The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-11-09
NATION s HEAD
TO VISIT WEST
Chief Executive Informs
DR.. Wheeler of His
Intentions.
University President Denies
Story Of Appointment to
Foreign Office.

BERKELEY, Nov. 8.-President Benja-
min Ide Wheeler. returned to-day from a
three weeks trip in the East and pre-
sided at the seni-monthly university
meeting held at IL o'clock in Har-
mon gymnasium. He announced to the
students that in a personal talk with
President Roosevelt the chief executive
had said it was his intention to visit this
coast as soon as the business of the next
session of Congress is over. This will
bring him here some time during the sum-
mer.
The main purpose of his visit, so Presi-
dent Wheeler stated. will be to inspect
the conditions of the arid lands of the
West, SO that he can recommend to Con-
gress some action to be taken to reclaim
that he believed President Roosevelt will
urge a large appropriation by Congress
for the irrigation of Western lands as a
national benefit
President Wheeler denied the account
recently published that he would receive
the appointment of ambassador to Ger
many. When asked if the statements
were true that he would receive an ap-
pointment from President Roosevelt 8
hands, he classed them as nonsense"
without the slightest foundation of truth.
mentioned" he said, "as it simply brings
it again to public mind. 1t is absurd
The meeting this morning was address
ed also by DR.. Thomas Addison, Pacific
Coast agent of the General Electric Com
pany who spoke interestingly on the work
in the broad school of life.
President Wheelers address to the stu
dents was in part as follows:
very much enjoyed visiting old Yale and
giving to her the fluctuations you sent. There
is a kind of vrility and abundance of spirit
here that REMINDS one OF laiei fale is not rich;
buildings there the ugliest have seen ex-
cept the ones here. Yale hasn't much money,
but she has any amount of loyalty from those
who have studied within her walls.
1t is always good to meet a man who Is a
man and that's what Theodore Roosevelt is.
There is no suspicion but he is a whole man
a masculine man-and that's the kind of a man
TO be. He has entered office looking things in
act in the real. He is not afraid to act in the
light of what he sees to be facts. 1t was in
teresting to notice how anxious he to get
at the actual facts. There seemed to be posi-
tive yearning in his mind to get at the real
status of things. In talking with him he ex-
pressed his great desire for better information
regarding the country's needs.
told him that to become acquainted with
things he ought to look at them. He told me
that he had decided just as soon as Congress
through its session to come to this coast.
So he will be here next summer He is coming
out to the Pacific Coast in order that he may
become acquainted with conditions on the Pa
cific strip. He is very much interested in af-
fairs in the section west of Kansas and he is
prepared to take an active hand in the irri-
cation of the arid West He sees in it
tional duty. He will not hesitate to support
national contribution for irrigation of the West
ern lands the he would advocate i'm
proving rivers and harbors. 1t is national
policy with him to turn toward the arid West.
He knows the country is not desert, as most
people think, but waste which be made
fertile through proper means
l glad to be back among you. There is no
place I have seen good Berkeley I am
back here for the purpose of attending the foot
ball game tomorrow and 1 want you all to be
there behind that team. lie a body of stu
dents until noon tomorrow and then be a body
of football enthusiasts Put your minds vic
tory and hypnotic that team into carrying the
ball across the line.
President Wheeler, besides attending the
bicentennial celebration at Yale, visited
Washington, Chicago and other Eastern
cities. He held conferences with many
scholars for the purpose of looking over
material for the university faculty. He
also made arrangements for men to come
here to teach at the next summer session
and opened negotiations with others.
President Wheeler's selections for new
faculty men will not be announced until
after the regents have taken action on
them.
President Wheeler stated that John Ga
len Howard, the New York architect,
would start for this city next Monday to
look over the grounds with the view of
taking up the general SUPPLEMENTARY of
the construction of the new university
buildings.