The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-05
NATHAN, DELEGATE TO FAIR.
AROUSES ANGER OF ROMANS
Italian Papers Say Ex.Mayor,
Coming Here shortly, Is
Tactless and Offcnds
Good Taste.
spectda CsoIe DespatcA to Tn sun.

ROME, April 4.--Ex-Mayo Nathan, the
italian Commissioner-Genera to the
Panama-Paciflc Exposition at San Fran
cisco. will start for California shortly to
arrange for the erection of the Italian
Government pavilion. He viii return to
work here and then 20 back TO San Fran.
cisco. The pavilion &ill be built here and
shipped In sections to the United States
After the opening Of the exposition
Signor Nathan will come back to Rome.
but will be In san Francisco for the
closing Of the fair. SiGnor Nathan, after
speaking about his plans said.
Il notice that the American papers are
biackguard!ng me. arm quite pleased
about It."
Thomas Nelson Page. the American
Ambassador. VIII Eive n luncheon In honor
OF Signor Nathan prior to his departure
for the United States.
The newspapers OF this city have found
much to crticise in tho do.ngs OF the
FORMER Mayor. SIgnor Nathan speaks
Italian with a pronounced English accent
and writes II so ungrammatically that
often II is impossible to guess his mean
ing. And yet despite these two draw
backs Signor Nathan will pass down to
history as tho most loduacious Mayor OF
Rome while he held Office and as the
most prolific writer after his descent from
the Capitol. Just as Signor Nathan used
TO bad advantage his fatal Gift Of oratory
when he was tho nrst citizen Of Rome and
offended many people. including the Pope,
the KING OF Norway. practically all the
arch~ologists and artists In Italy and
even French aviators now that he has
retired to private life his writings are
offending not only Italian grammar and
syntsx but also the susceptibilitse Of all
Roman citiaens.
reyersnce foy ancJsot pocor ,..At
tons 10 perhaps the only thing that passed
down to the modern Romans Of United
Italy and until this very day Q wolf and
an eagle have been kept on the Capitol
ny rights the Romans should have kept
geese on the Capitol in memory Of the
wakeful geese which used to be In the
temple OF Juno and which gave the alarm
and saved the Capitol from being taken
by the Gauls more than 800 years before
the birth OF Christ. For some reason or
other the Romans debt Of gratitude to
the geese has been forgotten, but the wolf
and the eagle continue to DO regarded
with respect.
Pokes Fun At Ros,sms.
The ex-Mayor. who Ia not Roman but
an EnglishMNn by birth and only q nat
uralized Italian. has ventured to poke fun
at Roine's sacred animals. Writing In q
review about the municipal administra-
ton Of Rome during his term Of Office
Signor Nathan alludss to the custom a.
follows:
"From time immemorial. perhaps with.
out any symbolical Significance. tho wolf
and the eagle are kept in cages on the
square OF the Capitol. while the gsesa
are allowed to roam free. 10 IL merely
an eagle heavily hopping from one perch
TO another Of Its small iron prison. a wolf
trottins round and round. lying stretched
on tho ground or pushing out its
nose between the iron bars. geese
htrutting through the square with un-
calmly gait and cackling. In II merely a
spectacle TO amuse passersby or some
thing new under different attituds7"
Now nobody knows what tho ex-Mayor
means by this paragraph. Several at
tempts have been made At Interpretation.
but all to no avail. The author refuses
20 explain what he means and everybody
takes II for granted that Signor Nathan
insulted the Romans and Rome. The