The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-23
TOUR WILL BE
 SPECTACULAR Great Preparations for Roosevelt's Trip. PROGRAM ABOUT ARRANGED President Will Make Many Speech
 es In South. After Leaving Memphis the President wEn Go Into Camp in the wiids
 of Western Lou- isiRna.
PROGRAM ABOUT ARRANGED

Washington. Sept. 22.-while thes preparations for President Roosevelts 1 trip has not been completed, the pro- | gram has been sufficiently arranged to make it certain that the tour will be one of the most spectacular ever taken by him. He will leave week from today and will be absent from the seat of government until October 2s or 24.
 The trip has three distinctive ob- jects: The dedication of the McKin- ley mausoleum at Canton, Ohio; the inspection of the Mississippi River with | view to arousing interest in ship | channel from Keokuk, Ia., to the great lakes, and the securing of period of recreation for the chief executive be- fore the beginning of the duties Of the winter.
 Incidentally there will be some | speeches to the return journey which | will deal with current issues. | The stay at Canton on Monday, the | 30th, will be. only a little more than sufficient duration to permit the Pres l fdent to pay his tribute to the mem- ory of his immediate predecessor but he will there meet viee-President Fair banks and a number of other people of note and will make a long speech He will then proceed to Keokuk. where October he will be given a notable public reception, deliver an address and begin his journey by boat down the father of waters, said to be, with the exception of short voyage by President Pierce the first trip on the river ever made by & President.
 At. Keokuk, the presidential party will be met by the Governors of twen- ty-tbree States, interested in a pro- feet looking to the deepening of the l oh nf ha nf nd eral improvement of navigation and these will constitute his guests of honor to Memphis, where the party will arrive October 4. There will be two important stops on the voyage, at St. Louis on the End, at Cairo the
 3rd, and at both points speeches bear ing upon the country's future will be | delivered by the President.
 Reports from all points at which the stops are to be, made indicate that the party will be entertained on law ish scale throughout, At Keokuk there
 will Do a water pageant and many citizens will convoy the President down the river in crafts of all sorts for . twenty or thirty miles, and a number of them will accompany him all the way to Memphis. At Memphis the President will find the deep waterways ! convention in session and he will de- ! liver a speech.
 [ Then the President will turn his :, back on civilization for a period of 8 rest and sport in the wilds of North r ern Louisiana. This part of the pro- ! gram has been arranged largely by l Civil Service Commissioner McIlhenuy, ? A | ouisiana sportsman of good record {; He hunted many times oyer the ground { and has recommended the place select cd as being well stocked with game q both large and small and sufficiently e secluded to prevent interruptions. s The President will be accompanied 0 to the border of this game sectior by a = staff from the executive office, headod by Assistant Secretary LAtta and able representatives of the press, but they e will not accompany the hunters on e their quest A miniature White House will re es- d tablished at a convenient place, and MT. s Lafta will keep his chief informed os q important developments in affairs oF
 States. The exact location of @tha a hunting camp will not be announced a until 1t is established. The camp life . will be shared by MT. McIlhenny, Dr. !. Rixey. and few intimate friends and , they will have the services of focal 7 guides . The party will be in camp from the N 5th to the s1st. Returning, the Presi- - dent will speak at Vicksburg and at U the Hermitage near Nashville. At - the latter place, he will pay his respects
 to the memory of President Jackson. 
 :. Vacation Ends.
 o Oyster Bay. N r.. Sept. 22.-Presi- . dent Roosevelts summer vacation at II his Sagamore Hill home will end at 10 e a. m. Wednesday, when he, with other II members of the family and the execu- u tive staff. will take a special train for = Washington.
 = During the three and half months '1t the President has occupied the home ' stead he has had the quietest. and. al
 the same time the busiest vacation he = has indulged in since he became ar - occupant of the White House. The
 records show that since June i2 the
 President has received 125 persons al
 SaEamore HiI1. Some of the callers
 have been distinguished foreigners, anC
 a few have made purely social calls
 but the majority of them have beer
 Government officials or strictly gov
 ernmental business. White the visit
 ors have been comparatively few tn
 work which the President has accom-
 pIished in other directions has beer
 great His annual message to Con
 gress is practically completed.
 The document needs only finishing
 touches, and but few of these. In ad
 dition to writing his annual message
 the President has prepared sevoNa
 comprehensive speeches. One of thes
 was delivered at Provincetown. Mass
 recently. and the others will be mad
 during the Western-Southern triI
 which is to be begun immediately O
 his return to Washington.