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...first shore visit was at Vancouver, B. C. As the Henderson approached the port an aeroplane of the Royal Canadian Air Force brought the President a message of welcome from the Prime Minister. H. M. S. Patrician appeared and escorted the President into the harbor. Canadian and British warships fired salutes as the Henderson came in. At the dock Colonel Ernest J. Chambers, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, came aboard to acquaint the President with the plans which had been made for his reception...
...does not see the green fields of Belgium, heavy with heat. Empress Carlotta, widow of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, sees only days of youth. To her the chateau is Mexico's royal palace. Her nurses and doctors are courtiers and gallants. Nearby young Maximilian, her emperor husband, is waiting and will come...
...estates are valued at $70,000,000 and will go to the Belgian Royal family at her death...
...building was once offered to the U. S. Government as an Embassy, but Congress declined to appropriate the moderate amount asked, for reasons of "Jeffersonian simplicity," which balked at a Royal Palace to house the envoy of a Republic. During the war Queen Margherita turned her palace into a hospital for the wounded Italian soldiers...
Joseph Pennell, etcher extraordinary, confidant and biographer of Whistler, American by birth, cosmopolite by choice, arch-enemy of democracy and materialism, damned the "standardized product" of the London Royal College of Arts, in a letter to The New York Times. The reason why we have no national art school in America is "because the Government of this country takes no interest in art. We have no minister, no department of art. ... In fact, we have no art of our own to speak of, and don't really know how properly to steal that of other countries. How long will...