The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-27
KOMURA TO MEET ROOSEVELT,
PEACE ENVOY TO GO TO OYSTER
BAY THIS MORNING,

Minister Takahira went to sassmsre EIiii
Yesterday to Arrange the Tim
Much Complicated Etiquette Involved
Tho vlsitsr Spends . Quiet nay.
Tho first step into tho mazes Of oficiAl-
dom and Journalism which the Japaness
peace ENJOYS will be threading for the nsxt
few weeks IL to be taken to-day. This morn-
Ing at 1880 O'Clock. Baron Komura, Baron
Kaneko and Minister Takahira will start
for Oyster Bay. where they are due TO ar
rive at 1870 o'clock and where Baron
Komura will be presented to President
Roosevelt
It was Minister Takahira who announced
this program yesterday afternoon. He went
down to Oyster Bay on a morning train
yesterday, took luncheon with President
Roosevelt and was back at the Waldorf
Astoria little after o'clock In the after
noon with all the arrangements the Presi-
dent had made for first meeting with
Komura.
The meeting at Oyster Bay to-day will be
an informal affair and probably will take
place on the cruiser yacht Mayfower,
which is anchored In the bay instead Of at
the Presidents residence, Sycamore HUI.
Officially the President knew nothing
about the presence hers Of the
distinguished gentlemen from Japan.
Citizen Roosevelt may have read few
rods Of print about their arrival, but Presi-
dent Roosevelt knew nothing OF the circnm-
stance until Minister 1akahira went down
to Oyster Bay and surprised him with the
intelligence. Tho President expressed his
pleasure at the information. and asked
Minister Takahira to invite the eminent
gentlemen from Japan to Oyster Bay at
their earliest convenience, at the Same
time mentioning to-day as fortuitous
moment for the earliest convenience to
occur.
SO that's the way this mornings excur-
sion Of Baron Komura, Baron Kaneko and
Minister Takahira to Oyster Bay came
about. The stay there will not be long,
and it is expected that the Japanese
envoy will be back at his hotel early this
afternoon. The Baron has an engagement
to dine with Baron Kaneko this evening at
the Metropolitan Club. This dinner Il to
be family affair in it's exclusive character.
Minister Takahira will be there. and few
OF Baron Komura's suite, but there viii bs
no speechmaking and nobody present save
Japanese.
The Oyster Bay visit to-day Is the begin
ming Of what probably will be series Of
rather formidable and complicated matters
of etiquette. Mr.. Sato admitted In oon-
versation yesterday that 1t was not at al
unlikely that questions Of precedence Of
moro or less delicacy might arise.
NJ. Witte, Prof. de Martens and number
Of officials making up the Russian
peace party were to sail from Cher
bourg on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse
yesterday, and are due here ariy 1t
week. When they get here their ambassador
or his representative presumably will have
to 60 down to Oyster Bay and tell President
Roosevelt about their coming.
Then the Russian envoy plenipotentiary
will have to 60 down and make his formal
call on the President. Then both pleni-
potentiaries and their stats will 60 down
to Oyster Bay on the same day, and the
President will formally introduce them.
Before they are introduced, however, It ID
quite probable that NJ. Witte and Baron
Komura will have met here in the city and
resumed the very pleasant acquaintance
they had In St. Petersburg, when Baron
Komura was Minister to Russia. But.
officially, there will be no interohanees OF
calls between the two delegations until afteS
they have been introduced by President
Roosevelt.
Baron Komura waded through few
bushels OF documents and received and
answered few score Of letters. But SO
far as the outside world was concerned
he was reported to be resting. he re-
manned in his apartments in the Waldorf
Astoria all day save for short walk after
breakfast in the morning. few personal
acquaintance called and had few words
with him, but that was all.
Access to his apartments is jealously
guarded. The woman superintendent of the
the fourth floor in the Waldorf Astoria u
under instructions to let nobody pass into
the hallway of the Japanese suite without
sending in cards and being thoroughly
identified.
She does her work with thoroughness.
She held up the Japanese Minister, Mr.
Takahira. yesterday afternoon and would
not let him pass until he had given an en-
tirely satisfactory account of himself.
Mr.. Sato held his two daily receptions
Of the newspaper men yesterday and be-
tween the sessions received several
flying columns Of Photographic camera
artillery. Baron Eomura and his suite
had good naturally promised to pose for
the photogra pher and kept the promise.
To the newspaper men Mr. Sato talked
pleasantly and interestingly on all sorts
Of bjects-religion, Japanese art, Japa-
nese versus Europsan attire. geisha girls,
the meaning Of banzai. Admiral Togos
anchors, the weather. the crops and
number Of other topics. The subject Of
the pending conference however. was
one which when mentioned caused his
face to coaguate into a mere macs Of
placid, smiling vacancy and. at the same
tims. to cause utter paralysis Of his organs
Of speech. The smiling piacidity did,
however, break out into laugh when he
was asked II the Japanese ENJOYS would
60 down the bay on a tug to meet M. Witts
when his steamship arrived. This qAss-
ton he answered with an unqualified
negative.
When he was asked il the Japanese
people did not want to retain Port Arthur