People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1897 — Consul Jones and Queen Margherita. [ARTICLE]

Consul Jones and Queen Margherita.

The Washington-Post tells this story of Col. Wallace S. Jones, United States consul general at Rome, Italy, now on a visit to this country.- Col. Jones iff a Floridian, and has been in the consular service in Italy for the last ten years. H« is a gentleman of wit, tact and culture, and his ability to make a happy response at the right time brought him into the good graces of Queen Margherita on his first appearance at court. The queen asked him from which state he hailed, and on being told, said that she had often heard Florida described as a very beautiful country. “Yes,” your majesty,” was the prompt reply, “we call it at home the Italy of America.” The neat compliment Was not lost on royalty, and the colonel was rewarded with a charming smile from one of the loveliest women in Europe.