Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-11-10
Executive Will Attempt no More
Long Trips This Winter.
DAY SPENT IN WILMINGTON
Great Display of Enthusiasm on Part
of the Residents.
TRIP MADE DOWN HARB0R
Breakfast is Served nt Historic
Sprunt Mansion where washing
ton and webster Were Enter
tnined--ChiIdren Received.

WILMINGTON, N. c., Nov. 9.-His 49, 900
mile journed through thlrty-three states
and territories all but concluded, Presi-
dent Taft is speeding tonight toward
Richmond, where he will stop tomorrow
until late afternoon. leaving then for Wash
ington 70 spent the night at the White
House. The president has made a wonder
fully good time on his long trip, but is
pretty well tagged out and is glad that his
travels so soon are to be over.
Mr.. Taft has given up all idea OF visiting
the Isthmus OF Panama this winter and
will make no moro long trips until next
summer, when he hopes to visit Alaska.
He viii spend the Christmas holidays in
the White House with his family.
The president Is especially glad in get
ting home to know that Mrs. Taft Is better
The great Improvement which began at
Beverly during the summer has continued
rapidly and complete recovery from the
nervous breakdown of last spring is GER
tain in the near future. During his fifty
six days on the road, President Taft has
not let the setting Of a sun go by without
sending Mrs. Taft a telegram. Ee has lib
orally lnterspersed the daily messages by
wire with long letters detailing the most
minute happenings of his eventful trip and
in this way has actually written a COM
plete history of his journey.
Enthusiasm at Wilmington.
The presidents day in Wilmington called
out a great display Of enthusiasm on the
part of the residents of the old North
state, who came from all sections to par
ticlpate In his welcome.
In many ways the celebration of the
presidents visit here was the most sig
nifcant OF his trip. Governor Kitchen ex-
tended the formal welcome of the state
in an address which brtstled with the pa
triotism OF the SOUTH and which embodied
one Of the most glowing tributes the
president has received.
Arriving here before daylight, the presi-
dent slept until nearly 8 O'Clock, when he
vas escorted to the beautiful Colonial
home Of James Sprunk one of the greatest
exporters of cotton in the south. where
southern home breakfast was served.
George Washington and Daniel Webster
had been rendered the hospitality of the
same splendid mansion. Breakfast was
served In the conservatory, which had
been made into grape arbor. At the
end Of the meal Mayor MacRae Of Will
mington, voiced the welcome to the city
and created Mr.. Taft IAN honorary Tar
Heel for life
Boarding the revenue cutter Seminole at
lOsdU OclOCk, Win a COHlTnltIee OF IlIty
or more citizens as an escort, the president
was taken for a sail of twenty-five miles
down the waterway and return. Whining
ton is desirous of deepening its channel to
the set from twenty-four to thirty feet
and the ride was to give the president an
object lesson as to the need OF the i'm
provement Luncheon was served on
board. During the trip the president sent
x1yfra al 10 Tai TIa q
saluted by all the craft in the river.
The tramp steamer Battersea Bridge sail
ing for Liverpool with $4,000 worth of
cotton on board saluted the president and
fthe crew stood on the rail and gave him
three cheers.
When the river trip had ended President
Taft was taken for carriage ride. The
parade ended at the city hall, where the
president spoke.
Tonight he attended a supper at the
Masonic Temple before leaving for Rich
mond at p. m.
Governor Kitchln. in introducing the
president this afternoon declared that he
wanted Mr.. Taft to know that the south
was his country as the north is our
country"
Presidents Address.
In his address President Taft said:
Il have visited North Carolina before
and in doing so l have found that you
were little earlier in doing everything
that had to be done in the crises of the
nation than anybody else have found
that you made declaration of independ.
ence at Mecklenburg about year before
we thought of it In other parts OF tht
country. And 1 understand that you sup.
pressed the stamp tax and emptied out
the tea very considerable time befor,
they had that tea party in Boston harbor
Il is, therefore, a matter Of extreme self
congratulation on my part to have from
your distinguished men and from the peo
pie Of a state like this such cordial vel
come.
1 congratulate the people of North Caro-
lima that next TO the state of Mississippi
Il has a population more devoted to tn,
soil and its cultivation than any othe
state In the union. You do not have larg,
cities ard 1 do not think that a defeat a
all In your civilization. The fact is tina
the tendency toward concen ration Of popu
lation In the cities is "A tendency that ough
TO be restrained.
You have indeed made history in this
your neighborhood. Today IL was givei
20 me 10 so down TO Fort Fisher. wher
that dreadful battle and carnage wa.
fought TO see how much lead could b
pumped from one side into the fort o
another and what enduring sacrifices tn
opponents could make.
"Al that history you cherish ana W
cherish but 1t does not make the slightes
difference I'm our brotherly feeling in ou
tratrnal desire always TO exhibit and man
fest that love OF each other which come
81 standing elbow TO elbow in the marcl
Of Progress 90 make this nation. great a
Il is, even greater 20 afford under ou
country's flag an equal opportunity to a
TO work out their fortunes and TO elevat
the moral standards Of manhood so tina
above all In the types OF American W
q point 10 character as the thing
reddember."