The Richmond Virginian., June 30, 1910, CITY EDITION, Image 12

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THE DAY OF DAYS,
When the Whole Notion Will Join In
Enthusiastic Welcome to Roosevelt
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VANDERBILT
By CHARLES N. LURIE.
“Colonel Rooaavalt,” olid I, “what do
you think about your sotting homo
•gainf"
“Speaking with duo ragard to the
Historical, archaeological, ethnological
and moral significance of what I am
•bout to say,** replied the distinguished
traveler, "I may reply that I look upon
my homecoming somewhat as my la*
m anted friend, the late John Hey,
might have done. Vou recall what he
••id in ‘Little BroachasP It It ‘a
darner! eight better bueineae than loaf
ing around the throne.’"—From an
Imaginary Interview.
FOR some months America hna
been looking toward Europe
with eyes that had an unut
terable yearn behind the
irises. YVe have been as children be
reft of a parent, as scholars without an
•ccustomed kindly mentor, as men
without a wise counselor. The African
htint was past, the ports of civilization
bad been reached; steamers were mak
ing regular sailings to the United
States Why couldn't our own Roose
velt, our only living ex-president,
hurry home at once Instead of making
speeches to Interested but slightly
'iteA . looking bodies of Europeans
constitutionally unable to appreciate
him as he deserved ? They could have
sent their diplomas and degrees and
presents by mall, couldn't they?
But It's all over now . The period of
waiting is almost past, and Miss Co
lumbia won't have to play Penelope
for her wandering Ulysses much longer
On June IK the Kalserin Auguste Vic
toria will steam Into New York harbor
with Roosevelt on the bridge, gtvin*
Suggestions to the captain about tht
navigation of the ship, and we can al;
go to bed that tiight—after reading tlx
dispatches, of course with the com
fortable assurance that the nation li
safe June Id will be a great day foi
the throat specialists and the ftrew.rki
makers. The firmer will ..ouritlnf
the fat fees received for treattni
hoarse cheerers. the latter will be
reckoning: profits.
Nation to Join New York in Welcome.
For several week* Uncle Sain lias
been getting ready to welcome hi*
“wandering boy " New York will be
the p .rt of entry, and New York will
do more than It* share In greeting the
colonel—he is a New Yorker by birth,
you know, and once ran third In a race
for the mayoralty—but New York ha*
no monopoly of the enthusiasm The
reception to the returning ex-pre*ldent
and mighty hunter will be national In
Its scope and site. Every one of the
forty-eight states and territories, a*
well as Alaska and the outlying Is
lands, will have Its representative* la
line to greet him and assure him thst
we are glad to have him with us again. I
They will tell him with what Interest I
his fellow citizen* have followed his
triumphal course through Europe, how
they have read every line telling how
he hobnobbed with princes and poten
tates and how they have rejoiced ex
ceedingly In the greatest reception
ever accorded abroad to any man of
any rank or nationality.
The reception In New York to Colo
nel Roosevelt Is expected to outdo In
earnest, sincere enthusiasm that .given
Ito him In Europe In no sense Is he a
“cttlxen of the world” He Is an
American nnd 1* proud of it, and he
; has lost none of his Americanism dur
ing his sojourn In Africa and Europe
Perhaps that Is what endear# him most
to us The New York reception will
! be wildly, madly, enthusiastically
American To prove this It Is only
necessary to way that the Irlsh-Amerl
cans, the Itallan-Amerlcans, the He
brew-Americans. the (Jerman-Amerl
' can* and many other sorts of hyphcn
: ated Yankees will take part In It. If
j Colonel Roosevelt listens to all the
greetings that will be shouted to him
i on June IS he will hear, beside# Eng
lish. more languages and dialects than
he heard In Africa and Europe
The reception Is to be purely un
; official and civic and therefore devoid
I of official and military features From
one viewpoint It may be looked upon
ALL THE
WAY FROM
OKLAHOMA
aa a private affair, since the national, :
state and city governments have no
official parts in It. It is to be a upon- '■
taneoua outpouring of the feelings of :
the populace toward a man who has
earned by years of service the right
to be considered the representative
American. He will be welcomed at the
Battery In New York city by Mayor
William J Gaynor, but the city's
head will extend to him a welcome, not
In his official cupactty, but aa head of •
a great body of American citizens
j eager to extend the hand to one of,
| themselves. At the head of the reccp- ;
' tlon committee appointed by Mayor!
Gaynor Is Cornelius Vanderbilt, the
hardest working member of the fa
mous wealthy family.
Water Parade on the Program.
The program of the Roosevelt recep • i
tlon Includes a water parade similar
to that witnessed at the Hudson-Ful
ton celebration, but not so long The
progress of the colonel's steamer will !
j be retarded If necessary so as to have j
It reach quarantine exactly at 9 o'clock
In the morning The citizens’ commit
tee of 350 has chartered the Hudson j
river steamer Albany and will steam 1
down the bay to greet the Incoming'
i liner. A great fleet of Hhlps of every 1
size and description will accompany
1 the Albany, every available vessel hav- 1
ing been chartered by organizations;
anxious to be among the first to vvel- j
come the homecomer.
Those persons gifted with strong
imaginations may now put their hands
behind their ears and imagine they
ht*ar the no lee of the myriad whistles
and sirens that will greet the first
glimpse of the Katserin. A little later
the colonel and his party will leave
the steamer and embark on the rev
enue cutter that will take them to the
Battery'- Colonel Roosevelt and the
reception committee will disembark
at the Battery, where Mayor < lay nor,
in the presence of a big crowd, will re
ceive his distinguished visitor on a
platform especially erected for the
purpose After the speech*-4 of wel
come have been listened to and have
received appropriate replies the party
will proceed up Broadway in the fol
lowing order:
First, mounted police: second,
mounted band; third, escort of rough
riders (these will he rep l rough
riders, the men who charged up San
Juan hill behind the colonel) fourth.
Colonel Roosevelt in a carriage, fifth,
entire reception committee in car
riages. The procession will then turn
from Broadway into Washington
square and through Washington arch
up Fifth avenue t<* a point above Fifty
ninth street, where paraders will break
ranks. Lined up on both sides of
Fifth avenue will be the organizations
which will welcome the colonel home.
The proposed parade has been aban
doned.
Even Tody Hamilton, champion cir
cus press agent, would find himself at
a loss for words to describe the wel
come. It will be national in char
acter. Weeks and weeks before the
date of the event, as soon as it be
came known In the land that a great
assemblage was planned to greet
Roosevelt when he first touched Ameri
can soil again, requests and appeals
for places In the line began to pour in
on Captain Arthur F. Cosby, a former
rough rider and regular army man,
who Is secretary of the reception com
mittee The problem early became
one of selection, limitation and rejec
tion Wily, the Italian-Americans of
New York, characteristically enthusi
astic over the opportunity to pay hon
or to the man who had done so much
for atrU ken Messina, asked permis
sion to turn out no less than 20,000
men! Of course it/could not be grant
ed, hut they wily be liberally repre
sented.
Syrians and Others In Costume.
ThereJ^vlll be many others of foreign
extraction In line The Syrians of the
city will turn out In their national
headgear, the fez, and there will be a
hundred Hungarian* In national cos
tume. The ranks will be entirely civic
in character, with the exception of the
rough riders. In western costume, and
the Spanish war veterans. It Is esti
mated that there will be from 15,000
to 20,000 men In line. Some members
of the civilian bodies will wear dis
tinctive dress. The Hamilton club of
Chicago, for Instance, which sent In an
eatrly request for a place, will be garbed
in high silk hats and frock coats and
will carry canes. There will be similar
clubs and organizations from many
cities, as well as cowboys and others
Fifth avenue will be liberally deco- ,
rated. It is expected, with flags and
bunting The committee has re
quested the owners and oceupants of
houses to make such visible manifes
tation of their Joy over Roosevelt's re
turn
Probably the feature of the reception
that will attract the greatest amount
of popular attention will be the rough
riders, former subordinates and com
rades of the central figure In the af
fair At the coming celebration New
York will have Its first opportunity
since the Spanlsh-Amertcan war to
see this famous body of men As many
of the 500 members of the Roosevelt
Rough Riders' association as can reach
New dork will assemble tn the city,
and It i» expected that at least 300 of
them will be on view The regiment
will stay In New York a week On
Thursday following the reception there
will be a regimental dinner at whtch
Colonel Roosevelt will he the guest of
honor President Charles A Hunter
of the association, who Is clerk of the
United States court at iluthrle. < >k’a .
recently Issued a call to all rough
riders to assemble In New York be
fore June IS President Hunter will
have personal charge of the regiment
and will answer for Its good behavior
In the metropolis
Two Thousand Miles to Greet Him.
An Interesting little feature of the
parade will be the presence of the two
Abernathy boy a, tsouia and Temple,
aged tsn and six, who undertook a
2.000 mile ride on horseback, from
Frederick, ok’a , to New York, In order
to be on hand to greet Colonel Roose
velt. their father's friend The father
of the two boys Is John R Abernathy.
United States marshal at Guthrie, who
went hunting with President Roose
felt in the spring of 1305 and showed
him how to catch wolves alive with his
bare hands Soon afterward the presi
dent sent to Abernathy his commission
as marshal. The boys have Inherited
their father's pluck and endurance.
Oyster Ray will have Its own wel
come for Its famous fellow citizen
Soon after his return Colonel Roose
velt will visit various cities to which
he has been Invited. In August he will
speak In Kansas and will attend the
annual frontier celebration at Chey
enne, Wyn.
The Latest Move to Save Our
Forests
it cytladers Into which
|S\ ‘Mtltc methods not
Whst trees arc left, but also of utlllz
T HANKS to the efforts of For
mer President Roosevelt,
President Taft. Former Uhlef
Korea tor Ptnchot and other*
attempt i* to preserve the country's
forest* are under way The speedy
disappearance of all our trees which,
according to Borne estimates, will last
hut twenty-five years longer at the
present rate of consumption may be
staved oft a little longer In the mean
time an attempt to solve the forest
preservation problem by attacking It
from a different angle ts promising
good results. It U the endeavor to
gave for use the two-thirds of each
tree which are now being wasted. If
scientific methods of utilisation will
enable uit to use three-thirds of a tree
Instead of one-third as at present, the
drain on the nation’s forests will meet
With a very effectual check. The estl
ruate of tf> 5-8 per cent waste at pres
ent was made recently by the officials
of the United States forest service.
In tha effort to prevent this truly
alarming waste of wood the govern
ment is concentrating Its energies at
the newly erected forest products lab
oratory at the University of AVIecon
?«ln, at Madison. Wis. The purpose of
.the laboratory Is the devising of «cl
only of saving
Ing the so called "waste products' In
.the making of print paper, wood alco
hol. turpentine and other useful ma
terial*, the manufacture of which ts
p«« eating up the forests at a pro
jdigtpua rate.
*sto the laboratory are Included all
t*rt* of apparatus Intended to demon
Jtrate what can be done In the matter
p.fcf wood utilisation and preservation
There are machine* to test the tensile
\ torsion strength of various sorts of
- .wood In order to tell to which purposes
they may best be put. There are Im
pact machine* ao gauged that the
, .hammers, ranging In weight from 60
?f ,40 260 pounds, can be dropped from
§ 'heights up to six feet upon the beam
block of wood, exerting a sudden
of hundreds of pounds This
test th# r*#lstance of the wood !
twt tank* Nn which woods |
various sorts are Immersed In pre- ,
ablutions In order to cs*er- J
how an* with v hat chondral* i
' may beat be Impregnated ir. c.-yer '
withstand the attack* of the fungi ■
T hatmaicuia* that do an Incalcula- J
I-of damage In a year. There
remittent's Forest Prod
ucts Laboratory at Wis
consin University.
Umbers fire placed and In which oil la
forced Into the fiber* of the wood un
til it will hold no more In order to
determine how timber may he ren
dered more durable. There are chem
ical laboratories, machine shops, offices
and every variety of equipment and
machinery to fit the laboratory for its
work The university, which has one
of the best forestry courses in the
world. Is eo-operating with the gov
ernment in the tests
A very Interesting feature of the
laboratory's work Is the paper making
plant, wherein it is hoped that the
possibility of making satisfactory
the most Important problems to which
considerable time and laboratory spate
are given A touch of acute Interest
Is lent to this work from the fact that
through Its direct agency human life
may be saved, since one of the most
common sources of fatal mine cave
ins Is the destruction of the support
ing timbers by fungi and other ene
mies of the wood.
What sorts of wood will best stand
various strains-In bridges, buildings
and different structures—will be de
termined In the timber testing labora
tory, where two seven-horsepower mo
tors furnish the current to run the
To see what sudden strains oak.
pine, maple and other sorts of wood
will withstand the impart machine
mentioned before in this article was
built in the mac hine shops of Purdue
university and sent to the Wisconsin
forestry laboratory for experiments.
Steam heated ovens for drying wood,
in order to test the shrinkage, warp
ing tendencies and water content of
different varieties, are a part of the
laboratory equipment, find a room in
which to conduct seasoning experi
ments has also been set aside. In an
other part of th»* laboratory tests will
be conducted to ascertain the heat
conductivity of different woods to as
sist in the work of the tests.
Stumps and other portions of the
print paper from material* other than
spruce and hemlock wood will be
demonstrated. The plant la complete
and able to turn out every (trade of
paper, from the finest correspondence
stationery to the coarsest wrapping
paper Every step In the complicated
process, from the breaking of the
woodonta chips for the first treat
ment oy stria and sulphite solutions
to the Anal running of the sheets of
paper through the calendering rolls to
produce a finished surface. Is follow
ed carefully, so that the results of the i
substitution of various woods hitherto
not need successfully for this purpose
r r the usual materials may be noted
»t each stage in the process of manu- I
•a-tore
How to make timber last longer by ‘
protecting It with preservative# from
the various borer# and fungous
growths which attack wood Is on* of !
machinery of the laboratory. In the
torsion machine timber* can b* twin- !
ed until the strain reaches 30,000 Inch
pound* Five testing machines are '
provided to test the strength of dlf- |
ferent woods under slow pressure, one
having a capacity of 100,000 pounds, |
another of twice that amount and |
three other smaller machines of 30,000 |
pounds each. >
f?
pine trees now wasted will be put into
■tills and retort*, and the turpentine,
tar and laseous material will be ex
tracted, carried off, separated and re
fined Into various commercial prod
ucts. It methods of dotpg this eco
nomically can be devised the problem
ef utilising much of the pine wood now
wasted will be solved
ARTHUR J. BRINTON.
This Woman May Head Country’s Educators
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, Su-1
perintendent of Chicago’s
Public Schools.
IN virtue of her exalted position as
superintendent of the Chicago
public schools Mrs. Ella Flagg
Young Is already the foremost
woman among the nation's educators.
As president of the Illinois Teachers'
association she heads the pedagogical
profession In her atute. If she la elect
ed president of the National Educa
tional association at Its convention In
July In Boston, as seems possible, she
will he the professionally recognized
leader of the country's teachers. It Is
hardly necessary to add that she will
be the first woman to hold the posi
tion, since no other woman has ever
advanced so far to the front In the
profession of teaching as has Mrs.
Young
It was last year that Chicago as
tonished the country by electing Mrs.
Young to the office of superintendent
of the city's schools. The very Idea of
a woman superintendent of schools
seems not to have suggested Itself
previously to the boards of education
of the country’s big cities, and the
election caused a sort of shock The
magnitude of the office, with Its super
intendency of more than 8,000 teachers
and nearly 300,000 pupils. Its super
vision of the disbursement annually of
more than 350,000,000 and its com
mand of a salary of 310,000, all sent a
thrill of Interest through those who
are Interested In the nation's school
children. A woman superintendent of
schools In a big city was to the pub
lic an unheard of thing, for no one
could even remember the suggestion
of such a choice Htnce then another
woman school superintendent has
been elected, in the person of Mrs.
Mary D. Bradford of KenoehSL, WIs.
The size of the salary attached to
Mrs Young's position was one thing
that aroused general comment. It was
suggested In some quarters that if a
male superintendent of schools was
worth 310,000 a year a woman super
tendent could not earn so much. The
suggestion had even been made at the
meeting of the Chicago school board i
which elected Mrs. Young, but the i
fiery indignation of Mrs. Isabelle 1
O'Keefe, the only woman member of i
the board and Mrs. Young's chief sup- i
porter, promptly and quickly squelch- i
ed it. The salary remained what It i
had been, and there has been no sug
gestion that Chicago is dlssatlfied with i
Its bargain. Mrs. Young was recently i
re-elected to succeed herself for six
1
months. The only other city school I
superintendent who receives a salary
as largo as that of Mrs. Young Is Hu- ,
perintendent William H Maxwell of i
New York city.
Chicago has had no cause to be dis
satisfied with its choice of a woman to
direct its schools. In experi
ence, ability. Insight and
foresight Mrs Young stands
in the very front rank of the
country's educators. She had
proved her ability in the
public school system of the
city as teacher, principal and
head of the city's normal
school. Her worth as an
educator won recognition
from the late Dr. William R.
Harper, who. despite hts
well known antipathy to wo
man educators In general.
made her profeasor of edu
cation In the big Institution
of which he was president,
the University of Chicago.
Her pedagogical and admin
istrative abilities In various
capacities were therefore
known In the school world
before the attention of the
outside world was centered
on her by the election of last
August. Forty-seven years
of service preceded the election.
air*, noun* i* imy-nve year* old.
She 1* a widow and childless, she
waa born in Buffalo, where she re
ceived most of her undergraduate edu
cation. When she was a young girl
her family removed to Chicago, and
she waa graduated from one of the
city's high schools. She took up
teaching as a profession Immediately
afterward. *
The NatlShal Educational associa
tion, which may ask Mrs. Young to be
come its president, is one of the big
test associations in point of numbers
ami Influence In this country. Its an
nual conventions servo as a clearing
house for the Information and theories
that are the crop of a year's tilling of
the fields of education. To It go the
men and women who are shaping the
future life of the nation, to exchange
MRS. ELLA FLAGS YOUNG.
Idea*, to accept what U proved food
and reject what la false. In few other
professions is so much earnest, care
ful attention paid to the development
of Ideas, the' testing of methods, the
observation of results. Its membership
comprises the heads of the schools and
colleges and universities and the city,
state and national officials who have
in their care the supervision of the
educational forces of the country. It
is a high honor to be called to Ike
presidency of this body. -
WALTON WILLIAMS.