Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-22
Former Intimates Come to Greet
President During Day.
WILL DISCUSS NEW YORK POLITICS
Senator Burton and Other Prominent
Men Have Appointments.
HE DIMES WITH POLITICIANS
Returns PoIntbInnk Refusal TO Re-
quests TO Discuss National Affairs
or Comment on Minnesota
Primary Results.

CINCINNATI. O., Sept. H.-Refreshed by
a good nights sleep, President Taft early
today began receiving callers from personal
friends with whom he had been intimate
during his residence here. There was no
hint OF politics in any Of these visits,
To all requests that he discuss state and
national political matters or comment on
the primary results in New York Min
nesota. the chief executive returned the
same answer that he would have nothing
to say at the present time"
He especially declined to discuss his
meeting with Colonel Roosevelt in New
Haven on Monday.
Although the presidents visit has been
emphasized as home coming" he will
not escape politics entirely.
The New York situation especially Is to
be explained to him by several party
leaders One of these, United States SEN
ator Burton. has an appointment for to-
morrow, and It is likely that Wade ii.
Ellis, former assistant attorney general,
and L. H. Laylin chairman OF the repub-
lican campaign committee in this state,
will also talk with the president.
President Taft this Afternoon delivered
an address at the opening Of the new dam
In the Ohio river, In which he outlined his
views 10 Improvement Of waterways.
Address of the President.
President Tart said:
MY friends and fellow citizens; Since
left this, my old home, more than ten
years ago l have been able to revisit 1t
only few times, and then not for moro
than a day or two at a time. l welcome
this opportunity to meet old friends and
to renew old associations, for here when
my official duties are discharged at Wash
ington, l expect to return and TO spend
the rest OF my life. In ten years great
/ changes can come over a community That
one that strikes me most is the fact that
1 have to recognize the most active men
and women of the community today. not be
| rsco.ieeting their own faces, but by theii
resemblance TO their fathers and their
| mothers.
you are having exposition and as
acting as hosts to those from the neigh
| boring counties and states contribute to
| your business life and to those who are at
tracted here by the opportunities for artis-
| tic and social enjoyment that an old solid,
but public-spirited and advanced commun-
| ity can offer. Your music your art. your
educational system and the character OF
other communities does not depend for its
| excellence upon the percentage of increase
| in your population or the statistics OF
material growth which the new and excess
sivey growing city hugs to Its bosom.
| There are things in this work besides num-
| bers and besides money, and some OF these
things can only be obtained by a quiet
growth that it takes time to give.
City Rich in CuIture.
'The names OF this city benefactors-
Woodward, Hughes McMickin, Davidson.
Probasco, Longworth. Springer Sinton, Cos
! horn Theodore Thomas, Storrer Thoms,
! Hanna, VanWoermer, Proctor ingalls,, EN-
cry, Schmidlapp and many others-are
names which bring in review the interest
which this community has had and which
it has been encouraged in having, in edu-
cation, music, art and esthetlc culture
and confirmed those of us who know the
city intimately and love it in thinking IL
better to live here and remain in COM
parative poverty than TO go elsewhere and
grow rich.
1T isn't that we haven't business energy
and forethought for there is as much
business patronage from the surrounding
territory tributary to Cincinnati as in the
case of many cities that have more souls
within their corporate limits. But with
a large population across the Ohio in
Kentucky which Is as much a part of this
community for business and social pur-
pose II there were no river there. we
must always be content to have our statis-
ties as a city minimize our Importance and
must find our satisfaction in the fact that
from postoffice square and from our
banks there radlates an influence in busi-
ness and education, in social and esthetio
matters greater than from the centers
OF cities of far larger pretensions.
I'VE were ourselves the pioneers in de-
yeloping a direct southern business and We
took upon our shoulders public municipal
debt aggregating with interest 900
that we might with bonds OF steel. piercing
high mountains and crossing great rivers
unite us to the heart Of that section.
Improvement ~ River.
To-day you are celebrating the OPENING
of another great improvement which must
in the future have much TO do with the
business growth of the city. l mean the
improyement of the Ohio river from Pitts.
burg TO Cairo. II is TO this improvement
that l shall direct my remarks this after.
noon.
The distance from Pittsburg 10 Cairo by
way of the ohio river is eG7 miles.
'Durng the months of March, February
and April the river is full and has a depth
of certainly nine feet from one end to the
other for purposes of navigation. During
the months Of August. September and octo-
Der. the river is low and in many places
at low water the depth is considerably less
than six feet Notwithstanding the diff
oulties of navigation during these three
months, and indeed, during other months
Of the year. for the variations are not con-
fined TO the months stated there is today
a transportation OF freight on this river
amounting 10 something over 100000 tons,
3 and in the carriage OF coal the cost per ton
mile. that is the cost for carrying a ton OF
coal one mile, is four-tenths OF a mill-a
b lower rate in transportation than is known
elsewhere in this country
1 Large Business I'm Prospect.
A The Ohio river drains an area OF 2io.OA
a square miles. and in that area Is a popu-
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