The Penn's Grove record., 1905-02-24
PRESIDENTS TRIP SOUTH
Plans For Visit to Texas and a Hunt
in Colorado.
Itinerary of Journey So Routine once
Work to Be Carried ON in Special
Cars by Regular Staff.

Washington, d. C.-Secretary Loeb
has almost completed the itinerary for
President Roosevelt's trip to Texas
and the hunt to follow. AS executive
business might delay or advance the
time of starting for two or three days,
the secretary does not intend to make
a formal announcement of the program
until shortly before the actual depart
ure from Washington. The objective
point of the journey to Texas is, of
course, San Antonio, where the re-
union of Rough Riders is to be held.
The President will be with his old com-
rades on March 81, it has been def
nitely decided, so it is fair to say that
this date will be the principal one of
the celebration. In addition to a
speech by the President, the most SEN
sational of the "brOnco busting"
rough riding and shooting events will
be scheduled for that day, in order
that the President may see that his
boys have not lost any of their PROV
ess since the days of San Juan. The
President will probably leave Wash
ington on March %. Taking in Louis
vile, KY, Fort Worth, Dallas, Waco
and Austin, Texas, on the way to San
Antonio, Texas, he will make brief
stops and speeches at the towns men,
toned and after the reunion will visit
Houston, Texas. With Houston the
speechmaking and formal portion of
the Presidents journey will end. In
the next four or five weeks he will at.
tempt to take as nearly a complete
rest from business of state as possible.
After Houston will come the jack rab-
bit hunt, which his Texas friends have
been trying to induce the President to
take for several years. Then will come
the excursion into Colorado, if public
affairs do not prevent, and for about a
month the President and three or -four
friends will be separated from civil
cation while they go into the Rockies
in quest of mountain lions or any other
big game that happens their way.
AS it is impossible for the President
to lose himself" completely for any
length of time, Secretary Loeb will
make arrangements to keep near
enough to find him if imperative need
arises. After the Presidents camp is
chosen, the train in which he travels
to Colorado will be sidetracked twelve
or fifteen miles away. One of the cars
will be fitted with all necessary Office
appliances, such as typeWriters. tele'
graph instruments, files and record
cabinets. A force of stenOgIaphers.
clerks and telegraph operators from
the White House will transact the reg.
ular routine business just as they do
at the capital. 1t may be necessary to
| tap the wires, for there will probably
be no regular telegraph Office within
la score of miles of the place where
the Presidents train rests. A post.
office, to continue in existence only
while the secretary and his force are
~transacting White House business at
the sidetrack, may also have to be es'
t~abliShed. If this becomes necessary an
employee of the Postoffice Department
in the person of some inspector who
happens to be in the neighborhood at
the time will probably be pressed into
service to act as postmaster of Loeb.
VILE" He will sell stamps, money
orders, postal cards. and stamped ell.
velopes, register letters and packages
and perform all the duties Of a post.
master while he is there. He will be
required to make reports to the de.
partment at Washington, and all his
communications will go through the
regular channels. When the Presi
dents train leaves the sidetrack after
the hunt the post office of "Loebville"
will be only a memory.
If public business does not require
the Presidents presence in Washing.
ton at an EARLIER date, he will prob.
ably return from the West about the
middle of May and remain there until
about June 20, when he expects to &c
to Oyster Bay, L. I.