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William Emlen Roosevelt explains to President Roosevelt that they have decided to lay the cable and would like to have it finished before hurricane season. Laying this cable is in line with the War Department’s vision for better communication between the Panama Canal and Washington D.C.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-13
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt thanks Frederic Remington for his praise of Roosevelt’s recent speech and hopes his own superiors feel the same way about it. Roosevelt will ask Gibbons about the hurricane in Samoa, and he would like Remington to let him know when he is next in Washington, D.C.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-06-07
Three masts on a boat—”presidential ticket,” “New York state ticket,” and “congressional ticket”—were thrown off due to the “Roosevelt hurricane.” Charles A. Peabody and Patrick Henry McCarren hold onto the bottom of the New York state ticket mast by the “Democratic party” hold. Thomas Taggart, Alton B. Parker, and David B. Hill are in another hold.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-09
Military Governor of Puerto Rico Davis sends Secretary of War Root information about the effects of a hurricane that struck Puerto Rico. He describes the damage and what relief supplies are needed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1899-08-13
After a hurricane made landfall in Puerto Rico, Elihu Root requests that Governor Roosevelt “ask the people of your state to contribute generously to the relief of the people of Puerto Rico.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1899-08-14
Chester L. Brooks writes to Sarah Derby Gannett to send books related to the Badlands.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1954-09-22