The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-27
THE PRESIDENTS
WESTERN TRIP
Denver Republican,


President Mckinley VIII make a com
plete circuit of the United States this
year. The distance Travelled viii be be-
tween 1900 and 1900 miles. Nearly
halt the states and territories viii be
traVerSed
From Washington the presidential
train VIII steam through the southland
and across the wide expanse of Texas.
Next New Mexico and Arizona viii be
crossed and California. VIII be reached.
through this state the train viii pass
into Oregon and to Washington
Having reached the northernmOst
part Of the country, the train viii trav-
el across the mountains of Idaho TO
the Yellowstone, thence to the land of
the Mormon and to Colorado. Then
through Kansas, Missouri and Iowa the
train viii run TO Duluth. Mimi. From
TINS point the president will go by boat
through the Great Lakes to Buffalo,
N Y, where the Pan-American expo
sition viii be in full swing. About the
middle of June the journey viii be
completed by the return of the party
TO the national capital.
The government of the United States
Will be on wheels for d month and a
half, beginning April 80 or May l.
Business of state and matters of ma
tional and International import will be
attended to and considered on a fast
moving railroad train. Cabinet meet
ings viii be held in a palace car while
ii is travelling at the rate of thirty-five
or forty miles an hour. An ultimatum
IN relation to the Chinese situation may
be drafted on the summit of the Rock
les or in g, cOrnfield in Secretary Viii
sons state New national policies may
be formulated in Il steamers cabin and
new members of the American diplo-
matte corps selected in the wilds of the
west.
Accompanying the president will be
every member OF his cabinet, with the
exception perhaps of the new attorney
general The cabinet officers viii keep
I in close touch with their respective de-
partmentS. Their assistants will know
exactly when to call for advice by tele-
graph. Routine departmental matters
will be attended to here in the usual
manner.
One car of the presidential train will
be the government Office. Therein Will
be all the equipment essential TO the
transaction of business. and a corps of
clerks, typeWriterS and Stenographers.
Whenever the president or a cabinet
officer wishes 70 dictate a letter or a
4 speech, Shorthrus- writer's will be ready
TO take it down, and skilled operators
VIII write IL out on a typewriter The
Onlclal seals of state viii be at hand
ana every convenience necessary to the
facility and expedition of public bust
ness.
In the business Office of the train VIII
be two of the White House telegraphers.
prepared to tap the telegraph wire in
lonesome and sparsely populated sec
IIoh Oh the country, where telegraph
oInceS are few and far between. 1t
becomes imperative at times for the
president to send telegram without
delay when he is travelling. Then the
train is stopped, the operators a8ight,
tap the wire which runs alongside the
railroad track and send the message.
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The presidential train viii consist of
six cars. One car will be reserved for
President and Mrs. Mckinley and Pri-
vate Secretary Cortelyou. Two mag
nificent cars will be for members of
the cabinet and their wives, and an
other for the newspaper correspond
ents and the clerical force. A dining
car and baggage car Will contain a.
barber shop, bath room and library
The train viii be vestibuled through
out It's crew will consist of the pick
or the men on the various railroads.
engineers with good nerves, will handle
the throttle, and the conductors viii he
among the best in the business.
The utmost precaution against acct
dents VIII be taken. The railroad com
panles over whose lines the train will
pass VIII place their tracks in the best
condition. They will call in their safest
and most powerful engines. and put
them in spick span form. The danger
of collision or ditching of the train will
be reduced to a minimum
The presidential train will be pilbted
for large part Of the journey A spe-
claI engine viii start out a few minutes
ahead of it and keep about a mile in
advance all the time. If there is an
obstruction on the track if a switch is
not spiked, if the rails have spread, if
bridge has given away, If a torrent
has. washed out a part Of the rOadbed,
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probability the train following will be
saved from wreck or disaster.
There viii be no effort to make speed
records with the presidential train
There may be danger at sixty miles an
hour. while d moderate rate of speed
is more conducive to Mrs. AIcKinley's
comfort.
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