The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-07
HIS BUSY DAY IN. SOUTH DAKOTA
The Presidents Train Makes Ten Stops Many Not the
Schedule and the Chief Executive Talks to About 49,
600 Old Friends Great Crowds "Come In From the
Farms and Give Tongue Freely.

pressure of human feet since the snowfall
Of last autumn. It will mean q pretty
swift gait for John Burroughs, the vener-
able naturalist, but probably the president
and Mr.. Burroughs will not be compan-
ions on all Of the daily park jaunts.
Quiet Sundays Needed.
8 BY this time the people of the country
should be given to understand why it is |
that during tours such as he Is now max
ing, the president insists on spending eachl
Sunday away from the great cities. 1t |
was not an accident that brought the pres
idential party out Of Minneapolis on Sat
urday night, or that will take it to the
quiet retreat of Sharon Springs, KAN, for
Sunday, May 3. These quiet Sundays were
all carefully planned for in the making Of
the itinerary. BY heredity and training
the president is sincerely religious in char
acter The confusion, born Of curiosity.
and which would turn his Sundays, If
passed in the great centers of population
into holidays, is destructive Of the peace
!! OF mind and the spirit Of worship and de-
votion. The president thinks he Is not
called on on this day to make himself
a spectacle for the gaze Of the multitude
| So the itinerary, whenever it is possible,
puts the party on each Sunday in place
where the day may be spent in a way to
ship
! Sundays, April II and 49,, will be spent
in Yellowstone park; Sunday, April 26, at
Grand Island, Neb.. the same size as Red
/ Wing, Minn,; Sunday, May 3, at Sharon
! Springs, 100 population; Sunday
May 10, at Monterey, CAL, 1900
population; Sunday. May II. in
Yosemite park; Sunday, May "a, at
Seattle, the night to be spent on the train;
Sunday, May 81, at Cheyenne. Seattle,
it will be observed, is the only one of the
larger places which he will visit where
la Sunday will be passed, and this deviation
from the rule was demanded by the diff
culties attending the arranging of tie
Puget sound schedule Of stops Three OF
} the nine, Sundays of the tour will be spent
in the quiet depths Of the great national
parks. With the exception of Seattle, the
) others will be spent in towns Of $4,000 or
less, Cheyenne having $4,000 inhabitants
and Sioux Falls, according to the last
9 census, 1926. =
Strenuous Exercise.
:, = ,rhe presidents horseback ride with Setf
= Bullock out of Sioux Falls was q correc
= tive treatment demanded by the heay!
wear and tear Of Thursday, Friday ant
;, Saturday in Chicago, Milwaukee and thu
! twin cities. Besides it. is one OF, hi
v health rules to- spend a part Of each Sun
day afternoon, whether in Washington q
, elsewhere il riding, always on horseback
or in long walks, either alone or accom-
panied by single companion. This is tn
only day of the week when he can ge
away from official duties earlier than
5 or s o'clock. III.
To illustra te how utterly regardless tn
. president is OF weather conditions, an
a how they are not permitted to interfer
n with this exercise, it may be noted tina
q Sunday two weeks ago from yesterday
- drought rain in Washington from befor
"a daybreak until the early hours of Mon
- day without cessation. There were time
"a during the day when the rain fell in tor
:, rents, and other times when it came dow
= in a gentle drizzle; but it fell all day Ion
- |, III one way or the other. It may be III
g : derstood at once that the president we1
:, - out on that day alone and on foot. VIII
-. y. not nninding the weather himself, he +
:" doubt felt that his horse would not enjc
] it, and that no personal friend would f1t
pleasure in accompanying him. Attire
IN, in business suit and wearing a sol
is wide -brimmed- black hat and heavy shoe
v he set out, not even carrying an umbrell
lis end tramped through the woods and aero
at the fields north and west of Washingto
X Iuntil he had covered a distance Of f1ftet
It's miles Wet? OF course he was; but
& enjoyed it. 1t is not an Improbable stat
e, ment that of the 80,00O,000 people i'll tt
lis United States, ne Is one of a, very, We
nx few who would have found enjoyment u
he der such conditions. .~~- s,s,- T..