MR. ROOSEVELT’S RIDE.
.Mr. Roosevelt recently spent seventeen hours in the saddle and rode 98 miles over slushy Virginian roads for the patriotic purpose of confounding the critics who denounced as a hardship hie recent order that military and naval officers should periodically prove their physical fitness by .riding DO miles in three days. “What a President who is not in training can do,” exclaimed Mr. Roosevelt when he dismounted, with a broad grin, from his steaming horse, “ought-to be easy for men who are supposed always to keep in fit bodily condition.” The President started at 3.30 in the morning. Ho led his party nearly all the way at a killing pace, stopping nowhere for longer than ten minutes except at Warrenton, where the business houses and schools wmre closed, and all the inhabitants assembled' and [demanded a speech. H'o'did the honors on the occasion., shaking hands with everybody,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2450, 15 March 1909, Page 6
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150MR. ROOSEVELT’S RIDE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2450, 15 March 1909, Page 6
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