Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-09-15
TAFT.
He Will Soon Be Off AGAIN
On An Itinerary of
the States.
On Wednesday He Will Start From
Boston on 13,OOO-MiIe Journey 81
That Will Well-Night In
clude Every State.

Beverly, Mass, Sept. 11.-Never did
soldiers march with prouder step than
did the two thousand Grand Army
veterans of Beverly and vicinity as
they paraded through the village
streets today and were reviewed by
President Taft. Each and every one
of the gray-haired veterans felt CRATE
full to the President, for they knew
| that in consenting to review their lit
| tie parade he had violated his VOW not
to participate in any public event dur
ing his stay here on vacation.
But three days remain of the Pres
ident's vacation, and they promise to
be exceedingly busy days. Expert
enced globe-trotter though he is, the
President finds that like a girl leav-
ing home for the first time he is apt
to become a bit furried on the eve of
departure on 13,000-mile trip The
President is looking forward to the
beginning Of the trip with mixed emo
t1ons. He is anxious to visit the va
rious places included in his itinerary
He is never happier than when travel
ing, but at the same time he has ex-
pressed himself as very sorry that his
vacation days are SO soon to end.
Tuesday morning Mr.. Taft will bid
adieu to Beverly. He will probably
motor into Boston from his summer
cottage here. Tuesday night he will
be the guest of honor at the banquet
| of the Boston Chamber of Commerce
The following morning at ten o'clock
he will start on his long joul ney back
to Washington, a journey that will
carry him through thirty-fve states
| and territories of the Union. The first
stop will be Chicago, where he will
| speak at a banquet Thursday night
From Chicago he will journey through
the Northwest, making stops at nearly
all the principal cities.
During his tour the President will
| traverse the Royal Gorge of the
| Rocky Mountains, will visit the Seat
| tie Exposition, will spend three days
in the Yosemite Valley, will stop off
at the Grand Canon of the Colorado,
will spend two days with his sister in
Los Angeles, will greet the President
of Mexico at Ell Paso, will take four
| days sail down the Mississippi, from
st. Louis to New Orleans, with vari-
Gus stops en- route, and will spend
four days ON the ranch of his brother
Charles P. Taft near Corpus Christi
Tex. Leaving New Orleans on No
vember 1, the return to Washington
will be by way of Jackson, Miss, Co.
lumbus, Miss, Birmingham, Ala, Ma
con, Savannah, Charleston, Augusta
Columbia, Wilmington and Richmond
arriving home on the evening of No
vember 10.
The President will be accompanied
throughout the trip by Capt. Archi-
bald w. Butt, military aide; Wendell
w. Michler, assistant secretary; DR.
]. J. Richardson, of Washington, D
c.; James Sloan, Jr., and L. G Wheel
. er, of the secret service, and Maj. Ar
thur Brooks, the Presidents confiden
tial messenger. Six newspaper me1
will make the trip, and for short dis
tances the President will have fo
company numerous governors, Unitet
: States senators and other men in pub
lie life.
Throughout the entire journe,
President Taft will be in touch wit
: the White House by means of specia
wires which the head of the executiv
e telegraph department has arrange
for. These special wires will be es
y tablished In zones, and as soon as tn
L Presidents train passes from one {
e these to another the loops into tn
g telegraph room at the White Hous
S will be rearranged.
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