The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-12
CLIFFORD P|NCHOT
MEETS ROOSEVELT
The Two Americans Exchange
Cordial Greetings
FOR PUBLIC
Suspicious Man Is Arrested mt the villa
Where Roosevelt Is stopping
and Police Believe Him
Insane

Porto Maurizio Italy, April 11.-Gifford
Pinchot. the former chief forester of the
United States department of agriculture.
whose interview with the ex-President
has been looked forward to with great
interest, spent the entire day with Mr..
Roosevelt, but what passed between them
is a secret.
Mr. Pinchot arrived at the Carew Villa
before 8 o'clock in the morning He re-
manned for lunch and accompanied Mr..
and Mrs Roosevelt and Miss Carew on a
five-hour excursion into the mountains.
They had dinner together, also, and the
former forester did not return to his
hotel until shortly before midnight.
Mr.. Pinchot. when seen at the villa.
just before dinner. declined to say what
he had communicated to the ex-Presi-
dent, and Mr.. Roosevelts prediction of
few days ago that neither would have
anything to give out concerning the meet
ing proved to be correct
Mr.. Roosevelt's secretary, however gave
to the anxious newspaper men a long
and graphic account of how the party
drove through the olive orchards of pic
turesque Caramagna valley, then climbed
six miles up the winding road to the IA
nous little chapel, once visited by Charlie
magne on his way to be crowned at Rome,
which contains interesting relics of the old
Mediterranean galley slaves and volive
offerings of sailors; also how enthusiastic
the villagers were as the party was re-
turning, crowding about the carriage and
fairly deluding it with wild flowers. But
when pressed about the subject of the
long conversation between Mr.. Roosevelt
and Mr.. Pinchot. the secretary announced,
with a smile, that 1t consisted largely of
"reminiscences and hunting stories, gravely
vouchsafing the information that Mr..
Pinchot was almost as good a shot as his
former chief
Mr.. Pinchot will see the ex-President
tomorrow and expects to leave here in the
evening for Zurich, where he is to meet an
old forester friend. From there he will
go to England to visit Sir Horace Punk
EFT of the department of agriculture in
Ireland. He will sail for New York on the
steamer Baltic April 50.
When Mr.. Roosevelt got back to the
villa this evening he found two Fran
| ciscan friars in long brown coats, who
had come to present their respects. Ex-
Mayor Phelan of San Francisco tele-
graphed from Monte Carlo this after
| noon that he will call on Mr.. Roosevelt
tomorrow. The latter when informed of
the exchange of kilograms between the
| mayor of Porto Maurizio and President
Taft. said he appreciated highly both the
municipalities expression and the Presi-
dents reply.
Shortly before dusk secret service po-
lice. who were detailed to guard Mr. Roose-
welt, arrested y suspicious Individual
proving about the villa At the police
station, where he was locked up, pending
investigation, he gave the name of Mag
asno and said he was q native of Bologna
He explained that he was a barber and
had been working In Nice, where he
learned little English. A letter found
in his possession was addressed to Mr.
Roosevelt, asking for position as valet