The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-04

strand goes out to Sharon Springs
about once a month to preach.
Two of the presidents visitors sun
day afternoon were the sons Of a Gree
ley county ranchman named Raines,
who brought the boys forty miles to
see the president One is five years old
and the other three
Senator Warren Of Wyoming, accom-
panied by Mr.. and Mrs. William l.
Foulkes, reached Sharon Springs from
the west Sunday morning and stopped
over with the president. Mr.. Foulkes
was formerly civil service commits
sioner-
Paul Alexander tombstone, Kansas
City's heightened PIANIST, accompanied
by Harry Lands, formerly warden of
the Kansas benitentiary. came to
Sharon Springs from Kansas City Sun
day morning. Paul Alexander has read
the palms of most famous people in the
west and he wanted chance to read
the palm of President Roosevelt. the
nearest he came to it was when the
president mounted his horse for his af-
ternoon ride. The palnist saw the back
of the presidents hand with glove on
at a distance of 100 yards
DR.. A. B. Jones. known as Zones of
Trego" in the legislature, occupied the
central seat in the pulpit at the ser
vices Sunday morning, sitting between
Rev Mr. See and Rev. Mr. Wikstrand-
As result of the fake interview in
a Kansas City paper Saturday morn
ing, quoting the president as criticising
st. Louis for its treatment of visitors
to the Worlds fair dedication, the pres
ident was flooded with kilograms from
eastern papers asking if the interview
was correct, and kilograms of apology
from St. Louis people. The interview
was, of course, promptly denied All
statements are sent out over the sig
nature of Mr. Loeb, secretary to the
president The president himself never
makes statement through the news
papers, he never submits to an inter-
view, and it is q great breach of eti-
auette for a newspaper to quote him
in the form of an interview.
The train in which the president
travels is Pullman equipment through
out, furnished by the Pennsylvania
railroad company, but is paid for by
United States is one official who does
not ride on pass. The train is in
charge of John F. Mccoy, Pennsyl-
Vania railroad Official whose speciality
is transcontinental excursion trains.
Mr.. Mccoy has been with the train
since it started and has general charge
of the equipment.
The foremost car in the train is a
Pullman baggage train. The next, the
Atlantic, the buffet car. is one of the
finest ever built. It was one of the
Pullman exhibit at the Chicago Worlds
fair and the interior is all hand carved
At the close of the Charleston exposi-
ton it was being taken south to bring
the Liberty Bell back to Philadelphia
from the exposition, when the engine
blew up, blowing every scrap of iron
out from under the Atlantic, but leav
ing the interior without serious dam
age.
charge of E. J. Martin, a steward who
has travelled with Mr.. Roosevelt in
charge of the commissary service; ever
since the latter was governor OF New
York The Senegal" the fourth car in
the train is the sleeper given over to
the newspaper men and artists They
together with the secret service men
and the minor attaches of the presi-
dents party, use the diner and the At
Iantic almost exclusively also. The fifth
car IS the Texas" compartment car,
occupied by the stenographers, the Sc
eret service. and the presidents guests,
DR.. Rixey and DR.. Butler. Secretary
Root, and Senators Burton and Long
also occupied this car at night while
they were on the presidential train.
The last car is the presidents private
car. in which he remains almost en-
tirely while he is travelling. There he
eats sleeps and works. lie is continu-
ally receiving kilograms, he has his
stenographers with him. and gong
through Kansas, Assistant Secretary
Barnes was with him most of the time.
Secretary Loeb is today on his way
west and will join the party probably at
Albuquerque.
The Union Pacific management took
every precaution possible to insure the
safety Of the presidential train. Just
few minutes ahead OF it ran pilot
train, made up of the private cars of
superintendent Brinkerhof, of Kansas
Citv with Mr. Brinkerhon himself in
charge. Accompanying the presidents
train is Z. Buckingham, of Omaha, sup
erintendent of transportation on the
Union Pacific system On the train also
from Kansas City to Ellis was A. 7.
Palmer, division superintendent of the
eastern division. who had immediate
charge of the train crews On the route
the train was joined by A. F. Vic Roy,
division superintendent of the central
division, who took Mr.. Palmer's place
west of Ellis N. H. LOOMS, general
attorney for the Union Pacific, also
went with the train to Sharon Springs,
and was accompanied by his son. Alex
ander c. LOOMS The president extend
ed to Mr. LOOMS a special invitation to
lunch with him Saturday
The schedule of the presidential tram
is limited to 80 miles an hour. From To-
peka to Junction City on Saturday very
slow time was made. MI Looms re-
marked to Mr.. Barnes. assistant secre-
tary to the president. that the train
could make 20 miles an hour if neces-
sary and asked why the schedule was
kept so low.
I'VE cannot afford to take any
chances with the president, replied MI
Barnes. THE limit which we place on
the speed of the train is So miles an
hour. although the engineers sometimes
get up to 40 miles"
Assistant Secretary Barnes is one of
the most modest. unassuminS young
men Imaginable. He has frank open