Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-10

State addressed To the President on
November II 1901
"Count Quadt has been lowering
around the State Department in ever mar
! rowing circles for three days, and at last
svooped upon me this afternoon. saying
that the Foreign Office and even tho palace
Inter den Linden, was in 4 state Of in
tense anxiety 90 know how you received
his MaJrsty's Chinese medal, conferred
only upon the greatest sorercigns.
"As had not been authorized by you
to express your emotions, had 10 sail BY
dead reckoning, and considering the vast
intrinsic valuc of the souvcnir-l should
say at least 80 ccnis-an it's wonderful
artistic merit, representing The German
eagle evisccrat;ng the Black Dragon, and
It's historical accuracy, which gives the
world to understand that Germany was il
! and the rest of the universe nowhere
! took the responsibility of saving TO Count
! Quadt that the President could not have
received the medal with anything but
emotions az pleasure commensurate with
the high appreciation he entertalns for the
Emperor majesty, and that n formal
acknowledgment would bo made IN duo
course.
lie asked me if he wac at liberty 10
say something like this to his govern
ment, and | Sald he was at liberty to say
whatever the spIr't moved him 10 utter
Herr ARE other passages from Havs
diary.
Nineteen hundred and four january
1.-THE President came in for an hour
and talked very amusingly on many mat
tcrs Among others he SPOKE of u letter
received from an old lady in Canada, do
notinclug him for having drunk toast TO
IIc,cn 1iav) q: her Wedding two wears
agl The good soul had waited two wears
hoping that the pulpit or the press would
tax, up ;hls cnurm.ty. think, she said.
OF the effect on YOUR friends on your
children, IN your own immortal soul, Of
such 'honghtlcss act
II IS too bad that no dlctaphnnc was
present one night during the EArncs libel
frlal session, when Col. Roosevelt was a
guest at the home of Chancellor Day Of
Syracuse lnlvcrslty with whom m earlier
wears he had more than once broken
lances, or ppssibly bludecons, pr Dav
being the staunch friend and defender If
the late John ~ Archhold. whom the
Colonel had once had occasion "a put IN the
Ananias Club
Their meeting was a httlr formal for
three minutes. ~ the end of which the
Colonel found ont 'hai the { htncrllur too
had ance lived IN the still plid West
From then TIL past midnight thcv sat
close together, r,arlng and chuckllnk and
slaprIng one mother on ~, knee ae they
matched GOOD frontier ,'oricS Tho rost Of
the oomran> l,~tsu,d IA KIND ot awcd
delight
During that sane VISIT 81 the Cnloncl
:" Svrsc4 a. he kcp' up hi horseback ever
rIsr, rdng about tho rrsid,nc, stree : en- 4
mount which 4 local admrcr he'd loaned
enc afternoon a prominent SNracu~an +
looked NJ from hls newspaper GA n, front
porch and callcd to his vlfr upstairs
Their locs aeodorc Roosevelt On +
horchack
~ the momrnt ;hc six-ycar old son Of
the house was III the hatntub, and IN
nothing cloe He hcari his father. rsh-
"a scamperng and spattcnng downstairs
nut the front door and right down the
walk to the middle 81 the street hoping
or q glimpse 81 hla Greet IDOL lEat night 4
Il 4 reception The father ,old the olorel
II II
81 Georr, Is George and The
.hucklc Nol bring that hoy 10 ne
want IS sec Hm tie Was brought dul,
lad. and MAS mounted for halt an hour on
he Roosevelt knee and told stories about
nuns ard hons aud eiraifeS and gnz
hes and my grandchildren and wheu
aAcp horlc ~ trauer state, end mCaSlr-
d. W. iouud . haze grown - .nch'
There was the day in February. 1911.
/, hen, walking back 10 the offIce OF iht
Dutlook after luncheon, he found a lost
ine-ycar ole newly arrived with his
,arcnts, YIN EliI> island crl,ng in the
trectS, and dried th, onIld oves and
ook I'm - The last TNcntS third street
,olicc station, where te turned hlm over
. the matron, and then swappcd old
memories with tire h,ucroats behind the
esk enc or " of y hom had been on tic
orcc when IL was commissioner.
And then there arc the countless
torres Of ms own, tn. Roosevelt children,
i and out 4 tn" White House and at :
agamorc liilI AMI .attcrly there are the
oi hluh hO.dlug the grand
ahlcs Of these STORES. fayorlfe n IL
sv was about his little boating and sleep
d. out IN blankets cxpedItlun T. a remote '
and beach on the Sound, LIS cornpan ion !
eng Kermit Archie and their cousin :
hihp he date was August 9, l"r
Anyway, I've had a cork.ng time
.ooscvcli SAID back III the 50 when
eaten AZ the polls Tor MAYOR OF New ork {
/ W had 2 corklng time he repeated IN !
lsrch 1909 turning over the Presidency
) William Howard Taft And Monday Y
j the dav n 'hcagh no one mortal heard :
ould It not have been like thi-, ganclng
4ck AZ the broad root on Sycamore Hill,
e he hurried on 10 seel cut Quentin in
le shining ranks OF the Young men Gone
est 10 have said We once more, that ne I
ad had i corklng time IL always did +