Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-14
MOTORS TO BOSTON DINNER
Chamber of Commerce Banquet
Will Be Big Affair.
MAKES FIRST SPEECH OF TOUR
Nearly 5000 Diners and Spectators
Expected to Be Present-Starts
for Chicago Tomorrow.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BEVERLY, Mass, september 14.-beN-
erly will have to lay down the ermine OF
her Office as summer capital of the United
States shortly after o'clock this after
noon, and retire once more to her Old
place in the ranks. for at that hour
President Taft will take his leave. The
President will go away from the little
north shore city as unostentatiously as
he came-even more so, for today his
mode of exit will be in one of the big
government automobiles, with no one with
him but Mrs. Taft and Prof. and Mrs.
Mora. The goal Of this last automobile
ride of the year over the roads of Massa-
chusetts will be Boston, with the much
heralded chamber of commerce banquet.
the first official occurrence of the western
trip waiting for the President at the
other end.
Somewhere about o'clock this after
noon two automobiles, painted dark blue
and with the coat of arms of the United
States embla zened on the sides, will draw
up before the Hotel Touraine In Boston.
And as the President and Capt. Butt, his
military aid, step out of the first, followed
by the two secret service men from the
other car. the initial plunge will be made
into the 13.OO0-mile trip. more commonly
known as the first presidential tour of the
Taft administration.
Boston's Biggest Dinner.
After getting into his dinner clothes
the President will have to hustle down.
stairs, where at 6:45 o'clock this even
ing delegation of the Lancers will
escort him from Touraine to Mechanics
Hall, where he will be formally met by
q committee Of fifty of Boston's lead
ing citizens Then at 1880 o'clock the
banquet will begin. Nineteen hundred
persons will dine with the President,
while another thousand will look on from
the balconies With this assemblage
present. the dinner tonight will be the
largest ever held In the city OF Boston.
But what everybody around Boston
seems to want emphasized most Is the
peciany for the banquet. has been aeco-
rated In Yale blue. Even the main color
scheme of the tables themselves will be
the same Eli tint Only those who realize
the inbred spirit of Harvard. which inn
bues Boston body and soul, can appreci-
ate the meaning and delicacy of this
tribute. The china, however, Is not lne
only thing that ID new. All the silver
ware is, and all the table linen. Every
thing had to be brand-new and the best
that could be got. to do honor to the i'm
portance of the evening, for Boston seems
to want to show that even the center
Of culture can turn itself inside out when
1t really gets at it. and that as far as
welcome and enthusiasm are concerned,
the west isn't In 1t.
Wine Openers Wear Crimson.
There will be 400 walters there tonight,
all wearing Yale blue sashes. No. not
all, for fifty Of them are to be expert
wine servers, and they are to wear sashes
Of crimson. Whether the loyal sons OF
Harvard had anything to do with this.
and whether there Is anything syHnbohcal
about wine servers wearing the Cam
bridge colcrs, Is. OF course, only to be
guessed at. About the best thing, how
ever. that these fifty men are going to
do will be the distribution of the two
souvenirs of the banquet-one booklet
containing the menu and the Presidents
picture, and the other a real leather
cigar case,, with real cigars inside and
the exterior decorated with the seal of
the COCO and a likeness Of the chief ex-
ecutive of the nation.
Then. after the blue-sashed walters
have been around and the red-sashed
walters have been around and around,
the speaking will start. In the absence
of President James ]. Storrow of the
COCO Vice President Rothwell will act as
toastmaster. There will be but three
speakers Maj. Hfbbard Of Boston, Gov.
Draper Of Massachusetts and the Presi-
dent. It Is expected that this time Mr..
Taft will outline the purposes and ulti-
mate plans Of his western trip. The
President has as much as said that at
this banquet he will first speak on those
subjects He worked on this first speech
Of his coming tour all yesterday after
noon, but, OF course. made no announce
ment Of its purport. Whether or not
Mr.. Taft will discuss any matters other
than the subject of his tour is unknown.
First Of a Long Series.
That chamber Of commerce banquet
will be the first of an almost unbroken
| series for two solid months. At 10
o'clock Wednesday morning the presiden-
tial train. consisting of the two private
cars and the special baggage car, all of
which will make the entire journey,
either as a special or at the end of regu-
lar trains. will put out of the south sta
tion In Boston bound for Chicago. There
during the whole of Septemer Is Presi-
dent Taft will be entertained first by the
Commercial Club and then by the Hamfl-
ton Club both among the foremost or
ganizations of their kind in the middle
west. And after that the whirl drives on
with increasing relentlessness.
territories will be passed through with the
climax of the trip October 16, when Pres
ident Taft will meet President Diaz of
Mexico, first on American soil at Ell Paso.
with the Mexican executive coming across
the International bridge to call upon Mr.
Taft, and then on the other side of the
Rio Grande in Ciudad Juarez, where Pres
ident Taft will visit President Diaz in his
native land