Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-06-10
The President Goes Fishing.
He AND SECRETARY LAMONT TRY THEIR
LUCK AND MAKE A DAY OFT.


Correspondence Philadelphia Press
DEER PARK, Md, June I. The President
lapsed into bachelorhood early this morning
and stayed lspsed till dusk, 1t was half past
8 when ex-senator Davis two-seated wagon,
drawn by two stout working horses, drew up
on the tan-bark before the cottage and the
bury form of the Chief Magistrate descended
the steps, followed by the spidery figure of
his Secretary. The former stuck to his black
frock coat although he was gong fishing. He
has plainly a superstition regarding black
frocks. His cinnamon colored hammock hat
was on his head. and Col Lamont wore head
gear that had a baby-brother resemblance to
it. The wives of the anglers followed them
t, the porch and here the heipmeet of the
President grew decidedly contumacious.
"You know. she said, as hr husband sat
in the front seat with his jointed rod in its
gray alpaca wrap embodied by the crook of
his arm, 'that you didn't catch one of those
Ash Saturday; | caught one and Senator
Davis all the rest
Very WE'LL" said the President, as he
laughed and lifted his hammock hat: you'll
see that I'll catch them all today"
Commissioner De Lawders preserve, which
the anglers reached by half-past 10, is the
pride of Deep Creek For a mile there the
| slTtaUl UTOd'1tHs out lilb n river. mere Is
deep water coming right up to the green lip
of the meadow there and making the labor of
casting as light as that of fishing for horned
pout of the Buffalo docks. Moreover, Mr.
| DE Lswder, who met the party at his fishing
| cottage on the bank of the creek, a hundred
yards from the preserve, had stocked the
place with brook, salmon and rainbow trout,
the latter California importation. The
| President took half dozen before | o'clock
lunch at the cottage and Col. Lamont nearly
equaled his superior in luck. Afte- lunch the
Presidents fish pole went up and down like
! the walking beam OF a Lake Ontario side
wheeler, till the President said: Upon nv
word, Colonel, this seems like murder"
| The clouds which hanging over all the hills.
had made the afternoons sport so good by
o'clock threatened rain, and the President
| and his shadow set out for home after having
assured the anxious Commissioner that they
/ never in their lives saw trout so thick before
| Mrs. Cleveland, meantime. passed a rather
simless sort OF dav. A feminine fishing party
had been arranged, but this was given up.
| Afterwards there was talk of drive to Eagle
Rock and then to the observatory.
Both these projects were abandoned by the
ladies at ii o'clock luncheon, and in the af-
ternoon the landau was had out and. with
Mrs. Davis and her daughter, Mrs Brown,
| the White House contingent took a short spin
up the Oakland Road. Ga their way back
they were met both by the rain and their
husbands, and the two carriage and the storm
made an even race and reached the house at
twenty-five minutes after g. just in time for
dinner.
The news of the fall of Gladstone was
hslted by an operator on its way from New
York TO st. Louis at s IS o'clock te night. Ii
was promptly communicated to the President
He seemed but little interested in it. The
truth must GENE out sooner or later; the
thing that the President was most interested
in to night was music. His wife sang; the
President tried to sing, There was a great
deal of hilarity about the cottage this even
ing. With an even two dozen of newspaper
and railroad men here it is natural that can
ards should hatch with great rapidity. The
latest one is that the object of Ex-senator
Davis punctilous hospitality to the President
is pleasing yearping after the reversion to
Secretary Manning's portfolio. 1t is further
SAID that the proposition is to be backed by
no other man than the Ex-Senator's son-in-
law, Stephen B Elkln's, the conductor of the
Blaine campaign at triangular meeting to
be held here. Part of the basis for it was
this, that Mr.. Elkins arrived here to-day and
when asked whether he would call on the
President said that he would wait for Mr..
| Davis to introduce him,