Evening star., 1901-05-07

@'A&sN VI i--i- i''-t'' II S'.tjistlG ana
Wales combined; it is 7u,2,G, square miles
larger than France. 81 30 square miles
larger than tEe German empire and RIB
: iESTc miles larger than Tho Austrian en-
Tirc- From the gTa.J level plains on the
coast the altitude gradually Increases until
northern borders.
From san Antonio. whore the President
si'Ht snort time on saturday morning
7 last To- IL TaSo is over tap miles and rh,
President had already travelled Close. to 400
miles when he started from San Antonio
Iae distance from San Antonio To FL Paso
IS ON a straight line. and Is greater than
the distance from Washington to Atlanta
by any Of the large railroads
The first day the President spent in the
state he saw much of the farming co1l41-
tsy. but between san Antonio and FL Paso
Ntre the great cattle and sheep ranches
with thousands and hundreds Of thousands
of cattle and sheep grazing on the green
1e!ds- Anything but a wire fence down
ms way would look funny. Four rows of
wire strung on posts at convenient dis
tances make al the fence necessary to
Keep cattle within ranch and from
~tr"UJliHg a neighboring farmer These
fences some times stretch for miles without
a break
Austin. the state capital where the Pres
Ia, nj spent four or five hours is a beau
Iial city Of 23.,sp people. with the finest
state house In the United States cxcent
Albany The building Is nlaenifcentIy i'm
posing. ana every piece Of the marble used
vas married within Il short distance OF the
t-lltal- Nearly everything else used in the
construction Of the building was secured
v thin the borders of the state. Governor
-eaEers saws that if a wall could be built
around Texas SO that nothing or nobody
could enter the people could easily live
within their OWL borders.
Hard the CoIored Militia.
Vt Austin The coiored military company
wanted to march III the procession saving
That the President had come to Texas as
much 1" see their race as to see the white
people. Tn white soldiers would not
march IN line with them however and So
the co!ored soldiers had to 90 off into =
SIDE street and wait until the President
passed along. At Prairie View Texas
where the President stopped for twenty
minutes. is located the industrial school Of
the col"red race. There is practically
n"thing in the neishhorhood bat colored
people and the President went thcre par
flcuIarly 10 pay them a visit He found
the white people In charge. the negroes
.tv"n being kept off the platform, where
-h@ ceremonies took place. They did not
demonstrate. and the white people did not
seem 10 consider that the whole affair
ought TO Ge turned over to the cOlored
people
HandshaLing Done Away With
Fortunately for the President. this jour
neg is not To he one of handshak king. There
Will he few receptions of a public nature
anu IN" HHplc every there Will get to see
the President he rides through the
streets or speaks from some public place
This plan has been found to be most ad-
mIrable so far In the first place il affords
opportunity for everybody TO see the Pres
1dent, and, in the next place. ii relieves
IN" President of most difficult and ardu-
Gus job. BY the handshaking method the
president would he driven to public
building. which was soon filed with a few
hundred or a thousand people. a much great
er number being excluded. A few neonIe
saw the President, shook his hand and
went away pleased Thousands of others
dld not get TO see him and felt dissatisfied
Carefully Prepared Speeches.
Some of the Presidents speeches have
been carefully prepared and were read to
his audiences. Whenever the President IS
going 10 deliver a speech on a question of
Importance he prepares his remarks in ad-
vance. adding something extemporaneous
as the incidents of the meeting suggest
themselves. His most happy speeches. the
cabinet members say. are those delivered
without any preparation and with no
thouEht Of what he intends to saw But
lhe President Is careful. even under these
circumstances, and does not permit him.
him. 7
The fastest run the presidential trafr, has
yet nade was on the Illinois Central rad
between jackson and New Orleans Tho
tram was thirty-five minutes late in Ieav
Ing jackson and the Illinois Central US
determined not to go into New 0rI.a"s
late The train sped along at = terrific
rate Sometimes the running was sixtZ
miles an hour, and the railroad officials
say mat II was even greater at periods
IhIS IS ordinarily too much for the Presi-
Dental train. entailing danger that the
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