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?Bill' Sewall
Pays Tribute
To Roosevelt
Vcaodsnian From M a inr.
Friend of Ex-President
for 10 Years., (?ocs tc
Gra-tc in Oyster Ba>
Stantte There Silently
Man Who Tanjzht T. R.
Love for Out of Doors
Relates Some Ineidents
"Bill" Sewall. woodsman, ranchman,
hunter and forty-odd year friend of
Theodore Roosevelt, went yesterday to
the resting place of the man whom long
Sfo hc instructed in the ways of the
outdoors. Silently he paid his tribute.
And having paid it, ho turned abruptly
and stalked down the hillside.
"Ah, well," ho muttcred, "ah, well,
it's what we all come to sooner or
Utcr."
At the bottom of the hill he paused
again. "It'3 just the kind of a place
Theodore would like to bc buried," he
murmured, gazing back up the slope
of Young's Mcmorial Cemetery.
Expected Such a Death
"Xo," he added. when he was bundled
again into the taxi that was taking
him on the firat journey he has made
to Sagamore Hill since Roosevelt re?
turned from South Africa. "No, Theo
dore's death did not surprise me. I
expected hc would go like that. Peo?
ple thought he was strong, robust. He
wasn't. ft was his houndless energy.
his determination and his nerves that
kept Theodore Roosevelt turning out
the cnormous quantities of work he
did. Really he sutTered from heart
disease all his life.
"I remember when he first came to
my place. That was when he was
eighteen years old," said the old wood
raan. "'Be very careful with him'
Arthur Cutler. his tutor. warned me.
'Don't take him on such tramos as
you take yourself. He couldn't 'stand
it But he wouldn't let you know that
for a minute. He'd go till he dropped
rather than admit it. He isn't strong
though. You must watch him care?
fully.'
Took a Lot of Watching
J!f,Bdid watch him carefullv," said
BiU Sewall. "He took a lot of watch?
ing, he added, with a smile as sweet I
and mellow and fresh as one of the
apples that drop from the trees of
his native state of Maine when the '
auturan time comes. "Yes, a lot of ;
watching. He'd never quit. I remem- i
ber the time we set out from mv
Place up at Island Falls to climb
Mount Katadm. That's the tallest
mountain we have in Maine. We were
crossing Wissacataquoik Creek The
current ia very swift there, and we
were wadmg with our shoes in our
iiands.
"Somehow Theodore" ("Bill" Sewall!
throughout hia long friendship with
the Colonel always called him Theo- :
dore; Teddy. he explains, from the j
wrj nrst. seemed to him too diminiutive !
t name for a man of Roosevelt's calibre) ;
aomehow J heodore lost one of hia I
snoes Away i\ Went downstream. All
he had with him to take the place of :
shoes was a pair ofthin akinned mocca- j
ains. The atones and crags on the way
up cut his feet into tatters. But he I
feept on, with never a murmur of
eomplamt. That's a little thing, per- i
haps; but he was that way in al!
things?always.
"There was the time, for instance.
on the cattle ranch in North Dakota
?hen during a round-up, his horse
reared, threw him and then fell on
?opof him The spili broke Theodore's
ahoulder-blade. But hc was afraid thc '
ee-raunchera rnight think he was a
qnuter if he gave in after just one
,, '* *t,? ,ne stayed out on the round
"P for three days, suffering the in
tensest pain all the whi'.c, but never
saying a wor(J about Jt to an one
?e was always like that."
poverty nnd mlsery." Thc resolution
declared that it waa "utterly unputri
Otic to attempt to ovado tho law through
technicalitiea deviaed by legal mlnds,"
and ended:
"It is the duty of the people to keep
faith with the army and navy, and wo
pledge ovory effort to that end. Aa
thoy suffered in tho war and made
aacrificea for Amciieanism, wo must
make sacrificea and pledge ourselves to
work for a purer nnd noblcr America."
Tho Hev. J. Porcival Huget, pastor of
tho Tompkins Avenue Congregational
Church, said that ho thought prohibi?
tion ought to havo a fair trial say five
or ten years and then, if it had not
been successful, he would be ono of tho
flrst to vote for its repeal. Tho Rev*
John F. ('arson, pastor of thc Centrai
Presbyterian Church, assorted that
thogo who could not onforco tho new
law should bo forced to resign, "nnd
those who refuse to on force it should
be run out of public otTice."
Pclham Bay Barracks
Are Razed by Flames
Naval Men Es<*?pe Unhurt With
Most of Their Clothes; Fire
Thought Incendiary
A sontry of thc 12th Regiment
f grounds at Pclham Bay Naval Train?
ing Camp saw flames bursting through
the roof of thc end building of tho
J "12th Regiment Row" at 11 o'clock
last night. He gave the alarm and
"general quarters" and the fire slgnal
were sounded.
Dospite the efforts of the camp fire
brigade and threo companies of city
firemen the fire, which is believed to
have been of incendiary origin, spread
to two other large barracks. Thoy were
burnod to the ground. Tho men in
them, who had retired two hours be?
fore, got out with most of their
clothing.
Another barracks was burned out,
though tho shell of the building was
saved. It was an hour before the tirc
was cxtinguished.
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Gen. Maurcie Lauds '7th'
In War Lecture Here
Unit Lost 55 Per Cent of Men
in One Day's Smash,
He Says
The 107th Infantry, chosen by the
27th Division as the spearhead of the
blow they aimed against the Hinden?
burg line, was chiefly responsible for
the overwholming of the German forti
fications and the shattering of thc line,
Major General Sir Frederick B. Maurice,
formerly director of military operations
of the British General Staff, tcld his
audience in Carnegie Hai last night.
General Maurice lectured on "How
the War Was Won." ln his lecture he
paid high tribute to the 107th, com
posed of men of the old 1st and 7th
New York National Guard. In breaking
tho German line, he asserted, they
fought the most tremendous battle of
the war. In one day's engagement. he
said, they lost 55 per cent of their men.
Major General John F. O'Ryan, com
mander of the 27th Division, intro?
ducod General Maurice. He said that
since his division was composed of
Revolutionary stock, Irish and German
Americans, there was some disappoint
ment among his men when they were
informed they were to go to the help of
the British instead of the French.
"But after we had fought beside
them," he added, "we felt entirely dif?
ferent. I would also like to Bay that
the German-Ameicam8 of my command
fought, if anything, hardcr than the
other men."
Here for Memorial Meeting
"BiH" Sewall's present trip to New
iorjt ia made in order that he may at
?end to-day a meeting of the Roosevelt
ro-fanent Memorial National Com
?;;*' at which it is hoped that the
^;n Kn'n'^hr the, memorial is t0 take
to'ti aefinitely decided upon. In
JJ^intr of this yesterday the old
woodaman announced that his vote will
tion J'Jr;rn? n0rt of nati?n"' institu
deals "f;l Wl1* train Up youths to the
iorov Amencaniam for which Theo
"n^Veve!t himself stood.
Bill Sewall figurea in half a dozen
Jf^oaevelt'a books. At his camp on
Mat^wamkeag I.ake, Roosevelt, at
"wucrart. When, on the same dav
Satheiil^ ;'.^'-'-'--. it was to Sewall
care of n,l u! ;mate!*/ *erit to be taken
*h?ch \h?? wd-out of ,the "daz('" ??"<?
fell at tfcfi lR"nn, 8i"(ie <ie<--arc8 he
& '>?^fP':u0<- .-^d when, a little
min *0O8evelt decided to trv to re
B5n,?uilin ^m^00*1- thec*t?e
toaC; "-0t D?W* uhom h<- asked
"At r.PHny r';rn t0 Medora, N. D
8?y V? ? umv>" Baid Sewall yester
Si22 fo Y ,ntended to take to the
I think r,f a r,erT**a"?-nt Hvelihood,
??Sfafai-SJ, ^anle'* h": really knew
^?.wa??C0h?ey?nti&bUt hc'd hcard
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T? Evade Prohibition
**olution AdoptexTby Brook
0-n Meeting Indoraes Fed
cral "DryH Amendment
?on 'at0;0^0" ,nd?"in* ^e prohibi
^^kfyH1;/^ at a meeting at the
?"?Pic*. ?f St ?y of Mtuic un<*?** the
?*/?# to tLB r?kIyn ?-?mittee of
l"'t?*l8tat*a. ConRt,tution of the
S* *<^/"ffi K'iven in the rC8?^
e><*?e ini th. idor?-*??nt waa that "the
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Nation's Notables
To Aid Selection
Of T. R. Memorial
Meeting To-day of National
Committee ToBeAttended
by Politi?al Leaders;
Col. Thompson to Preside
The meeting of the Roosevolt Perma
ncnt Memorial National Committee, at
1 Madison Avenue this morning, will
be one of the most notable gatherings
that has been held in New York in
; years. Colonel William Boyce Thomp
| son, chairman of the committee, will
I preside, and among those who will at
i tend are ex-Senator Elihu Root, ex
| Justice Charles E. Hughes, Major Gen
I eral Leonard Wood, Will H. Hays,
i chairman of the Republican National
Committee; Simeon D. Fess, Ohio
Congressman; former Secret?ry James
R. Garfield; John Mitchcll. Gifford
Pinchot and others, who are to decide
upon the form tiiat. the nation's me?
morial to Colonel Rooscvelt shall take
William W. Sewall, of Island
Falls, Me.?old "Bill" .Sewall?who was
Koosevelt's guido in the Maine woods
forty years ago and subsequc-ntly
joined him in Dakota, will be one of
tho picturesque figures at to-day's
meeting. Sewall is seventy-five years
old but still hale and sturdy.
Hundreds of suggestions for a me?
morial have come from all parts of the
country, some of which havo been so
appealmg that their authors have been
nivited to attend the committee meet?
ing and address the afternoon session
Among these are Charles Sheldon^
the naturalist, and John B. Burnham,
president of the American Game Pro?
tective Association, who will urge a
Roosevolt foundation for the preser
vation of wild life.
William Loeb, jr? private secretary
to I resident Roosevelt and later Cof
lector of the Port of New York, will
outline a plan to create a seaside park
at Oyster Bay. M. E. Ravage, a Rou
manian by birth and author of "An
American in the Making," will present
a plan for the development of "straight
American" leaders among the foreign
born, which, it is stated, has already
won the enthusiastic support of sev?
eral among the committee.
Numerous plans for statues and
mausoleums will come up, among these
one by George Keller, the architect of
tho Garfield Memorial, in Cleveland
and the J. 1'. Morgan Sarcophagus, in
Hartford.
The Roosevelt Permancnt Memorial
?National Committee was appointed bv
Chairman Will II. Hays under a resolu?
tion adopted by the Republican Na?
tional Committee at a meeting held in
Chicago three. days after Colonel
Roosevelfs death. Ex-President Taft
and ex-Justice Charles E. Hughes were
named as honorary chairmen and
Charles J. Bonaparte and Georpe B !
Cortelyou are former Cabinet mem- ]
bers who were given places upon the
committee.
Lieut. Col. Roosevelt Shy
About Aldermanic Boom
Also Is Silent Regarding O'Sheel
Challenge to Debate Irish
Question
Rumors of political preferment and
a challenge to debate aroused scant
enthusiasm yesterday in Lieutenant
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, eldest son
Df the late Colonel Roosevelt. His
reported boom as Republican candi
r A1j thc Pre?idency of the Board
oj Aldermcn he regarded as a spring
blossom, delicately constituted. He
mado no comment on a challenge to
(lebntc tho Irish question which
Shaomas O'Shoel made public.
Flowera that bloom in the spring
J?re sometimes withcred in the fall,"
| he said of the report concerning his
, possible political candidacy. Tho use
<r ?, namc in connection with next
fall a election was made without his
j knowledge, he said.
Asking whether he would consider
ij-unning for the office if thc proposi?
tion were put up to him, Mr. Roosevelt
! thought that it would bc much out
of the way to talk about such a thinjr
now. 6
"Call me up some time next August
and I rnight? I won't promiae? -but I
might have something to say then"
he suggested after referring to the
| spring flowers.' "
Thc question Mr. O'Shcel wants to
argue publicly with Lieutenant Colonel
Roosevelt in "That the Irish Republic
Deservcs tho Sympathy and Support of
the American People." He was in
spired with the idea by the American
omcers criticiFm of a hanner in the
St. Patrick's Day parade which ahouted:
hngland: Damn Your Concessions!
\ve Want Our Country!" Thc in?
scription, Mr. O'Sheel snys in his letter,
was just a quotation from Sean Mc
Dermott and war, properly credited to
him at that, Unless Lieutenant Colonel
Roosevelt acknowkdges that he made
a mistake?
"I hereby challenge you," the letter
continues, "publicly to match your rea
; sons for opposing thc independence of
j Ireland and for denying other Ameri
i cans the right to champion that cause
! against what reasons I may bo able
to set forth for believing in and work?
ing for that cause."
Tclls Soldiers Not to
Overilo "Hero Business"
"Don't. let tho 'hero business' get
stale and threadbarc before you secure
something to do," Lieutenant Colonel
Theodorc RooBevelt advised yesterday
at thc regular Sunday afternoon enter?
tainment provided at thc Manhattan
Opera House for soldiers and sailors
in service. He remarked that friends
and relatives of his auditors had given
up their lives and had suffered in bat?
tle to make the world at large better
to live in. All who had been in the
big fight, he asserted, want to put
manliness and honor into the world in?
stead of trying to get something out
of jt without any effort on their part.
"Thc war is over and the armies are
being disbanded," the speaker said.
"It's up to the real American to get
into the game now and take an active
part in the affairs of evcryday life.
Let the Democrats take an interest in
the ideals and politics of their party
and the Republicans likewise, And
when you find out what your ideals
are, go to it and do your best to se?
cure them."
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North Carolina in To-day
Wireless Anoimces Arrival of
1,472 Troops
A wireless message to The Associ- ;
ated Press from the U. S. S. North Car?
olina last night announeed that the
vessel, which is bringing 72 officers
and 1,400 troops from France, will dock j
here at noon to-day. Among the units !
on board is the 139th Aero Squadron,
of which Lieutenant David E. Putnaml '
of Newton. Mass., an American ace, who j
was kiiled in France, was a member.
Other units, said the message, in?
clude the ]03d Trench Mortar Bat
tery, part of the 28th (Kevstone) Di?
vision, 50 casual officers and convales- |
:ent casuals from Pcnnsylvania Mis- '
louri, Kentucky, Illinois, Massachusetts i
New York, Washington, Wisconain! I
Sew Jersey, Indiana and lowa.
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