Woods Out

While some of the Japanese in Tokyo cheered the Prince Regent and his bride as they drove through the streets on the day set aside for the public celebration of their recent marriage, while others filled the air with imprecations against the U. S., many thousands of Japanese found their way to the Tokyo railway station to cheer the Ambassador from the U. S.--Cyrus E. Woods.

The Ambassador, and his wife and her mother, Mrs. Marchand, were greeted on the station platform by Premier Kiyoura, Foreign Minister Baron Matsui and numerous Government and diplomatic politicians of note. Baroness Matsui presented a large bouquet of flowers to Mrs. Woods. Thousands of Japanese made the station tremble with their "banzais" and at one period the enthusiasm of the crowd was such that they broke the police cordons. It was a magnificent, friendly sendoff.

The Ambassadorial party then left for Yokohama, where they embarked on the President McKinley.

Previous to his departure, Ambassador Woods was awarded an unusual honor. Home Minister Rentaro Mizuno called upon him and conveyed the information that he had been named Honorary President of a hospital to be built with the unexpended balance of money raised by the American Red Cross after the earthquake last Fall (TIME, Sept. 10).