The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-31
NEW ORLEANS
 HOST TO TAFT Southern Metropolis Does Honor to President. WATERWAYS MEETING OPENS Ezscutiye Raises Yeice for lmprov-
 hg lnland Streams. olss.derss Arrival Delayed and Presi- 1s.t Is Forced to spend Busy Day h Crescent City--witasses I've
 IFeetsaII Games Between
 sostherners. $
WATERWAYS METNG OPENS

enjoy two days of the hospitality which. he declared a few days ago, he both '1onged for and feared"
 From the moment of his arrival at 12:s0 p. in., on the light house tender Oleander. which led q long trailing neetS of river packets Into port. the President was kept on the go until past midnight tonight.
 MT. Taft ended his river trip with an address before the waterways con- vention tnis afternoon, in which he reiterated what he has said before, that he favors the Issuance of bonds to carry forward every deep.waterway project which shall be approved by Q competent board of engineers as prac- ticable and can be shown to be neces- sary to take care of the growing com nerce of the sections.
 This address concluded, the President became the guest of 4the city. He j1unched with Archbishop Blenk at the latter's palace. attended two football games. had a dinner given in his honor ht the Pickwiok Club tonight and went direct from there to a gala perform ance Of Les Huguenots at the French Opera House. A little supper at a famous French restaurant after the opera brought the Chief Executives busy day to7a close.
 Bu<y on sunday.
 Tomorrow the President Is to have another strenuous time. He will att tend the Unitarian Church in the morning. will have a long automobile tour. broken by luncheon at Jackson barracks and win attend . sacred con- cert on the Tulane campus in the af- ternoon.
 The President retires on board his train tomorrow night and leaves esrly 4s.r days cf his long tour.
 The Presidents party lost one dts tingplshsd member today and VIII iose another tomorrow postmaaker-Gen er&l Hitchcock left tonight for BoatNns to vote In the elections held there next Tuesday, Secretary Nagel of the De- partuaent Of Commerce. and L<Abcx will Ko from hare to Port Arthur. Gal- weston anu Houston While al fzouss miles outside of that city. Secretary of War Dickinson win remain In New orleans to make an address before the waterways Convention Monday morn ing and will reioin the President at Jackson. Miss. late Monday afternoon. i.
 President Taft thoroughly enjoyed his four and half days and five nights on the Mississippi. And ai- though he has learned much of the difsculty that must be encountered in attempting to control that powerful waterway. he seemed today to be Just as enthusiastic as ever in the belief that the Mississippi can be made to reorganixe a channel deep enough to handle all of the commerce that can be consigned to 1t.
 The torpedo fiotilia. which had been sent to st. Louis to escort the Presi- dent down tine river, but which had been frightened away by falling water. and had been scurrying down stream ahead of the presidential feet, finally was picked up by the oieander forty i've miles above the city this morning |. The four grim little vessels slipped along in the wake of the Presidents fagship for an hour or more, but the smoke from their multitudious tunnels bec1ouded the entire fleet behind and finally they were ordered to steam ahead at full speed to New orleans to await the President there.
 Football Enthusiaat.
 Having developed into full-fedged baseball fan during the summer. the President started his career as q foot ball enthusiast this afternoon.
 The committee in charge of his visit decided yesterday that 1t would be too much a tax on the President to ask him to go to two football games in one afternoon, and if he was to go to see SewaRee play the Louisiana State University and the adnerents of Tulane and the Mississippi Agricultu- raj and Mechanical College were in sistent that he should call in at their game as well. The President decided last night that he certainly would see the Sewanee game. for Captain Butt, his aide. and one other member of his party were old sewanee men. and they put in a convincing word for their alma mater. When this became known, the President was besieged upon his arrival here by requests to attend the Tulane game as we'll,
 It was said that 1t had been exten- sively advertised that he would be- at the game and that 1t would be q bitter disappointment to thousands of people if he did not do so. So MT. Taft de- cided to go to both games.
 He first stopped in the Pelican Park and saw the Sewanee team make the final touchdown in q game which they won with apparent ease. Thence the president had a six mile automobile dash to Tulane campus where he saw thN last fifteen minutes Of play in an evenly watched game on by Tulane 2 to Q.
 At the Tulane game the presidents automobile was stopped along the side lines and Had ben standing there but 8 few moments when a lively scrim- age tackle occurred right in front of his machine. At both games the pres- ident's ears were filled with college cheers.
 welcome to New Orleans.
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