not attend the public school or join in the sports of his associates, but he acquitted himself well under a private tutor and carefully trained his body in the lighter athletics. In 1880 he graduated with high honors from Harvard College, where he had been the editor of the Advocate, a college paper. He became a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Greek letter fraternity.

After a year of study in Dresden and mountainclimbing in the Alps he went to New York City, to study law and enter politics. The fascinating frankness of his manner soon won him friends and in an astonishingly short time he became a leader. At the early age of twenty-three years he was elected assemblyman for a New York City district and thus went to Albany where he became within a year the leader of the minority, and in his second term the leader of the house as chairman of the Committee on Cities. His fearless and tireless attacks on the corrupt departments of the New York City government cleared the way for the famous Lexow-Parkhurst investigation. It was remarkable how well fair-minded men loved him, while those interested in furthering their own. ends opposed him.

In the Blaine campaign of 1884 he remained true to the Republican party, but he managed to separate city. and state politics to such a degree from national politics that, while Blaine was defeated, he succeeded in sending his own delegates to the county, state and national conventions.

In 1881 Mr. Roosevelt married Miss Alice Lee, of Boston, who bore him one daughter, Alice, in 1884, but died the same year. Soon after his wife's death he

lost both his parents in one week. These sorrows and the fatigue from his energetic political work caused him to seek temporary seclusion. On the bank of the Little Missouri, in upper Montana, near the border of the Bad Lands, he built himself a log house, invested in a herd of cattle, hired a number of cowboys, and seemed to prepare to live and die in this wilderness. But cases of books stood beside his rifle racks and a pen was as often in his hand as the gun or the bridle. His health returned to him and with it the desire for leadership.

He returned to the East in 1886, en route to London to marry Miss Edith Kermit Carow, his present wife, a handsome woman, well educated and thoroughly familiar with the duties of society. Five children, offspring of this happy union, idolize their father, who is always, ready to romp with them. Together with Alice, his daughter by his first wife, they are shown in the family group ornamenting these pages.

In 1886 in the three-cornered fight for the New York mayoralty between Henry George, Abram S. Hewitt and himself he was defeated, but the struggle had made him so prominent, that President Harrison appointed him to the National Civil Service Commission, where he succeeded in increasing the number of positions on the civil service list from 1,400 to 40,000.

When the reform administration of Mayor Strong came into power, Mr. Roosevelt surprised his friends by accepting the position as police commissioner of New York City, which they thought was below the dignity of a man of his culture, moral principles and social standing. But the office attracted him as an oppor

not attend the public school or join in the sports of his associates, but he acquitted himself well under a private tutor and carefully trained his body in the lighter athletics. In 1880 he graduated with high honors from Harvard College, where he had been the editor of the Advocate, a college paper. He became a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Greek letter fraternity.

After a year of study in Dresden and mountainclimbing in the Alps he went to New York City, to study law and enter politics. The fascinating frankness of his manner soon won him friends and in an astonishingly short time he became a leader. At the early age of twenty-three years he was elected assemblyman for a New York City district and thus went to Albany where he became within a year the leader of the minority, and in his second term the leader of the house as chairman of the Committee on Cities. His fearless and tireless attacks on the corrupt departments of the New York City government cleared the way for the famous Lexow-Parkhurst investigation. It was remarkable how well fair-minded men loved him, while those interested in furthering their own ends opposed him.

In the Blaine campaign of 1884 he remained true to the Republican party, but he managed to separate city and state politics to such a degree from national politics that, while Blaine was defeated, he succeeded in sending his own delegates to the county, state and national conventions.

In 1881 Mr. Roosevelt married Miss Alice Lee, of Boston, who bore him one daughter, Alice, in 1884, but died the same year. Soon after his wife's death he

lost both his parents in one week. These sorrows and the fatigue from his energetic political work caused him to seek temporary seclusion. On the bank of the Little Missouri, in upper Montana, near the border of the Bad Lands, he built himself a log house, invested in a herd of cattle, hired a number of cowboys, and seemed to prepare to live and die in this wilderness. But cases of books stood beside his rifle racks and a pen was as often in his hand as the gun or the bridle. His health returned to him and with it the desire for leadership.

He returned to the East in 1886, en route to London to marry Miss Edith Kermit Carow, his present wife, a handsome woman, well educated and thoroughly familiar with the duties of society. Five children, offspring of this happy union, idolize their father, who is always, ready to romp with them. Together with Alice, his daughter by his first wife, they are shown in the family group ornamenting these pages.

In 1886 in the three-cornered fight for the New York mayoralty between Henry George, Abram S. Hewitt and himself he was defeated, but the struggle had made him so prominent, that President Harrison appointed him to the National Civil Service Commission, where he succeeded in increasing the number of positions on the civil service list from 1,400 to 40,000.

When the reform administration of Mayor Strong came into power, Mr. Roosevelt surprised his friends. by accepting the position as police commissioner of New York City, which they thought was below the dignity of a man of his culture, moral principles and social standing. But the office attracted him as an oppor

tunity for practical work and, during the three years of his term, he personally superintended his subordinates, and every detail of the work. The efficiency of the police force of New York was marvelously improved.

But in 1897 Tammany regained its hold on New York City Hall, and Mr. Roosevelt was appointed assistant secretary of the navy. In this capacity he earned the gratitude of his country by insisting that "the navy must be ready for war at all times," and he was largely instrumental in bringing about great improvements. The work on the new warships was hurried and repairs on the old ones ordered, the crew of every ship was recruited to its full strength, at every coaling station an ample supply of coal was held ready for use, and in the face of protests of many officials, the ships were furnished with guns and ammunition and the blue-jackets were given an extended gunnery practice. Mr. Roosevelt is entitled to a large share of the glory won in Manila Bay and off Santiago de Cuba.

When war was declared, Secretary Roosevelt was authorized to buy and equip an auxiliary fleet of sixty vessels. Owing to his unimpeachable honesty and untiring energy, sixty seaworthy ships were secured in a short time, and at a reasonable cost.

This task accomplished, Mr. Roosevelt concluded he could render the best service to his country by going to the front. He accepted the lieutenant-colonelcy of one of the cavalry regiments, to be created at his suggestion. Together with Colonel Leonard Wood, he formed the regiment of Rough Riders, picking the recruits from among the thousands of ablebodied men of all classes eager to enlist

The Rough Riders drilled one month diligently and