The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-25
MEMBERS OF PRESIDENT
TAFTS TRAVELLING STAFF
Continued from Page /.

[ dual role Of Tafts crOny and master OF
/ ceremonies halls from Augusta. ca,
! where Taft played gyif last winter while
waiting for the White House to become
vacant Butt got into the army during
/ the Spanish-American war. when Presi-
/ dent Mckinley appointed him captain
/ and quartermasteT of volunteers He
served IN cuba and the PhIlippfues-
which latter enables him to talk shOD''
with Taft-and in time acquired a repu-
/ t1uon as one of the best quaTtermasters
Z In the army. Roosevelt discovered the
/ possibilities of Archie as social aide
and arbiter, and Taft, who saw much OF
him during the regime Of his predecessor
continued him in the responsible position
at the White House and gradually made
him his chief cOufidante
The member of the Taft party who
comes nearest to making the Pacific
|Coast-MeXican-SOuth trip in his pri-
vate capacity is John Hays Hammond
{ the millionaire mining engineer. whom
| Taft wanted to make United States min
lSter to China. and who might have ac-
cepted had not Mrs. Hammond craved
residence in America after years of globe
trOtting. Mr.. Hammond is one of the
Presidents closest friends. In fact ne
occupies much the same position among
his intimates that Miss Mabel BOardman
does in the social circle of Mrs Taft
Mr.. Hammond is president Of the
League of Republican Clubs. Finally,
the Hammond chef loaned for the Occa-
sion. is In charge of the culinary depart
WITH
his employer looking on this wizard Of
cookery can be expected to produce some
mastery menus.
Wendell w. MischleT assistant secre-
t5ry to the President. IS in effect the
business manager of the nomadic presi-
Dental establishment He has charge of
the receipt and dispatch of all CORE
spOndence by mail and wire. and takes
the Presidents dlctation of any speeches
ne may wish to map out in advance.
AUschleT, who is especially well qualified
for this post by reason Of the fact that
he is an expert steuOgrapher, was one Of
Tafts confidential aides when he was
secretary of war. and he has been aSSO-
ciated with him pretty continuously ever
since He was in charge of the head
quarters of the president-elect at Augusta
last winter. and, in capacity similar to
his present one, has accompanied Taft
on several journeys. as, for. instance, his
last trip to Panama.
For all that President Taft prefers to
entrust himself to his own chauffeurs
whenever POSSIBLE. neither of these mo-
torists has part in The tour, the Presi-
dent leaving the details as to vehicles to
the local committee at each point visited.
President Taft departs from precedent
i'm not being accompanied on his wander
inzs far afield by the White House ply
stefan. an army doctor detailed for such
service Instead, the President has the
ministrations of DR.. J. J. Richardson,
the throat specialist, who accompanied
ing tour in the last presidential cam
paign and without whose aid Tafts
voice could not have stood the strain
that it did. Similarly. the guarding of
the President is entrusted primarily to a
man who has been Tafts shadow almost
continuously from the day Of his election
to the presidency.
OF course there is elaborate police pro-
lection at every point visited, together
with a general protective service by the
United States secret service working
through its district superintendents, but
the final precautions for the safety of
the President is entrusted to Secret SeTv-
ice Operative L. c. Wheeler. the Presi-
dents bodyguard, assisted by James
sloan, IT.. another star man in the secret
service One or the other Of these men
is continuously at the Presidents elbow
when he leaves his car or appears on the
rear platform to make a speech or Te-
spond to applause.
Two personal seTvitoTs who are very
| essential to President Taft's mental and
physical cOmpOsure 10 matter whittier
he may wander, are Monieo Lopez Lare,