The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-27
WHEN THE PRESIDENT TRAVELS
Elaborate Pains Taken to Make the
Coming Western Trip a Sue
cess.


cess.
When President Taft goes travel
ing, especially on such a long trip
as the one he began last Friday
evening and to continue until No
vember 1, it requires a great deal
of planning and fine work on the
part of his private secretaries, the
secret agents, who are charged with
the responsibility of the presidents
safety, and on the part of the rail-
road officials of the country The
president will be Al or g days on
his contemplated trip, and every
minute of every day of the time he
is to be away has been provided for
the officials of the 26 different rail
road systems over which he will
travel have co-operated with each
other; the schedule which has been
made up shows just what hour or
fraction of an hour at which the
president is to arrive at and depart
from the different cities and towns
included in his itinerary.
1t wasn't until the President was
on his way to Beverly from Roches-
ter, n. Y, where he had attended
the encampment of the Grand Army
that he and his secretarial force had
worked the list of invitations down
to some thing like the limits of pos
sibility, but still not low enough to
make it practicable to get them all in
the program. On his way from AL
bany to Boston the president had
the passenger agent of the Boston
and Albany, who was accompanying
the train, invited down to Beverly to
go over the matter with Assistant
Private Secretaries Smithers and
Rudolph Forster. City Passenger
Agent c. e. Colony of the Boston
and Albany went to Beverly and af-
ter two days and a half of confer
ences with the private secretaries
was given tentative itinerary for the
trip, al done in typewriting, but
subject to change.
This proposed itinerary had to be
submitted to A. S. Hanson, general
passenger agent of the Boston and
Albany, because it is customary for
the passenger agent of the road on
which the president begins a trip
to make arrangements with the Off
cials of all the other railroads over
which the president proposes to
travel, and Mr. Hanson was on the
job from the start.
AS the president is to travel over
25 railroads in addition to the New
York Central system it was neces-
sary for Mr.. Hanson to get in touch
with the officials of those roads to
see if they could handle the business
on the dates tentatively fixed by the
president, and Representatives of all
the roads conferred with Mr.. Han
son Then when Thn Snppi1l train
had been arranged for the itinerary
had to be taken back to Beverly for
revision, number of changes were
made and last week Tuesday morn
ing President Taft put his 80 X on
it. Then the procedure began to be
more simplified.
In connection with the arrange
ments for caring for the president S
train each railroad company was re-
quired to guarantee to keep it's train
as nearly on time as possible, and
under no circumstances to run it
ahead of it's schedule. People will
wait for a delayed train to see the
president, but they miss him if the
train is ahead of time. There will
be about IL or IA men in the presi-
dents own party, including secretar-
les, stenographers and secret service
agnts. On the train arrangements
have been made for the accommo-
dation of nine newspaper men, who
will be with the president through
out the trip, and there will also be
an expert telegraph operator, so that
in case of a wreck, breakdown or
other delay, he can climb a pole and
make telegraphic connections.