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Show PLANS COMPLETE FOR PRESIDENT'S TOUR TO COAST (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. All arrangements arrange-ments are complete for the president's tour of the country, according to Assistant Assis-tant Secretary Rudolph Forster. whose experience in routing presidents "around the circle was gained under McKinley, Roosevelt and Tnft. Forster maps the itinerary, organizes the expedition 'and then stays at home to run the executive office. President Wilson will follow his usual custom of taking Mrs. Wilson with him and the Pacific coast is almost as much interes1 el in seeing her as It is in getting get-ting si -,rht of the president. While gov-( gov-( rnor of New Jersey, President Wilson campaigned on the coast during 1912, but his wife is known there only through the me..! i urn of the newspapers and the motion mo-tion picture. Other members of the party will be Rear Admiral Gary Grayson, the president's presi-dent's physician, and Secretary Joseph P. Tumulty, who will be generalissimo of the train. Dr. G'ayson says the president is in the best possible physical condition for tho trying twenty-five days, every one of which will be crowded with enough fatigue and excitement to exhaust a man of ordinary vitality. Special care will be taken by the physician phy-sician to see that the president does not contract a cold, that his throat is kept as clear as possible, that his diet is properly balance and tha t he is not fatigued be- jyond his power to recuperate overnight. Technically, the president's train will be run as the second section of a regular passenger train, which calls for a much lower rate than for a special train run-;ninT run-;ninT on an important schedule. But, in effect, it will be a special train, for it may bo routed as a section of anyone any-one of numerous trains over the roads which it will travel. To make sure that no misunderstand-irics misunderstand-irics of orders or no accident Interfers with the passage of the chief executive, the railroad officials will send a pilot engine immediately In advance of the presidential train. Even a slight mishap to the official party would be telegraphed over the country immediately, and the executive? of the railroad lines heave a sigh of relief when the wires announce 1 t hat the crack train has completed its i trip over their railroads according to ' svhedul and i t is time for the men of j an adjoining railroad system to sweat. I The make-up of the presidential sec-1 sec-1 tion will include two Passage cars, one i belnc usrd prn.oipally to give weight to ! the train and make i: ride smoothly; two j compartment car for the newspaper men, : secret service a nd stenographers ; a din-j din-j ins- car. and the private car in which ! vi!I travel the president and Mrs. Wil- sor, 1. Grayson and Secretary Tumulty. On such a trip as that starting next : Wednetia y it ts unusual for the presi -tliit to rive out a ny adva nee copy of lids speech.?, for he always speaks impromptu. im-promptu. j remarks are taken down by his ste- i nocraphers. workimr in re:ays and typfrg 1 i--ir copies as rapidly as possible. The j - tI - at i m report of the speech is there-i there-i fore in the hids of the newspaper m-n J a short time after the president has fin-; fin-; ished. and special arrangements are made i n each city by tho telecranh companies to d it to the various papers and press ; a.-soc:a ; Inns in record time. The it inerary once decided on. a little ! of secret s-e rviee men ride down i to the union station several days before 1 the presid-nt is s. hedged to leave and I (vmb aboard an outbound train. TW so men vi-d: every city where th I rresider.t "i'd stop and Inspect every J 1 mldm.tr that he will occupy, even for a i fi'w li'mer,!-'. Tis is done not only for I his s:fe:y, hut to ?ave him all possible ;i -;:-.oya ::ce. F.very position is looked over ; with an eye to handling the crowds that j t-v.-- where m thoroughfares a 'one j whi'-h it is known the: president will pass, i i' s'VT.'t s rv;-e p:n confer with local committeemen and police detectives. They j see to it that the president is never forced into a roriur from which there is , but one exit, that elevator accommoda-j accommoda-j t ioas are ample in places where It is planned to take him above the street floor, and sa'Ufe Themselves about a myriad j of utile i d. -rails. I |