The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-07-31

Infantry captsiH: The first double-bar-
relied shotgun I ever san belonged 70
/ Gen Wade Hampton. who owned a flne
estate above New Orleans ia lsl2 ]
Thought DC was an effeminsta sort Of arm.
and said as much 30 Hampton. who
laughed. and then showed me how to
shoot ducks with b."
Interviewing President Tyler.
Tyler vas likewise addicted 20 cock
hshilng lie gamb',d too. just q biz aUs
is said Co have been bad loser. though
| the stakes we're never large He was
very fond 90 swimming. and ore day. So
| the STORY goes. when he was taking q
| bath IN the Potomac. a notorious news
paper woman Of that day. who called
I herself Ann Royal, and edited a local
/ cosby Journal known as Paul Pry.''
came along and sat down on his clothes.
a1marf'Hg an interview as he price Of
! her departure. The President being d
I modest man. was obliged. though with
mNch reluctance to grant the interview
! aena naed thus recovering his apparel
John Quincy Adams was the best swim
mer ~ bis day. and while he was Presi-
I cent OFTEN went Tor plunge IN the PotO-
mac. Monroe was horseback rider and
ieR years before his death he wrote 10
. MS friend Lafayette about a fan 10 had
. from his horse. All Of the earlier Pres.-
7 dents Ne-e good riders. the roads being %
/ bad "a 20 make travelling in that way
much easter than By stage coach. John
( Adams got up az : o. clock every morning.
4 rode down to the Potomac. and took a
/ swim one day. with his son and his
{ steward. he went Oui IN a boat for a swim.
/ in m.1rlver \ squall swampeI the boat.
most ~ their garments being lost. and IL
4 was with difficulty that enough clothes
! We're assembled 20 enable The steward 10
/ go for more and a carriage,
! Jefferson was a horseback rider He
! was fond Of music. clever with the violin,
/ and bad marked taste for mechanical
! invention Madison was a born stuIen;
! and cared more FOR books than anything
/ else. Washington was an expert fisher
/ MA. ana a follower Of the hounds. OF
! which he kept a large pack. Probably he
mas the best rider among the Presidents,
/ and !t was said that h knew every inch
| OF land and water for many miles Up and
! Gown tGe river from Mount Vernon. tie
| was a good rife shot and wing shot. and
! carefully preserved his land along the
/ river front from invasion by the casual
! P1aaEtr His diary tells now he cut fox
F. paths through the woods at Mount Yer
non and how he "catchcd three foxes IN
/ one day During his young days be at
/ tended the assemblies regularly a. -he
| City Tavern In Alexandra, being a first
rate dancer.
/ Wher the President goes on a vacation
/ be has 10 Dr. very careful about accepting
, favp-s which, for advertising and other
/ purposes are offered by railway compa-
mics and others. Naturally there are al
| ways plenty Of enterprising people who
] are anxious TO have the chief Executive
of the nation travel over their lines and
put up AT their hotels. Mr. Mckinley IS
so careful about such matters that even
/ when be- takes d trip on the dispdJcn-tOat
Dolphin. which is I'm effect his official
yacht. he pays I'll eXp-nSes-Jhai is u say.
/ IL the excursion is otherwise than official
/ and for the public business. 1T will be
| remembered that John Wanamaker and
a few other gentlemen gave a $1,000 COZ
! tage 90 benjamin Harrison az Cape May
Point, but the newspapers made such a
TOW about IL that the ilheritor OF ms
gruudfaJheT's har was glad u pay the
money i'm full later on and get rid of the
talk