The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-03-04
PRESIDENT HAS
BUSY SCHEDULE
Taft is Leading a Strenuous Life
and Friends Want Him
to Slow Up.
MANY PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS
II is Feared He Will Overtax His
Strength and Effort is Being Made
to Have Him Cancel Some
of His Dates.

Washington, March 4.-Some OF the
presidents friends, fearing that he may
overtax his strength and physical en-
durance are urging him to cancel some
of the many public engagements he
has made for the next few months and
to take life bit easier until the time
arrives for his summer vacation. The
past winter has been an exceedingly
strenuous one for Mr.. Taft and ii Is
small wonder that of late he has ap-
peared tagged and worn out at times.
During the past few weeks he has been
absent from Washington several times
to attend banquets and meetings in
outside cities. The trips were made
with the minimum loss OF time and
consequently left the president little
time for rest or recreation.
The schedule Of the presidents pub
lie engagements for the next three
months shows that he will be kept busy
until the arrival of warm weather.
Week after next he is to go to Chicago
in response To an invitation to speak
at the st. Patrick's day banquet of
the Irish Fellowship club of that city.
The program prepared for the day is
sufficient to show the strain imposed
upon the president on such occasions.
He is scheduled to arrive in Chicago at
s o'clock i'm the morning and will be
escorted by a reception committee to
the La Sale hotel, where he win listen
to the informal addresses of welcome.
At IL o'clock he will visit the Newspa-
per club. and at 1890 o'clock he will
be entertained at luncheon by the local
committee. At O'clock in the after
noon he will make an address in the
Auditorium to a conservation conven-
tion and at o'clock he will attend a
reception at the Hamilton club. An
hour later he will receive the members
of the Fellowship club, and at O'Clock
he will deliver his address. so that he
may leave Chicago at 1880 p. m. AZ
ter an all-night ride he will arrive In
Rochester i'm time to speak at dinner
city. Thence he will hurry on to
Albany. where he will also make an
address. From Albany he will go to
New Haven to attend a meeting of the
Yale corporation, and the next day will
find him in Providence to speak at a
banquet of the New England Manufac-
turing Jewellers.
During the month of April the pres
ident is scheduled to attend public
functions i'm Washington two or three
times a week. He will address the Ma
tional Woman's Suffrage association
convention and speak at the dedication
Of the new home of the Bureau of
American Republics and also at the
dedication of the new library building
lat Harvard university. The first of
May will find him again on his way
west to fill engagements to speak in
Pttsburg. Cincinnati and probably one
or two. other places. A few days after
his return To the capital he will take a
hurried trip to New York to open the
Actors Fund fair i'm that city.
Men close to the president say that
he is not i'm bad health in any way and
is physically sound and robust, but at
the same time they think he has been
overtaking himself and have not hesi-
tated to advise him to shorten his
hours of labor when at home and to
make fewer trips away from the city
or give more time to them.