Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-29
North Yakima Greets Presi-
dent at Arms Length.
HOME OF SENATOR JONES
Morning Auto Ride, Reception and
Speech on the Program.
ARRIVES AT SEATTLE TONIGHT
Two Busy Days Planned for Mr..
Taft, But With Modest Dinner
Menus at His Request.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NORTH YAKIMA. Wash. September %
President Taft arrived here at 5 o'clock
this morning. Before Mr.. Taft's arrival
this town was known chiefly as the
home of United States Senator Wesley
L. Jones, and it's fame in that respect is
responsible for the President spending
more than half a day here. Senator
Jones met the presidential party in Spo-
kane and came on to his home town.
He was out hustling around before day
light. marshaling the local committee
men, replacing raln-drenched flags with
new ones, and polishing up the town gen.
orally.
The Presidents day started with the ia
miliar early morning automobile ride;
then came a reception by the local COM
mitteemen and parade to the speakers
stand, where the President delivered a
brief address. III the public reception that
followed all handshaking was dispensed
with. This is something new in the Inc
Of presidential receptions, and it comes
from instructions sent out from Washing
ton by Secretary Carpenter asking the
committees in the various cities that the
President will visit to make both their
receptions and menus as simple as pos
sible
How It Was Done.
In the Yakima reception local COM
mitteeman called out the names OF MS
fellow-townsmen as they filed past. capt.
Archibald Butt, the President military
aid caught UP the name and passed II
along to the President. The process was
like this:
MIR. Olsen,'' sang out the local COM
mitteeman in a voice that could be hearo
a block away.
'Mr Olsen,' repeated the GENIAL cap,
tain, applying the soft pedal little, and
then poor Olsen, after being yanked once
or twice by the secret service men and
having his corns trampled on. hnally mas
himself in front of the President Ana
this Is what he gets:
Olsen has had time to reply or even get a
look at the Taft smile he Is carried past
by the current and is once more engaged
in a desperate struggle to save ms corns.
1t was a most satisfactory reception FOR
the President, but not at all pleasing to
North Yakima.
Luncheon at North Yakima's biggest
hotel followed the reception. The Presl-
dent expected to leave here at ? O'Clock Tor
Seattle. He will make one or Two tall-
He is scheduled to arrive in Seattle at $50
o'clockotonight. He will be rendered re-
ception at Secretary Ballingers home i'm
mediately on his arrival, and that Will END
his program for the night.
The two days following will be the busy
ones for the President in Seattle, but
special efforts have been made by the
Seattle exposition committee to avoid the
charge that western hospitality IS over
taxing the President. All the luncheons
h Done
both as to time and menus. The luncheon
in the New York state building Thursday,
for instance, has been cut to an hour and
the dinner in the evening in the Washing
ton state building will take only ninety
minutes.
Liked the Bear Meat.
In many respects the dinner which the
President had last night out at Lake
Hayden, near Spokane. was the most en-
joyable he has attended on his trip. The
lake is forty miles from Spokane and 1t
affords excellent trout fishing. The Pres
fdent had a three-hour rest there free
from the crowd before tackling the game
dinner The menu included trout freshly
caught from the lake. grouse that had
been especially fattened, full breast for
each diner; venison and roast cub bear
with elderberry jelly. The President en-
jOyed the bear meat.
In his speech after the dinner he said
that he was pleased to testify that the
cub bear meat was not so harsh on his
internal machinery as the crocodile steak
he had eaten in the Philippine Islands.
AS q matter of fact, the President was
willing to say that the aforesaid cub was
delicious.
Speaking in a more serious vain the
President said he agreed with Rudyard
Kipling that the Americans sense of
humor would save the day in any crisis.