Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-06
ROOSEVELT TO GO O0N
Off to Spezia at Midnight to
Repeat Honeymoon Tour.
LAST FUNCTION IN ROME
Pinchot to Be Received at Villa at
Port Maurizio.
ANSWER TO MERRY DRI. VAL
LAST FUNCTION IN ROME
ANSWER TO MERRY DBL VAL
Ex-President Would Not Visit
Kaiser If He Made Terms Sug- :,
gested by Papal Secretary. (

ROME, April s.-The final day OF Mt.
busy as the two preceding days.
After devoting two hours to his mail
and kilograms he left his hotel at 10
o'clock for call upon Prof. Giscomo
Boni. the archeologfst. At - o'clock he
received visit from Baron Fava. for
merly Italian ambassador at Wash
ington.
The historian, Guglielmo Ferrero. enter
tanned the former President and a few
other friends at luncheon. At the same
time Mrs. Roosevelt was the luncheon
guest of Mrs. Leishman. wife of the
American ambassador. There were
twenty women in the party.
Later Mr.. Roosevelt went to the en-
bassy and met Mrs. Leishman's guests.
as we'll as a few other American and
Italian friends who had called there.
Tea at Capitoline Museum.
At $50 o'clock this afternoon Mr. and
Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Ethel and Kermit
attended a tea given in their honor at
the Capitoline Museum. The tea preceded
the dinner given to Mr.. and Mrs. Roose-
welt by the municipality of Rome.
AT midnight Mr.. Roosevelt and Mrs.
Roosevelt, unaccompanied. will leave for
Spezia, to which point they will begin, to-
morrow morning. a carriage drive over
the route to Genoa which they traversed
on their honeymoon.
The newspaper correspondents who ac-
companied Mr. Roosevelt from Khartum
have promised at the former Presidents
o;ay Sha y,rsx- af
this sentimental journey. The carriage
drive from SpeZia Il Genoa, distance
of sixty-f1ve miles, will occupy the great.
er part Of three days.
Arriving at Genoa the Roosevelts viii
proceed at once to Porto Maurizio by
train, near the French frontier. where
they will stop for three days at the villa
of Miss Carow. Mrs. Roosevelt's sister.
Mr.. Roosevelt has announced that he
will recsixe- no one at Porto Maurizio
except Clifford Pinchot, the former chief
forester of the United States Department
of Agriculture.
Kermit Roosevelt and Miss Ethel will
remain here until Saturday, when they
will go direct to Porto Maurizio and jotn
their parents.
Roosevelt Challenges Kaiser.
Mr. Roosevelt continues entirely con-
fdent that his countrymen. Catholic as
we'll as Protestant. when the facts in the
Vatican episode are clearly and dispas-
sionately examined, will sustain his posi-
ton.
When the Vatican statement likening
the situation to what might occur in Ger
many if he visited the Polish separatist0
after seeing the emperor was called to
Mr.. Roosevelt's attention. he said:
IF the German emperor should place
as a condition to an audience that I
should not see the Poles, / should make
a similar reply: Upon that condition I
shall be compelled to forego the pleasure
of an audience.
A phase of the situation which is at
tracing more and more attention here 10
the open disapproval of the Vatican's
action expressed by numerous Catholics.
This is not confined to laymen, but eX-
tends to the hierarchy and even to the
dinals have privately expressed dissent
from action which places the church in
position in any. way hostile to Mr.
Roosevelt.
Catholics dwell on the many evidences
of his friendship while he was the occu-
pant of the White House. and declare en-
phatically that the church is being placed
in a false position toward the EXPIRES
ident and America. Responsibility gen.
orally is placed personally on the shoul-
ders of Cardinal Merry del VAL the papal
secretary of state
An eminent ecclesiastc is reported to
have said:
1T is not the church. but the private
act of the Spanish secretary of state,
against the colonel of the Rough Riders
in Cuba"
Del Val's Father Pleased.
Merry del vars father formerly the
Spanish ambassador to the Vatican. who
Is now in Rome. and who often COM
planned of the naughty and boastful at
titude of the United States In the days
Of Spanish defeat, said to friend:
1T seems presidential that my son
should be the man to humble Yankee
President
Yesterday afternoon. in company with
Prof. Jesse b. Carter, director of the
American School of Classical Studies at
Rome, the ex-President spent consider
able time exploring the Capitol Forum.
He was exceedingly enthusiastic. saying:
mo man can inspect the ruins of classic
Rome without feeling that he is visiting
the birthplace Of civilization"
Returning, he stopped at an antique
jewelry store, which he visited forty-
three years ago as a boy. The proprietor
searched the old, register and found Mr..
name.
Honored by Masons.
Signor Ferra. sovereign grand COM
mander of the Supreme Council, Ancient
Scottish Rite, with a deputation. called
at his apartments and conferred upon
him high Masonic title. Mr.. Roosevelt
delivered a brief speech. in which he ex-
pressed qualification at the honor, and
insisted upon the principles OF brother
hood, liberty and tolerance, which. he
said, form the basis Of regular Free Ma
sonry throughout the world.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roosevelt dined last even
ing at the, British embassy as the guests
Of Sir Julian Rennell Rodd.
German Press Criticises Del Val
BERLIN, April 6-The TagebIatt In
4 lengthy editorial expresses tho oplp-
on that the Vatican by its attitude
has simply added another hjooaE. TO The
PEDESTAL being prepared for Mr.. Rooss-
,elt upon his Homecoming.
IT regards the explanation Of the
vatican press as not helping tho Dooi.
ION of the church, and thinks the pol.
cy of Cardinal Merry Del Val mosae
Iroit. his attitude toward foreign
,tatesmen being that Of q gloomy. m.
tolerant and extremely reactfcuaEY
,paniard.
The paper adds:
'.Mr Roosevelt acted throughout b
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