The Detroit times., 1910-05-26
PLANS COMPLETED
FOR TAFT's TRIP
TO MICHIGAN |
President Will Leave Washington
yune Q and Will Arrive in Detroit
Following Day To Speak To
Board of Commerce.
he Will Leave for Monroe on Morn
ing Of June A To Unveil Statue
of Gen. Custer.

WASHINGTON, May 26.-As
speedy speechmahng trip as Presi'
dent Taft has yet made is scheduled
Tor June 20 and arrangements for tns
tourney were completed today.
Ada, Ohio; Detroit Monroe ana
jackson, Mich, will be visited In TWO
DAYS. En- route west the president
viii stop at Bryn Mawr to attend tne
commencement exercises.
The president viii leave Washing
ton June 2, visiting Bryn Mawr that
day. June he will attend the COM
mencement OF the Ohio Northern uni
yersity at Ada, Ohio, where he VIII
deliver the class address. The same
evening he will be rushed to Detroit
20 speak at banquet or the DetrolI
Board OF Commerce.
On the morning OF June the presi'
dent will leave Detroit for Monroe,
Mich, where he will unveil a statue
Of Gen. Custer. That afternoon he
WIN attend the semi-centennial cele-
bration OF the birth OF the Repubii-
can party at Jackson, Mich, remain
fng in Jackson for the evening. The
wresident will reach Washington the
byening Of June 5.
Congressman Edwin DENLY wired
Secretary Sawyer wednesday AFTER
noon that President Taft had given
positive assurance that he would keep
his Detroit engagement June 3. Ar
lrangements for his reception and the
banquet to be rendered him in the
Light Guard armory are now practic-
ally complete. The president has not
announced the topic Of his address,
nut 1t Is expected that he will devote
considerable attention to defense OF
The Payne-Aldrich tariff bill. Short
addresses will be made by Senators
Burrows and Smith and Congressman
DENLY. Gov. Warner and Mayor Brett
meyer will extend Official welcomes.
President Abner Z. Larned, OF the
Board OF Commerce, will be toastmas-
ter
Al committee will meet the presi-
dent in Toledo and escort him to De-
froit, the party arriving in the Michi-
gan Central depot at GAS p m. Here
the president will be met by four com
panies from the Twenty-sixth United
States infantry, stationed at Fort
Wayne, and special guard OF mount
ed police AS II would not be good
military form for Col Booth, the off,
Ger In command of the regiment, 70
march at the head OF such a small
body OF troops, he will ride in a car
riage and the military escort will be
headed by one of the subordinate
ofIiicers
The line OF march will be up Jeffer-
son to Woodward, up Woodward 70
CadilIac-sQ., east on Cadillac-sq to
Brush-st. and thence to the armory,
where the president will be received
by a committee and escorted to the
speakers table.
The Board Of Commerce officials are
sending out invitations to all its men,
hers and others, including the entire
Michigan delegation In congress. Tick
cts will be S., and the banquet will
he served by the Hotel Pontchartrain.
The Brush-st entrance will be used
Exclusively.
The presidential party will include.
besides the president, Capt Archibald
IButt, special military aide; w. w.
@fischler, assistant secretary: two Sc
lcret service men and one messenger.
Newspaper men will accompany the
party.
(. President Taft will spend the night
I'm his apartments on the special train
innd will leave early the following
,mOrning for Monroe.
" The committee on arrangements is
ms follows: Frederick H. Holt, chair
}man; Fred NJ. Alger, John N. Bagley.
Phillip Breitmeyer. Wilson s. Kinnear,
Abner r. Larned. Philip II. Mcmillan,
ECharles Moore, John r. Russell and
Charles B. Sawyer.