The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-10
TAFT MAY GO TO FAR EAST Visit to Phil ppines Is
 Possibility. BECOMES TRAVELLING RULER Goes to Bed While the Clothes
 Dry. Ready to Resume Journey to south- west-Huge Boulder Falls Down
 Mountain, Landing in
 President's Path.

traveIed nearly 100 miles by stage and on loot in and around the Yosemite Valley, President raft reached here to- night and will resume his journey to the Southwest tomorrow morning. He will stop during the day at Merced. Fresno and Bakersfield and reach Los Angeles early Monday morning.
 The President was wet with perspi- ration when he reached the foot of the trail today and had to go to bed in the Sentinel Hotel while his clothing was hung out in the sun to dry. as he had only one grey Norfolk jacket suit with him tn the park.
 President Taft took luncheon with Major Forsythe of the armyq. His last day in the Yosemite Park was most enjoyable. He began the day by lock- ing at the sun rise over the eastern granite walls of the valley, his vant- age point being the veranda of the little Glacier Point Hotel. right at the very edge of 3.000-foot cliff. The surroundings, were rough and secluded. and the President appeared In scant attire. Having seen the sun properly up, MT. Taft retired again and slept until 8 o'clock.
 The altitude did not seem to affect him, and the President has stood the long strides and early hours of the Yosemite trip better than some of the other members of his party.
 The President today set such pace down the four miles of the short trail which brought him from Glacier Point to Yosemite. that he had two of hls congressional escorts. Representatives Mckinley and Needham, calling for help. At Union Point. one-t third of the way from the top, the President went to the very edge of the cliff and waved handkerchief in greeting to, some mere spectks of humanity. who could be seen moving about below aim.
 Cheers from Below.
 Tn a little while he caught the sound of three cheers sent up in his honor. John Muir, the naturalist, explained every view, every tree, and flower on the way down, and dweit time and again upon tae glacial theory of the formation of the valley. The President was told that the short trail down which he was passing was hrst "blazed" by an old settler who lived In the hills. FfiH wife would not ist him nave any whiskey In the Mouse. so he had to walk daily down into the valley.
 President Taft has been deeply im- pressed with the beauty. not only of the valley itself. but the entire Yosem- ite Park. He declared that the park had been reflected. as compared with the Yellowstone. MT. Taft Is anxious that some definite plan of improvement shall be agreed upon. In order that progress may be made year by year. Road building Is the first great need as the President himself has suggested. and he probably will make some rec concentrations on the subject In his forthcoming message to Congress.
 h.. No AAlaRat ttnn to Congress who have been accompany ing him through the Yosemite have been urging the President to make trip tc the Philippines in 1911. MT. Taft has no deeper interests than those of the Philippines. and he has listened to the suggestions of trip to the islands with some enthusiasm.
 It has been pointed out to the Pres ident that he could make trip to the Philippines well inside of three months by taking a fast cruiser. and that he would actually be away from Wash ington but a little longer than on his Journey through the West.
 If the President should decide to go. it would be his idea to have large congressional delegation to accompany him, so that they might so over the islands with him. The President Is ex- treinely anxious to return there for visit.
 With a contemplated visit to Alaska next year, and a stop at Honolulu on the way home. followed by the voyage to the Philippines In 1911 and an occa- sional visit to Panama, President Taft would easily set new mark for pres idential travel.
 Major Forsythe. superintendent Of the park, lunched with President Taft. A forty-ton boulder of granite fell down the mountain last night and landed directly in the road over which the President travelled Thursday when he entered Yosemite Park and he passed the spot again today on his way back to Fl Portal. The rock was blasted of the roadway this morning n.i. lahnEaEa