The Washington times., 1905-04-01
Will Visit the Rockies
in Search of Big
Game.
A MOUNTAINOUS TRAIL
Rough Riders Reunion at
San Antonio to Be a
Feature.

President Roosevelt spent today clear
! ing OF his desk and getting ready to
start on his Southwestern hunting trip.
His special train will leave Washington
at O'Clock Monday morning, and it is
| understood that it will not return with
| It's distinguished party aboard until
about the 9th or 18th of May.
The President will be accompanied
on the trip by Secretary Loeb, AS
sistant Secretary Barnes; his young
cousin, Lieutenant Fortesque: his old
friend and family physician, DR.. LAM
bert; Stenographers McGrew and Latta,
OF the White House force; J G. G..
Thompson, Jackson Elliott, and John e.
Monk. representing the Publishers Press
and Scripps McRae, Associated Press,
and Sun Press Associations, respective
ly, and two or three messengers from
the White House force, who will be
taken along to care for the baggage and
make themselves generally useful.
Secretary of the Navy Morton. who
was to accompany the President on his
western trip, has been obliged to cancel
his arrangements. He is suffering from
an abcess IN his ear. The case is not
serious.
VIII nave 1nree Cars.
The Presidents special will consist of
three ca-s-a private coach, Pullman
sleeper. and a combination buffet and
baggage car. The route from Washing
ton will lead through Louisville. st.
Louis, down through the Indian Terri
tory and Oklahoma TO Texas. and from
the Lone Star state up into the Rockies
OF Colorado.
The chief spectacular event OF the trip
VIII be the Rough Rider reunion at San
Antonio. which is scheduled to take
| place on April Z, but the President will
make speeches, long or short, at al
most every pausing place. He viii be
rendered reception at Louisville, and
viii make an address of some length to
the citizens OF the city, and will deliver
important speeches at Dallas, Austin.
and San Antonio.
After the Rough Rider festivities are
over at San Antonio, the President will
go on a hunting trip lasting four or five
days in Oklahoma While he is beating
the cane brakes for hear, peccaries,
wolves, and other ''varmints," it is
planned for the rest of the party to re-
main at Fort Worth, Texas
Accompanied by Friends.
On the hunt the President will be ac-
| companed by a few trusted friends.
among them being Sherman Bell, adju-
tant general of Colorado; Phil Stewart,
OF Colorado Springs, who is to be his
companion in the Rockies, and one or
two of the Rough Riders
Thence the President will proceed on
his journey to Colorado. and viii reach
his mir 11l1 yTS,,
exact place where the President will
last be heard from has not yet been
divulged by Secretary Loeb, but it is
said to be near Glenwood Sprir gs From
the 18th of April until the oath or 18th of
May, the public viii hear very little of
the Presidents maneuvers Secretary
Loeb will probably see him once or twice
week, in order to get his signature TO
important documents, but, unless the
! matter is of the utmost urgency, the
President will not be bothered with any
official business.
Mr.. Loeb and his little office force will
have their headquarters either on the
train or at some little country hotel,
| and there will transact the ordinary
routine work of the White House.
Only Important Papers.
Assistant Secretary Rudolph Forster,
who viii be in charge Of the clerical
force in Washington. will be able 10
dispose of the greatel- portion CT the Of
flee correspondence and will send to Mr..
Loeb only such matters as require his
er the Presidents personal attention
! The main object of the Presidents
| trip West, outside of his attendance
upon the reunion cf his old regiment. is
to secure Il much needed rest, to drink
! il. all the fresh air he can, and 10 take
| off weight. Although he has not told
anyone how much he now weighs. II is
believed that he would tip the scales ar
about go.
He expects to get a few bears and
/ mountain lions on his Colorado hunt.
/ but is making no predictions. He re-
members only too well how his last bear
t hunt panned out-the trIr 70 SifeeieS.
Miss, where he hunted for five days IN