Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-11-25
GOVERNORS As|MM|-
GRAFTON AGENTS
Chief Executives Of Eleven States
viii Tour the East in the In
terest of Development.

st. Paul Mimi, Nov. 25.-The prep
arations for the tour of the East By
the party of eleven governors of a:
many Western and Northwestern
states, scheduled to start from here
next Monday, are practically com
pleted The governors special train
has been made up" and fully equipped
and stands ready to start on its long
Journey when the signal for departure
is given. The train is quite long and
consists of several sleeping cars,
enough to accommodate the governors
and the members of their respective
parties, a dining car baggage car and
five cars containing well arranged ex'
hibits of the agricultural, horticultural
and mineral resources of the Western
states represented by their executives
in the party.
The governors included in the party
will be A. l.. Eberhart of Minnesota,
John Shafroth of Colorado, Joseph E,
Carey of Wyoming, R. l.. Wesley Of
South Dakota, John Burke of North
Dakota, James Hawley of Idaho, Ed
win Norris of Montana, NJ. E. Hay Of
Washington, Oswald West Of Oregon,
Tasker Oddie of Nevada and II. W.
Johnson of California. The governors
will be accompanied by their secre'
taries and members of their stats
The party will be in charge of former
Governor James H. Brady of Idaho
with whom the idea of the trip orig
mated, and Riley Atkinson, secretary
of the Chamber of Commerce of Boise,
) Idaho.
The tour of the Western governors,
the total cost of which will be about
$4,000, will extend over a leriod of
twenty-one days, during which time
twenty-one cities will be visited. The
train will start from here on Monday
evening and will make the following
stops: November 2S, Chicago No
vember 30, Kalamazoo and Grand
Rapids November 80, Detroit and To.
ledo; December l., Cleveland; Deem
her 2, Buffalo; December 4, Roches-
ter; December ), Syracuse and Utica;
December G. Albany; December Z,
Washington December s, Baltimore;
December 8, Philadelphia; December
II, New York; December u, Harris.
burg; December 10, Pittsburg; Deem
Der II, Columbus; December 10, In.
dianapolis; December IS, st. Louis;
December 10, St Paul.
At all cities where the governors
special" will stop there will be recep-
tons and banquets in honor of the
visiting executives. The cars contain
ing the exhibits will be thrown open
TO the public and there will be some
official in every ear to answer ques. |
tons and to distribute literature set |
ting forth the advantages to settlers
of the large fertile areas of the West. =
The exhibits contain specimens Of |
grains and other agricultural products,
displays of the various kinds of tim
Der growing in the West and speci-
mems of minerals mined in the various
Western states. In addition there are
hundreds of maps and photographs
showing the results of conservation
through irrigation, dry farming, drain
age and other methods employed to
conquer adverse natuarl conditions in
the so-called arid belt
One of the special missions of the
touring governors will be to attend
the National Rivers and Harbors Con-
gress at Washington. They will also
meet the governors of the Southwest
ern states assembled in Baltimore. At
Buffalo the date of the monetary ban
ouet of the Chamber of Commerce, at
which Senator Vreeland is 10 speak,
has been changed to December so
as to coincide with the arrival of the
NlSlliUS W eSleIu SONtlHOI5' III nearly b.
every one of the large cities visited
on their tour the governors will be
welcomed and received by the gov
errors Of the respective states During
their stay in Washington the gov
errors will formally call upon Presi-
dent Taft at the White House, where
they will be entertained as guests Of
honor
The object of the tour, as conceived
by former Governor James H. Brady
OF Idaho, is mainly educational Poi
itics is to be strictly barred and for
that reason the urgent invitations Of
the woman's suffrage advocates, ask
ing the governors to address suffrage
meetings in various cities during their
trip, have been politely but firmly de-
clined, The governors undertake the
"trip not only with a view of learning
by observing the conditions
N the East, but they hope TO convey
8 valuable lesson to the people of the I
svercrowded East by bringing before $
them convincing proofs of the enor {