The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07
ROOSEvELT'S TRIP.
Coming Tour Will Begin Wednesday
and End April 16.

New York, March THE itinerary
OF Iheodore Roosevelt's tour of the
country has been announced. He will
leave New York over the Pennsylvania
rallroad at 1915 a. m. on Wednesday
ana Sycamore Hill will not see him
again until Sunday, April is. Atlanta
is MS first stop and the tour, in its en-
tirety, literally Swings around the
circle"
The line of travel dips down to New
orleans, stretches across the south
west, follows the Pacific coast north
ward TO Puget sound. waivers into
Idaho and Montana and then reaches
home, through Chicago, where the col
onel Will stop for a few hours ONLY on
Saturday. April Is.
The full list of engagements occupies
y typewriter pages. but even this
does not meet the demands and u
seems possible that, as on other trips
the colonel frequently will break
through his schedule and speak unan-
nounced on the spur of the moment.
In the party will be Mr.. and Mrs
Roosevelt, Miss Ethel Roosevelt Miss
Cornel1a Landon, friend of Miss
EthePs, and Frank Harper. the COL
onePs secretary. Mrs. and Miss Roose-
welt will not join the colonel. however,
until he reaches Albuquerque, N. NJ.
and throughout the trip will not attend
any Of the public functions.
AT albuquerque, Governor Sloan, ct
Arizona, will meet the party and will
act as escort during the visit to the
Grand Canyon. Here also Chief Justice
Edward Kent, of the supreme court OF
Arizona, and Archie Roosevelt will
join for the sightseeing trip to the can
yon and for the ceremonies attending
the opening of the Roosevelt dam near
Phoenix, Ariz. Mrs. Roosevelt will ac-
company her husband as far as Los
Angeles and afte-' dining with Mr..
James A. Garfield, the willow of the
late president, will continue to Santa
Barbara. Cal.
With the possible exception of a few
short stretches, the trip will be made
in regular trains and public Pullman
cars.
Although he has chosen the subjects
Of many of of his addresses, the col
onel will speak extempore at most
points
At Atlanta he speaks on March be
fore the Southern Commercial congress
on THE South's Obligation in States
manship and Business Endeavor" At
Birmingham, Ala, the next day, ne
has engagements for breakfast, lunch
con and dinner. will make four
speeches and will visit Corey to see the
housing accommodations for steel EN-
ployees.
Other announced speeches are "Civic
righteousness" at Houston, Tex, on
March II, and the Earl lectures at
Berkeley, Cal, between March "a and
49, These are: 'Realizable Ideals"
"The Home and the Child 1.-THE Bib.e
and the Life of the People, 1.-THE Pub
lie Servant and the Eighth Command
ment'' and THE Shape of Public Opin-
ion and the Ninth Commandment
At the Commonwealth club in San
Francisco on March 29 he will discuss
1.-The Zone of Doubtful Authority Be
tween National and State Conserva-
ton" In Reno on April the subject
will be either "Civic Righteousness or
Good Citizenship"
Perhaps the incident of the whole
trip in which Mr.. Roosevelt takes the
greatest personal interest will be the
dedication of the Roosevelt dam on
March IS. He will make the dedicatory
address, afterwards pressing the but
ton which will release the first stream
of water from the reservoir behind the
dam to the thousands of acres it will
bring under irrigation.
At night there will be return to the
dam to view the electric illumination
and Miss Ethel Roosevelt will turn the
switch that sets the lamps ALLOWING.