The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-24
PRESIDENT. |
visit PANAMA. n
Viii | Make Personal IN y
g GCtio'nso i 81 !. Of J Work NJ on. N
Canal.
II IF SHONTS. AND
OTHERS >: |. {; & WILL I GO. 70
s \
j Roosevelt Will Make Thorough 7
Study Of Conditions, and
Gather 1nforlnation#f for
Benefit Of Congress.
H May Leave. iii
l.5;s O October.
u SAsu,socia ted Press,

(yys sAssoclat ted Press.) S9$
" WASHINGTON. /. & II June " President
Roosevelt will visit the thrnls Of Pan. ~
/ ANA to make q personal invest iga ton 4Of
Il the work Of construction Of the Panama
Canal. This announcement vas made q q
u the White House late this afternoon by
8 Secretary Loeb, after a conference i Win
1 the President = rs ex pectcd the Prs 81 ~; t-t
dent will leave Washing ton for Pana ma
II the latter part OF next #Oc tober Or In the
& enrly days OF November. He will .bf aA,-s
+ sent about three weeks. The trip pr p
% ably will te made on one Of the blg
cruisers OF the navy. but $,vnat vessel e'te
Will carry the Presid ant and his party y Us Is
II not yet known n 3a
s5ga None OF the details OF the trip, yet ha q
Z Been worked out. Beyond the bare q e 'e.I.f a
cision to make the trlp,s@the President
has N reached practically 4 no f conc clusioi,s 81.
IN 8is likely fa w Ill be accompanied Oh the
tourney by Eecretary ~ Tai y and Chairman N
i shonts. OF the Panama Y Canal Com't'll 9 s 4
sion, but even u this has not been deter i
s. mined dcnnitelygs$ The President long
has desired TO 6inspect I the route q e the
N canal and D 10 make himself personally;
familiar With the great undertaking ~ n o.! o.
d constructing The va er~,a y 3iSi
5S5s3s8 Will Study G Conditions. M
ssS2 rhe : decision. announced S to-day that
he would visit the Anle rican zone IA cross;
4 81 q thnus wa not re eached hast h,ir:
Y Has beer under consld eratl Ion for al con-
siderable b tme 1 t. is the ii xpec q ton
ti1atgthe President will Sbe nbe; 70 spend =
n at leastsa week on the ca nal zone .la nd, i
S In that time he Will fanlIliariz himself
"a with the alton & by s tut & " g Z
close range He8hel lieyes al pc rsonal visit
Nj 10 the canal zone AZ vii enable him aSto
IA the Information that III be $of iir,..s
IL nenses ad dyantag ut he cana !:
q work itseli. BUT .opg id toS The
GA American " people. Y3 Al,oye$ a. !, MI
I'm u Il ,t
NJ prob en,s 5 which CONSTANT VIII he ris+:
inrE "a come ctt OH WI til ~ tile norh of
n "a nal n construction and adm nistra ton SS
Ii con nnection WI til the anno cement
VI Of the Presldent's 81 Einten ton isit
d Panama 4, secretary ,oeb b said the Pres;
sident had decided n OF to yistt San Fra J;
Y disco mex q autumn to par rticipa tes in the
ceremonies Incident TO the laying Sof,.tl,e
u cornerstone OF the ne w Fed deral building
;S3T he people OF San F cisco5 and OF Cal;
sBifornia general ly, were very anxious "a t
81 he should be In San Francisco at thnt
" time. While the President, II can 4 be
said, desires Ito I'd o anything he properly.
can to promote tic reconstruction Of the
city, so nearly des troyed i by earthquake
and sconflagra tion, he cannot mak II the
,Etripsf to Panama and tha { to San Fran !
\ cisco, too, X a the two trips nee essar!ly'
would fall about the same tinie. Il
Aband ons w estern Trip.
For several weeks the President has
X been L considering the matterso Of making
y 4 q trlp next spring through tho 4 Middle.
tn la
Michigan, Illinois, Missouri Oklahoma
, and ps other States. He had hoped
tD make the trip In order to oEattend the
commencement exercises OF some a gri-
cultural colleges and State Institutions
since the announcement of the \ keli-s
/ hood OF his taking the trip such n mass
#of Invitations has h been received from
almost every state In the Union that the
8 President finally has decided not to ma ke
the trip at all. Il It becnme evident that
5$lf$ he should accept one tenth OF the in-5
$yftatIons he has received the trip would,
Occupy two or three months. IL The prob
&abilitysl Is that he ~ III 4 go next Maysfto
Lansing, !; MichD,@ to attend the senii-cen- Y
Stennial celebration OF the blishments
S pf agricultural colleges in this country. s,
There ha Will meet many Of the promi-i
Z nent educators Of he country, The trip
will q be i, brief, ), III occupylng proba bly, not
e more than four nj q 4 We days. II u
American Gets Contract.
n The 1sthmian Canal Commission to- day
awarded the contract t for the two see
eotng suction h dredses to the Maryland
Steel Company, OF Baltimore, 5Sthc s oN-
est American bidder, al their bid OF 1852 2.-
900 each. s3
& The lowest bidder was William simon
OF Scotland, & hut the award to the Bal IL,
more concern was made by u sraeson Of
the recent act OF Congress- that all pur-
chaseg for the lsth4nang Canal should
i. be confined to products OF the Uni tnd
States except where 1T n was shown that
American bids we're unreasonable and
4 extortionate. the onnces OF the Canal
4 Commission u t wa. sta ted that the bid
ne the Baltimore coneerni was not ,ln-
a 8reasonab bic ana extortionate, ans. there
4 fore the contract was given TO them
AZ meeting OF the directors Of tiet
v Panama Railway wi be held ins ~ y
york June 2sth, prepara tory TO the de-
parture of the Isthmian Canal Commits
sion for the canal zone on tie following
4 day, Chairman soonts and all the mem.
& bers Of the commission have connie ted
arrangements to SAT for the lsthn'us q
the steamer Panama, and will remain
lnEthe canal zone until they have work ed
nut complete plans for tile construct ct!on
of the lock canal .i3s "a 81 sl FL,