| Show go so he sent his is s speech 0 e e c h by wi wire re new york bill ge a around r 0 ii na to ali the e calib to sy say howdy to the boys 90 4 0 o lie he did aid the next best thing explained a member of the yale speaking peah ilig of the novel feature pulled off on there this his t evening when the speech of president taft at the aeronautical society dinner at his house astor was transmitted to the club library or the benefit of more than five undred hundred li of old elps elis sons gathered there to hear it it wis was bully good of him interjected another flub member paraphrasing a favorite expression of colonel roosevelt altogether it was the most strenuous ev eleving eving that the pres ident lias has had in in many mont months lis first lie he attended the banquet of associated press preas and american Aine rican newspaper publishers at the waldorf astoria from there lie he was whirled ill in an all auto to 0 o pherrys Sher Slier rys where lie he addressed the members in of the methodist conference after which lie he was rushed alro through forty fourth JS estref trent t past tile the pretentious lionie home of tile the yale club to the astor eliere lie was the post cost orator dragor tit at the aeronautical society banquet and a dinner given in the same hatel by a lost of congressional representatives from aliis and I 1 other states to lor for w I 1 y i mer representative vie J arto olcott it w wals s n near a imd night when the nations nation js s c chief ie i ex executive e got through th e lie 4 and I 1 lie he had just five minutes es to get to the pennsylvania station to catch the midnight train back for washington realizing earlier in the da day that it would be a physical j impossibility n for hit him ii to gratify his desire to give the boys at the yale a call before lie he returned to the white house houpe tl the ie aeronautical society through K M turner one of its ita anem members and thomas hill chairman of the banquet committee arranged as a compliment to the president for the transmission I 1 of his speech to the club house on the table in front of the president the committee install nd id a a set of powerful acoustic acoustical an transmitters connected by wire with the club house 0 a q quarter barter of a milo mile away ity in the big library on the second floor of the chab which was filled to overflowing with the boys 5 all now prosperous busi business and professional niell men banki bank trust company insurance and railroad presidents the voice of the count rys first citizen and most distinguished living graduate issued from horns equipped with regular receivers hung froni from the side walls bill all right ex claimed some loftie of the younger members of the club as the oce cupani of the ille white house began his address to the aeronautical society in a clear vibrant voice that could be heard away back in the billard TOOM room of the club during the twenty live minutes of the presidents speech the members seated and standing in silence about the room listened in rapt attention to the discourse of their fellow alu alumna ilina and when lie he concluded gave him the time lionor honored yale cheer no incident of his visit to gotham pleased the president more As lie he spoke lie he watched the instrument ment in front of him curiously and so that not a word of what he said might be lost in ill transmission kept squarely in front of it on oil leaving town mr taft expressed himself as highly pleased with his visit though it proved a big tax on oil his vitality it will 11 be his last tr trip A p to new york wi for some time to come |
