Show I WELCOME IS REMARKABLE American Colors Flutter from fromE E ery Side in Greeting f to Roosevelt WARM ARrI W FEELING PEELING SHOWN j BY ITALIAN FRIENDS I Convents Decorated Walls Wallo Placarded Pl and Other Unusual Honors Shown Visitors I PORTO MAURIZIO AURIZIO Italy Hal April 9 Tile The entire population of this pretty little Italian Hallan town nestling amid groves groc ot ci oranges oran es and olive trees gave gao Mr and Mra Irs Roosevelt a truly remarkable welcome when they ar ax arrived rived this evening from Genoa Gonoa For days das the tho residents havo have been bee celebrating In honor of tho the visit and American colors fluttered everywhere from tho the municipal buildings tho the In the streets and tho the villas Many of oC the decorations of oC the poorer quarters were homemade Even Een tho the Sisters In the thc neighborhood nel convents displayed American flags fla s on tho the sates fates I Dead nd walls were er covered with post posters ors ers bearing such Inscriptions as Roosevelt forever Long live IIvo Roose Roosevelt velt volt and similar expressions of re regard regard regard I gard I The Tho municipal council at a special meeting today decided to confer tho UlO title on an Mr Ir Roosevelt of honorary citizen and to name namo the Onoro I which is under tinder construction and is tho the I pride of or tho the town Roosevelt Boule Boulevard Boulevard vard yard The mayors announcement of tho visit of oC the distinguished American which has ban been posted In the tho streets refers to Mr r Roosevelt as a man who as president of the thc United S scon himself champion of peace of oC the world and in the Messina Jes lna disaster manifested his own and tho the friend friendship friendship ship of o tho the republic proclaiming thus the bonds of or fraternity and human solidarity When Mr Jr and Mrs rs Roosevelt ar arrived arrived rived not only was as every overy man nina worn wom woman om oman an and child in the town massed maa d about tho the station or in the streets streel hut but thousands from neighboring com corn communes had come como In to add their en cn that of tho the townspeople The Th din thu of welcome was almost ln describable and tho president and his wife emerged from the station After greeting Miss Carew Mrs sister at whoso home homo they tile UIO will spend a tow few days da s the party started forward for the carriages A Abanil band struck up Hail Hall Columbia Colombia anti and the tho crowd cheered lustily A group STOUP of school children In white bearing flowers tried to march protect protected ed by naval cadets but bill thoy they were pre prevented prevented prevented vented by 11 the tho surging stinging cheering throng throne When Mr and Mrs r Roosevelt i reached their carriage the thc arose and waved his hat whereupon the cheering was redoubled and tho the thol school chool l children who ho were yet ct some Omo little distance In threw their bouquets toward the carriage e most of oC the tho flowers falling under tho thu wheels and among the people Again tho the crowd surged forward bringing the thc carriage c to a standstill but finally a pathway was made and the tho party part proceeded under tinder an nn illuminated boring bering the thc word Welcome For half a IL mile they th drove droe through a n narrow street but It was stas Impossible for the tho horses to move faster fa than a t walk Mr Ir Roosevelt all tho the while standing up II I bowing his acknowledge acknowledgements meats ments When rhen half the tho town was traversed tho the carriage got clear of oC the tho people and the tho horses broke Into a n trot but hundreds of the tho spectators were not notto notto notto to bo be denied and followed the car carriage cn ringe on the tho run right rl ht to the paten atea of the villa Ula I Before th the thA left Genoa Genott Father Tames James Ryan and a delegation I of Catholic students called upon him to pay theIr respects I |