Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-05
ROOSEVELT |SCO.M|NG
ITINERARY WILL NOT BRING HIM
ANYWHERE NEAR
HERE.
LEAVES WASHINGTON TO-DAY.
west virginia, Tennessee, and North
Carolina to Be Visited.
CONSIDERING THE ACCIDENT
CONSIDERING THE ACCIDENT
Towns Are Yet Indts-
nant over 1t, While the President
Plan. New Trip and luxurious
Quarters Are Being Prepared for
Him by the Various Railroad Com
panies.

WASHINGTON. September 4.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt and party will reach
Washington over the Pennsylvania rail-
road at 6:45 o'clock tomorrow evening
and leave for their brief southern tour at
7:3O P. NJ, on a special train over the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad. The party
will consist of the President Secretary
Cortelyou. Assistant Secretary Barnes,
Dr. G. A. Lung. the Presidents physician,
Stenographers Latter and Weaver, repre-
sentatives of the three press associations,
and the three illustrated weeklies, the
Washington newspapers and the West
ern Union and Postal Telegraph compa-
nies. and two photographers. The Bal
timore and Ohio has placed at the dispo-
sal Of the President and his party the
private car Riva, drawing-room and
sleeping cars Xenia and Clarion, dining
car Mania ttan, and combined baggage
car and smoker.
The Presidents private car Riva. is
well designed for the trip. It is finished
in mahogany. is siXty-seven feet long,
has a paror seventeen feet in length, and
observation room eight feet long. and four
private rooms. The sofa. sections in the
parlor and observation rooms are sep
arated by curtains from the body of these
rooms
The Trip Mapped Out.
The party will leave here at 7:30 P. NJ.
and passing through Harper's Ferry,
Cumberland and Grafton, will reach
Wheeling w. Va. at $50 A. NJ, eastern
time). September 9Th. Remaining in
Wheeling two hours, the party will pro-
ceed touching Cambridge. GAINESVILLE
Newark, Columbus. and Cincinnati, where
they will be transferred from the Balti-
more and Ohio. to the Queen and Cres-
cent road.
The train will arrive at Chattanooga,
Tenn, at $50 A. NJ, September 7th. The
party will remain there until P. NJ.
September sth, wncn t1ey win start for
Knoxville over the Southern railway,
arriving at 5 P. NJ, September stl1
After a two-hours' stop the party will
continue to Asheville where they will ar
rive at $50 A. NJ, September 9th.
Leaving Asheville at 1880 P. NJ, Sep
tember 9th, they will arrive in Wash
ington at $50 A. NJ. September 10TH
PittSfeId. Yet Excited.
P1TTsFIELD. MASS. September A.
With the excitement which followed the
accident to President Roosevelt in great
measure abated. the citizens to-day were
discussing the question of responsibility
for the occurrence which on all sides is
considered as having marred the city's
fame. in that a street-car, in disputing
the right of way with the President Of
the United States, at least was extreme
ly discourteous.
That the attempt to do this resulted in
fatality and in very narrow escape
from death or injury of the President
himself, and of the Governor Of the Com
monwealth are considered as only adding
to the gravity of the offense.
It is argued also that the Pittsfield
Street Railway Company should not have
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