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Show Slips Quietly Out of Great Metropolis and Prepares to Start Home. HAS BEEN RECIPIENT OF HIGHEST HONORS No Ruler of European Country Would Have Aroused Such Popular Interest. LONDON. June 0. Theodore Roosevelt's Roose-velt's visit lo England, ending tomorrow morning, though unfortunately coinciding coincid-ing wllh the period of national mourning mourn-ing and for that reason shorn of much of the splendor that would have accompanied accom-panied It under happier circumstances, was one of tho most notoworthy foreign visits paid to Great Britain in recent years. No foreign ruler could have aroused more universal attention, received a warmer welcome or achlevod a greater popularity among evory class of society. It Is truo that his strictures on Egyptian affairs occasioned political resentment in some quarters, but he left no rancor behind, be-hind, because he was regarded as a privileged priv-ileged guest In whom no unworthy or unfriendly un-friendly motives could be suspected, and the frankness of his utterances is taken as a measure of tho strength of tho friendship binding tho two nations. The death of King Hdward compelled tho curtailment of public demonstrations und entertainments projected In Mr. Roosevelt's honor. ICvon so, ho was 1111-ablo 1111-ablo to accept half the nv!tatlons showered show-ered upon him. Leavos Vory Quietly. In characteristic fashion. Colonel Roosevelt deprived Londoners of tho opportunity op-portunity of giving him a sond-ofL Before Be-fore tho people were aware of his Intention, Inten-tion, ho had quietly left tho city, nut half a dozen persons knowing tho time or the manner of his departtirc. 1 It appears that the colonel complained that ho had not had tlmo to boo a hundredth hun-dredth part of the country. He particularly particu-larly wan tod to walk through a typical Kngllsh countryside. Accordingly, Sir Edward Grey, tho rorclgn secretary, gave him a friendly challenge to tramp through New Forest, a picturesque and romantic spot near Southampton, full of geological geologi-cal and antiquarian interest. Sir Edward Is a keen angler and decn-v decn-v Interested In ornithology, and the two started today on a long tramp through the. woods. It Is exported the expedition will be extended and that they wl) spend the night at an Inn, motoring Into Southampton South-ampton In tho morning, where Mr. Roosevelt will meet his wife and family, who will go from London to Southampton Southamp-ton lit a special car. Tho former president had to decline tho Invitation of the mayor of .Southampton to a public luncheon In his honor tomorrow. tomor-row. He also expressed regret at his In-ubllliy In-ubllliy to lay the cornerstone of tho memorial me-morial to be erected on the spot where the Pilgrim fathers nailed for America. Among Mr. Roosevelt's traveling companions com-panions on the Kalserln Auguste Victoria will bo Baron Henry Speck von Sternberg, Stern-berg, nephow of tho bite German Ombas- sador at Washington; Mrs. George V. Vanderbllt and Joseph C. Grew, second secretary of the ciubnsGy at Berlin, and Mrs. Grow. |