Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-06
ROOSEVELT IS PHI. D.|PEK|NG HERO DEAD
Apotheoszed by Dean of King Admiral McCaa Who Led Re-
! Frederck's University. lief Column, Apopexy Victim.
Al READY HAS LEFT EARTH SERVICES IN SPANISH WAR
And Residing Landed
Jupiter and Apollo Guantanamo.
NOT KIND TO DRAG DOWN CUT CABLES AT CIENFUEGos
| DISTINGUISHED Services
| Clouds of Smoke Rattle
ALREADY HAS LEFT EARTH
And Is Now Residing on Olympus
With Jupiter and Apollo.
NOT KIND TO DRAG HIM DOWN
Likened to a Rushing Human En-
CINE, Difficult to Follow Amid
Clouds Of Smoke.

| Theodore Roosevelt today the degree
OF doctor of philosophy.
| It was the third time in the history
OF a century that the degrees had been
given a foreigner.
| The exercises occurred in the amphi-
theater of the university. King Haakon
entered with Mr.. Roosevelt at his
right. They faced a notable assem-
blage, including the premier and other
members of the cabinet, the Nobel prize
committee, the diplomatic corps, the fac
ulty of the university and many per-
sons distinguished in civil life.
Apotheosis of Roosevelt.
The dean of the faculty of history and
philosophy made an address. He said
that MIR. Roosevelt had already left the
earth and was residing on Olympus
with Jupiter and Apollo, and that it
| was scarcely kind to drag him down
among the mortals.
He likened Col. Roosevelt to a rushing
human engine, ditficut to follow. and
| making 1T difficult, amid the clouds. OF
smoke, to discern precisely the manner OF
man he was. Some saw winged angel
and others modern devil with claws.
In sketching the colUneps career he
found the winning of the west his
most Instructive work. He agreed with
others that Mr.. Roosevelt was a man
who had learned to use the capacities and
powers which in most men lie dormant
He had converted his capacities into en-
ergies.
Roosevelt on Capacities.
| In reply Mr.. Roosevelt said it did not
make much difference what capacities a
man had 1t was important rather what
| he did with them. The thing was to get
the job done.
The king laughed when Mr.. Roosevelt
| said:
"If recognition comes for what you do,
| good If recognition does not come, -
| here the speaker paused, 1T isn't quite
! SO good"
| King Haakon and Mr.. Roosevelt spent
| a part OF the morning talking before
| an open fire in the palace, while the
rain fell and a cold wind blew outside.
Mr.. Roosevelt's first forenoon engage
| ment was with a throat specialist. VINO
| sprayed the oyertaxed organs that all
but failed the former President yester-
day, and prescribed further treatment.
Papers taud Prize Speech.
The newspapers today comment APP
provingiy upon Mr.. Roosevelts peace
program, set forth in his address yes
terday. Mr.. and Mrs. Roosevelt spent
the afternoon driving about the capt.
tai with the king and queen. who later
accompanied them to the railway sta
| ton, where they took a special train,
| starting on their trip to Stockholm.
| The Roosevelts were cheered by a crowd
| at the station as they left.
Roosevelt Sits for Sculptor.
| The ex-President yesterday gave the
sculptor vigland a forty-five-minute sit
~, Rxn e,kAk, inl& Il ,l,,Sss
| in North Dakota intend to erect.
Col. Roosevelt wrote to Representative
Louis B, Hanna, who has the matter
| ting up statues to living men, nor until
| q considerable time after they were dead,
but, he added. II his friends were going
| to have a statue he thought 1t ought
Dakota, either as a frontier farmer or a
| cowboy. The main thing was the right
| sort OF picture, whether 1t were a like
ness OF him or not did not matter.
| DR.. ridtjof Nansen, the explorer. paid
| visit to Mr. Roosevelt yesterday, and
recalled the fact that he had told MI.
Roosevelt ten or twelve years ago that
| IL any American discovered the north
| pole he would pick Peary as the man.
Municipality Host at Dinner.
The municipality OF Christiania last
night gave a dinner III nOnOr OF the eX-
President and Mrs. Roosevelt.
| Ex-Minister of War Bratlie presided
Covers were laid for $50 guests Mr..
! Loveland proposed the. heath of the
king and President Taft. Mr.. Bratlie
recounted ex-President RooseveIt's serv-
ices in the cause of peace.
In toasting the storthing and the Nobel
! prize committee Mr.. Roosevelt reviewed
at some length the policy of the United
| States, while he was President, regarding
| Cuba, Panama, the Philippines and Santo
| Domingo. afhrming That his acts toward
| those states and colonies had worked
| for true peace ana order.
Premier konow spoke of what the
United states has done and is uoing.
American Minister PIERCE eulogized Nor
way and the Norwegians.
Cheers for Roosevelt.
After the delivery of Mr. Roosevelt
Nobel prize speech yesterday the queen
stood and Joined the audience in giving
| nine short cheers for Mr.. Roosevelt. The
colonel proposed three cheers for Norway
and led the cheering. but the house broke
away and gave nine following the Nor
wegian custom. The audience then sang
| the Norwegian national anthem and dis
persed.
The king and queen received Mr..
Roosevelt In the reception room outside
the royal box and congratulated him
! warmly. On leaving the theater where
the speech was made the king. with Col
Roosevelt at his right, drove In one car
rtage to the palace, while the queen and
Mrs. Roosevelt occupied another.
| Yesterday was a holiday in Christiania
and the people gathered on either side of
the broad drive to the palace in such
numbers that Mr.. Roosevelt was moved
to r. mark that he had not seen such i'm
mense crowds anywhere else In Europe
on this trip.
Tribute Paid Bjornson.
Before beginning his ofiicial address
yesterday Mr.. Roosevelt spoke Of the late
Bjornst erne Bjornson.
IT :, .sh to pronounce a tribute" he
said, 10 the great Norwegian who has
| Just died
| The whole house arose and stood with
bowed heads for q moment and Mr.
roosevelt continued-"whOse deatn leaves
| a gan in the literature Of the whole
world"
| He alluded to Bjornson as a man who
| had always stood for the right as he con-