The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-28
TAFT IS CHAFING
 UNDER HEAVY WORK
President Inclined to Cut Down Some of
 the Lengthy Programs
HE ARRIVES AT SPOKANE
Special from United Press,

Spokane, Wash, Sept. 28,The train
 bearing President Taft, Secretary Bal
 finger and John Hays Hammond
 reached Spokane at 6:30 o'clock to-day.
 A large crowd was at the station to
 greet Taft when he arrived under an
 escort of a committee of the Chamber
 of Commerce.
 The President and his party had
 breakfast with the trustees of the
 Chamber and later went for a motor ride around town and reviewed a mill itary and civic parade.
 The city is filled with people inter- ested in forestry and irrigation who have come to hear the President speak on conservation to-day. After the ad- dress MT. Taft win take luncheon with the local committee and go on an au- tomobile ride to Hayden Lake through the Spokane Valley.
 A visit to Couer DAIene forest and Cour DAlene will complete the day's program and President Taft will leave for Tacoma tonight.
 President Taft is showing symptoms to-day of going on strike. He IS chafing under the additional work given him by the local committees at the various places visited and unless the enthusiastic gentlemen quit giving him extra stunts to do he will give the town a very plain evidence or Presidential ire by cutting down their program ill it's midst.
 Montrose came near being the last straw which broke the back of Pres | tdent Taft. The original program arr ranged for Montrose through Secre- l tary Carpenter at Beverly was strenu-
 through. but when he reached the | town he discovered that he local authorities had arranged for extra | speeches and a supper. He smiled 1 grin1iy but went through with the whole program extras and all. When he got back to the train at 10:30 instead | of about o'clock as he had hoped, he was nearly exhausted and said few l things more vigorous than polite ana l paid his compliment to local commit 1 teemen in general.
 | At Ogden, Utah, Sunday the towns people had all sorts of pleasant things l for him to do that were not on the or igna1 program and when he got half through he ordered the chauffeur to re- 1 turn to his car and he shut himself l up in his state room.
 | Monday morning the President again l showed his displeasure in an unusually l crowded program not appearing until | an hour after the time scheduled for l him to start on long walk around l the smelters. The local committeeman fumed and fretted but had to wait un- I til the President got good and ready | to strat. fi | ''Ine sHreSfQonLS BOOu nature IS uSdl = ! ly at an end over these strenuous pro- grams, ,"said one of the Senators who was on the Mayflower,'' and the del- | egations mana ging the affairs in towns | where the President will stop are gasp | ing. It will not pay them hereafter to | give the President a lot of extra work l to do as he is very likely to quit them l cold"
 If President Taft is not smashed up in an automobile wreck before the end of his present western trip many of his friends think he will be lucky. In
 many towns he has been whirled over | bad streets and roads at what many | think dangerous speed.
 MT. Taft is known to be an auto lov- l CT and everywhere he goes the finest | and swiftest machine that can be found in town receives him. The speed laws of the city are then suspended | and the chauffeur at the wheel pro-
 ceeds to ''burn up the road.'' Il Captain Butt, the Presidents mili-
 tary aide and the secret service men
 who ride in the car, declare they I thank their stars every time they re-
 turn from one of the rides and find
 themselves whole.