Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-18
TO SEE BIG TREES
PRESIDENT AND WIFE PREPARE
FOR CALIFORNIA.
LARGE PARTY INCLUDED
Special Train Will Carry Distinguished
Company Through Southern States
and Many Points of Interest Will
be Notwithstanding of Ohio to
Follow.

Washington, April 14.-President
and Mrs. Mckinley and party will
leave Washington by the Southern
railway April %, for a tour to the Pa
clf1c coast, covering a period Of be-
tween six and seven weeks. They will
have a train, consisting of a private
car, for the president and Mrs. Nc
kinley, two Pullman compartment
cars, two Pullman sleepers, a dining
car and combination car The mem
bers of the cabinet will accompany the
president, with the exception of Secre-
taries Gage, Root and Attorney Gen
eral Knox, the personnel Including
Secretary and Mrs. Hay, Postmaster
General and Mrs. Smith, Secretary
and Mrs. Long, Secretary and Mrs.
Hitchcock, Secretary and Mrs. Wilson,
Miss Mar Barber, Henry T. Scott, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles A. Moore, Secretary
and Mrs. Cortelyou, DR.. and Mrs.
Rixey, Assistant Secretary Barnes, NJ.
A. Dignam and several stenographers
and representative of the press asso-
Citations, Washington dailies and prob
ably representatives of San Francisco
telephone companies.
The train will arrive at Memphis
4:30 p. m. Tuesday, where a stay Of
several hours will be made, the party
leaving there during the night for New
Orleans, which will be reached 4:3U
p. m. May 1, remaining there till 6 D.
m. the following day. Many points of
historical interest in the vicinity will
be visited. The next stops will
be at Houston, Tex, on the morning of
May 3, arriving at Austin at 5.
leaving at 10 for San Antonio, where
some hours will be spent the following
day. Sunday, May and Monday
morning will be spent at Ell Paso.
Thence the party will go to Phoenix.
reaching there the morning of May 7
and remaining until late in the after
noon. Wednesday morning the party
Will arrive at Redlands, California.
where they will be met by the governor
Of California and other prominent Off
Gals an citizens. Los Angeles will be
reached in the afternoon and the party
will remain there until the morning of
the tenth. Friday Ventura, Santa
Barbara and San Luis Obispo will be
visited. Saturday and Sunday viii be
spent at Del Monte. Monday morning
the train viii leave for San Jose. going
by the way Of Santa Cruz, where some
hours will be occupied in visiting the
thni inn, II, 1919
will be spent at San Jose, the party
arriving at San Francisco at 4: 40 o. m.
May IA, remaining until the following
Monday. The program for the stay
here includes a number of receptions
and the launching of the battleship
Ohio which is the objective point of
the Presidents trip.
Monday morning the party will leave
San Francisco for Portland stopping
about two hours at Stockton and
spending the evening in Sacramento.
Brief stops will be made the next day
1t Redding, Sisson, Ashland and Salem,
Oregon, will be. reached Wednesday
morning. The party will remain here
few hours and reach Portland that
afternoon at o'clock.
The total distance travelled will be
about 10000 miles, crossing % states,
two territories and touching the gulf
of Mexico, Pacific ocean and great
lakes. Wherever feasible state cap
itols will be visited. While the pres
ident may make short addresses at
several large cities and some colleges
and universities, it is not at all likely
he will make many speeches..