The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-07
TRIP TO COVER
$4,000 MILES
Presidents Proposed Tour
Will Be Notable.
GOES TO COAST AND BACK

Will Leave His Summer Home at
Beverly, Mass, on Sept. IS and Re-
turns to Washington on Nov. 10.
Schedule Arranged to Take in Nu-
nerous Points of Interest in All
Sections of the Country. -
Washington, Aug. 1.-THE president
has made public 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 approx
mating $4,000 mlles-as long as the
cruise Of the battleship feet from
Hampton Roads through the Straits
Of Magellan to San Francisco bay.
The trip will be one of the most nota-
bic ever made by a president. It is
said that no Seeing All America"
tour could be devised to embrace more
points of interest in SO brief a space
of time as President Taft will give to
his jaunt to the Pacific coast and
back.
During his tour the president will
traverse the Royal gorge of the Rocky
mountains: will visit the Alaska
Yukon-Pacific exposition at Seattle;
will spend three days in the Yosemite
valley: stop off at the Grand canyon
of the Colorado; greet the president
of Mexico on the international bridge
over the Rio Grande river at Ell Paso;
take four days sail down the Mis-
sisslppi river from st. Louis to New
Orleans and will spend four days on
the ranch of his brother, Charles P.
Taft, near Corpus Christi, Tex. -
Will Start on Sept. IS.
Starting from Beverly, Mass, the
president will motor into Boston the
morning of Sept. 15-his fifty-second
birthday-and there board the car
which practically will be a rowing
White House for two months.
The presidents first stop will be at
Chicago, where he arrives Sept. 16
and spends the afternoon and even
ing, leaving at a. m. Sept. II for
Madison, Wis.,, where he will spend
the entire forenoon of that day, leav-
ing Madison at midday for Winona
Mimi, with brief stop at Portage,
Wis.,, en- route. After spending Friday
night at Winona the president will
reach Minneapolis early in the morn
ing of Saturday, Sept. 18. The presi-
dent will spend all Of Saturday and
Sunday in Minneapolis, leaving Sun
day night at 8 p. m. in order to reach
20. Five hours will be spent in Des
Moines and then the president moves
on to Omaha, where he will spend the
late afternoon and evening.
While at Minneapolis the president
will also visit St. Paul, spending prob
ably an afternoon and evening in that
city.
Denver will be reached Sept, a..
The president will make an address
in the Denver Auditorium, where Mr..
Bryan last year was nominated for
the presidency.
The president will arrive at Salt
Lake City Sept. "a to remain there
until the 26th, when the party leaves
over the Oregon Short Line for Poca-
tello, Ida, and Butte, Mont, the latter
city being reached Sept ~ at 6:40
a. m. After spending half a day in
Butte there will be brief excursion
into Helena. Spokane, Wash, will be
reached early the 2Sth and the entire
day will be spent in the city. The
| forenoon of the 10Th will be spent at
North Yakima and the party will ar
rive at Seattle at s:15 that evening"
President Taft will spend two days,
Sept. 30 and Oct l, doing" the Alas
ka-Yukon-Pacif1c exposition. Two days
will be spent in Portland, the party
leaving there for a trip down through
the Siskiyou mountains and in view Of
| Mount Shasta to San Francisco.
| From the West and Southwest he
reaches St. Louis Oct. rs and will
| leave at p. m. on the steamer as
signed to him by the Deep Waterways
association, which is to hold it's con-
vention In New Orleans upon the pres
ident's arrival there.
From New Orleans the president
! goes to jackson, Miss; Birmingham,
| Ala; Charleston, s. c.: Augusta, Ca.
and then on to Washington, reaching
the national capital the night Of Nov.