The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-06
TAFT'S BIC TRIP.
The Presidents Journey Will
Cover $4,000 Miles.
Will Make Start on His Fifty
Second Birthday.
ROWING WHITE HOUSE.
Will Be Administer
ed From a Private Car.
A Number of Speeches Will Be
Made En- Route.
ROWING WHITE HOUSE.

Washington, Aug. 6.-Before his de-
parture fo- his summer home the presi-
dent made public a tentative outline of
his trip through the west and south
this fall. 1t will embrace a journey
approximately 1900 miles and viii! be
one of the most notable ever made by
a president. 1t will be as diverse as
could well be imagined and mo seeing
all-America' tour could be devised to
embrace as many points of interest in
SO brief a space of time as President
Taft will give to his jaunt to the
Pacific coast and back through the
south.
The president accompanied by Secre-
tary Fred w. Carpenter, Captain Archi-
bald w. Butt, his military aide, several
White House attaches, and perhaps a
guest or two for various parts of the
trip, will travel in a private car, at
tached for the greater part OF the trip
to regular trains.
During his tour the president will
traverse the royal gorge of the Rocky
Mountains, will visit the Alaska Yukon
| exposition at Seattle. will spend three
days in the famed Yosemite valley, will
stop off at the Grand Canyon of Col
Orado, will greet the president of Mex
! leo on the international bridge over the
Rio Grande at Ell Paso on October 16,
will take a four days sail down the
Mississippi river. from st. Louis to New
Orle ans, with various stops en- route
and viii spend four days on the ranch
of his brother. Charles P. Taft, near
Corpus Christi, Tex.
A Rowing White House.
The president will motor in Boston
the morning of September Is, his fifty
second birthday and there board the car
which practically will be a rowing
White House for two months.
The presidents first stop will be at
Chicago where he arrives September
10, and spend the day and leave Sep
tembe~ II for Madison, Wis. The pres1-
dent will spend September Is and 10
in Minneapolis, five hours will be spent
in Des Moines, Ia, September 20. when
the president goes to Omaha for the
late afternoon and evening:
Denver, Col, will be reached the af-
ternoon of September q, and the presi-
dent will go almost direct from his
train to the state capitol for recep-
ton rendered by state officials, by the
chamber Of commerce, civic organiza-
tiCns, etc At p. NJ, the president will
make an address in the Denver audi
torium. The president and his party
v i'll take breakfast with Thomas F.
Walsh, at Wolhurst, near Denver, the
n. orning of Wednesday, September y,
and then return to the city for the
chamber of commerce banquet at noon.
Leaving Denver at D. M, September
22 the president and his party Will stop
for an hours visit at Colorado Springs
and then go on to Pueblo where in
the evening they will be guests at the
state fair.
The morning of September %, will
find the president at Glenwood Springs
for a brief visit and that afternoon he
will visit Montrose to have a look at
the great Gunnison tunnel of the west
crn Colorado irrigation project Re
turning to Grand Junction to resume
the journey westward the president will
arrive at Salt Lake. Friday afternoon,
September "a. to remain there until
Sunday afternoon, when the party
leaves for Pocatello. Idaho, and Butte,
Mont. the latter city being reached
Monday at $40 a. m.
Two Days at the Fair.
After spending half a day in Butte,
there will be brief excursion into
Helena Spokane, Wash, will be reach
ed carly Thursday morning the 28th
and the entire day will be spent in
the city The forenoon of the 29th
win be spent at North Yakima and the
party will arrive at Seattle at S:15 that
President Taft will spend two days.
Septcn7 Der 80 and October 1, doing"
the Alaska Yukon exposition, leaving
Seattle late the evening of the second
day and arriving in Portland, Ore, Oc-
tober 2, at a. m. Two days will be
spent in Portland, the party leaving
there at p. m, Sunday, for a trip
down the famous Shasta route, through