The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-13
Itinerary of Chief Executives
Swing Around the Country.
is A $4,000 mile JOURNEY
Many Southern and Western Points Are
Included in Schedule Announced
BY the President.


Washington, D. Cor for his sum-
mer home at Beverly, Mass, Presl-
dent Taft left washington. He will
not return to Washington until the
middle of November next. Remain
ing at Beverly with his family until
ESeptember Is, he will start west that
I day ION tour that will embrace all
but eight or ten Of the states OF the
union and both of the territories inI
the far southwest.
Various members of the cabinet
will visit Beverly during the summer.
The president also expects to have
several of the cabinet officers with
him at different times during his long
journey through the west and south.
Secretary of War Dickinson, for in
stance, probably will be with the pres
.ident during practically all of the
southern end Of the tour.
Before his departure, the president
made public a tentative outline OF his
trip through the west and south this
fall 1t will be wide swing around
practically the entire United States,
embracing a journey approximatlng
$4,000 miles-as long as the cruise Of
the battleship feet from Hampton
Roads, through the Straits of Magel-
Ian to San Francisco bay. The trip
will be one of the most notable ever
made by a president 1t will be as
diverse as could well be imagined,
and no "Seeing-all- America" tour.
could be devised to embrace as many
points of interest in so brief a space
of time as President Taft will give to-
his jaunt to the Pacific 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 Alaska-Yu-
kon exposition at Seattle, will spend
three days in the famed Yosemite val
ley Will stop off at the Grand Canyon
of the Colorado and follow the trail
down into the depths of that giant
abyss, will greet the president of Mex
leo on the International bridge over
the Rio Grande at Ell Paso on October
Is, will take four days sail down
the Mississippi river, from ST. Louis
to New Orleans, with various stops en-
route, and will spend four days on
the ranch of his brother, Charles +.
Taft, near Corpus Christi, Texas.
Starting from the rugged shores of
the north coast of Massachusetts, the
president goes direct west from Bev-
erly. He will motor into Boston the
morning of September 15-his fifty
second birthday-and there board the
car which practically will be rowing
white house for two months. The
president has accepted practically all
the invitations that could be crowded
into the sixty days set aside for the
trip, and his acceptance book is clos
ed. There naturally will be many five
and ten minute stops not included in.
the regular itinerary, and many brief
little car-end speeches, but the tour
as now announcer is to all intents
and purposes complete.
President Taft will spend two days,
September 80 and October /, doing
the Alaskan-Yukon exposition.
Visiting Houston the forenoon Of
Saturday, October 23, the president
proceeds TO Dallas that afternoon TO
spend Saturday evening and all of
sunday. From Dallas, the president
proceeds direct to st. Louis to.begin
hiA. four days trip down chat historic
waterway He reaches St Louis at
1877 a. m. the morning of Monday, Oc-
tober rs, and will leave at D. m. on
the steamer assigned to him by the
Deep Waterway Association, which is
to hold it's convention in New Orleans
upon the presidents arrival. There. Fol
lowing the presidents boat will be
spectacular fiotilla river craft. One
of the trailing boats vii be assigned
to the thirty governors of states who
have accepted invitations to make the
trip down the river and to attend the
convention. Another boat will be as
signed to congressional delegation
of more than one hundred members.
The fat stop on the river will be
at Cairo, ILL.,, at $3.50 a. M, Tuesday,
October rs. The second stop will be at
Hickman, KY, at 2:30 p. m, the presi-
dent making brief addresses at both
places. Arriving off Memphis, Tenn,
at a. M, Wednesday, October %, the
president will make an address at 9
a. M, and that afternoon at 5 O'Clock
will speak at Helena, Ark On Thurs
day, the 2Sth, at 2:3O p. M, the presi-
dent will make a speech at Vicksburg
New Orleans will be reached about 4
o'clock Friday afternoon The river
journey also will include short stops
at Cape Girardeau, Mo-. and Natchez,