Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-11-23
ARRIVES AT OLD P0INI;
IS GUESTS OF RICHMOND
Chief Executive VIII Spend Twenty
four Hours In Old Confederate Cap
itai-WiIi Address Virginia Eduea-
tionai Conference This Afternoon
and Reach Washington Tonight.
tBy Associated Press)

RICHMOND, VA, Nov. GLAND
ing from the armored cruiser Tonnes
see at Fort Monroe this afternoon.
after flying visit to the isthmus OF
Panama, President Taft came to Rich
citizens OF the old Confederate capt.
tai for "a hours.
Mr.. Taft dined at the Westmore-
land Club and later held an informal
reception at the Commonwealth Club.
He is stopping tonight at the Jeffer-
son Hotel Tomorrow the President
will breakfast with Governor Mann at
the executive. mansion. will be enter
tanned at luncheon and will speak in
the afternoon to the Virginia Educa-
tional conference. The President will
reach Westinghouse S:35 o'clock to-
morrow night.
Stops at Williamsburg.
On his way 10 Richmond this af-
ternoon, Mr. Taft stopped for heif an
hour at Williams burg to visit the old
William & Mary College and the Bru-
ton parish church which dates back
to 1852. From the pulpit of the his
toric church he made a little speech
in which he declared that the making
of the constitution and the making OF
the nation were inde,ibly linked with
the men who lived in Williamsburg
and othenparts of Virginia. -
THE men who lived in Williams
burg and all through Virginia" said
the President" fought the early fights
with the old governors. that those of
us in Ohio hardly knew were fought,
and yet were the real bases for the
successful struggles that came later.
CHARLES p. Taft. the Presidents
brother who accompanied him to Pan
ANA. left the party here and continued
on to his home in Cincinnati.
Salute at Fort Monroe.
The cruiser Tennessee, conveyed
by the Montana, passed in the Virgi-
MIA eapes shortly before 8 o'clock this
morning and came to anchor of the
government dock at Fort Monroe. a
little more than two hours later AS
the big gray cruisers steamed slowly
by the fortress, presidential salute
of 81 guns doomed from cannon on
the ramparts. The President remain
ed aboard the Tennessee until after
three o'clock in the afternoon Both
the Tennessee and the Montana sa-
luted Mr, Taft as he was piped over
the side and his blue ensign futtered
down from the main truck of the flag
ship where, for the past FIVE DAYS II
had flown as the symbol OF the high
est executive authority of the United
States 4
Landing at Fort Monroe, the Presi-
dent found eight companies OF coast
artillery lined Up in dress parade to
greet him. while the saluting cannon
roared another tribute from across
the ancient most surrounding the
fortress
Meets "oeaeon- at Old Point.
The blue flag of the sea was replac-
ed by the army's presidential nag OF
red as the srtilierymen marched in
escort of the President from the dock
to the railway station A company
of Richmond citizens went 20 Fort
Monroe to meet the President One
of the first the President greeted was
Major j. c. Hcmphili. formerly OF
Charleston. but now OF Richmesd-
Deacon said the Presideut TO the
veteran editor. Charleston does not
seem the same without you"
The deacon" replied that the Rich
mond folks we're just like Charleston
hans. ~oaiy a little more So"
Others In the Richmond party we're
Mayor Richardson. Lieutenant Cover
nor EIiyson. Ex-Governor A. J. Mon
tague. George W Stevens. president
OF the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway;
". W. Wood. president. and W. T..
Dabney. secretary OF the chamber Of
commerce.; Colonel Rarton ". Grun-
DIV. Eppa Hsnson- Jr-; William n
White. presi6f OF the Richmond
Fredericksb1X & Potomac Railroad.
and Jadxc r. r. Prentice.