The Cairo bulletin., 1909-09-06
OHIO SOCIETY
TO GREET TAFT
CITIZENS OF BUCKEYE STATE ON
TEXAS BORDER TO BAN
QUIET PRESIDENT.
Ell PASO GOLF LINKS
VIII Be Scene Of Some Activity For
President When He Goes South
-Diaz Will Greet Him in
Texas.

Texas.
FL Paso. Texas. Sept. 5.-Thret
banquets and golf game over one O
1.-THE "sportiest" courses in the Unite,
States will be among the diversion,
for William Howard Taft, president Of
the United States, when he visits this
lefty on October 16 and meets Porfiric
Diaz, president of the republic OF
Mexico
Mr., Taft will arrive IN Ell Paso al
1910 a. III. on the Santa Fe and VIII
Ibe met at once by President Diaz,
who will reach Ciudad Juarez, Mexico,
the same morning. a little earlier
President Diaz will come across the
international boundary Just after the
arrival of the Taft train. and will
greet the president of the United
States at the Union depot.
Headed by guard of honor consist
ling of the FL Paso Ohio Society. the
| two presidents will he escorted to the
lei Paso ChaNber of Commerce for
their first banquet, United States
troops and Ell Paso police acting as
an escorts. The two chief executives
lof the two great North American Re.
puhlics will probably have their first
Iofficial meeting on a PLATFORM erected
in the street in front of the Chamber
'of Commerce, where they can be- seen
by the crowds. They will then rerair
to the inside of the Chamber of Com
merce. where they will be banquettel.
To Break Bread in Mexico.
AL noon the two presidents will
board the Mexican presidents special
train for the return trim to Ciudad
JuareZ Mexico, where President Diaz
will welcome the American president
to his country A second banquet will
then be served in the Mexican Custom
House, which is being rebuilt for the
occasion, at cost OF $4,000, to the
Mexican government
The banquet over, President Taft
will return acros the international
line in an automobile and will be tax.
en- for five mile ride into the coun.
try to Ell Paso Country Club where
he viii don his golf toys and play al
round of Is holes.
In the evening the president of the
United States will return to Ciudad
Inarez-a town manual in honor of the
Mexican patriot and soldier Benito
Juarez-where he will be banqueted
a second time by President Diaz.
At the conclusion of the banquet
each president will start on his home |
ward journey, Mr. Taft continuing on |
through Texas and General Diaz re-
turning triumphantly to his own CAP
ital, stopping at various places along
the line to receive his people. as it |
Will be the first visit of the Mexican |
president to the northern border of
his country since taking office, al
most two score years ago.
Links are Hard 20 Act Over.
The golf course at the Ell Paso
Country Club, where Mr., Taft VII
>lay golf after reviewing the FL Paso
school children in one of the city
'arks, is one of the hardest courses
n the United States, and the presi-
lent has written that he is particu-
arly anxious to try it.
The course is not sodded, but is
'ery rough in many places, and, be-
ng of white dirt and gravel it is
to use co1ored balls to pre-
'ent losing them. Balls of green, red
'urple and black are used, but never
White; they become lost too easily,
The second green" on this course
a very difficult hole, and is known
s Hell Top. The drive is from a tee
own in a gulley- arroyo they are
allied in this part of the country--and
he greer" is on top of an almost
wall of white rock, uni
'hich the player has a very laborious
limb, if he succeeds in putting the
all over the rim.
II he fails in putting the ball on top
t the cliff at the first or second drive
t the most he generally has a pref
y hard task, if be ever gets it there
he green is located on the TT
Hiss military reservation, as are
lany of the succeeding holes of the
curse.