Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-06-07 | Page 1 | Col. Roosevelt Spends and Hour with Poincare

COL ROOSEVELT SPENDS I HOUR WITHJPD1NCARE French President Passes Up the Cabinet Crisis to Converse Con-verse With Former Executive Ex-ecutive of ,u. s. CROWD OF CURIOUS PEOPLE ASSEMBLE American Visitor Receives Calls From Prominent Persons Per-sons in Paris and Visits Places of Interest FART 3. June 6. Colonel Roosevelt today to-day called on President Poincare at the palace of the Elysee- and remained with I him nearly an hour, conversing in French. The colonel took occasion to thank the president fur the courtesies extended to him. The presidential palace presented a busy 1 scene when the colonel arrived in, an automobile au-tomobile with Embassador Myron T. Herri ck. The president was occupied with the reception of government officials offi-cials in connection with the cabinet crisis and outside a crowd of curious people had gathered to discuss the political situation. sit-uation. Several cinematograph operators were on the scene and took pictures of the colonel as lie passed in and out. while some people in the crowd who kuew of the presence of the former president of the United States raised their hats as he passed and Colonel Roosevelt acknowledged acknowl-edged the greetings. , Sees the Sights. The colonel enjoyed a long automobile automo-bile drive through the Champs Ely sees and the Bois de Boulogne, visiting among other places the polo grounds at Bagatelle. Baga-telle. He also spent some time at a popular pop-ular amusement resort In the environs of Paris, and went to the Louvre, to see da Vinci's "Mona Lisa," which was recently re-cently returned after having been stolen- The colonel during the day received visits from Celeslin Hennion, prefect of police of Paris, and Emlle Laurent, secretary sec-retary to the police department. Among others who called on him were Philippe Bunau-Varllla, the engineer; Pierre de Margerie, a French diplomat; T. .. P. O'Connor, the Irish political leader; Marquis Mar-quis de Charabrun, Mortimer L, Bchiff, the banker, and William A. Day, lawyer. Guest of Honor. Colonel Roosevelt was the guest of honor today at a luncheon given by Gabriel Ga-briel Honotaux, former minister of foreign for-eign affairs, who brought together to meet the former president of the United States r number of distinguished persons. per-sons. Among them were Alexandre Felix Ribo, who has been thlce French premier; pre-mier; General Henri J. Brugere, who visited vis-ited the United States on a mission for the French government during Mr. Roosevelt's Roose-velt's presidency; General Charles Aian-gin, Aian-gin, who has recently done brilliant military mili-tary service In Morocco; Henri Baudan, the historian; Emlle Boutroux, the philosopher phi-losopher and academician ; Louis Jaray, secretary of the Franco-American committee; com-mittee; Dr. Gustave Le Bon, Gount d'Haussonville. Embassador Myron T. Herrick and Robert Woods Bliss, secretary secre-tary of the American embassy in Paris.