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From Stereograph, copyright by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y.

THE PRESIDENT AND THE ENGINEER

President Roosevelt has a great admiration for railroad men. During his trips he frequently rides in the engine and the above picture shows him about to step into the cab at Redlands, California.

were at the station with three bands of music, to greet the President. As the train drew in, the cowboys yelled, the bands played, and a salute was fired. The President made an address, in which he referred to the work accomplished by the early pioneers.

"Honor to all good citizens," he said, "but honor most of all to the men, who, first in the world, marked out that earliest of highways, the spotted line, the blazed trail; the men who first, on horseback, steered across the great, lonely plains, and drove their cattle up to feed upon the ranges from which the buffalo had not yet vanished. The pioneer days have gone, but the need of the old pioneer virtues remain the same as ever. You won, and you could only win, because you had in you the stuff out of which strong men are made."

At the end of the exercises, the cowboys formed an escort to the train, and, after it had started, they dashed along the side of the President's car, and he shook hands with some of them from the windows.

At Newcastle, Wyo., where a half-hour's stop was made, the President was escorted to the speaker's stand along a pathway strewn with flowers and lined on one side by school children who waved miniature flags. In his speech the President referred to the irrigation law passed at the last session of Congress, and said he believed much good would come from it, as the government would be able to try experiments from the results of which private capital may be

able to learn much.

Stops were also made at Gilette and Moorcraft, Wyoming, Ardmore, S. D., and Crawford, Neb. At the last named place the President was given a military welcome by the Tenth Cavalry, mounted. They met him with drawn sabres, and the regimental band played "Hail To The Chief."

Sunday, the 26th, was quietly spent at Grand Island, Neb. The President attended St., Stephen's Episcopal Church in the morning, and, in the afternoon went horseback riding with Sen

ator Dietrich, visiting Taylor's sheep ranch and the Soldiers' Home, where he was greeted by the veterans.

The 27th, before leaving Grand Island, the President broke the ground on which the new Carnegie library building is to stand. He was joined by Governor Mickey, who, with United States Senators Dietrich and Millard, accompanied him through Nebraska. Stops were made at Hastings, Lincoln, Fremont, and a number of smaller towns. At Hastings the President spoke of the forestry situation in the State, saying that, as the people were protecting the original scanty forest, they now had a more and better natural forest than ever before. But, he said, the work should not stop; they should continue the planting of trees. During a short drive, the President spoke to the school children from his carriage.

The arrival in Lincoln was announced by a chorus of factory whistles. At the signal, all the stores in town were closed and remained locked

up until after the departure of the train. The escort included, besides survivors of the Civil War, the First Regiment, N. N. G., and cadet battalions from the University of Nebraska and the Nebraska Wesleyan University. All the schools and colleges in the city were closed. The capitol building, from the dome down, was a mass of red, white and blue bunting, and many business houses were also decorated. During his address, the President said:

"Capitalist and wage-worker alike, should honestly endeavor each to look at any matter from the other's standpoint, with a freedom on the one hand from the contemptible arrogance which looks down upon the man of less means, and on the other, from the no less contemptible envy, jealousy and rancor which hates another because he is better off. Each quality is the complement of the other, the supplement of the other, and, in point of baseness, there is not the weight of the finger to choose between them.

"Coming through the State today, I was re

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