Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1901 — Roosevelt and Wood. [ARTICLE]

Roosevelt and Wood.

Previous to his departure for Cuba, recently. Governor General Wood had a long interview with President Roosevelt. Not all of their conversation was official, but on the contrary there is authority for saying that the two distinguished men had a little heart to

heart talk regarding the changes which five years have wrought in their careers. Five years ago President Rocsevelt was out of business, both as civil service commissioner and as a member of the police board of New York. \ , Leonard Wood was then only an assistant surgeon in the regular army with the rank of captain. The advent of the McKinley administration worked wonders for both men. Dr. Wood was selected as the president's physician, and this gave him a prominence he might not have secured after years of faithful service in an obscure position. Theodore Roosevelt, after considerable of a campaign, was appointed assistant secretary of the navy. When the war broke out Roosevelt himself conceived the idea of organizing a Rough Rider regiment, but chops Wood as the colonel instead of taking the place himself. Today Wood is a brigadier general in the regular army and governor'general of Cuba. He is so young that in the ordinary course he is destined to become lieutenant general in command of the army of the United States. His former lieutenant colonel is now president of the United States, and it was perfectly natural that the two men should in a little time in solemn contemplation of the swiftness with which Providence works at times. "*