Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1905 — PRESIDENT OFF ON A TRIP. [ARTICLE]

PRESIDENT OFF ON A TRIP.

Leaves Washington for a Hun ting Tone in South and West. With cheers and good wishes resounding at the station, President Roosevelt Monday morning started on his trip through the Southwest. Among those at the station were many friends of Mr. Roosevelt, including Postmaster General Cortelyou and Secretary Metcalf of the Department of Com mere# and Labor. The special train, which is one of the finest ever sent out of Washington, consists of three cars—the President's private car Rocket, »tbe Pullman sleeper Forest and the combination baggage and buffet car Viceroy. In the party besides the President were Secretary William Loeb, Jr., General S. B. M. Young, Dr. Alexander Lambert, Lieutenant G. R. Fortesque, one of the President’s aids; M. C. Latta, and J. L. McGrow, stenographers to the President; H. A. Strohmeyer, photographer, and representatives of the press associations. The trip was made primarily to enable the President to attend the reunion of his old regiment, the Rough Riders, held at San Antonio, Texas, and to hunt big game in Oklahoma and Colorado. Incidentally the President has delivered addresses at several places en route. His first important stop was at Louisville. There he was the guest of the city for three hours. He went from Louisville directly to St. Louis and thence via the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad to San Antonio, stopping at several places, among them Sherman and Dallas, Texas, on the way. After leaving San Antonio the President went to Oklahoma for a wolf hunt and proceeded thence to Colorado to hunt big game in the mountains. Unless it should be necessary because of unforeseen circumstances to curtail the trip, the President will be absent from Washington about two months. He expects to be in the wilds of Colorado for a considerable time, but will keep in constant touch with Washington by means of couriers to the nearest telegraph station, and thus will be enabled to attend to such important business as may demand bis personal attention. Dr. Lambert, who accompanies the President, was his physician In New York and lias hunted throughout the country which the President will visit.