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Show PRESIDENT'S TRIP OVER: i AGAIN IN WASHINGTON J THE PRESIDENT'S TRIP. tlumbtr of day it Numbir of mile traveled . . 13,955 Number of speech mad lo data (tlmattd) 285 Total numbar of apeechca on trip (aatlmatad) 400 Numbar of State and Territories vial ted 2b Number of towna and cltiea visited vis-ited 147 Number of railroad line uted. .24 j Trip began at Washington 9:05 a. m., April 1. Trip anda at Washington. June S, 7:05 p. m. President Uu.ih. veil finished his ten weeks' lour of the Wcet June .V at 7 p. in . at which hour hi apei IhI train arrived at thn l'enn .Minis station at Washington. Nothing In tin' way of a demonstration had I - i planned anil there wan no formal reception Mr. Kooaevelt will fltiii iiim h less work awaiting hltn than might lie Imagined from the IriiKlh of hi absence ab-sence from the White House. AM Im-liortant Im-liortant eominunlteilone have been forwarded to htm. and by means of the telegraph and niitll he hen kept right up wltti ht official duties (ID the Tuesday following hla re-turn re-turn (he President goes to CleTeland, ().. to attend the wedding of Hcnator Hanne'a daughter on Juuc 10 II a la to apeak at the National Hscngcr-feat Hscngcr-feat at Halttmore ou June lfi, and the next day lie will attend the L'ul-Teralty L'ul-Teralty of Virginia commencement exercises at Charlottesville. It haa not been decided when, the I'realdent will go to Oyater Hay for the summer, but he probably will go before the end of June. Mra. Roosevelt Roose-velt and the children have arranged to move to tbelr summer home about June IS. and It Is thought the Prcal-dent Prcal-dent will aoon follow them. Never before lias a President of the United States made a "awlug 'round the circle" like the tour of I'resldent Roosevelt. During Hi trip, whlrh lasted titty six dsys, he covered upward up-ward of ll.uuO miles, and addressed upward of U.OW.liuo people. - It haa been a remarkable trip In many ways. To liegin with, tho work mappen out by Mr. Iloosevelt waa aui-b that no ordinary man rould hope to go through with It. When I'resldent I'resl-dent Nicholas Murray llutler of Columbia Col-umbia 1'nlverslty, left thu President aliout a fortnight ag. he estimated that Mr. Hwuaevelt hiid made about 260 speech' up to that time. A study of the Itinerary shows that before he returned to Washington the total reached atiout 4IM). Of these about half a doren were formal, carefully prepared addressee. The manuscript of them waa furnished fur-nished the newspaper In advance. The othera were eiteniiwre and It la evidence of the President's versatility and resource that he has seldom repealled re-pealled himself. The language hua almost al-most alwaya been different, although there haa been a recurrence of Ideas. Another remarkable phase of the lour la the fact that twice Urn I'resldent I'resl-dent of the United Htate haa been rut off from the world for two weeks while he was In Yellowstone I'ark and afterwarua for two days, while In the Yoaenilte. Only once before baa a Prealdent of this country bid blm-aelf. blm-aelf. President Cleveland had that distinction, and there was excuse for It, He went to Deer Park. Maryland, for hla honeymoon, and only hla moHt Intimate friend knew where to find him. The other trip which I'resldent Roosevelt haa made have been affected af-fected by accidents. When he waa In Connecticut last summer he narrowly nar-rowly escaped death In a trolley collision. col-lision. Later, when he went on a tour, he was compelled to almmion It In Indlanapnlla because of an als-em which developed oil Ills leg. Hut nothing has marred Mr. Roosevelt's grand tour, although he narrowly escaped es-caped Injury la the Yellowstone, when a detective revolver cartridge exploded explod-ed wnlle he was shooting at a mark, and a piece atruck hi in over the eye. Altogether Prea.uent Koosevelt had a most magnlllcent time on this trip. He left Washington ou April 1. In Chicago he made hla first atop of any length and hla first formal speech. He said: "I believe In the Monroe doctrine with all my heart and soul, but I would luflnltnly prefer to see It abandoned than to aee us put It for ward and hlusier alsiut It and yet fail to build tip the lighting strength which alone In the last resort can make us resected by any strong foreign for-eign power whose Interest It may happen hap-pen to be to violate It." At Milwaukee he spoke on the trust questlun and at Ht. Paul on the tariff tar-iff Mtnneaitolls claimed him for part of a day and then he started for Hnuth Dakota There the President felt at home Jamestown. Illsmnrck. Man-dan. Man-dan. .l-iliiia were familiar places to i Mm. i'p- inlly Mi 'turn, where he ! made hi- home eighteen year ago. t when Im owned a ranch there. The ! otios ami all Ills old friend turned out to greet blm. Hut he didn't huve I nrti h time for conversation, liccatise j he hail to make speeches. To ail old friend he snM that be would give a hundred dollars for an linur'a chat. Mr. lloosevcll ou April entered Ycllowtoue Purk for two happy weeks. Accompanied by John Hur-roughs Hur-roughs and a small escort the President Presi-dent cut himself off from the world. ' lived In tents and enjoyed communion with nature. He traveled over the deep snow on skis, he remained In the open for hours studying the waya of wild things, little birds and big beasM, but not a shot did bo fire at a living A Recant Picture of th President. thing. He msile twenty mile tramps through the wild land and rode a big cavalry horse fur hours, lie loafed around the camp Ore and listened to the talk of the old days. The president came fnrtii from the Yellowstone on April 23. bronzed, ovciu.m lug with good spirits and Immensely Im-mensely strengthened and refreshed oy hla outing. Iteluctantly he quitted the park and started on the dash for HI. Louis, where be arrived on April Sit. There he waa the guosl of President Francl. of tho World'e Fair, as was alo former President Cleveland. Iloth took part In thn dedication exercises. II put In part of a day In Kansas City, and then pmased Into Kansas, where In one day he stepped ut eighteen towna and made aa many speeches. Denver was the next ItniHirlant stop. It was about (hi time that the President began to foregather with former Hough Itldnre. It waa at Pueblo that Mr. Koosevelt deserted (be train to lake breakfast with cowboys. Ho saw a cook wagon drawn up near the train and he hue-tied hue-tied forth In a hurry, showing that he knew the waya of a ramp breakfast. He liked that breakfast, and the cowboys cow-boys were amazed at hla skill In speurlug piece of steak and the amount of coffen he rousumed. The sacrifices lhat the former colonel col-onel of the Hough Itldera made to meet hla old comradi were amazing. Whenever be heard they were waiting wait-ing to see blm be would remain up to any hour, no matter how tired be waa. The reunions gave him the keenest pleasure. At Hants Fe and Albuquerque there were cowboy sports, of which he never seemed to tire, and at Albuquerque he acted aa godfather for Theodore Hooaevelt AmIJo. whose father was a sergeant In the Hough Hlilers He had a day In the (iind Canyon and the glory of it filled blm with delight. From the desert and the sage brush he passed Into the land of flowers California greeted him with open arms. At Hun Ftsnclsco he wa the guest of M. II. De Young. II had a strenuous time there, and he was ready for the four day In th Yoseinlte valley, two of which he j passed with John Mulr and a woo. Ismail Is-mail high iiii on the mountain, where Ihey all slept In the open, wrappad In tiiclr blankets. The big treea tilled him with amazement and h Indignantly In-dignantly ordered the carda defacing one of them to be. removed. The President then crossed the atata line In Nevada, wher (lov. Hiark rompared him to Andrew Jackson, and called him "Young Hlrkory." After a trip through Oregon and Washington he turned hla face eastward. east-ward. He passed Hunday In Cheyenne. He again traveled acroas Nebraska and on Tuesday entered Iowa. Wednesday Wednes-day and Thursday he waa In Illlnol. whore h mada eighteen atops In on day. Krlday he traveled through Pennsylvania, reaching Washington at 7:06 p. m. Map Showing President Rosavlt's Remarkable Western Trip. . i |