Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-08-07
Will Arrive Here Late in Afternoon
of September 20.
TAKES NIGHT TRAIN FOR DENVER
Will Put in Two Days Doing"
Exposition at Seattle.
TO VISIT YOSEMITE VALLEY
Travels of chief Executive WIN BE
Extenstve--Is TO Meet Presi-
dent DinE OF MexicO-His
Schedule.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-President Taft
left Washington late this afternoon for
the summer capital at Beverly. Mass,
and will not return to Washington until
the middle of November next Remaining
at Beverly with his family until September
| Is he will start west on that day on a tour
that will embrace all but eight or ten
states of the union and both of the terri
tories in the far southwest.
So great was the crush Of congressional
callers and others who called to say good
bye that the usual Friday cabinet meeting
was delayed more than an hour
Before his departure from Washing
ton President Taft made public a ten
tative outline of his trip through
the west and south this fall 1t
through the west and south this fall 1t
will embrace journey approximating lS,OOo
miles and will be one of the most notable
ever made by a president. 1t win be as
diverse as could we'll be imagined and no
| Seeing All-America" tour could be de-
vised to embrace as many points of inter
est in so brief space Of time as President
Taft will give to his jaunt to the Pacific
coast and back through the south.
The president, accompanied by Secretary
Fred w. Carpenter, Captain Archibald w.
Butt. his military aide. several White
House attaches, and perhaps a guest or two
for various parts of the trip, will travel in
a private car, attached for the greater
part of the trip to regular trains
During his tour the president will traverse
the Royal Gorge OF the Rocky mountains,
will visit the Alaska Yukon Pacific expo
sition at Seattle will spend three days in
the famed Yosemite valley, will stop off
at the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, will
greet the president Of Mexico on the inter
national bridge over the Rio Grande at
FL Paso October 16, will take four DAYS
sail down the Mississippi river, from st.
Louis to New Orleans, with various stops
enroute. and will spend four days on tho
ranch of his brother. Charles P. Taft, near
Corpus Christi, Tex
The president will motor into Boston the
morning of September 15-his fifty. second
birthday-and there board the car which
practically will be a rowing White House
for two months,
At Omaha September 20
The presidents first stop will be at Chi
cago, where he arrives shortly before noon
on the morning of September 1s, and spends
the afternoon and evening, leaving at a.
m, Friday September II, for Madison wis.
The president will spend all of Saturday
} and Sunday in Minneapolis, leaving Sun
day night at p. m. in order to reach Des
Moines, Ia, the morning Of September 20.
Five hours will be spent in Des Molnes.
and then the president moves on to Omaha,
where he will spend the late afternoon and
evening
Denver, Colo, viii be reached the after.
noon OF September p, and the president
, will go almost direct from his train to the
state capitol for a reception to be rendered
by state officials by the Chamber Of Com.
merce, civic organizations, etc. At p. m
the president will make an address in the
Denver Auditorium. The president and hi,
party will breakfast with Thomas f.
Walsh. at Wohurst, near Denver, the
morning of Wednesday, September e. AMI
! then return to the city for the Chamber
of Commerce banquet at noon. Leavins
! Denver at p m. September 22, the presl
dent and his party will stop for an hour.
visit at Colorado Springs and then go OF
to Pueblo, where in the evening they will
oe guests at the State fair.
The morning of September % will fint
{ the president at Glenwood Springs for {
brief visit, and that afternoon he will visi
Montrose to have look at the great Gun
r nison tunnel OF the western Colorado irri
cation project
I Two Days at Salt Lake
S Returning to Grand Junction to resum,
r the journey westward the president vii
, arrive at Salt Lake City Friday afternoon
September "a. to remain there until
Sunday afternoon, when the part,
. leaves for Pocatello, Idaho, an
Butte, Mont, the latter city bein,
~ Monday & An n
ing half day in Butte there will be
brief excursion into Helena. Spokane
Wash, will be reached early Thursda!
morning, the 2sth and the entire da,
will be spent in the city The forenoon o
the 29th will be spent at North Yakima
and the party will arrive at Seattle at 81
that evening. President Taft will spent
% two days, September 80 and October ]
doing" the Alaska Yukon exposition, leav
ing Seattle late the evening Of the secon
i day and arriving I'm Portland Ore, Octo
Der ? at a. m. Two days will be spen
in Portland, the party leaving there at
p. m, Sunday, for a trip down the famou
, Shasta route, through the siskiyou noun
tains TO San Francisco.
The president will stop the evening o
October in Sacramento reaching Oak
land, Cal, early on the morning OF Octo
, and around Oakland and Berkeley, befor
taking the ferry at l2.3O o'clock for sa
Francisco. After spending the atternoo
and evening Of the 5th In san Francisco
the president will leave early the mornirl
OF the 9Th for the Yosemite valley. II
e will spend the 7th, Sth and Sth In the val
ley, and coming out the morning Of Sun
day, October TO- will go to Los Angeles
y stopping for three hours in Fresno Sunda
b afternoon. The president will spend Mon
n day and Tuesday, October II and u, in Lo
J. Angeles visiting his sister He will arriv
70 al the Grand canyon the morning Of octC
J Der IA and will leave again that night ~
r Albuquerque, \. NJ, where he will spen
q the evening OF the 18th, reaching El Pas
D early the following morning for the NEE
ing with President Disz OF Mexico. Thi
meeting. It v said, may take place In III