Show 1 TAFTS KEEP I I J J I I Official Family Joins Brilliant Re Reception Reception Reception While President I II Shakes Hands I CELEBRATED TED SMILE MARKS KS I BEGINNING AND END i iI I Hearty He Words of Greeting Given Dur Our During DurIng ing Three Hours of Diplo Diplomatic I II matic matto Display I i Washington Jan Tun 1 President and I Mrs TIrs Tuft Tail held their first Now Years V le levee oe at nt the White While house today Al AI Although Although though Mrs IrE Taft has not y t regained i I her full tull strength and seemed rather pale In a gown gO n of ot white silk she car carried carr carI Intention of oi re Te remaining e ned ried out her hor original j i r I In the receiving lino line until I members of oC the tho cabinet tha th foreign ambassadors amba P members of their th lr house hOille households I holds and Justices of oC tIle the supreme I court had paid pain their respects At the th i end of oC twenty minutes Mrs loft fOlt re retired t retired tired 1 The and all nIl tho morn mom members bers hers of ot the cabinet with the til y Lion of or Secretary of or State Knox and an andT T Secretary of or War War Dickinson on remained d dIn In iii tho the receiving party until the last j of the general public had passed I IThe I I The reception r began at 11 a m and nn I ended cn ed at p m rn In tho the two hours houis s sand and nd minutes ho he h ild his post poel tion Lion at the portal of tho famous blue I I room President Taft shook hands L with people This fell I II short of ot tho the dir dur durIng dirIng lurI j I I Ing In the last years of too tao Roosevelt ad administration ministration r The line Une of citizens began iegan to form format I at nt 1030 a 1 m although they were w re rot not ot scheduled to enter tho the White house grounds until 11 I President Taft began and end ml tho the j I reception with a smile For his friends among the diplomats the government official and army and nd navy nav officials Mr Nr Ir Taft T ft had hearty heart words worda of at greeting Ono One I citizen addressed the tho president oc occa occasionally a and tho the latter at zit until his aides hurried the visitor along niong to maTte make room for the crowds In tho the roar rear The average time was passing about forty people op to tho the minute Although he gave each a astron astron strong stron clasp the president declared ho lie fet felt no fatigue Standing In one po position so long however made him de IC I claro that ho felt as have havo to learn to walk all aU over again The flit usual precautions were and the tho reception off or Incident Several tourists were w rp if ic 1 temporarily of or their cameras camera at atthe atthe atthe the entrance to the blue room I The diplomatic display this year mr ii rI railed any ally of the paL Practically every member of Jf th corps corpa was In the city and nod each was attended by a n I unformed staff of aide slid arid BOC B eu C The Chinese ambassador and staff In heavy hen robes and hats bats attracted the usual amount of oC attention i iThe I The marine marino hand band played duuring the iho reception i Tempers Cold Washington Wa Jan 1 Sunshine tem tern tempered I the winters cold and gave I f Washington V one of or the finest New Years da day it ever has experienced Mrs Irs Sherman wife wIre of the vice president and a number of women of oC the cabinet received at their homes I the number Including Mrs Mrs Irs Dickinson Mrs Wickersham I I Mrs Ballinger and Mrs Nagel all of or j I I whom had as na their assistants m the wo woo women men meu of tho families or officials con I i I 2 with th tho the departments over j I I which chich theIr husbands preside i Following the tho death of or Mrs Knovs 1 I I brother Frank B Smith on Thursday I Inight night tho the secretary and Mrs Irs Knox Knot V recalled all Invitations I i I II II I Continued on Page Eight Bight I I TAFTS KEEP OPEN HOUSE Continued i from Page Pago One Jan lan 1 IThe The event which from Crom almost the thc first days dars of oC oCI the republic has h as distinguished tho the celebration cel celebration celebration of oC the tho advent adent of the New I Year In Washington the Presidents reception at nl the White House took on ona ona ona a new lIew Interest today as the first pub public tic lic reception planned for the admin administration l of Mr lr Taft TaCt TaftOn TaftOn On New Years Y as da rIa nay the thc White House doors swing open to all the world and during tho the appointed hours hourn of ot the tb re reception reception of citizens iho the poor and hum humble hie ble pass In review and receive the thc i I clasp of the chief executive on equal i footing with the thc richest of the thc com corn community I I The Tho public reception of course al ai always always I ways is i preceded e by b an hour or more of formality when tho President greets I the th members of the cabinet the dip diplomats diplomats diplomats the senators and thes tl es the high officials of the govern government government ment mant the officers of the army arm and nay navy and members of o tho the various civic chic organizations who pass through tho the famed lame at hours especially set apart for thorn thom I Some Somo Idea of tho magnitude to which the New Years reception at atthe atthe atthe the White House has grown may be had from the fact that President ent Roosevelt during the last two or three years of ot his term attained a n high wat tsat ermark of oC shaking hands with more than mon men and women The Tho early earl period of the reception was wag made gay a and impressive as us usual ual nal today toda by the presence of the thc dip diplomats diplomats diplomats in the full dress diess ress uniforms of their rank and distinction in tho the countries from which they are aie accredited accredited There were wore many man now new faces in lu tho the diplomatic line which was head headed headed ed eel by Baron DesPlanches the Italian ambassador dean of the corps In Washington The Introductions wore won made by b Colonel Colon I Spencer Crosby of tho the arm army major domo of the White House as ag assisted assisted by Captain Butts Butta Lieutenant Commander Palmer and others Mrs Taft joined the receiving par party party party ty during the tho early part of the recep reception reception reception tion She remained In lino line until tho the cabinet the supreme court and the thc I diplomatic corps had bod paid their re reo respects respects and then retired leaving the remaining women of ot the official par party part party ty t to do the honors As usual the public was In cadence early It being the Presidents first Hist now 3 year rear ear reception there was great pressure for tho the honor of oC wishing him tho the compliments of tho the season The Tho citizen contingent was rondo made ma o up largely of Washington people The Tho time Ume for their reception had been fixed at 1 l but three hours earlier the crowds began to gather and by 11 11 ll tho the line stretched for blocks extending beyond the state war and navy department build buildings buildIngs buildings ings and down Seventeenth street streeL |