Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-28
PRESIDENT RooSEvEIE ENTERING HIS CARRIAGE THE DEPOT

deliberate plan, there is eternal fitness IN
the fact that the name of the car in
which he is travelling is Republic
The colonel will be i'm Omaha all day
Friday and Friday night, leaving at 7:5o
o'clock Saturday morning over the North
western foB Sioux Falls.
Travelling in the Republic" with Colonel
Roosevelt are William b. Rowland, Ernest
Hamlln Abbott, Harold ]. Rowland, and
Frank Harper. In another car Forest"
there comes dozen or more prominent
newspaper writer's, including two represen-
tatives OF the Associated Press.
To Colonel Roosevelt base and widely
travelled, this junket Is comparatively
short, vet when consideration is given to
the wide range of country he traverses,
the route is not so short after all. Take
map and stick a pin on the dot that
represents New York. then trace the
way out to Pueblo. which represents
the southwestern limit of the Jour
ney. Then from Pueblo trace back to
Kansas City, thence to Omaha. thence To
Sioux Falls, thence to Fargo. which is the
northwestern extremity OF the tour. Then
from Fargo back to New York by way
OF ST. Paul and Milwaukee. Figure on
the number of miles this route represents
and you will see at once that II is a trip
of greater proportions than seems APP
parent at first glance The route is trl-
angular In shape. New York being the
eastern point of the triangle with Fargo
and Pueblo representing the other end.
Cities in which Colonel Roosevelt has
stopped on the way and those IN which
he Is yet TO stop, are: Utica. Buffalo,
Chicago, Omaha, Cheyenne. Denver,
Pueblo, Ossawotamie. Kansas CITY, Sioux
city, Fargo, st. Paul Milwaukee Free
port, Cincinnati aad' Pittsburg. OF course
he may tatry briefly AT other places en-
route. but the cities mentioned are sched-
uled on the itinerary for stops ranging all
the way from one hour to two days. When
the colonel Is once more back In the Out
look office. returned from this tour he
will have covered a distance of 5,493 miles,
distributed over various railroads as fol-
lows: Burlington. 1874 Milwaukee, 9s5;
Great Northern. sos; Missouri Pacific $50;
New York Central 964; Northern Pacific,
ESQ: Northwestern. 1O22; Pennsylvania 1859,
and Union Pacific. 623
on the occasion Of Colonel Rooseveits last
visit to Omaha one OF the salutation fea-
lures that seemingly most impressed him,
was the historic old cannon brought by
Company l. of the Thurston rifles from the
Philippines This old war boss" beIched
forth vocferous welcome to the president,
but he will miss 1t when he comes again,
for an explosion some time ago wrecked
the old cannon
Judge Ben s. Baker. old-time Omahan,
formerly on the territorial supreme bench
of New Mexico during the Roosevelt ad-
mlnistratlon, was president OF the Albu-
querque Commercial club when President
Roosevelt visited the New Mexico metrop-
oils. and the famous saddle blanket pre-
scented by the albuquerque Commercial
club was originated by Judge Baker, who
Is now OF Omaha again. having retul ned
from New Mexico. Judge Baker conceived
the idea OF saddle blanket as being the
proper token for Roosevelt. then president.
and an unlettered Navajoe squaw, ELLIE"
by name, did the work, fulfilling the design
outlined by Judge Baker. President Roose-
welt expressed great appreciation over the
present. and II is said that on many Of his
horseback journeys he has used II. The
blanket is 2sx5s inches. the regulation size
of saddle blankets.
Omaha being the halfway house between
the Atlantic and the Pacific, the railroad
center of the Missouri valley, and the logi-
many persons of worldwide prominence.
Five presidents. during their tenure of
office, have been visitors here-Grant,
Cleveland, Harrison, Mckinley and Roose-
welt. or these, Grant and Roosevelt are
the only zones to return as private citizens.
The coming of General Grant, as president.
vas at that time the most important oc-
casion OF the kind in the history OF Omaha,
but scarcely less important, IL measured by