Connecticut western news., 1914-07-09
SIDE LIGHTS ON RULERS AS HOSTS
4 Most Remarkable Meeting
 With the BuIgarS' Gzar.
FINE TRIBUTE TO AMERICA.

Charmed Visitors From United
 States - Held Imperial Train For
 Guests, Went to Station With Them.
 SuItan's Fete In VeritabIs FairyIand.
 Colvin B. Brown, chief of the de partment of exploitation of the Pana- ma-Pacific exposition, and Walter P. Andrews and Thomas Rees, commis- siOners of that department, have re- turned from their four months trip abroad with some interesting impress sions of European monarchs. In an interview in the New York Times Mir. Brown describes Czar Ferdinand of Bulgaria as a host
 I've were invited to the palace for an audience at 9 o'clock in the even ing" said MT. Brown. Naturally we lasting about a quarter of an hour. Czar Ferdinand received us standing. At the end of twenty minutes he es- corted us into the main audience cham Der and introduced us to the queen, to the crown prince, to the latter's broth
 
 tire court.
 'On a big table was spread a map of the Panama canal, with photo graphs of the Gatun dam and the big locks, and there was piled every piece of literature that has been issued about the San Francisco exposition. The members of the imperial family and the court crowded about the table and kept us talking canal and exposition for two and a half solid hours. It was midnight when he left the palace.
 Arriving at our hotel, we found an invitation from the prime minister to attend a diRner the following evening given by the czar's cabinet.
 After that we had an invitation from the ear to lunch with him on the following day at one of his subur- ban palaces.
 At luncheon the czar sat at the head of the table. Mir. Andrews was on his right and I on his left. The crown prince was on my left. Only the czar's immediate family were at the table. And. do you know, they had for luncheon American trout, American deer and American wild turkey.
 czar Held Train For His Guests.
 "The meal lasted longer than I had thought it would, and as the time pass ed I was sure the Orient express had whizzed by and we were left. But it wasn't up to me to say anything. 1t was not until o'clock that the czar arose from the table. We put on our overcoats and hats, and he did the same, and he got into the automobile with us, and we drove over a mile and a half to the czar's private railway station.
 ''It is one story building of beauti- full design. AS we approached soldiers threw open double doors, and we drove right in upon a plush carpet and found ourselves in a beautiful drawing room, fitted with couches and chairs and pie lures. From the drawing room we stepped out upon q platform on the other side, which was carpeted its full length. Fifty yards below on siding was the Orient express. It had been waiting these forty minutes by the cZar's order.
 Gear Ferdinand raised his hand, and the engine pulled the train in upon the main track. When the engine was op- posite us the czar raised his hand again and commanded the engineer to stop Then he said to us:
 This is the imperial engine. It has record of 160 kilometers an hour Never before has it been attached to a public train, and it has never pulled any but royal carriages. You have af- forded me great pleasure and enter tainment. You are busy men, and do not desire that the pleasure you have given me shall result in the loss of valuable time to you. The engineer has been ordered to make up lost time between here and the Bulgarian bor- der'"
 An Arabian Nights Feast.
 The Americans on their visit to Con-