Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-08-05
.TOG0PAYS CALL
At WHITE HOUSE
Famous Japanese Admiral
Greeted by President Taft
This Afternoon.
VISITS WASHINGTON
AS GUEST OF NATION
Round of Receptions and Dinners
Planned in His Honor.
PAYS RESPECTS TO MIR. KNOX
First Act of Distinguished Oriental
Is Visit to State and Navy
Departments-To Tour
the City.
Round of Receptions and Dinners
Planned in His Honor.
PAYS RESPECTS TO MIR. KNOX


Admiral Count Togo Heihachiro, whose
| family name comes first in the fashion of
all the japanese, has rid himself of the
| gold lace and silk hat formalities which
had to be placed at the top of the first
days program in the capital, and after a
little talk with the President at the
| White House this afternoon will probably
start out on an automobile tour around
the city. All that the little fighter has
had to say that leaked out for publication
since he has been here is that Washing
tons streets are very, very broad and
clean. Capt. Potts, the naval officer who
has been assigned to the tour of the coun-
! try with the head of the japanese navy,
assured little group Of would-be inter-
viewers this morning that the admiral
hasn't had time to say anything else.
Every now and them said Capt. Potts,
| admiral Togo looks out of his corner
| window of the suite in the Willard and
gazes eastward along Pennsylvania ave-
| nue., with the Capitol looming up at the
| end, and says something in Japanese to
| indicate his admiration of the view"
All attempts to get weighty interviews
| from the admiral have therefore failed
! SO far. Perhaps. assures Capt. Potts. after
| the White House talk is over. the news
paper representatives will be given q
chance.
Admiral on the Minute.
The Japanese reputation for marvellous
promptness was well borne out this morn
| ing when an elevator in the State De-
partnent~ clicked open its door and from
the car stepped the admiral and his lit
tie party. The hands of the clock in the
corridor were on the very dot Of 10, the
scheduled hour for Admiral Togo's ar
| rival. The admiral's coming had been
looked forward to by nearly all the clerks
in the department, and the little party
walked solemnly down the corridor to be
| received in the diplomatic room, while
the clerks looked on with silent wonder.
He is little man, this great sea fight
erin fact, he is the smallest man of the
party. He walked down the corridor
with Baron Yasuya Uchida. ambassador
from Japan; Commander Tokaturo HI
raga, naval attache of the embassy, and
the admirars own aid, Commander Tani-
guchi Third Assistant Secretary Of State
Hale accompanied the party, as did also
Capt. Potts, T. S. n, who had gone to
the New Willard to meet the visitors.
1t was the first glimpse of the full-dress
| uniform of the japanese navy which the
visitors have shown since arriving and
paying calls in the United States To the
landsman's eye 1t is uniform very
much like the American or English, with
| it's thick double e-breaSted frock coat.
heavy and hot indeed in the present
| weather, with plenty of gold lace and
copious epaulets.
Meets Secretary Knox. +
A secret service man from New York.
| impressed with his duty. kept the clerks
from getting too near view of the man
| who chased Rojestvensky's feet all over
| the Sea Of Japan, and then stood with
his arms akimbo before the closed door
of the diplomatic room while the short
| formalities went on inside. Beyond the
door Assistant Secretary Hale was intro
ducing the admiral to Secretary Knox,
and the admiral introduced his own aid
and the affair was over in five minutes
| by the clock.
There was a stir inside, and Eddie
/ Savoy, who has been messenger for
| Secretaries Of State from time almost
| immemorial, and who never neglects to
have on frOck coat when distinguished
| visitors arrive, opened the door and the
| admiral and his escort went around to
the navy side of the building. The ad-
miral walked by the little ship models
/ in the corridor without ever seeing
them.( evidently. There was a bigger
/ crowd of clerks in the navy side, and
! all of them crowded to get a look.
i WHO is that admiral" asked
| female clerk
i .f"Admiral Togo was the disgusted
lreply of man standing with her.
n Isn't he neat little man."
Laughs at Photographers.
The formalities in the Office of Acting
l Secretary of the Navy Winthrop took
about six minutes. There was big
crowd waiting at the west steps when
the party emerged in d drizZling rain
to take automobiles for the New Will
lard And here it was that the only
trace of expression fitted across the
admirals face. Along the bottom of the
steps, upon the sidewalks and on the
portico were ranged batteries of photo
graphers, who mercilessly clicked their
shutters and changed films with the
rapidity of the small-bore spittire guns
much of it that Admiral Togo just had
to laugh.
Admiral. escorts, aids and all got into
the New Willard just as quickly as they
! could and awaited. Secretary Knox in a
/; silk hat returned his call with as much
| promptness as the admiral did, for the
clock in the New Willard was Ginning
{ softly the hour of 1O::0 when the ele.
vator shot him up to the admirafs suite
| and he was out again in five minutes
Acting Secretary Winthrop came along
in another minute, and after that siS
eager newspaper men rushed upstairs. 1,
was all in vain. however.
You boys have just got to wait" SAID
Capt Potts, with a laugh. This is hot
weather, and that full-dress uniform Il
hot II you'll only wait now until after
Admiral Togo has his talk at the White
House, why, perhaps you can have a nice
r little talk with him. He's just inside
now taking a little rest before the recep
ton to the naval officers
!. Only Admiral Can Answer.
All sorts of questions were fired al
Capt Potts. who was just as hot as q
United States naval officer can be in q
S hotel on a muggy morning in a double
: breasted, thick, full-dress uniform. One
e of the questions was concerning the