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Before making his last sleeper jump to Warm Springs, the President-elect stood on the portico of Alabama's Capitol at Montgomery on the spot where Jefferson Davis took the oath of office as President of the C. S. of A.
"My fra-ainds and neighbors," Mr. Roosevelt began, his head wagging from side to side, "it is a great privilege to stand on this sacred spot. ... I can remember troubles in families caused by the [Civil] War. As some of you may remember, one of the Roosevelts married a lady from Georgia.-I recall that two distinguished gentlemen who served in the Confederate Navy visited New York and there were Roosevelts who regarded these two distinguished officers as pirates. I am sure that my daughter, who is here with me, and the others of my families would laugh heartily at any such manifestation of feeling. ... I am glad as one who is to occupy another White House that I had opportunity as I turned the corner to enter the Capitol to see the 'White House' of the Confederacy. . . ."†
Arrived at Warm Springs, the President-elect immediately took up the familiar routine of conferences and treatments, treatments and conferences. His smiling good cheer never seemed greater and if the awful problems lying ahead troubled him at all, nobodv was able to detect it.
*Theodore Roosevelt's mother was Martha Bullock of Roswell, Ga.
†The Jefferson Davis "First White House" is across the street from Alabama's Capitol.