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Show Former President and Son Ker-mit Ker-mit Will Reach French Metropolis Thursday. LAST DAY IN HUNGARY FILLED WITH ACTIVITY Is Everywhere Received and Welcomed With Manifestations Manifesta-tions of High Regard. BUDAPEST, April 10. Theodore Roosevelt Roose-velt and his son. ICermlt, left here tonight to-night by the Orient express for Paris, where they will arrive Thursday morning. morn-ing. Instead of crossing Switzerland, their route runs north through the Austrian Aus-trian Alps and through southern Germany, Ger-many, entering Franco at Avrlcuort. Colonel Roosevelt s. last day In Hungary Hun-gary only furnished additional proof of the deep Impression Ills personality has mado upon the hearts of the people. Enthusiasm En-thusiasm Increased up to tho moment of his departure. Hundreds cheered at the front of tho hotel when he left this morning for a visit to the government stock farm at tho Babotna, where the brooding of Arab horses Is carried on. and thousands were massed about Ihc station when ho returned aL 7 o'clock tonight. They greeted him with Hungarian Hun-garian cries equivalent to tho American "Hurrah for Roosevelt 1" Tho ex-presldent seemed to understand and appreciate. Rousing Scnd-Off. The packed streets echoed the cries as ho passed and this demonstration was thrice repeated Inter In the evening In front of the hotel as ho dt-parted for the station, where another frantic multitude had waited until midnight to sco him off. Tho same popular enthusiasm was displayed dis-played seventy miles from Budnpcsl on tho drive from tho railroad to Babotna. Carriages drawn by six horses, with drivers In plrturesciuc costume conveyed tho party through tho thatched roofed villages, decorated with crude American fiags and adorned with hastily constructed construct-ed triumphal arches. In each village the schools had been dismissed that the children might Join vthc acclamation. Mr. Roosevelt greatly enjoyed his visit to tho brooding farm. After lunch, at which the speeches of welcome were most fervid, a score of pure-blooded Arab stallions were trotted out for his Inspection. Inspec-tion. The colonel In charge of the stable, nn Arab bearing the euphonious name of El Faallallac El Hedad. who came from Syria as a stable boy. took the greatest pride In showing the fine points of the beautiful animals, saying to Mr. Roosevelt: Roose-velt: "I am not married; my wives nre In the stable." The ex-prcsldcnt nnd ladles of tho party, par-ty, Including Countess Szcchcnyl, who was Miss Gladys Vanderbllt, fed the horses with sugar. Later the party visited tho brood mares, whe'ro Colonel Roosevelt was shown a tiny thoroughbred foaled today. It was a filly, but the colonel christened it "Roosevelt." There was an inspection of blooded cattle, sheep, pigs and domestic fowls. When tho party left Colonel El Faallallac Faallal-lac asked the ex-presldonl If he was satisfied, and In reply Mr. Roosevelt shook him warmly by the hand, saying. "Goodbye, comrade " Tho dinner at the foreign office tonight to-night was followed by a big reception. Count Szechny. who hnd a narrow escape es-cape from serious Injury from tho whirling whirl-ing blade of a fan on board the train on the trip to the breeding farm, suffered no ill effects tonight. The sharp blade grazed his head. Another half Inch and It would have cleaved his skull. |