The Penn's Grove record., 1905-09-01
MISS ROOSEVELT'S TOUR
Daughter Of President to Be Guest
of China's Dowager Empress.
Taft Party to Divide, Some Returnfng
Home, While Others VIII Jour-
neY to Pekin.

Tacloban, via Manila.-The transport
Logan arrived here in the morning with
Secretary Taft and party on board.
After a few more days. spent in visit
ing some of the neighboring islands
the Logan will proceed to Hong Kong,
where the party will separate, Secre-
tary Taft, with most of the Senators
and Representatives who have been
making the trip, returning direct to
the United States, while Miss Roose-
welt will proceed to Pekin as the spe-
cially invited guest of the Dowager
Empress of China. She will sail for
America on October z on the steamer
Siberia Of the Pacific Mail Company.
The party which will accompany the
daughter Of the President on this pc
culiarly interesting journey will be
small and select.
Representatives Longworth or Coch-
ran, both will be among the guests
who will go on this visit to the EN-
press. Senators NeWlands and Warren
and Representative Gillette will make
up the party, which will be in charge
of Major-General and Mrs. Corbin and
Mrs. Slocum.
Miss Roosevelt is keeply interested
in her prospective introduction to the
Empress Isl An, the woman who is the
real ruler of China. 1t is not easy to
imagine a more dramatic meeting than
this of the East and the West-the one
world-weary and numbered with the
dust of slothful centuries, represented
by the aged woman whose merciless
lust for power has made her one of the
wonders and the horrors of modern
history, the other, the living New
World, typifed by the young American
girl. 1t is not many years ago that
the Dowager Empress credibly was be-
lieved to have been the prime instiga-
tor of the Boxer uprising; it at least is
certain she bitterly hated the foreign
devils" against whom the rising prin-
cipally was directed. Since the march
Of the allies to Pekin, however, the
Empress has shown a more friendly
face toward Europeans, and her special
invitation to Miss Roosevelt we'll may
have q significance that will win the
occasion a place in Chinese history at
a later date.
The old Empress is a unique person
atty in the world to-day. More than
. SeNeHty years Olu, size HAS GAGrcISSu
practical sovereignty over the huge
Chinese empire for more than forty
years, and in such a masterful fashion
that she has made her power felt not
only throughout the length and breadth
of her oWn empire, but in all the chan
| celleries of Europe. She has been
compared alike to Queen Elizabeth Of
England and Catherine of Russia, and
it may be added that she always took
an almost childish interest in every
thing that concerned Queen Victoria,
keeping elaborate scrapbooks filled en-
tirely with pictures and clippings con-
cerned with the principal events of her
life. Yet this woman, who has shown
such a remarkable gift for governing,
was not born to the purple. She was
only one of the many secondary wives
of the Emperor, Hen Flung, but it vas
her son who succeeded to the throne
at the age of five, and through his long
minority she held the reigns of power.
The mysterious death Of the young
man shortly after he attained his ma
jority and assumed authority is only
n Of the many crimes that have
been laid at the door of the Empress.
1t is the contrast between such a char
acter and such a career as that of Isl
An and the natural environment and
personality of an American girl like
Miss Roosevelt that will go to make
the meeting between the two so in
tenSely picturesque.