The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-17
PRESIDENT TAFTS TRIP
TO WEST Is NOW
WELL DEFINED
Among the Gatherings He Will Attend the G. A. R. Encanpmnt at
Salt Lake Chye Will Visit Alaska Yukon Exposition and include
in His itinerary the Southwest and Perhaps the Heart
of Southeast Will Be at Least SIS 600

Washington. April l7-President
Taft, who believes that the chief mag
istrate of the nation should keep in
rs close touch with the people as the
duties and requirements of the office
admit, is planning notable trip dur
inS the late summer and early aut-
umn. provided congress decides to
continue the annual appropriations of
$4,000 for travelling expenses allow
ed during the closing years of the
Roosevelt administration, The plans
for the summer, as far as into the
heated term as August 10, have been
completed Mr.. Taft will leave Wash
InSton as soon as he can arrange mat
tiers after the adjournment of congress
and has been told that the extra ses-
sion will end June /. The President
will go direct from the White House
TO his summer home at Woodbury.
Point, Beverly. Mass, and will spend
two months or more there as quiet
ly and as free from Official worry as
possible, He will devote his vacation
10 Golfing and motoring and perhaps
Will take short cruise along the
northern coast The re assembled At
lantic fleet of sixteen battleShips will
maneuver off the New England coast
during the summer, and the President
undoubtedly Will want TO see some OF
the work of the iron-clads.
The trip the President desires to
make to the west during the late sum
mer. will be entirely too expensive to
be paid for out OF his own pocket
An outline of the proposed itinerary
has been given TO high railroad Of
fetal, ana an estimate requested. 1t
is said the cost would not be much
over $4,000 to $4,000. If he goes
West at all. the President will include
a trip from Seattle on the revenue cut
Ter service The President has been
invited TO the far north territory. The
President has been invited TO and is
anxious 10 attend the following gath
erings,
Annual encampment of the G A. r..
at Salt Lake; Trans-Mississippi con"
ference at Denver: the National lrri-
cation Congress at Spokane. and the
Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition at
Seattle
in addition to his proposed visit TO
the Rocky Mountain states, and TO
the Pacific coast, the President ten
tative plans for the trip include a
long swing through the southwest and
the heart of the south itself.
Many vessels of the Pacific fleet,
Including eight fine armored cruisers
of the type of the North Carolina and
Montana, which Mr.. Taft used on his
recent trip to Panama. will be sta
toned in and about Puget Sound dur
ing the exposition, and the President
undoubtedly will make the trip TO
Alaska on one of these. Returning
from the North, he probably would
land at San Francisco, TO begin from
there the journey along the Southern
border line. Mr. Taft has often spok'
CT of an Alaska trip. but it has not
been definitely know until now that
he had decided positively to make 1t
a part of any trip he might take to the
Pacific coast.
Mrs. Taft. who is fond OF travel,
Will accompany the President on the
tour.
Senators and representatives OF the
South are anxious to have the fres,
i1ent visit the Southern States, and
Viii do all III lnclr po"ci W Pio''oN
the necessary funds. They believe
with the President that such tour
as he proposes 10 make, should be re-
eardcd as an essential factor in the
universal desire to keep the people i'll
close touch and sympathy with tue
central government.
President Taft makes no secret oil
his fondness for travel. He believes
Il 10 be the only way OF obtaining
proper idea and perspective oil such
biz country Mr.. Taft's stay at bevcrly
will be interrupted by few snort
trips 10 fill speaking engagements nc
has already made, and others when
he hns under consideration.
Two splendid new motor cars, oroer,
cd some time ago. have Just arrived
at the White House garage, making
three machines in all now at the Pres,
idcnt's disposal. The President ana
Mrs. Taft both are looking forward
with pleasure to motoring long dls,
tances over the splendid New England
roads.