COLONEL ROOSEVELT IN ENGLAND. 



appreciation of the honor. Those who were on the off shift tidied 

 themselves up as much as possible, but Roosevelt seemed even 

 more anxious to shake the hands of those who were actually 

 engaged in feeding the huge furnaces. As one of these laid down 

 his shovel, Roosevelt grabbed it up and showed that he knew 

 something about the knack of stoking by " sifting " several shovels 

 of coal over the glowing bed of coals. 



The stokers cheered the Colonel heartily when they saw that 

 he was " one of them." The captain of the ship accompanied the 

 colonel on his rounds through the stokehold. 



After his visit below he held an informal reception on deck 

 for the first and second class passengers. This with his visit to 

 the steerage on the preceding Sunday, cleaned up the colonel's 

 reception list. All aboard ship claimed personal acquaintance 

 M'ith their distinguished fellow passenger. 



The Colonel's Guildhall speech led to a long discussion of 

 Egyptian affairs in the House of Commons on June 13, the Con- 

 servatives demanding to know what course the Ministers proposed 

 to pursue, and some of the members denouncing what they termed 

 Mr. Roosevelt's interference. 



Arthur J*. Balfour, leader of the Opposition, expressed warm 

 appreciation of Mr. Roosevelt's sympathetic and kindly treatment 

 of the subject. There was nothing in the speech, he said, to 

 which the most sensitive Briton could take exception. The situa- 

 tion in Egypt, he declared, called for prompt action, and he hoped 

 the government would take steps to give support to the British 

 representatives there, without which they will be helpless. 



Sir Edward Grey, the Foreign Secretary, replying to the 

 criticisms in behalf of the Government, announced that Mr. 

 Roosevelt's speech had been communicated to him before it was 

 delivered. He had seldom listened to a speech with greater 

 pleasure. Its friendly intention, he said, was obvious, and, taken 

 as a whole, it was the greatest compliment to the work of one 

 country ever paid by a citizen of another. 



