The San Francisco call., 1910-04-26
TEDDY MODEST
when PAID A
HIGH TRIBUTE
Tells FrencE1men He Only Can
Try TO Realize Ideal in
the Future
Passes Up an Invitation TO Take
Balloon Trip With Count
Zeppelin

1ARlS, April 25.-As the guest Of the
city OF Paris ,today. Theodore Roose-
Welt was received by the city fathers in
the Hotel de vile and was the subject
Of glowing tributes pronounced by NJ.
Caron. president Of the municipal coun-
cn; by NJ de Selves. prefect of the
Seine; by NJ Lampuo, president of the
general council OF the Seine, and by NJ
Lepine, prefect Of police.
Roosevelt's reception at the Hotel
dc Vile was fiattering. In extending
the formal welcome to the city~M. Ca
ron said that Mr.. Roosevelt loomed I'D
TO Paris as what we call a man. be-
cause. being coura geous. you have
mastered yourself by reflection: be-
cause though passionately loving the
struggle. you love more passionateIy
Cancellation and peace: because YOU are
patriot TO whom your country owes
great achievements. and because you
represent the conviction that the law
Of work is the fundamental law Of be-
ing. a thought you have so brilliantly
developed in asserting that the man
willfully idle and the woman willfully
sterile have no right place in a healthy.
robust and vigorous community"
FRENCH HEARTS TOUCHED
Lepine declared the demonstrations
made by the French people in honor
Of Roosevelt showed that he had
touched their hearts.
1T is mistake" he said TO be-
iieve Paris is skepticaI and frivolous.
Beneath the ashes the fire burns and
the soul Of the people is fun of ideal
ism and is in the most glorious DAYS
- ~ our history. Paris respects in YOU
The sreat republic 10 which you be-
long and TO which il is attached by
iaoissoiuble ties. Its heart goes
straight out TO the man you are"
Roosevelt replied in French. Voicing
'SfautUde for the expressions addressed
10 him. but protesting that they were
TOO hattering.
"You make of me-" said he, AN
IDEAL which 1 can only try TO realize
in the future
The former president paid a high
tribute 10 Paris and its past. saving
that he agreed with Lepine that it was
mistake to regard Paris as did tour
lists. as place Of amusement
Paris, he added, is a city Of work
OF science and of arr whose industries
are incOmparab BILE It is the capital of
country radiant with the virtues of
peace and war"
After an inspection of the magnificent
building Roosevelt sat down to lunch
con between Premier BRAND and NJ
Caron, some two hundred others being
present Only formal toasts were given
and the former president proposed a
toast 70 the city Of Paris and the
French people.
INsPECTS REVOLUTION PAPERS
During a visit which he paid to the
Carnavalet museum Colonel Roosevelt
manifested great interest in the orig
lnal revolutionary documents
From the museum Colonel Roosevelt,
accompanied by Robert Bacon. Amer
1can ambassador and NJ Jusserand.
French ambassador to the United
States, visited Notre Dame cathedral
At the opera tonight Colonel Roose-
welt enjoyed a repetition of the ova-
tion he received at the Comedie Fran
caise Thursday night. The house was
crowded with a brilliant audience, in
cluding many Americans, hundreds of
them waiting in the foyer until the
former president arrived. The opera
was Samson and Delilah''
When the curtain fell at the close of
the second act the applause for the
artists sWelled into an uproar for
Roosevelt, who arose and twice bowed
his acknowledgment
Colonel and Mrs Roosevelt dined at
the Military club as the guests Of Cen
eral Brugere and the officers Of the
Rochambeau mission.
Roosevelt took tea with Edith Whar-
ton, the authOress. He has received
an invitation from Count Zeppelin to
make a trip with him in his dirigible
balloon, but viii decline because of
lack OF time.
AS honorary president of the Acad-
emy Of Sports Roosevelt has accepted
the invitation Of President Hebrand
to receive his coIleague tomorrow
afternoon at Issy les Moulineaux, where
several French aviators will make
flights in honor Of the American.