving, seems to be, not wholly antagonistic, but rather lacadasical in its efforts to help us straighten the matter out. Of course I have to understand and realize that the rail road is run for the Canal construction primarily; but what I want to do, will not delay the progress of work one minute.I had the pleasure of dining with Mrs. Longworth during her recent visit & we cashed in, as they saw in the west, many hard luck stories. She is fine & her actions & manners greatly resemble you. She was busy from morning till night going over & inspecting some portion of the work & she sure is well equipped to answer any question in regard to this great undertaking. I manage to get over the work about once every month & it is astonishing how rapidly it is nearing completion. Of course there a a lot of croakers, who are willing to take a chance at making a prophecy of failure, knowing that if they are wrong no damage can ensue & if they should happen to be right, reap the glory generally acquired by the I-told-you-so crowd. My own humble opinion is that the canal will be completed for commerce by 1915 without the least possible doubt. Only a cataclysm of nature can prevent that. I think Goethals is aHotel Tivoli 2 Under the Management of the Subsistence Department Ancon Canal Zone, wonderful man; although I've not had the pleasure of meeting him. But along with Col. Goethal's name that of Col. Gorgas must be associated, for in my opinion his sanitary measures made the construction possible. Unfortunately there is a little friction between the two; but both to all appearances have buried this in the cause of the good work. I might add that the absence of jealousy & friction between the heads of the different departments & divisions is remarkable & Col. Goethals, like Lord Nelson, seems to be surrounded with a family of captains. There is going to arise down here a question that has to be met by the Government fairly & squarely & without any dilly-dallying -- no matter what our priests, ministers & moralists say. This is thequestion of the "white slave" traffic. We have now about 1000 soldiers & Marines on the isthmus & in a short time I believe this number is to be augmented to 5000. As the law now stands no women can be imported into or across the zone for immoral purposes & I'm wondering what these 5000 men are going to do. Right at present the number of prostitutes in Panama & Colon is too small to insure cleanliness & freedom from disease. My work with the steamships gives me a good opportunity to see the baneful results of the present condition in Panama. I am informed that 25% of the cases handled in the hospital are due to veneral diseases. Panama is rotten to the core & this is mainly due to the number of dark colored (negresses, Chileans, Peruvians, Half breeds etc) prostitutes. I honestly & firmly believe that the proper solution of this question is to importHotel Tivoli 3 Under the Management of the Subsistence Department Ancon, Canal Zone, a sufficient number of white women & put them under strict medical surveillance As the law now stands this can not be done & we are going to have a pest hole of disease down here. No one is more opposed to the white slave traffic than I & I seriously doubt if there is any one who despises a pimp more than I do, but I can see no reason why women, who openly & declare their vocation; should be prevented from coming here. Let them come; but by all means take care of them. I have received several letters from S. Francisco & it seems that there is a fair chance to oust McCarthy. Fickert the district Attorney will evidently pull through, I am sorry to say. But through Ted you know more about thisthan I, as my friends the Sou. Pacific & Pac. Mail keep me too busy to look at politics. Mr. Taft seems to be in a bad way & from Cal. friends I learn that he hasn't a chance there, a fact I informed you about in S. F. Viewing the whole situation from a long range I can't see how the Republicans can win. The country is going through that process of "backing up to get a new start" & I firmly believe that the Democrats are going to do the backing up for us between 1912 and 1916. I would not vote for Mr. Taft under any condition, for a man, who, above all our presidents had the best training for the honor; to make a right about face is beyond me & disgusts me. I sincerely hope that the Democrats will put up a non-corporation man, so that I will not be compelled to vote the Socialist ticket. Your turn will come in 1916 & I trust that you will sit fast & hold tight in this present crisis.Hotel Tivoli 4 Under the Management of the Subsistence Department Ancon, Canal Zone, Pinchot's article in the Saturday Evening Post". of Oct 7th has opened the eyes of Mr. Taft's partisans down here & is doing a great deal of good for the progressive movement. I admire him greatly & hope some day to meet him. Right has got to win & it will win. Before closing, I want to call your attention to a point which some time might be pretty serious for us. This is the non-fortification of the harbor of Porto-Bello. I have visited it & it reminds me of Villefranche. It is used as a harbor of refuge during the "norther" season & owing to its contour gives absolute shelter to all vessels in its waters, which can not ride at anchor nor remain even at the docks in Colon. This harbor is only 2 hours from the Canal entrance & in time of war, would be an excellent base for an enemy operatingagainst the Canal. I saw general Wood, when he was down here but did not have an opportunity for any lengthy talk. Chaplain Brown is here. I see him often. Some how or other he only seems to recall the officers of the Regiment & knows none of the men. Fortescue is here on his way to Chile. I am doing finely down here; but I must say that I believe that God never intended this section for the white man. I trust that you are well & in good health; for we need you later. With my kindest regards & wishes for yourself & Mrs. Roosevelt- believe me Your sincere friend Charles C. Bull.The Chicago Public Library BOARD OF DIRECTORS: JAMES F. BOWERS, Pres't. BERNARD J. CIGRAND, Vice Prest. Z. P. BROSSEAU, JOHN L.NOVAK, JOHN W. ECKHART, GRAHAM TAYLOR, ROBERT J. ROULSTON, JULIUS STERN, ANTONIO LAGORIO, FRED'K H. HILD, Librarian, WM. B. WICKERSHAM, Secretary. [*1.*] Chicago, Oct. 14th '11 Hon Theodore Roosevelt, Former Pres't U. S. A. Oyster Bay, N. Y. Honored Sir:- About two weeks ago, I mailed you the new or recently located Roosevelt coat - of arms, hope you received it. By express I also sent you large etching of yourself which I kindly asked you to sign and return, express charges collect. Am sending you article which will appear in the large Sunday editions on Sunday October 29th Halloween edition. It relates to the Presidents of the United States who while at college belonged to fraternities. I am a Psi Omega at Northwestern University and University of Illinois. If there is anything in the sketch pertaining to your part that requires changes, will be pleased to observe your pleasure. Pres't Taft kindly and personally informed me of his matter and the same will appear in any of the University Annuals. It will please me to have you sign and return the picture. My article on the Huguenots is in progress. With highest respect, I am B. J. Cigrand 3110 Logan Boulevard -WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON. October 14, 1912. Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, 267 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Dear Mr: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of October 13th to Secretary Stimson, which has come in his absence in the Southwest. It will be brought to this attention on his return toward the end of the month. I write to you at this time in explanation of the necessary delay. Very respectfully yours, Lincoln R. Clark Acting Private Secretary.[*[Dodd]*] [*8.*] The University of Chicago DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY 8. Oct. 14, 1911 My Dear Sir, At the risk of being misinterpreted I am writing you to say how shocked and outraged I feel at seeing in this week's Harpers Weekly the slanderous and brutal picture of you on proporting to represent you, attacking the President. That I disagree somewhat withyour view of the peace treaties in no wise affects my opinion of this sort of misrepresentation of your attitude. This is the sort of thing which will result one of these day in riotous and unlawful attack on the people behind the Harpers. Free speech and free press mean much to me and to us all, but such license as this abases same. What one's enthusiasm for these rights of [the] people who have no sense of decency. My own idea about loyalty compels me to believe it is the White House and not Oyster Bay which has sinned. Many things have happened to confirm this view and I do not think I am alone in it. But my purpose was simply to express my sense of outrage at what had been done not to trespass upon your time with my account of what has been happening in Washington during the last two years. Yours sincerely Wm. E. DoddRALPH C. SCOTT, President W. W. AINSWORTH, Vice-President PROF. IRA O. BAKER, Treasurer YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION HALL, CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS October 14, 1911. Telephones GENERAL OFFICE Auto 1317 Bell 207 SECRETARIES Auto 1230 W. A MCKNIGHT, General Secretary LLOYD C. DOUGLAS, Religious Work Sec. L. C. Murray, Assistant Secretary [*14.*] The Honored Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. Honored Sir: Mr. John R. Mott, the President of the World's Christian Student Federation, is to give a series of lectures for the betterment of the moral and spiritual life of the students of this University early in December. In order that his work here may be made more effective we are writing to a dozen men conspicuous in the public eye, who have been situated so as to know something of Mr. Mott's career, to send us at their earliest possible convenience a brief note of appreciation of the things Mr. Mott has done. We are taking the liberty of soliciting such a statement from you and if you can find it possible to grant us this favor we shall be very deeply indebted. Very respectfully yours, Lloyd C. Douglas LCD/GW[*[Enc in Cole 11-14-11]*] No 4 Auckland Castle Copy Bishop Auckland. Oct 14 1911 My dear Mrs Cole I return Lady Hart's most interesting letter particularly interesting as received by you after her distinguished husband's death. She wrote evidently she wrote evidently with no serious fears at all. It is just one of the countless incidents of human sorrow that pass daily over the human soul. One only can turn them up & remember them all. I feel much the kindness of her reference to me. She probably does not know that I am brother of that other Bishop Moule, who had so long andinteresting an acquaintance in China with Sir Robert Hart. How awfully restless is China now! The upheaval may, no doubt collapse, but it looks like a great wave of change. Thank God it does not mean so far massacre of foreigners & hatred of missions. But everywhere what unrest there is! We need [to] [be] reminded often that He sitteth on the Throne and never abdicates. The memory of your visit dear Mrs. Cole is & always will be delightful. It was a privilege to minister in the least degree to your quiet and to some faint comforting of your might sorrow, during those few days May God's providence and peace attend you daily. My dear wifes heart felt greeting goes with mine. I am every yours H. Dunelm I am so grieved over the loss of the precious miniature photograph, but can only hope that a duplicate can be produced from the full sized original.Christian & man of letters. It was chosen for me by my dear Miss Lawton; it was sent to me by dear Mrs. Cole. You will believe that it will be treasured and loved. I can now but pray (as I very often do) for the consolations of God upon you. His gentle omnipotence, while it upholds creation, can handle the broken heart with the one touch it can really bear - the beginnings of an eternal healing I would that we could hope you would have time to visit us, so far away, before you leave. But know how deeply welcome you would be. no 3 Copy) Auckland Castles Bishop Auckland October 4th - 1911 My dear Mrs Cole How shall I write as I would? I have to thank you for a most deeply moving & kind letter and since then for the very precious photographic likeness of your beloved one - a treasure greatly prized. And I have found, on my return from Ireland the book from Charles Kingsley's library sent me with such thoughtful and gracious kindness. On that gift I place, if I may say so a quadruple value: it is in itself, a book of deep interest to me, and is dedicated to good Bishop Van Mildert of Durham (1826-1886) = it belonged to Kingsley that noble I again and again thank you and with my dear wife assure you of the thought and prayer of true friendships. I am ever more Sincerely yours H. DunelmARTHUR P. FELTON, PRESIDENT 84 WASHINGTON STREET CHAS. E. CHAPMAN, SECRETARY-TREASURER 148 COMMERCIAL STREET Paint and Oil Club Of New England BOSTON, October 14, 1911. [*D*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I. Dear Sir:- The Paint & Oil Club of New England is the strongest of is kind in the United States, we think. Would it be possible for you to speak to us during the winter? Our meetings are regularly held the third Thursday of the month commencing in November and continuing until April. If you would entertain such a proposition we would gladly change our meeting in any way that could accommodate you. Yours very truly, President. A. P. Felton APF/F.[*12*] ERNEST HARVIER 1193 BROADWAY NEW YORK October 14, 1911 Dear Mr. President: Your insurgent friends made marked gains in the California election, but I am glad to see from the enclosed, published in a Los Angeles paper, that the Roosevelt Dam is adequately recognized. I hope that you will take no part in the current local canvass which, for reasons which could not be elaborated in a letter, is based on elements which give no promise of success, being in entire disregard of the very fundamentals of city politics. Best wishes, Yours faithfully, Ernest Harvier [[shorthand]]AMERICAN PAPER AND PULP ASSOCIATION ARTHUR C. HASTINGS, PRESIDENT. C. I. McNAIR, SEC'Y & TREAS. ARTHUR G. MAURY, ASST. SEC'Y & TREAS. 50 CHURCH STREET ROOMS 1460-1462. TELEPHONE CORTLAND 3762 NEW YORK, Oct. 14, 1911. Hon.Theodore Roosevelt, The "Outlook," 287 Fourth Ave., N. Y. C. My dear Sir:- Replying to yours of the thirteenth inst., I thought there must be some mistake about this, the manner in which subscriptions are being asked. I beg to enclose circular which is being given out by this so-called Senator Mac Crane and you will notice you are given as the Chairman of the Advisory Committee and many prominent men associated with you. I believe that those subscriptions are being asked under false understanding of the uses to which they are put. Yours respectfully, Arthur C. Hastings PRESIDENT. A.C.H - C.K. Enclosure.For enc see 10-14-11AGNES LACKEY COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTY [*W.*] Gering, Nebraska, Oct. 14, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New Jersey. Dear Sir: We are about to have a meeting of the school teachers of Western Nebraska at Bridgeport, Nebr. At that meeting we want a speaker who can interest and inspire every teacher, city superintendent, high school principal, grade teacher, and country school teacher in Western Nebraska, southwestern Dakota, and Eastern Wyoming. I know of no name that so stirs and inspires all classes-particularly those interested in the molding of the mind and shaping the will-as your own. Our meeting will occur in March, 1912. Are your plans such that you will be in the country at that time? If so, we can accommodate our dates to your plans. As a school teacher's organization is limited in moneys, tell me what terms you can make us for an address at that meeting. Very truly yours, Agnes Lackey Sec.W.H.H. LLEWELLYN E.L. MEDLER Llewellyn and Medler ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Las Cruces, New Mexico [*6*] October 14,19II. Colonel Theodore Roosvelt, Out Look Office N. Y. City, N. Y. My dear Colonel :---- Yours regarding Colonel Twitchells book duly received and glad to hear from you and have forwarded your to the Colonel and know he will be glad to receive same. Now my dear Colonel the situation here is this--we are engaged as you are aware in making a new state. Dave Leahy is on the ticket for District Judge in his district at East Las Vegas, Curry nominated for congress and a number of the boays are running for offices. Com- rade George Armijo of Santa Fe whom wou will recall were God Father to his son Theodore Roosvelt Armijo is on the state ticket as one of the three Corporation Commissioners and as to myself I am just running for the Legistlature in my own County and if elected will be the speaker beyond a doubt, that is the program now and I think will go thru. Now you may recall the great service you rendred our people at the time I came to Washingto with two others to induce Hitchcock to give us ten years to repay the building of the diversion dam at Leaseburg 16 miles above this place instead of his requiring us to repa y the government in two years, which we could not do, at my solicitation and request you put the thing thru for us and the dam has been in use for the past two years and is a great success. I would much like a line from you just saying that you did the business on my request and that you did it to help us out and hasten our prosperity. You may remember that this diversion dam is a part of the general plan of re= clamation now being carried on under the great Elephant Butte Dam now being constructed.2nd T. R. There is no controversy as to the fact that I went to Washington and that you acted on my request and you may remember that you said at the time that I must not ask you to take action unless every engineering feature had been passed upon and worked out. There are many new people here who have come in since the order which you directed and which resulted in work commencing at once at that time on the direction dam and I want to apprise them of what you did on my request and representations. If you can recall this and send me a brief letter it will aid me greatly I have no doubt. I want to go to the Senate if possible, I have no mo ney to speak of and may never reach the place, but it is worth trying for and the election as a representive and then speaker will assist. In any event we want to keep certain men from going who will disgrace us and if sent the world will know they bought their places. We want to start off with a decent clean set of men and buld up this Territory on a substantial basis and atttect decent people. I am not with out considerable backing and the fight is being carried on quietly and by some might good people and pretty good politicians. Pray excuse the typing of this as my stenographer is off for the day and I am the typest. Faithfully yours, [*W. H. H. Llewellyn*] P. S. My partner Mr. E. L. Medler a Yale boy has been nominated for the position of District Judge in this District. Both of us took this position that we would not accept the nomination if there was a single vote in the convention against us. Medler is not much of a politician but I took some care to see that it came as both of us wished. He runs in four Counties and I in only one. W. H. H. L. P. S. Morgan Llewellyn has gone with the democrats--is their candidate for district attorney--he will I think be defeated.THE PACIFIC MONTHLY The Magazine of the West THE PACIFIC MONTHLY COMPANY PUBLISHERS PORTLAND, OREGON October 14, 1911. Theodore Roosevelt, c/o Outlook, City. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: Thank you very much indeed for your kindness in giving me the information requested. I am enclosing eight photos with my best regards which I know will interest you. With sincere best regards, I am Yours very truly, Fred Lockley Manager. Fred Lockley –G.Stevensville, Mont. Oct 14, 1911 [*A.*] Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oysterbay, Md. Dear Sir:-- We, the students of the Stevensville high school are making a thorough study of tariff and reciprocity as affecting Canada and the U. S. and I beg permission to ask you as a personal favor for your personal opinion on true reciprocity between the two countries. Not the so-called "reciprocity" bill recently passed by our congress, but a real free trade relationship with out restrictions. If you kindly would give us your views upon this matter, also any reference material which you may have at hand or in mind, it would be most highly appreciated by us and we would be very much obliged to you for your kindness and consideration. Thanking you in advance, I remain Yours Truly, Will Long.THE REPUBLICAN CLUB OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK 54 & 56 WEST 40TH STREET [*2*] October 14, 1911. Dear Colonel Roosevelt:– A young Oxford Professor, Mr. Zimmern, who is a great admirer of yours, desires to have the honor of meeting you while he is in this country. He has come to the United States to spend a year studying certain problems in which he is interested. He is a very bright, responsive, active minded young man about thirty years of age, who has recently written an admirable work on the Greek Commonwealth, which is receiving the hearty commendation of scholars. It would give me, too, a great deal of pleasure to have a talk with you, at your convenience, and I think I may say that I have gathered, within the last six months, some information of interest. Very sincerely yours, Francis B. Loomis Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I.Lynchburg Va [*15*] Oct 14th 1911 Ex President Theodore Roosevelt New York City Honored Sir: - I have written a little essay consisting of Dialogue, Song and Music entitled: "The Big Stick, or Uncle Remus and Sambo on Marse Theodore Roosevelt." This is Humorous, Optimistic and Morally Wholesome, and sets forth in Negro dialect and Negro eloquence, the attitude of your friends and admirers. It is the expression of a friend and not that of a critic. Of all that has ever been written of you this will make your best Souvenir. At your request, I will send type-written copy for your examination. It will be to your interest to help me out on it. Very truly yours J.W.Ogdenat "Delightful." You know, we saw each other, during "Your Parade", the eighteenth Day June 1910. I stood within the enclosure at the Collegiate Church. I should very much like to receive an autograph photograph of you, and I shall send one to you and Mrs. Roosevelt and family, when I receive my trunks. [*[10-14-11]*] HOLLAND HOUSE The Municipal Lodging House 438 - East 25th Street, New York City. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island, My Dear Sir: - It has occurred to me to write to you, because to-day, in the New York Public Library, I opened Webster's International Dictionary I suppose you had read all about me. You know "I am the Trouble-Maker in the Right Direction, In My Trouble-Making Costume." How is Oyster Bay? Luckily, Rs can be eaten at present. Have you any Pearl Oysters there? There are some dandy ones at the Museum of Natural History. "Teddy," the Budget Exhibit at 330 - Broadway is very interesting and Fifth Avenue has changed. With my Best Wishes to Mrs. Roosevelt, More Roosevelts and Yourself, from The Fourteenth Day Sophie Preusch October - 1911-CHARLESTON W VA THE COG CITY COAL OIL GAS CHAS. CAPITO, PRESIDENT A. M. SCOTT, VICE-PRESIDENT S. P. PUFFER, GENERAL SECRETARY JOHN L. DICKINSON, TREASURER R. P. DeVAN, INDUSTRIAL AND TRAFFIC SECRETARY [*W.*] Charleston Chamber of Commerce, Charleston, W. Va. Oct. 24, 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Care "The Outlook" New York City. My Dear sir - When my directors asked me if I had the nerve to invite an ex-president of The United States to visit Charleston and address the Charleston Chamber of Commerce at one of our monthly noon luncheons I replied that "The state of West Virginia is a great state, its capital a progressive city, its men of full mental stature and that any prominent citizen, even an ex-president of The United States would be glad and proud to accept such an invitation." Let me be absolutely frank with you. I do not venture to think that you remember an unimportant and obscure news paper man who made his daily calls on you in the executive Chamber at Albany years ago but I remember you and in my subsequent career as a newspaper editor, owner and financially as a town booster and commercial club secretary I have always been impressed with one of the cardinal principles of your creed, "earnestness." Charleston and the members of the Charleston Chamber of Commerce and the whole state of West Virginia needs your earnestness now. After three years of promotion in the state of Oklahoma I came to this city and was offered my present position. The Chamber of Commerce had been in existence ten years, was merely a club of bankersCHARLESTON W VA THE COG CITY COAL OIL GAS CHAS. CAPITO, PRESIDENT A. M. SCOTT, VICE-PRESIDENT S. P. PUFFER, GENERAL SECRETARY JOHN L. DICKINSON, TREASURER R. P. DeVAN, INDUSTRIAL AND TRAFFIC SECRETARY Charleston Chamber of Commerce, Charleston, W. Va. 2. and coal operator millionaires - they have never held an annual banquet, had never seen the true inwardness and wonderful results of true civic boosting, were infants in the great class of enthusiasts who make America's cities worth while. I have tackled the job for five months, have made some progress and they finally yearn for a banquet and glorious get together occasion and nothing but the best will suit them. You, in my humble opinion, are that best. The man prominent in pure politics, or the business of the "interests" who are casting jealous eyes on the state's marvellous but as yet poorly developed natural resources wont do - we want a man to stir us - to talk about any subject he cares to but who will do it in the capacity of an influential private citizen. We want a man who will tell the truth about our neglected opportunities until it hurts us, until he leaves us bloodraw, until he stimulate us into an activity that will make the Mountain state come into its industrial and commercial own - its empire of coal, gas & oil. Then too, we think that West Virginia is to be a pivotal state in the great arena of national politics this year and next - the latter part of this year is not too early to strike the first blow and I surmise that there are public and private reasons why you should strike it. I put it squarely up to you - we need you.[*CHARLESTON W VA THE COG CITY OIL COAL GAS*] CHAS. CAPITO, PRESIDENT A. M. SCOTT, VICE-PRESIDENT S. P. PUFFER, GENERAL SECRETARY JOHN L. DICKINSON, TREASURER R. P. DeVAN, INDUSTRIAL AND TRAFFIC SECRETARY Charleston Chamber of Commerce, Charleston, W. Va. 3. We accordingly invite you to attend our first annual banquet and we will make the date, in the month of December or the month of January, to conform with your convenience. You can leave New York city in the evening, arrive here at noon the next day, leave here early the next morning and arrive in New York in the evening. Let us know the date that you can come and we will make the date of our banquet. Personally, I know that my invitation in behalf of the directors is presumptuous but we need you - Please write me that you can come and when? Respectfully, S. P. Puffer General Secretary SPP/RNATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE AND OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN PRESIDENT, ANNA HOWARD SHAW, MOYLAN, PA. 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT, CATHERINE WAUGH MCCULLOCH, EVANSTON, ILLS. 2ND VICE-PRESIDENT, KATE M. GORDON, 1800 PRYTANIA STREET, NEW ORLEANS, LA. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY, MARY WARE DENNETT, 505 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK RECORDING SECRETARY, ELLA. S. STEWART, 5464 JEFFERSON AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILLS. TREASURER, JESSIE ASHLEY, 505 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY AUDITORS {LAURA CLAY, 189 NORTH MILL STREET LEXINGTON, KY. {ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 45 BOUTWELL AVENUE, DORCHESTER, MASS. CHAIRMAN PRESS COMMITTEE, CAROLINE I. REILLY, 505 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY AUXILIARIES COLLEGE EQUAL SUFFRAGE LEAGUE, PRESIDENT, MISS M. CAREY THOMAS, BRYN MAWR, PA. FRIENDS EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION, PRESIDENT, MARY BENTLEY THOMAS, EDNOR, MARYLAND AFFILIATED SOCIETY THE EQUAL FRANCHISE SOCIETY PRESIDENT MRS. MACKAY, 1 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK TELEPHONE 6855 BRYANT NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 505 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK October 14th, 1911. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Outlook Offices, New York City. Dear Sir:- Our attention has been called to the announcement of an address to be delivered by you at Carnegie Hall, October 20th. on "The Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood." In view of the rapid progress of women toward political enfranchisement in this and other lands, and especially in view of the recent triumph of our cause in California, we respectfully urge, because of the far-reaching influence your words will have, that you will speak of conserving to the nation the wide-spread and ever-increasing interest and service women are showing in public affairs, and that you will show that the most effective method in which this can be done is through the direct power of the ballot, in electing to official position those who are able and willing to serve the highest interests of the State and Nation. Shortly before her death you assured Miss Susan B. Anthony that when women secured another State men would believe in their desire for the ballot. Since then we have secured two States, each one with more women voters than in the four which possessed it at the time you made the statement, Washington doubling the vote of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Idaho, and now California doubling them all five. -1- -2- Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, The years of service and unfailing devoting to Republican ideals and their service to their country, have gained for women the co-operation of every loyal friend of justice and fair play. I am sure we may depend upon you. Very truly yours, Anna H. Shaw President.POSTAL TELEGRAPH - COMMERCIAL CABLES CLARENCE H. MACKAY PRESIDENT TELEGRAM RECEIVED AT 944 BROADWAY, N. Y. OPP. FLATIRON BLDG. TEL 2291 GRAMERCY. DELIVERY NO. The Postal Telegraph-Cable Company (Incorporated) transmits and delivers this message subject to the terms and conditions printed on the back of this blank. 16/237 DESIGN PATENT No. 48630 al50 ny m 41 Ann Arbor Mich Oct 14-11 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Outlook Office, NYC. 146 - 148P. Message received studebaker sentiment strong for you have tried for years to put you direct cumming volunteered on his assurance of results gave him carte blanche evidently he made no definite proposal will wire five hundred for Lecture wire answer. quickly. Students Lecture Assn.Kansas City Mo Oct 14, 1911 [*13*]Hon Theodore Rosevelt Oyster Bay N.Y. Dear Colonel: Believing in the future of Old Mexico under the New Government, I am contemplating a trip and hope to settle there and at first would want to secure employment, am confident a friendly letter from you to Francisco I Madero would be of service and great value to me directly or indirectly through other channels, all I want is a foot hold and a chance to meet the right people, I can then make my wants known and forge ahead. Colonel, for your information will say, that I've had considerable experience in frontier life and know Western Conditions well, and also have had a number of years Strict Business training and will alsofurnish letters from former employers and associates. I was a member of Troop H. Capt Geo Curry Troop Comdr. Tom Darnall, the fighting Irishman and Broncho Buster had charge of my squad. I will appreciate this favor and will perform my duties to earn the merit of your recommendation. Wishing you continued success I am faithfully yours, Theodore C. Thomas 851 New York Life Bldg. Kansas City, Mo. P. S. Gen'l Duncan, Col. Dorst Lewis Maverick, Gerald Calrow and myself were in the Auto behind yours when you [th] took the 40 mile ride around the loop, at San Antonio last March and then the reception at "The Menger"[[shorthand]] 14 Octo - 1911 Worcester Massachusetts [*10.*] Dear Theodore I expect to be in New York on Friday November third and if this is one of your office days I would like to see you for a few moments, if you can spare the time. - Yours Sincerely Hon. C G WashburnBOOKER T. WASHINGTON PRINCIPAL BOARD OF TRUSTEES Seth Low, President; Member of Investment Committee, 30 East 64th St., New York, N. Y. W. W. Campbell, Vice-President, Tuskegee, Ala. Warren Logan, Treasurer; Member of Investment Committee, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. R. C. Bedford, Secretary; 832 Park Ave., Beloit, Wis. George Foster Peabody; Member of Investment Committee, 43 Exchange Place, New York, N. Y. William G. Willcox; Member of Investment Committee, 3 South William Street, New York, N. Y. R. O. Simpson, Furman, Ala. Robert C. Ogden, 125 East 56th Street, New York, N. Y. John C. Grant, LL. D., 4651 Drexel Boulevard, Chicago, Ill V. H. Tulane, 433 South Ripley St., Montgomery, Ala. Belton Gilreath, Birmingham, Ala. Charles W. Hare, Tuskegee, Ala. Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. A. J. Wilborn, Tuskegee, Ala. Charles F. Dole, D. D., Jamaica Plain, Mass. William J. Schieffelin; Member of Investment Committee, 170 William St., New York, N. Y. Charles E. Mason, 120 Franklin St., Boston, Mass. Frank Trumbull; Member of Investment Committee, 71 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 4th Ave., New York, N. Y. WARREN LOGAN TREASURER THE TUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE FOR THE TRAINING OF COLORED YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, ALABAMA Oct. 14, 1911 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Ave., New York City. Dear Col. Roosevelt:– By this mail I am taking the liberty of sending you a copy of an arithmetic gotten out by two of our teachers. From time to time our teachers are getting out a number of text books, some of which are quite interesting. Yours very truly, Booker T. Washington, Principal, C. H. F. HVAHAN CARDASHIAN COUNSELOR AT LAW 55 LIBERTY STREET NEW YORK TELEPHONE 3402 CORTLANDT C O P Y October fourteenth 1911 My dear Mr. Cardashian: Referring to your letter of October twelfth, I need hardly say that I have the deepest sympathy in the matter to which you refer,– indeed, I hardly know of any great iniquity of modern times at which I feel so indignant, from the bottom of my heart, as the treatment of the Armenians which Turkey has so long allowed, and doubtless to a considerable extent connived at. I feat that at my age I can be of very little use to you, for, though constantly engaged with more work than I ought to undertake, I am just entering my eightieth year and rarely leave home, – in fact, for the first time in my life, have remained in Ithaca through the entire summer. But should you think that my name and what little I can do under the circumstances will be of use to you, you are at liberty to name me as a member of the committee to which you refer. With all good wishes for your success in the matter, I remain, Very respectfully and sincerely yours, (Signed) ANDREW D. WHITE Vahan Cardashian, Esq. re New York CityFor 2 encs see 10-3-11 N.Y. Herald + 10-12-11 CardashianBOSTON AMERICAN 80 AND 82 SUMMER STREET [*13*] Boston, Oct.I4, I9II. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir: I had hoped before this to accept your kind invitation for a conference. Since I wrote you,however, Mr. Hearst has made the vitrolic attack upon you in connection with the Tennessee Steel Co. matter. My Brother being a most loyal supporter of Mr.Hearst is naturally not in a position to accept your invitation,but he has no such bitter feeling. Incidentally,a short time before Mr.Hearst pitched into you he told an acquaintence of mine that you had made the best president since Lincoln. This is of course not for publication, but I thought you should know how he, Mr. Hearst, felt toward you. I find my proposition here as prospective Social Service Editor on the Sunday American an intensely interesting one-a-real shock to certain good Bostonians who have not noticed changes going on close at hand. It would give me the greatest pleasure at some future date to tell you more fully of what seems to me an almost unlimited opportunity for service. The field will develop slowly,but it will come,my brother confidently assures me. Very truly yours, John P. Whitman. [*[Whitton]*] [*D*] 43 Willow Place Bayonne N. J. Oct 14 - 1911 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay L. I. My dear Sir:– Our Church the First M.E. of Bayonne is in debt to the amount of $4000, and our Epworth League of which I am a member is trying to do its share in paying it off, and we would like to know if we could induce you to give us an evening during the next few months thereby giving our city a treat and assisting us very greatly in our work. May we not have an answer in the affirmative? andwhat will be your fee? We are only a few minutes from New York and very accessible. Hoping you will make a strenuous effort to be with us. I am, very cordially yours Harry J. Whitton.WILLIAM WIRT, PRESIDENT. CHAS. INSCO WILLIAMS, SECT-TREAS. WESTMORELAND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION "AUDLEY" OAK GROVE, WESTMORELAND COUNTY VIRGINIA Mr. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir: Knowing that you and Mrs. Roosevelt are interested in Virginia, present and past, I take the liberty of writing you in regard to the Westmoreland Historical Association, recently incorporated, which is beginning the work of restoring and preserving the historic sites, tombs and records of the "Northern Neck." Washington's birth-place, at "Wakefield" was, as you know, marked with a shaft by the United States Government; the societies of the Colonial Dames of America, in the State of Virginia, restored or rather rebuilt the Washington vault at the same place and further than that all the historic places of this part of the state are as time has left them. It is our purpose to make this association a nation-wide one if possible, and I believe it is possible, for whenever Virginia blood runs in the veins there is the call of ancestry, for the human documents alone shut up between the covers of our colonial country records are of interest to all educated Americans. Life membership in the association is fifty dollars, annual dues three dollars and the quarterly, which will be first issued when the membership has reached one hundred, four dollars the year. We invite you to join us and we will be grateful for any good word you may say for us to others. Very sincerely Chas. Insco Williams Secretary-Treasurer. October 14 : 1911 Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay New York.[*[10-14-11]*] THE HORSE SHOE RAPIDAN, VIRGINIA. My dear Colonel: I was greatly chagrined to day to find that your kind note of the 6th had not reached me before & I now have to thank you for two - I am soSorry to hear of your dear wife's suffering. & trust she is better, & more comfortable now. I can never tell you how much your friendship & the dear "nieces, nephews" affection has meant to me specially during the saddest part of my life. I think we can take care of the [Sullivan?] & Ethel & I will go over the details with my warm love to Mrs. Roosevelt Ever yours sincerely Joseph Wilmer Oct 14, 11[*Enc in Bates 10-14-11*] POST CARD AZO AZO PLACE STAMP HERE AZO AZO CORRESPONDENCE HERE NAME AND ADDRESS HERE[*[Enc. in Hastings 10-14-11]*] Sanatorium Gabriels Adirondacks. In Charge of the Sisters of Mercy. Sanatorium Gabriels is for those in the first stages of Tuberculosis, and is in charge of the Sisters of Mercy. The land is situated on an undulating plains and consists of a broad park rising gradually to a beautiful hill, "Sunrise Mount," which, like a screen, shades the valley from the north winds. All around it lie the mountains of the Adirondack region, the giants of the range—Mount Marcy, White Face, Mt. McGregor, etc., etc., while not very far away beautiful Lucretia Lake spreads its waters. The idea carried out is to centralize a group of cottages around the Administration Building, although this plan is more expensive both to build and maintain. When the health or comfort of the patients is concerned, the Sisters have spared neither pains nor money. The heating, ventilation, plumbing, drainage and water supply are the best known to modern science. The Paris Exposition has awarded a "Medal" to Sanatorium Gabriels as a reward for the arrangement, construction, water supply, drainage, warming and ventilating of the several buildings, which has been done on the most approved and scientific methods. The station is Gabriels. It is on the main line of the New York Central Railroad and is about ten minutes walk from the Institution. Long distance telephone. Postoffice Gabriels. Postal and Western Union telegraph. American Express. [*[ca 10-14-11]*] ADVISORY COMMITTEE Hon. Theodore Roosevelt W. Seward Webb, Mrs. W. Seward Webb, Paul Smith, Mrs. Levi P. Morton, David McClure, Mrs. David McClure, Mrs. H. Walter Webb, Mrs. John Kelly, Mrs. Morgan J. O'Brien, Mrs. DeVilliers Hoard, Thomas B. Cotter, W. Bourke Cochran, W. E. Kerin, Mrs. Thomas F. Ryan, Miss K. G. Broderick, F. C. Travers, John F. O'Brien, Clarence H. Mackay, Thos. F. Conway, Mrs. J. C. Agar, Mrs. W. R. Grace, Edward Eyre, John T. McDonough, Miss Annie Leary, H. D. Stevens, OUR ADVISORY MEDICAL STAFF IS COMPOSED OF Dr. Martin Burke, 147 Lexington Avenue, New York, Dr. Constantine Maguire, 120 East 60th Street, New York, Dr. Alexander A. Smith, 40 West 47th Street, New York, Dr. Francis J. Quinlan, 33 West 48th Street, New York, Dr. John E. Stillwell, 9 West 49th Street, New York, Dr. Wm. T. McMannis, 320 West 45th Street, New York, Dr. S. A. Knopf, 16 West 95th Street, New York, Dr. James J. Walsh, 110 West 74th Street, New York, Dr. Henry Furness, Malone, N. Y., Dr. James D. Spencer, Watertown, N. Y., Dr. Lawrence E. Flick, 736 Pine Street, Philadelphia, Pa. House Physician, H. J. Blankenmeyer, M. D. Assistant House Physician, M. Topham, M. D.[*1106*] SANATORIUM GABRIELS PARIS MEDAL IN 1903 135,000.00 HAS BEEN SPENT SANATORIUM GABRIELS WAS BEGUN IN THIS BUILDING May 18 1896 [*Charge Ex Senator McCrane Sister Mary Kiernan*][*[Geiwitz?]*] Sunday, Oct, 15th. 1911. 9.53. A-M- ONWARD ; CHRISTIAN SOLDIER. : -' If as dressed for War. With your Sword and Helmet, And Shield put on before. It must be the hour, day, and circumstance. ; That brings this to mind. Have heard some say what a silly childish , song this was. Still Mary , had a [li] Little Lamb; whose fleece was white as snow; . Seems only childish to most of us, and is no doubt so intendde. Apply it to maturity, and see where it belongs. If ever a Country, needed Christian Soldiers, the U-S-A-in its form of government does. "Do wrong to no man, be content with your wages." How simple how natural, as to their position, sworn, in duty bound,; still the duty of the individual being the whole strenght of an army, in any field. Napoleon said in a Battle, men are nothing, a man is everything." This likely was ment, for a personal application, of a Commander, still ever he plead, to the men individually, owing to how and what kind or in what condition of preception; or action of this individual. Knowing without the Army, of individuals, where or how could this man do anything? only by his individual leadership. This is plain. So it, is, in all positions, conditions, and actions of life. The man in his place, stay there. "Do no man a wrong. Be content with your wages." Think of this done by the Christian Soldier, in all stations of his Life. ; what could he have to confess or be held to account for; except to die the death of the Savior; by envy, malice, prejudice, to cover the sins of others, that expect to free themselves, by removing him. Therefore, he depended on the one and only, whom he confessed, His Father, in heaven. Apply this also, and you have the conscience of the Immortal, throughout all ages. This the Shield, of Christianity. Call no man, Father, on Earth. His spirit in you. Is what is given to you, and on you, and the use of same, ever onward, no retreat. not boldly, but with the steady tread, and main of a commander that is obeying, the dictates of Conscience, doing well, my good and faithful servant. The orders, of his superiors, and Creator, The Commander, In Ten Numbers, outlined,; still in the first, then the second, also the third. In these three are all [are] the Law & The Prophets,. (Not Profits,) Said He; Still I say unto you, Do unto your Neighbor, as ye would be done by. How simple again, who fails in his; duty, his alone; will have cause, for real remorse, and will feel, the Sword, of its kind. For what is done by the sword, can only be redeemed by the sword, is Military, still civil, and oftener is exemplified; many times oftener, than by the shedding of blood, ; for the redemtion by same has been fulfilled. And will be time and again. But the remission by shedding Of the Blood, does( 2 ) ONWARD; CHRISTIAN SOLDIER- does not mean literally,speaking; in a military conquest, of killing and plundering. No; For He came, the implements, Food; for the soul; encouragement, to stand for and in the right, therein,; lays the might, of a Christian Soldier; in all walks of Life. Even in America, as well as in Russia, Italy, Greece, no Exodus, from the land of the Eskimo. Then one can often understand why; he left, or from other shores had to go; let them learn as they run by the wayside. Have a care of laying up for Rats & Mice, to destroy, for he cometh and breaketh in like a thief in the night,. Therefore judge the thief, if he be a Neighbor; or No. And fall in line or stop their pay, is what I would say. Be a Christian, Lead the Life, if this you do; Admit it and end the strife. Circumstances, and conditions, once caused me to say. I have to treat people, as they treat me. For they will not let me do them as I want to be done by. These things come to pass too, then and there when one has to stay, where they are. Take a stand, hold your position, until in course of time, and human events, the Almighty, opens their eyes, then shame takes them by surprise, ; or if still Deaf, Dumb, or Blind, to matters that have passed by, . Send them back, to the rear gaurd behind. That is where the prisoners are kept, while the Army is on the move, . The place for either rank, the only difference ; what caused them to be in this end of the Ranks? In this there is many a secret, that like Murder, will, out; and sometimes, cause others with them to change about. No Referendum or recall neccessary here. He is the one to judge the quick and the dead, while doing so place the crowns on the proper heads. This is the way it looks to me, By George, J - G - G.; 927 Olive. St. Jo. Mo. [*All rights reserved:- J. G. Geivitz.- Also return of this copy requested.*][*[Grill]*] [*C*] Grants Pass, Ore. Oct. 15, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir and Comrade:- Believing you to be in favor of the square deal to all an especially for the veteran, who has served his country honestly and faithfully I therefore appeal to you in the following statement with the view to leaving the same brought to the attention of the President and the Postmaster General. I resigned May 1st as Transfer Clerk at Aberdeen, S. D. and now seek reinstatement in the Service in the State of Oregon. I inclose the letter from the Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service giving his reason for not wanting to reinstate me. I have made this myII home because of the ill health of my wife, and the climate agreeing so well with her. I can obtain statements from Dr. John A Birkl Milwaukee Wis and Dr. Kimbley of this place to show her condition before and after she arrived here. I make this statement to show that it wasn't mere fancy on my part to come to the coast, inasmuch as I liked the Service and my chief clerk Mr. G. E. Denniston was well satisfied with my services. Knowing the dislike of the Department to making transfers from one division to another I made inquiries before leaving Aberdeen and was informed that it was much easier to resign and ask for reinstatement than to obtain a transfer. The Superintendent has no objectionsIII to entertaining a request for reinstatement in South Dakota, the State from which I was appointed. I beg leave to mention three cases to show the ground of the Superintendent is not well taken. Herbert Jones, a friend of mine transferred from the Dayton Ohio Post Office to the Seattle Washington Post Office Geo Knapp, originally appointed in Iowa (6th Division) resigned and was afterward reappointed in South Dakota (10th Division); also case of a man (name not remembered) transferred from California (8th Division) to South Dakota (10th Division). I served in Co. "C", Batt. Engrs. U S Army and was present with my company in the Siege of Santiago Chile. I advance this in my appeal and which the Civil Service Laws allowIV I stand on my merits of my services as a railway clerk. I enclose a personal letter from the Asst Chief Clerk at Aberdeen which tells its own story. Trusting that you will use your good offices in my behalf, I beg to remain, Your obedient servant, Carl G. Grill (Formerly Corpl Co "C" Batt. Engrs, USA)ROCKY MOUNTAIN DISTRICT LECTURE and LITERATURE DEPARTMENT [*6*] International Bible Students' Association F. LINCOLN HALL, Pres. & Secty. 2408 West 36th Ave. [W. HOMER LEE, Vice Pres. & Treasurer 3752 Bryant Street] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt New York City EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Oct 18 1911 ACK. NO ANS. ANS BY Denver. Colo., Oct 15, 1911 Dear Sir:- In all probability you will receive a copy of the enclosed editorial from those who publish it, but thinking you might desire to receive a word from others as to the probability of the fulfillment of this " Prophecy of Future History," will say that it seems to me there are parts of this "prophecy" that are likely to be fulfilled in your case particularly, and feel sure the readers of "The Outlook" would be pleased to hear from you respecting the views you have of it. Yours most sincerely F. L. Hall[*[For enc see 10-15-11]*] hearty good wishes for you two on behalf of us both who long to hear, and hope to hear, that Mrs. Roosevelt is better. Believe us, dear Mr. President Most sincerely and affectionately yours Jusserand [*1.*] AMBASSADE DE FRANCE A WASHINGTON Oct. 15 1911 Dear Mr. President We have just heard with dismay of Mrs. Roosevelt's having met with an accident while riding. In this empty town only a vague report reached us, and we are the more anxious, not knowing exactly what took place. May you have good news to give us; and may the report, as is so often the case, be false or at least strangely exaggerated. We had contemplated to stop in New York on our arrival and call on you. But my wife who did not have a favorable summer was not well; and we have had to come home at once. She took to her bed. Now she is better, though still somewhat weak. So many events since we met! We visited London, Copenhagen, Berlin this summer, finding your traces every where; nowhere however more marked than in Paris. The book most read in Paris was the Jeanne d'Arc of Hanotaux, the Academician and former foreign minister. I took a copy for you and I am sending it. But I send especially[*[Kieran]*] ADVISORY MEDICAL STAFF DR. MARTIN BURKE DR. CONSTANTINE MAGUIRE DR. ALEXANDER A. SMITH DR. HENRY FURNESS DR. J. P. BRANNEN DR. FRANCIS J. QUINLAN DR. JOHN E. STILLWELL DR. WM. T. MCMANNIS DR. JAMES D. SPENCER Sanatorium Gabriels IN THE ADIRONDACKS CONDUCTED BY The Sisters of Mercy DR. LAWRENCE F. FLICK DR. J. J. SHEA DR. J. J. WALSH DR. S. A. KNOPF DR. F. N. NOBLE DR. J. J. BURKE DR. H. J. BLANKEMEYER Resident Physician DR. M. E. TOPHAM Assistant Resident Physician. [*2*] Gabriels, N. Y., October 15, 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, My dear Sir:– Knowing you are a very busy man and constantly meet a large number of people, I can understand that things that are not of importance to you may easily slip your memory; therefore, it is entirely possible that you may, for the moment, forget having given your name as a member of the Advisory Committee of Sanatorium Gabriels. Before bringing to your mind this matter, I want to thank you for your interest in this institution. You were indeed most kind and we especially appreciate those who aided us in any way in the beginning when Sanatorium Gabriels was unknown. At the present time this institution is well and favorably known and is so broad that we draw no line, not even a color line. As we receive no personal remuneration. Therefore we have been able to secure the happiest results, and in consequence, no other institution has more true and loyal friends.ADVISORY MEDICAL STAFF DR. MARTIN BURKE DR. CONSTANTINE MAGUIRE DR. ALEXANDER A. SMITH DR. HENRY FURNESS DR. J. P. BRANNEN DR. FRANCIS J. QUINLAN DR. JOHN E. STILLWELL DR. WM. T. MCMANNIS DR. JAMES D. SPENCER Sanatorium Gabriels IN THE ADIRONDACKS CONDUCTED BY The Sisters of Mercy DR. LAWRENCE F. FLICK DR. J. J. SHEA DR. J. J. WALSH DR. S. A. KNOPF DR. F. N. NOBLE DR. J. J. BURKE DR. H. J. BLANKEMEYER Resident Physician DR. M. E. TOPHAM Assistant Resident Physician. Gabriels, N. Y. You gave me your name as a member of the Advisory Committee when you were Governor of New York. I also asked Mrs. Roosevelt. I have her letter in which she says that since you had given your name hers would not be necessary. One of the first letters you wrote me was connected with raising money for the institution. I invited you to be present at a lecture delivered by Father Chidwick to aid our building fund. I called on you at the Executive Chamber, Albany. You sent for your secretary and dictated a letter regretting your inability to attend the lecture and saying some of the beautiful things which you so well know how to say. Mr. Thomas M. Mulry read this letter before the lecture. On that occasion you told me that Sanatorium Gabriels was the only institution to which you had ever given your name . Ray Brook Sanatorium was not built at the time and you spoke with us of the possibility of the State's sending us patients. Afterwards our good friend Mr. Frank Travers interested you in this institution and I met you later in Washington. You were particularly kind and even sent us your picture autographed and framed, I have now before me another letter of yours expressing the kindest interest and friendship.ADVISORY MEDICAL STAFF DR. MARTIN BURKE DR. CONSTANTINE MAGUIRE DR. ALEXANDER A. SMITH DR. HENRY FURNESS DR. J. P. BRANNEN DR. FRANCIS J. QUINLAN DR. JOHN E. STILLWELL DR. WM. T. MCMANNIS DR. JAMES D. SPENCER DR. LAWRENCE F. FLICK DR. J. J. SHEA DR. J. J. WALSH DR. S. A. KNOPF DR. F. N. NOBLE DR. J. J. BURKE DR. H. J. BLANKEMEYER Resident Physician DR. M. E. TOPHAM Assistant Resident Physician. Sanatorium Gabriels IN THE ADIRONDACKS CONDUCTED BY The Sisters of Mercy Gabriels, N. Y. If you will speak with Mr. George B. Cortelyou he can aid you to recall these incidents. Since you wish to sever your connection with this institution, I regret that our report and the Autumn number of our quarterly magazine have been published. For the next numbers your name will be ommitted. I have the honor to be Very sincerely yours, (Sister) Mary P. H. Kieranto hear of her accident and how full of sympathy we have been for you all. I hope she will continue to improve rapidly. Please give her my love if she is well enough to receive messages. Please do not bother to answer this, I know you are inundated with notes, I have hesitated to write to you for that [*19*] [*[10-15-11]*] [*Stevens*] STONEHOUSE FARM GLADSTONE, N. J. Dear Mr. Roosevelt- I have heard through Marion, who has been staying with me that Mrs. Roosevelt is a little better; that is indeed good news. I feel however that I must send you a word to tell you how grieved we were reason, but we have thought of you after sincerely yours Elizabeth Oliver Stevens October 18thheartily; to assure you, which I hope is not necessary, of absolute confidence; and to send you and Mrs. and Miss Roosevelt our kindest remembrances. I remain Yours very sincerely G O Trevelyan [*Travelyan*] [*[Trevelyan]*] TELEGRAPH, CAMBO. STATION, SCOT'S GAP. WALLINGTON, CAMBO, MORPETH. Oct 15. 1911 Dear Mr. Roosevelt, I write a few lines by the Sunday post to say that I have received the priceless manuscript; and some day I hope you will know what the Sunday post at Wallington is, when you pay us the visit which I confidently look forward to. It is an arrangement that must date from Otterburn, or at latest from Flodden, I shall write again when I have read. At present I can only say that no man's anticipations can have been keener on such an occasion, perhaps not even Moore's when he had Byron's diary placed in his hands. But I shall treat this much more loyally than did Moore in that case. I now write only to thank you mostCostume dei Reggenti Repubblica di S. Marino[*REP DE S. MARINO CENT BOLLO POSTALE 10*] REPUBBLICA DI S. MARINO Premiata Ditta Rag. A. Reffi - S. Marino San Marino Oct 15 1911. They send you greetings! E Wharton The Hon. [Sig.] Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay Long Island N. Y. Stati Uniti d' America[*3.*] Class of 1880, Harvard College 14 Beacon Street, Boston. October 15, 1911. Dear Classmate: Somewhere on your desk ( and fifty other desks) is my circular letter of June 1 unanswered, and I do not feel like going forward with the preparation of a Class Report until I hear from all the Class that I can reach. I don't wish to annoy you with circulars, but I am sure you do not want me to print against your name "no reply." Now, do you? Yours sincerely, John Woodbury Secretary [*I hope you will send me a few words. I will put in the "history" if you desire*]A SCHOOL OF CITIZENSHIP Editorial - Chicago Tribune - October 15, 1911. Straight to the heart of our whole American problem, social and political, goes a movement which is to be inaugurated at a convention in Madison, Wis., Oct. 25. Amendment of laws--the betterment of political and social machinery--is necessary and beneficent. But back of all that, a condition precedent to all social or political progress is the problem of developing educated, alert, and efficient civic spirit. Public opinion must be definite, informed, easily mobilised, wakeful, if we are to have good government, if we are even to retain our free form of government. And it is this fundamental problem that the first national conference on civic and social center development is called to discuss. In a huge, widely spread, and heterogereous democracy such as ours, to devise ways of getting the people together for information and debate is not easy. Yet we need in every community, in every neighborhood, some thing resembling the New England town meeting. We do not legislate as the town meeting did, but we can and must gather to debate questions of common interest and concern. To this end a movement is under way to make use of schoolhouses or specially appointed meeting places as civic centers where the people will frequently gather to listen, to discuss, and to plan. There can be no question that the attribute of modern democratic society which most needs strengthening in our American republic is civic sense persistent interest in our civic affairs, and a personal sense of responsibility for them. We must cease to look on politics as a game and on government as an irrelevancy. The average man must take an adult interest in both as matters of direct personal concern. He cannot be induced to do so by telling him it is his duty or even that it is his interest, any more than he can be induced to go to see a play because it is "improving." But politics was once the most exiting and entertaining thing in American life, and while we should not be doing well to go back to the violent unthinking partisanship of the old days, we should to return to their keen interest in political questions. The civic center, a school building or hall where neighbors can meet and do meet constantly to hear public men talk and to talk themselves, to hear their public servants report and to question them, to listen to explanations of public issues and movements and to learn how other communities or parties manage or mismanage their affairs from the handling of garbage up to the government of colonies--such civic centers or schools of intelligent citizenship are greatly needed because they will bring public questions out of the dry element of print and make them warm with personal contact.A School of Citizenship -2- Perhaps the truest democracy in history was that of the New England town. Let us preserve its virtues as far as we may in great cities, by the organization of civic centers. How that we recognize the inevitability of the centralizing tendency, we ought to be all the more careful to preserve the vitality of the local spirit and to insure an intelligible and sensitive relation between it and our great central organism.Enc in Ward 10-16-11The Denver Times EDITORIAL SECTION TWO PAGE PAGES 17 TO 32 VOL. 41: NO. 251. SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 15, 1911.—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. FOUR SECTIONS. PRICE FIVE CENTS. How the "Man on Horseback" Came at last—Edited by Hugh O'Neill A Chapter From Future History . . . . "There had always been an unusual quality about this Theodore Roosevelt of the twentieth century," says the Chronicler, "a something original in his character' a daring intellectually in his public speeches; that touched the imagination of the Old World quite as sharply as it touched that of the New. "He had the physical vigor of three men; the courage of a Roman Gladiator; the lean eloquence of a prophet inspiring the people to another Crusade. He could write in a rough, easy fashion and his language was the language of the plain people. His vision was broad; his historical perspective was accurate; he was a politician, a student and a statesman and he emerged significantly into the national life of the United States at that period in its history when all the conceptions of men upon theories of Government were crumbling; when numberless, strange theories of judicial organization and law-making were catching the popular ear; when the people were concluding that deputed powers of any character, however limited, were a menace to popular rights and equal justice; when a Nation of ninety millions were contouring the functions of Government from the point of view of the inhabitants of some sequestered village. "It was a time fraught with a grave menace to all social and political stability; a time when the difference between wealth and poverty was more exaggerated and more poignantly obvious than it had ever been before in the history of civilization; a time when a sense of the injustice that the people had suffered from great organizations of Capital—or imagined that they had suffered—tempted them upon every opportunity to a series of reactionary reprisals that the demagogues called reform and the conservatives called anarchy. "And the public press of that day was carried along by the vortex; each newspaper seemed to vie with its contemporary in exaggerating the character of the popular wrongs it exposed. "The Judges were suspected of corrupt decisions; the politicians—even the politicians in high places—were more than often openly accused of the grossest kind of personal dishonesty. "The American of that day had lost his sense of humor; his instinct for weighing comparative values had deserted him; he gave ear easily to the platitudes of demagogues; in his mind there burned the conviction that some elemental thing was wrong with his country; and only in the dissolution of all the established forms of his representative Government could he see the remedy. "At first this avalanche of popular revolt was but a rivulet of discontent, its waves reflected in the "exposures" of the monthly magazines concerning the "graft" in the administrations of the cities. "But that stream grew until it touched the Legislatures of the several States; it swept from the Legislatures of the States to the doors of the National Congress; it rolled over Congress to the Courts of the States and it drove on then, a tumultuous flood, until it eddied about the portals of the Supreme Court itself. "For a long time the people did not realize the extent and the force of this avalanche; they were part of it and not observers of its course; and there were times when even such far-seeing men as this first of the Roosevlt line lent vigor to the storm instead of quelling it. But Theodore Roosevelt realized the conditions nevertheless; he saw the ultimate result of it all more clearly perhaps than any other man of his day; but there was in his soul an ambition that his actual thoughts never confessed to; and, after his retirement from the Second Presidency, he sequestered himself at his home in Oyster Bay and watched those vast developments that were destined ultimately to bestow upon him a power and dignity never before enjoyed by any citizen of the United States, and never, for that matter, contemplated by the people as a possibility. "The successor to the Second Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt was William Howard Taft, a lawyer from Ohio who had served his public apprenticeship as a Judge, as a Governor of the Philippines and as Secretary of War. President Taft was a man of much learning; his knowledge of international affairs was wide and his knowledge of Eastern politics was admitted by German diplomats to be profound. "But President Taft had not faculty for appealing to the cruder emotions of the people; he talked to a pubic meeting just as he would have talked to the Judges of the Supreme Court; his sense of justice and his fine honesty of purpose were qualities that even his enemies admitted him to possess; but the problems that confronted him were graver and more poignant than even, perhaps, he realized; and those problems culminated in a dramatic reversal of all anticipated events at the very moment when President Taft was about to be nominated for a second term in the historic convention that met at the opening of the Great War. "That the institutions of the Nation were threatened by the increasing clamor for what was called 'direct legislation' and the application of the popular 'recall' to the Judiciary President Taft knew full well. "In the last continental tour which President Taft made in the Fall of the year 1911, the President argued and expostulated against these measures with unflinching courage and sound logic; but the conviction had increased by that time into a passionate resolution that only by such means could the Government of the country be wrested from the 'nterests' and restored to the people; and even whilst the President, in his last tour, was on the Pacific coast, the people of California voted to amend their State constitution in the direction of the Initiative and the Referendum and the Recall of the Judiciary. "That a Judiciary liable to be recalled on the petition and vote of a bare majority of the electors could only, in the end, become debauched by the fear of popular disapproval no man of this age will doubt. We know now, through the history of the Judiciary from the time when the Recall was at last applied to the Judges of every State in the Union and to the Supreme Court itself, that the type of men who would accept such a high office under those conditions would only weaken respect for the courts vitiate the reason and the doctrines of the body of the Law through the vacillation and inconsistency of their decisions. "But the people of that day, feeling only that something was 'wrong' with their Courts, seized in their unreasoning desperation the most radical remedy that the demagogues could suggest; and the Courts degenerated from the fearless and independent tribunals that they should have been into mere machines for registering, in all important cases, the views of the newspapers and the active minorities which terrorized them. "We revert here," says the Chronicler further on in the same chapter, "to the adoption of the Initiative and Referendum and the Recall of the Judiciary by the State of California, because that case was the first, authentic milestone in the New Era. Prior to that, reforms of this character had only been in complete operation in the State of Oregon. "Such measures had been under discussion in many of the newspapers and magazines for several, previous years. Men such as William Jennings Bryan, of Nebraska, had accorded to them the patronage of their approval. That Woodrow Wilson, the Governor of New Jersey, to whom we have referred already in this chapter, said that he saw in such measures not a permanent implement of Government, but as available remedy for an existing, local condition. "But California had never been regarded as a State that would be swept by measures of this kind, and we know now, through the revelations of records that have only been made available during the last decade, that the revolt in California was caused by the conviction that a railroad then known as the Southern Pacific—since incorporated in our transcontinental system of National roads— had for years controlled the Courts of California in its own interests and in opposition to the rights of popular justice. "That the application of the Recall to their Judges was not the way to remedy the wrongs the people suffered under is too obvious to need arguing in this history; but the people of that day were in no mood for fine distinctions, and they adopted the Recall because it seemed a simple way out of their dilemma. "And, with the adoption of that measure by the people of California, came the avalanche that swept away every institution of Law and Representative Government as they existed in that day; and in the crest of that avalanche there came The Man on Horseback to bring order out of chaos and hold this Nation firm in the storm of the Great War. "Theodore Roosevelt," the Chronicler says after dealing with the succession of events that culminated, finally in the Third Nomination, "had never been guilty of hypocrisy in discussing such conditions. When he enunciated his doctrine of the New Nationalism a year after his retirement from his Second Presidency, he was declaring a prophecy and not establishing a political issue. The protests that assailed him then from every State House in the Union did not cause him in the slightest to weaken in his assertions. And, once, when he was invited to address a meeting of street car men who were on strike and who, during the course of that strike, had destroyed much property and committed many assaults upon what were then called 'strikebreakers,' he gave them a taste of his quality, of the instinct for dominion that was part of the man, by denouncing the strikers for their rioting and hammering at them in his authoritative way: 'You men must keep the peace. Before you can have Justice . . . . you must have order.' "And that doctrine he took with him to his Third Presidency when a Nation greatly troubled by its own confusion and the menace of invasion, welcomed him as the warrior and the statesman who should lead it from the war and the wilderness. . . . . "It was not," says the Chronicler, pausing to reflect on the situation, "that the people have become unintelligent; it was not because they were incompetent that the experiment in 'Direct Legislation' failed; it was not because the people did not know how to vote on good laws and bad laws; but it was because the majority of the people did not vote on these issues at all, that legislation became the monopoly of the active minority. Instead of laws being made by the Legislatures of the States, laws were drawn up by associations called Direct Legislation Leagues, which sprang up in every State of the Union and by their very existence proved 'Direct Legislation' to be an impossibility "The condition of the laws of the Nation was only exceeded in its confusion by the condition of the Judiciary. It was a common thing to have a Judge recalled within twenty-four hours after his election. In some States Judges succeeded each other so rapidly that the dockets of the courts got ten and twenty years ahead of the possibility of adjudicating the cases they represented. The great mass of the people became indifferent to this condition. Fortunes were made and lost on Wall Street, just as they had been made and lost before this avalanche of confusion swept over the Nation. But in the minds of men there was growing a deep unrest; a halting fear of some overwhelming confusion that might sweep the land with fire and massacre. In millions of minds there echoed, as a word of security and peace, that dictum of the great recluse of Oyster Bay 'Before you can have justice, you must have order.' . . . . L . . . . "The Republican Convention of 1912 assembled in Philadelphia and begun its deliberation with the startling challenge of a great war. Already, the Democratic Convention had assembled, nominated Woodrow Wilson as its candidate, and dispersed. "Woodrow Wilson was the new type of public man; the scholar in politics. He had the same kind of faith in words that President Taft had in argument, logic and expostulation. Woodrow Wilson was in New York, addressing a meeting of banker on 'Money Power in Politics,' whilst the Republican Convention sat in Philadelphia. It was a typical convention of the Republican Party; well-dressed, well-fed, satisfied with life and holding determinedly to the opinion that steady progress and slow progress were the highest kind of political morality. "President Taft had been nominated for a second term by Representative Ralph D. Cole, of Ohio, and that nomination had been seconded by John Dalzell, of Pennsylvania. President Taft had been hailed by his nominator as one of the greatest executors of his time. The failure of his efforts to obtain reciprocity with Canada and the failure of his efforts to persuade Congress to adopt the arbitration treaties with France and England, were cited as things that stood rather to this credit, than to his disadvantage. The war of revolt then waging in China; the religious war being carried on by the Turks in reprisal for the occupation of Tripoli by Italy; the fact that the fleets of Germany and Great Britain had met in their first battle the very day before the convention assembled, were all referred to, by Representative Cole, to prove that President Taft was right in his efforts for a word peace, and that the world, which refused to listen to his arguments, would pay dearly for its indifference. "Representative Cole was cheered when he completed his speech. Representative John Dalzell was cheered when he started in to second the nomination and cheered when he resumed his seat. The Chairman of the Committee was about to put the vote, when a man walked across the stage holding out a telegram. "The delegates noticed that, as the Chairman read it, his face blanched. . . . . . . . . "There was a hurried conference on the platform after the Chairman had read the telegram in a low voice to a group about him and a sigh of anticipation swept through the Hall as the wind of winter sweeps over the dead leaves under the trees. " 'Gentlemen,' said the Chairman, separating from the group that surrounded him at last hammering the table with his gavel. " 'Gentlemen,' said the Chairman, and he paused again. " 'I have refrained from reading this telegram sooner,' said the Chairman, 'because I wanted to have it confirmed and it has been confirmed.' . . . . "The sound of sudden bells ringing and of people running and newsboys crying shrilly broke in through the open windows. " 'Gentlemen,' said the Chairman again, 'I have received this telegram, through the Associated Press, from Washington, and its truth has been certified to by the War Department. " 'Japan has declared war on the United States. The Japanese Ambassador at Washington has withdrawn his papers and departed. One division of the Japanese Fleet and five hundred thousand troops occupied Manila at 10 o'clock this morning. One hundred and fifty Japanese veterans, of the Russia-Japanese War, now resident in Honolulu, are under arms and in possession of the town. The Flying Squadron of the Japanese fleet appeared in California Bay at 11 o'clock this morning and commenced the bombardment of San Francisco. The American Fleet has been ordered to mobilize under Admiral Dewey at Hampton Roads. There are no American ships of the Dreadnought type in pacific waters. President Taft, it is understood, is preparing a Special War Message to Congress.' "The Chairman of the convention paused. An immense silence fell upon the delegates. One man stood up, looked at his watch, and ran an index finger between his collar and his neck. He seemed to be trying to get more air. The voice of a delegate sounded tense in the silence as he muttered disjointedly, 'Special message to Congress, what's the good of that.' "The Chairman lifted his gavel and before it struck the table, Representative Willetts Cocks, of Oyster Bay, was on the Platform, with his hands high above his head. " 'Mr. Chairman and Delegates,' he said and his voice rang like a clap of thunder in the stillness, 'I nominate as the candidate, not only of the Republican party, but of the people, for the high office of President of the United States of America and Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy of the united States, that great soldier and statesman, Theodore Roosevelt.' . . . . "The convention gasped as a swimmer does who plunges into the ocean on a winter morning. " 'We cannot afford,' said Mr. Cocks, 'to palter with this situation. It is no time for Special Messages; it is the time of the man and the hour. This Nation has staggered long enough in turmoil and confusion and, I paraphrase the immortal words of our great leader when I say to you men here and I say to the people of this Nation, "before you can have peace, before you can have victory over your enemy, before you can have justice, you must have order," and Theodore Roosevelt is order.' "Mr. Willetts Cocks was followed by Representative William Bennett, who seconded the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt. "Said Mr. Bennett, 'I think, that confronted as we are by this world tragedy, I have nothing more to do than second it.' "There was a pause. A nervous cough in the rear of the hall sounded like a pistol shot. And then, suddenly, every member of the delegation was on his feet; the delegates mounted to their chairs and 'Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Roosevelt,' thundered through the convention hall, and a clamor of vocal support swept away all argument and all opposition. "There was no time to take a vote by delegation. The party leaders abdicated. The Chairman hammered the table with his gavel in despair. "The Republican Convention of 1912 had bolted and Theodore Roosevelt had been nominated for that third term that was destined to last for so many years and see him making so much great history greatly. "As a Soldier President, tore victory from an overwhelming defeat, inaugurated the new Nationalism and gave to the Untied States—now unified—that code of laws, which is as famous now as the code of napoleon. . . . . "And at the base of the great bronze statue of President-General Roosevelt, which we now call 'The Horse and Rider,' in Lafayette Square, Washington, there is engraved as the motto of his line and history "before you can have justice, you must have order.' "And so it was," says the Chronicler, closing this chapter of his history, "that the Man on Horseback, came at last to the United States and converted a Republic into an Empire." [*ack 10-23-11*] [*Bercovitz, Z*] Oct. 16, 1911 [*14*] Z. Bercovitz E. Ave 53 and Longfellow at Los Angeles Calif. Col. Theodore Roosevelt New York N. Y. Dear Sir: - I am a Los Angeles High School Debater and have to uphold the Affirmative of the question Resolved that an old age pension should be established in the United States. I would like to know if it would be possible for me to get some suggestions on the subject, most preferably on the affirmative of the subject, as well as some of the arguments presented on that side. Ihave to prove (1) That we need a system of old age pensions (2) Give some way of meeting that need (3) Prove that it is practicable. If possible I would like to have your views on the subject but if you prefer not to be quoted I would be just the same very much obliged if you could give me some suggestions on any or all of the above three points. I am confident that you will meet with my request and so I expect a ready reply as I have not much time left to prepare my speech. Yours Truly [*[Bercovitz]*] E. Ave. 53 and Longfellow St. Los Angeles Calif.SAINT CLAIR, MICHIGAN Oct. 16 1911 [*9.*] Mr. Roosevelt, Dear Sir:- A few days ago I read an editorial written by yourself, on the subject "How the United States acquired the right to dig the Panama Canal." As I am soon to write an oration on "The Fortification of the Canal, as an investment," I deemed that you might be able to furnish me some valued subject matter, if so I will be very thankful and grateful to you. Hoping to hear from you at an early date, I remain, yours very truly Robert S. Bessay.[*ack 10-19-11*] [*Boland*] Chas Collins Boland LL-B, 700 Dolph Buildg St Louis Mo. [*2.*] October 16, 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt: Contributing Editor The OUTLOOK Magazine, New York - Dear Mr. Roosevelt I am sending your Excellency (For you are ever the "Peoples' President" and Tribune, while you live) a copy of my latest little verses OFF TO THE ISLES, an incident of my first trip to Samoa, in Sternberg's time (1872-3) before Griffin went there. Yours very truly Chas. E. Boland.[*Bowman*] MALABON CAMP NO. 6 United Spanish War Veterans DEPARTMENT OF OREGON Camp Meets Second Friday of Each Month. Eagle-Woodman Building, Court St. Headquarters for United Spanish War Veteran Robes. OFFICERS GEO. HARTMAN, JR., Camp Commander First National Bank VAN V. BOWMAN, Camp Adjutant, 120 W. Court St. NESMITH ANKENEY, Camp Quartermaster, City Hall [*2.*] Pendleton, Ore., 10-16-11 Theodore Roosevelt/ Oyster Bay, N. J. Dear Sir and Comrade; In behalf of Malabon Camp No 6 of Pendelton Oregon I am writing you in regard to the United Spanish War Vetran Robe manufactured exclusively for the above named Camp, and sold only though them. This robe is manufactured from the very finest of Eastern Oregon, wool, is bound with the very best felt binding obtainable which makes its servicable even for the roughest of usagesc such as camping out, boating autoing, etc. This robe can be used for couch covers, cosy corners, box throughs, bath rodes and various other purpeses in which a high grade robe would be put to. We are positive that this Robe will meet with your approval that we sending you one by prepaid express to day a sample Robe No 4. if you wish same the price is $9.40 cents. We wish to insure you that all profits obtained from the sale of robes go to the relief fond of the camp. Trusting to hear from you soon and your frank opinion of same. I am fratuernally yours, Van V. Bowman Camp Adjutant.SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, PUBLISHERS. 153-157 FIFTH AVENUE, New York, October 16, 1911. [*8*] Dear Mr. Roosevelt: I am asked by Mrs. Joseph C. Bloodgood, of Baltimore, (a daughter of Henry Holt, the publisher) to call to your attention the fact that Dr. William Welch, the very eminent physician, whom you probably know, will call upon you on Thursday, October 19th, to try to persuade you to make an address on the subject of Rural Nursing. I simply want to recall Mrs. Bloodgood and Dr. Welch to your attention, and I know that they will receive every attention. When I returned the other day it was a pleasure to read Kermit's article, which seems to me very well done. Personally, I appreciate your having given us the first chance at it. Faithfully yours Robert Bridges Hon. Theodore Roosevelt.[*[Brown]*] [*7.*] Detroit -- 10-16-1911 Mr. Rosefelt.-- Dear Sir. Probably it will be of some interest to you to learn who were the first persons to travel over the road from Mesa to Globe Arizona that crosses the big dam named after you my wife and I were traveling overland from Los Angelus, Cal to Toledo Ohio and came through that way but were blocked on3 This happened six years ago but I never thought that you would like to know about what I have just written until I was vewing the scenes of the big Dam in a moving picture show the other night. hoping to hear from you soon Yours Very Respt G. C. Brown 330 Woodward Ave Detroit Mich 2 account of the road not being finished and while we camped there I worked on the road and helped to complete it I had charge of the powder monkeys as they are called and when my wife and I came over the road after it became passable the people of Rosefelt Cheered us and Gave us a hearty welcome if you would like to read the story of our trip, write to the Findley Jeffersonian Evening paper at Findley Ohio and they will send you twelve capters called Touring the west. The National McKinley Birthplace Memorial Association PRESIDENT J. G. BUTLER, JR. YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO VICE PRESIDENT JOHN G. MILBURN NEW YORK N.Y. TREASURER J. G. SCHMIDLAPP CINCINNATI, OHIO SECRETARY W. A. THOMAS NILES, OHIO EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MYRON T. HERRICK, CHAIRMAN J. G. BUTLER, JR. W. A. THOMAS Youngstown, Ohio October 16th, 1911 My dear Ex-President Roosevelt:- I am in receipt of your very brief communication of the 13th inst. endorsing the National McKinley Birthplace Memorial Association, for which I am obliged. This is all right so far as it goes, but, I fear that you dictated the letter hurriedly and did not give it the thought, which, from my stand-point it deserves. I have given this matter a great deal of thought and attention and expect to continue so doing until a substantial sum of money is raised and a Memorial built at Niles, Ohio, which will be an honor to all concerned. I had thought, from your long association with President McKinley and your intimate knowledge of him, that you would write a few lines that would be historic. Part of these letters which I am getting in will be published attractively in book form, and there will be, perhaps as many as ten thousand copies issued, before we are through with it. I know you are a very busy man, but, I sincerely hope that you will reconsider this matter and write me a letter such as I have suggested. With kindest regards, I am, Most sincerely yours, J G Butler Jr. President Hon. Theo. Roosevelt 287 Fourth Ave., New York City [*Cotten*] The "Ahwaga" 11 Owego, Tioga Co., N. Y. October 16, 1911 My dear Colonel Roosevelt: I have read with inexpressible pleasure your editorials in the last two issues of the "Outlook", viz: The Persian acquisition, and "Reading the Riot Act" to Russia. In my speech at the Cooper Union in October 1904 when the gallant Sickles Theodore, and Genl Howard, of pleasant memory, madea memorable address. I took substantially the same position that you recently took in the Outlook though at infinitely less detail. You put it strongly and eloquently, and correctly. When you say --"We did our duty by the World, we did our duty by the people of Panama, we did our duty by ourselves". You are doing a great work with the "Outlook". With great admiration and respect I am faithfully yours J. L. Catten Brig-Genl WTH Ret Brevt Maj-Genl [?] To Honorable Theodore Roosevelt.admit. It is an honest difference of opinion [which] such as you will say, makes eventually for truth. You will find my position stated, even if briefly, in the last number of Bird-Love which, I believe, goes to you regularly, at Oyster Bay; while in my new 'Handbook', now in press, I have stated my views at some length and I hope that you will approve of them. Sincerely yours, Frank M. Chapman [*The lamp came safely and in full time. Thank you.*] 1603 FOURTH AVENUE SOUTH Minneapolis Oct. 16, 1911 Dear Col. Roosevelt: I am just in receipt of yours of the 9th inst. The meetings of the Academy of Sciences are open to the public, and while, as a rule, the public does not avail itself of the privileges in this Connection, the announcement, in the weekly 'Bulletin' of the 'Scientific Alliance', of a paper by you would, of course, make the occasion a public one in truth. I do not now see how this could well be avoided; but I will confer with the Academy on my return, November 1, and communicate with you thereafter. Have no fear that I will not at all times earnestly endorse your attitude toward the subject of Animal Coloration. Your paper already has proved to be an effective antidote for the case of Thayer hypnosis from which we all were suffering. Nevertheless, you will not, I am sure, think I have not profited by it if I still hold out for a bit more faith in the value of counter-shading than youtoday, should include the demand for the conservation of woman's strength and energy for her own peculiar work in the world. I deplore the economic conditions which have driven many women to seek a livelihood in employments which sap her strength and vitality. I deplore still more the irrational doctrine so widely promulgated today, that all women should go out into the world and enter gainful occupations, leaving the care of their children to others. It is a law of life that the conservation of energy strengthens ones forces, while diffusion weakens them. Already scientists are warning us that the activity of the modern woman has become a radical problem. This is the physiological explanation of the declining birth rate. Is it not time, in view of these facts [*[10/16/11]*] Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Associate Editor of The Outlook. My dear Colonel Roosevelt. I see by the papers that you are to deliver an address at Carnegie Hall this week on "The Conservation of the Lives of Women and Children." I have also seen that you may be called upon at that time to make your position on the question of woman suffrage more definite. I am opposed to the extension of suffrage to women for many reasons, but one point which I always emphasize in speaking on the subject is, that the demand for [the] conservation, of which we hear so much for woman's activities to be lessened rather than increased? If you do indeed believe in woman suffrage, as reported last spring, you have doubtless come to this conclusion through some other line of reasoning. But have you fully considered this point? I believe it is the most crucial one in the whole line of argument. To add the responsibility of political duties and powers to woman's already overburdened life, would mean a still further lessening of her forces and energies, and a diffused force cannot never be a vitalizing one. It would be so fine if in your address this week you could make an insistent demand for the conservation of woman's God-given powers for her own great work in the world and for the ultimate good of the Race. You must have so many letters from strangers, that I feel I do not need to apologize for this letter, but I felt impelled to write on this point of the conservation of women's energy just at this time when I read of your address, and Dr Abbott will tell you that I am a woman who is very much in earnest. Sincerely yours, (Miss) Alice Hill Chittenden Guildford Connecticut October 16th 1911Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Manzavinos Greek Legation, New York City. Congressman Carlin , Alexandria Virginia and many others. Respectfully Elise Conrad - Dixon (Mrs. John Dixon) October 16th 1911. 524 West 145th Street New York City [*27.*] [*[10-16-11]*] The Honorable Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, U. S. A. Oyster Bay, New York. Sir: In addressing you, I am prompted by your gracious reception of my friend, Mrs. Lotta Mills Hough, Mrs. Williston Hough, when she was commanded to play at the White House during your residence, and I was privileged to see the very beautiful photograph she was fortunate enough to receive from you, as a valued mememto of that occasion. I am starting a Piano School here in New York, and, am writing to ask, if you will allow me the honor of placing your name on the list of Honorary Patrons. My family are the Conrads of Washington and Virginia, and I refer you to the following persons as to my musical and social standing. Lord Percy Sholts Douglas Marquis of Queensberry Chicago . Illinois The Reverend Canon Dixon . Montreal Canada Mr Moritz Rosenthal . Vienna Austria . Mr Richard Burmeister. Berlin Germany. Mr Sigismund Stojowski Von Ende School New York City. Mr Marc A Blumenberg. Editor Musical Courier . New York City Mr William R. Steinway . Hamburg Germany or Steinway Hall . New York City . The Seger Conservatory of Musical Art 1547 St Nicholas Avenue. New York Mrs Hunter . St Agnes Chapel 92nd Street. New York City . The Reverend R. M. Sherman St Agnes Chapel . New York .Jas. M. Davis Principal Bond Hill School 1333 Laidlaw Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio Oct. 16, 1911. [*8.*] Ex-President Roosevelt, Dear Colonel: About 40 boys are being organized into a Boy Scout Troop. Exercises to be held about Nov. 1. Can you find time to send us a word of greeting and advice? If you have a word on the subjects of profanity and the use of tobacco it would fit. However, any word you may have will be appreciated. Thanking you beforehand in the name of the Boy Scouts. I am, J.M. DavisTELEPHONE 3053 BRYANT ARTHUR FARWELL PRESIDENT, AMERICAN MUSIC SOCIETY 10 WEST 40TH STREET NEW YORK [*23*] Oct. 16", 1911. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, L.I. Dear Sir:– Under separate cover I am sending you the October issue of the Review of Reviews. I particularly desire to draw your attention to the article on "New York's Municipal Music", on p. 451, in which I have set forth the results obtained by the municipal authorities during the experiments of the past two years. The article describes the extraordinary response of the masses of the people to orchestral music of the highest order,–– a response which substantiates in a striking manner the principles on which the movement for public musical advance in New York has been founded, and which holds out a vast encouragement for the nation at large. The public men of a country are the ones who naturally mould opinion. It is their expressions, verbal or written, that carry weight. In the interests of this forward movement, your critical expression is very earnestly desired, and will be greatly appreciated by those who are directing this work in New York. Very truly yours, Arthur Farwell Supervisor of Municipal Concerts, New York City. AF/MFITZ-HUGH, LUTHER COMPANY RAILWAY EQUIPMENT MONADNOCK BUILDING CHICAGO. CHICAGO NEW YORK October 16, 1911. Dear Colonel Roosevelt: I thank you for your letter of Oct. 11th, and I also appreciate your frankness. If any word from you is going to be misunderstood, I am not willing that it should be said. There are some of the Government's methods of handling its business that are obsolete and work to its detriment; on the other hand, there are the difficulties of making a change for the better. I trust that you feel that we are much interested in the adoption of the improved commercial methods for their own sake, and that we are not altogether prompted by personal interest. Believe me to be, Very sincerely yours, Carter H. Fitz-Hugh The Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, New York, N.Y. I read with much pleasure the letter you wrote to my brother, of the Chair of Latin of the University of Virginia.EXECUTIVE PRES.—F. W. JOHNSTON SEC'Y.—C. W. SWIFT, M.A. TREAS.—E. W. HERMON OFFICIAL COLLECTION ARTHUR GATE 367 DELAWARE AVE., TORONTO Please make all cheques payable To Order, Canadian Free Library for the Blind, and mail to the above address. CANADIAN FREE LIBRARY FOR THE BLIND INCORPORATED NOV. 22ND, 1906 PATRONS HIS EXCELLENCY EARL GREY HON. ROBT. JAFFRAY HON. CHAS. MURPHY SIR W. C. MACDONALD R. L. BORDEN, M. P. E. B. OSLER, M. P. J. D. NASMITH ESQ. AND OTHERS. TORONTO, ONT. Oct 16th "11 [*A3*] Hon Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, L. I. Dear Sir,– On behalf of our Library, I venture to ask your consideration of the enclosed booklet and to solicit your esteemed contribution, to be applied towards the fulfilment of the purposes outlined therein. "Charity blesses him that gives and him that takes", your own great country is very abundantly provided with Institutions designed for the amelioration of the condition of the blind and all the World sympathizes with the blind irrespective of race, creed, or locality. This is a very poor library, having no regular income, but maintained by voluntary contributions, its work is rapidly extending, we have over 5000 blind people between two oceans to look after; if you can spare us a little from your many home calls, we shall be very grateful for anything you can send us. Yours sincerely C. F. L. B. Arthur Gate[*[Gottschalk]*] [*3*] Holland House CONFIDENTIAL October 16th, 1911 My dear Colonel Roosevelt: I am enclosing herewith a sheet of my Report on the situation at Dresden, which I have already described to you. I have hesitated until now to trouble you again in this matter, but it will greatly ease my mind of responsibility if you will amend, or strike out, any misstatement that I may have made. I have already told you, I think, that the entire responsibility of this Dresden matter was painful to me -- and I should be particularly pained to feel later that I had misstated you or introduced you into the matter against your wishes. I owe you a distinct debt of gratitude for encouragement, such as is not always given to us of the Consular Service, before I left for Liberia; and I try not to forget such things. The introduction of your name intoADDRESS: Alfred L.M. Gottschalk, Consul General at Large, till midnight, October 16, Holland House, N.Y. thereafter, Metropolitan Club, Washington, D.C. into the testimony, has been simply in compliance with my Instructions to corroborate "every person" mentioned in Mr. Gaffney's controversy. The statement I make as coming from you has simply for its purpose to make evident the fact that Mr. Gaffney is not as he claims, the personal and intimate friend of one of our statesmen. I have tried in my report not to be unfair to Mr. Gaffney. But it seems part of our duty in the Inspection Corps nowadays to point out the differences that exist between some consuls of the older, pre-Reorganization school, and the constantly growing number of unassuming, loyal and hardworking younger men that are coming into the Service since 1906. I am leaving for Washington at midnight tonight. May I trust that you will be kind enough to send back the enclosed sheet to the Holland House this afternoon, or else mail it to me at the Metropolitan Club of Washington at your convenience, later? I am, my dear Colonel Roosevelt, Faithfully yours, A.L.M. Gottschalk D. S. HALE CANCER SPECIALIST CURE GUARANTEED Hale's Mill, Va., Oct. 16th 1911 Col. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay N. Y., Dear Sir: Haveing recently, writen you rather a tedious letter, on the improbability of the Republican party beeing able to elect a President next year, especially, if Wm. H. Taft is the nominee, I want, (at the expense of your patience), to reiterate, my former apprehensions. I am in fine touch with "The rank and file"- of The Gran Army of the Republic, and without a single exception, my comrads, believe as I do so far as I have found, "That you, "are the only man in all this broad land that can avert defeat and disaster to Republican polling. True: we are, in the passing, and sure will only be "a memory". But, our Boys Mine at least, stilllive, many, long after we have joined and Comands, "On Fames Eternal camping ground," and they, will be a factor the Democrat party, will have to confront so long as one of, them lives, Nine - 6 still, all alive from California to allmost the Glades of Fla, see, as I do, that the man, whose name will go down through the anals of Time as the 25th Pres whose name will ever be connected with the "Isthman Canal," the greatest undertaking, since mans creation. The man, "Of The Big Stick"- But at whose behest Europe, and Asia stacked arms," when He said, like one of old - "Peace be still," The "Plain Citizen"- not unknown, to the multiplied millions of the modern world, as a "true type of American citizenship". Going on four years in suport of the flag, though Virginian as I was - gives me the presumption to thus address you, Truly - D. S. Hale[*Joffe*] [*32.*] 1845 Madison Ave. N.Y. Oct 16,'11 The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L.I. Dear Sir, I am aware that I am taking a great liberty in addressing you. I would not do so, were it not concerning a matter which will affect my whole life. It is a great thing to ask, but if it were possible for you to give me a few moments of your time, it would be to me, not merely the longed-for realization[*[Jaffe]*] 1845 Madison Ave. N. Y. Oct. 16 1911 [*32*] The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I. Dear sir: I am aware that I am taking a great liberty in addressing you. I would not do so, were it not concerning a matter which will affect my whole life. It is a great thing to ask, but if it were possible for you to give me a few moments of your time, it would be to me, not merely the longed-for realizationof a dream, but a sign that there is a God. I cannot believe that there are people who see you, who speak to you, and that for me the barrier is insurmountable. I can only appeal to you with my whole soul, and hope, that because you are so great, you will not ignore me. Yours very respectfully, (Mrs.) Rose B. JaffeTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO FOUNDED BY JOHN D ROCKEFELLER OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Chicago, October 16, 1911 Dear Mr. Roosevelt:- Your favor of the 10th inst. is at hand. I fully appreciate that it might be inadvisable for you to make the request of Mr. Choate. We are very anxious to have him here, although I realize that he may find it difficult to come so far for the purpose. Very truly yours, Harry Pratt Judson Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, THE OUTLOOK, 287 Fourth Ave., New York.NE TENTES, AUT PERFICE. 5007 Atlantic Avenue, Atlantic City, N. J. Oct. 16, 1911 My dear Colonel, Some one has said that all (!) the great (political) events which make the world's history are 'written on high'. As you are undoubtedly the greatest man of your time, like the big majority of your countrymen I should like very much to see you the next President. Do you want me me to tell you how to become nominated and elected? I feel quite sure that I can do Sir. I have been thinking of the matter very seriously since about a year ago. Yours very respectfully, C. M. Jones P.S. I had the honor of being presented to you in the summer of 1900. You enunciated at the time one word that expressed the state of my feelings exactly. (over) C. M J"True popularity takes deep root and spreads itself wide, and the false falls away like blossoms; for nothing that is false can be lasting." - Cicero.THE SURVEY SOCIAL CHARITABLE CIVIC CHARITIES PUBLICATION COMMITTEE ROBERT W. DE FOREST, NEW YORK, Chairman JANE ADDAMS....................CHICAGO ERNEST P. BICKNELL.WASHINGTON ROBERT S. BREWSTER.....NEW YORK G. K. CUSHING........SAN FRANCISCO ARTHUR F. ESTABROOK.....BOSTON LEE K. FRANKEL................NEW YORK JOHN M. GLENN...............NEW YORK WILLIAM GUGGENHEIM..NEW YORK WILLIAM E. HARMON.......NEW YORK JOSEPH LEE............................BOSTON JULIAN W. MACK..................CHICAGO JOHN F. MOORS....................BOSTON SIMON N. PATTEN......PHILADELPHIA JACOB RIIS..........................NEW YORK FRANK TUCKER..................NEW YORK S. W. WOODWARD......WASHINGTON THE STAFF EDWARD T. DEVINE........Editor GRAHAM TAYLOR Associate Editor PAUL U. KELLOGG ARTHUR P. KELLOGG GRAHAM ROMEYN TAYLOR CONSTANCE D. LEUPP 105 EAST 22D STREET, NEW YORK Telephone 4066 Gramercy October 16, 1911. Mr. Frank Harper, C/o The Outlook, City. My dear Mr. Harper: My thanks to Mr. Roosevelt and to you. It will be a good investment. Sincerely, Paul U. Kellogg PUK-AHSouth Williamsport, Pa; Oct. 16, 1911. [*D*] Hon. Theodore Rosefelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir:- I crave but a few moments of your time, and will say; I am a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and have come in touch with many of the Young People of this section, and with them have had a great desire to have you come to our City and give to us a Lecture, on some Subject you deem important. I have two thoughts, in this and will state them, honestly, as they stand: I thought if you could come, we could make some money out of it and we need it badly. And your coming to our County would strengthen the party and help us in our pull for the Victory, and then our people would have a chance to hear you; and I assure you I count that no mean privilege. I spoke to Mr.Harry T. Steiger,Republican Chairman of the Co., and he said I should say that he was very anxious to have you come. That he had held this important Chairmanship for several years, and had given you a Majority of 2500 in a County that was 500 Majority Democratic;; and had given William H. Taft a majority of over 1600. We can meet your terms and give you our largest house packed. Will be glad to hear from you, and trust you may arrange someway to come to our city. We will arrange the time to suit you. Very truly, Rev. R. J. KnoxMRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, CHAIRMAN MRS. MARTHA WENTWORTH SUFFREN, SECRETARY MRS. MARGARET CHANLER ALDRICH, TREASURER BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN MRS. JAMES LEES LAIDLAW, CHAIRMAN 312 WEST NINETIETH STREET MRS. CHAS. A. BEARD, VICE-CHAIRMAN 501 WEST 121ST STREET MRS. CHAS. L. TIFFANY, REC. SEC'Y. 128 EAST 36TH STREET MR. JOSEPH O'BRIEN, COR. SEC'Y 210 WEST FOURTH STREET MRS. J. HEDGES CROWELL, TREASURER 1044 FIFTH AVENUE WOMAN SUFFRAGE PARTY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK A UNION FOR POLITICAL WORK OF EXISTING EQUAL SUFFRAGE ORGANIZATIONS HEADQUARTERS ROOM 212, METROPOLITAN LIFE BUILDING OFFICE DAYS AT HEADQUARTERS FOR THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS, 9 A. M. TO 5 P. M. NEW YORK, October 16, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, Long Island. My dear Mr. Roosevelt: We are looking forward with great interest to your speech October 20th at Carnegie Hall on the subject of Women and Children. There will be a very large body of suffragists in the hall awaiting earnestly to hear what you have to say on the question of Woman Suffrage. We know that you are for us and we feel that it will help our cause a great deal if you, the great leader of advanced thought and reform in this country, will on that occasion give out strength for equal suffrage. Yours cordially, Harriet B. Laidlaw. Chairman Borough of Manhattan. Dictated but not read.HERBERT MESSINGER LELAND SECRETARY 10 POST OFFICE SQUARE BOSTON [*D*] SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF THE REVOLUTION IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Boston, Mass., October 16, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Honorable Sir:- It is our intention to hold on the evening of January 17 1912 the annual banquet of our society, this being the anniversary of the Battle of Cowpens, and we are very anxious to have you present on this occasion. It would be our desire to have you as our guest from the time you leave your home until you return and it would give us great pleasure to make your stay pleasant at the Algonquin Club in our city. We are aware of the very great number of invitations you receive but it has been quite a time since you have favored Boston with your presence and we shall endeavor to make it a red letter day in the history of the society if you can be with us on this occasion. Would say that if you could arrange to be in our city on some other date in January, it being so far in advance we could change the date of our meeting to some evening more convenient to you.It is our hope to have present on this occasion the French Ambassador and I am sure with your honorable self we should feel that France and America once more join hands together. Yours very truly, H. M. Leland. Secretary. H.M.L.:D.EXCELSIOR COMMISSIONERS JOHN A. BENSEL CALVIN TOMKINS R. A. C. SMITH T. O. MCGILL SECRETARY OFFICES OF THE COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE PORT CONDITIONS AND PIER EXTENSIONS IN NEW YORK HARBOR 100 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY TELEPHONE 1185 RECTOR October 16th, 1911. [*4*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I. Dear Mr. Roosevelt:– We are endeavoring to create friendly sentiment for the work we are doing, in as large a measure as possible at the start, and we are taking the liberty of asking the first citizen of the land if he will be kind enough to say a good word for the task we have before us, either publicly expressed, or in a communication that we may quote from. Respectfully, T. O. McGill. TOMcG/J[*1.*] Bloomfield N.J. Oct. 16, 1911. Theodore Roosevelt Esq.. Oyster Bay L.I. Dear Sir: I write you in the interest of the Park Methodist Episcopal Church of Bloomfield N.J. Rev. J. C. Winner Pastor. We are erecting a new Sunday School building, the old one being wholly inadequate to properly conduct our work, the same to cost twenty six thousand ($26.000) dollars. The Epworth League which represents the young people of the church have pledged themselves to raise one thousand ($1.000) dollars of this amount and to that end intend to hold a Fair on the 16th & 17th of November next. May we therefore ask for a donation of the two volumes on your life, with your autograph - and I know the same will be greatly appreciated and be a great incentive to the affair. Thanking you in advance for whatever courtesy you may show us, I remain, Yours respectfully Chas, H. Madole President Epworth League 36 Williamson Av. Bloomfield N. J.[*[Mahon]*] Oct 16th 1911 Collingdale Del Co Pa. [*9*] [8] The Honerable Theodor. Roosevelt Dear Sir I have a irragation plan i want to call your attention to i know you have traveled over Sandie desert in the west and a great many places where there where streams of water runing from the Mounting Canons now if this water could be taken to the Sandie desert it would become a watered garden knowing you from what i have read of you i here with enclose a not a very good drawing of my plan this drawing repesent a floating dam you will notice that the mouth of this dam is perefated the object of this is to keep trash from the mouth of the dam this dam to be laid up stream where the water has a good fall then the pipes to be screwed on to dam to any desired distance down stream and out lets on eather or both sides these out lets can be run any desired distance from main pipe caped on end and perefated so water can run out. Now Colonal i know of no man so well qualefide to give me information on this matter as you, if in your judgement this plan is practical. My Object is to get it before the goverment, at a glance it can be seen that these out let pipes can be run round hills and into valleys where big dams and conels or reservoirs would ardly be practical while these pipes could be coated and allmost rust proof but little waiste of water and expence of building and keep up repairs would benormal in comparison to big dams or reservoirs. Hoping for a early reply i remain yours Isaac B. Mahon 422 Lafayette Ave Collingdale Del Co Pa1 West 92 Street N.Y. City [*[CA 10/16/11]*] [* A2*] Dear Mr Roosevelt, If it will not inconvenience you, you would oblige me greatly by sending me an account of your central ambition in political life. Thanking you in advance, I remain Sincerely, Sylvia Marks[*A*] Wagner College Rochester, N.Y. Oct. 16 '11 Honorable Theodore Roosevelt: Dear Sir: Permit me to submit the following request to you. I am a student attending "Wagner Memorial Lutheran College" of this city. The "Literary Society" of said institution has arranged for its programm of November 3, 1911, a debate on the subject: "Resolved that the eight hour working-day should be adopted in the United States by law." As leader of the negative side of this topic, kindly permit me to request of you your opinion on the subject. The reasonfor this request, is to obtain ideas as near up to date as possible, wherein we have thus far failed. Our society is composed of students of the school and numbers thirty in membership. The debate is an entirely private affair and will be delivered in the presence of the society. I should appreciate very much, were you to take interest in this debate and should be very thankful to you for a reply at your earliest convenience. Very respectfully yours, Behrend Mehrtens.[[shorthand]] [*10*] INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION WASHINGTON Oct. 26, 1911. My dear Mr. Roosevelt: Your letter of the 29th ult. has just been handed to me, much to my chagrin. We have moved into a new home and the letter was apparently held at the old address. Of course, I shall be most happy to talk with you; and as a preliminary to our discussion I am sending you a paper of mine recently published, which touches upon this very theme. I shall meet with the Securities Commission at Seligman & Co.,1 William St., Friday and Saturday of this week. I hope it may be possible to find a free hour. I shall call up your office on Friday. Very cordially yours, B.H. Meyer Col. Theodore Roosevelt, New York.suffragists, who have demonstrated, perhaps more than any other group of women, their passionate interest in all that relates to the improvement of life for children and mothers, to know exactly what is your attitude toward the question of 'Votes for Women.' To us, it seems that the occasion of your 16/10/'11 [*[Milholland]*] HOTEL MANHATTAN HAWK & WETHERBEE MADISON AVE. & 42ND ST. NEW YORK. Dear Mr. Roosevelt- It is announced that you are to deliver a lecture on 'The Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood" on Friday night at Carnegie Hall. It would be interesting to woman speech presents a logical and happy opportunity for stating your position on this question of fundamental economic importance in the problem of conservation of womanhood and child-life. We will be glad if you would take this opportunity to make clear your convictions on this point. Will you do so? Sincerely Inez Milholland[[shorthand]] [*7737 Bryant*] CENTURY CLUB NEW YORK Oct. 16. 1911 Dear Mr Rosevelt I am distressed to hear that Mrs. Roosevelt is suffering -- I had hoped that the fall had been a simple matter -- You and she have my heartfelt sympathy. You shurely have slain this (shall I say -) slain - this pamphlet on coloration as always faithfully and politely Mrs. W. S. Rainsford [*Last week was at Milford with the Pinchots. Amos sh. be in politics - he is a very able man.*]Carnegie Institution of Washington DEPARTMENT OF EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION STATION AND EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION COLD SPRING HARBOR, LONG ISLAND, N. Y. [*6.*] Oct. 16, 1911 5.30 [?] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt c/o The Outlook, New York City. Dear Sir:- Doctor Johannsen intends to visit Cold Spring Harbor next Saturday and Sunday, and if it is agreeable to you, he will be brought to your residence on Saturday afternoon, accompanied by Dr. C. B. Davenport, Mr. H. H. Laughlin, and myself. If you have any preference as to the hour of our coming, please kindly indicate it, or name any other hour within the two days mentioned, and oblige. Very sincerely yours, Geo. H. ShullWAR DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF WASHINGTON, D.C. October 16th, 1911 Dear Sir: Your letter of the 13th instant, enclosing certain papers which Colonel Roosevelt desired forwarded to General Wood, arrived during the General's absence in the west on an inspection trip with the Secretary of War, from which he does not expect to return until the latter part of this month. As soon as he returns I will bring your letter to his personal attention. Very truly yours, Herbert F. Statesir Secy Mr. Frank Harper, C/o Col. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City.[*1091 Cortlandt*] JOHN A. STEWART NO. 50 CHURCH STREET NEW YORK CITY October 16th, 1911. Mr. Frank Harper, c/o The Outlook, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York. My dear Mr. Harper: - I should like to see the Colonel for a moment to-day, Tuesday, if possible. Won't you telephone me with regard to the matter? Yours very truly, John A. Stewart J. A. S. C. P. S. Senator Dandurand enjoyed the joke about the books, so he will understand when Colonel Roosevelt acknowledges their receipt.FRANK S. NOYES, WASHINGTON STAR, PRESIDENT. R. M. JOHNSTON, HOUSTON POST, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT. FRANK P. MACLENNAN, TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT. MELVILLE E. STONE, GENERAL MANAGER. J. R. YOUATT, TREASURER. DIRECTORS. THOMAS G. RAPIER, NEW ORLEANS PICAYUNE. HERMAN RIDDER, NEW YORK STATE ZEITUNG. VICTOR F. LAWSON, CHICAGO DAILY NEWS. ALBERT J. BARR, PITTSBURG POST. CLARK HOWELL, ATLANTA CONSTITUTION. CHARLES W. KNAPP, ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC. FRANK B. NOYES, WASHINGTON STAR. ADOLPH S. OCHS, NEW YORK TIMES. W. L. MCLEAN, PHILADELPHIA BULLETIN. CHARLES H. TAYLOR, BOSTON GLOBE. W. R. NELSON, KANSAS CITY STAR. V. S. MCCLATCHY, SACRAMENTO BEE. A. C. WEISS, DULUTH HERALD. CHARLES H. CLARK, HARTFORD COURANT. W. H. COWLES, SPOKANE SPOKESMAN REVIEW. The Associated Press. EASTERN DIVISION. CHARLES T. THOMPSON, SUPERINTENDENT, 195 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY. [*5.*] October 16, 1911. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N. Y. My dear Sir:- It comes to our notice that you are scheduled to deliver an address on October 20th before the Civic Forum in this city. The Associated Press would very much appreciate the receipt of your remarks on this occasion in advance for distribution to its papers in the customary manner. Yours very truly, Charles T. Thompson Superintendent. [*[Thompson]*] HM.[*10.*] 15 Wadsworth Avenue, New York, October 16, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Contributing Editor, The Outlook, New York, N. Y. My dear Sir: On application recently made to The Outlook for a position, I was informed that a minor vacancy was to be filled in the stenographic department, and I was requested to call, which I did. I was told that the position paid only $14.00 a week, which is only half of what I have been earning. The official in charge advised both in my interest and that of The Outlook not to take it since it was likely that I would tire of it shortly and leave for something better. In one way such an assumption is correct. On the other hand the facts are these: I very earnestly desire experience with a high class magazine. I have been doing some literary work of a fictional character, and also some of a more technical nature bearing upon the widowed mother and her child. I have been told by literary men connected with some of the best publications in New York that my work both in subject matter and literary style would win success when completed. Having been orphaned in what might be termed the "worst form of orphaning", and later having been widowed at the age of twenty-five with a family of three little ones to provide for, you may well understand that I am deeply interested in my work, and that the acceptance of a salary, if enough to meet the expenses of a very simple manner of living, could not be counted as a sacrifice when compared with the possibility of being so situated that I might win for my work the approval of those who conduct The Outlook. I write, therefore, to ask your support in securing the position referred to. I shall be very grateful for any action you may feel at liberty to take. I submit herewith credentials which may be sufficient to acquaint you with my character and ability. Very respectfully, (Mrs.) Lelia M. Tinsley[*Friday 12-30*] [*AMERICA PERSIA*] 225 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK October 16, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Outlook Co., 287 - 4th Avenue, New York. My dear Colonel:- If I may take a moment of your time, I would like to introduce to you the Rev. Nestorius George Malech who is interested in the contemplated publication of certain historical manuscripts in his possession. He has been highly endorsed by Persian foreign officials and especially by our Charge d'Affaires in Washington and also by many men of learning and repute. I have examined these testimonials and find them to be correct. He is earnestly seeking your advice and aid and should-2- you find it compatible to give him an interview, I will feel, personally, greatly honored. Very faithfully yours, H. H. Topakyan Consul-General.AMERICAN CONSULAR SERVICE [*A*] Dunfermline, Scotland, October 16, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York, U. S. A. Dear Sir: Permit me, at the request of your man admirers and friends in this Scottish city, as well myself, to express earnest sympathy and sincere wishes for your early and complete recovery from the dastardly attempt made against your life. Faithfully yours, Howard D. Van Sant.UNIVERSITY EXTENSION DIVISION LOUIS E. REBER, DEAN DEPT. OF GENERAL INFORMATION AND WELFARE CIVIC AND SOCIAL CENTER DEVELOPMENT EDWARD J. WARD, ADVISER DEPT. GENERAL INFORMATION AND WELFARE DEPT. OF INSTRUCTION BY LECTURES DEPT. OF CORRESPONDENCE - STUDY DEPT. OF DEBATING AND PUBLIC DISCUSSION THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON [*42*] October 16, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. Dear sir: - In an editorial in the Kansas City Star of October 8th appeared the statement that [the] citizenship organization is the great ideal of the twentieth Century. I enclose herewith editorial comment from the Chicago Tribune of October 15th. The problem which this First National Conference on Civic and Social Center Development, which meets here October 25th to 28th, faces is nothing less than the Big Fundamental Job., - citizenship organization for citizenship self-government, self-direction, self-education and self-entertainment. To put meaning into this phrase will require a century's campaign. This Conference aims only to call attention to the problem and make a little beginning at its solution. I wish we had started two years ago so that we could have you here for this meeting, but will it not be possible for you to send a statement which may be presented at the Conference? I enclose such a statement prepared by Senator La Follette and presented at the meeting at Dallas, Texas last spring. We shall be glad, of course, to have you send that statement by telegraph at our expense, if there is not time for mailing. Heartily yours, Edward J. Ward EJW/ACMFor 3 encs see ca 10-16-11 10-15-11L. A. Warner R. F. D. Lake View N. Y. Oct 16/11 [*7*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt care The Outlook New York Dear Colonel Roosevelt I beg to mail you under seperate cover a motto which I know you will appreciate. I ventured to translate the German. To dare to translate from Schillers Liebe is quite an undertaking. I have a few friends who will appreciate this little souveiner and I trust I may count you as one - as always your disinterested friend & admirer. L. A. Warner[*[For l. enc. see Bloodgood 10-12-11]*] I suppose you are snowed under with such penalties, so I only "mention the subject" as requested, and leave it to your conscience and your engagement. book. I meant to write a much shorter letter, but - we women are so loquacious. Please give my kindest regards to Mrs Roosevelt and believe me Sincerely yours Carolyn Wells [*[Wells]*] Rahway New Jersey [*18*] October 16/1911 My dear Mr Roosevelt: Explanations explain so little that I'll just enclose a letter I have just received and let it plead for itself - I trust you remember Miss Winifred Holt, who does so much for the Blind in New York. Her sister, Mrs Bloodgoodof Baltimore is equally fine and philanthropic, (and deemed by some to be better looking, though, I don't think its possible to imagine a more beautiful woman than Winifred Holt. But I'm off the track!) Well, Mrs Bloodgood claims that I am a "good friend of the Roosevelt family," which is true indeed), except that I'm not very good - she further asks me to mention this subject (see letter) to you or Mrs. Roosevelt. After due consideration, I've concluded to write to you, as being more direct, and I understand the Welch gentleman is to see you soon. I read a good line the other day. "The penalty of achievement is being asked to it again"-Private [*1:*] Oct. 16th 1911 Elm Court Lenox, Massachusetts My dear Roosevelt. I feel that I ought to let you know of a brief but interesting conversation which I had [a few] the day after I saw you with a down town magnate; Alexander, the new President of the Bank of Commerce. I dropped in to congratulate him upon his election to that position while I was in Europe, in connection with which latter we get to talking about your memorable tour last year which seems to have interested him at the time and ever since. In the course of conversation A. said that he thought your evidence before the Trustinvestigating committee had been splendid & had [been] produced a great impression in Wall St. circles. He then added that he wished you could before long come out with some statement showing a line which what is generally meant by the vague word and "trusts" could take with entire conformity to the law & with the approval of right minded & patriotic people throughout the country. I don't know that these were his exact words but such was their purport "for there is no doubt," he went on to say "that Mr. Roosevelt is the idol of the American People" (these words I wrote down the moment I left him) and such a statement emanating from him [I] would have an immense effect throughout the country" I write this to you notElm Court Lenox, Massachusetts 2/ because they happen to confirm what I told you is R. Bacon's opinion; and still less because I want in any way to urge you to take any such action promptly or if at all, without very careful consideration. For I recognize how very difficult such a statement is to make under present conditions; and it had certainly better not be made at all than not exactly [rightly] with the best possible effect. My object in letting you know of the incident is [and] that such an opinion of you struck me as extraordinary and of the very heart and soul of Wall St. only a year after Oct 1910 and I think you ought to know of its existence We came up here unexpectedly last Thursday for the Choate's Golden Wedding celebration today(and by the bye just missed to our great regret Mr Douglas Robinsons who left only a few hours before our arrival. Tomorrow we go to Washington but shall be back in N. Y. early in Nov when I shall try again to see you. Meanwhile we both hope that Mrs. Roosevelt is making steady, even if slow, progress toward recovery I felt somewhat tempted to answer O. Strauss' foolish article in the Outlook advising our Govt to offer mediation between Turkey and Italy and thus bring (to a certainty with the light and delicate touch Knox and Huntington Wilson would bring to bear) and the rebuff upon us. But I dont imagine Strauss' advice will excite much attention and so I decided to leave it alone. Apparently he is ignorant of the fact that Italy hasElm Court Lenox, Massachusetts 3/ for years past "ear - marked" Tripoli as her own and has had for a number of years a special agreement with France promising not to interfere with Italian designs in that quarter. It was moreover practically impossible for Italy, as an aspiring Mediterranean Power of the first class, to refrain long from carrying her designs upon Tripoli into execution, with Spain making an invasion of parts of Morocco in a manner never dreamt of by the Algeciras Conf'ce and France greatly extending and consolidating her power on the Southern Mediterranean coast so to say nothing of German aspirations.It is only since I saw you that I have read your admirable article on the Panama Canal, which cannot be too highly commended both as to its manner and matter. It is a historical document of the first order and I mean to preserve it as such. There is not a word that one can think of changing, omitting or adding from beginning to end. And having been there myself a year ago, I realized on the spot [myself] more than ever before the inestimable service you had rendered our country & the world by the way in which you handled that great and at that time - most complicated question. Yours, with many apologies for the length of this letter which I had intended should be a brief note Most sincerely Henry WhiteNew York Child Labor Committee Main Office: [105 East 22d Street] New York City Western Office: 39 Erie Street, Buffalo TELEPHONE 496 GRAMERCY Board of Directors MORNAY WILLIAMS, Chairman 25 Liberty Street. V. EVERIT MACY, Vice-Chairman PAUL M. WARBURG, Treasurer New York City FELIX ADLER GEORGE W. ALGER LEO ARNSTEIN ALFRED J. BOULTON MANFRED EHRICH PAULINE GOLDMARK DANIEL HARRIS JOHN S. HENRY RAYMOND INGERSOLL FLORENCE KELLEY SAMUEL McCUNE LINDSAY WILLIAM H. MAXWELL JAMES K. PAULDING LILLIAN D. WALD Buffalo FREDERIC ALMY BELLE R. LAVERACK ANSLEY WILCOM Rochester JOHN T. ALLING MRS. ELMER J. BISSELL Syracuse MRS. HORACE A. EATON Elmira ANNA B. PRATT GEORGE A. HALL, Secretary ZENAS L. POTTER, Field Secretary NEW YORK, October 16, 1911 [*7.*] [[shorthand]] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 289 Fourth Avenue, New York City. My dear Col. Roosevelt: -- Your note of the 13th inst. is received and I shall be very happy indeed to call upon you at such time as you may appoint, with the reservation that, as I have a case which will probably be called this week in the Appellate Division, I may be engaged during the afternoon in that Division and cannot make a positive appointment until I know the disposition made of that case. I hope it will be reached Wednesday or Thursday, but am not certain. As your address is to be delivered, I believe, on the 20th, I am a little uncertain as to what date you may wish to see me. Will you kindly let me know as early as possible that I may try and arrange my engagements accordingly. Sincerely yours, Mornay WilliamsJAMES W. HUSTED, PRESIDENT FRANKLIN MONTROSS, SECETARY P. W. O'BRIEN, M. D. LANNING G. ROAKE WILLIAM LAWSON MARTIN MOSES, TREASURER OFFICE OF Board of Education UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO.7 DRUM HILL HIGH SCHOOL FRANKLIN SCHOOL PARK STREET SCHOOL WALTER H. YOUNG, SUPERINTENDENT AND DISTRICT CLERK. [*W.*] PEEKSKILL, N. Y., Oct 16 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Ave, New York, Dear Sir: Yours of the 11th. inst. at hand. My Board, and especially Pres Husted, are very anxious indeed to have you speak in our new auditorium. I did not mention compensation in my previous letter, but I am in a position to offer you $250.00, (two hundred and fifty dollars) for one lecture, the profits to go to equipping our gymnasium. Any date within two or three months would be acceptable to us. We realize you are a very busy and much- sought-for man, and trust you may be able to come to Peekskill, notwithstanding the many demands upon your time. Hoping for a favorable reply, I am Very truly yours Walter H Young,OFFICES OF THE COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE PORT CONDITIONS AND PIER EXTENSIONS IN NEW YORK HARBOR 100 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY TELEPHONE 1185 RECTOR COMMISSIONERS JOHN A. BENSEL CALVIN TOMKINS R. A. C. SMITH T. O. McGILL SECRETARY OCTOBER 16,1911. Dear Sir:- This Commission has begun a campaign to enlist the interest of the community in the task of providing adequate piers to safely berth the modern steamships now plying and those being built to ply between European ports and the port of New York, which becomes alarmingly inadequate each year in facilities for properly harboring them. Temporary and makeshift provisions have been made from time to time to meet the emergency, when a longer and deeper steamship was put in service, and those who obtained temporary relief for the commerce of the city by securing concessions to keep the port facilities partly up to the demand on them, are entitled to much credit but, the time has arrived when the important near future as well as the present interests of the city must be considered and the time for makeshifts has passed. There must be a comprehensive unified plan agree upon by all those involved in the vitally important territory lying between the bulkhead and the pierhead line by which the port of New York may for years to come be able to harbor any vessel that may be harbored in any other port, a plan that will have the support of the entire community - by which the commission may with a great just reason go to the war department for the concessions necessary to guarantee the continuous flow of virile and new commercial blood which passes through the artery of a port and which is absolutely necessary to the continuous growth of this metropolis and its adjacent territory. This Commission was appointed by Governor Dix, after legislation approved by him, had given him the power to make it a permanent body and, with a thorough appreciation of the importance of what is to be accomplished, he has done all that he could so far to give the project a successful launching. Governor Wilson, of New Jersey, has appointed a similar Commission, the members of which are; Ernest J. Heppenheimer, Colonial Life Insurance Co., Jersey City, N. J., R. C. Jenkinson, 289 Washington St., Newark, N. J., and J. Spencer Smith, 366 Washington St., New York City. That Commission has been asked to prepare plans showing what New Jersey needs and what concessions are to be asked for the Jersey port and, endeavor will be made continuously from this time to hasten the work. Mr. John A. Bensel, is the New York State Engineer and represents the government of the state on the New York Commission. Mr. Calvin Tomkins the Dock Commissioner of the City of New York, represents the Municipal Government. Mr. R. A. C. Smith is a member of the Chamber of Commerce. The Commission will appreciate any suggestion or help that will go to secure modern port facilities for New York. Respectfully,Offices of The Commission to Investigate Port Conditions and Pier Extensions In New York Harbor 100 Broadway, New York City Telephone 1185 Rector Commissioners John A. Bensel Calvin Tomkins R. A. C. Smith October 16,1911. T. O. McGill Secretary Dear Sir:- This Commission has begun a campaign to enlist the interest of the community in the task of providing adequate piers to safely berth the modern steamships now plying and those being built to ply between European ports and the port of New York, which becomes alarmingly inadequate each year in facilities for properly harboring them. Temporary and makeshift provisions have been made from time to time to meet the emergency, when a longer and deeper steamship was put in service, and those who obtained temporary relief for the commerce of the City by securing concessions to keep the port facilities partly up to the demand on them, are entitled to much credit but, the time has arrived when the important near future as well as the present interests of the city must be considered and the time for makeshifts has passed. There must be a comprehensive unified plan agree upon by all those involved in the vitally important territory lying between the bulkhead and the pierhead line by which the port of New York may for years to come be able to harbor any vessel that may be harbored in any other port, a plan that will have the support of the entire community - by which the Commission may with a great just reason go to the War Department for the concessions necessary to guarantee the continuous flow of virile and new commercial blood which passes through the artery of a port and which is absolutely necessary to the continuous growth of this metropolis and its adjacent territory. This Commission was appointed by Governor Dix, after legislation approved by him, had given him the power to make it a permanent body and, with a thorough appreciation of the importance of what is to be accomplished, he has done all that he could so far to give the project a successful launching. Governor Wilson, of New Jersey, has appointed a similar Commission, the members of which are; Ernest J. Heppenheimer, Colonial Life Insurance Co., Jersey City, N. J., R. C. Jenkinson, 289 Washington St., Newark, N. J., and J. Spencer Smith, 366 Washington St., New York City. That Commission has been asked to prepare plans showing what New Jersey needs and what concessions are to be asked for the Jersey port and, endeavor will be made continuously from this time to hasten the work. Mr. John A. Bensel, is the New York State engineer and represents the Government of the State on the New York Commission. Mr. Calvin Tomkins the Dock Commissioner of the City of New York, represents the Municipal Government. Mr. R. A. C. Smith is a member of the Chamber of Commerce. The Commission will appreciate any suggestion or help that will go to secure modern port facilities for New York. Respectfully,ca 10-16-11 The Statement of Hon. Robert M. La Follette United States Senator from Wisconsin Regarding Civic and Social Center Development.Senator La Follette's Statement: Chosen individuals may strive faithfully in meeting and solving the complex problems which arise from the industrial and economic conditions of our time, but lasting results will be achieved through the growth and development of civic interest on the part of citizens in general. There is a hitherto largely undeveloped resource for the growth of intelligent public interest in the opportunity which the schoolhouses and other public buildings offer for the gathering of citizens to consider and discuss together questions of common welfare. In some parts of Wisconsin where the school boards offer the free and gratuitous use o the school buildings for the meeting of neighborhood organizations, the formation of non-partisan civic clubs whose aim is the development of intelligent public spirit through the open presentation and free discussion of public questions, a movement which promises benefits not unlike those of the pure democracy of the old new England town meetings, is strongly under way. It has been found that not only public officials, but leaders in every line of public development welcome the invitation to speak before such non-partisan gatherings of citizens. Should this movement become general it would unquestionably result in the establishment of a foundation of intelligent democracy which would make civic progress not only rapid, but conservative and sure. Along with the civic education which will result from the common association of citizens' gatherings in neighborhood civic clubs in their public school buildings, there is sure to be a social benefit in broadening the acquaintance of different political, religious and social groups upon the common ground of citizenship. This works strongly to counteract the tendencies away from democracy which seem at times to threaten us. it will also result in lessening prejudice and misunderstanding and not only in Americanizing the foreigner who comes into our midst, but also in developing a better American spirit among us all. There is a phase of this subject which has special importance or rural communities. The use of the rural school plant as a Social Center for the life of the people promises not only an increased understanding of the special problems of the rural communities, but where recreation features are added to the discussions and social gatherings it promises an increase of the attractiveness of rural neighborhoods which will tend to prevent the flow from the country to the city. Other motives are responsible for this migration, but the motive of seeking wider recreational opportunity is not inconsiderable. Important as the civic, social and recreational possibilities are, none of them is more important than the educational benefit which will come [*[Enc. in Ward 10-16-11*] through the wider use of school buildings during the time when they have hitherto been unused. The educational system is, in many respects, the most important of all the institutions of democracy, and the wider use of the school plants will result in a larger interest on the part of all the people in the equipment and methods used for the education of the children. It will also mean an opportunity for continuation of education for boys and girls beyond school age, and for adults. It is because the University of Wisconsin in its Extension Division recognizes the opportunity for carrying to the people of the state its stores of garnered knowledge, its inspiration of trained leadership, its enthusiasm for education, which the use of the public school buildings as civic and social centers offers, that it has added a department to furnish expert counsel and aid in civic and social center development to the people of the state. In this, the University of Wisconsin is a pioneer, but it is already evident that other state universities see the benefits promised by this development and are moving to follow the example of Wisconsin. R. M. La Follette Communication to All Southwestern Conference for Social Centers Dallas, Texas, Feb. 17, 1911[*[ca 10-16-11]*] BULLETIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN Serial No. 459, General Series, No. 296 EXTENSION DIVISION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GENERAL INFORMATION AND WELFARE THE PROGRAM OF THE FIRST NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CIVIC AND SOCIAL CENTER DEVELOPMENT OCTOBER 25-28, 1911 AT MADISON, WISCONSIN This conference is called through the cooperation of the Social Center Association of America, and the University Extension Division. MADISON Published by the University October, 1911 Entered as second class matter, June 10, 1898 at the post-office at Madison, Wisconsin, under the Act of July 16, 1894. (2)UNIVERSITY EXTENSION DIVISION DEPARTMENT OF CORRESPONDENCE-STUDY One or more courses are offered in each of the following lines for home study. Agriculture Business and Industry Engineering Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Structural Mechanical Drawing Surveying Highway Construction The Languages French, Italian, Spanish, German, Greek, Latin History Ancient, Medieval, Modern, American, European Home Economics Political Economy Political Science Sociology Philosophy Education Mathematics English language and Literature Physical Sciences Bacteriology, Botany, Physical Geography, Geology, Chemistry, Astronomy Law Pharmacy Music Teachers' Reviews Any one or all of the above departmental announcements will be mailed to any address on request. DEPARTMENT OF INSTRUCTION BY LECTURES A bulletin descriptive of lectures and lecture courses will be mailed to any address on request. DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL INFORMATION AND WELFARE Bulletins descriptive of this department, including Municipal Reference, Civic and Social Center, and Vocational Institute work, will be mailed on request. DEPARTMENT OF DEBATING AND PUBLIC DISCUSSION Bulletins on debating and the discussion of public questions will be mailed on request without charge to citizens of the state. Copies will be mailed to addresses outside the state upon receipt of list price. (2) The University of Wisconsin UNIVERSITY EXTENSION DIVISION General Information and Welfare MADISON, WIS. OFFICERS OF ADMINISTRATION CHARLES RICHARD VAN HISE, Ph. D., LL. D. President of the University LOUIS E. REBER, M. S., Sc. D. Dean, University Extension Division EDWARD J. WARD, M. A. Advisor, Bureau of Civic and Social Center Development THE PROGRAM OF THE FIRST NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CIVIC AND SOCIAL CENTER DEVELOPMENT Called through the coöperation of the Social center Association of America and the University Extension Division TO BE HELD AT MADISON, WISCONSIN October 25, 26, 27, and 28, 1911 This conference will address itself to the practical problem of developing in every neighborhood, through the wider use of the public school plant or otherwise, a common meeting place for citizenship expression, for wholesome recreation, for broadening information, for the promotion of public health and protection—a Neighborhood Social Center. Every meeting of this conference will be an open session, all those present having the right to vote in the election of officers and the determination of policies. The call to attend and participate in this conference includes all adult citizens. (3)PROGRAM Wednesday Evening, October 25........... 8 o'clock AT THE UNIVERSITY GYMNASIUM Chairman, DEAN LOUIS E. REBER, University Extension Division Music................................................................... University Band Address of Welcome for the State............................ HON. FRANCIS E. MCGOVERN, Governor of Wisconsin Address of Welcome for the University CHARLES R. VAN HISE, President of the University of Wisconsin Response................................................ JOSIAH STRONG, President of The Social Center Association of America Address................................ HON. WOODROW WILSON, Governor of New Jersey "The Need of Citizenship Organization" Thursday Morning, October 26......................... 9 o'clock AT THE UNIVERSITY MUSIC HALL Chairman, DR. JOSIAH STRONG Business Session for Permanent Organization Report for Social Center Association... GEORGE B. FORD, Member Board of Directors. Report of Committee on organization.... JOSIAH STRONG Discussion of Constitution Election of Permanent Officers Thursday Noon, October 26, Round Table Luncheon.................................. 12:00 o'clock. AT LATHROP HALL Toastmaster, DANTE BARTON, Kansas City Star. Address.............................................. CHARLES FERGUSON, Author of "The University Militant." "The Machine" Address..................................... MISS MARY E. MCDOWELL, University of Chicago Settlement "The Beginning in Chicago" [4] Thursday Afternoon, October 26..................... 2:30 o'clock. AT THE UNIVERSITY MUSIC HALL Chairman, Hon. CHARLES P. CARY, State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Address....................................................... GEO. M. FORBES, President Board of Education, Rochester, N. Y., President New York State Teachers' Association. "Lessons Learned in Rochester" Address................................................. CARROLL G. PEARSE, President National Educational Association. "Cooperation with N. E. A." Address................................. Hon. PHILANDER P. CLAXTON, United States Commissioner of Education. "The School and the Community" Address................................. Mrs. MARY L. STARKWEATHER, Assistant Commissioner Women's Department, Bureau of Labor for Minnesota. "Social Centers in Minnesota" Address.................................................... CLARENCE A. PERRY, Author "Wider Use of the School Plant", Russel Sage Foundation, N. Y. "Survey of Present Development" Thursday Evening, October 26................................ 8 o'clock AT THE UNIVERSITY GYMNASIUM Chairman, The Reverend PATRICK B. KNOX, Pastor St. Patrick's Church, Madison, Wis. Motion Pictures............................................. JOHN COLLIER, Secretary National Board of Censorship Address................................................ WALTER T. SUMNER, Dean, Christ Church Cathedral; Chairman Chicago Vice Commission "The Need of a Substitute" Address................................................. HERBERT BIGELOW, Secretary Ohio Constitution Reform League "Re-creation or Dissipation" [5]Friday morning, October 27.................................. 9 o'clock AT THE UNIVERSITY MUSIC HALL Chairman, Dean HARRY L. RUSSELL, College of Agriculture, Address........................................................ HERBERT QUICK, Editor of "Farm and Fireside" "The Rural Awakening" Address............................................................. P. V. COLLINS, Editor, "Northwestern Agriculturalist" "The social Center and the Farmer's Home" Address (Illustrated)........................ CHARLES W. HOLMAN, Managing Editor of Texas "Farm and Ranch" "Significant Beginnings in the Southwest" Friday Noon, October 27. Round Table Luncheon..................................... 12:00 o'clock Toastmaster, EDWARD A. ROSS, Professor of Sociology, The University of Wisconsin. Opening Address....................... CLARK W. HETHERINGTON, Director, Fels Foundation, Author of "Normal Course in Play." "Opportunities and Requirements of Social Center Directors." Friday Afternoon, October 27........................... 3:00 o'clock AT THE UNIVERSITY MUSIC HALL Chairman, DR HENRY M. LEIPZIGER. Address.......................................... CHARLES E. MCLENEGAN, Public Library, Milwaukee "The Schoolhouse as Branch Public Library" Address................................................... JOHN R. COMMONS, Wisconsin State Industiral Commission "The Schoolhouse as Employment Office" Address.................................................. MRS. M. F. JOHNSON, President, Richmond Art Association. "The Schoolhouse as Local Art Gallery" Address.................................................. CHARLES MCCARTHY, Director Legislative Reference Library for Wisconsin "School as Branch Legislative Reference Bureau" Address (Illustrated).............................. CLARENCE A. PERRY "Schoolhouse as Recreation Center" (6) Friday Evening, October 27....................................... 8 o'clock AT THE UNIVERSITY GYMNASIUM Chairman, Colonel FRANK P. HOLLAND, President Southwestern Conference for Social Centers. Music........................................................ University Glee Club Address.......................................................... LIVY S. RICHARD, Editor of "Boston Common," Boston, Mass. "What the Newspapers Can't Do" Address................................................ Hon. MOSES E. CLAPP, United States Senator from Minnesota. "Real Democracy" Saturday Morning, October 28........................... 9:30 o'clock AT THE UNIVERSITY MUSIC HALL Chairman, DR. JOSIAH STRONG. Business Session for action upon special problems. Saturday Noon, October 28................................... 12 o'clock AT LATHROP HALL Informal Round Table Luncheons for groups interested in special phases of Social Center development. Saturday Afternoon, October 28, AT CAMP RANDALL Fall Track Meet...................................................... 1:30 o'clock AT AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE EXHIBIT PAVILION Harvest Pageant................................................... 3:45 o'clock Hallowe'en Festival.............................................. 5:00 o'clock Saturday Evening, October 28................................. 7 o'clock Banquet Toastmaster, HON. HERMAN L. EKERN Speakers: WILLIAM ALLEN WRITE FRANK P. WALSH HON. J. W. HOWES MRS. DAVID KIRK MISS ZONA GALE COL. GEORGE W. BIRD BASANTA KOOMAR ROY DR. JOSIAH STRONG COL. SAMUEL S. MCCLURE (7)[*[Enc. in Ward 10-16-11]*] EXHIBITS The following exhibits will be displayed throughout the Conference in the University Music Hall: 1. Exhibit of model plans of complete social center buildings and equipment prepared by J. Foster Warner, Rochester, N. Y., School Architect. 2. Exhibit of model plans of complete social center buildings and equipment prepared under the supervision of George B. Ford, United States Government delegate to the International Housing Congress of 1910. 3. Exhibit of Community Survey charts, prepared by Professor Charles H. Galpin. 4. Complete collection of social center photographs from the Boston 1915 exhibit. FROM THE CORNERS TO THE CENTER For further detailed information address either Social Center Association of America, 1451 Broadway, New York City or, Bureau of Civic and Social Center Development, University Extension Division, The University of Wisconsin, Madison [8]CHARLES J. BONAPARTE [*6.*] ATTORNEY AT LAW 216 ST. PAUL ST. BALTIMORE October 17, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Office of the "Outlook", 287 Fourth Avenue, New York. My dear Mr. Roosevelt;- We have here a very energetic and public-spirited lady, the daughter of Mr. Holt of New York, who has married Dr. Joseph C. Bloodgood of the Johns Hopkins; she has been instrumental in organising several very useful and meritorious societies and conscripting her acquaintances as members of their governing bodies. Last Summer she wrote me asking that I "back up" a request she was about to make that you should speak at a meeting of the Holman Association in which she is now very much interested. I wrote her that, if she would send me the letter she contemplated writing you, I should be happy to enclose with it one recommending her personally to your courtesy, the truth being that I did not know enough about the Association in question to write of its merits. I believe this scheme has been abandoned, but I received a day or two since the enclosed letter from her, from which you will see that Dr. Wm. H. Welch of the John Hopkins is to see you personally on the subject in the near future, I have written her that I felt very confident you would "receive Dr. Welch with an open mind", but that I feared the probability of your being able to attend was not very great. I hope Mrs. Roosevelt has now fully recovered from the consequences of her accident, and I remain, as ever, yours most truly, Dictated. Charles J. Bonaparte For enc see 10-12-11[*Ack 10-26-11*] [*Bonham*] Evan A. Bonham [614 State Life Bldg.] Stocks and Bonds [Indianapolis, Ind.] Mineral Lands A Specialty [*23*] Cherry Arizona, October 17th, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New-York. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: - According to an honored custom which I understand was established several years ago, you offer a prize to any father and mother bearing 9 sons. There was born to Mr. and Mrs. Maders of this place, on the 14th inst., the ninth boy a bright husky little fellow, whom we hope they will name Teddy. If your offer is still in force kindly let us know what steps to take. Mr. Maders is a ranchman in ordinary circumstances. You may perhaps remember meeting me on two different occasions in Indianapolis, Ind. I have been basking in the sunshine of Northern Arizona for over 3 years for my health. Respectfully yours, Evan A. Bonham[*[Buxton]*] BIGHORN SHERIDAN COUNTY, WYOMING RAILWAY, TELEGRAMS AND EXPRESS SHERIDAN, WYOMING Oct 17th 1911 Dear Mr Roosevelt I am so sorry I have bothered you when you have so much anxiety about Mrs Roosevelt. I only hope you will not think any more about me - for I am sure even if, as I hope, she is already much better - she ought to be very quiet.I am only so sorry I did not know of the accident and would not then of course have written. I do hope she will soon be quite all right again. I shall be very sorry I leave here next Saturday. I have enjoyed my visit to your country so very much. I expect to reach New York on Tuesday Yours very sincerely Theresa BuxtonDAILY, SATURDAY, WEEKLY AND MAGAZINE JOURNAL BUILDING 16-18 LISBON STREET EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT H. M. DINGLEY, PRES. F. L. DINGLEY, TREAS. FOUNDED 1847 LEWISTON JOURNAL CO. LEWISTON, MAINE Oct. 17, 1911. [*9.*] Theodore Roosevelt, Office of The Outlook, New York City. Dear Colonel: For the past six or eight months I have been contending for a faith once delivered to the saints, so far as I am able to interpret it, and I thought it barely possible that you might be interested in an editorial in today's Lewiston Journal, touching the momentous issues of progressive republicanism. And with best wishes for your health and for the faith that is in us, I beg to remain as ever Yours faithfully Frank L Dingley2 Oyster Bay, N.Y., October 17th, 1911 Dear Sir and Bro.:- The Second Annual Banquet of Matinecock Lodge, No. 806, F. & A.M., will be held at the Octagon Hotel, Oyster Bay, Wednesday evening, November 1st, 1911, at 8:30 o'clock. We are therefore, taking the liberty of enclosing ... ticket at $1.50 each, for the same, which we hope will be able to use. Please make all returns to Senior Steward, Leslie C. Disbrow, on or before Thursday, October 28th, 1911, that we may get an idea of the number to provide for. All tickets not accounted for on the above date will be charged to the parties holding them. Yours fraternally, Leslie C. Disbrow, Robert W. Duvall, Stewards.[*[10-17-11]*] Form 1 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 26,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD The Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been accepted to by the sender of the following message. Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmissions or delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid theron, nor in any case beyond the sum of Fifty Dollars, at which, unless otherwise stated below, this message has been valued by the sender thereof, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. THEO. N VAIL, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER NUMBER SENT BY REC'D BY CHECK 6 Mc Di 15 636p. RECEIVED AT Oyster Bay [?] 1911 DATED Hn New York 17 TO Hon Theo. Roosevelt, ny would you kindly grant Mr. Felder and me a short conference meet you tomorrow H. M. DoughertyBOSTON, NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA, CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS Dennison Manufacturing Co. South Framingham, Mass. CABLE ADDRESS "DENTAGS" [*FROM Dennison Manufacturing Co. ESTABLISHED 1844 INCORPORATED 1878 CAPITAL $2,500,000*] Dennison QUALITY PRESIDENT AND TREASURER CHARLES S. DENNISON, BOSTON VICE PRESIDENT FRANK E. EWING. SO. FRAMINGHAM October 17th, 1911. [*6.*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, c/o The Outlook Magazine, New York City. My dear sir: - It has been our plan to arrange a series of stereopticon lectures for our factory employees along educational lines. This year we are desirous of obtaining a good lecturer on the subject of "Hunting Wild Animals in Africa." The lecture should be a stereopticon one and might well be along the lines of hunting with gun, camera or lasso. If you can recommend a party to use we would appreciate it very much. Thanking you in advance for the favor of a reply, we are Yours very truly, DENNISON MANUFACTURING COMPANY. H. N. Dowse Sec'y to H. S. Dennison [*Buffalo Jones Guy Scull*]PERCY BERNARD ECKHART 1340 FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING CHICAGO O c t o b e r Seventeenth 1 9 1 1 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Editorial Rooms, The Outlook, 287 Fourth Avenue, NEW YORK CITY. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: If you would honor me enough to sign and date a portrait etching of yourself which I have taken the liberty to send to your office, I should be most grateful and prize immeasurably the picture thus enriched. My only shadow of an excuse to infringe on your time is that I received a law degree from Harvard University at the same time that you were given the highest degree and since have had the pleasure of dining with you last winter at our Harvard Club and again at the Union League. The express company will return the picture at my expense. With the best of wishes for your welfare, I am, Sincerely yours, Percy B. Eckhart.THE CIVIC FORUM NON-PARTISAN, NON-SECTARIAN A NATIONAL PLATFORM FOR THE DISCUSSION OF PUBLIC QUESTIONS AND THE PROMOTION OF INTERNATIONAL GOOD-WILL BOARD OF TRUSTEES ISAAC N. SELIGMAN J. AND W. SELIGMAN & CO. BANKERS, WILLIAM H. BLISS LAWYER MARCUS M. MARKS PRESIDENT NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS ELGIN R. L. GOULD PRESIDENT CITY AND SUBURBAN HOMES COMPANY HENRY CLEWS BANKER ROBERT J. COLLIER EDITOR COLLIER'S WEEKLY JAMES B. REYNOLDS FORMERLY SPECIAL COMMISSIONER FOR PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT JOHN MITCHELL EX-PRESIDENT UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA ROBERT ERSKINE ELY EDUCATOR VICE-PRESIDENTS HON. WILLIAM H. TAFT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HON. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN LINCOLN, NEBRASKA RT. REV. DAVID H. GREER, D. D. EPISCOPAL BISHOP OF NEW YORK PRESIDENT SAMUEL GOMPERS AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR HON. NAHUM J. BACHELDER EX-GOVERNOR OF NEW HAMPSHIRE MASTER OF THE NATIONAL FARMERS GRANGE JOHN GRAHAM BROOKS SOCIOLOGIST HON. OSCAR S. STRAUS EX-SECRETARY OF COMMERCE AND LABOR MOST REV. JOHN IRELAND ARCHBISHOP OF ST. PAUL REV. LYMAN ABBOTT, D. D. EDITOR OF THE OUTLOOK DR. ALBERT SHAW EDITOR OF THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS AUTHOR ELGIN R. L. GOULD, TREASURER ROBERT ERSKINE ELY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CABLE ADDRESS CIFORUM, NEW YORK TELEPHONE { 4897 } BRYANT { 4398 } OFFICE 23 WEST 44TH STREET NEW YORK MARY B. CLEVELAND EXECUTIVE SECRETARY MICHAEL KLEY FINANCIAL SECRETARY October 17, 1911 Frank Harper, Esq., Secretary to Colonel Roosevelt, 284 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Dear Mr. Harper:- Perhaps you may care to glance at a copy of Judge Hughes' letter. Mr. Choate had made engagements which rendered it impossible for him to be in New York on Friday evening, and Seth Low had committed himself to a public address that evening. Both expressed the deepest regret that they could not have the privilege of presiding at the Carnegie Hall meeting. Realizing that the audience will come solely to hear Mr. Roosevelt and that no chairman could really be any additional attraction, it seemed to us on the whole he natural and self-respecting thing to do to have one of the trustees of The Civic Forum present Mr. Roosevelt in the fewest possible words. Hon. Elgin R. L. Gould will do this. Mr. Roosevelt knows him well and he is a very genuine friend and admirer of Mr. Roosevelt's. Dr. Gould is founder and president of the City and Suburban Homes Company, which has now about $2,000,000 invested in model tenements in this city. He was City Chamberlain under Mayor Low. He was one of the founders and is one of the trustees of The Civic Forum, and is in sympathy with Federal child labor legislation. We would be very happy to send an automobile for Mr. Roosevelt on Friday evening to bring him to the hall, if he would like to have us. We hope he will come to the speakers ante-room not later than twenty minutes past eight. The platform entrance is on 56th street just east of Seventh avenue. Again thanking you for your good offices, I am, Yours sincerely, Robert E. ElyFor enc see 10-10-11D.W. ENGLISH, PRESIDENT D.P. BLACK, 1ST VICE PRES. JOHN W. BEATTY, 2ND VICE PRES. H.J. HEINZ, 3RD VICE PRES. J.J. DONNELL, TREASURER ALLEN T. BURNS, GENERAL SECRETARY PITTSBURGH CIVIC COMMISSION SUITE 401 KEYSTONE BUILDING 324 FOURTH AVENUE PHONE, COURT 1845 COMMISSION: O.H. ALLERTON J.W. KINNEAR JOHN W. BEATTY MORRIS KNOWLES T.E. DILLQUIST H.L. KREUSLER D.P. BLACK JOSEPH W. MARSH H.D.W. ENGLISH MARCUS RAUH H.J. HEINZ LEE S. SMITH WILLIAM L. JONES GEORGE R. WALLACE A.J. KELLY, JR. C.F. WELLER ADVISORY BOARD: GEORGE W. GUTHRIE JOSEPH BUFFINGTON CHAIRMAN VICE CHAIRMAN JOHN W. ALEXANDER JOSEPH A. HOLMES CHARLES J. BONAPARTE PAUL U. KELLOGG D.H. BURNHAM SETH LOW ROBERT W. DEFOREST GRAHAM TAYLOR JOHN M. GLENN D.T. WATSON ROBERT A. WOODS Pittsburgh, Pa. October 17,1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, c/o The Outlook, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Roosevelt:- Thank you for your letter of the 13th inst. with its encouragement and inspiration. Te have such words from a "fighter and builder" as you are, heartens a man. My only thought in stepping aside was occasioned by the insidious and somewhat successful efforts on the part of the enemies of our work here to take away our financial support, which is not very hard to do in these days when men contribute half-heartedly of their means and less earnestly of their service. That the attempt to thus throttle the work of the Pittsburgh Civic Commission and Veters' League has and is being made is a fact. It occurred to me that a man who had been less aggressive and not so much in the open fight; who had not combated and embittered so many selfish interests, might hamper the work less at this juncture. I need not assure you that I am for the cause and am always ready to continue the fight either in the saddle or in the ranks, for of course it is the cause that must first be considered. I felt that I could not afford to cripple the work. Your letter and the advice of others, however, have convinced me that come what may it is better not to change heads just now. We men who have been in the thick of this fight regard the present as a crisis in our civic life. We have much to be thankful for, however. The old grafting council is a thing of the past. Your presence in Pittsburgh as the guest of the Civic Commission greatly helped us in securing amendments in our last legislature to our charter. From a council of over one hundred men from over forty wards three years ago, we have twenty-seven wards with a council of nine business and professional men of the highest integrity and standing elected at large. "We have reduced the School Boards in the same manner.D.W. ENGLISH, PRESIDENT D.P. BLACK, 1ST VICE PRES. JOHN W. BEATTY, 2ND VICE PRES. H.J. HEINZ, 3RD VICE PRES. J.J. DONNELL, TREASURER ALLEN T. BURNS, GENERAL SECRETARY PITTSBURGH CIVIC COMMISSION SUITE 401 KEYSTONE BUILDING 324 FOURTH AVENUE PHONE, COURT 1845 COMMISSION: O.H. ALLERTON J.W. KINNEAR JOHN W. BEATTY MORRIS KNOWLES T.E. DILLQUIST H.L. KREUSLER D.P. BLACK JOSEPH W. MARSH H.D.W. ENGLISH MARCUS RAUH H.J. HEINZ LEE S. SMITH WILLIAM L. JONES GEORGE R. WALLACE A.J. KELLY, JR. C.F. WELLER ADVISORY BOARD: GEORGE W. GUTHRIE JOSEPH BUFFINGTON CHAIRMAN VICE CHAIRMAN JOHN W. ALEXANDER JOSEPH A. HOLMES CHARLES J. BONAPARTE PAUL U. KELLOGG D.H. BURNHAM SETH LOW ROBERT W. DEFOREST GRAHAM TAYLOR JOHN M. GLENN D.T. WATSON ROBERT A. WOODS Pittsburgh, Pa. October 17, 1911. T. R. #2. The crisis, however, just now comes through the appointment of an Industrial Commission whose purpose as expressed is to secure industries without much thought of the fundamentals such as remedying our housing and living conditions or the frightful conditions of ever-work which devitalise men and their children and makes home life and the life of their children a virtual curse instead of the blessing God intended. The advent of new industries with thousands of foreign or skilled work-men only aggravates present conditions. It is this disposition to smooth and salve over an ugly sore rather than face the trouble and cauterise it, which is in evidence in the Nation as well as in Pittsburgh, which makes the present situation critical. It is a great inspiration to know that you are still on the watch and have time in your busy life to notice the humble efforts of men like myself who have caught the vision of active service in behalf of our fellowmen. Your letter settles it. I shall go on with the fight, With thanks and kindest regards, I remain Faithfully yours, H. D. W. EnglishDR. J. M. T. FINNEY 1300 EUTAW PLACE. CONSULTATION HOURS MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY 2 TO 3.30 P. M. AND BY APPOINTMENT. [*7*] BALTIMORE, October 17, '11 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt: , Oyster Bay, New York. My dear Mr. Roosevelt: As an alumnus of Princeton (A. B.) and of Harvard (M. D.) I feel that I can approach you frankly about a matter which I trust will appeal to you. As one of the Trustees of Princeton University, I want to ask whether or not you would consider the acceptance of the Presidency of that University? As you perhaps know, there are, connected with that position, problems presenting unusual difficulties, and which can only be satisfactorily solved by a strong man. But under the leadership of such a man, there are offered through the Wyman bequest, unrivalled opportunities for development along educational lines, particularly graduate work. I am writing this letter in my individual capacity as one of the Trustees of Princeton University, and am actuated solely by whatDR. J. M. T. FINNEY 1300 EUTAW PLACE. CONSULTATION HOURS MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY 2 TO 3.30 P. M. AND BY APPOINTMENT. BALTIMORE,.......... I conceive to be for the highest good of the most honorable and worthy seat of learning. Your answer to this letter will be held strictly confidential, unless you authorize me to show it to other members of the Board of Trustees. No organized effort has as yet been made in their direction. Before taking any such steps, several of us who had hoped that you might see your way clear to come to Princeton, thought that you ought first to be consulted. May we not hope for a favorable answer to our request that you will consider the Presidency of Princeton University if it is offered to you. With great respect, believe me, Very Sincerely Yours J. M. T. Finney.220 Heberton Ave, Port Richmond,R. I. Oct.17-1911. Mr. Frank Harper, N. Y.CITY. Dear Sir:- I am writing a lecture which I expect to elaborate into a book. I call it "The Romance of American Democracy." I have written you about it before & have yours of Sept 19 asking me to drop into the Outlook office & shake hands with Theodore Roosevelt. I am not going to do this until I get a certain book out & then I shall bring it to Mr. Roosevelt & ask him to review it. Among those backing me with this book are Andrew D. White & the honorable James Bryce, ambassador from Great Britian. In my lecture I make this statement: "If a Martian were to come to this earth & study our civilisation he would say: The Anglo-Saxons have everything. The key to commerce in the eastern hemisphere is the Suez canal. England controls it." "The key to commerce in the western hemisphere is the Panama canal. America owns it thanks to Theodore Roosevelt." "And here I must proclaim another great American who as president following the example of Thomas Jefferson under lease construction of the constitution siezed the canal zone. Theodore Roosevelt is the most aggressive of modern American statesmen. He is in the class of John Adams. (Whom I regard as the creator of American diplomacy.) He was the right man in the right place when a crisis came. America can never forget such a man." Respct. Wm Neely Freeman Cornell '84[*[10-17-11]*] OFFICERS MARION WESTON COTTLE, PRESIDENT EUGENIE M. RAYE SMITH, 1ST VICE PRESIDENT MARTHA U. OVERLAND, 2ND VICE PRESIDENT JULIANA VON GALLWITZ, SECRETARY EDITH J. GRISWOLD, TREASURER MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE [EUGENE McHALE SMITH] OLIVE STOTT GABRIEL, CHAIRMAN MARTHA U. OVERLAND EMMA N. POLAK THE WOMEN LAWYERS' CLUB ST. PAUL BUILDING 220 BROADWAY NEW YORK Hon Theodore Roosevelt, My dear Sir: - Being actively interested in the betterment of our Juvenile Court, and realizing from experience how helpless woman is to change conditions, unless she has political freedom, I beg you to give expression to your belief on this subject, Friday Evening when you speak in Carnegie Hall. Thanking you in advance I am, Very Sincerely, Olive Stott Gabriel 77 Washington Place New York Oct. 17/11[*[Gaffney]*] [[shorthand]] [*20.*] THE WOLCOTT THIRTY-FIRST-STREET BY FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK Oct. 17th, 1911 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, "The Outlook", New York. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: - I arrived a few days ago from Germany and naturally I am quite anxious to see you before I return to my post. I sail from here on Nov. 9th. To-morrow I am going for a few days to Washington, but if you would give me an appointment for next week, I shall be very glad to call upon you. I was very sorry to hear of the accident to Mrs. Roosevelt and hope that sheis now quite well. Believe me, with great respect and best wishes, Very faithfully yours, T St. John GaffneyJAMES R. GARFIELD ATTORNEY-AT- LAW 931 GARFIELD BUILDING CLEVELAND, Oct. 17, 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt 287 Fourth Ave., New York, N. Y. Dear Theodore: - I enclose a clipping from the Cleveland Leader today, which gives a very good account of the proceedings of the conference at Chicago. At the conference there were men from thirty states. I soon found that the almost unanimous sentiment was in favor of the LaFollette endorsement. I discussed the matter very thoroughly with Senator Clapp, Representative Lenroot, Mr. Houser and other leaders from different parts of the country, giving very fully my reason for believing that the endorsement would in the East probably hurt rather than aid the cause. I, however, fully recognize the great value of a definite leadership at this particular time, and as there was no other man who has as strong a following as LaFollette, I deemed it expedient to consent to the endorsement which was afterward adopted. The matter was very fully discussed by the members of the committee on resolutions, a number of whom felt as I do. Before acquiescing in the endorsement, I expressed very fully and frankly to Mr. Houser, and again to the members of the committee my reasons for questioning the wisdom of the endorsement, and stated that they must understand that if in Ohio or any other state the Progressives determined it would not be advisable to make the fight for LaFollette delegates, they could work for unpledged delegations or delegations for some other candidate, and that such action would not be understood by Senator LaFollette or his friend as contrary to the spirit of this resolution. I further stated that at the present time I felt Senator LaFollette was looked upon with suspicion by a great majority of the Republicans of the Eastern States, and that unless he was able to correct what I personally believed to be misconception of him and his position, he would not be able to gain the necessary votes from the East. Senator Cumming's representative, who was likewise on the committee, stated that he wished it understood that if Taft should by chance not be a candidate, the Iowa men would be for Senator Cummings and urge his nomination. Minnesota would without doubt give its delegates to Senator Clapp, but he felt that our opportunity would be lost unless we were willing to unite upon LaFollette at this time.Hon. Theodore Roosevelt -2- Prof. Merriam who was the progressive candidate for mayor in Chicago, and Jones who is making the fight for the Governorship, felt as strongly as I did, but finally reached the same conclusion and with the same understanding of the Illinois situation. The representative from North Carolina expressed the same opinion. You will see that the endorsement of Senator LaFollett is based upon his constructive work in Wisconsin. The two features of the platform were constructive legislation to take care of business conditions, and the direct primary for presidential preference. Naturally there was nothing said in favor of Taft publically or privately. The general reports from the West were to the effect that his trip is doing him no good whatever. One of the newspaper men told me that Hill of the Tribune, who has accompanied Taft, writes that he is disgusted and discouraged. If this is true of Hill, what must be true of others! I enclose copy of a letter I have today sent to Senator LaFollette, so there can be no possible misunderstanding of my position. I have explained the situation to my friends here, and may determine it advisable to make a statement regarding it. The matter was thoroughly understood by the newspaper men at Chicago, but I have not seen the morning papers to know what if anything was published. If you agree with the position I think it would be advisable for the outlook to have an editorial along these lines. The business men of the East have far more to hope from LaFollette than from Taft. But if they will not believe this, they ought to understand that the way is open for them to support some other progressive. Always sincerely, James R. Garfield.For enc. see 10-18-11[*[Gerst]*] [*49*] Valparaiso, Ind., Oct. 17, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. Hon. Sir: Enclosed please find herewith my catalogue and circular, describing one of the latest improvements in dairy-barn machinery, the Gerst Patent Litter Carrier. We have installed several of these machines in dairies in my home town in North- western Iowa, and they are a great success. I am selling out my patent right for the State of New York in County Right Grants, and wish to know if you will take Nassau County. If you decide to take it, then I will let you have the patent right to this county for $5. I am selling my rights at from $250 to $1000 per county. Please look the catalogue and circular over and let me know what you think of theGerst Patent Litter Carrier. Will be very much pleased if you will take Nassau County at the very low figure of $5. Trusting that you may invest in a county right, and that you will favor me with an early reply, I am Respectfully, Wm. P. Gerst, Lock Box 77.McCALL'S MAGAZINE 236 to 246 WEST 87TH STREET NEW YORK CITY OFFICE OF THE EDITION [*33*] October 17, 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I. Dear Sir: Through my publishers, Moffat, Yard & Co. you will receive an early copy of a little book which they are bringing out for me entitled CITY VIEWS AND VISIONS. In so far as our mutual friend John Burroughs is of the opinion that the book has "enough buoyancy to float in any waters" and the very good criticisms that are coming in from American and England, you may find it worth while to glance over it when you get the time. In any event, please accept it as a token of my great esteem and believe me, Yours sincerely, Wm GriffithThe Young Men's Republican Club Of Perth Amboy PERTH AMBOY, N.J. Oct. 17, 1911. JAMES E. GRISWOLD, PRES. MORGAN F. LARSON, VICE PRES. JOHN A. PETERSON, SEC. WILLIAM F. HILKER, TREASURER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MORGAN F. LARSON, CHAIRMAN S. F. SOMOGYI, WILLIAM WILSON, W. F. HILKER, M. LAKOMSKI [*W.*] Hon.Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L.I., N.Y. Dear Sir: Remembering that several years ago while enroute to Asbury Park you made an address at this city. I now take the liberty of inviting you to make an address here for the Young Men's Republican Club and their friends. We are now engaged in a campaign in this County (Middlesex) with candidates who are excellent men for the office. The Democrats have a strong machine and are pressing us hard. We know and feel that should you care to speak in this city, it would be a great aid toward the ultimate success of our candidates and our party. Hoping that you will see your way clear to accept this earnest invitation, I am Very respectfully yours, James E. Griswold President.LAWRENCE T. GROSS, Foreman Organized 1909 JEREMIAH D. SHEAN, Secretary WASHINGTON ENGINE COMPANY, No. 2 MEETS FIRST MONDAY OF EACH MONTH Tarrytown-on-Hudson, N.Y. October 17th 1911. [*D*] Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Ex-President of the United States, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y. Dear Sir:- We most cordially invite you to participate with us in our annual fire parade and inspection, to be held Tuesday, October 24th, 1911. Line forms at 12:30 P.M. Train leaves Grand Central Terminal, New York City, at 11:10 AM, arriving at Tarrytown at 12:04 PM. Trusting you will accept our invitation and be with us on the above date we remain, Very truly yours, WASHINGTON ENGINE CO. #2. Lawrence T. Gross Foreman.Private and Confidential. CHICAGO ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION October 17th, 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. My dear Sir: Suppose it is true, viz: that the right of ownership of property was originally given and protected, by government, in order to encourage industry, what forbids a limitation, e.g., when it is discovered that too great wealth endangers industry? Suppose it is true, that combinations of capital endanger liberty, what forbids limitations, the restrictions and limitations - of the grant to corporations of the right, of wielding, or holding enormous masses of capital? Is it not in vain that graft and corruption are punished when Councils andlegislatures and Senates are controlled by money - when the power of corruption remains unrestrained, and the guardians of the people are controlled by the power of the purse? The answer is not socialism - of socialism - considered as the destruction of property and wealth. The remedies lie in the direction indicated. President Taft has made his re-election impossible, I fear - and what then? The grants of privileges - of the wealth and property of the people, - should they not be regarded as temporary and dependent upon the expiration of the term of the agents who made the grants? Pardon me for this hasty note.The people will be worn out by the failure of present panaceas and remedies. You are a true friend, and should lead us to fire ground. Yours very sincerely, G.V. HardingThe Globe, Daily and Sunday. Boston, Oct 17, 1911. [*W.*] My Dear Colonel Roosevelt: The Boston Press Club is going to celebrate its 25th anniversary by a banquet at the Hotel Somerset, Boston, on or about Nov 14. At a meeting of the board of directors I have been authorized to invite you to be the club's chief guest on the occassion. Gen Taylor of The Globe will be the toastmaster. Speeches will be made by the editors of all of the Boston papers on the occassion. We are going to make the banquet a great occassion and we shall be overjoyed if you will consent to come over and dine with us. You have many admirers and sincere loyal friends in our club. The last time you were a guest of the club at the same hotel you declared that you had had a "bully time". We'll try and give you another if you will come. With best wishes, I am, Sincerely Yours. Michael E. Hennessy. President. To Col Theodore Roosevelt.R. T. HOUSE PROFESSOR IN CHARGE J. H. VOSS ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA NORMAN DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN [*A2*] Oct. 17th, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York, N. Y.: Dear Sir: As an active lay member of one of the Evangelical Churches, I have long ago become absolutely convinced that from the mouth of the average minister at least, the sermon is the least effective part of the church service. I have not only seen it to be true in my own case, but I think I have learned that to nine-tenths of church-goers, with nine-tenths of our ministers, the sermon period is little more than a period of uncomfortable waiting. I seem to see in the conventional sermon a tradition which has survived into a generation for which it has lost its meaging. I have thought that the problem might have a solution, and that an expression of opinion from a number of distinguished laymen might be a beginning of the solution. Do you agree with me, and if so, have you a suggestion? Very truly. R. T. House.[*Joslyn*] BUFFALO EVENING NEWS EDITORIAL ROOMS Personal BUFFALO, N.Y. Oct. 17, 1911. EDWARD H. BUTLER PROPRIETOR Col. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Col. Roosevelt, Let me thank you for your telegram last night with reference to Herald story. I should not have paid any attention to the matter personally and yet when a cable came from Mr. Butler in Europe, saying that he had seen the story and asking about it, I naturally turned to you as the only authority and the best authority on the subject. If you know Mr. Butler is in the South of Europe, up in the Tyrol, and in a small place there recovering from a severe attack of pneumonia that occurred while he was at Karlsbad, and that his affection for you is one of the happy things of his life and his interest in you is such that everything you do is of genuine concern to him, - you, I am sure, will excuse the anxiety he felt about it, as expressed in his cable of inquiry to me. We have certainly never paid any attention to anything except you gave it the stamp of authority when it was in the shape of news dispatch, real or pretended, or--2 rumour of your attitude on any question, and as far as the News is concerned, I am sure it will be more circumspect than ever and refuse to reprint any of the matter floating around in the air,except it comes directly from yourself. With every assurance of esteem and of good will and good wish for yourself, I remain, Faithfully yours, E.R. Joslyn Mng. Ed.N. WALDO KENNEDY, National Organizer Loyal Order of Moose, 724 Washington St., Boston, Mass. Tel, 22357 Oxford. {*11*] Boston, Mass., Oct. 17, 1911 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. My Honored Sir: Apropos of your letter under date of Oct. 13, will say I deeply and sincerely deplore the fact that I have in any way or manner used your name not in strict accord with your wishes. Having seen your name and likeness in the May number of The Call of The Moose, and also in the June issues of Burlington (Id.) daily papers -- where National Organizer H. A. de Forest, under whom I was previously deputy, had charge of the organization work - I assumed with firm belief that I was not violating any principle of good faith in repeating what my former chief had done with pride and satisfaction. Otherwise I would, as of course I should, first sought your sanction. Permitting me to say it, I really2/ have not quoted your name simply as a means to an end along commercial lines, but because I felt proud and stimulated to higher endeavor to realize that "the most distinguished American" was my brother. I have labored on the stump for and voted for "Teddy" Roosevelt, and when in Iowa a year ago rode from Muscatine to Davenport to see you alight from your car at 8.15 a.m. and stand in a drizzling rain to hear you speak on the vital questions of the day. Your personality is still my ideal, and I hope and pray it always will be. The fact that you now "call me down" is eminently proper from your viewpoint, and I will try to profit thereby. Yes, I thank you! But I do not Think your resignation as an honorary member is necessary, because I as a national organizer have charge of Boston only. By the word "National" I am limited to the thought that you may regard me as head of the organization work throughout the United States. If so, my dear friend, this is where you may err. The Supreme Organizer carries that responsibility and honor in the person of James J.3./ Davis, Bakernele Bldg, Pittsburg, Pa. His deputies are called either deputy supreme or national organizers. I make this explanation to show that while I, following other national organizers, have used your name, it has not been done by myself as the supposed head or by any direction at all from the real head, hence my honest conviction that my personal action does not force you to resign as a member of the Loyal Order of Mooses and I humbly beseech you not to do so. In proof of my unswerving belief in the "square deal" I enclose original resolutions passed by the Bridgeport (Conn.) lodge, which Kindly return. Again begging your pardon for an apparently gross offense, I remain, Loyally and truly, N. Waldo Kennedy. (Enclosure)[*Knerr*] [*D*] Allentown, Pa., Oct. 17/1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York, My Dear Sir:- The members of the Salem Reformed Sunday School - the largest in the Reformed Synod - realizing the influence of your good words and works, have unanimously decided to extend to you a cordial invitation to visit us in the interests of the modern Sunday school. Your splendid achievements in literature and reform and your noble utterances in defense of the book of books have caused us to appeal to you as a man exceptionally qualified to deliver an address before a school now numbering fifteen hundred. We feel and realize that2 your presence in our midst would stimulate the spirit of true Americanism and foster a deep sense of love and appreciation for the Dutch Reformed Church. Next to the church, the Sunday School is the strongest factor in moulding good citizenship. Amid all your exacting labors, which we know are manifold, may we be favored with a reply not in the negative but one of possible acceptance. Awaiting your courtesy Salem Reformed Sunday School. Harry O. Knerr Sec, 1315 Hamilton St. Allentown, Pa.ENSE PETIT PLACIDAM SUB LIBERTATE QUIETEM The Commonwealth of Massachusetts STATE ARMORY LYNN, MASS. Oct. 17 1911 Col. Theodore Roosevelt. New York City. [*2*] Dear Sir & Comrade, I would like to ask one favor of you that is to send you photo and autograph to Lieut. Walter M. Pratt Puritan Club Boston Mass. He is one who will more than appreciate same. Thanking you for your favor in advance I remain Fraternally Yours James Otis Leman State Armory Lynn. (Enclosure)For encl see ca 10-17-11Max Levin 10-17-11Paris 17 Oct 1911 Hon. Theo. Roosevelt The Outlook New York Dear Sir: I notice by the daily press that you have come out against the renomination of President Taft. There are many Republicans who will be pleased. There is much feeling against the present administration that needs only crystallization to become an important movement. For this purpose a leader is needed. President Taft is no doubt an honest and consciencious official, but the same was true of Gen. Grant. We have not had, since the second term of President Grant an administration so corrupt and discredited as the present administration. For some years past I have had occasion to study American politics, and I believe I may safelysay, that in spite of the boasted [free institutions] freedom in America there is not a nation in Europe where the individual citizen does not enjoy some personal liberty. And I know of no government in Europe or elsewhere, where graft and corruption is so general and practiced so openly. Almost any American that you visit at home or abroad will tell you that all politicians are crooked. In England and, France politicians are considered, if not statesmen at least trending that way. In America the question with them is, "What is then in it for me" Permit me to make a suggestion. Would it not be well to bring together the laboring men of the country and its Grangers the restive farming interest It could be done without much difficulty at this time. There is a wide spread dissatisfaction, and if the Federation of Labor and the Grangers could be brought together as a political organization, the work would be accomplished. The Republican party has been in office too long and has outlived its usefulness to the nation. The Democratic party is distrusted. The opportunity for a "ground swell" as they used to say, is at hand and I think you are the man on horsback to guide the movement. You have not let many opportunities go by that have knocked at your door and I fiercely hope you will gather this one in. Yours Sincerely Max Lerue Poste Ristante Paris FranceRES. PHONES: HOME 378 SUNSET 632 OFFICE PHONES: HOME 1322 SUNSET 3356 [*19.*] CRESCENT BOAT LINE "CAMIGUIN" AND "MUSIC." J. D. LOOP, OWNER TRIPS TO PORTUGUESE BEND. [SEE AD IN L. A. EXAMINER.] Long Beach Cal. 10/17/1911 Col. Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir, I have been investigating the whale in this neighborhood from a commercial and sporting standpoint. It promised well commercially and as a sporting proposition it is great. If you could find time to drop out this way some day I should be pleased to take you out as my guest where you could try your hand on a California Gray an occasional Humpback or possibly, a "Sulphurbottom." An enterprising reporter overheard me awhile ago wondering out loud how you would like to hunt whale and immediately get busy and anticipated my invitation somewhat.RES. PHONES: HOME 378 SUNSET 632 OFFICE PHONES: HOME 1322 SUNSET 3356 CRESCENT BOAT LINE "CAMIGUIN" AND "MUSIC." J. D. LOOP, OWNER TRIPS TO PORTUGUESE BEND. [SEE AD IN L. A. EXAMINER.] Long Beach Cal............191 I am not a whaler nor are any of my crew whalers, but we have killed two whale. A Cal. Gray and a Humpback. I enclose an account of the killing of the Cal Gray by Prof. A. J. Waychoff of Waynesburg College, Penn. Hoping to have the pleasure of your company I Remain Very Respectfully J. D. Loop.[*[10-17-11]*] 545 Fifth Ave Dear Mr. Rosavelt When you speak in New York Friday evening, please touch on Suffrage. You are so strong and feerless and can help us so much. Sincerely Mrs. Alex McKenzie For Wm Lloyd Garrison Oct 17th 1911[*[Megary?]*] October 14th 1911. [*30*] My dear Mr. Roosevelt; I am a subscriber for "The Outlook", and after reading with much interest your article "How the United States Acquired the Right to Dig the Panama Canal" in the issue of October 4th, I decided to take the liberty of writing you. My brother, who is twenty-four, has been very anxious togo to Panama and obtain employment in the Canal work, if possible, after reading this, I would not wish him to go unless there were more of a certainty regarding a position, and I am wondering whether you would be good enough to tell me to whom to write for particulars. I am enclosing stamped, return envelope, and shallbe greatly obliged if you will give me this information. With apologies for troubling you, I beg to remain, Very truly yours, (Miss) Anne D. Megary 134 S. 23rd Street Philadelphia Pa.NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION President, HARRIET MAY MILLS 926 West Genesee Street, Syracuse Vice-President-at-Large, MRS. ARTHUR L. LIVERMORE 144 Park Avenue, Yonkers Recording Secretary, MRS. NICOLAS SHAW FRASER Geneseo Corresponding Sec'y, MRS. ROXANA B. BURROWS Andover Treasurer, MRS. WILLIAM M. IVINS 55 East 25th Street, New York Auditors {MRS. ELIZA WRIGHT OSBORNE Auburn {MRS. HENRY VILLARD 145 West 58th Street, New York HEADQUARTERS, 505 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK Oct. 17, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, Editorial Rooms, New York. Dear Sir: As you are to speak on the evening of the 20th at Carnegie Hall on the Convention of Women and Children, may I urge the claim of the mothers to a voice in regulating the conditions under which they and their children must live? Until they are equal sharers in lawmaking, they cannot exert the power and influence which should be theirs. I speak in behalf of over 70,000 men and women of the state who are enlisted in securing the ballot for the un- represented half. Many other large associations of our best citizens are asking votes for women. Now that the great State of California has become a great democracy, we feel that the time is ripe for New York to show that it has equal respect for the principles upon which our republic is based. Hoping that in the name of fair play and for the sake of the women and children you will lend your influence to this needed reform and declare yourself for it, I am, Very respectfully, Harriet May Mills (per R. B. B.)A.J. MONTAGUE, PRIVATE OFFICE, [[shorthand]] 620 MUTUAL BUILDING, RICHMOND, VA. [*21.*] October 17, 1911. My dear Mr. Roosevelt: I expect to be in New York on Friday the 27th instant, and I will be very glad to call on you at your convenience at any time during that day. Anticipating with much pleasure meeting you, I am, Yours sincerely, Hon. A.J. Montague Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York.O'Laughlin 10-17-11The Chicago Tribune. THE WORLD'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER IN REPLY TO YOURS OF [*5*] CHICAGO October 17th 1911 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N. Y. My dear Colonel: I enclose you clippings from the Tribune giving the results of a trip taken by Mr. Henning, my assistant at Washington, on the trail of Mr. Taft. These clippings I can vouch for as eminently fair. I also enclose you a letter written by Henning to me. Among the Republicans I find a growing belief that it will be difficult to nominate Taft. The insurgents in convention here are confident they will be able to beat him. I think their program is to make a stampede for you in the expectation that you will decline the nomination. This, of course, means that Taft will be cast aside and that there will be a chance for La Follette or Cummins. The Lorimer hearing is dragging along. Additional new testimony has been gathered and there is the usual amount of perjury being committed. I sincerely hope Mrs. Roosevelt has entirely recovered from the accident. I have been scanning-2- the papers for news of her condition, but have found nothing. On the theory that no news is good news, I have come to the conclusion that she is alright again. I sincerely trust that this is the case. With warm regards, Faithfully yours, Cal [*[O'Laughlin]*]For enc see 9-21-11 9-23-11 9-24-11 9-25-11 9-26-11 9-27-11 9-28-11 9-29-11 9-30-11 10-2-11 10-3-11SICUT PATRIBUS SIT DEUS NOBIS BOSTONIA CONDITA A.D. 1630 CIVITATIS REGIMINE DONATA AD. 1822. DEPARTMENT OF ANCIENT LANGUAGES OF THE DORCHESTER HIGH SCHOOL. ALBERT S. PERKINS. Boston, Oct 17. 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, My dear Mr. Roosevelt, I am trying to revive the interest in Greek, both in this school and in the other high Schools of the city. Last spring I wrote to the teachers of English in our leading colleges, asking whether they looked upon Greek as a practical study. It seemed to me that no study could be more practical than one that helped in making pupils more proficient in their mother tongue. I am glad to state that all the teachers in English to whom I wrote believe that Greek is of very great service in helping to master the mother tongue. I think a word from you would be of great weight. From what I haveSICUT PATRIBUS SIT DEUS NOBIS BOSTONIA CONDITA A.D. 1630 CIVITATIS REGIMINE DONATA AD. 1822. DEPARTMENT OF ANCIENT LANGUAGES OF THE DORCHESTER HIGH SCHOOL. ALBERT S. PERKINS. Boston, 19 read, both in the Outlook, and from your speeches, I infer that you believe in Greek. May I not hope that you will write me just a line in the subject? With great respect, I am very sincerely yours Albert S. Perkins, (Head Department Ancient Languages)[*W.*] ALLEN P. PERLEY, PRESIDENT W. H. PAINTER, CASHIER CAPITAL $300.000 WEST BRANCH NATIONAL BANK WILLIAMSPORT, PA SURPLUS $1,000.000 October 17th, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. My Dear Sir: We, as Republicans, are anxious that you should visit this City, and give us a talk. We are confident that the enthusiasm that your presence here will create that Lycoming County will be returned in the Republican Column. Our citizens will give you a hearty welcome. I trust you can make it convenient to come. With kind regards, I am, Yours very truly, Allen P. Perley APP:MVRJACOB A. RIIS, 524 N. BEECH STREET, RICHMOND HILL, JAMAICA NEW YORK, October 17 1911 Dear Friend Mary and I are greatly shocked and concerned at learning today from your office that Mrs. Roosevelt is not yet well, and in bed. We had been led to believe when we telephoned after reading of the accident, that it was slight and that she was rapidly recovering. This is just to tell you how deeply and anxiously we sympathize with you and her and that our prayers embrace you both morning and evening. I shall hope to hear encouraging news when I come in on Friday. God keep you both safe. Always yours Jacob A RiisTHE JEWISH MORNING JOURNAL THE ONLY JEWISH MORNING PAPER NEW YORK CITY [*16*] October Seventeenth, Nineteen Hundred Eleven. Hon Tehodore Roosevelt, c/o The Outlook, 287 Fourth Ave., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Roosevelt:- Enclosed please find copy and translation of editorial that appeared in to-day's issue of the Jewish Morning Journal, and which I have no doubt will interest you. Very truly yours, Jacob Saphirstein Editor.For enc see 10-17-11 ca 10-17-11[*Give Mr. Harper for Mr. Roosevelt*] THE JEWISH MORNING JOURNAL THE ONLY JEWISH MORNING PAPER NEW YORK CITY [*13*] [*EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT OCT 18 1911 ACK [?] NO ANS. ANS. BY*] October Seventeenth, Nineteen Hundred Eleven. Editors, The Outlook, 287 Fourth Ave., New York City. Dear Sirs:- Enclosed please find copy and translation of editorial that appeared in to-day's issue of the Jewish Morning Journal, and which I have no doubt will interest you. Very truly yours, Jacob Saphirstein Editor.For enc see ca 10-17-11[*[10-17-11]*] Editorial, Jewish Morning Journal, October 17 1911. NOTHING TO ARBITRATE. The Proposal of ex- President Roosevelt to submit the American Passport Question to the Hague Court of Arbitration would not be entitled to the slightest consideration did the suggestion come from someone else. Mr. Roosevelt, however, is known as a sincere friend of Jews and of justice and any suggestion made by him cannot be lightly brushed aside. But this does not imply that one must agree with him or that he is incapable of making an impracticable proposal. His good intentions are not to be questioned and we owe him a debt of gratitude for helping to bring this question before the bar of Public Opinion which reads everything he writes. It is well to know that the only living ex-president and, probably, the most noted American of his generation, is interested in the question and thinks of plans leading to a possible solution. Experience and greatness in other affairs, however, do not aid much in understanding a subject requiring special information. This special information necessary for the comprehension of a Jewish or a Russian Question is of such rarity among Americans - even the best and the greatest of them - that any practicable proposals or ideas in regard to such matters cannot be expected. Mr. Roosevelt looks upon the Russian Government and the persons composing it as he viewed other Governments with which he had official connections. The Russian in High Official life speak as good a French and have perhaps as polite manners as the high officials of other European countries and the American official in Washington or the representative coming from St. Petersburg cannot see why negotiations should not be conducted with them as with others European nations; why something should not be left to their sense of right and why it cannot be conceded that affairs may be regulated with them upon a friendly basis, as for instance, by means of a treaty. To the huge error of judging the Russian Government by the superficial "polish" of their high officials is due to the fact that the Passport Question has not been solved these many years. This is reason why so great a statesman as Mr. Blaine, so firm a character as Mr. Cleveland and so skillful a diplomat as Mr. Hay were unable to accomplish much in their days although each of them labored energetically to obtain for American Jews those rights to which the Treaty of 1832 entitled them. This fact also explains why Mr. Roosevelt himself with all the energy he possessed and all the friendship he evinced for Jews achieved as little as his predecessors and why at this present juncture we are no further in this question than we were thirty or forty years ago. But there is not the slightest doubt that, also, in the future nothing will be accomplished until it will once for all be recognized that polite methods are of little avail when one has to deal with cunning barbarians who are civilized people when they are abroad or when they receive foreign guest, but who in reality in their personal conduct are still semi-wild. It is clear that the Russian Government does not wish to recognize the claims of right and justice and it is foolish to enter into negotiations for the purpose of arriving at a settlement before the Court of Arbitration. That tribunal was established by Russia and is subject to her influence and, even if she would be ready to submit to it for decision, [v]a question she does not herself wish to yield, it is only because Russia is assured of a victory. And when one submits to arbitration the parties are morally bound to accept the decisions, though it be unfavorable. One must, therefore, assume that we are ready to abide by the adjudication of the Hague Court of Arbitration and if that verdict be that Russia is fully within her rights and is not obliged to admit American- Jewish citizens, does Mr. Roosevelt for one moment imagine that the question will have been settled and that even American Jews will be satisfied? When justice is altohether on one side, it is ridiculous to think of arbitration. If Russia does not observe the terms of the Treaty then it should be entirely abrogated and if the Treaty states that Jews should not be admitted into Russia, then it should be changed. No Court of Arbitration-2- in the world can decide that the Government of the United States shall permit of any exception against any of her citizens on account of religion or descent. Public opinion in this country will never agree with such a verdict and it is, therefore, unpractical to place oneself in a position in which one will be compelled to accept such a decision. We may obligate ourselves to arbitrate, without exception, any question with England or with France, but Russia is still a few hundred years behind the times, notwithstanding the fact that Count Witte, or Baron Rosen or Bachmetieff is able to conduct himself at official functions at Washington with the same politeness and ease as the representatives of civilized countries.Enc in Saphirste 10-17-11[*[10-17-11]*] Editorial, Jewish Morning Journal, October 17, 1911. NOTHING TO ARBITRATE. The proposal of ex-President Roosevelt to submit the American Passport Question to the Hague Court of Arbitration would not be entitled to the slightest consideration did the suggestion come from someone else. Mr. Roosevelt, however, is known as a sincere friend of Jews and of justice and any suggestion made by him cannot be lightly brushed aside. But this does not imply that one must agree with him or that he is incapable of making an impracticable proposal. His good intentions are not to be questioned and we owe him a debt of gratitude for helping to bring this question before the bar of Public Opinion which reads everything he writes. it is well to know that the only living ex-president and, probably, the most noted American of his generation, is interested in the question and thinks of plans leading to a possible solution. Experience and greatness in other affairs, however, do not aid much in understanding a subject requiring special information. This special information necessary for the comprehension of a Jewish or a Russian Question is of such rarity among Americans- even the best and the greatest of then- that any practicable proposals or ideas in regard to such matters cannot be expected. Mr. Roosevelt looks upon the Russian Government and the persons composing it as he viewed other Governments with which he had official connections. The Russian in High Official life speak as good a French and have perhaps as polite manners as the high officials of other European countries and the American official in Washington or the representative[s] coming from St. Petersburg cannot see why negotiations should not be conducted with them as with other European nations; why something should not be left to their sense of right and why it cannot be conceded that affairs may be regulated with them upon a friendly basis, as for instance, by means of a treaty. To the huge error of judging the Russian Government by the superficial "polish" of their high officials is due to the fact that the Passport Question has not been solved these many years. This is reason why so great a statesman as Mr. Blaine, so firm a character as Mr. Cleveland and so skillful a diplomat as Mr. May were unable to accomplish much in their days although each of them labored energetically to obtain for American Jews those rights to which the Treaty of 1832 entitled them. This fact also explains why Mr. Roosevelt himself with all the energy he possessed and all the friendship he evinced for Jews achieved as little as his predecessors and why at this present juncture we are no further in this question than we were thirty or forty years ago. But there is not the slightest doubt that, also, in the future nothing will be accomplished until it will once for all be recognized that polite methods are of little avail when one has to deal with cunning barbarians who are civilized people when they are abroad or when they receive foreign guests, but who in reality in their personal conduct are still semi-wold. It is clear that the Russian Government does not wish to recognize the claim of right and justice and it is foolish to enter into negotiations for the purpose of arriving at a settlement before the Court of Arbitration. That tribunal was established by Russia and is subject to her influence and, even if she would be ready to submit to it for decision, a question she does not herself with to yield, it is only because Russia is assured of a victory. And when one submits to arbitration the parties are morally bound to accept the decisions, though it be unfavorable. One must, therefore, assume that we are ready to abide by the adjudication of the Hague Court of Arbitration and if that verdict be that Russia is fully within her rights and is not obliged to admit American-Jewish citizens, does Mr. Roosevelt for one moment imagine that the question will have been settled and that even American Jews will be satisfied? When justice is altogether on one side, it is ridiculous to think of arbitration. If Russia does not observe the terms of the Treaty then it should be entirely abrogated and if the Treaty states that Jews should not be admitted into Russia, then it should be changed. No Court of Arbitration -2- in the world can decide that the Government of the United States shall permit of any exception against any of her citizens on account of religion or descent. Public Opinion in this country will never agree with such a verdict and it is, therefore, unpractical to place oneself in a position in which one will be compelled to accept such a decision. We may obligate ourselves to arbitrate, without exception, any question with England or with France, but Russia is still a few hundred years behind the times, notwithstanding the fact that Count Witte, or Baron Rosen or Bachmetieff is able to conduct himself at official functions at Washington with the same politeness and ease as the representatives of civilized countries.Enc in Saphirstein 10-17-11Charles M. Shean. 51 West 10th St. New York. October 17th 1911 [*15*] Dear Sir: Having made an exhaustive study of all the documents, I have succeeded in painting a portrait of the late President Lincoln which, as you may see from the enclosures is as nearly perfect as a likeness as can be arrived at. Unluckily the artists contemporary with Mr Lincoln either had inadequate sittings or were themselves incapable of realizing the extreme subilety of his features and expression. At any rate not one of the portraits done from life is considered thoroughly satisfactory by those who knew the President. I would be most happy to show you the portrait which I have recently completed. It can be seen here at any time you choose to name - However realizing that you must have many engagements the picture might be sent for your inspection to the office of the Outlook. Very truly yours Chas. M. Shean To Hon Theodore RooseveltFor encl see 9-16-11 9-22-11[*[Travis]*] [*43*] Newton N.C. R#2 Bx 56. Oct. 17th, 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. My dear Mr Roosevelt:-- On Dec. last you rec'd through the courtesy of the Catawba County news a photograph of my wife myself and children, if you had a photograph of the same family now you would find one more in the group, our 10th child being born Oct 7th '11. On another page you will find a record of the family as it is to day.2 You will notice that the 10th child was born just 11 years and a fraction over 4 months after we were married and the mother just a little over 27 years of age. Surely this is in keeping with your argument "that the best crop a farmer can raise is his crop of children". Now to raise these children is my greatest desire, to raise them up to be men and women worthy of the name. But to do this (i.e.) to give them the education I would like them to have is a question which puzzles me. To feed and clothe these little ones is a great item3 in this time of high cost of living. I have no means of doing this save from a small farm and doing practically all of the work myself as they are all too small to do much as yet. We started practically with nothing, but we own a small farm now with an incumberance of about $500.00 on it besides some other debts as Dr. bills and provisions which we were compelled to have in lean years. This year especially will be hard on us as the drought cut crops short and our only money crop - "Cotton"- is short here and the price very low.[*4*] Could I prevail on your great and generous heart by appealing to you to assist us in any financial straits by silently approaching your wealthy friends in my behalf Those whom you know have plenty and to spare, who would be willing to help one in need. I do not want publicity in this matter because I have been toiling and striving to support myself and family, and clear up my debts without asking aid, yet friends have aided us and we thank God for it. As it is He[*5*] who prompts every good deed in the human heart. We desire to hold our house and if once we are set on our feet I believe we can walk thru, and place and work to give our children the education which is [so] much desired. I will be grateful to you all my days if you will come to my rescue and and let God be praised for all that may be done. To show you that I am not a worthless scoundrel seeking to defraud I give the following references. C.M. McCorckle Clerk Sup. Court R. Lee Hewitt Sheriff Catawba Co. I beg to remain as ever yours. N. Allen Travis.Association of Men Teachers and Principals OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK JOSEPH K. VAN DENBURG. PRESIDENT 610 WEST 139TH STREET TELEPHONE 4837 AUDUBON [*W.*] NEW YORK Oct 17 1911 Hon Theodore Roosevelt, Outlook, New York City Dear Sir, The men teachers of New York City who have received rather rough treatment at the hands of the State Legislature this year are endeavoring to organize in the hope of drawing attention more forcibly to their own needs and the needs of the Public Schools. We believe that men teachers are needed to properly instruct the boys of adolescent age 90000 of whom are in the elementary public schools and 17000 in the high schools.Association of Men Teachers and Principals OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK JOSEPH K. VAN DENBURG, PRESIDENT 610 WEST 139TH STREET TELEPHONE 4537 AUDUBON NEW YORK, 191 At present we have not half enough men. The quality too is falling off because of the present low salaries. With the enforcement of the proposed Equal Pay schedule reducing the salaries of men hereafter employed - and the salaries of positions to which present men seek promotion - New York City will soon be without men of the right type as teachers, in the Elementary schools at least. In order to keep before the public the fact that men are needed we are at work on a campaign of house-to house canvassing. We have organized by Assembly Districts and wish to work as individuals for those men who have the best interests of the City Schools at heart.Association of Men Teachers and Principals OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK JOSEPH K. VAN DENBURG, PRESIDENT 610 WEST 139TH STREET TELEPHONE 4537 AUDUBON NEW YORK, .............. 191 The Equal Pay women, by no means all the women teachers, are hand in glove with Tammany through blood relationship in hundreds of cases. Their leader, Miss Straehan, was trained in politics by Boss W. Laughlin and Pat McCarren of Brooklyn. Assemblyman Foley's family would make about $2000.00 a year by the Equal Pay schedule, and there are hundreds of similar cases. The men on the other hand untrained in politics, independent or Republicans by adoption, have never been able to secure recognition because their numbers and influence are politically negligible. Whether we can ever be a force in good government is the question.Association of Men Teachers and Principals OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK JOSEPH K. VAN DENBURG, PRESIDENT 610 WEST 139TH STREET TELEPHONE 4537 AUDUBON NEW YORK, 191 We meet at dinner Oct 21st at Kalils Restaurant 14 Park Place. At this late date it is almost extreme absurdity to hope that you could, even if willing, be present as our guest, still we do extend to you a most hearty and sincere invitation. In case you cannot come will you not send us by letter, or by wire, a word of caution, advice or encouragement as you see fit. The men teachers of New York almost to a single man believe in you "from the ground up". In addressing us you address a million men of similar tastes and habits in America. Does not our cause deserve your help?Association of Men Teachers and Principals OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK JOSEPH K. VAN DENBURG, PRESIDENT 610 WEST 139TH STREET TELEPHONE 4537 AUDUBON NEW YORK, 191 We are not in this campaign for any high salaries - all we ask is that the city offer enough to attract and hold good men regardless as to whether good women are paid more or less. If the city does not need good men or cannot truly afford to hire them our work should stop at once, for the good of the city and the city schools is first even if it costs us our means of livelihood. The enclosed circulars may show in part what we are trying to do. The invitation to address us, in person only letter, in unanimous. I am sincerely, Joseph K. Vandenburg[*A3*] ex-President Mr. Roosevelt Oct. 17, 1911. Dear Sir:- Having heard about you being a member of the German Reformed Church I thought I would write to you and ask for a donation toward getting new pews for our church. I am the president of the Ladies Aid Society, and we are working to get new pews, as our members are all hard-working people. They haven't much to spare and I thought a donation from others would help a great deal. Our church is located in Pittsburgh on Forty-fourth St. below Butler St. and our pastors name is Rev. Henry Hollinger so hoping to hear from you soon as any amount would be very much appreciated. I will pray for a speedy answer, Yours truly, Mrs. Frank White 77-46th St. Pittsburgh, Pa. President of the Ladies Aid Society of St. Pauls Reformed Church, 44th Street. [*Encl in Lemon (?) 10-17-11*] [*[ca 10-17-11]*] MR. WALTER M. PRATT LIEUT. EIGHTH INFANTRY PURITAN CLUB BOSTON[*10-17-11*] SECOND ANNUAL BANQUET OF MATINECOCK LODGE, NO. 806, F. & A. M., WILL BE HELD AT THE OCTAGON HOTEL, OYSTER BAY WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1ST, 1911 AT 8:30 O'CLOCK TICKETS $1.50 EACHEncl 10/17/11 DisBrow +DuVall 10/17/11Enc in Sephirstein 10-17-11 ca 10-17-111832Enc in Saphirste 10-17-11 10-17-11ניטאָ װאָס צו אַרבירײטען || דער פאָרשלאג פון עקס"-פּרעזיז רוזוועלט מען זאָל איבערנעבען דיא פהאנע פון אמעריקאנישע פּאספּאָרטען צום פריעדענפיגעריכט אין האאג, װואָלט גיט פערדיענט דיא מינרעסטע אוים- מערקזאמקייט ווען אן אנדערער װאָלט עס געמאכט. מר. רוזוועלט איז אָבער בעקאנט אלס אן אויפריכטינשר פריינד פון אידען און פון נגערעכטינקייט, און מען פען ניט אוועקמאכען מיט'ן האנר עמװאָס װאָס ער שלאָגט פאָר. דאָס טיינט אָבער אויך ניט אז מען מוז מיט איהם איינשטימען, אָדער דאָס מען מון מוחה זיין או ער קען רשלאָנען אן אנפּראקטישע זאך. װענען זיינע נוטע אבזיכטען איז ניטאָ. װאָס צו צווייפלען, און מען איז איהם שולדיג | איהם אין גאנצען אָפּברעכען, דאנקבארקייט פאר דעם װאָס ער האָט געהאָלפען ברייננען דיא פראנע יא דעם גרויסען פּובליקום װאָס לעזט אלעס כע שטעהען אויף א שטופע פון האלב- װוֿיקייט אין פּערזענליכע ביי זיך אליין. עס איז קלאָר אז דיא | רוסישע רעניערונג וויל ניט אנערקענען || דיא פאָדערונג פון יושר און גערעכטיג- || קייט, און עס איז גאריש זיך מיט איהר | אריינצולאָזען אין פערהאנדלונגען ווע- גען אן אָפּמאך פאר'ן אינטערנאציאָ- גאלען פריערענסרגעריכט. יענער נעד ריכט איז פון איהר געגרינרעט געװאָ- רען און געפינט זיך אונטער איהר איינ- פלוס, אויב זיא זאָל וועלען איבערנע- בען צו איהם אן ענטשיירונג איבער א בּונקט װאָס זיא ווי5 אליין גיט נאָכגע- בען װעט דאָס אליין זיין א בעווייז אז זיא איז זיכער ראָרטען צו געווינען. און ווען מען פּערלאָזט זיך אויף ארביטריי- שען איז מען מאָראליש פערבונרען אָנ- צונעהמען: דיא ענטשיידונג אפילו אויב זיא אי ניט נינסטיג. מען דארף זיך אלזאָ פאָרשטעלען אז מיר פּערלאָזען זיך אויף דעם געריכט פון האאג און יענער { גיט אָפּ אן ענטשיידונג אז רוסלאנד איז | גערעכְט און דאָס זיא איז ניט מהויב אריינצװלאָזען אידישזאמעריקאנישע ! סיטיזענס. דיינקט מר. רזוועלט אז| דיא פראגע װועט דערמים זיין פערענט- | פערט, אז דיא אידען אָרער אפילו דיא | אמעריקאנער וועלען זיין דערמיט צו | פריעדען ? ווען גערעכטינקייט איז אין גאנצען אויף איין זייט איז נאריש צו דיינקען ווענען ארביטריישען.. אוב רוסלאנד וׂ האלט ניט איהר אָפּמאך דארף מען| אוב זיא ; זאָגט אז אין אֶָפּמאך שטעהט אז אידען דארפען ניט אריינגעלאָזען ווערען, דארף | מען איהם איבערמאכען. קיין פריע- דענס-געריכט אין דער וועלט קען פּסק- נען אז דיא רעגירונג פון ינייטער סטייטסם זאָל ערלויבען מען זאָל מאכען אן אויסנאהמע גענען א טהייל פון איהרע בירנער צוליעב זייער רעליגיאָן אָדער אָפּשטאמונג. דיא עפענטליכע מיינונג פון לאנד װעט קיינמאָל ניט| איינשטימען מיט אזא ענטשיידנג, און עס איז דעריבער אונפּראקטיש זיך צו שטעלען אין א לאנע אין וועלכע מען וועט זיין פערפליכטעט איהר אֶנצונעה- מען. מיר מענען זיך פערפליכטען צו ארביטרייטען אלע פראגען אֶהן אויס | נאהמע מיט ענגלאנד אָדער מיט פראנקי | רייך. אָבער דעם צאר'ס מדינה איז נאָך | א שענע פְּאָר הונדערט יאָהר הינטער- שטעליג,, חאָטש נהאף וויטע אָדער באָ- ראָן ראָזען אָדער באכמעטיעוו קענען בענעהמען אױיף אן אָפיציעלע "פאנקשען" אין וואשיננטאָן אזוי גע- שיקט אָדער געשליפען װוי פערטרעטער פון ציוויליזירטע מדינות. { דיי 4404הדהייה יי .שדח זיך יו = ער שרייבט. עס איז נום צו וויפען || די יה ו=ו א איינציגער לעבענדער געווע- | יזענער פּרעזיהענט וועלכער איז וואהר- שיינליך דער בעריהמטעסטער אמערי- קז:;ער פון איצטיגֶען דור, אינטערעסירט | זיב דיא פראנע און דיינקט ווע- גען פלענער וויא איהר צו פערענטפערן. עד ערפאהרונג אז רינדליכקייט אין אנ" דעדע אינזיכטען העלפט נים פיעל צו פערשטעהן א פראגע וועגען וועלבע מען מַז האָבען בעזונדערע אינפֿארמיישען. און דיא שפעציעלע אינפאָרמיישען װאָס עס איז יל צו פערישטעהן א אי שע אָדער א רוסישע פראגע איז אזוי זעלטען צװוישען אמעריקאנער, אפילו צווישען דיא נרעסטע און בעסטע, או עס איז זיך ניטאָ װאָס צו ריכטען אויף פראקטישע פאָרשלעגע אָדער אויף פּאפענדע איינפעלע וועגען דיזע ענינים. מר. רוזוועלט בעטראכטעט דיא רוסישע רעניערונג און דיא פּערזאַנען וועלכע שטעלען איהר צוזאמען אזוי וויא ער האָט בעטראכטעט אנדערע רעניערונגען מים וועלכע ער האָט געהאט בעציהונ- וטו או' זווז אתיאיז"ז ור6מזפייי גין ריו- תיז ווייס ײז סען גרוי;קיים און גו ייטנומע אבזיכטאן אין ניטא וואם עו גווייפלען ,און מען איהם שולדיג דאנקבארקייט פאר דעם וואם ער האט נעהאלפען בריינגען דיא פראגע פאר דעם גרויסען פובליקום וואס לעזט אלעס וואס ער שרייבט. עס איז גוט צו וויסען -אז אונזער אייוצגר לעבעגדער נעווע (?)(?)זע(?)ער פרעזירענט וועל ער איז ווא שיינליך דער בערחמטעסטער אמעריקאנער פון איצמ(?)יען דוד . אינטערעסירט זיך אין דיא פראנע און דיינקט וועגען .פלעגער וויא איהר צו פערענמפערן [*Ack 10-26-11*] HARVARD UNIVERSITY CAMBRIDGE Museum of Comparative Zoology Dear Colonel Roosevelt: I am sure that you will be sympathetic and realize full well how downhearted Phillips and I feel after having read the middle paragraph of page 463 of the October "Auk." It is rather amusing to read Thayer's drivvle standing within a few pages of Allen's review of your paper. I don't know whether you take the "Auk" or not, but if you don't, for Heaven's sake read this one. I feel really good and mad and I think Phillips and I will have to have one more last dig. Sincerely yours, [*[Thomas]*] Barbour Oct. 18, 1911.ELMER E. COOLEY WILLIAM S. BENNET TELEPHONE 6220 JOHN CABLE "ATTYCOOL" BENNET & COOLEY, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW, SIXTY WALL STREET, NEW YORK. [*BENNET W.S.*] New York, October 18, 1911. Mr. Frank Harper, The Outlook, 287 Fifth Avenue, City. My dear Mr. Harper: I have yours of October 14th. Mr. Zinke and myself will be at Mr. Roosevelt's office at 12:45 on Friday. Very truly yours, William S. Bennet[*45.*] La Harpe, Ill., [*[Butler]*] Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oct., 18, 1911. New York City, Dear Sir: You so splendidly managed our National Government during your Presidency, and you are so loyal to the common people, that, in my perplexity, I presume to ask you a question in this letter. If I am presuming too far upon your time and patience please put this into your waste basket. Can you tell me where in the United States we may find good wheat land in rain district, available for home steading? Or, can you refer me to responsible parties who can answer the question or tell where we may get good land on crop payments? We live in the garden spot of the world- western Illinois - and only 30 miles from Keokuk where the big water power plant is being built; but it is almost(2 prohibitive for poor people either to buy or rent land here. I have tried for four years to find land that would suit our conditions - have written to & interviewed land agents answered advertisements, and yet have not found what I know must exist someplace. My husband & myself are each about 60 yrs of age; we have raised and educated a large family, have helped our town in civic, religious, social and educational advancement; but on account of his long continued illness & shattered health we have used up our savings, are in debt and are practically "poor in finance. He is a fine dentist, but can not keep up his practice. You helped us so much by appointing him Postmaster for two terms; our five daughters were the clerks and were very satisfactory to patrons. I want to personally thank you for what you did then. I want a farm that we may be independent in our old age; that our only son who is just 21 years of age may remain a citizen of the U.S. and not take a homestead in Canada as friends are urging him to do; that our three daughters teaching school may quit teaching as they are injuring their health; that I can keep my family close together for a few years longer; that we may continue to do our part in taking care of an invalid sister and my aged mother-in-law. If you can give me the desired information I shall thank you so much. Sincerely, Mrs. W. O. Butler Please let this be confidential.President: H. M. SWETLAND, The Automobile, New York. Vice-President: E. A . SIMMONS, Railway Age Gazette, New York. Treasurer: H. S. BUTTENHEIM, Iron Age - Hardware, New York. Secretary: I. J. MONTGOMERY. AMERICAN TRADE PRESS ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS: FRANKLIN WEBSTER, Insurance Press, New York. JOHN CLYDE OSWALD, American Printer, New York. H. L. ALDRICH, International Marine Engineering, New York. R. H. McCREADY, Silk, New York. TELEPHONE: 3342 Beekman [*D*] Office of Chairman, Program Committee, 92 Nassau Street, New York. October 18, 1911. Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Dear Sir: - The American Trade Press Association, composed of the publishers and editors of most of the leading trade and technical journals of the country, holds its Annual Meeting next month. The Program Committee believes that much could be accomplished for the cause of good government, if you could find it possible to be the guest of honor at the dinner, and deliver an address on some such subject as: "The Relation of Political Reform to Business Prosperity." As you are of course aware, the natural tendency of the trade papers, representing as they do the business interests of the nation, is to look askance at anything which causes even a temporary setback to commercial development. Our Program Committee believes that this condition would be greatly helped by an address from you, emphasizing as you so well could, the importance to the business man of backing up wise reforms, whose ultimate result will be the greatest measure of prosperity to the greatest number. The regular date for the meeting would be the evening of Friday, November 3, and the place the Hardware Club, 253 Broadway. If you could find it possible to address our Association on this or some similar subject, and the date mentioned is not convenient for you, we are sure that a change in the date to some other more satisfactory to you could readily be arranged. Hoping to have the pleasure of hearing from you that you will be able to honor us by your presence at our Annual Meeting, we are, Very truly yours, AMERICAN TRADE PRESS ASSOCIATION, Harold S. Buttenheim Chairman, Program Committee[*[Clark]*] STEAM HEAT ELECTRIC LIGHT Hotel Oxford EUROPEAN PLAN S.E. COR. SIXTH AND RACE STS. CINCINNATI, O. Oct. 18th 1911 The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt N.Y. City Mr. President I have an idea of a patent I think some money can be made out of. It is a new idea as far as I know, in getting power out of a certain article that can be brought into general use. Wether you would look at the matter as I do I cannot say. I can explain its general principles in three minutes. You may have a boy that you would like to see started in business. It would require no complicated machinery.[*2*] STEAM HEAT ELECTRIC LIGHT Hotel Oxford EUROPEAN PLAN S.E. COR. SIXTH AND RACE STS. CINCINNATI, O. In fact there are two extensive business in existence, that can make and apply the article. It would [be] first have to be patented in its various forms, then a stock company formed and the stock sold to those two businesses. I would want a square deal which would mean at least one third of the profits. The work required to place this article on the market would not require more time than a strenuous person like yourself could spare in your leisure momentsSTEAM HEAT ELECTRIC LIGHT HOTEL OXFORD. EUROPEAN PLAN S. E. COR. SIXTH AND RACE STS. CINCINNATI, O. I will state almost one half of the freight cars in this country have a heavy frame under the box instead of iron rods. That idea I had some years before it was adopted by the P. R. R. and others. I live at 26 1/2 Joseph St Newark N. J. and can call upon you almost any time in the Outlook office in N. Y. I am here on business at present. Awaiting your answer to my home address I remain very Respectfully Yours Charles J. Clark Newark New JerseyLAW OFFICE OF ALFRED R. CONKLING 76 WILLIAM STREET [*3*] NEW YORK Oct. 18th, 1911. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: The newspapers say you will lecture on the "Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood." Let me call your attention to the State Factory Investigating [Committee] Commission appointed by Gov. Dix, the first of its kind in the U. S. I was the first speaker and Ex-Fire Chief Croker and some physicians have been witnesses, and the commission will hold hearings after Election. I did not finish so I will return and advocate monthly fire drills to be established by the tenant or lessee and not the owner, according to [Briggs'] [Brooks'?] Assembly Bill 1430 of last winter, which was, at my request, amended and passed the House, and was on the calendar of the Senate when they adjourned. There are about nine hundred thousand men, women and children employed in N. Y. State factories. There are thirty-five thousand factories in Greater New York and two ventilation inspectors! (2) The commission will devote itself chiefly to the prevention of fires and the preservation of life in buildings. Chief Kenlon swore that there were about two thousand buildings without fire escapes and about forty thousand operators were in daily danger of loss of life by fire, like the terrible Asch building fire on Washington Place lastMarch. This building was not damaged on the outside and most of the operators died from suffocation. I own two garment workers factories on the west side and I have the words "No smoking"posted on every floor and in the elevator. I would almost make it a misdemeanor to strike a match and smoke a cigar or cigarette in a loft filled with scraps of muslin, cotton, linen and paper. Perhaps you know about the slovenly and filthy habits of the garment workers, especially Hebrews. Until their habits are changed, no fire prevention law, nor safety appliance nor, patent fire escape, nor extinguisher, nor fire alarm, nor automatic sprinkler will make much difference. If you don't intend to discuss these topics in your lecture, this letter might interest you. Hoping you are well, I remain, Yours truly, A. R. Conkling P.S. I'll do what I can to aid the toiling millions! C Hon. Theodore Roosevelt.Office of ELIAS DEEMER, 331 Pine Street, Williamsport, PA. Williamsport, PA., Oct. 18, 1911. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. My Dear Colonel: This will introduce Riley W. Allen, Esq., of this city, who desires to have a brief interview with you; and it would please me very much to have you grant him the favor. You recall that I was a member of the 56th, 57th and 58th Congresses, elected from the 15th District of Pennsylvania, and as a Republican, supported the principles of that party. I shall be pleased to have you extend any courtesies you can to the bearer. Yours very truly, Elias Deemer[*1.*] CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS, 1522 NO. MERIDIAN ST., INDIANAPOLIS, IND. October 18, 1911. My dear Mr. Roosevelt: Our people are arranging to observe the 100th Anniversary of the Battle of Tippecanoe on November 7th in a manner worthy of the event. The initiatory steps for the celebration have been taken by the professors of Purdue University, which is located, as you know, at Lafayette. It is the great desire of all who are interested in the matter that you should honor the occasion with your presence and deliver an address. An invitation to this effect has already gone forward, or will soon be sent you. I write you this note merely to express the hope that you will be able to grant the favor that is requested, for I am sure that you will have a most enthusiastic reception. Faithfully yours, Charles W. Fairbanks Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City.[*10-18-11*] [*18.*] [*Ritter von Kaernten. Füller*] Captain FERDINAND R. v. FULLER Collections= und Bataillons=Secretariat Adresse: 572 Palisade Avenue Jersey City, N.J., Oktober 18 1911. An den Hochachtbaren Mr: Theo: Roosevelt: EH Preasident of the. U.S. Sehr Geehrter Herr. Als ein alter Corespondent von Ihnen; freut es mich von ganzen Herzen: das unsere vormaliche Landes-Mutter Ihre Frau Gemahlin: von dem unvorhergesehenen Unfalle Oktbr: den 2ten balt wieder gänzlich hergestellt sein wierd. Denn wenn man selbst bei Cavallerie Diente weiss man ganz genau: was so ein Sturz bedeutet. ob zwar bei mier: immer auch das Pferd mit flog: ich war 1866: beim kgl: Bayr: 6ten Chevauxleger Regt. und habe. Juli den 3ten 4 P.M. die ersten beiten Preisse gefangen: genommen: S:Ex: General Lieutenant Ritter v: Hartmann: gab mier mit dem Worten:? weil du mier die ersten Preussen bringst! so will ich Dier wieder einen anderen Fritz retour geben:/: eine Doppelte Friedrichs[koop?][*For attachment see 10-25-11*] Nun mein lieber Ex Preasident ich wünsche Ihnen ! so wie Ihrer lieben Frau Gemahlin nebst Ihrer gesammt Familie das beste was uns der liebe Gott geben kann __ Gesundheit :/: Immerhin freut es mich: am allermeisten das die U.S. auch einmahl: Einen unerschrockenen Soldaten: einen Colonell: u: last of Last: auch einen unerschrockenen Weidmann: H. Zu Preasidenten hatte: Vieleicht liegt es: in Seiner MAcht: auch meiner einmahl zu gedenken. habe schon 22 Monate eine gelähmte Frau im Hospital: stehe alleinig. Nochmals meine besten Wünsche: Yours. Captain Ferd. R v. Füller vormalicher Corporal: Gendarme in München Post: RailRoad: Weidmann auch vorzüglich in Forst Cultur. [*Fuller?*]Oct. 18, 1911 Hon. Robt. M. LaFollette, Washington, D. C. My dear Senator LaFollette:- I want you to thoroughly understand my position relative to your endorsement by the Progressive Conference. I felt as I very fully expressed to various members of the conference, as well as to the committee, and still feel, that the endorsement of you or any other single candidate is very liable to do more harm than good in many states. But I was willing to yield my individual opinion on this subject and agree to the resolution as finally drawn, after a full discussion and understanding with your friends and the committee as to its effect. Viz: that it was a recommendation, not a pledge, and that the Republicans in the different states where conditions exist that make it advisable to select unpledged delegations or delegations for other progressive candidates, the selection of such delegates would be considered entirely proper by you and your friends. I explained very fully the situation in Ohio and states farther East, where there are a great many Republicans who are not now willing to support you, although they are against Mr. Taft. The member from Illinois in the conference expressed the same opinion, and Mr. Clark from Iowa stated that conditions might arise under which Iowa would support Senator Cummings. I do not know what your idea is regarding a statement. But, I am confident that for the general movement it would be a very great help if you would state that you appreciate the character of the conference and endorsement, and that it is your hope that those Republicans who do not wish to support you will support a real Progressive candidate. I know that you feel the cause is of far greater importance than the fortunes of any of its adherents, and that we must all be free to adopt the course that will be the most effective in our own localities. I am advising our people here of the situation. Sincerely yours, G [*[Garfield]*]Enc in Garfield 10-17-11Geiwitz 10-18-11[*[1911]*] J. G. GEIWITZ, 287; OLIVE; Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Dear Sir:- Thanks for your kind reply of Friday, 13th. inst. also return of enclosure. Action on the suggestion, mailed to Managing Editor, copy of Zu Viel Schult Macht Unwedeit, and reference to other copys. Never once entered my mind that you were or expected to market , what has been mailed to you,simply a personal record of one for another. Your criticism,would please the writer,your notions have . Enclose, another, mean just what is said when these become a border,say so. The expense of return is ensure,still copy .takes time and use or file same for other or future use. Yours Very Truly, J. G. Geiwitz[*[Haines]*] San Francisco Cal Oct. 18, 1911 [*[1911]*] Mr. Roosevelt Ex President. Dear Sir: I have a picture on exhibition on Market St. That portrait of or country from Washington's time to the sailing of the battleship Maine. I send you the description and hope you will consider its importance and what a national picturemight assist in holding up high ideals to our boys and girls and lax citizens. Mr. Roosevelt if this reachs you please a write a word on this discription. Do all you can. I was eighteen or twenty years had in a spiritual insperation to paint it. I knew two years before President McKinley was as assinated we should have the third martyred President A National picture would be a step in advance of all nations and if this imbues some other artist to a greater effort. I will be satisfied and leave it in Gods hands. Yours Respectively Mrs. Ella T Hill HainesEnc in A. Holt 10-18-11[*P O Success*] Argus Pressclipping Bureau CTTC SPENGLER Director 352 Third Ave New York CLIPPING FROM: PHILADELPHIA RECORD 4 . MAY 191 —The publishers of Orison Sweft Marden's Inspirational Books recently received an order for 400 of his latest works from a wealthy cotton manufacturer in the South. The books are intended for distribution among various libraries and Young Men's Christian Associations below Mason and Dixon's Line. The order makes a total of 1000 volumes sent out up to date by this believer in Dr. Marden and his doctrines. ERWIN A. HOLT BURLINGTON NORTH CAROLINA [*44*] Personal October 18th, 1911 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, New York City. My dear Col. Roosevelt:- Ever since "SUCCESS" and the "National Post" have combined into one magazine I have had the suspicion that sooner or later they will either go into the hands of a Receiver, or something happen that they will go out of existence entirely, or change hands. The latter mentioned seemed to be a failure from the very start and most disappointing in every way to the public. Since the president Mr.Garrison seems to be in bad health and forced to stop work (I suppose from an overload) and Mr.David G. Evans , one of the promoters and former Treas. of The Success CO., has gone with the Curtis Publishing Co. it looks still furthur like something will certainly happen before long, although I really know practically nothing at all about it, and things looked so complicated to me that I really did not ask Dr. Marden and Mr. Evans but very few questions when in New York the middle of last month. I am just writing to say, I sincerely hope there will still be the old time "SUCCESS" Magazine, as the world really needs it, and only hope it will get in good hands if there are to be any changes, and as a word or a suggestion is liable to do good at a critical moment, I think it best to call your attention to this fact, thinking you would be interested in knowing of same, since you are a friend of Dr. Marden's and interested in the welfare of the Magazine world, and being resourceful and having the broadest acquaintance of any man I can think of, was thinking perhaps you may at least put him on the "right track" as to what to do, or whom he could interest in taking hold of his Magazine. I certainly got badly stung by its former Pres., Mr.Higgins, and the enclosed letters from him of nearly a year ago will tell the story, and by comparing his letter of last Nov. 14th. with the circular sent to the bondholders the following March when the interest on same was defaulted can give any one his own conclusion. I really think he prevaricated in pretending that he ever wrote me Nov. 14th and that the letter went astray, and it was the hardest matter to hear from him at all. It was only after Mr. David G. Evans left the Co. last Fall that I felt uneasy and wanted to sell. Previous to this sad experience I always though Mr. Higgins was a gentleman. Of course we have to learn some things from experience. You will see from Dr. Marden's letter to me of last Jan. 13th. how he regretted all this, i. e. Dr. M,ERWIN A. HOLT BURLINGTON NORTH CAROLINA [*44*] Personal October 18th, 1911 Col.Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, New York City, My dear Col.Roosevelt:- Ever since "Success" and the "National Post" have combined into one magazine I have had the suspicion that sooner or later they will either go into the hands of a Receiver, or something happen that they will go out of existence entirely, or change hands. The latter mentioned seemed to be a failure from the very start and most disappointing in every way to the public. Since the president Mr.Garrison seems to be in bad health and forced to stop work (I suppose from an overload) and Mr.David G.Evans , one of the promoters and former Treas. of The Success CO., has gone with the Curtis Publishing Co. it looks still furthur like something will certainly happen before long, although I really know practically nothing at all about it, and things looked so complicated to me that I really did not ask Dr.Marden and Mr.Evans but very few questions when in New York the middle of last month. I am just writing to say, I sincerely hope there will still be the old time "SUCCESS" Magazine, as the world really needs it, and only hope it will get in good hands if there are to be any changes, and as a word or a suggestion is liable to do good at a critical moment, I think it best to call your attention to this fact, thinking you would be interested in knowing of same, since you are a ffiend of Dr.Marden's and interested in the welfare of the magazine world and being resourceful and having the broadest acquaintance of any man I can think of, was thinking perhaps you may at least put him on the "right track" as to what to do, or whom he could interest in taking hold of his Magazine. I certainly got badly stung by its former Pres., Mr.Higgins, and the enclosed letters from him of nearly a year ago will tell the story, and by comparing his letter of last Nov. 14th. with the circular sent to the bondholders the following March when the interest on same was defaulted can give any one his own conclusion. I really think he prevaricated in pretending that he over wrote me Nov. 14th and that the letter went astray, and it was the hardest matter to hear from him at all. It was only after Mr.David G.Evans left the Co. last Fall that i felt uneasy and wanted to sell. Previous to this sad experience I always though Mr.Higgins was a gentleman. Of course we have to learn some things from experience. You will see from Dr. Marden's letter to me of last Jan.13th. how he regretted all this, i. e. Dr. M, #2 Col. Roosevelt For information and to help you realize how the Magazine and Marden books are appreciated, I take the liberty of enclosing you a variety of letters which I prize very highly and am sending you by registered mail to insure safety. No doubt many of these will interest you in different ways. I first made it a specialty of sending them to places in our Mountains and in 1909 gave away about 600 books and some 300 subscri[p]tions to "SUCCESS". I had my name withheld and even to this day my wife does not know the number, which now runs about 1400. Most of these letters are self explanatory and please note what Judge Lindsey and the Junevile Judge from New Orleans write, and one School Principal says "Peace, Power and Plenty" is worth $1000.00 to the man with the right man-making material in him. Please bear in mind too, that this State recommends them to her School Libraries, and you will see the letter from Wisconsin. Am all the time writing letters to various people speaking a kind word for them and Magazine when I have an opportunity. You see too, I have made several talks to Schools in the Mountains and this I did last summer a year ago when taking my vacation at Asheville, and you will see what an appreciative letter one young Professor wrote me. Since I was intorduced as the donor of the Marden books, it gave me a chance to speak a word for him as well as giving the Students inspiration and encouragement in other ways. Poor Dr. Marden seems never to have had a square deal and I sincerely hope he will some day. He does not know I am writing. I first heard of "SUCCESS" about the time you were elected Gov. of N.Y. in 1898 and it was so helpful to me in every way that I at once subscribed and got all the numbers from the very original (DEC. 1897) and now have a complete file in book form. I then sent subscriptions to poor Boys and others as well as a few books, and only regretted that I could not remember thousands but this was out of the question, and even now, I am what New Yorkers would call a man of "limited means," although the clipping speaking of me as a rich man. From one circular sheet you will see where several hundred big business firms remembered their employees with "SUCCESS"," few years ago. I trust my dear Col. Roosevelt that you will understand the spirit which prompts this, and while I doubt [?] that you have any very good suggestions, at the same time I would rather write and not be guilty of the sin of omission and in any case there will be no harm done and all this information may be what you would like to have.#3 Col Roosevelt To further help you understand what prompts me in this, I just make you a copy of the letter I wrote Mr. Evans last week. You understand Dr. Marden married his Sister. Have not heard from him yet and know he is busy and may also be on the road. The Magazine and books have been so helpful to me (since I was always so painfully timid) that I have wanted others to also get full benefit. All of this has been purely voluntary on my part and no selfish motives in any way behind them and certainly none political [and] this does not run in our family, and my Uncle Thos. M. Holt who was Governor from 1881 to 1893 was the only one of the name or of my connections who I ever knew of being in politics from the time I could remember. I enclose self-addressed envelope also with postage sufficient to return enclosures by registered mail, as I prize these letters most highly. It always does me good to see you and it gave me unusual pleasure on 12th. ult. the day Gov. Stubbs lunched with you and I was with Dr.Marden at the Aldine Club. You are before me a great deal and have been a great blessing to this world and to me. Poor Dr. Marden is also before me most constantly and it would be a shame for his usefulness to in any way be handicapped any longer if it can be prevented. Please excuse such a poor and unsatisfactory letter, as I am so rushed and writing this is in haste, but believe you will appreciate the spirit which is prompting it. With kindest regards and very best wishes for you always, I am, most sincerely yours, Erwin A. Holt Please excuse such an unsatisfactory letter that I do not want to delay longer & am very busy in many ways. Just read at your convenience and if it suits you. E. A. H.For enc see 10-12-11Enclosed is a reprint of an article reproducing your flattering references to that great Ecclesiastic With deep esteem I remain Yours very faithfully Richard F. Kelly [*[Kelly]*] 10 MOUNTJOY SQUARE, DUBLIN [*18 OCT 1911*] My dear Sir Your beautiful and characteristically eloquent tribute to your illustrious countryman Cardinal Gibbons was read with merited appreciation and pleasure in Ireland and I was glad of the opportunity of bringing it directly under the notice of my countrymen DISTRICT MEMBERS 1-Milton Oakman, Detroit William S. Dever, Detroit 2-W.G. Gutmann, Monroe Millard F. Cottrell, Jackson 3-Clayton A. Powell, Hillsdale John C. Davis, Battle Creek 4-John T. Owens, Benton Harbor Arthur W. Scidmore, Three Rivers 5-Arthur H. Vandenberg, Grand Rapids Henry J. Horrigan, Ionia 6-Bret Nottingham, Lansing William C. Manchester, Detroit 7-William Dawson, Sandusky Bela W. Jenks, Harbor Beach [*9*] Michigan Republican State Central Committee Chairman, . . . . . Frank Knox Treasurer, . . Frederick M. Alger Secretary, . . . . Paul H. King Office of the Chairman DISTRICT MEMBERS 8-John Baird, Saginaw Otto Sprague, Owosso 9-Robert S. Babcock, Manistee Henry A. Wolff, Muskegon 10-Wm. D. Gordon, Midland Homer E. Buck, Bay City 11-Ira Adams, Bellaire A. B. Darragh, St. Louis 12-Robert A. Douglas, Ironwood Robert H. Shields, Houghton PRESS MEMBERS- Perry F. Powers, Cadillac Walter J. Hunsaker, Saginaw SAULT STE. MARIE, MICH., October 18, 1911. My dear Colonel: Of course, I was disappointed that you could not write me the kind of a letter on the workingmen's compensation movement that I desired, and equally, of course, upon mature consideration I see why the compliance with such a request would be embarrassing because of the continual requests of a similar character which you are receiving. Your letter, however, gave me a new idea on the subject, viz., if the worker elects to take his chance in court instead of coming in under the new law, that the old defenses shall remain operative. That strikes me as being fair play, although, personally, I do not believe one worker in ten thousand would not accept the opportunity of a certain and reasonable award without a law-suit, to an uncertain and very doubtful award in court. The people as a whole are tremendously interested in this subject. I talked on it the other night for over half an hour to a crowd of over three hundred farmers in Charlevoix county, in this state, and they followed me with the most obvious and rapt attention.T.R.........2. Confidentially, I am just a little disturbed by the press reports of the recent Chicago conference of the Progressive Republican League. These have seemed to intimate indirectly your approval of the LaFollette movement. My understanding of your attitude upon our last talk together was that you viewed Taft's renomination as inevitable and that the best thing, and apparently the only thing, was for the party to go to the people on the record he had made and make as strong a fight as possible for the continued dominance of republicanism in the country. Since then, however, a good many things have happened, and I am wondering whether anything has transpired to change your opinion. Of course, I readily understand the reluctance you will feel to discussing such views by letter. However, should you care to express your views you may be sure that what you will be treated in perfect confidence. I expect to go east about the first of December, and if you are not too busy I hope I may have an opportunity for a little talk with you. Of course, it is quite needless for me to add that I still regard you as the real leader of the republican party, and am most anxious to keep closely in touch with you. With best wishes, I am, Yours very sincerely, Frank Knox Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, c/o The Outlook, New York City, (Personal & Confidential)[*[McKeehan]*] WYOMING LODGE NO. 468, FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS. [[shorthand]] [*D*] Wyoming, Pa., Oct, 18, 1911 Theodore Roosevelt Esq., Oyster Bay, Long Island N.Y. Dear Sir and Brother, It would give us much pleasure to have you as one of our guests and speakers at our annual banquet to be given on Tuesday evening Dec. 12 inst. 1911, at eight (8) o'clock P.M. As you have visited our town twice in past few years, but, just for a short space of time, pay us a fraternal visit and let us entertain and be honored by your presence among us as a brother mason. Knowing that your time is so fully taken up by your numerous duties I realize that I am asking a great deal from "one who is on the square" but I ask the favor and hope the prayer of the petition may be granted. Should you see your way clear to comeWYOMING LODGE NO. 468 FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS. Wyoming, Pa. among us, let me know, when convienant to you so that I may arrange with my brethren to act as your escort from your home to Wyoming. Nothing would give me more pleasure than to call on you personally and urge you to come but in as much as I have to work hard everyday I am denied the privelage. Thanking you for your kindness. I am Fraternally yours, Bert H. McKeehan W. M.[*[10-18-11]*] [*28,*] LAS VEGAS,NEW MEXICO, OCTOBER EIGHTEENTH, NINETEEN ELEVEN. AT HOME Dear Colonel Roosevelt:-- Your good favor, received from Major Llewellyn, has come to hand. It was very kind of the Major to purchase three copies of the book, one of which he sent to you. The publishers, the Torch Press, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, had already sent a copy to the OUTLOOK, but the Major, having seen the first volume and nearly all of the manuscript of the second said that he wanted you to have a copy from himself. The second volume, in its proper place, contains a fair account of the regiment of which you were the commanding officer in the Spanish-American war. I am writing you now asking that if possible you send me a cabinet sized photographs, with your autograph, for use as one of the illustrations. Of course I have abundant opportunity to secure photographs, but I know that our people (in this work) would like to see an autographed photograph, to say nothing of being the possessor of one myself. The press has been very laudatory in its comments as to the merit of the work. The second volume, in my own judgment, is the better of the two. I have been engaged in the preparation of the work nearly thirty years and it was only a few years since that I felt able to publish, owing to the expense and the uncertainty as to the outcome. People here believe it will be standard. Dr. F.W.Hodge, director of the Bureau of Ethnology, who has examined it carefully, is very pronounced in his praise of the work. I would send you his letter were it not now in the hands of publishers who are preparing a prospectus for a second edition of the book. I sincerely trust that the OUTLOOK will make mention of the book. A few words of commendation from you would indeed be a recompense for the many years I have given to the necessary research. You are aware of the poor financial returns which come to the unknown writer of history and, in this work, truly it is compelled to speak for itself. Trusting that some day I may have the pleasure of seeing you again, I remain, with the very best wishes for your future work and welfare, Sincerely and cordially yours, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. R. E. Twitchell Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, New York City.OFFICE OF FINANCIAL SECRETARY: Navy Yard Clerk's and Draughtsmen's Association Federal Local, No. 12327, A. F. of L. Branch No. 1, National Association Civil Service Employees at Navy Yards and Stations OFFICERS FRANK DE W. ARMOUR, President General Storekeeper's Office GEORGE E. POOR, 1ST Vice-President Hull Division CHAS. L. EASTWOOD, 2d Vice-President Accounting Division HENRY WEINLAND, Recording Secretary General Storekeeper's Office HARRY N. NIEBLING, Financial Secretary General Storekeeper's Office SAMUEL C. JONES, Corresponding Secretary Machinery Division BURTON E. DEUCHER, Treasurer Accounting Division JOHN MONTGOMERY, Guardian Machinery Division FRED C. KEALE, Guide Accounting Division New York, October 18, 1911 191 [*29.*] Dear Sir: I take the liberty of addressing you on behalf of the above Association. If it will not interfere with other engagements, I would ask for an audience for a committee of the Navy Yard Clerks & Draughtsmen's Association, at your convenience, but preferably before November 1st, to submit a proposition of great interest to Navy Yard employees. Very respectfully, Harry N. Niebling #180 East 32nd Street Brooklyn, N. Y. Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, c/o the Outlook, #287 4th Avenue, New York City.THE CANCELLOR ONE DOLLAR LAURIE J. QUINBY, EDITOR [*4*] OMAHA Oct. 18, 1911 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay. Dear Sir: In view of your well known attitude regarding irrigation, I am, at the suggestion of some of your admirers as well as in compliance with my own inclination, sending to you a copy of The Chancellor containing an original suggestion on this [line?]. Also with it is a copy of the St. Louis Mirror, with a comment by William Marion Reedy. I trust you may find time, in your busy life, to peruse them. Respectfully L.J. QuinbyMILLS AT THOMPSONVILLE, CONN. A. F. TOWLER, HARTFORD CARPETS AND RUGS 770 MISSION ST. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 10/18/11 Dear Father; I got your past letters yesterday and wired immediately. You know we never knew of the accident until your letter arrived. It was not in the papers out here. In your first letter you said Archie would not leave while there was any danger and Archie arrived out here the same day your letter did. I wired and you answered "no cause to worry" and then the last letter came and I am afraid that all is not going well. Your answer to our wire has just come and we are so delighted. I am writing mother from now on everyday and will tell her all the little gossip that may interest her. Everything is very busy at the present moment, Eleanor getting a baby 'o nurse, my business and is a desultory way politics. President Taft came thro' here and tho' large crowds turned out there was not much enthusiasm. I spoke to him for a momentMILLS AT THOMPSONVILLE, CONN. A.F. TOWLER, HARTFORD CARPETS AND RUGS 770 MISSION ST. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. at the banquet he seemed fairly tired. Much love to all. TRJ [*[T. Roosevelt. Jr.]*] P.S. Please let me hear from you on the political situation generally when you get a chance. We are no index here of what the country thinks.[Schofield] 3 Thorpe St, Danbury, Conn. [31] Oct. 18. 1911. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. Dear Sir: I am writing to an utter stranger and you will most likely think I have the largest nerve you have ever met with. I am stating my condition and I hope you will think kindly of them. My name is Mrs. Wm Schofield and I have ten children ranging from 14 yrs, a girl down to 6 months, a boy. We have five of each. My husband 2 yrs ago was taken with nervous break down from overwork. They sent him to Sanitarium for 5 monthsI would write to president Taft then I thought I would write to you to see what you could [g] do for me. I have read about Mr. Taft not thinking well of large families. I thought I would write you. Hoping you will look with favor on my condition and you will see what you can do for me I remain Your Sincerely Mrs. Wm Schofield P.S. The oldest has just started to work and her little money is the same as a drop in the bucket. but he didn't gain his health. He returned home but he isn't able to attend to his work more one or two days a weeks so we had to apply for help from the city. They have done all possible but you know a family of twelve need some looking after. My husband is native Englishman having been born in Stockport in 1869. I and my children are all Americans born. I have tried to get help to send my husband back or all of us for that matter. I wrote to English Ambassador at Washington but I got no reply so I thought LAW OFFICES WILLIAM H. & J. R. THOMAS FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING MONTGOMERY, ALA. Oct 18/911 Col Theodore Roosevelt 287 Fourth Ave My Dear Frnd - I thank you for the frank and kind letter of Oct 6. I should have known that you have been deluged with requests and if the opportunity presents itself I will try to get some one to write you about me or you support. I am Snicerly William H. ThomasTelephone Connection [*28*] Robert T. Walker Artists' Manager 1133 Broadway New York Oct. 18. 1911. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Ave., New York. Honorable Sir:- Mr. Johannes Gelert, a celebrated sculptor whom I have the honor to represent, is desirous of being considered in connection with the proposed monument to the memory of General George Rogers Clark, which he understands is to be erected in Jefferson County, Kentucky, and is informed that you are one of the commission appointed to select a location and design. Mr. Gelert's work is well known and speaks for itself. One of his pieces is the figure of Denmark on the new Custom House here in New York and he also has several large figures on the Brooklyn Institute in Brooklyn. A Dane by birth, Mr. Gelert was appointed by his Government, at the time of Chicago World's Fair, to act as its representative on the International Committee of Award for Sculpture and is a recognized authority in his profession. Much of Mr. Gelert's work has been monuments and memorials in various cities of the United States in several abroad. I would esteem it a great privilege to show you photographs and reproductions of some of this work and Mr. Gelert would be glad to render a sketch embodying the commission's ideas of design. Awaiting your pleasure, I beg to remain Yours very respectfully, Robert T. Walker.W. E. Hughes, Manager Daily and Weekly The Emporia Gazette W. A. White Editor and Owner Emporia, Kansas, 10/18/11. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: Herein enclosed you will find a sheet of paper upon which I wish you would write some sort of an inscription to go in your African Trails book that I have given to my boy Bill. William Lindsay White is Bill's name, though I do not suppose he knows himself, being mostly known as Bill. There is no particular hurry about this, ten days or two weeks will be soon enough. When it comes I shall have it bound in the book at our bindery so that he may always feel the personal element with him in reading the book. I have been in Colorado all summer working on a novel. I believe it is a pretty good novel and I hope you will like it, but it is going to take a year to revise it. I write in haste and revise at leisure. The book is written chiefly, I think, to prove that there are not necessarily spiritual rewards for material service in this world, nor are there material punishments for material transgressions, but that whatever rewards or punishments the scheme of things hold, there really are spiritual rewards for spiritual service and spiritual punishments for spiritual transgressions. It is rather a hard thesis to work out and dramatize, but I believe I have done it fairly well.W. E. Hughes, Manager Daily and Weekly The Emporia Gazette W. A. White Editor and Owner 2.--T.R. Emporia, Kansas, I have turned the dramatics upon the evils of unnecessary devorce and the need of a working man's compensation, two subjects which seem at first sight rather incongruous, but all subjects are rather related, I suppose, if we can find the string to string them on. I did not go to the Chicago Progressive Conference because I rather felt it was a battle of wooden guns. Sham battle never interested me. I have no special desire for tin swords and rooster feathers and some way or other I did not warm up to the Chicago Conference. I am persuaded that Taft never could be elected under any possible circumstances and my wholesome respect for the acumen of the American politician leads me to believe that in the end the Republican politicians will dump Mr. Taft. For after all, the strongest purely political influence in America is the county ticket. You persuade the fellows at the courthouse that they are going to have a load on their necks with a presidential candidate, get it thoroughly in their noggins that any leader is a dead-weight and unless that leader happens to represent a mighty righteous cause, they will dump that leader. On the other hand, when the American politician, that is to say the little fellow down in the county courthouse, gets itW. E. Hughes, Manager Daily and Weekly The Emporia Gazette W. A. White Editor and Owner 3.--T.R. Emporia, Kansas, into his head that he can win with a certain leader and that leader will make votes for the candidates for county attorney, treasurer, sheriff and register of deeds, that little politician is going to line up behind that leader no matter whether the little fellow agrees with the big fellow or not. It was that feeling that nominated you in 1904. I should say on the whole the politicians around the court house had not very much use for you in 1904. They were for the man of the Hanna type at that time; but they saw that you made votes and they stood for you. To me it is utterly unbelievable to imagine the courthouse bunch filling a national convention with delegates for Taft, when they known that Taft stands to lose them from two hundred to two thousand votes in every county in the United States on the county ticket. This large illuminated fact is before their eyes now every moment of the day. The courthouse bunch is getting it thoroughly in mind that Taft means trouble and I think the courthouse bunch will dump Taft. I do not know just how they are going to do it. Of course it will first appear crystalized in some movement higher up for some new candidate like Seth Low or Theo. Burton or some highly respectable person without teeth or clawsW. E. Hughes, Manager Daily and Weekly The Emporia Gazette W. A. White Editor and Owner 4.--T.R. Emporia, Kansas, and then the fellows down in Wall St. Will begin stealing the South away from Taft. They won't expect to win with their eminently respectable person, but I believe the game is this: that they hope to tie up the convention for a ballot or two between LaFollette and Taft and Eminently Respectable Party and then let off the fire works and stampede her to you. I think you might just as well prepare for the fire works because it is coming. You can't stave it off, and while up to the present time I have been very excitedly against your being a standing candidate for 1912 and have believed that it would be a calamity to submit your name formily to any state convention, yet I am not altogether sure that it will not be about the best we can do to let the firewords do their work and that was one reason why I did not go to the Chicago conference. I have the utmost respect for Senator LaFollette's sincerity and for his fighting capacity. I have always said that I thought the country was not quite ready for him. I think he is due in 1916 and while of course if there is no other way out I am going to be for LaFollette bigger than a wolf, yet I did not want to get complicated in the situation by being a LaFollette boomer when I sincerely believe there is no immediate prospect of LaFollette's nomination.W. E. Hughes, Manager Daily and Weekly The Emporia Gazette W. A. White Editor and Owner 5.--T.R. Emporia, Kansas, I am writing to you so that you may have at least one evidence of the sentiment in the West. I have been, as I believe I told you above, in Colorado. I was the moving spirit at a State meeting of progressives in Colorado where we organized by precincts and counties to send a progressive delegation to the national Republican Convention and help to initiate certain measures, the anti-pass law, working man's compensation law, the eight hour law for women and a better primary law than they were able to get out of the legislature. The meeting was large and full of enthusiasm and I feel sure that if Colorado could have a direct vote on presidential nominees Taft would not stand any more show than a rabbit of getting the Colorado delegation. So far as I can see, it is so every place. I tried out the names of Taft, Roosevelt and LaFollette and Taft did not get a "hand" and they lifted the roof for you and LaFollette. The audiences that Taft is getting are charitably well described as "orderly and well behaved," but never is there any enthusiasm. His sun is set politically and I think will never rise again, though I am persuaded that he always will have the respect and perhaps the affection of the people, but never their confidence. You need not bother to answerW. E. Hughes, Manager Daily and Weekly The Emporia Gazette W. A. White Editor and Owner 6.--T.R. Emporia, Kansas, this letter. It was not intended to draw out any answer from you, but I do not want you to forget to write in the fly-leaf for the book, for Bill. Truly and sincerely yours, W. A. White Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y.