Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-04-04
PRESIDENT STARTS
ON SOUTHERN TRIP
Leaves National Capital Amid
Cheers and Good Wishes.
WILL BE ABSENT TWO MONTHS
Party Is Travelling in Magnificent Spe.
ciaI Train-Frst Important Stop at
LouisviIle-Attend Reunion of the

Party Is travelling IN Ma9nfHCent ope'
caI Train-First Important Stop at
LouisviIIe-Attend Reunion of the
Rough Riders.
Washington, April 3.-With cheers
and good wishes resounding at the
Pennsylvania station the president,
at sos a. M, today on a special train
started on a trip through the south.
Among those at the station were
many friends of the president, includ
ing Postmaster General Cortelyou and
Secretary Metcalf, of the department
of commerce and labor. The special
train, which is one of the finest the
Pennsylvania railroad has sent out
of Washington, consists of three cars
the presidents private car, Rocket,
the Pullman sleeper Forest and the
combination baggage and buffet car
Viceroy. Attached to the train to be
run as far as Baltimore as a buffer
was day coach The train is hano
somely fitted and contains every
known appliance to insure the comfort
and safety of the passengers. The
train was scheduled to leave at 8
o'clock, but is was a minute after that
hour when the president arrived at the
station. He had been delayed at the
White House for few minutes sign
ing some important papers. Even after
he entered his car some papers were
handed to him for his signature. 1t
was just five minutes after the sched
uled time of departure when the train
drew out of the station. IN the par
ty besides the president was Secre-
tary William Loeb, Jr., J. L. Young
DR.. and Mrs. Lambert, Lieutenant G.
B. Fortescue, one of the presidents
aides; M. C. Latta and J. L. McGrew
stenographers to the president, Fl. A.
Strohmer, photographer and repre-.
sentatives of the Newspaper associa-
tions.
The trip is being made primarily to
enable the president to attend the re.
union of his old regiment, The Rough
Riders" which is to be held at San
Antonio, Tex, next Friday, and to
hunt big game in Oklahoma and Colo.
rado.
incidentally, the president will de.
liver notable addresses at several
places en- route. His first important
stop will be at Louisville, KY, to.
morrow morning, where he will be the
guest of the city for three hours. He
will go from Louisville directdly to
St. Louis, and thence via the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railroad, to San Aa.
tonic, stopping at several places on
the way, among them Sherman and
Dallas, Tex.
After leaving San Antonio the presi.
dent will go to Oklahoma for a wolf
hunt and proceed thence to Colorado
to hunt big game in the mountains.
Unless it should be necessary on ac-
count of unforeseen circumstances to
curtail the trip the president will be
absent from Washington about two
months. Definite plans for the trip
after he shall leave Oklahoma have
not been made, the purpose of the pres.
ident being to adjust his plans to the
conditions as they may exist at the
time. While he expects to be in the.
wilds of Colorado for a considerable
time, he will keep in constant touch
by means of courfers to the nearest
telegraph station with Washington,
and thus will be enabled to attend to
such important business as NAV be
demanded by his personal attention.
DR.. Lambert, who accompanies the
PRESIDENT, was his physician in New
York, and has hunted throughout the
country which the president will short.
ly visit.