{"id":32537,"date":"2020-03-31T11:21:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T16:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=32537"},"modified":"2020-03-31T11:51:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T16:51:04","slug":"teddy-roosevelt-in-baltimore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=32537","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Roosevelt in Baltimore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is something I found a couple of weeks ago and have been meaning to share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-embed-aspect-4-3\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TR at Baltimore [1918]\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3i6j26fH7JE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On September 28, 1918, former president Theodore Roosevelt visited Baltimore and delivered a speech at Oriole Park on Greenmount Avenue to extol the Fourth Liberty Loan (ie., war bonds), and this video shows TR and dignitaries delivering a speech in front of probably 20,000 enthusiastic Baltimoreans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This video was an unexpected find &#8212; I was looking for pictures of the old wooden ballpark &#8212; and didn&#8217;t expect to find film footage of Oriole Park, even if it&#8217;s of a political rally rather than in-game action.  It looks to me that TR is speaking from roughly where the brewing vats for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peabodyheightsbrewery.com\">Peabody Heights Brewery<\/a>, which  sits on the site of the old ballpark, are now.  The ballpark <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdhs.org\/underbelly\/2014\/10\/02\/lost-city-the-burning-of-oriole-park\/\" class=\"ek-link\">burned down in 1944<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edmund Morris&#8217; three volume biography of Roosevelt gives some background, but says nothing specifically of his appearance in Baltimore.:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Roosevelt was loath to divide what was left of his energy between politics and war work, saying that he would tour in the fall only on behalf of Secretary [of the Treasury William G.] McAdoo&#8217;s fourth &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liberty_bond\" class=\"ek-link\">Liberty Loan<\/a>&#8221; appeal. Extra military funds were urgently needed: the number of soldiers, sailors, and marines in service was now approaching three million, and the latest registration had increased the pool of potential draftees to an almost incredible twenty-four million &#8212; one and a half times as much as the total manpower of Britain and France.  Roosevelt&#8217;s still-smoldering anger toward Woodrow Wilson was fueled by this evidence of how the nation could have armed itself after the sinking of the <em>Lusitania<\/em>, shortening the war and saving countless lives.  Quentin&#8217;s included, perhaps.<\/p><cite><em>Colonel Roosevelt<\/em>, page 540<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Careful observers will note that Roosevelt is wearing a mourning band for his son Quentin, who was shot down by German aviators on July 14th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-tumblr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"tumblr-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/embed.tumblr.com\/embed\/post\/Iu_a7BIpubp-8ePJ-r9NVw\/4343428389\" data-did=\"44d4a773d7f1fcc666bf2b974dd33d5f349eaa78\"  ><a href=\"https:\/\/mdhsphotographs.tumblr.com\/post\/4343428389\/theodore-roosevelt-at-oriole-baseball-park\">https:\/\/mdhsphotographs.tumblr.com\/post\/4343428389\/theodore-roosevelt-at-oriole-baseball-park<\/a><\/div><script async src=\"https:\/\/assets.tumblr.com\/post.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s tempting to think that my great-grandfather, and perhaps his thirteen year-old son, could have been in the crowd; I&#8217;m told that TR was his favorite president, and perhaps he took a streetcar up from Federal Hill to see the former president speak that day.  He&#8217;d have been a week from turning thirty-nine.  My grandfather wouldn&#8217;t be born for another three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is something I found a couple of weeks ago and have been meaning to share. On September 28, 1918, former president Theodore Roosevelt visited Baltimore and delivered a speech at Oriole Park on Greenmount Avenue to extol the Fourth Liberty Loan (ie., war bonds), and this video shows TR and dignitaries delivering a speech<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=32537\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Teddy Roosevelt in Baltimore&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[424,575,4578,4579,4872,14],"class_list":["post-32537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-genealogy","tag-peabody-heights-brewing","tag-theodore-roosevelt","tag-world-war-i","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}