The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-23
PLANS COMPLETE
FOR TEDDY'S TRIP
feSident to Sail Down the
Mississippi From KeOkuk
to Memphis.
SPEECHES ON PROGRAM
WILL END VACATION WITH A
HUNT IN LOUISIANA.

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y OYSTER Bay. Sept 2.-President
/ RooseVelts summer vacation at mis-
\ Sycamore Hill home viii end at 10 =
4 m Wednesday when he. with =
y Mrs. Roosevelt. members of the fam
\ fly and the executive staff, VIII take =
y a special train for Washington
= During the three and a half months :
\ the president has occupied the home =
= stead he has had the QuieteSt and y
y at the same time the busiest vaca-
y ton he has INDUCED in since he be- =
y came an occupant or the mite =
y House. The records show that since y
y June 70 the president has received y
y 125 persons at Sycamore Hill. Some =
= of the callers have been distinguished =
y foreigners and few have made y
y purely social calls, but the majority y
y of them have been officials on strict =
y ly government business. While Wis y
y itOrs have been comparatively few, Z
y the work which the president has =
y accomplished in other directions has =
y been great. His annual message TO Y
congress is practically completed =
Z The document needs only finishing =
y touches and but few of them. =
y The special train equipment by y
+ which the president will travel from =
y Washington to KeOkuk, Iowa, will be y
= taken from Jersey city to Wash y
y ingtOn Wednesday and will be Oc- y
= cupied by the president and party y
= returning from Oyster Bay at that =
y time. 4
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Washington. Sept 22-While the prep
aratiOns for President ROOsevelt's west
ern trip have not been completed, the
program has been sufficiently arranged
TO make it certain that the tour viii
be one of the most spectacular ever un-
dertaken by him. He will leave here
a week from today and will be absent
from the seat of government until the
I'D or oath of October. The trip has
three distinctive objects: The dedication
of the Mckinley mausoleum at Canton,
o. the inspection OF the Mississippi
river with a view of arousing interest
In the ship channel from its mouth to
Keokuk, Ia, and the Great Lakes, and
the securing of a period of recreation Tor
the chief executive before the beginning
of the duties of the winter.
incidentally there viii be some speech
es On the return journey, which will deal
with current issues. The stay at Can
ton, on Monday, the 30th, will be of only
little more than sufficient duration than
to permit the president to pay his tribute
to the memory of his immediate prede-
cessor, but he there will meet Vice Pres
ident Fairbanks and other people Of
note and viii make a long speech. He
will then proceed direct to KeOkuk,
where on Tuesday the first of October
he will be given q notable public re-
ception, deliver an address and begin
OF Waters, said to be, with the exceD-
ton Of a 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 twenty-three states, all in
terested in all projects looking TO the
deepening of the channel of the Missis-
sippi and the general Improvement OF
inland navigation, and these, on another
boat than that on which the president
will travel, viii constitute his guard of
snunOr to Memphis, where the party will
arrive on Oct. 1. There will be two i'm
pOrtant stops on the voyage, at St. Louis
on the second of October and at Cairo
H., on the third, and at both points
speeches bearing upon the country will
be delivered by the president. Reports
at all points at which stops are to be
made indicate that the party will be en-
tertained on a lavish scale throughout
At keOkUk there viii be a water pageant
and many citizens will convoy the pres
ideEt down the river. in crafts of all
sizes, for twenty or thirty miles, and a
number of them viii accompany him all
the way TO Memphis. At Memphis the
president viii find the deep waterways
convention in session and he will deliver
d speech.
The president Will then turn his back
on civilization for a period of rest and
sport il the wilds in the northern part
Of Louisiana This part of the program
has been arranged largely by Civil SerV-
ice Commissioner McIlhenny, d Louisiana
sportsman OF good record. who has hunt
ed many times over the ground and has
recommended the place in terms of praise
as being well stocked with game both
large and small. and sufficiently secluded
TO prevent intrusion.
The president Will be accompanied 10
the border of this game section by a staff
from the executive office hereby As.
sistant Secretary Latta and also bv rep-
Tesentatives of the press associations. b1t
they will not accompany the hunters on
their quest A miniature White House
will be established at a convenient place
ana Mr. Latta will keep his chief in
formed of important developments in af-
fairs of state. The exact location of the
hunting camp Will not be announced nm
til it is established. The camp life will
be shared by. Mr.. McIlhenny, by DIT.
Rixey and few other intimate friends.
and they VIII have the services of To-
cal guides. The party viii be in canp
from the fifth to the twenty-first of Oc-
tober- Returning, the president will
speak at Nicksburg, and at Hermitage
near Nashville At the latter place ne
will pay his respects to the memory of
President Jackson