The Prescott daily news., 1909-08-07
TAFT'S TOUR WILL
 EMBRACE NATION
President to Speak at Helena at 5 O'clock October Ton Trip Down the
 Mississippi River.

| " dSlllllS lOli, aug uSl O-- IItSt- dent Taft left Washington late this afternoon for the summer cal ltCl at Beverly, Mass aud will not return to Washing ton until the middle of November. Remain ing at Beverly with his family un- til September 15 the president will start West that day on a tour that will embrace all but eight or ten states of the union and both of the territories in the far Southwest.
 Before his departure the pres- ident made public a tentative out
 line of his trip through the West and South this fall. It will be
 wide swing around practically the entire United States embradG ing journey approxima ting 13,- 900 miles-as long as the cruise Of the battleship fleet from Hamp
 ton Roads through the Straits of
 Magellan to San Francisco bay. The trip will be one of the most
 notable ever made by presl-
 dent. It will be as diverse as could well be imagined and no seeing America tour could be devised to embrace as many
 points of interest in so brief space of time as President Taft will give to his jaunt to thePaci-
 fife coast and back through the great states of the South.
 During his tour the president will traverse the Royal Gorge of the Rocky Mountains, will visit the Alaskav Yukon exposition at Seattle will spend three days in the famous Yosemite Valley will stop off at the Grand Canyon of the Colorado and follow the train down into the depths of that giant abyss, will greet the presi- dent of Mexico on the internat- tional bridge over the Rio Grande at Fl Paso OH October 16.
 The president will spend Mon- day and Tuesday, October II and 12, in Los Angeles visiting his SIS ter, He will arrive at the Grand canyon the morning of October II and will leave again that night for Albuquerque, N. M, where he will spend the evening of the 10th. reaching Fl Paso ear- ly in the following morning for the meeting With President Diaz of Mexico. This meeting, it is said may take place in the center of the International Bridge, the chief executives of the two na.- tions standing in their owh tei- ritory and shaking hands across the border. It is said that 9 barr luet also will be served on the bridge.
 The president reaches San An tonic Sunday night. October IT, and will spend the forenoon of the following day in an inspec,- tion of Fort Sam Houston with the upbuilding of which he mad much to do while secretary of war. Arriving at Corpus Christi the evening of October IS, the president goes at once to his brothers ranch, where he will spend all of Tuesday, Wednesday | Thursday and Friday.
 Visiting Houston the forenoon | os Saturday October 23, the pres- ident will proceed to Dallas that afternoon tospend Saturday even i.g and all of Sunday. From Da't. ias the president proceeds to St. Louis to begin his four day trip down that historic waterway, the Mississippi. En route he may stop at Oklahoma City. He reaches St. Louis at 7,27, the of Monday, October 25. and will leave at 4 pm, on the steamer assigned for him by the Deep Waterways Association, which is to hold it's convention in New Orleans upon the presl dents arrival there.
 The first long stop of the river will be at Cairo ,IlI., at 'S,3O am, Tue sday October 26, The second stop will be made at HlckI man, kyt, at 2.30 pm the pres't lent making brief addresses at both places. Arriving at Memphis Tenn, at 8 am Wednesday, Oc.- tober 27, the president will make an address at 9 am, and that ar ternoon at , o'clock will speak at Helena, Ark. On Thursday. the 2Sth, at 2-3O pm the president will make a speech at Vicksburg. New Orleans will be reached a. bout o'clock Friday afternoon. The river journey will also ini- clude short stops at Cape Gir'