Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-06
President to Cover 1900
Miles in 81 Days Travel.
WHOLE NATION TO SEE HIM
Trip Begins in Bay State and Covers
West and South.
VISIT TO SEATTLE EXPOSITION
To Shake Hands With Diaz at Mex
ican Border-Starts September
Is, Back November 81.

! The President made public today q
tentative outline of his trip through the
west and south this fall
1t will be wide swing around prac-
tically the entire United States embrace
ing journey approximating 1900 miles
as long as the cruise of the battleship
fleet from Hampton roads. through the
Straits of Magellan to San Francisco
bay. The trip will be one of the most
notable ever made by President.
| 1t will be as diverse as could we'll be
imagined. No Observation-Disclosures" tour
| could be devised to embrace as many
points of interest in SO brief space OF
| time as President Taft will give to his
| jaunt to the Pacific coast and back
through the great states of the south.
| The President, accompanied by Secre-
| tafy Fred W. Carpenter. Capt. Archibald
w. Butt, his military aid; several White
House attaches and perhaps a guest or
| two for various parts of the trip, will
| travel in private car attached for the
greater part of the time to regular trains
but running Special every now and
| then to fill in engagements at the smaller
| towns along the route and in the more
remote sections where trains are few
and far between.
0OOpC VI 0Iduu 4Oul.
| During his tour the President will trav-
erse the Royal Gorge of the Rocky
mountains, will visit the Alaska Yukon
| exposition at Seattle, will spend three
days in the famed Yosemite valley, will
| stop off at the Grand Canyon of the Colo
RADIO and follow the trail down into the
depths of that giant abyss, will greet the
President of Mexico on the International
bridge over the Rio Grande at Ell Paso
October 16, will take four-day 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 p. Taft, near
Corpus Christi, Tex.
Starting from the rugged shores of the
north coast of Massachusetts,, the Presi-
dent goes direct west from Beverly. He
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.
His acceptance book is closed.
There naturally will be many five-and-
ten-minute stops not Included in the
regular itinerary and many brief little
announced is to all intents and purposes
complete.
First Stop at Chicago.
The Presidents first stop will be at
Chicago, where he arrives shortly before
noon on the morning of September 16. and
spends the afternoon and evening, leaving
at am. Friday. September II. for Mad
| ison, Wis. where he will spend the entire
| forenoon Of that day, leaving Madison at
midday for Winona, Mimi, with a brief
StOD Portage. Wis en- route
| After spending Friday night at Winona
the President will reach Minneapolis
early the morning of Saturday, Septem-
ber 1S The President will spend all of
Saturday and Sunday in Minneapolis.
leaving Sunday night at pm. in order to
reach Des Moines, Iowa. the morning of
September 20.
Five hours will be spent in Des Moines
Then the President moves on to Omaha,
where he will spend the late afternoon
and evening.
Denver, Col, will be reached the after
noon of September 21, and the President
will go almost direct from his train to
the state capitol for reception to be ten
dered by state officials. by the chamber
of commerce. civic organizations. etc. At
8 pm. the President will make an address
| in the Denver Auditorium, where Mr..
Bryan last year was nominated for the
presidency.
The President and his party will break
fast with Thomas +. Walsh at Wolhurst.
near Denver, the morning of Wednesday,
| September %, and then return to the city
| for the chamber Of commerce banquet at
noon. Leaving Denver at 5 PM, Septem-
ber - the President and his party will
| stop for an hours visit at Colorado
| Springs and then go on to Pueblo, where
| in the evening they will be guests at the
state fair.
Visit to Seattle Exposition.
I The morning of September 23 will find
the President at Glenwood Springs for a
brief visit That afternoon he will visit
Montrose to have look at the great
Gunnison tunnel OF the western Colorado
irrigation project.
| Returning to Grand Junction to resume
the journey westward, the President will
| arrive at Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday
afternoon, September "A. to remain there
until Sunday afternoon, the 26th. when
the party leaves over the Oregon Short
| Line for Pocatello, Idaho, and Butte,
Mont the latter city being reached Mon
day, September -, at GAO am. After
spending half a day at Butte there will
| be brief excursion into Helena.
| Spokane. Wash. will be reached early
1 Thursday morning. the 2Sth. The entire
day will be spent in the city. The fore
noon of the 18th will be spent at North
Yakima. and the party. will arrive at Seat
tie at S:15 o'clock that evening.
/
tember ~ and October l. doing the
] Alaska Yukon exposition. leaving Seattle
| late the evening of the second day and
arriving at Portland. Ore, October at Z
am. Two days will be spent in Portland
the party leaving there at pm. Sunday
| October 3 for a trip down the famous
Shasta route. through the Siskiyou noun
tains and in view of Mount Shasta, to San
| Francisco.
! The President will stop the evening OF
| October 4 at Sacramento. reaching Oak
land. Cal, early on the morning Of Octo-
ber ). He will spend four or five hours In
and around Oakland and Berkeley before
| taking the ferry at 1890 O'Clock for San
| Francisco. After spending the afternoon
and evening of the 9TH In San Francisco
the President will leave early the morning
of the 9Th for the Yosemite valley.
| He will spend the eth. Sth and 9th in
the valley and. coming cut the morning OF
Sunday. October TO- will proceed to Los
| Angeles. stopping for three hours at
Fresno Sunday afternoon. The President
| win spend Monday and Tuesday. October
| II and II, in Los Angeles. visiting his sis
ter.
! Taft to Meet Diaz.
/ lie will arrive at the Grand Canyon the
morning of October Il. and will leave
/ Iroptinuod On Third Para