The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-23
President Roosevelt Will Leave
Oyster Bay Wednesday.
Has Done Much Work While
He Was Resting.
WILL TAKE THE ROAD.
Tour of the West Is to Begin
Next Sunday.
Expects to Be Gone From the
Capital a Month.

Oyster Bay, Sept. 23-President
Roosevelt's summer. vacation at his
Sycamore Hill home will end at 10 a.
M Wednesday, when he with Mrs.
| Roosevelt, members of the family, and
the executive STAFF, will take a special
train for Washington.
During the three and half months
the president has occupied the home
stead, he has had the quietest and at
the same time the busiest vacation he
has INDUCED in since he became an
occupant of the White House. The
records show that since June II the
president has received 125 persons at
Sycamore Hfl. Some of the callers
have been distinguished foreigners, and
a few have MADE purely social calls,
but the majority have been officials on
strictly governmental business.
While visitors have been compara-
lively few, the work which the press-
dent has accomplished in other direc-
tions has been great. His annual mes
sage to congress is practically compile.
ted. The. document needs only finish
ing touches, and but few of these. In
addition to writing the message, the
president has prepared several COM
prehensive, speeches. One of these was
delivered at Provincetown, Mass re-
Gently, and the others will be made
during the western-southern trip which
Is 10 De Deguh Immediately on his re-
turn TO Washington.
The special train equipment by which
/ the president will travel from. Wash
ington to Keokut. Ia. will be taken
nesday. and will be occupied by the
president and party returning from
Oyster Bay at that time.
At Mckinley MausoIeum.
Washington, Sept. 23.-While the pre-
paration for President Rooseveit's
r 10 1nf
the programme has been sufficiently ar
ranged to make it certain that the tour
will be one of the most spectacular
ever undertaken by him. He will leave
from the seat of government until the
2Sd or 24tb of October.
The trip has three distinctive objects:
The dedication of the Mckinley
mausoleum at Canton, o., the inspec-
ton of the Mississippi river, with q
view to arousing interest in a ship
channel from its mouth to Keokuk. Ia.
and the Great lakes, and the securing
of period of recreation for the chief
executive before the beginning of the
duties of the winter. Incidentally there
VIII be some speeches on the. return
journey which will deal with current
issues.
The stay at Canton on Monday. oc-
tober 80 wilIabe of only little more
than sufficient dura ton to permit the
president to pay his tribute to the
memory of his immediate predecessor.
but he will there meet Vice President
Fairbanks and number of other peo-
pie of note. and will make a long
speech.
The Memphis Convention.
He will then proceed direct to
Keokuk, where Tuesday, the first OF
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 a president
At Keokuk, the presidential party
will be met by the governors of twen-
ty-three states, all interested In all
projects looking to the deepening OF
the channel of the Mississippi. and the
cation, and these, on. another boat
than that on which the president will
travel. will constitute his guard OF
honor to Memphis, where the party
will arrive October 4.
There will be two important stops
on the voyage. at st. Louis October 2.
and at Cairo. ILL.,, October 3. and at
both points speeches bearing upon
by the president.
Reports from all points at which
stops are to be made indicate that the
party will be entertained on a lavish
scale throughout. At Keokuk there
Will be a water pageant, and many
citizens Will convoy the president
down the river in crafts of all sizes
for twenty or thirty miles and num-
Der of them will accompany him all
the way to Memphis. At Memphis
the president will find the deep water
ways convention in session, and he
will deliver a speech.
In the Cane Brakes.
Then the president will turn his
back on civilization for a period of
rest and sport in the wilds of North
ern Louisiana. This part of the pro-
gram has been arranged largely by
Civil Service Commissioner McIIhen- O
ny, a Louisiana sporting man OF good
record. He has hunted many times
over the ground and has recommend
ed the place in terms of praise as be-
ing well stocked with game, both
large and small, and sufficiently Sc
cluded to prevent intrusion.
The president will be accompanied
to the border of this game section by a
staff from the executive office, headed
by Assistant Secretary Latta and also
by representatives of the press asso-
Citations but they will not accompany
the hunters on their quest. A minia-
ture White House will be established
at convenient place, and Mr.. Latta
will keep his chief informed of impor-
tant developments in affairs OF state
The exact location of the hunting
camp will not be announced until IL
is established The camp life will be
shared by Mr.. McIlhenny. DR.. Rixey
and a few other intimate friends, and
they Will have the services OF local
guides
The party will be in camp from
October to FL Returning the pres
ident will speak at Vicksburg and at
the Hermitage, near Nashville. At .