The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-06
ON A SOUTHERN TRIP
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT LEFT
WASHINGTON LAST NIGHT.
IS BOUND FOR CHATTANOOGA.
OTHER PLACES EMBRACED IN HIS
ITINERARY.

Great Crowd Saw the President Of
at WashingtOn-Recei Many
Congratulations Upon His Escape.
Found Occasion to Refer to other
Narrow Escapes He Had Had.
Brought Up San Juan-Arrauge-
ments That Have Been Made for
the Presidents Tour.
Washington, Sept. 5.-Smilingly bow
ing in acknowledgment of the enthusl-
astic and prolonged cheering of an as
semblage that fairly crowded the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad station here,
President Roosevelt tonight began, his
Southern tour, with Chattanooga as
the objective point.
The President was in the city exact
ly one hour and twenty minutes. He
arrived over the Pennsylvania Rail-
road at 6:12 o'clock this evening on
special train of two cars, made up at
Philadelphia this afternoon, during the
stop there en- route from Oyster Bay
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock,
Chief Wilkie of the Secret Service,
Assistant Secretary to the President
Barnes and number of other officials
met him at the station. The President
appeared a little disfgured as a result
of the Pittsfield accident, but appar-
emily had quite. recovered from the
shock. He stopped to shake hands
with those who pressed about him to
congratulate him on his escape. Poor
Craig!" he frequently repeated in ex-
pressing his thanks to his well-wish-
ers.
Through a Gordon of police the Pres
ident was escorted to carriages in wait
ing, and was quickly driven to the Bal
timore and Ohio station. Secretary
Hitchcock, Commander Cowes and
Secretary Cortelyou rode in the car
riage with Mr. Roosevelt.
His Escape at San Juan.
The special train of seven hand
somely equipped coaches was in readi-
ness, and the President Immediately
entered his car, merely lifting his hat
in response to the greeting from the
crowd. He spent most of the time be-
fore his departure in conversation with
Civil Service Commissioner Garfield
and with others who entered the car
to meet him.
To a number he described the acct
dent at Pittsfield. He said it was not
the first time he had had so providen-
tial an, escape and referred to an in
cident in the battle of San Juan, when
gunshOts struck down two men close
beside him. The President told the
Pittsfield story to the group in the car
with feeling, and emphasized it with
gestures. He said he felt in normal
condition again.
The train was just two minutes late
when 1t pulled out of the Baltimore
and Ohio station at 1882. 1t was in
charge of Pullman Conductor w. M
Johnson, who has been assigned to the
presidential specials for a long time
past. The personnel of the party is the
same as that on the New England trip,
except for the addition of S. B. Hege,
the general agent of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. and Col. L. S. Brown,
the general agent of the Southern
Railway. The President took dinner
on the train shortly after his de-
parture.
The Plans for the Trip.
The Southern trip will be a some
what hurried one, and no stops will
be made at points other than those an
nounced in the itinerary already pub
lished, namely Wheeling, Chattanooga,
Knoxville and Asheville. The imme-
date object of the President is to at
hood of Locomotive Firemen, in whose
work he has always shown deep in
terest
The train will reach Wheeling at $3.50
o'clock Saturday morning, and will ar
rive at Chattanooga the same hour
Sunday morning. Sunday will be spent
at Chattanooga quietly and without
public programme. The party will
visit the backgrounds during the day,
and the President will attend church in
the evening. He will attend the fire.
mems convention Monday morning.
The party will reach Washington on
the return trip over the Southern Rail-
way at $50 o'clock on the morning of
Sept. 10, and wifi leave half an hour
later over the Pennsylvania Railroad
Tor Jersey City, en- route to Oyster
Bay.
In statement issued at the White
House to-day. it was announced that
the local committees of the four cities
at which stops are scheduled on the
Southern trip will be received at the
places they represent, the limited ac-
coInmodations of the train rendering
1t 1mpracticable to take them on board
IN advance.
THEY CHEERED ROOSEVEIT