The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-05
DIMES WITH THE KING.
President Roosevelt Is Entertained at
the QuirinaI.

f If40 &RuITIlai.
Rome, April 5.-Fheodore Roose-
welt was the guest of King Victor EN-
manuel at dinner last night.
The ex-president and his party ar
rived at the entrance of the Quirinal
palace at 8 L. m. where the door of
his carriage was opened by the i'm
posing figure of the royal doorkeeper,
magnificent IN scarlet livery, with
sword and baton and cooked hat,
seemingly right out of the middle ages
Count TozzoRi and Duke Cito, masters
of ceremonies, and Count Guicciardini,
gentlemen in waiting to Queen Helena,
and a relative of the minister of for
ed them up the steps, which were
decorated with palms and Towering
shrubs.
In the great hall of the Swiss they
were received by Count Gianotti. pre-
feet of the palace, and by Countess
Guicciardint, lady in waiting to the
queen. who took them through the
great ballroom into a reception room
hung with priceless tapestries where
they were greeted by the sovereign,
surrounded BIZ their military and civil
households.
After a short conversation all the
guests. who included the American
Ambassador and Mrs. Leishman and
the STAFF of the embassy, adjourned to
the private dining room of the king,
a spacious hall hung with modern
tapestries and decorated with immense
plants and flowers. The dinner was
enlivened by the military band in the
gardens below.
The queen had at her right Colonel
Roosevelt: the Princess Helena, of
&ervia; Major J. F. Lands. military
Rttache of the embassy; Countess
Guicciardini; John w. Garrett first
secretary; Princess Palermo: Kermit
Roosevelt, and Count Tozzoni. At her
left sat Ambassador LeiShman; Prin-
cess Vera of Montenegro; Commander
a. T. Long, naval attache; the Duchess
Graziole-Lante; c. S. Wilson, second
secretary, and Count Guicciardini
At the right of the king sat Mrs.
Roosevelt, the Marquis Di San Giu-
lianO, the foreign ministers. Mrs. Lam
dis General Brusali, Miss Ethel Roose-
welt, Count Brambilla and Duke Cito,
commander of the Royal Curassiers.
At the left of his majesty were Mrs
Leishman, Count Gianotti Mrs. Gar
rett Count Mattioli. minister of the
royal household and Princess Vivaro.
Am bassador Leishman's lunch to
Mr.. Roosevelt included as guests Pre-
mier Luzzatia; the Marquis Di San
GuiIano minister of foreign affairs;
feet of the royal household; Signor
Bo1lati. q director general of the for
efgn office, and several Americans. in
Guiding John G. Coolidge of Boston,
ex-minister to Nicaragua. After the
luncheon Mr.. Roosevelt received pr
carlos Manuel Cespedes, the Cuban
minister, who presented message and
greetings of the Cuban government.
He also received DR. WalIing Clark
head of the Methodist organization in
italy. and the Rev. DIR. B. NJ Triple,
pastor of the American Methodist
church in Rome. A number of Italian
Journalists called on the ex-president
in the afternoon. but Mr.. Roosevelt de-
clined to discuss the VATICAN incident
During the course of the conversation
he spoke of the great change in Rome
since he was here on his honeymoon.
To a Swiss correspondent he expressed
regret that he would be unable to stop
at Berne to see President Comtesse.
t'I am greatly interested in Switzer
land" said Mr.. Roosevelt, "especiSIy
the army and civil system. The United
states has much to learn from the
Swiss republic
Mr.. Roosevelt's mail is enormous.
He says with the best Intentions it is
impossible for him to answer the hun
dreds of communications he is re-
ceiving.