Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-18
COMING BACK TUESDAY
Senator Warren Discusses Garrison
ing Canal Zone.
Rev. DR.. Clark Sends Resolutions
Adopted by the Recent Atlantic
City Convention.

iSSiuCht al Will MAKE his SeCOhu
weekend visit to the summer capital at
Beverly this week. The President will
leave Washington for Boston Saturday
afternoon and will spend Sunday and
Monday with Mrs Taft and the children
at Parramatta, the new Taft cottage.
He will return to Washington Tuesday
morning. The President expects to get
out on the links at the Myopia Club Mon
day and will spend Sunday resting or
motoring about the Massachusetts coun-
tryside. Secretary Hilles and Maj. A. w.
Butt probably will go with the President.
His car will be attached to the Federal
express, the train which was wrecked at
Bridgeport, Conn.,, last week with great
loss Of life. No extra precautions have
been taken by the New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroad Company, but no
anxiety for the Presidents safety was
manifest today. The President has trav-
eled on this train for two years and has
every reason to believe that he Is per-
fectly safe.
Canal Zone Garrison.
Senator Warren Of Wyoming, chairman
Of the committee on appropriations Of
the Senate. and former head Of the COM
mtttee on military affairs, talked with
the President today about the dispatch
Of companies Of artillery and regiments
Of infantry and perhaps cavalry to the
Panama Canal Zone. The Wyoming SEN
ator predicted that some of the troops
eventually needed at Panama would be
quartered there within year
He was Of the opinion that coast
artillery alone will not be sufficient
for the needs on the zone. but that
parts of the mobile army will be sent
also. Senator Warren said that there
would be no need to spend a great
amount OF money in providing barracks
for the troops on the Canal Zone. He
believed. he said, that many of the
houses now used by employees of the
commission could be turned over to the
troops.
The whole question of fertilization Of
the big ditch was talked over by the
President and Dir. Warren, but no
decision was reached as to when the
ator declared that the big guns for the
batteries would be down on the canal
within less than q year and the troops
would be sent close after them.
Going to Mountain Lake Park.
President Taft has promised the Noun
tain Lake Park Chautauqua Association
that he will visit Mountain Lake, Md.
August o. This will be Grand Army
day at the park.
The Seattle saengerbund Of the North
Pacific Saengerfest has invited the Presf-
dent to attend its celebration August
10 to p. The jolly Good Fellows Of West
Hoboken, Nj, urge the President to at
tend their annual outing in August. The
Monmouth county On. j. horse show,
to be held at Long Branch, N. j., sends
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Grateful for Presidents Remarks.
Rev. DR.. Francis E. Clark, president
forwarded to the President resolutions
adopted by the board of trustees Of
the society. at Boston, sending a "spe
cial message of gratitude for the
President'l part in the recent conven-
ton at Atlantic City and for the most
helpful addresses delivered by him"
DR.. Clark, in forwarding the resolu-
tons, writes the President:
"You may be interested to know that
the motion was made by Canadian and
seconded by an American. / scarcely
think that even you can realize how much
your words relating to peace and interna-
tional fellowship meant to the thousands
Of young people who heard them and the
millions who have read them in the pa
Of thousands Of societies and treasured
in the hearts Of the young people all over
this country and throughout the world,
while your generous and gracious words
about the Society Of Christian Endeavor
and its principles. and it's efforts to bring
the young people of the different denom-
nations and the different nations to-
gether. were appreciated by every one
more than ! can express to you in this
letter.
The National Council Of the Junior Or
der of American Mechanics, in conven-
ton at THIN, Ohio. has sent to the White
House resolutions declaring against un-
desirable immigration.
Senators Davis and Bradley called on
President Taft today about the case of
Mrs. Katherine c. Gates, who has been
confirmed by the Senate as postmistress
at Walnut Ridge, Ark. Efforts have
been made to prevent a commission be-
ing issued to Mrs. Gates. who was for
merly from kentucky. and in whom Sen
ator Davis has taken an interest. After
the case was explained TO the Presi-
dent he agreed to sign the commission.