Show r t TAFT AFT TAFTt f I I A S J t n n niLE PLEASED JC 11 Riverside Cal Oct OcL l lAfter spending eight da days s In ht the state stalo of oC oCI California Taft len left here hore I late tonIght and Is speeding across the tho thoI Colorado desert His way leans leads hIm I for 01 n a time below the lov level l of the sea i I and tomorrow mornIng will find the 1 hack back to the Last East well lJ er wa way I back to the East Easl well safer md r wa waI way I The president much of loda In 1 the famous orange surround lins I fag Los Angeles driving tor Jor miles through the Immense groos of Red and Riverside Altogether Mr Tr Taft made mado more Ulan than miles by automobile today Lollar and having fallen Callen mInutes behInd hIs ale ule al al San Bernardino was carried along the roads between that elt city Riverside at a raft of oC speed that at t times lImes exceeded 35 mlles miles an hour hourI I here r v ten or twelve automo I Iq dine lInc and the dust they stirred i up up hero the roadway way had not bean beon I oiled was waft sul Beginning his day with a trip to I the Soldiers Homes at outside of Los Angeles at 9 0 this morning and speaking there to toan toan an audience of 2600 GOO veterans the president went next by motor to Pass dena to be ent entertained at luncheon by citizens at the Maryland hotel TonIght tho president was the guest or of honor at al a banquet In the Glen Glenwood wood hotel botel Mr Taft raft declared de lared that he had thoroughly his stay Iii In California and was moro more deeply tin pressed than ever eyer with the tremon dous sizo and diversIfied Interests an and climates of 01 the thc state School children continued today tobe to ho be a i feature of the presidents visit to the thc various arlous communities In Its Itinerary Mr Ir Taft declared that after seeing so many thousands of chubby checked and chubby legged bo boys and gIrls on his travels of the tho thelast tholas las last four weeks s ho was convinced that the tho future of the country Is safe saCe On mount this after afternoon afternoon noon the president participated In the tho of a tablet sot set In solid rock to tho rho memory or of the Ule founder of the California missions Pm Fro Serra On the tho tablet tho words Mr Ir Taft kept his Pasadena luncheon lunch luncheon eon hosts waiting half an hour while ho he dictated and siGned a moss mass or of of mall mail The president sent word of the delay and declared that th the affairs of state slate must go on regardless of whether lie he was to be allowed to oat eat luncheon or not notA notA A large delegation from the Los I I I s I T chamber of commerce lug Ing hugo yellow ribbon badges the ie word Boosters printed in l bold boldface face tj type pc accompanied tiro tho president from Los Angeles At station ho got ocr ott the train the tho president greeted the ardent Boosters with n a wide Ido grin and hall had thorn In hit his car from Crom time limo to time Urne dur ink InG the tho raIlroad journey from Pasa dc u to San San Bernardino L General Adna n Il Chaffee rc tired was with the thc president on the special trolley trip to the tho a ahome home this morning and as the lr l dentin I car cor went 1 by u a suburban ban station wIthout stoppIng slopping It re reminded minded him of an experience he hc hall had had with president Hures In IS The fhe general was captain of the sixth cavalry at al the time anti and wu was sta statIoned stationed at Fort Ferl McDowell Aria Ono One day daj ho received c to march with his troop to miles away to do what honor he might to I President Hayes rs as he passed through The he dust was too 10 feet deep most of the tho way aj sal said General Chaffee and when wo got there wore all our It was not long until wo got wor word 1 that list the tho president s train was coming comins It did come tC too at the rate of about sixty miles an hour and wont ont whirr zing by with the hell bell clanging |