The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-04-18
M'kINLEY ON WHEELS.
Tour to Be Made by President and
His Cabinet.
washington Correspondence.


Washington Correspondence.
President McKinley's tour to the Pa
cifc coast and thence eastward to
Buffalo, whence the return to Wash
ington will be made, will be one Of
splendor. The train upon which he
will travel will be most gorgeous and
costly.
President Mckinley will travel
across the continent surrounded by
his cabinet, with the exception Of Sec
retary Gage, who remains in Wash
ington. 1t is proposed to transact i'm
portant business while en- route. The
cabinet officers will keep in close
touch with the heads of bureaus of
the respective departments. The pres
ident will transact all of the vast
routine which the chief executive
must look after while in Washington.
A corps of expert telegraph operators,
representing the two big telegraph
companies, will accompany the train
to handle official messages, and every
telegraph station along the lines of
the railroads which are to be ira
versed will be subject to their orders
to the exclusion of all commercial and
newspaper business. Cabinet meet
ings are to be held on Tuesdays and
Fridays, just as they are now held in
Washington. The questions pertain
ing to domestic and foreign policies
will be discussed. Cipher dispatches
from all over the world will be laid
before the president, experts from the
state department being in attendance
to reduce them to English. The con-
clusions reached upon all public ques-
tions will be conveyed to the acting
heads of the departments in this city,
and will by them be disseminated to
all those concerned.
Trip for Recreation.
AS this is to be trip for recrea-
tion and pleasure, the president wants
1t understood that he will avoid formal
receptions wherever possible and
make speeches only where he cannot
escape doing so. They want to see
everything that will serve to give
them an idea of the progress and ad-
vancement of the country, and it's
commercial growth and mercantile
stability They will pay a special
visit to the great cotton wharves of
New Orleans to witness the loading
of steamers of all nations with the
staple product of the fields of the
South. The party is due in San Fran
cisco, May s, and will participate in
the launching of the battleship Ohio.
and will remain five days. The coast
is to be followed north to Salem, Port
land, Seattle and Spokane, and thence
the party will move eastward into
Montana, where, after an inspection
of the vast copper mines, they will
pay a flying visit to the Yellowstone.
Thence they will go to Ogden and
Salt Lake and then eastward through
Colorado, stopping at Denver for a
protracted visit. From Denver the
train goes to Topeka, Leavenworth
and Kansas City. st. Louis will be
honored by visit of two days. The
Mississippi valley will be traversed
from that city to st. Paul, with stops
at Keokuk, Burlington and Dubuque.
From Train to Steamer.
From st. Paul the party goes to
Minneapolis and then to Duluth, where
a steamer of the Great Northern line
will be waiting to convey them
through Lake Superior, the famous
Sault canal, with it's wonderful locks,
the SITdlCS OIL MdckludW, LAKE T1uTOu,
the ST. Clair and Detroit rivers, and
Lake Erie to Buffalo. The trip down
the lakes will possess novelty and
interest for every member of the
party, even for those who have al
ready made it, and at the same time
will constitute a recreation after
nearly five weeks of travel by rail
through plain and prairie, desert and
mountain and valley.
The president will visit the Pan
American exposition at Buffalo. Then
he is to go to Niagara Falls and make
a trip down the American rapids.
After he has done that he and his
party will embark on a new special
train for Washington, arriving there
June Is.
President Mckinley will travei
about $4,000 miles on the fastest,
safest, most comfortable and best
equipped train America can produce.
He will visit 25 states and territor-
les, and touch the southern, western
and northern boundaries of the coun-
try.
Mr.. Mckinley and the members Of
his cabinet are to be accompanied by
their wives and several other ladies',
well known in Washington society,
will accompany the party.