The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-03
WARM WELCOME WATTS ROOSEVELT
Austrian Capital Prepares to
 Receive American
POLICY IN THE BALKANS
Coming Visit of Royal Party to St. Petersburg Is Looked Upon With Peculiar Interest by
 Powers

vienna. Apfil 2.-(Special. )-Vienna will
 be no whit behind the other European capitals in the cordiality of It's recep- tion to former President Roosevelt and his family when they arrive here about April IT. Emperor Francis Joseph has indicated warm desire to meet the dis tiiigufshed American and 1t is not i'm probable will Invite him to dine en fam file.
 Mr. Roosevelt will be presented to his majesty by the new American ambassa- dor, Hon. Richard c. Kerens of St. Lott is, who Is expected to take charge of the. American embassy just week be- fore the arrival of this famous fellow countryman and this presentation prob
 ably will be MT. Kerens' first official ac- tion after the presentation of his cre- dentials.
 Society is anxious to meet Mir Roose- vclt and he and his family will be en- tertained as lavishly as he will permit. The language of the Russian semi-of- ficial organ Rossiya Is accepted here as a sign that the Russian government is anxious to preclude misinterpretation of
 King Ferdinand's and King Peters visits to St. Petersburg, and as an indication hat it does ont look with favor upon propaganda for a militant Slav policy in the Balkans. Some journals pretend that King Ferdinand must consequently be dissatisfied with the results of his jour ney, while others hail the tone of the Rosslya as proof that negotiations for
 all Austro- Russian understanding con- tinae.q-, e--'-s .-~ss.ss As I have stated in we'll informed dip- lomatic quarters here rthe immediate fuz tire in the Balkan peninsula Is not now regarded so apprehensively, for 1t is be- ton Russia will exercise restraining in- fiuence. Whatever misgivings may be felt concerning the ultimate development of the situation are inspired rather by the internal condition of European and As latie Turkey and by some not entirely satisfactory tendencies noticeable in the FOttoman administration. But there are as yet no means of judging whether these tendencies contain the germs Of catastrophe or whether they are. as must be hoped, merely incidental to the pro- cess of regeneration which the well-wish- CTS of the Young Turk everywhere desire to see fully accomplished.
 Admiral Montecuccol of the Austrian navy, with-hs staff of experts, has com pleted the plans for the new naval base at Sebenico on the Dalmatian coast
 The scheme for the utilization of Se- benico as a naval base is understood to be entirely due to Admiral Montecuccoll, who is keenly interested In the proposal and is desirous of seeing his plans given effect before he reinquishes his con1- mand of the Austro- Hungarian navy. Already a complete wireless telegraphio station has been installed at Sebenco and the training squadron has been sta toned there.
 The Austrian military maneuvers will take place this year in Galicia, in the neighborhood of the Russian frontier. It is seven years since this, region was chosen as the scene
 Two army corps, the tenth and the eleventh, will participate, as well as the district reserves of Landwehr and Hom- wed.
 Very sad is the case of Adam Toma, d landowner in the district Of Szozona, in Hungary. He committed suicide, It appears, after remarking that he pre- ferred that method of leaving life to be- ing killed by star. The star" in ques- ton was none other than our old friend. Halley's comet, who in the course of long and honorable career has never been suspected by civilized people of designs on human life.
 Mayor Karl Lueger, who died recently, could have given Tammany boss val uilble points on practical politics. He had the strongest personal following of any commoner in Austria.
 During recent years the mayors ap- nearance in the streets had constantly been hailed by the singing of an anthem beginning: Hail, Lueger, Long May He Live" Streets and squares were named after him, and his drives through Vienna resembled a royal progress. He was the idol and the hero of the Viennese.