The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-19
TAFT WILL TAKE
-FOUR DAYS REST
10 Recuperate at Ranch of His
Brother Before Starting
for the East.
PUTS IN BUSY DAY
BEFORE RESPITE COMES
Lays Cornerstone of Chapel at
Historic Old Fort Sam
Houston.

GREGORY. Tex. Oct. 1s.-Presideut
Taft arrived here tonight to pass four
DAYS on the ranch of Charles r. Taft,
his brother.
Reports as 10 the size Of the ranch
vary from 100000 10 100000 acres In
either event u approaches the proper
tIons of a priucipali,y and during his
stay here the president will bc Sc.
cluded from the givers of banquets
and general duties of constant speech
making.
The president said be now intended,
for once 10 tho trip, 20 do as be pleased.
Tbs means that he viii play golf every
morning; that he will ride in the aft
cruoon, and that he may 90 duck shoot
ing.
The stay at the ranch will be tho
first real rest for the president. for
even tho Yosemite valley far from the
beaten paths, had IFS ironclsd schedule
of stage rides and carly hours Of ris-
ing.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. Oct IS
President Taft and his party left here
on schedule time this afternoon for
Gregory and the Taft ranch. whero the
resting, preparatory 10 starting the final
stages of his record breaking trip.
President Taft spent busy seven
hours IN this city today before leaving
Tor his brothers. ranch near the south.
ern end Of tho state, where he is 10
spend four days. Charles Z. Taft has
had a golf course constructed on the
ranch. and between this favorite sport
and horseback riding, the president eX-
poets TO have thoroughly good time.
1t viii be even more of a rest than
the president had in the Yosemite, and
he expects it to put him in splendid con.
diOon for the remaining three weeks OF
his notable trip.
In Fine Fettle.
As n matter of fact however. Mr..
Taft never felt better than he does to.
day. Railroad travel by day or night
never tires him in the least, and at
each city be visits he places himself
entirely in the hands OF local commit
tees and is ready to carry out any pro
gramme suggested. no matter how
strenuous. This willingness on the part
Of the president had led many of the
TO extend their programme
far beyond the original outline, and
they kept the president pretty busy
from the moment his train arrived un-
til its departure,
After his hardest DAYS. however, Mr..
Taft is ready 10 sit up late on the train
talking with his guests ON the trip.
None of the latter attempts 60 keep
pace with the president in all that he
does or is called upon to do.
By No Means Indolent.
The president was up early this morn.
ing TO carry out the programme ar
ranged for in this, tho first really
southern city 10 entertain him on his
present tour Mr.. Taft has been TO San
Antonio before, as secretary of war, and
his act in that capacity in building Fort
Sam Houston up To the present splendid
military station has won him great favor
from the city of the Alamo. Wherever
he went today the president was greet
I'd by cheering throngs His dcclara-
lion of the fact that he was not on
political mission. and his visit that sole.
v of the president Of the United
States, helped 10 add 10 the enthusiasm
# his reception.
At the Alamo Mr.. Taft was intro
iucrd bv Mpvor Callahan.