Evening star., 1909-04-17
President Proposes Late Sum-
mer Trip to Pacific Coast.
DEPENDS UPON CONGRESS
Appropriation for Travelling Neces.
sary to Cover Expenses.
HIS OWN PURSE TOO MEAGER
Southern Border to Be Skirted OF
Return From Great North
west Territory.

President Taft who believes that the
chief magistrate of the nation should keep
in as close contact with the people as the
duties and requirements of the Office ad-
NIT. is planning a notable trip during the
late summer and early autumn, provided
Congress decides to continue the annual
appropriation of $4,000 for travelling ex-
penses allowed during the closing years
of the Roosevelt administration.
The Presidents plans for the summer as
far into the heated term as August 15
have been completed. Mr.. Taft will leave
Washington as soon as he can arrange
matters after the adjournment of Con-
gress. He has been told that the extra
session will end June I.
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 worries as
| possible, Mr.. Taft will devote most OF
his vacation to golfing and motoring and
perhaps will take short cruises along the
| northern coast.
teen battleships will maneuver off the
New England coast during the summer.
The President undoubtedly will want to
see some of the work of the ironclads
Plans Visit to Alaska.
| The trip the President desires to make
to the west during the late summer will
be entirely too expensive to be paid out
of his own pocket. An outline of the pro-
posed itinerary has been given to high
railroad official and an estimate requested.
| It is said the cost would be in the
| neighborhood of $4,000 to $4,000.
| If he goes west at all the President
will include Alaska in the journey, sail
| ing from Seattle. probably. on vessel
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No President has ever visited the far
| northern territory which for SO long
has been a part Of the United States.
The President has been invited to and
is particularly anxious to attend the
following gatherings:
The annual encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic at Salt Lake City,
Utah.
The transmississippi conference at
Denver.
The National Irrigation Congress at
| Seattle and the Alaska Yukon Pacific
| exposition at the same city.
In addition to his proposed visit co
the Rocky mountain states and to the
Pacific northwest. the Presidents ten
| tative plans for the trip include long
| swing through the southwest and the
heart of the south itself.
! Many vessels of the Pacific fleet,
which includes eight fine armored
| cruisers of the type of the North Car
L
on his recent trip to Panama, will be
stationed in and about Puget sound
during the exposition. The President
| undoubtedly would make the trip to
| Alaska on one of these.
Southern Border to Be Visited.
| Returning from the north, he prob
ably would land at San Francisco, to
begin from there the journey along the
southern border line.
Mr. Taft has often spoken of an Alas
kan trip, but 1t has not been definitely
known until now that he has decided
positively to make it a part of any trip
he may take to the Pacific coast.
Mrs. Taft. who is as fond Of travel as
her husband, would accompany the PreEt-
| dent on the tour.
Western and southern senators and rep
resentatives are particularly anxious to
| have the President visit their sections and
necessary funds. They believe with the
President that such tour as he pro-
| poses to make should be regarded as an
essential factor In the universal desire
| to keep the people In close touch and
| sympathy with the central government.
| They believe that the Presidents trips
through the country and his addresses
are as much or more of a benefit to the
people than to himself.
President Taft makes no secret of his
| fondness for travel. He believes 1t to be
the only way of securing a proper idea
and proper perspective Of such big
| country.
Mr.. Taft's stay at Beverly will be in
terrupted by few short trops to fill
speaking engagements he has already
made and others which he has under con-
sideraton and probably will accept.
| Two splendid new motor cars, ordered
| some time ago, have just arrived at the
White House garage. making three ma
chimes In all now at the Presidents dis
posal One of the cars he has been using
| up to this time was temporarily provided
by the factory until the special cars for
| the President could be completed.
The President and Mrs. Taft both are
| looking forward with pleasure to motor
| ing long distances over the splendid New
England roads.
Bomb Explosions in Spanish Town.