TRIUMPHAL JOURNEY THROUGH EUROPE. 4(^5 



As a special mark of his personal esteem the aged Emperor — 

 King Francis Joseph of Austria received Colonel Roosevelt in his 

 private apartments at the imposing Hof burg Palace instead of in 

 the regular audience chamber. 



The monarch, who was attired in an imperial uniform, was 

 extremely gracious to the ex-President, and kept him in conversa- 

 tion for thirty-five minutes. 



For Colonel Roosevelt the call on the Emperor was only the 

 main feature of a very busy day, which began immediately after he 

 reached his hotel early that morning with a breakfast with Henry 

 White, former American ambassador to France. 



THE COLONEL OCCUPIES THE COURT CARRIAGE. 



The day included an official visit to Count von Aehrenthai, the 

 Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, which lasted an hour; a call 

 of courtesy upon Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the heir apparent 

 to the throne, at Belvidere palace ; a visit to the tombs of the Haps- 

 burgs, where, under the guidance of a brown-cowled Capucine 

 monk, with a lighted taper in his hand, he laid wreaths on the tom])s 

 of Empress Elizabeth and Crown Prince Rudolph ; a tour of in- 

 spection of the Spanish riding school founded by Charles VII and 

 the Imperial Hussar barracks; a reception by the Austrian jour- 

 nalists and a gala dinner given in his honor at the Foreign Office at 

 night by Count von Aehrenthai. Yet. after the long day, when 

 Colonel Roosevelt returned to his hotel, he mounted the stairs two 

 at a time. 



The Colonel used the imperial court carriage placed at his 

 disposal by Emperor Francis Joseph until his official calls had ended. 

 Then he discarded it for a speedier vehicle — the automobile. 



The Emperor's dinner at the Imperial Palace at Schoenbrunn 

 constituted the concluding official function of the Colonel's visit to 

 the Austrian capital. 



As the hour of the dinner was set for 6 o'clock, the Colonel and 

 Kermit, in evening dress, left the hotel in a court carriage a half 

 hour earlier. Arriving at the entrance of the palace, a court official 

 met and escorted them up the broad flight of stairs. 



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