Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-14
THE BsB DAILY REVIEW BsB SATURDAY
PROGRAM FOR ROOSEVELT
 AFTER TAFT TAXES HE CHAIR

|
 as William Howard Taft has takel
 the oath of office as president, Theo
 dore Roosevelt will leave the capito
 grandstand, drive to the station anC
 take a special train for Oyster Bay.
 His departure will take place abou
 2 o'clock of the afternoon of March
 The family should arrive at Saga
 more Hill an hour before midnignI
 or that day.
 The president will remain at Oyster
 Bay from March 70 March 13. when
 he will sail for Africa This does not
 mean that in the meantime he will not come to New York on business
 and personal visits. No arrangements have been made as to these.
 President Roosevelt will be accom-.
 panied by his son Kermit and by two
 men of science, one of whom will be
 a doctor. The party will sail from i New York March l3 on the North Ger man Lloyd steamer koenig Albert, l which is due to arrive at Naples i March 25. The stay in that city will
 be only few hours, just long enough for the party to transfer to a German East African steamship.
 That ship will carry the four to Xii. indini harbor. the port nearest Nom bassa, the old Portuguese town from which the plunge into the wilderness will be taken. The svop must be made at Kilindini for the reason that that place affords the better anchorage. It is only few miles from Mombassa, from which poin. the Uganda railroad starts for Port Florence, on Lake Vic toria Nyanza.
 First Overland Journey. The railroad journey from Mosbassa to Port Florence will be the first stage ] of the African journey, a distance or 584 miles through a part of the conti nent that has been opened to ciyiliza- | ton but which nevertheless abounds in game. Rich meu hold thousands of acres in that part of Africa as game preserves. One of them is William McMillan, nephew of the late Senator McMillan of Michigan
 He has invited the president to shoot over his vast estate on which there are shooting lodges and other accommodations for hunters. That is the Nairobi country, in which the av- craze man who goes to East Africa on hunting expeditions spends most oI his time.
 From the time of his arrival until the beginning of December the presi dent has planned to spend in getting from Mombassa to EItebbe. The last mentioned place IS the point for the departure into the Ieal wilderness be- tween Lake Victoria Nyanza and Con. dokoro, the frontier post of the Sou dan, stretch of country that will re- quire travel on foot and by boat or between 2600 and 5000 miles, accord ! ing to whether the hunt follows an air line or winds around between the two points.
 In getting from Mombassa to Port Florence the party will go to an ele- yation of 741O feet at Londiana. The railroad passes near enough to afford a fine view of Mount Kilimanjaro more than 1S.00O feet high.
 Will Avoid the Congo. While the president will go west ward from Lake Victoria Nyanza, his wanderings win not lead him to the | Congo country. He will avoid any contact with the Congo territory, chiefly on account of the political sig nifcanee that might be given any en- 1 try upon it. His purpose is to hunt and nothing else. No suggestion that | he cross the continent from east to
 west has ever appealed to him in the | least.
 Entebbe, the point from which the hunt will lead into the real wilder
 ness, is on the west side of Lake Vic | -oria and is reached after an eighteen. | lour trip on the steamer that pines | n the lake. At thaC point the pre3I- dent will be met by a party Of hunt CTS familiar with that part of the con | tinent between Entebbe and Condo | koro. The party O. natives that ne uses in the less wild part of the trip | will be dismissed IL Port Florence. It is estimated that five months | will be required for that part of the
 trip, and that the party will arrive ar i Condokoro about May l, 1910. From | Condokoro to KharJoum the hunter will be in a more civilized part of the continent and be able to travel over l fairly good roads, IS roads go in that part of the world.
 Mrs. Roosevelt IS expected to join
 her husband at Khartoum. A thirty six hour journey will bring them down
 to Wady-Halfa, where the trip down i the Nile will be begun by steamer.
 The first stage of tlrat trip will come | to an end at Assouan, at the first cat aract. From there tU Cairo, the objec- | tive points, means a trip of 900 miles on a river steamer. It is intended 10 make stops at AboI Simhul, Philae
 and Luxor.
 i How much Ioiterlng will be done on
 the voyage down the great river can not be told at this time. but at least
 a month is allowed for getting from
 Khartoum to Carlo. Plans for side | t-;.a fror, thare fn Jerusalem ana
 other points have not been fully de- I cided upon, but not more than two
 weeks will probably be devoted to look at that interesting part Of the world
 | The president has agreed to deliver | lectures at Oxford and the Sorbonne
 after he returns from Africa In the
 spring of 1910. While 1t is not yet ao. | mitted, 1t is almost a certainty that
 before returning from Europe MT. and
 Mrs. Roosevelt will accept some or 1 the invitations from royalty that wlli
 be issued the minute they intimate a
 willingness to accept any of them
 There is a sort or promise on the
 part of the president and his wife that | they will be back at Oyster Bay early ] in the summer of 1910, but there is
 nothing certain about the time of their
 arrival there. What he will do other than write, after ne gets back to Oys-
 ter Bay, the president himself pro
 fesses not to know at this time Dr. Charles l.. Snadwen of Or1ei college. Oxford, was introduced to President Roosevelt at the White
 House this afternoon by the British