Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-29
TAFT TAKES CHICAGO
WITH HIS FAMED SMILE
President Passes Strenuous Day
as Guest of the Country's
Second City.
MAKES EIGHT SPEECHES IN ALL
Talks to Sons Of Erin, Newspaper
Men, Red Cross Society and
General Public.

Chicago an episode" There's a lot
going on in Washington, SO that when
I'm called away by a pleasant episode
such as this I've not had the time to
prepare the address you deserve" said
he when he began his speech ON con-
servation in the Auditorium Theater.
This is the. Presidents idea of an
episode:
His breakfast was scarcely finished
when he was whisked away from his
private car and taken to room in the
La Sale Hotel, where he made q
speech. A few minutes later he made
another-then another-and another
and another-and another-and anoth-
er-and another. Eight. Count EN- An
episode! What if the President were
willing to chalk off what he considers
fair days work? Would it make a
rhino hunt look like crochet party
on rainy Thursday afternoon? Yet
when Capt. Archibald Clavering Butt
assisted him to the platform OF his car
at the end of a day of third rail siren
uosity the President turned around
and smiled.
When the Presidents special stopped
at the temporary station on the Penn
sylvania railroad at 33d street it had
pierced the heart of solid phalanx o.
full blooded Gaels, but ON the outskirts
was a thick veneer of cosmopolitan
Chicago. There was "a delay of a min
ute. No President appeared. Then an
other minute went by and still another.
Photographers clinging to telegraph
poles by their left legs shifted to their
rights. Then the crowd surged to-
wards the rear platform as Mr.. Taft
made his appearance. The President
paused on the step for half minute
while dozen cameras clicked a stacat-
to salute.
There was beautiful tangle at the
start of the parade. Police and recep-
ton committee found automobiles to
right of them, automobiles to left of
them, and most of them were volley-
ing and laundering sufficient to drown
out cheers of salutation. Along the
route to the loop district men and
women were lined and in some places
school children, but not in great num-
bers. Occasionally the crowds cheered
as the head of the parade drew near,
but the cold morning and the heavy
fog that hung over the streets seemed
to have an effect dampening to enthu-
siaSm. In the downtown district
showers of confetti began to fall from
the windows of the sskyscrapers. Bits
uof green paper sprinAled the tile hats.
A sackful of confetti fell at the feet
of Capt. Butt in the Presidents santo.
the party. Long paper ribbons fioated
from the windows Of downtown build
ings and men in the parade caught the
ends and carried them along
president Taft reached his room MT
| the La Sale Hotel. 1t was time to
| meet the endowment committee of the
American Red Cross Society. But he
paused. Il must have "a shave" he ex-
planned. Then there was hunt for a
barber.
Ten minutes later the President had
begun a record breaking series of
speeches. He talked to the Red Cross
committee briefly and greeted with
much eordiality the officers of the or
ganization. Then the Irish Fellowship
committee, that stuck to him all day
like poor relations to a wealthy cousin,
piloted him to the Newspaper Club re-
ception in the Louis XVI room.
The Presidents grin Heightened a
bit as he listened to the sang of well
come sung by members of the club
Two hundred members of the Chicago
Newspaper Club warbled a song to the
tune of 1T Mas Christmas on the ISL
and" When the presidential party
drove from the La Sale Hotel to the
Auditorium Theater, where the aenser-
walton address was delivered. the
chimes in a church steeple south of the
loop district were ringing the tune
Wearing of the Green"
The speech the President delivered
before the members of the engineer
ing association in the Congress Hotel
was sort of 100 word dash He ex-
planned that press of engagements kent
him from saying more. and hurried of
to the Hamilton Club reception. After
his address there an attempt was made
10 give as many visitors as possible
an opportunity to shake hands with
the president like fans through turn
stile after play BALI is sounded. After
the Hamilton Club reception the Presi
dent was taken back to the La Sale
Hotel. where he remained until time tc
start for his train.