Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-11-04
west VIRGINIA soNoRED
BY VISIT FROM PRESIDENT
Was in Moreantown on Wednesday to
Take part in Inauguration Of
University President.

President William H. Taft was the
guest of West Virginia Wednesday.
and Morgantown and Fairmont did
the honors. Governor Glasscock join
ed the Presidents party in Pittsburg
Tuesday, where they viewed the
nine tests. The party left Pittsbnrg
that night and came into this state
early next morning. arriving at Nor
gantown about three o'clock.
Extensive plans had been made for
the entertainment of the President at
the seat OF the State University,
where he took part is the inaugural
ceremonies incident to the induction
into Office OF the new president Of the
institution, Col Thomas z. Hodges.
At eight O'Clock in the morning the
festivities began. The West Virginia
Cadet Corps, headed by It's band OF
fifty pieces. met the President, and
accompanied by prominent citizens he
was escorted in automobiles over the
city and then taken TO the home OF
DIR. /. c. White, where breakfast was
served at ten o'clock.
While all this was going on two
thousand school children formed in
lire and marched to the home OF DR.
White. where the President made an
address to them after breakfast
Al eleven o'clock the President de
liyered an address on the university
campus. Following this he was the
guest of Colonel and Mrs. Thomas E
0Iodges at lunch.
At one o'clock he was escorted tC
hir train by the Cadet Corps and fif
teen minutes later was on his way (
Fairmont
At Fairmont Fifteen Minutes.
The Presidents train was due t.
arrive in Fairmont at two o'clocf
made. Fairmonters went to Morgan
Town that morning to meet the Presi
dent and try to arrange to take hin
in an auto TO the court house where
he could address the people.
Taft in pittsburg.
PittSaurg, Pa, Nov. l. - Preside-
Taits second swing around the ciroi
as originally planned came to an en-
here in the most enthusiastic and b,
far the noisiest demonstration he Ia
experienced In ali the $4,000 miles h
has travelled.
Pittsburg celebrated the centennia
OF steam navigation on western divers
and Mr. TAFT was the star attraction
in the celebration. According to ST
perintendent OF Police McQuaid,
there were close to 10000 persons a
the wharf on the Monongahela rive
when the president was taken aboar
the steamboat Virginia to review bh
''tieet" anchored there.
For five minutes after the presider
tial automobile turned down over tn
cobblestones to the river bank erer
whistle on every steamboat, river tus
barge or motor boat within miles wa
tied down The noise, in its intensity
reminded the president of target prat
ice by feet of battleships wit
twelye-inch guns.
PRAISES roosevelt
1t died down long enough for Mrs
Alice Roosevelt Longworth to chris
ten replica" OF the New Orleans
the first steamboat on western waters
which was navigated down the Nc
nongahela and the Ohio 100 years az
by her great-grandfather, Nicholas
Roosevelt.
There was quiet for moment agai
while the president spoke briefly
praising former President Roosevelt
for his successful efforts ON behalf q
the Panama canal, bat when the VII
ginia, the flagship of the feet, turne
out into the stream the noise starte
again. For more thsn an hour aud
half the Virginia, with the presiden
in the pilothouse or on the uppe
deck, steamed down he Ohio and the
back to the wharf Both banks of thes
rivers were lined wi, people.
Suffraeette BaffIed-
President Taft refused to go o
record as favoring woman's suffrage
A handsomely dressed young woma
approached the clerk at the hote
where the president was lodging an
asked to see him. When told he wa
in his room and could not be disturb
ed, she requested that the clerk sen
to him the paper which she handle
bin. The clerk complied. and shor
tine the paper, a petition favorin
woman's suffrage, was returned with
out the Presidents signature or CON
ment
At that moment the governor O
Pennsylvania entered the lobby an,
was pointed out to the woman. Sh
hastened to his side, and unfoldini
the document, asked him IL he be
lieved in women voting.
81 believe in all intelligent person
voting" replied the governor.
"Then sign this, please" she said.
The governor ran his eye over tn
petition and the names appended, and
handing II back 10 the woman, wakes
away without another word TIL