The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-08-14
TAFT's TOUR NOW OUTLINED
Il, ZOO Miles Around the Entire
United States.
most NOTABLE BY A PRESIDENT
VIII Visit Royal Gorge, Seattle Ex-
position, Grand Canon, Greet
President Diaz and Sail
Down Mississippi. .

| " lngton. On for his summer
home at Bsrerix Mass rresidenfl
Taft will not return to WASHINGTON
until the middle OF November next.
Rlsmafning at Beverly with hts fam
lily until Sept. Is, the president will
start West that day on tour that
Will embrace all but eight or ten
states of the union and both of the
territories in the far Southwest.
Before his departure the president
made public tentative outline OF
his trip through the West and South
this fall. 1t will be wide swing
around practically the entire United
States, embracing journey approx
imately $4,000 nSes-as long as the
cruise of the battleship' feet from
Hampton Roads through the Straits
of Magellan to san Francisco bay.
The trip will be one Of the most not
able ever made by president. It
will be as diverse as we'll as could
be imagined, and no "seeing-alt-
America" tour could be devised to
embrace as many points OF interest
in so brief a space of time as Pres
ident Taft will give to his jaunt to
the Pacific coast and back through
the great states of the South.
During his tour the president will
traverse the Royal Gorge OF the
Rocky mountains. will visit the
Afaska-Yukon exposition at Seattle,
will spend three days In the famous
Yosemite valley, will stop Oft at the
Grand Canyon of the Colorado and
will follow the trail down into the
depths of that giant abyss, will greet
the president OF Mexico on the Inter-
national Bridge over the Rio Grande
at El Paso, on Oct. 16, willie take
q four days sail down the Mississip-
pi river from st. Louis to New Or
leans with various stops en- route.
md will spend four days on the ranch
Of his brother, Charles p. Taft, near
corpus-Chr Texas.
Visiting Houston the forenoon OF
Got. %, the president pro-
seeds to Dallas that afternoon to
spend Saturday evening and All OF
Sunday. From Dallas the president
proceeds to st. Louis to begin his q
our days trip down that historic
En- route he may stop at
Oklahoma City. He reaches St. Louis
It 1927 a. m, the morning Of Mon
lay, Oct. Is, and will leave at
}. m. ton the steamer assigned to 5
lin by the deep waterways associa-
ion, which is to hold Its convention
n New Orleans upon the presidents
rrival there.
Following the presidents boat will
e a spectacular following Of river
raft. One of the trailing boats will
Q assigned to the thirty governors
t states who have accepted invita-
lons to make the trip down the riv-
r and to attend the convention. An
ther boat will be assigned to a con-
ressional delegation OF more than
90 members.
The first long stop of the river will
3 at Cairo, ILL.,, at $3.50 a. m. Tues
~. Oct. 26. The second stop will be
Hickman. KY, at $3.50 p. m. the
making brief addresses at
9TH places. Arriving at Memphis,
enn., at s a. m. Wednesday, Oct. 81.
% president will make an address at
a. m. and that afternoon at 5
clock will speak at Helena, Ark.
4 Thursday, the 3sth. at $3.50 p. m.
g president will make speech at
lcksburg. New Orleans will be
ached about O'Clock Friday after
ION. The river journey will also
clude short stops at Cape Glrar-
'au, Mo. and Natchez, Miss. The
,esident will remain in New Or
ans from Friday afternoon, the
th, to Monday morning, Nov. /. He
III address the waterways conven-
N Oct. 80 at 2:30 p. m.
From New Orleans the president
es to Jackson, Miss, spending
actically the entire day Of Nov. /.
J will spend three hours Of the fol-
wing day at Columbus. Miss, and
II arrive at Birmingham, Ala. that
ening at 7:45 o'clock. The presi-
Mt will remain in Birmingham un-
the afternoon of Wednesday, Nov.
when he proceeds through Geor-
!, South Carolina and Virginia. No
rning to Washington Nov. 10.