The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1903-05-08

| church after the morning services
about 500 people surrounded the church
door. aGoshr' he exclaimed, saint
this big crowd
And it was for that place. It repre-
sented half the people Of Wallace county
gathered into small compass.
In the afternoon the president took
his horseback ride. At three O'Clock,
accompanied by Dr. Nicholas Murray
Butler, Of Columbia, Surgeon General
Rixey, and Senators Long and Burton,
he rode of over the prairies to the north.
He wore a riding suit and SLOUGH hat. A
thousand people crowded around the
ropes surrounding the train to see the
start. There was nothing fancy about
any Of the mOunts-they were simply
good, substantial COW ponies with ordi-
nary cowboy saddles. The horse intend
decked out with ribbons and paper sun
flowers, and the saddle vas decorated
with bunting. But the president would
have nothing Of the kind. The decora
tions had to come of before he mounted.
When the party had ridden about six
miles, DR.. Butler and the two senators
dropped out and came back, but the
president and DR.. Rixey went nine miles
farther. They returned to the train at
six o'clock, having ridden 80 miles in
three hours AS they came down the
slope the president led in brisk canter,
riding his horse with the ease Of any
cowboy and as fresh as when he started.
The train IN which the president trav-
els is Pullman equipment throughout,
furnished by the Pennsylvania Railroad
company but is paid for by the president
The president Of the United States is one
official who does not ride on pass. The
train is IN charge Of John T. Mccoy, a
Pennsylvania railroad official, whose
speciality is transcontinentaI 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 .
Pullman baggage car. The next, the At
iantic, the buffet car, is the finest ever
built. 1t was one Of the Pullman exhib-
it at the Chicago worlds fair and the in
terror Is all hand carved. At the close
Of the Charleston exposition it was being
taken south to bring the liberty bell
back to Philadelphia from the exposi-
ton when the engine blew up blowing
every scrap Of iron out from under the
Atlantic. but leaving the interior with
out serious damage.
The dining car, the "Gilsey," is In
charge OF E. J. Martin, a steward who
has travelled with Mr.. Roosevelt IN
charge of the cOmmisary 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, to-
gether, with the secret service men and
the minor attaches Of the presidents
party, use the diner and the Atlantic
almost exclusively also. The fifth car is
the @Texas," a compartment car Occu-
pied by the stenOgraphers, the secret
service and the presidents's guests, Dr.
Rixey and DR.. Butler. Secretary Root
and Senators Burton and Long also &C.
cupied this car at night when they we're
on the presidential train.
The last car is the presidents private
car, in which he remains almost entirely
while he is travelling. There he eats
sleeps and works. He is continually re
ceiviDg kilograms, he has hisstenOgraph
ers with him, and going through Kansas
Assistant Secretary Barnes was with hin
most Of the time.