Show ROOSEVELT EVELT AT TOMBS OF i EGYPTIAN KINGS Visits Sarcophagi of Bulls 08 oD o Apis Three Thousand Years Old and Is Chief Figure Figura in Modern Moving Picture SHOWS AN EGYPTOLOGIST HIS PERCEPTION IS 1 KEEN Three Hundred Americans in r I Cairo Send an Address of oft L Welcome to Roosevelt andl and I He Will Receive Them 1 CAIRO HOTELS CROWDED T i ii i uno AIRO Egypt March 25 Tip Up u uthe CAIRO C the tile sun Nun today olla after n 1 re night Colonel Theodore and his Ills party part early prepared for n al visit to tile the Necropolis of where are ure the wonderful tombs of vari various van vanous arl arlOU ous OU kings of Thy nail anil of the Apis bulls buU I t e Last night the sphinx was sync viewed by II moonlight and ami Colonel Roosevelt said sald today the weird sight had bad been III il Highly enjoyed by himself and his tam ilI I lly lb ilk It was wall the most Interesting thing thine hot bet k had bad seen en during lila bia trip to Africa Tonight Colonel Roosevelt and hi bi his family returned to Cairo dined with the American Mr Ir Id Iddings I dings and later attended n a banquet tendered him hull by SIr Mr Eldan Gorst the tho British agent and con iu in I Egypt Major F K Watson Pasha aide aid da do decamp camp to the khedive who met Colonel j m ft Roosevelt a year ago at Port Said wash wa Was an early caller today He paid the rei re i of the khedive to the American huntsman and tendered him the n ri a e of the khedives special camel 8 for Cor the eightmile ride across the de d t of Such Suck a tender always 9 s sa a special mark of ot faver aver and Colon 1 f Roosevelt accepted it with The colonel and Kermit each Melt rode rod OJ oi n e of the animate animals over the dreary waste i i ithe j the necropolis but Mrs Mm Roosevelt a ai 1 Miss Mi Ethel chose a 8 more conveyance Tombs of ol Bulls BuUs of Apis Arriving at the tomb tombs of et the bulli buill f t tApis Apis the oldest of ot which dates en Is Isto 1 to 1500 1600 B C the sightseers were n II t by an archaeologist instructed to tn t j 1 t tas tas as 88 their guide guMe With lighted r n iS s the Americans entered the dark daric c v verns ems erns and looked with interest upon t h ts huge sarcophagi Colonel Colon l t it evinced great curiosity curlo in the i Ii used u ed by the ancient Egyptians an all aI 1 I plied piled the Egyptologist with numerous ri C questions One OM sarcophagus was wag and lighted candles were lowered im ml It to show how the mammoth h bI J a were lowered into their final IThal resting places pisces From the tombs of the bulls the p pa paty i 1 ity ty proceeded to the temples and tl e tomb of Thy a plebeian who Ivel l 11 rt the fifth dynasty dyna ty but who t Was m i esteemed that he was l t ts P c r marry a princess prince s Their offspring J vj i 1 came princes Here Hwe Colonel Rocse It and his family were joined by Oscar S Strauss the American ambassador t tt Turkey and by Mrs Strauss Mr 1 lr I 1 dings and Miss Idding i iOn On the walls of the thi th t mb b of or Th Thy I various sculptures sculpture and paintings li 11 i t I though Chough they were e abut about r rB i iB B C still are legible gible These v wre e greatly admired arid anti Colonel Roe ROS ROSvelt Ro I velt with his usual keep pointed out to the th archaeologist t V tt t pictures of ot various animals he had cc c t lately in the Jungle but which are ar e r in Upper Egypt He JIe declared t th fact tact that they wr Ir i produced fn In Va ta a tomb of was Wai proof pro that the th ai a amala amale male mals once had roamed Egypt Colonel l Roosevelt Roo evelt also was ll ply in pictures an Egyptian tv fing geese a swan and a hyena Mn wh a ii ain in the olden days were used as food fiol Ill Roosevelt Roos velt In Moving Picture if From the temple Colonel Roos c cand and his hill party visited the home hom of f t archaeologist where they were srn I 1 i II light refreshments Between the t tm m plea pies and tombs and the temple and nd the t a I archaeologists home Mr t j n 11 I Continued on Page Seven t ROOSEVELT AT ATTHE ATi i 1 THE TOMBS OF V P EGYPTIAN KINGS Continued from Page One histed on walking ahead of ot his party L the t too c members of which had a hard to Keep up with him Mm lm The privacy J 1 vacy of the tho movements of the tho Amer Americans AmerIcans was Invaded during their tour by bya byn a n moving picture man who d wis leis machine upon upon them and rolled off yard after yard of films turns o After refreshments the tho entire party r continued their sightseeing trip to toward toWard ward the Nile In the th desert lira Roosevelt Roos volt and nd Mrs fr Strauss occupied occupied 3 pied pled the sand sand oar ear Colonel Roosevelt Roo evelt Miss Roosevelt and Miss S Iddings chose s i camels as their means moans of at transport i while Kermit Ambassador Straus StrauB and am Mr Iddings rode donkeys t Arrived at the Nile Ile the party took a launch out to a or large olver lver boat where Colonel Roosevelt was I r Welcomed d by George Bey his Wife Wile his brother and sister all of whom were wera educated at the mission missions i schools s at nt and Beirut A lunch luncheon luncheon luncheon eon was was served on the deck of the boat i Under a canopy of Oriental tapestry at atthe atthe d the entrance to which was a gracefully draped American flag The Stars and z c Stripes also floated from the stern post of bf the i Visit Cairo Zoo Zool l Later Colonel Roosevelt Roosavelt and Kermit P l Dais aid f a l a visit to the Cairo zoological gardens and Inspected with much In Interest Interest interest terest the tho specimens there thero Mrs Roose Roosevelt Felt velt elt and Miss Ethel and the other otherL L members of the party meanwhile had i retired to the t e hotel to rest r st for the tha ban pan banquet banquet tonight The visit to Cairo of Mr it Straus Is s without political bearing lIe He lieL L came merely as a personal friend of r Colonel Roosevelt in whose cabinet he ho served as secretary secreta of commerce and t labor He will return to Constantino Constantinople pie Wednesday ii Americans are everywhere to be seen in Cairo Three hundred undred of them today sent an address of welcome to Colonel Roosevelt lt congratulating cm hIm on his safe return to civilization Colonel J Roosevelt will hold a reception for the Americans tomorrow Th hotels hot li here never n nov 0 r before were so sa crowded Among the tho arrivals today were Prince Frederick rIck son of at the j German emperor and Wu Vu Ting Fang r Ii former former Chinese minister tp the States State who Is I on the way home He I Hey y hopes to see s Colonel Roosevelt befort he lIe departs I 4 Colonel program tomor tom aI aIrow row includes a visit to Ashar Asher university ty He wl wilt will attend the Easter services j In the American church Sunday and afterward take dinner with the sirdar u Monday Colonel Roosevelt will wUI give a I V c lectura lecture at the Egyptian university |