The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-05
President Taft Will Climb
Mountain in Automobile

SEATTLE, Oct. 6.-Arrangements
have been completed at Rainier Ma
tional park, 80 miles from this city
to give President Taft Sunday, Oct s
one of the most wonderful automo
bile rides ever taken by any president
Mr.. Taft will scale Mount Rainier, the
biggest mountain in the United States
The scaling will be done in an auto.
mobile. No carefully tested alpine
stock to support the weight of an un-
usually heavy president has been or.
dered and no linlment for overworked
and sore muscles will be needed. In.
stead big automobile with its car
burator carefully adjusted to stand a
jump of more than 1000 feet in two
hours and cautious driver has been
secured.
The president will not reach the
summit. 1862 feet above sea level.
but he may step from the automobile
into the most wonderful flower garden
in the world at an altitude of 5000
feet and thence but few PAGES onto
countless acres of snow and ice fields
that extend up to the extinct volcanoes
crater, or out onto true alpine gla-
cier which in its flow down the noun
tain side is gouging a great canyon
out of solid rock. He will be taken
above the clouds as far up the noun
tain side as the Indians, fearful Of an
angry deity they thought embodied in
the peak, dared go, and to valley so
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they sanctified 1t as place of refuge.
Arriving at Tacoma Sunday morning
the presidents special train will be
rushed over branch line Of the Mil
waukee road to Ashford at the base OF
the mountain, where the wonderful
automobile ride will begin. A quick
run IL miles, to Rainier Inn, at Long
mire Springs, will be made; thence
through the Nisqually river canyon, to
the snout of the Nisqually glacier.
Passing through the shadow of cliff
of ice more than a hundred feet high
and over the Nishqually river rushing
from the base of this ice cliff, the
presidential party will start up on
what at times will be hair raising
trip. On road but nine feet wide CHS
led out of an almost perpendicular
rock mountain side he will go up and
up until he reaches the very point OF
the mountain that sticks out like a
great axe head between two converg
ing canyons. High in the air he will
turn right about and follow the ridge
of the mountain to where it juts out
of higher mountain, and then back
and forth up that mountain side until
he reaches its topmost ridge and
then over that ridge and on top of an
other. until suddenly the road swings
into wonderful mountain meadow
He will have reached Paradise Valley
or Goods roof garden above the
clouds, and far removed by Indian SUI
perstition from all the struggles and
trials. conflicts and disturbances OF
the lower world. The Indian here
cached his arms. Pursued or pursuer
he forgot his fear and foe, or his quar-
ry and entered at peace with all the
world
The government road winds three
miles around and through this valley
to the Camp of the Clouds. Here the
president will alight to wade kne,
deep in a field of wild flowers. up {
hillside to snow fields, but a little
ways out onto glacier, back agair
through the wild flower beds and Owe
small green carpeted hills to a higf
cliff at the edge of the meadow. Her,
he will get a wonderful view of thu
Nisqually, one of the great glaciers o
the world. 1t extends eight miles III
the mountainside and he will see Il
from its snout almost four miles be
low him clear up to its neve in the
snow and ice fields on the summit.
There are twelve of these great gla
ciers, all of the true alpine type with
measured flow of from 100 to loo
feet year, and as many inter or trib
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