New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-03-07

equal in endurance OF the Democratic eahoi-
date, and much better vote getter.
II was remarked at one time that ex-Presdent
Roosevelt never subjected Mr.. Taft TO an en-
durance test The answer was that Mr. Roose-
Walt l,nevv when he had met his match The
man who could 20 night and day without fatigue
desnite his great weight. who could traverse the
tropicaI islands of our possessions and not sur
fer. who could make of journey to Panama as
little as Of a Journey to New YORK, ana WHO
could play thirty-six holes at golf and be sorry
that the day was not long enough to play more
conyeniently was not the one to be tested with
impunity.
Mr. Tafts desk always ready for him.
On every return from long journey the report
from washington was Mr.. Taft busy at his
desk" But often the next news would be OF
another jaunt He spent most OF last July at
Murray Bay. In August he was speaking in the
South lust as II his plans for the swing around
the globe had not been decided upon. He then
left washington and on August II spoke in Lex
ington KY or the cath he was in Tulsa, Okla
addressing the Republican convention but was
on his way to the Far East. He went to Seattle
after making other speeches. and on September
2S was in Yokohama and before he reached
Manila in October. had seen the Mikado, visited
Kobe. Shanghai and Hong Kong. The govern
nent in Manila being changed when he got
there. a legislature having been chosen and he
gave It the benefit OF his experience and advice
On November IS he was in Vadivostok on the
g1st in Hardin and on the gath in Irkutsk De-
cember saw him in Moscow. and he was in St
Petersburg on the 4th on the Sth he had sailed
from Cuxhaven and on the 22d he was home. But
on the 31st after looking in at his DESK ne was
back in Boston making a speech on the Fhlhp-
rinaa In the home of most of the opposition 10
the retention of the islands
FAMILIAR WITH COUNTRY
rhare are few places OF Importance IN ti''0
country that Mr Taft has not vislteo
he returned from Panama on the laS' '
came BY way OF New Orleans anu vas
coined as If he were the prince OF Deii
His radiating good humor, absence u a.
straInt and knowledge OF every impor'''i'
49,, ,,,or, IN. Southern population at once. ana
the two nIaces that should be added to the lai'
suburbs have been chosen as much because '4'
-rt, ,it,es the people as because of their sl'ud-
ton They are Hot Springs Va, "here H0
s,srt much time last year and Augusta ia
where he remained from December IL ul''' ''''
nary - last He did not remain without me
ruution at either place, but there were
sIons north and south. to make speeches. - 10
been said Of Mr.. Taft taht he has ms "a>e"''9
naraphernalia always ready, and that me oi"S
noticeable effect OF a sudden can Hum 49,
been a deep long drawn sigh
II has been because OF his ever readiness 10
sneak 70 the point that he has been in so much
demand as a speaker and, OF course mis- AIlo"i-
edge Of the worldwide interests Of this country
on one Of his quick trips TO his old home ne was
diverted from his subject at a meeting by a
question regarding his attitude on woman sur
frage HIS answer was quick. He believed that
It would come but that IL would be delayed oS
the indifference OF so many OF the sex IL was
while leaving the miles behind him coming from
the South that he received invitation TO ad-
dress the Civic Forum in this city he &C
cepted. He knew that he would have to race inc
ordeal OF questions His answer to one showed
that his journeyings had not wearied him
What has brought the greater restraint OF
trade. my policies or great trusts?" was ques-
ton that came just when he was about ready 70
leave the building to begin another Journey
You mean Mr. Roosevelt by my policies 1
suppose Theodore Roosevet's policies have
brought about great restraint of Illegal trade"
the ready answer. and then the greatest ap-
plause Of the evening followed
It is estimated that Mr.. Taft has slept more
than three hundred nights a Pullman and
more than thirty weeks on a steamer. But in
all his day and night travelling he has never
met with accident. He in wreck on
August p, 1907 when a train OF the ST. Louis
& San Francisco Railroad of the track and
the passengers badly shaken up. This
was Spring Hill, in Kansas, and Mr.. Taft
quieted many who were inclined to be panic
stricken. In June of last year while he was
on his way east from Cincinnati. the left piston
rod Of the locomotive broke while running ftty
miles an hour near Coshocton. Ohio. but the
rod swung outward and the train was stopped
without accident
Mr. Taft may have to choose some one TO take
his place as the travelling representative OF the
President, but when Governor Hughes saw him
at the inauguration and invited him TO attend
the Lake Champlain celebration. the President
accepted with aacrty. and thus presaged the
travelling President the successor to the
travelling and much travelled Secretary of War
and Civil Governor of the Philippines. But MIR.
Taft has declared, however. that he has not
succumbed to the wanderlust
GREEK TO ATTACH HEINZE NECKLACE