Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-09-23
TRAIN
NOW IN CALIFORNIA
Completes Long Run From Port
land to California.
is GIVEN TWO LARGE DEER
Party Has View of Snowstornn, but
None of Its Cooling Effects-WiI-
son Shakes Hands With
Crowds in Oregon.


On Board the Presidents Special,
Sept. 17.-With five days ahead of him
In California, a greater number than
he has allotted in his tour to any 9TH
er state, President Wilson is expected
to combine the process of subordinate
ing himself to the peace treaty and the
League of Nations covenant by issu-
ing new appeals to the senate for its
support.
With the thermometers in the pri-
vate cars that make up the presidents
special registering temperature OF
nearly 90 degrees, the travelling white
House" received first-class view of a
snow storm, but none of it's cooling eff
fects.
1t was when the train came into
sight of Mount Shasta, which towers
Ia, 444 feet in the air, that the snow
storm was seen. Heavy dark clouds
shrouded the top of the peak, but field
glasses aided the party to detect snow
falling. President Wilson and Mrs.
Wilson were on the observation plat
form of the "Mayfiower" during most
of the afternoon ride through the beau
tiful upper Sacramento valley.
The presidential special, after max
ing a 34-hour run from Portland to
San Francisco, entered California at
POS o'clock in the afternoon, after
three Juggling engines had taken it
safely over the Siskiyou mountains.
The president is now on the stamping
ground of Senator Hiram JOhnson,Tone
of the foremost opponents of the en-
tire peace treaty, and on his stay here
and the receptions given him, much
will depend in the final stages of the
treaty battle.
Gives Other Men Credit.
Of late the president has been at
much pains to tell his audiences that
he is not the author of the idea of a
League of Nations, and he has given
credit to other men. He did not do
this at the outset of his trip. He also
has softened the note of defiance which
was so evident when the journey be-
gan, and his hope now seems to be
to win enough support from the Re-
publican majority so that the treaty,
while literally interpreted, will not
have to travel again the long and tedi-
Gus course of the peace conference.
The chief interest in his, five-days'
stay in California, though, rests in the
words he will use in describing the
out-and-out foes Of the treaty. one of
whom is Senator johnson.
For the first time since his speak
Ing trip began there was no stop
scheduled during the run from Ore
gon, and the president slept late while
his train was winding southwark
through the Cascades. He left Port
land late at night.
The presidents original plan to
have a public luncheon in the Santa
Francisco has been, abandoned and
instead he will attend luncheons both
Wednesday and Thursday at a San
Francisco hotel. He viii take an au-
tomobile ride to Stanford university,
but does not intend to speak there.
On Thursday he will cross the bay to
Oakland Immediately after the lunch
con and will visit the University of
California at Berkeley.
Presented With Two Deer.
At Grants Pass. Ore, and several
other places where his train stopped
for a few minutes the president shook
hands with the crowds which came
out to meet him. Grants Pass and
Glendale, Ore. each presented Mr.. and
Mrs Wilson with large deer A tag
tied on the one put aboard at Glen
dale was signed: by the Citizens of
Glendale" and read:
"As a token of our high esteem and
appreciation of your devoted efforts
for the benefit of mankind"
Oregon is for the League of Ma
tons, President Wilson was told by
Mayor c. B. Lambkin of Ashland, the
last town in the state the presidents
train stopped at before crossing the
boundary into California.
'"There is no party in it, either" the
mayor said.
81 am glad to hear that" President
Wilson replied. There ought not to
be-"
An elderly woman told the presi-
dent the Northwest was greatly inter-
ested in the League of Nations.
Every mother is in favor of the
| league covenant" the president said.
Eyes, we are" the woman replied
81 wish we could vote on the ques-
ton 40 times for it,"
President Wilson met his first Cali
fornia crowd at HornbrOOk when the
train was met by a crowd of town
folks and many school children. He
stood on the rear platform for several
minutes shaking hands. The crowd
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