New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-23
LONG TO MAKE A PIE. |
HE EXPECTS TO RENEW THE TRIUMPHs OF
HIS YOUTH IN HIS NATIVE TOWN

HIS YOUTH IN HIS NATIVE TOWN.
Washington. July % (speciaD.-The Secretary Of
the Navy is now In state OF enjoyable anticpa-
ton of the frs: opportunity for a reasonably long
vacation that has come TO him for two years and
with no wars nor rumors of wars to annoy him.
and the satisfaction OF knowing that the Navy
Department has no skeletons in It's closet he Will
go ~ New England next week and ignore official
matters for all the month OF August He Is only
waiting for Assistant Secretary Allen to return
from the annual inspection tour OF the navy yards
which was finished when the Dolphin arrived at
Boston several days ago. Mr. Allen will find there
is nothing that has been hanging FIRE in the Navy
Department. No vexed questions are on file. but by
diligence pacifcation and good Judgment the Sec
rotary has been able TO leave Clean deck, with
every administrative detail shlpshape. Confident
that the Navy will worry no one for month or
80. Secretary Long will go TO his delightful home
at bingham for brief stay. and then he expects
eagerly to confront the real recreation he has
promised himself. This occasion Is in Its way
famous In corner of Maine, and 1t is suspected
that during most of the Secretarys stay at Hing
ham he will be found In the kitchen getting MS
hand In for the great Down East event.
This is no less than the annual meet of the Hart
ford Custard Pie Association. which occurs IN
Buckheld oxford County. Me-, the latter part OF
August The Secretary was born In Buckheid
nearly sixty-one years ago. and for nearly nal
century he has regarded 1t as duty to take part
In the famous competition OF his native town
With an innate prediction for the niceties OF ire
Secretary Long In his early career achieved hoaDe
distinction at the annual Buckfeld gathering, ana
his old neighbors to-day proudly point TO the
honors he has won as vindcation or their 1ath
in the superior dietetic virtues OF custard pies.
The Hartford people still address him Familiarity
os ''Johnny" Long. with endearing emphasis
When he was first elected Governor OF Massa-
chusetts nineteen years ago. they insisted tha'
they knew he would rise from tho quality OF pies de
hakn nd
stroyed they imagined distant c0hheS.Ioh ~ ne
the sweeping victSfy bast Of everything
Psst August for the first time in many years
Secretary Long was not in Maine. the frequent ses-
,ans Of the War Board and the fear that the peace
iU fluctuations might fail keeping him In Washing,
s sUn the United States and Buckned The year
before on the Aus Judges of the Hartford usara
Pie Association in open competition with al
G con 10 which was awarded the highest blue
ribbon against twoscore aspirants for donors at
tenuaed fabrications %hch Are demoteT sx
called pie outside OF Buckhed n s was nearly
seven inches Some asserted that II would float on
ks duck but judges nH
the whole pie in making the award, so none OF me
TEMPT the discovery of Secretary Longs secret
favoring and other ingredients. particularly me
Hartford Association, and the prize piemaker
was crowned with honors such as no Buckneidlan
pie from one corner OF the county to the other
smacked their lips occasionally when they thought
~ more mics of the sort and in sufficient guam
titles which Johnny Long had promised 10 cook
the next summer But last August the prize went
bv default TO an Indifferent manufacture Of a
tougher and less palatabe sort, and Buckfield was
dsconsolate. This year there is already rejoicing
in all directions for Secretary Long has given
ample notice that he will spend some time In the
cottage on North Hili and most of II. too. in the
pleasant preparation of pies for his favorite neigh
bors He has also given fair warning that he Will
submit specimen at the Hartford annual meet
and hopes to see all his old friends there.