THE PASSING OF ROOSEVELT.
New York, Jan. 6. Mr Roosevelt died at his home at Oyster Bay, at 4 a.m., passing quietly away in his sleep: An official medical bulletin announces that Mr Roosevelt died of a bloodclof in the lung. . London, Jan. o.' The King and Queen have expressed their regrets at the death of Air Roosevelt, and have cabled a message of condolence. Washington, Jan. 0. Flags are flying at half-mast everywhere in the United States, on the fleet, naval posts, cantonments, and public buildings. Thousands of messages of condolence have been received.
AIR. ROOSEVELT’S CAREER. A VIGOROUS PERSONALITY. The late Air Roosevelt was burn in October, 1858, in New York. When 22 he took the degree of Bachelor of Arts at Harvard; in after years he accumulated over a dozen honorary degrees of Doctor of Laws and Doctor of Philosophy from various universities, including those of Oxford, Cambridge, and Berlin. In 1880 he married Alice Hathaway, who died in 1884; and he later married - Edith Kermit, in 1880. His political career began in 1882, and he held in the .subsequent period a great number of offices. From 1882 to 1881 he was a member of the New York Legislature, and in 1880 be was a delegate to (he Republican National Convention. He was a candidate for the Mayorally of New York in 1880, but was defeated. In 1880 he became United Stales Civil Service Commissioner, which office be held until 1805, his term being marked by energetic reform measures. He resigned to. become President of the New York Police Board for two years. Tie vbecame Assistant Secretary of (be Navy in .1807, but resigned Ibis office in .1.898 lo organise Roosevelt’s Rough Riders. The regiment distinguished itself in Cuba, and Mr Roosevelt himself was promoted colonel for gallantry at (bo battle of Las Quasimas. Re turning to New York, the colonel of Rough; Riders was elected Governor of I lie Stale in 18!)!). His term bad not expired when he was elected lo I Ini higher office of Vice-President of the United Slates for the term l!)01-5. The assassination of President M’Kinley, on 34th September, 1!)01, rendered the way clear for Air Roosevelt's succession to the Presidential office, and be held it after the next election for the term of 1!)05-!) by the largest popular majority ever accorded lo a candidate. Mr Roosevelt displayed his customary directness in relation to the European war. It took - him but little time to decide in favour of the Allies’ cause, and be (dialed under the restrictions of the strict neutrality of thought and deed imposed upon American citizens. When the United States declared war, he proposed not to wait for the raising of a national army, but to enter the condict at once by following the lead lie bad set himself in I be Cuban campaign. He at once offered to raise a division of troops, and to lake il to Fra.nee; but the offer was declined by the President, and Air Roosevelt never saw I be ball lea fields. IT is four sous, however, enlisted. One of (hem, Quentin, was a (lashing aviator, and met bis death over German territory. He was buried with honours by the enemy, at Cbamery. The eldest son. Major Theodore Roosevelt, served with General Pershing's force, and was wounded on 23rd July, 3!)18. Kermit Roosevelt, the second son, bolds a captain’s commission in the British Army, in Mesopotamia, and Lieutenant Arebie Roosevelt has been wounded twice in Franco. Mr Roosevelt was one of the mosli frequently-caricatured men in tho world —a fact in no small degree due lo Ins strildng facial appearance, and numerous pea-sketches emphasise his remarkable smile and teeth. “I do not wonder.” says Sydney Brooks, ‘‘that the cartoonists have immortalised bis lectio There is something inordinately and unoseapably dental about his whole expression. The eyes being rather small and somewhat veiled by an habitual puckering of the lids and by the glare of bis glasses, one buds oneself more and more concentrating on the mouth. It work’s, when he gets emphatic, tike a steel trap. The spacious movements of the jaw and lips, and the gleam of large, perfect teeth clenched and snapped with every other word, distract and absorb one. A body tingling with, vitality, a band (lung out and opened and closed, the glasses, the jerk of jaw and teeth —such, roughly, is the facade. And behind one feels a mind acquisitive and impetuous, flashing at each new idea, and pouring itself with a perpetually fresh and gathered vehemence into the theme of tho moment.” Percival Phillips describes him at a meeting in Rome on the triumphant tour of Europe after the return from the African lion-hunting expedition; — “Most people picture him as a giant in stature, with a voice like a bull and arms like aeroplanes —an elderly person perhaps, but massive, gigantic, overjxnvering. They are unprepared to coni rout a man. jjjg-no more than medium height, ‘TTlMjse bullet head is covered with a, close, slightly curling mop of darkbrown hair, untinged with grey. .... His boundless, inexhaustible energy is his most marvellous characteristic. . . . His face in repose is distinctly stern, even repellent. It is the face of a man who has wielded great power, and knows it. The heavy lines about the mouth warn the world that he is
a fighter. The grey moustache droops slightly over the corners ot the mouth without hiding its firmness. It is a face strong in every detail, unhandsome, sometimes unattractive, but always full of power. It is .a face to be trusted.” It is as a doer that he will he chiefly remembered, its the President who, by a decisive and lightn-ing-like stroke of policy, made possible the building of the Panama, Canal; who reorganised the army, and doubled the navy, and sent it on it voyage round the world; who-was (he first: to tackle sanely and'temperately the problem of trusts, and lo do something effective towards bringing them under Federal supervision; who planned and originated the great movement for the protection and conservation of the natural resources of the land; who reformed the consular and diplomatic services, and hrenlhed a new efficiency into every branch of official activity; who forced a hostile and relnelanl Congress to treat Cuba with lisea! justice; who initiated vast projects of irrigation and reclamation; who stepped in to save San Domingo from bankruptcy and chaos; who imposed Federal regulations upon (he railways and the beef packers; who changed the spirit of the Monroe Doctrine by assuming responsibility for (be good conduct of tlie Central American Republics; who helped to bring Germany and Franco together at Algceiras, and Russia and Japan together at Portsmouth; and who settled nearly till the outstanding difficulties between Great Britain and the United States.
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