Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-03
Holds Informal Reception.

| Col Roosevelt held an informal recep-
| ton for the Americans in the rotunda of
the hotel. With Mrs Roosevelt he dined
| quietly at the hotel. and later occupied
a box at the San Carlos Theater, which
had been placed at his disposal by the
prefect of Naples.
Kermit Roosevelt spent the afternoon In
exploring the ruins of Pompei
Romans to Do Him Honor.
ROME, April 2.-The Rome news
papers devote several columns to the
arrival OF Col Roosevelt at Naples
They refer most appreciatively to his
distinguished career and his charm of
| manner. and express pleasure at his
declarations of a great liking for Italy,
| try again.
They reproduce brief interview which
the exsPresident accorded the journal
xoud IN wsoh Tfae he said
| on either home or foreign politics, and
| In which he referred very forcibly
again to fake interview with him
| published in a Paris paper when he
was here last year.
Col. Roosevelt also spoke strongly of
the exaggerations in the newspapers
not discuss.
Mr.. Leishman. the American ambas-
sador, returned from Naples this even
| ing TOR the purpose Of receiving Col.
Roosevelt with appropriate honors here
tomorrow, where he is expected to ar
| rive about o'clock in the evening.
Tablet in Honor of Roosevelt.
| Special Cablegram to The Star.
ROME, April 2.-It is the custom of
the municipality to affix marble tablets
| to houses in which distinguished per
sons. such as sovereigns, artists and
| poets, have resided Naturally, some of
| these houses are hotels. whose pro-
| prietors regard a tablet as q good ad-
| vertisement. Miss Carow has engaged
| a suite at the Hotel Beausite for the
Roosevelt family, and it is certain that
marble tablet will be affixed to that
| The fame OF Roosevelt is already safe
| in Italy. There Is street in Messina
| named In his honor. while the first boy
born in that street was promptly named
| Theodore Roosevelt Miss Carow has in
structed the manager of the Hotel Deau-
site that journalists must be excluded
during the colonel's stay. The mayor
! has ordered q policeman TO stand at the
| hotel door during bis occupany of his
suite. while a dozen detectives have been
instructed to look out for imaginary an
| archists. Black Handlers and camorrists.
Meeting With Royalty.
| Monday Col. Roosevelt will have an
audience with the king In the morning
| and the queen in the afternoon. Mrs.
| Roosevelt will accompany her husband
on his visit TO the queen. The party will
dine at the Quirinal In the evening Tues
| day the colonel will visit the Vatican,
where he win be given an audience by
/ the pope in the morning. He wIl prob
ably dine with the socialist and anti
clerical mayor. Signor Nathan. Tuesday
| night, unless he evades the invitation.
He has already promised to shake hands
| with the director of the Methodist Col
| lege and other notable members of the
| American colony but Rome is filling with
| American tourists, for which reason
Roosevelt will be compelled to grant an
informal reception for his compatriots.
Declines Paris Invitation.
PARIS, April 2-Mr. Roosevelt has
written to the American Club of Paris
regretfully declining an invitation to a
dinner in his honor.
ut is simply impossible for me to ac-
cent another invitation" wrote the for
mer President.
ment of the Vosges, and the Saint Die
Society of New York have invited Mr.
Roosevelt TO visit that town April "a. in
comnnemoratton of the 4o3d anniversar nv
having furnished the suggestion that the
new world be called America"
Martin Waldseemuller. professor of
geography In the College Of Saint Die
WHO died in 1913. published maps of the
newly discoerevd continent along with the
claims of the italian navigator
"Amerigo Vespucci first suggested the
name America for what is now known
} as South America" said WaldseemuIler
and the fourth part of the world hsv.
ing been discovered by Americus 1t NAV
he called Amerigo-that is, the land nj
! Americans. or America"
J Berlin Discussing Etiquette.
al BERLIN, April 2-Curiosity is beins