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Show PRESIDENT ENTERTAINS REUTERDAHL, NAVAL CRITIC OYSTER BAY, N. Y. July If.. President Presi-dent Roosevelt entertained a dozen guests today, the largest party he has had at his home on Sagamore Hill since he began his vacation. With his guests th- President discussed a wide range of topics naval, political, labor, publishing, hunting and traveling. After his usual morning exercises, the President welcomed Henry Routerdahl. tho marine artist and writer, and John Williams, labor commissioner of the Stnto of New York, who came up from New York Mr. Reuterdahl, who accompanied the Atlantic buttlshlp Meet on its voyago from Hampton Roads to Magdalona bay, and who, In an article published last February, severely criticized the construction construc-tion of the battleships of the navy, came to talk with Mr.' Roosevelt about naval matters. Mr. Williams, who with Mr. Reuterdahl, Reuter-dahl, returned to New York, said ho talked with the President on labor matters. mat-ters. Shortly after the departure of his two morning guests, the President received a party of ten Charles F. Brooker, Republican Repub-lican National committeeman from Oon- I nectlcut: C. A. Moore, who has hunted In Africa: Percy Madeira of Philadelphia, l and W. F. Whitehouso. Jr., of New York. ' both of whom have spent, some time ln Africa; Charles Scrlbner, the New York publisher: F. D. Millot. the artist, who is a member of the American commission to the Toklo exposition; Major Edgar A. Mearns, surgeon In the United States army, and a naturalist; Henry Falrlleld Osborn, a geologist connected with the American Museum of Natural History In New York, who has had expcrlonco in Africa, and Dr. Alexander Lambert ol New York. i |