, 1907-07-30
WILL MEET
PRESIDENT
GOVERNOR BROOKS INVITED TO
JOIN OTHER GOVERNORS AT
ST. LOUIS GATHERING.
Roosevelt to Take Trip Down Missis-
sippi on Specially Chartered
Steamer for Purpose Of Noting
improvements Needed In That
Stream for Shipping Purposes.

Governor Brooks received today the
ensuing letter from the Business Mems
league Of st. Louis, Mo-, bidding his
presence at hat city to join in the
program for the entertainment of the
president Of the United States, who
will be a guest of that city on October
2, says the Cheyenne Tribune. Cover
nor Brooks said this morning that in
all probability he would accept the in
vitation. All the governors Of the
United States have been requested to
take part In the celebrations and many
have already accepted.
The Letter in Full.
Following is an exact copy of the
letter received by Governor Brooks:
st. Louis, Mo-, July 23, 1907.
Hon. Bryant B. Brooks, Cheyenne,
Wyo.
My Dear Sir:-In behalf of the citi-
zens of st. Louis and of the Business
Mems league, which will have charge
of the reception and entertainment of
the president of the United States in
this city or October 2, we beg leave
to extend to you an invitation to join
in the program for the presidents
visit with the other governors of
states who have accepted our invita-
lions.
Going to Canton.
The president will be at Canton, O.,
on September 80, where he will ded-
icate the national monument to e
President Mckinley. He will leave
Canton on the Pennsylvania road on
the same day at 5 p. M. and will reach
Keokuk, Ia, on the morning of Octo-
Der l at 9 a. m. He will deliver an
address at Keokuk and leave there on
the steamer Mississippi, with the mem
bers of the inland waterways COM
mission the same morning at II o'clock
for st. Louis, arriving here OF the
morning Of October 2 at about 8
O'Clock. His program for st. Louis is
as follows:
A committee composed of the visit
ing governors and some of our promi.
nent citizens will meet the president
OF his steamer at 9 o'clock and &C
company him upon either an automo-
bile ride or a carriage drive through
certain portions of the city, the drive
ending at the place where the presi-
dent will deliver his address to a
large mass meeting, which will be held
at about 1890 to IL o'clock.
After he has made his speech, he
will be given a luncheon at the st.
Louis club, at which will be present
the visiting governors, the members
of the inland waterways commission
and a number Of our prominent citi-
zens.
Going to the River.
When the luncheon is over the
guests present will escort the president
to the river, where he will board his
steamer and witness a demonstration
that will be given on the river in his
honor, after which he will get under
way and continue his trip down the
river to Cairo, ILL.,, which place he will
reach on the morning of October 3 at
9 a. m.
After making his speech at Cairo,
he will leave about II a. m. for Mem
phis, which place he will reach at 1
p. m. on October 4.
At Memphis he will deliver an ad-
dress to the deep waterway conven-
ton, which will be held in Memphis
October 4 and 5.
Special Steamer Chartered.
We have chartered the new steam
er City of Alton for the special purpose
of taking the governors who will be
here as our guests down the river from
st. Louis to Memphis, it being our
idea of having this steamer with the
governors on board act as a convoy
for the vessel containing the president
and the members of his commission
from st. Louis to Memphis.
1t is also our great desire to have
all of these governors attend the deep
waterway convention at Memphis and
to have them address the convention
while there. 1t is understood, of
course, that you will be our guest
while in st. Louis, as well as on the
trip to Memphis; and the city Of Mem
phis requests us to invite you to be
their guests during your stay there.
First Time for Any President.
No president of the United States
has ever made a trip such as this down
the Mississippi river, and we believe
that the visit Of the president will call
the attention Of the whole country to
the importance of the improvement of
the Mississippi and its tributaries and
that the results Of his trip will be of
very great benefit to all Of the states
between the Allegheny and the Rocky
as well rs to the entire
country.
Our invitations to state governors to
join in this program, meeting the pres