Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1902 — Roosevelt Surprised Him. [ARTICLE]

Roosevelt Surprised Him.

Alfred Bowker, officially known as the right worshipful the Mayor of Winchester, the youngest man in 700 years to occupy that office, on his recent trip to this country visited the "White House, where he was made welcome by President Roosevelt. Just before sailing for home he said that the most interesting man he had met in America was the Rough Rider President. “The thing that most astonished me,” 6aid the English Mayor, according to the New York Times, “was his great and very intimate knowledge of the history uud character of Alfred the Great Knowing that I was here as the representative of England at the American celebrations, he at once began talking to me of the wonderful king of Wessex. There is not one mau in 10,000 who knows more about him than your President. We had a long chat and he really gave me some ideas about Alfred and the lasting effects of his reign I had not thought of, and I have been a very close student of English history, and particularly of the Immediate story and tradition of my own people. If President Roosevelt is as learned on other things as he is In this he is a more wonderful man than his admirers credit him with being.”