POOR MR. ROOSEVELT

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2466, 2 April 1909, Page 2

POOR MR. ROOSEVELT

Tlie arrangements made for Mr. Roosevelt's hunting trip ’u Africa rigidly excludes all uninvited pe'sons 'says the New York correspondent: of the “Daily Express”), but Mr. RooseEeJt will find that he is in for a strenuous time. Already (February 2nd) every berth - on the ship in which he sails has been booked by a host of photographers, Jbiograph operators, cinematograph manipulators, lecturers, “speuu ’ writers, and idle curiosity sectors. Mr. Roosevelt lias contracted with “Scribner’s Magazine” to write i*e report of liis hunting expedition for ao to a *um than £IO,OOO, but he will not be’ the only one to describe his experiences. When he arrives at Nairobi Ihe .rown will be filled with descriptive writers, each r determined to be as close- to the hero of the expedition as possible. Outsiders will bo excluded, but nevertheless, at every railway station, at every camp, and at every stopping-pice the ex-President will be snapshotted, and cinematographed without.cessation. Nearly every important American newspaper has made arranegments to have a “war correspondent” on the spot. Not a detail is to be missed. It remains to be seen what the ex-President will have to say to his uninvited guests when the expedition starts from Nairobi.