The Sentinel=record., 1909-10-24
ePoN ARRIVING AT DALLAS wAs IMMEDIATELY TAKEN TO
 THE FAIR GROUNDS.
Voice Was Husky as Result Of Speak ing at the Inland Waterways convention--Goes from
 Houston to Dallas.

Houston, Texas. Oct, 23.--President Taft spent three hours in Houston this morning and received probably the most demonstratiye reception of his Texas travels He spoke from balcony of the Rice Hotel at the cor. ner of Texas avenue and Main street, to a throng which the president him. self described as ten acres of people
 Afterward he was driven in review Of several thousand school children, white and colorea. After Ia brief au- tomobile trip he left at 10:SO a. m. for Dallas.
 During his speech the president constantly was interrupted with ap plause and old fashioned rebel yells. :" He seemed thoroughly to enjoy the noisy welcome and told the people of Houston that he did not care whai their politics were. he appreciated tho greetings and understood them to be a tribute to the head of united na- ton.
 MT. Taft was presented this morn ing with badge by Miss Kate Daf. fan, president of the Texas division of the Gaited Daughters of the Confed- eraoy Colonel Cecil Lyon. the tall, slender Republican national commit. teeman of Texas, who has been ac  companying the president ever since his arrival in the state, came in for a laugh this morning, when in a silk hat and frock coat. alternating his slight build, he followed President Taft off the rear platform of his car.
 "A streak of fat and a streak of lean, called some one in the crowd and the colonel said he was ready to. liqnidate.
 In his speech to the Houston people fhe president was in a happy mood He said it seemed he had been riding through Texas for ten days or more and had not yet reached the eastern section. He referred to the position of Houston as one of the greatest Tn. land cotton markets in the world and congratulated the city on it's growth
 T have been 70 San Anntonio and am going to Dallas said the presl dent. T a mnot going into dis. cussion of the census or decide which is the larger of the two. Since | have been in Houston I have heard enough to know that the position of this city Is so undisputed as not 10 need discussion When you travel arolfnd this country you learn a few things. One of them is that when you are in city which is determined to be the first city of the country, you Jon'tS want to intimate there IS any doubt about that prospect"
 The president declared that from Boston to Seattle and everywhere else he had been he had found the same civic prid, the same determination to struggle upward and it made him doubly glad to temporarily be the head of such a people.
 My friends continued the presi, dent, T am like Joe in Bleak House and must be moving on. This coun try is so large, I don't have time to stay long at any one place It's a great pleasure to be here and would like to stay week If could have found since coming into Texas that you are deeply interested in water. ways, one of the phases of the con servatism of our resources which is pressing for systematic and compar. ative treatment There is the sub ject of irrigation, but 1 understand you have not any arid or sub-arid territory around here. You are all wet"
 The president declared that the con. temptation of the growth of the prod. sscts and power Of such a state as Texas became stupendous in the i'm. agination and congratulated the peo. re of fhe state in havinn q richer in.