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Show . COLON. .Nov. 13. President Boose-Tlt Boose-Tlt left the. flagship Louisiana at 7:30 f ihia morning and, landed shortly after-Hard. after-Hard. He was met bv Canal Commia-V Commia-V aioner Shonts, Chief Engineer Stevens, General Jianager Bierd .of the Panamft . .' Tallroad and other high officials. All the ' tchool children xf Colon were assem- i "; . bled in groups about the pier where the I President landed, and sang "The Stars Spangled Banner" and "America.". ". Some time later President and Senora i Amador and the Bishop v of Panama reached the spot and greeted Mr. Koose-: velt. The entire partv then boarded a special train decorated with flags and left Colon at 8:10, steaming slowly in the direction of Panama in order to en-able en-able the Presidential party to have a good look at all points of interest along v - ; the route. ' . President Booeevelt will be the guest ot President Amador this evening. - In order to carry out th6 Presidential program special switches have been ar-. ar-. ranged to enable the special train to go ' ' t La Boca and allow Mr. Roosevelt to inspect the Pacific entrance to the canal. The main atreet of Colon nd the shipping in port were decorated with flags todav in honor of President Boose-veltrs Boose-veltrs visit,, but. there vas no excitement, excite-ment, anywhere. A heavy rain fall this morning. , - President Roosevelt's arrival yesterday yester-day ahead of. time somewhat changed the program ia connection with hia visit to the isthmus. President Amador and. hia party left Panama for Colon at 4:30 p. ni., instead of at. 6 p. -ra., reaching Cristobal at 6t45 p. m. yv - , . .. By request of President. Roosevelt, Senora Amador was the only lady received re-ceived on board the flagship last night. President Roosevelt received his visitors visit-ors at 9 p. ra.. President Amador being accompanied, by Secretary of State Arias, the- others' including Chief Engineer En-gineer SteTens, ; . Commissioner Shonts, Minister Squires and Secretary -Bishop of the Panama Canal commission. President Presi-dent and -Senora Amador and Secretary of State Arias came ashore at 10 p. m. The weather last evening was unpro-pitieus, unpro-pitieus, a heavy rain falling and a high sea running. - . |