Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-30

sAS bicoeSSS uiAiSullico III tuc way OI
 digging the canal. He will inspect tho
 hotel, the barracks, the machine shops,
 the railroad, the steam shovels and the
 other equipment used in the work and
 will watch the work of digging the dirt
 and loading it on the cars.
 In the evening the party will return
 to Ancon, and early Saturday morn
 ing special train will take the pres
 ident to Gatun, where there is to be
 q great dam. The president will in
 vestigate conditions at Gatun, looking
 over the site of the dam and the locks
 From Gatun the president will go to
 Cristobal by train, steam launch or
 native "casco." Chairman Shonts and
 Chief Engineer Stevens, who will ac-
 company the president, will explain
 the situation on the lower Chagres and the old French canal at that point. The party may also visit the old town at the mouth of the Chagres river, whence the party will go to Cristobal in tug or launch. During the after noon an inspection will be made of Cristobal, including the present and proposed terminals of the railroad and canal and of the hospitals of Colon.
 Saturday evening, Nov. 17, there will be reception and ball on pier II in Cristobal in honor of President and Mrs. Roosevelt, given by the em- ployees of the isthmian canal commis- sion. At this function the president will deliver an address Sunday will be quiet day for the president, and in the evening the party will board the Louisiana and start for San Juan, Porto Rico.
 The ship will reach San Juan Nov. p, and the president will remain there twenty-four hours. He will be enter tained by Governor Winthrop. The president will employ all his time there in making himself familiar with the conditions existing in Uncle Sam's possession in the West Indies.
 The party will leave San Juan Nov. g, and the president, on the big bat tleship, will be conveyed to Wolf Trap light and transferred to the Dolphin. He will come up the Potomac river on this little craft and reach Washington Nov. 2, in time to eat Thanksgiving dinner at the White House.
 President Roosevelt's trip will be made in regal style. as the battleship Louisiana is the most magnificent of the splendid modern fighting machines of the American navy. A beautiful suit of rooms on the vessel will be prepared for the use of the president and Mrs. Roosevelt. The ship has been locked and overhauled, notwithstand- Ing that she is new and has been in only few months.
 Three of the most spacious cabins | will be fitted up especially for the | president and Mrs. Roosevelt. while another will be at the disposal of Sur 1 geon General Rixey. President Roose- velt did not wish any expense incurred | In fitting the Louisiana for the Panama | trip, but the secretary of the navy de- ! ,ldcd that no expense should be spared n refreshing the decorative work of he cabins and making every provision Tor the comfort of the president and Mrs. Roosevelt.
 Extreme precautions will be taken to protect the president and Mrs. Roose- 1elt from exposure to yellow fever while n Panama. There have been no cases of yellow fever on the isthmus since last and there is little danger of Infection. The headquarters of the ,arty will be at the Hotel Tivoli. and will be completely inclosed in mos lulto netting so as to prevent mosqui- oes. which spread the yellow fever ,erm. from stlnging the president or he members of his party.