The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-09-16
TOURING WITH ROOSEVELT;
INCIDENTS OF THE GOTERNOR,S
JOURNEY THROUGH MICHIGiN.
His Car Door Locked Between Stops So That
lie May Have "a Chance 20 Economic In
the Use OF Ills yoice-He Reads An IN.
1ime-A Good Joke on Candidate nm.

wa = hAN " nv l' hNfNNH W lNfI
he boarded the Minnesota at Albany. Amo,
Knapp was close behind him with six Wavcrlcy
novels. The Governor reads slowly. He takes
his literary refreshment as a German takes his
beer. He Is not interrupted while he Is reading.
The door between the Minnesota and the State
Committee car Is kept locked. Experience has
showed that this is n necessary limitation To rut
on the tendency OF the people aboard To make
the Governor strain his voice by talking against
the roar OF the train, ANY one who wishes
to see the Governor is admitted to the Mime.
sofa, but the trouble Of waiting at the locked
door In a shower of cinders Is sufficient 10 deter
any one from going through IL who Is not bent
on an errand Of considerable importance.
The man who travels on a campaign tr,f,
for any length of time finds himself sliprfr,
into a fixed notion that a railroad station
is place where a crowd Is always rum.
ming. yelling toward the rear Of cutcrIn,
trains. and where there Is always a very
brassy brass band playing "Thcrell Be a
Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight LA
begins TO forget that any other state Of anair,
ever existed at railroad stations. The yip,y
of n meeting from the calm seclusion Of a w.p-
dow in the front OF the train Is hardly lc,- jn-
teresting than that which Is TO be- obtained
by becoming one Of the prominent citiyrr,-
In carriages who are escorted from the static,
90 the Town Hall or the public square The
wildly excited efforts of the chairman Of tina
local ommitte to get certain men whose
names he has set down on a long list into ccr-
tain carriages; the capers Of the troop Of Rough
Ri~dersiwhich has been organized for the cam
paign In every town in Michigan. and the Dust
enveloped progress of the cayalcade out into
the own-a all these things are better picture,
In naplnapfix 20 tIap ,1,aa. 81 Ia.I NJ
half an hour or so, the cloud Of dust rises out
of the trees again and vagrant strains Of that
everlasting tune drift out Of 1t and then I'm a
tumultuous whirlpool Of bicycles, women with
babies and greasy-handed toilcrs Of the soil
comes the Governors carriage on which hang,
a crowd OF small boys as thick as bees. i ,
always apparent that the controlling popular
tendency on the arrival of the trains Is curiosity
and that 1t changes after MIR. Roosevelt has
spoken to a wild desire to lay hands on him and
stay as close as possible to him until the last
minute.
Grand Rapids has a unique Post ONCE system
II Is based on a close alliance for public service
the Post ONCE and the city's trolley sys-
TEN An mall are carried between the stations
isn't a mail wagon In the city. On every car
that runs over any OF the roads there is a letter
box attached 10 the guard of the forward plat
form. When anybody wants 10 mail u letter
he stops a passing car and drops the letter into
The, box The m0torman would as little think
would oil running, by a Prospective passenger.
The letters are taken from the cars In Campau
place, near the Post Office. and consequently
they move from the writer 20 the mail train
faster IN Grand Rapids than In any other place
on earth. A hilarious. person from Detroit,
not officially connected with Col Rooseyelts
tour, became so enamored of the system that
bought thirty postal cards which he made
the. EXCUSE for stopping every car that vent
the road and n policeman persuaded him 10
the hotel and explain TO them the rcla-
tionsship betw cen n Mamie Taylor and a Tom
Collins.
Owasso. Mich could barely forgive Theodore
Roosevelt for being n New York man. The
hates New York and all that has to do
with IT. A young fellow who was in every
way the most Prominent man Of lie
AZ Qwasso. the body was sent o. the horrible
he Bellevue MorGuc until the arrival OF on
brother of the dead man Owasso could
be ,%angrier II, t. believed that the whole
On outraginR the decencies Of Owasso. Mer-
declare they will not 20 70 New York
i2i GSy seG and Of It 80 &c not S%'i aItS rr TI,9 H i%T os aI 'FIs
New York will suffer an actual commercial
oss because Of the unfortunate action of a
Joroner's physician.
Col. A. T. Bliss. the candidate OF the Replb-
leans OF Michigan for Governor. t. a Grand
Army man and has the reputation Of being a
'hrewd business man. but he makes no proteu-
practice in public speaking he has al:
empted nothing more than a few words ~
10 his audiences. He talked altugrthCr
iuring Gov. R~ooseyelt's. progress through
less than three times an hour. But
10 little had he husbanded his voice that his
yood-byes TO the party at Niles were scarcely
hubble. He Is. however, a man Of boundl".'
Of the Saginaw gathering IN TN" rrhI"
quare OF the town, Watts %Huqphr"r. tie
,,EEee S 1n CoI. Biii sa'I Se sa ailn4 The e' GoIoncI and
were looking out Of the window one Wuru-
and they saw the icema n come NJ ipt,"la'k
efore he brought in the ice, Mr-. Bis WIS
indignant. The Colonel said that lie didn't
the ieeman a Pr JqSt then III" IT,
aid TO her. I saw what happened just nov ~
he back gate; Mary, hereafter, | will meet
he iceman and take in the ice
Col. Bliss friends and neighbOrs who know
is. wife as q stern organizer Of wOman'S auNI;
lries, and Republican ladies' committer, a"d
llle. Mrs. Bliss in a window overlooking the
quare doubled up a small fist and shook
iolently at the Congressman, and ~" colonel
imself doubled up on his chair and slapped his
nee and roared.
Joseph s, Hall, the general passenger agent
I the Michigan Central Railroad, l. a mld
young man, but he has ran a tr"y,.I
ng hotel for forty persons for two days and
that called FOR miles and. mtc- u
'ack 10 be covered NJ siNty-tive and seventy
We miles an hour. This is not an easy parry
keep track Of. Beside the speakers. 'hoIe
r. always reception COMMITTEES from the l"At
earest station who must be carefully Looked
ter. Then there are reporters and the M"-l-
m Union man who goes along TO take, larll-
Ite and accclel ate the fling Of de-yB'Dh's
nd who must always stay at the Telegram
until the very last moment. y % man
a. been left behind. often the tran. i'tNrs
ON another station than that az WAl'h
npticd its Passengers. The train ha- e'dt''d
ia from speaking points again and again,
1t IL has never been late In arriving. lilo
lrs have swung sometimes so that II ha- been
apostolic TO write without making letters
least an inch high. and the t~NI"WIier
Mr.. Loeb, the Governor stcuugfalhrf,
)unced of its table once. But the tam a-
avs gets there on time. The conuAS~aTN
'rangements are comparatively simple. he
Dvernor and his immediate party have NOR
yn cook on the Minnesota. There T. an ill
ent buffet end OF the State Committee CHrt
idea of the detail with which Mr. lihH
ade his arrangements is Indicated by ne
Itineraries of the Michigan TIP
HIGH were put in the hands Of each passenger
the start.
There Is a rich lumberman. named 4 p.
iss, up near Saginaw who has a great farm
T a plRything He Is no relation to tho can,
date for Governor. and Is only interested
politics once In four years. lie is Of c"uf,e