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The Colonel and Mrs. Roosevelt spent the afternoon driving 

 about the capital with the king and queen, who later accompanied 

 them to the railway station, where they took a special train for 

 Stockholm. The Roosevelts were cheered by a crowd at the station 

 as they left. 



Colonel Roosevelt and his family arrived in Stockholm the 

 following day, and were received at the railway station by Price 

 Wilhelm, w4io drove with them to the palace, where they became 

 the guests of the Prince and Princess in the absence of King Gustave 

 v., who was in the South of France. United States Minister 

 Graves, the staff of the American Legation, the Premier and other 

 members of the Swedish Cabinet were also at the station to receive 

 the American guests. An immense crowd surrounded the receiving 

 party and cheered as the train drew in. A choir stationed on the 

 platform sang, " My Country, 'Tis of Thee," and the Swedish na- 

 tional anthem. 



ENTERTAINED BY THE CROWN PRINCE AND PRINCESS. 



Colonel and Mrs. Roosevelt spent a comparatively quiet day in 

 the company of the Crown Prince and Princess. The Prince and 

 Princess accompanied them in the afternoon to the northern 

 museum, the biological museum and the open-air museum, after 

 w^hich the party had luncheon at the palace. Colonel Roosevelt also 

 was shown a horse-jumping military drill. 



Commenting on the death of King Edward, Colonel Roosevelt 

 issued the following statement : " I am deeply grieved, and know 

 that all Americans will be deeply grieved, at the death of his ma- 

 jesty King Edward VII. We feel the most profound sympathy 

 for the British people in their loss. We in America keenly appre- 

 ciated King Edward's personal good will toward us, which he so 

 frequently and so markedly showed. 



" We are well aware, also, of the devotion felt toward him by 

 his subjects throughout the British empire, while all foreign nations 

 had learned to see in the king a ruler whose great abilities, especially 

 his tact, judgment and the unfailing kindness of his nature, rendered 

 him peculiarly fit to work for international peace and justice. 



