Show presidents ON TOUR ARTHUR AND CLEVELAND WERE NOT GOOD TRAVELERS latt latter e r did not lia like a crowds harri harrl son was impatient once had train S de tracked in woods so he could rest it anybody traveling needs rest over sunday it Is a president on a jaunt said a man who has been out with several presidents fortunate ly for mr taft he likes this sort of thing but I 1 notice that he has ordered rests novt ovar r sunday in his itinerary I 1 have traveled with arthur me kinley cleveland and harrison on their aunts jaunts arthur in spite of his talent tor for mixing with a new york crowd was never equal to the job in the country it if any town in abas country is up on oil the art of catering to any exclusive taste it is louisville ky arthur was the first rep president to go soul and louisville spread herself to make him feel at home political lines were obliterate ed on the occasion of his visit when be he went ment there to open the cotton ex position the pendennis Pen dennis club gave him a banquet fit for a king but he was glad when it was over when he left chicago tor for his hunt in yellowstone he told phil sheridan who had charge of the party that he was glad he was going where he could have uninterrupted rest mckinley was not as goo a trav eler as taft but he never showed that he was nas tired I 1 heard him s say ay once that be he wished railroad compa nies riles would make some arrangement by which a log cabin could be attach ed to a train instead of a pullman sleeper cleveland never liked a crowd he fretted under handshaking and always grunted when he had to make a rear platform speech when he visited chi cago with his bride he got the great est reception ever seen in that city the fact that mrs cleveland broke down lader the s rain of the excite ment may have bad pad something to do with making cleveland impatient but the way he raved over the jam and mismanagement of the affair woud have nave melted the type of any per that tried to quote him when he left the city for ladison where whet he was a guest of colonel vilas was he be ex pressed himself as delighted over the brebt to which he was bound I 1 saw him at an inaugural ball in Was washing lillig ton I 1 wouldn t like to repeat what I 1 heard him say about the mob on the floor was the most impatient presidential traveler of all I 1 ever jaunted with one night the crowd in burlington became unmanageable tt it was the worst I 1 ever saw the police were as useless a a lot of wood nood el 1 soldiers when the meeting was aver over and harrison and his party went to the presidential train harrison asked when the train was duo at the next stop oskaloosa la ia where he was to open the corn palace the next day when he was told ta than aa the schedule was for noon the fc following ll 11 wing day he requested that the train be sidetracked somewhere for the re bainder of the night in order that he might get rest it was so ordered and the train was run out of burlington about 40 miles and placed on a siding in the woods there it remained until aft er breakfast for the first time in any presidential jaunt that I 1 ever heard of the president was lost to the people of the country tor for te there was no wireless apparatus then the next day when harrlson harrison and his party reached st joseph mo be he was routed out of ol 01 bed at sunrise to take breakfast at the railroad station and talk to the people I 1 think har rison came nearer forgetting ill hi pres byerman by erian pledge then than he ever i did bedfor new ork sun |