The Washington herald., 1911-12-08
GOVERNORS FEAST
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kIns, Senator Clarence D. Clark. Senator
Nelson, Senator Warren, Senator Nc
Cumber, Senator Gamble, Senator Hey
burn, Senator Dixon. Senator Guggen-
helm, Senator Chamberlain, Senator
Crawford, Senator Gronna, Senator
Myers, Senator Works, Representative
Frederick c. Stevens, Representative
James c. Needham, Representative Frank
w. Mondell, Representative William z.
Humphrey, Representative Joseph R.
Knowland. Representative Julius Kahn.
Representative Frank NJ. Nye, Represen-
tative Charles n. Pray, Representative
Eben w. Martin, Representative Charles
II. Burke Representative Louis b. Ham
ma, Representative Edward T. Taylor,
Representative Burton l.. French. the
secretary to the President, Hon. c. d.
Morris, Hon. ]. L.NDay, Messrs. Colvin B.
Brown, Reilly Atkinson, Lewis Penwell,
Hugh c. Wallace, William Hanley, L. Y.
Mcdowell, c. +. Johnson, J. E. Barnes.
S. j. Rich. Lieut. John w. Timmons, and
Mai. Archibald w. Butt.
Arthur J. Dodge. president of the Press
Club. was master of ceremonies at the
reception following the White House din
ner The affair was semi-formal in char
acter, and for the first speaker President
Dodge called on former Gov. Brady, OF
Idaho Other speakers to follow with
fve-minute talks were Gov James II.
Hawley, of Idaho; J. J. Rich, Idaho
immigration commissioner: Gov. Edwin
l.. Morris. of Montana; Gov. Adolph G.
Eberhart. OF Minnesota, and Gov. John
Burke. of North Dakota.
Reception at Club.
All told of the vital reason for their
tour-the development of the West as
the granary Of the nation-and all dilated
Upon the immense farming possibilities
OF the country west of the Mississippi
and the Rockies. The reception of the
governors at the Press Club lasted from
10 o'clock TO midnight.
Three or four big cars of the Great
Northern Railway. which started out as
parts of the governors special train.
were the means of delaying nine State
executives several hours overtime in
Baltimore Yesterday, and brought to the
Union Station at l o'clock in the after
noon, the District Commissioners. the
presidents of the Washington Chamber
OF Commerce and Board of Trade for
their third trip of the dav.
The big cars and lowroOfed tunnel
in Baltimore were the contributing causes
of the delay Though much behind time.
the governors came to Washington en-
thusiastic for the welcome planned aud
imbued with a spirit of jollity that ar-piy
repaid for their hardness. Gov. JCr.. -.
Shafroth of Colorado, was eXpeCte.- }
make the trip but at the last minute
failed 10 join the party and sent along
his lieutenant governor, Stephen r. Fitz-
gerald to represent their State.
The Reception Committee.
Gathered at the station to meet the
visitors were Commissioners Rudolph,
Johnston, and Judson; President Noyes
and Secretary Eynon of the Board of
Trade, and President Oyster and Secre-
tary Grant, of the Chamber of Com
merce When the big cars failed to pass
through the tunnel, the governors had
hurriedly chartered a special, and were
whirled across Maryland in forty-three
minutes to be greeted by the local enter
tainment committee.
The morning programme was utterly
smashed by the late arrival of the Yisi-
tors and the governor plan to attend
the morning session of the Rivers and
Harbors Congress at the Willard was
abandoned. They were taken to the Cap
itol instead, where they lunched with the
representatives of their
respective States,
At 2 o'clock the governors were met
at the Capitol for the spin about the
city. Everything went merry as we'd
ding bell at the outset, but through a
shift in the programme, the long line of
went to the Willard where
Gov. Noel of Mississippi and Gov. De-
neen or Illinois were added to the party.
1t later developed that some of the cars
followed the original route of the trip,
down Sixth street from Pennsylvania
avenue through the Mall. One driver
went TO sleep in front of the Willard,
iguratively speaking, and before he re-
covered. the line in front of him had
gone, no one professed to know where.
and the six or seven machines to the rear
were tdriven by some rather bewildered
drivers.
Later the missing ones were sighted
I'm Fifteenth street and the whole line
put on speed for The White House, where
President Taft received the. governors
along with a delegation from the Rivers
and Harhors Congress. More confusion
resulted In the. departure from from the
east side OF the White House and the
automobile train was finally split into
groups Of six or seven machines which
went over the route without knowing
each Others location.
The trip through the Mall was elm.
mated from the programme The party,
or parties, proceeding north In Sixteenth
street, to the Park Road entrance OF
Rock Greek Park. They followed the