Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-06-02
PRESIDENT TAFT
. REVIEWED PARADE
The Smile Remained Through Long
Active Day.
RAIN CAUSED INCONVENIENCE
The Reviewing Stand Was at soldlers
and Sailors Monument at seth
STREET.-THE His Brothers
Home.

New York, May 31.-There was
scarcely a moment during the time
President Taft was in public view rid
ing through the streets or standing on
the reviewing stand that the Taft
smile was not seen. The president
bowed and smiled to eyeryonN :
The presidents special car Colonial
attached to train that left Washing
ton about midnight reached Communi-
paw at 6;18 and was at once surround
ed by Jersey City policemen, who kept
everyone at distance that the presi-
dent might sleep. When representa-
tive VanYechten Olcott and William 8.
Bennett appeared they were not recog-
nized by the guards.
President Was Asleep.
stop them, the presidents asleep"
directed secret service man. As the
Jersey City policeman started to carry
out these orders Representative Ben.
nett explained who he and Represents
tive Olcott were and the police fell
back. But the secret service men
made the representatives wait,
When the president appeared he
got into an automobile with the rep
resentatives, his military aide, Capt.
Butt and two secret service men. An
automobile filed with other secret
service men preceded him, and one
containing New York detectives fol.
lowed. The party went to the house
OF Henry w. Taft, ;; the presidents
brother, at No. SO West Forty-eighth
street. There a troop Of squadron A
was drawn up with bare sabres. A
bugler blew blast and two horses
reared, throwing two troopers. The
troopers were not hurt, and the presi-
dent smiled.
Met HE Brother.
By this time Henry w. Taft was on
the STEP
Hello, Harryl" called the president.
Hello" Bill" was the reply.
Then the two went to breakfast. A
little before o'clock Gen. George B.
Loud, chairman of the memorial COM
mittee, arrived and went in the Taft
with the brothers and
Capt. Butt to the Sherman Square
hotel, Broadway and list street. The
troop Of squadron A went ahead as
special escort.
Rode Down Broadway.
The president was hurried through
the hotel to the Seventeen street
side, where the old guard and an auto
were waiting him. With his brother,
Capt. Butt and Gen. Loud the presi-
dent took his place Immediately be-
hind the old guard. The procession
went all along Broadway through 72nd
street and up West End avenue for a-S
lew blocks, entering Riverside Drive
vt 10th street.
The president raised his hat con-
Jtantly as groups along the route ap-
,lauded or cheered and occasionally
le seemed to recognize persons high
n the windows or in the balconies OF
apartment houses.
At Reviewing Stand.
When the reviewing stand OF the
soldiers and Sailors monument at
9th street was reached the president
TODD at its front center a little ad.
-anced from the others and smillingly
Teeted the throng.
After the parade the reviewing
,roup moved to the steps of the monu-
nent for the literary exercises. Be-
ore the close there was slight down
our and secret service man held an
UMBRELLA over the president. The ex-
rcises were hurriedly concluded and
he president rode back to his broHl.
RS house. 0nly brief stop was
1ade here, after which H. W. Taft,
is wife, the president and his aides
rent for q ride through Central Park
nd Bronx Park, returning to the Taft
ouse for luncheon. They were fol-
,wed by the secret service automo-