Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-22
President to Sail on DeutSche
OSt-Afrika Line.
ROUTE FROM HER SECRET
Not to Announce Steamer by
Which He Leaves America.
PLANS MADE IN WASHINGTON
Prinzessin Takes Party From Naples
via Suez, Is Observation-Disclosures
ure After Inauguration.

NEW YORK August c2.-Agents of the
Union Castle line of steamers that run
from Southampton. England. to South
Africa, were informed yesterday that
President Roosevelt and his party would
not travel on the cOmpanyS steamers
when he goes on his big-game hunting
trip next March.
The whole of the arrangements have
been made at Washington, but the route
from the United States to join the African
steamer will not be made public until the
last moment. as it is the desire of the
President not to have the time and place
of his departure doomed from the Atlantic
to the Pacific for the next six months.
1t was stated on good authority yes
terday that arrangements had been made
for the accommodation of President
Roosevelt on the Deutsche Ost-Afrika
line of mail steamers, which sail from
Hamburg every three weeks. east and
west. and make a voyage clear around
the continent of Africa.
Routes of Steamers.
The western route goes via Las Palmas
German Southwest Africa. Cape Town,
Durham. Delagoa Bay, Zanzibar, Mombasa.
Alden, and back via the Red Sea- Suez.
Port Said and Naples to Hamburg. The
eastern route goes in the reverse direc-
tiol. and makes the voyage from Naples
to MombaSa via the Suez canal and Alden
in seventeen or eighteen days, about half
the time occupied going from Las Palmas
on the western route.
1t is expected that the party will travel
either by the steamship Prinzessin or the
Admiral from Naples to Mombasa, via
Suez. as they are new 6OO0-tOn twin-screw
steel vessels. fitted with the latest i'm
provements for voyaging through the
tropics. and have an average speed of
fourteen knots. These steamships have
plenty Of sheltered deck space amidships
for the hot weather, electric fans in every
cabin, and luxurious suites on the prom
enade deck. with bath and dressing rooms
attached. The saloons, which are finished
with German marble are very lofty and
fitted with extra large electric fans over
the tables for use in the Red sea and on
are equipped with telephones and ward
robes.
On Prinzessin From Naples.
They call at Naples every three weeks.
and it is understood that President Roose-
welt will travel by the Prinzessin, sailing
from that port March 16 or II. In order
to catch this steamer he would have to
sail from New York Saturday. March g.
by the American line. which would land
him at Cherbourg March 13. where he
could have sleeping car from the Wag-
ons-Lits Company attached to the boat
train to take him and his party right
through to Naples in forty-eight hours,
arriving snn, the evening of the 18th and
embarking the next day on the German
liner.
1t was said yesterday that if the Maure-
tania or Lusitania was sailing on the 9Th
of March the President might go by the
Cunard line and arrive in London Fri
day. March II. in time to catch the
peninsular and oriental sleeping car train
for Brfndisi, which leaves at pm. and
arrives Sunday night, March IA.
At Brindisi the train connects with the
twenty -three-knot mail steamers Isis or
Osiris for Port Said, where the President
would arrive with three days to spare which
would enable him to run up to Cairo or
the Pyramids and get back before the
German East African steamer started
through the canal for Suez, which would
be about March %. She would arrive at
Alden on the 9th, and Mombasa about
April 4, where the train, with diners and
SleeperS starts for the Jungle where the