Evening star., 1924-08-31

ley was again the host was omitted
on subsequent occasions.
President Roosevelt was the host of
the former kaiSer's brother, Prince
Henry of Prussia. who came in 1902
to receive the Americana built yacht
which Mrs. Longworth christened
Washington fairly turned inside out
entertaining Prince Henry, but the
most notable event was the stag din
ner which the President gave and to
which many leading German brewers
were asked, among them the late
Adolphus Busch of st. Louis and the
late GuStave Pabst of Milwaukee.
To honor such an aggregation of
the matted drink celebrities, Presi-
dent Roosevelt decided to begin the
banquet by drinking the health of
the Kaiser and of his brother in
foamy beer and in stems. But, hav-
ing no stems. he borrowed them from
a famous German restaurant on
Pennsylvania avenue, where in the
good old times dark brown Munich
beer was obtainable, and also pale
Bavarian. But when the American
Chief Magistrate raised his mug, to
the horror of all present, there was
visible on it in big letters, Stolen
From Ernest Gerstenberg," and so
too. the stein of his highness-and
in fact, all Of the so used. This Incl
dent naturally cast all formality
aside, and Prince Henry had a jolly
good time.
That Prince of Wales who reigned
as Edward VIII, grandfather of yes
terday's guest, was the first official
royal guest which this Capital ever
welcomed. He came at the instance
of his mother, Queen Victoria, to
ycI
been Minister to the Court of ST
James. and where his niece and
chatelane. Harriet Lane, after Mrs
Henry Elliott Johnston, had been a
special favorite. That visit was
epochal, and not alone was every in
cident of it carefully preserved as
part Of Washingtons international
social literature, but a fine canvas of
the celebrities of the day who ac-
non hangs in the National Museum
of Art.
Imperial Russian Guest.
Russia sent an imperial guest to
this country in the late sixties in
the person of the brother of Car
Alexander II, the Grand Duke Alexis,
who came at the head of the fleet
which swept into New York Harbor
and dazzled all beholders. Russia
had been a very good friend of the
United States during the troubled
days of the Civil War, and enthusi-
asm was at it's height when the
cars brother came with the ships.
Balls were given this radiant i'm
perial admiral, and for many a year
1t was the boast of each of the nu-
merous bellies in various ports where
the fleet was entertained that her
mother or aunt or some relative, if
not herself, had danced with the
Grand Duke Alexis. The duke and
his staff came over from Baltimore
and were entertained by President
Grant.
This warrior President entertained
another imperial guest, but this just
as his second administration was
drawing to a close, when Dom Pedro,
Emperor Of Brazil, came to this coun-
try incognito to visit the Centennial
Exposition in Philadelphia. He was
very quiet, unostentatious guest at
the White House, and is the only in
stance of a reigning emperor of any
country ever setting foot on these
shores.
White House annals of the same
period tell of another royal guest who
stirred up the social waters and as
founded the natives, from the cabinet
OHclalS who dtned with him to the
ushers who were about to observe his
ways. This was the last King of the
Sandwich Islands, King Kalakaua,
brother Of Queen ILL.," who visited
the Presidents mansion in Cleve-
lands time. Thomas r. Pendel, who
served every President from Lincoln
to Roosevelt. has this to say in his
books of memoirs called "Thirty-six
Years in the White House." after de-
failing many incidents of the Grant
regime:
"one Of tho most notable was when
the King Of the Sandwich Islands
dined with Gen. Grant. He sat on
the south side OF the table in the
state dining room, and he had three
Wallets, one of whom might be called
his cup-bearer. All three of these
men stood at the kings back all dur
ing the dinner and passed food to
him. All wore what you might call
regalia, but their coats looked like
ladies' bertha capes. It was a strange
sight to American eyes,"
But this royal guest is the only one
on record who departed from the sim
pie ways which hold in this Capital.
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