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THE PRESIDENTS JOURNEY
itinerary Of the Long Western Trip
Announced at Washington.
WHERE SPEECHES WILL Be MADE

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| Visit Tssnty.two staiea.
| Washington. d. Cali arrangements
for President Roosevelt's Western tour
have been completed. and the itinerary
has been made public. The President
leaves Washington on Wednesday.
April I. at 9.05 q. m. over the Pennsyl.
, vania Railroad. accompanied by Secre.
tary Loeb. Assistant Secretary Barnes.
the Surgeon General Of the Navy. and
three stenosraphers. railroad. officials.
newspaper correspondents and others.
Chicago. the first stopping place.
reached on the morning of April 2.
At Minneapolis on April 4 the Presi.
dent will be entertained at dinner at
the Minneapolis Club and afterward
will deliver an address ut the Auditor.
ium. He will deliver an address at
Bismarck. n. D.. on April 6. ut the
State Capitol. He will also deliver ad.
dresses on April % at Des Moines and
keokuk, Iowa.
On arriving in st. Louis on the even.
Ing of April % the President and his
party will be escorted to Odeon Hall.
where a few minutes visit will be
Good Roads Convention; thence to the
st. Louis University. and later to the
st. Louis Club where the President and
party will be entertained while In the
city.
The following morning. ut 1870
o'clock, the President will review pa
rade. and In the afternoon will attend
the dedication of the buildings Of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Later
the President and his party will dine
at the Administration Building. and
will view display OF fireworks In the
evening.
At Kansas City on May the Presi-
dent will deliver an address at Con-
Sention Hall. At p. m. he will be met
by q committee from Kansas City.
Kan. and escorted to that city. where
he will make brief address. On his
arrival at Topeka at 6 p. m. he will
take part In the exercises OF laying the
cornerstone Of the Y. n. c. A. building.
In California an interesting program
has been arranged. On Nav Z the
party will remain at Redlands for three
hours. Governor Pardee will welcome
the President to the State at that point.
Two hours will be spent Mt San Ber.
nardino In the afternoon. and Riverside
will be reached at @ D. m. The party
will proceed to Casa Blanca and take
drive over the famous avenues and
through orange groves to the city. The
President will make brief address.
After visiting Claremont and Pasa-
dena the party will go to Los Angeles.
Santa Barbara and San Luis ObIspo
will be visited the next day. At Santa
Barbara the President and party will
visit the old mission.
Sunday. May 10. will he passed quiet
~ at Hotel del Monte. Monterey. On
Monday a brief stop will he made at
Pajaro. and Santa Cruz will be reached
ut 0.55 a. m. The party will be taken
by special train to the Big Tree grove
where It will be entertained at an In
J formal luncheon by the citizens OF
Santa Cruz In the afternoon 1t will
arrive at San lose. and will be taken
for drive through the valley md
! foothill orchards. On Tuesday. the
10Th, n visit of three hours will he
made to Stanford University. at Palo
Alto. At Buriingame the party will be
entertained at luncheon by the Hon.
Henry T. Scott, Of San Francisco.
| San Francisco will he reached mt 2.15
p. m. The President will remain here
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visit the University OF California. mt
i Berkeley. aud will also 60 to Oakland.
On Friday. May IL. the President and
party will reach Raymond. Cal. at n.
m.. and the next four days will be
! spent In resting and viewing the beau
ties of Yosemite Valley and the big
! trees.
At Portland. Ore. on May 81. the
! President will take part In the laying
Of the cornerstone Of the Lewis and
| Clark monument.
At Olympia. VAST. on May %. the
President will attend the laying OF the
! cornerstone OF the Masonic Temple.
| The President will make addresses at
Walla Walla. Spokane. Helena and
Boise City. At Salt Lake City the
! President Will speak In Tho Tabernacle
and take luncheon with Senator
| Kearns.
On the morning OF May 20 the Presi-
dent and his party will stop at Lara
mie. He expects to take n horseback
ride from Laramie to Cheyenne. On
/ reaching Cheyenne after his ride the
| President will delive- 4 Memorial Day
address to the veterans who will be
| assembled there.
Lincoln. ILL.,. will bc reached on the
| morning OF June 4. and stop Of ten
minutes will he made. Four hours
will be spent at Springfield. Here the
program will include drive tn LIN
coins Tomb. an informal luncheon
for the party Mt the executive man.
sion by Governor Yates AMI m address
by tia President either In or adjoining
the State Capitol. Decatur. ILL.,. Will
| bc the last place visited by the Presi-
dent on his Western tour.
rDon leaving Decatur tho return trip
to Washington will he made quietIy:
only stopping for necessary railroad
requirements. The President VIII
reach Washington ut 7.05 p. m. on JnEn
5. The time occupied on the trip Will
be sixty-six days. The distance frhV-
elcd will be about 1900 miles,
through twenty-five States.