Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-09-25
PRESIDENTS
VACATION ENDS
Left Oyster Bay
Today For Wash
ington
TOUR BEGINS SUNDAY
Indications are 7 hat Coming
Journey Will Be Memoir
able One.

Oyster Bay, N. Y, Sept, 25.-Pres.
ident Roosevelt started for Washing.
ton at 10 o'clock this morning, ending
his summer vacation which began
Sunday. Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss
Ethel and Quentin, accompanied
the president to the National Capital
The leave taking at Oyster Bay was
a typical one. Villagers gathered at
the station and many shook hands
with the President. He heartily ex.
pressed his pleasure at seeing his
neighbors at the station to bid him
goodbye.
Leaves For West On Sunday.
Washington, D. c., Sept, 25.--
While the preparations for President
Roosevet's western trip have not
been completed, the programme has
been sufficiently arranged to make it
certain that the tour will be one of
the most spectacular ever undertaken
by him. He will leave here next
Sunday, and will be absent from the
seat of government until the 23rd or
Gath of October
The trip has three distinctive OBJ
jects:
The dedication of the Mckinley
mausoleum at Canton, Ohio. the in.
spection of the Mississippi river. with
a view to arousing interest in ship
channel from its mouth to Keol1uk,
Iowa, and the Great lakes, and the
securing Of period of recreation for
the chief executive before the begin
ming of the duties of the winter. In
cidentally there will be some speech
es on the return journey which will
deal with current issues.
The stay at Canton on Monday. Oc.
tober 30, will be of only little more
than sufficient duration to permit the
president to pay his tribute to the
memory of his immediate predecess-
or. but he will there meet Vice Presi-
dent Fairbanks and a number of 9TH
err people of note and will make a
long speech
The Memphis Convention.
He will then proceed direct to Keo-
kuk, where Tuesday. the first of Oc-
tober, he will be given a notable pub
lie 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-three states and territories
all interested in all projects
looking to the deeping of the
channel of the Mississippi, and
the general improvement of inland
navigation, and these, on another
boat than that on which the president
will travel, will constitute his guard
of honor to Memphis, where the par
ty will arrive on October 4.
There will be two important stops
on the voyage, at st. Louis, October
2, and at Carlo Illinois. October 3,
and at both points speeches bearing
upon the country's future will be de-
livered by the president
Reports from all points at which
stops are to be made indicate that
the party will be entertained on law
lsh scale throughout. At Keokuk
there will be water pageant, and
many citizens will convoy the Pres
ident down the river in crafts of all
sizes for twenty or thirty miles and
number Of them will accompany
him all the way to Memphis. At
Memphis the President will find a
deep waterways convention in ses-
sion, and he will deliver speech.
In the Cane Brakes.
Then the President will turn his
back on civilization for period of
rest and sport in the wilds of north
ern Louisiana. This part of the pro-
gramme has been arranged largely by
Civil Service Commissioner McIlhen
ny, 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
staff from the executive office, head
ed by Assistant Secretary Latta and
also by representatives of the press
associations, but they will not ac-
company the hunters on their quest.
A miniature White House will be es-
tablished at a convenient place, and
Mr.. Latta will keep his chief inform
ed of important developments in af-
fairs of state.
The exact location Of the hunting