The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-30
President Roosevelt and Party
Make l 3 Mile Drive.
Day Spent in Vermont Where
He Will Stay Until Monday.
WILL VISIT MR.. SHAW.
Will Spend Night With Secre-
tary Of the Treasury.
Sunday to Be Day of Absolute
Rest and Quiet.

Windsor, VT, Aug 30-President
Roosevelt today resumed his tour OF
New England, crossing from New
Hampshire to Vermont.
In the latter state he will spend today,
Sunday and Monday, speaking today at
various points and going this evening
to the summer home of Secretary of the
Treasury Shaw at Thompsons Point.
on Lake Champlain. The president will
be the guest of Secretary Shaw until
Monday and it is announced that Sun
Gay will be spent as a day of complete
rest. Windsor, White River Junction,
Montpelier and Burlington are the
places at which the president is sched-
uled to stop on the journey to Vermont
today.
The trip from Corbin to Windsor was
made in coaches and other conveyances,
the members of the presidents party
who passed the day yesterday at New
porr, N. H, having started from there
at o'clock this morning At the Blue
president and Senator Proctor joined
the party ready for the drive of Is
niles across the Croydon mountains.
1t was a beautiful morning and every
body, refreshed by yesterdays rest and
enjoyment and a good nights sleep.
was in the best of spirits. The trip was
one of the most pleasant experiences
of the presidents tour, and passing
through the park along the country
roads by pond and stream and up over
the mountains, the route brought the
tourists into contact with some of the
most picturesque scenery in the United
States
On the way from Corbin Park a brief
stop was made at the summer home of
Winston Churchill. the author, at Cor
nish. N. H
HOME OF WINSTON CHURCHILL
Cornish, N. H, is a picturesque little
village, and the inha bitants had gath
cred to give the president rousing re-
ception. After being extended a greet
ing by Mr.. and Mrs Churchill. mum
Der of school children were presented
to the president. They filed past him
two by two and each little girl handed
him a bouquet of sweet peas, pansies
and asters- His carriage was banked
with flowers when he rose to speak.
After requesting that members OF the
Grand Army who were in the assembly
be allowed to occupy the front line, the
president said:
s'I want to thank you for what you
have. done and for the very kind and
graceful way in which you have greeted
me this morning. (Applause.) And
cannot think of anything that argues
better for the country than in just such
typical old American town as~this to
have the school children drawn up be-
fore monument like that (pointing to
the soldiers monument) in the birth
place of Salmon p. Chase, and to have
them to look toward you, you the men
of the great civil war, you who proved
your truth by your endeavor, and to see
in you example of what they are to be
when they grow up. (Applause) I be-
lieve in preaching but believe in prac-
| tIce good deal more. (Applause.) And
it has been given to you my friends OF
the civil war, to practice in the four
years when the life of the republic was
at stake, the virtues of which we SO
earnestly asked our children shall learn
! and you practiced the virtues not only
| that count in war but that count In
| peace
! After this brief speech the party re-
| sumed It's way over the mountains and
| reached Windsor a short time before
| his hunting costume of blue overalIs and
red sweater and expressed the hope
! that the photographers had not ap-
| preached near enough to him to do any
| damage.