The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-10-11

early in the afternoon. The people
wanted 70 see more OF him. SO they
sent a committee To Beverly and pre-
vailed upon the president to give more
! time TO the city. Their arguments
won over the prcAdcnt. Fort sam
Houston, ut san Antonio. is now the
greatest garrison. in point OF num-
bers, OF all the military reservations.
For months preparations have been
under way for the reception at the
Taft ranch, near Corpus Christi. In
the four days that he remains on the
great estate known as La Quinta'' he
win have golhng. hunting. fishing and
a chance 20 admire the fine cattle his
brother Charles has down there. which
will be paraded before him by the
proud managers.
Thus for four days the capital Of
the United States viii temporarily be
located at Gregory. Texas one of the
small towns on the Taft property. 1t
will be fine opportunity for the pres
ident 10 recuperate from the fatigue
Of his long trip. There is to be some
real seclusion for the president, as
only a few OF the members of the
party will accompany him to the man
SION which Charles T. Taft has built.
The newspaper men accompanying the
president will have their headquarters
several miles from the ranch, and the
only communication will be the pri-
Vate telegraph and telephone.
Joseph +. Green. the manager of the
Taft estate, had everything i'm shape
month ago. The construction of the
golf links was the greatest puzzle for
Mr. Green. He is conversant with
everything that is worth while about
raising stock and farming, but the
Scotch game proved an unknown
quantity. So Mr.. Green did the next
best thing and kidnapped the amateur
golf champion of Texas, Robert ii.
COnnerley of Austin and brought
along another expert, Frank NJ. Lew
is, of San Antonio, to decide where
the president should play golf The
experts have declared the links to be
fit and the president should derive
some great sport there.
For the coming of the president
some special furniture has been man
ufacturcd. Included i'm this is an inn
mense dining table i'm order that the
president might give some old-fash-
Toned dinners and suppers to his
friends Thor, al
generous easy" chairs scattered about
through the great mansion and its big
His visit there will be broken only
on one day, when he goes to Corpus
Christi to address the delegates of the
Inland Waterways Convention, to
speak to the residents of that city, and
probably attend an old fashioned oys-
ter roast. The people of Corpus Chris |
Il viii not go strong on formalltics, |
merely inviting the president over as
a neighbor.
The president will leave his broth |
cr's ranch Friday night, October 22, at |
1920 o'clock, making an easy run to
Houston, where he again starts his |
"one night stands" Houston is TO
be brief stop. He will arrive there |
at 7:10 a. m, leaving at 1880 a. m. |
The program at Houston includes a |
breakfast by the prominent business |
men, after which the president will |
make a public address. Probably all |
the school children will be massed at
Tho npnOf IN q
the residents Of Galveston will join /
i'm the celebration at Houston, Calves
ton is but fifty miles distant.
From Houston the president Is to
make a daylight run, and the probab-
ilities are that he will make several
brief speeches at some of the larger
places before Dallas. the North Texas
is reached. The Dallas
chamber of commerce will send a del
egation of 100 business men to Hous-
ton as an escort to the president while
travelling to their city. The president
viii reach Dallas at 80 y. M. Octo-
Der %. a half-hour later he is to
make an address at the Dallas fair
grounds, which is the home OF the
largest state fair in the south. Fol-
lowing this address he will be briefly
shown the home of the largest state
Tair I'm the south. Following this ad-
dress he will be briefly shown the fair
grounds, and then return to the city
where banquet viii be served
The president will remain i'm Dallas
over night leaving for st. Louis octo-
Der "a, at $3.50 a. m. Dallas will prop
ably be his last stop I'm Texas.