Theodore Roosevelt's Tramp up Mount Marcy--A Message of Importance--Wild Midnight Ride through the Mountains--On the Special Trains from North Creek to Buffalo 233 CHAPTER XXV Takes the Oath as President--The New Chief Magistrate at the Funeral of President McKinley--At the White House--How the First Real Working Day was Spent 241 CHAPTER XXVI Continuing the Work begun by President McKinley--The Panama Canal Agitation--Visit of Prince Henry of Prussia--The President at the Charleston Exposition 251 CHAPTER XXVII Destruction at St. Pierre--American Aid--The Great Coal Strike--President Roosevelt ends the Difficulty--Tour through New England--The Trolley Accident in the Berkshires--A Providential Escape from Death 260 CHAPTER XXVIII New Offices at the White House--Sends a Wireless Message to King Edward of England--End of the Trouble in Venezuela--The Canadian Boundary Dispute--Beginning of a Trip to the West--In Yellowstone Park 269 CHAPTER XXIX Dedication of the Fair Buildings at St. Louis--Continuation of the Trip to San Francisco--Up in the Far Northwest--Back in Washington--The Post-office Scandals--The New Republic of Panama--A Canal at Last--Proclamation regarding the War between Japan and Russia--Opening of the Great Fair 277 CHAPTER XXX Personal Characteristics of Theodore Roosevelt--The President's Family--Life at the White House--Our Country and its Future 289 APPENDIX A. Brief Extracts from Famous Addresses delivered by Theodore Roosevelt 297 B. List of Theodore Roosevelt's Writings 300 C. Chronology of the Life of Theodore Roosevelt from 1858 to 1904 302 ILLUSTRATIONS COLONEL ROOSEVELT AT SAN JUAN HILL _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S BIRTHPLACE 2 HOUSE IN WHICH THEODORE ROOSEVELT ROOMED WHILE AT HARVARD 14 THEODORE ROOSEVELT AT GRADUATION, 1880 20 MISS ALICE LEE ROOSEVELT 36 EDITH KERMIT ROOSEVELT 66 THEODORE ROOSEVELT AS A ROUGH RIDER 118 COLONEL ROOSEVELT AT MONTAUK POINT 176 THE ROOSEVELT HOMESTEAD AT OYSTER BAY 192 THEODORE ROOSEVELT 202 PRESIDENT MCKINLEY AND VICE-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT 216 PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AT HIS DESK 252