New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-09-12
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Will Add About $4,000 Miles
TO His Present Record
of 100000.

rxplodIng the maxim that large bodies move
l,Ulv President Taft Is the fastest ana furthest
,,oyar statesman in American history His travel
ing record for the last nine years which will soon
ts boosted by some twelve thousand miles OF West
On touring would be- astonishing in a professional
eobetrotier. His yearly average is more than
Ssteen thousand miles traversed to the music OF
car wheel and propeller. II ne had started for the
MON when he left Cincinnati for the Philinpines
r. 1910 and kept travelling IN that direction IN
stead Of keeping 10 official business on terra frma
~ would pretty nearly have arrived at the earth's
satelite Al least he would have covered $4,000
ont of the 81 900 mile trip Life IS short ana &C.
lestisl distances are long, but there are admirers
q TIE President who assert that he will leave the
moon far behind him before he gets through going.
TIE future President who does better will have 20
MT wheels under the White House
on his campaign trip and otherwise last year Mr.
Taft fairly girdied the earth The year before he
made q complete circuit OF the globe on top Of a
.Hplnle side trip 20 Panama Now he celebrates
IS birthday on September Is by starting on q zig
rag tour o. the United States that looks like man
~ TIE Arctic regions with most of the explorers
routes inscribed upon IL The railroad and steam
boat mileage On this two months trip Is COM
rsratiyey short. being only about as much as the
distance from New York TO Asia, but there will be
81 least several hundred miles OF extra automobile
travel during stops, and II a meter could be at
,ached 10 the Chief Executives person II would
show e considerable item az locomotion in cars and
~ public platforms. Not that Mr.. Taft is naturally
much Of platform walker but deprived OF golf
snd eooped aboard a special train for eight weeks
he VII be driven in sefdefence 70 get all the eNer-
rise he can, even though he has 10 change his
STYLE Of orstory 10 so f.
There are many aspects 10 this new record set
,iug Presidential tour 1t has interest geographi-
cal political gastronon1ic financial, sartorial.
climatic. and more. What territory viii ne
President cover? What will he talk about? what
VIII he eat: How much viii it cost? How a ou+
the clothes. and how varieties Of climate VIII
be encountered To answer some Of these clIes-
tons 81 practical way has meant a lot Of trouble
for Secretary Carpenter and Captain Butt who
have made al the arrangements for the journey,
but the President himself is not at ali worried
hbou; details He IS so used 10 travel that the
present trip is just brief Jaunt 10 him Thirty
nights II 4 sleeping car four aboard 4 steamboat
and twenty-five IN hotels houses cannot frighten
2 man who has slept in recent years inward of
i've hundred ana City nights IN railroad and steam
ship herihs Then there IS The question Of meeting
people II all the Inhabitants OF the hfty-ve cities
where ire special train IS scheduled 10 stop turn
out the President VIII face seven million persons
Wei. he has probably faced several times that
number, and OF several cOlors and shades within
the last Few years. NJ. Taft is down TO make
Feventy-hve speeches, but he is used to speech
making. and. any way, the engineer can be de-
PENDED on 10 pull out of the one-horse towns before
ne President has expended too much vocal energy.
N@RA = 81 1iN : OhNlkAlI MEALS.
The dinners. Ave. there's the rub On the list
are twenty-five state dinners. twenty formal
lrncheolls end five formal dinners. These are the
E1airs which the Chambers Of Commerce and the
leading citizens OF the important towns win ger
Up 10 honor the visitor and show the world that
they have good eating outside Of New York A
hflilat-saVsrln might enjoy such 2 transconti-
nentsl conoourse Of viaads and exhibit OF inter
stare cookery, making record Of Boston for its
oodhsh OF beans, Chicago for its steak Kansas
tr its short ribs, Colorado for its canteloupes
Montana for its venisOn, Seattle for its salmon
aid oysters. New Mexico for its chile con carne
Texas for its wild duck, New Orleans for its red
snapper, mississippi for It's corn pone Georgia FOR
ias watermelon and Virginia for its Wild turkey
but Mr. Tart simply cannot Jet himself loose on
me abundant hospitality that VIII be offered him
u VII be for him largely Barmecide feast. The
very thought y sitting before these savory deli
cacies and leaving them largely alone is painful
10 person Of normal appetite and digestion.
Bryan Democrat can syupathize with Mr. Taft
that he may not eat what he wants 10 all around
the circle Tho fact IS that the President has been