The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-25
Seventeen States Visited.

seventeen states visited,
Starting from New York on Tuesday,
Aug. %, the Roosevelt itinerary COW
ers nearly $500 miles. He traverses
seventeen states, has twenty sched-
uled stops and fourteen regular
speeches and is gone nearly three
weeks. The formal talks represent but
a traction of those to be made, how
ever, as there will be cheering throngs
at every stop, and, given a combination
OF shouting multitude, a rear plat
form and the colonel, only one result
can follow. The speeches may not be
long and may not say much about pol
1tlcs, but speeches there must be. In
deed, the only difference between this
tour and one made while Roosevelt
was an occupant Of the White House
is that this one is to be more noisy.
1t is presidential tour plus.
In detail the itinerary of the trip is
as follows: Leaving New York on the
morning Of Aug. %, the first stop is
at Utica, where the initial speech of
the series-an address on the country
life movements delivered before a
grange picnic. There is a days stop
IN Utica, the departure being made at
midnight on the Oath. Arriving at
Buffalo, there is an hour between trains
with breakfast at the Ellicott club.
The trip to Chicago ends at 9 o'clock
on the evening of the 25th with nearly
two hours stop. Here the Hamilton
club has extended an invitation, the
same club, by the way, that entertains
colonel Roosevelt on his return to the
Windy City two weeks later. Leaving
Chicago at 1915, there is thirty min
utes' stop at Omaha on the afternoon
Of Aug. 26. after which the long run
across the plains to Cheyenne is be-
gun. Arriving at the Wyoming capt.
tai at 10 o'clock on Saturday. Aug. q,
the empyrean and all other rippable
things will be torn into shreds.
Frontier Days" Cause of Trip.
Cheyenne is not only the feature of
the tour, but the reason for its exist
ence. The invitation to it's frontier
days" celebration was accepted in
by Colonel Roosevelt after his emer-
gence from the African jungle. "Fron-
tier days" is a chapter out Of the
book of the old west. 1t has come to
be a national event and is attended
even by people from foreign lands. It
is meeting Of the cowboys from all
the states and territories where cow
boys still flourish. 1t is real wild
west show by men and horses fresh
and on their mettle. In it men from
Texas meet those from Oregon, the
event of the year for all the riders in
the short grass territory.
Imagine the appeal that such an
event would make to Colonel Roose-
welt! Go? Why, of course he would
go. He had himself been cowboy in
Montana. Anything that smacked of
the old life was as meat and drink
And so after his trouncings by the
machine in his own state he is on his
way to the west-the big and virile
west that loves him as it's very own.
Real West at Cheyenne.
At frontier days" the most incor-
rigible of the outlaw horses are roped
and ridden, the biggest steers are las
seed and tied in the quickest time, the
widest races are run, the best cow
boys and cowgirls of the west COM
pete and take prizes. In fact, it is an
occasion that runs to superlatives as
naturally as the sparks fly upward. At
"frontier days" the cowboy cham
pionship Of the world is decided. There
10, the poor Indian" foregathers and
doffs his civilized attired for the habili-
ments Of his forefathers. At "fron-
tier days" comes in the incarnation of
the old west-likewise of the new.
Automobile races are run-does that
not seem a sacrilege?-and Mr.. Upto.
date rubs shoulders with the Oldest
inhabitant. 1t is open, free hearted.
cordial-the best of the west of YES.
terday and of today
4 (, And at frontier days" appears