, 1903-03-30
M0STRILS
FULL OF THE DELICIOUS FRA
GRANGE OF THE WOODS
AND MOUNTAINS.
President Roosevelt Ready for His Re.
cord Breaking ~ Of the West
Expects to Derive Great Pleasure
from Fifty-Mile Ride from Lara
mic to Cheyenne.

Walter Wellman, Washington cor.
respondent of the Chicago Record-Her.
aid, gives the following details of the
great western trip which President
Roosevelt will start on Wednesday.
President Roosevelt is ready for his
record-breaking o IL of the west, on
which he is to start next Wednesday.
He is in fine physical condition and
says he has already the fragrance of
1.-THE woods and the mountains in his
nostrils. 1t is to be a record-breaking
tour. sure enough. About IA 900 miles
is the total distance to be travelled. AS
the our is to continue for sixty-six
days, than 200 miles must be
covered each day. But the actual
travelling will be done in about forty
days, or at the rate of $50 miles a day,
including the many stops. This is said
to be the longest tour both in time and
distance, ever made by n president of
the United States. President McKin-
ley's tour to the Pacific coast, which
was cut short by Mrs. McKinleys i'll
ness was planned at about 5000 miles.
In 1900 Mr.. Roosevelt made a campaign
swing-around-the-circle which lasted
siXty-three days and embraced about
5000 miles of travel. But MI. Roose-
welt a not president then.
During this trip the president will
make six set speeches, which are al
ready prepared. The first is to be
made at Chicago, the second at Mil
waukee, a third at Minneapolis. a
fourth at Sioux Falls, u fifth at st.
Louis and the sixth at some other
point in the northwest. How many
extemporaneous speeches the presi-
dent will make no one knows, but If
his throat holds IL he will come near
equalling Senator Morgan's record at
the capitol last winter.
Mr.. Roosevelt is eager for the fray.
He likes sp~eechmaking, though he
doesn't care to deliver long addresses
in the open air. He wants to make
all his set speeches in halls. He loves
people. Men who have travelled with
the president says he never wearies
physically or spiritually. He has keen
zest for all new scenes. new faces. new
characters. He enjoys nothing better
than getting close to teh people of the
country. Into the business of getting
acquainted and of seeing the sights
and enjoying outing he enters with
an almost boyish enthusiasm.
The features OF his tour from which
the president expects to derive great
est pleasure are:
Firts-The ~sixteen-day jaunt in Vel
lowstone park.
Second-The four days tour in the
Yosemite.
Third-One days ride in the Grand
Canon of the Colorado.
Fourth-A fifty-mile ride on mus
tangs across country with Senator
Warren of Wyoming from Laramie to
Cheyenne.
But don't expect to fire a shot
while I am away said the president
today. 81 know l am entitled to a little
shooting. 1 used to think I could not
live unless | had a bit of shooting once
a month. But therell be no shooting
on this trip. There isn't any fun hunt
ing with a crowd and a lot Of photo
graphers, and with bulletins going out
every five minutes about whether a
fellow makes a hit or a miss"
One thing the president insists up
on, and this is that there ere to be no
Spectacular features to this trip. He
doen't want to be in the center of the
stage all the time. If he could have
his way about 1t he would go alone
without newspapers men or photo
graphers 81 want to get out in the
woods and the mountains and live in
the open air and have a little genuine
rest and a good time" says Mr.. Roose-
welt. But even the president of the
United States can't have his own way
about newspaper men and p%hotogra-
piers and publicity. The press has
Its rights and the public has its
rights, and the press must serve the
public SO there will be newspaper cor
respondents on the train and a whole
battery of Photographic cameras. In
yellowstone park, however, the presi-
dent intends leaving his be-
hind. While the retinue Of reporters,
photographers, stenographers. tele-
graphers, etc, are living on their spe-
cial train at Cinnabar, the president,
with John Burroughs, the naturalist,
and a few guides is to do the Yellow
stone country thoroughly. Just now
the races are on at B%ennlngs, just out
side the corporate linn OF Washing
ton. and one Of the bookmakers says
he will open q pool and lay ever money
THAT the president does do a little
shooting during those sixteen days Of
rambling in the recesses Of the IA
nous game park.
When he goes into the Yosemite the
president will again try to shake" the
lreporters and photographers. John