THE STRENUOUS LIFE.
AMERICAN OFFICERS SET A TASK. A RIDE OF NINETY-EIGHT MILES. By Telegraph.— Press Association.- -Copyright. (Received January 16, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, 15lh. January. . In order to demonstrate the reasonableness of his recent order that military and naval officers should periodically ride ninety miles in three days, President Roosevelt yesterday, in seventeen hours, through snow and slush, rode ninetyeight miles without apparent fatigue. ' American papers iiave told many etories of the sorrows of some of the officers — especially those who have taken on flesh — since the Piesident has evinced a keen interest m their physical training. On a comparatively recent occasion, it is said, he personally led a "bevy" of them up hill, down dale, through water-courses, over fences, and generally made them so exhausted that they began to wish there were no. American, army and navy. It is also said that more than one officer has resigned because a ninety miles ride was a thing unlikely to ba full of joy.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 13, 16 January 1909, Page 5
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