The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-18
Turf From Old Ireland Upon
Which President Was to
Stand to Deliver His Adj
dress Queerly Disappears
CONSERVATION POLICY is
TOUCHED ON IN SPEECH
Starts Cheers for Roosevelt by
Referring to Former PreSi-
dents Stand on COnSeNa-
ton of Natural Resources
WITHDRAWALS OF LANDS

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Chicago, March 17.-Nlsat be- :
= came of the piece of the 's0uld =
= sod" On which President Taft WAS =
= 10 hnye stood while addressing =
+ the 81. PafFiciS's banquet tonight =
y Is something OF mystery In 4
: some way the sod has disap- =
= peared The sO3 WIS imported =
= so that the President might adj =
= dress lrish-Amerfcans from the >
= real soil of the EsaeraId Isle. 1t =
= was first reported missing from =
= the ship on which il was being =
= carried, but this rumOF proved =
= false. Upon Its arrival in Chicago >
= Il was stored at the la Sale no =
= tel, where the banquet was held !
= tonight.
Ever since its arrival crowds of :
+ IFishnen and women have visited 3
= the hotel and cried at the sight :
: OF this tangible bit of their faith
, eTlaRd. These people in some cases
, undoubtedly carried away small =
= pieces of the sod, but the heavf-
y est iHrOad Is said 90 have been :
made last nfghtJ Just how, Is not :
= clearly explained by the souvenir
= hypothesis. When the dfsaBpeaF-
= ance was discovered, the official )
= explanation included a statement =
: that the sod was altogether too :
= bulky fer q banquet ROOM
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St Patrick was notably. remembered in
Chicago today, the bTunt OF the eelebra-
ton falling upon President TAFT, who was
thoroughly tired man when his train
left tonight for Rochester \. Y. During
the day he spoke to members Of the Chi
cage Newspaper club, to the Traffic club,
to mass meeting. to members and
guests of the Hamilton club, and twice
at roe H.ane IL =
lOwship club. his host for the day.
In these speeches the President, whose
increased ease in OTatOTy was quite gem
orally remarked, touched upon states
men correspondents" who colOred facts
TO suit their views, and TO railway men
of the Traffic club he expressed his trust
in the sense of justice OF the American
people. He averred that he had learned
more in the first year OF his administra-
ton than he could hope to assimilate in
the next three.
Too Tired to Remember.
In an informal talk at the first Of the
two entertainments provided by his hosts
"a luncheon at noonday-his WEAKNESS
uncOnsciously. crept into his speech.
when L arrived here yesterday"
he said but the slip caused nothing more
than a smile, of which the President
seemed unconscious. It probably seemed
that he bad been there two days, for the
forenoon udu De5n crowded Win OfALDEy
and handshaking enough for 4S hours.
Speaking Of the prosperity of the coun-
try. the President referred especially TO
advances made in the south Il like 10
dwell upon that said the speaker, "be-
cause down i'm the south there was a time
when she was hindered and had SEEM
ingly little chance of any real progress.
But now she Is making more progress
than any of US, east, west or north And
know that YOU, northerners that You
are welcome that fact, because you real
lie there was a time when she did not
have quite a fair showing.
The Presidents brother Charles P,
Taft unObtrusively edged into the crowd
during the reception given by the News
paper club, and was also present at the
luncheon. A harp of shamrocks, sent
from Ireland by John Redmond, the irish
Nationalist leader, was presented to the
guest OF honor.
At the conclusion OF this luncheon. al
though il was time for him to start for
the mass meeting at the Auditorium, the
President sought his room for half aa
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