New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-01
HISS B4RTON'S DENIAL
INDIGNANT AT ABSURD AND SENSATIONAL
STORIES.

STORIES.
,,.-tds,, Conn. AUG. a-The following statement
was made to-day by Clara Barton. president OF us
National Red Cross. who is visiting here-
-, more is perhaps no more hopeless undertaAns
than that of attempting 70 set ASIDE S6liSaeso
rauorr once circulated and accepted oy tne puOAS.
and replacing il by plain. simple stalsn,euI q
calm facts with nothing beyond their trutnrulness
10 commend them. but IN the interest or tfuinr OIL
correct information IN regard 20 the customs Oh
other countries and peoples and the better app
ance of our own. such attempt seems called tof
.'Sfnce my return from the International con1er-
euce Of St Petersburg. scarcely three weeks ago. L
have seen several hundreds Of newspaper articles
concerning myself-an kindly intended, IT Is tfus.
but so wanting IN facts. so sensational ana aD-
sIIrd as TO be ridiculous. 1 need not repeat them
Those who have seen will know then5 Il any ssV~
not they have been merCIfLlly spared
The facts were that the delegates or some nifty
nations met at St Petersburg by invitation OF tbs
Russian Red Cross and the sanction of the Russian
Government a hundred or more delegates wers
present and we're royalty received by the Emperor
respective palaces The Ereatc5t Courtesy and hos
ptanty We're shown 20 an alike. Every dsleBats
W del CATION would % received BY our n1anIv and
cordial President his home Each delegate
addressed in his own or IN some language familiar
to him, and was encouraged 70 speak on subjects
IF must refer to that silly sssksniTs story g
thirty years. visited and at times resided in most
tunity OF becoming cOHvsrsant with the customs OF
most OF the prominent countries of the world In
of these have / ever found the custom OF
lady kissing gentleman upon PRESENTATION or any
fiiZed country in the world.
"A gentleman may kiss lady's hand at intro
duCIOn- n friendly greeting and lady. X
permitted. may kiss the hand Of another lady her
superior in rank position. but this Is the extent
far I have seen, and ] would earnestly
ommend in our public statements In future. as re
these limits II rightly remember. the subject of
ladies kiss gentlemen in public has occupied
10 Journalism within last
How the nOrsensiCal report regarding myself
upon introduction 20 the car or Emperor came
into etFCU ton existence have rot the slight
EST knowledge, as 7 reporter since
person either by word pen and yet L repre-
sented through entire press as having aoSo-
IuteIy said these things, and made the Gar OF
Russia responsible for a custom foreign 90
and as unlike him il would be TO President
II naturally regret the position in which II places
/ as ALL must know that they fal5os but nov
! ava they to know that the falsehoods were NOT
T7tns4 This plain, simple denial IS all that car
10 and T 10 this without reDrOach or Complaint
/ 81 NV person or class OF persons. No one has
| irteuded any harm to mcguire the contraIy-an,u
| ! am grateful the uniform kindly Ieeting a..
gry only the methods OF haste. and rush ror ne~s
and precedence of the present GAYS oy Nt ta =.
l ~ - the best inten tons such MISTAKES oecon7
| possible Nicholas II. a. he "a
t,oun Is a Young man OF thirty 20 tnirty-nvs. OF
dne frlre and face OF kl1ciy sSniat sios..
| beantv not unlike that Of our martyrec PRESIDENT
e. is worshipped by his people: most flial
r, 70 his nother the Empress Dowager Dagrnar.
~ o.y.T 50 happy when IN the midst OF the
SanfIv group. his handsome wife and four bright
little baby girls