The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-07-07
The Place Crowded and
DrumnerS Sleeping
in Barns.
PRESIDENTS PLANS OUTLINED
lei graph and Telephone
Service Being Completed.
MR. R0GSEvELT'S OFFICE
Description Of the Home on the Hill AMI
the Bank Building in Which Official
Business VIII Be Transacted Every
thing Soon in Readiness.

OYSTER BAY. y Y, July This
town Is submerged beneath a food ii
visitors brought here by the arrival e
President Roosevelt
In all OF Oyster Bay lodgings cannot
be gotten fer love OF money The Presi-
dent is rejoicing at this fact because
he came here TO rest and 60 only that
work that is absolutely necessary until
lie goes en- his trip 10 Maine On August
.. If there are no quarters TO be had
here the President figures that she many
delegations Of adniring constituents
that many Southern and Western Con
gTessmen were planning to bring here
this month viii not come Mr.. Cortel-
you IS doing all in his power. at the
Presidents express desire, to discourage
intended pilgrimages. At present Secret
Service men, stenographers. and news
paper men have seized all available
quarters, and last night a party Of drum
mers had to sleep in a barn.
It will be two days probably before
the President has esta blished his sum
mer Office At present his only means
OF communication with Washington is
general telegraph wire. This wire is the
only one besides the railroad Official
wire leading out OF oyster Bay.
Completing Wire Service.
Today. however, connections are being
made so that this wire viii be made a
''quadTuplex.' and one instrument viii
be placed in the Presidents Office in the
Avenue near South. A special private
telephone wire is being run between the
bank building and the Presidents house
on Sycamore Hill. It is the Presidents
plan TO go TO hIs Office in the town no
oftener than necessary, and this viii be
for onIy an hour 4 day on two OF three
days il each week. Secretary CoTtelyou
wiz be at the Office daily and viii re-
ceive ali callers there before any are
sent 10 see the President
The guard OF two Secret Service men
on duty at the Presidents house con-
stantly are under instructions to admit
10 one whose coming has lot been ar
ranged for previously by Secretary Cor
telyou- Camera fiends, if the approach
the Presidents house, viii be hailed
from afaT and hidden to 20 away, and
none viii be permitted TO enter the
grounds. Secret S=rvice Officer Craig,
who is here, estimates that the Presi-
dent and his party were photographed
not less than fifty times yesterday while
going TO church and returning. While
the President breads the camera fends.
yet he takes their assaults gOod-na-
tuTedly when they cannot be avoided
The Secret Service men are maintaining
the strictest sort Of guard over the
Presidents house The watch is kept In
tricks Of four hours each. The men are
CHARTERED at the Octagon, Oyster Bays
only hotel, and wagon takes the relief
out TO Sycamore Hill every four hours
and brings the reliev ed men away. There
is no need for this aside from the vaiue
OF proper precaUtiCc. and the President
would rather have the system discon-
tined, but Chief Wilkie thinks the sys-
TEN necessary
Yesterday President Roosevelt, in
speaking to a personal friend of The
matter said:
4 an as safe here as If were not
President.
F-oHd of President.
The natives OF Oyster Bay are proud
Of their President. Their greeting to
him is always generous and sincere. His
arrival always furnishes 2 show, and in
the spontaneity Of his greeting there is
always something grateful. but Oyster
Bay has a dignity Of its own. that its
men and women have established and
maintained before the President was
even colonel, and they feel that dig
nifty impaired when, the President is
made the only cause Of its fame Oyster
Bay has its immemoriaI hills II has its
century old lanes Of locust trees and il
has its patriarchs- That is why. after
the President has come, the town ceases
10 demonstrate and pays the Chief Ex-
ecutiye no more than the generous hon
or that is accorded to any old resident
come home again after a protracted
absence. Yet Oyster Bay is tremen-
dously proud of the President, and ev-
erybody. from the patriarchiaI baker 1.
who makes Oyster Bays rolls and hot
cross buns, in season, 20 Limping Larry.
Oyster Bays hostler-at-large. delights |
&c stand on the curb as the President !
passes and respond TO his salute with /
dofing Of hat or cap and a CHEEKY
.'Howdy, colonel" Some of them in /
dIlge In the more formal saIutation, I
Good morning, Mr. President"
Il is fair 30 believe that the Chief
Executive likes being President wei /
enough, DuJ ne has said that he likes 1
10 be called colonel and that IS the
title that his townsTaen prefer.
The Presidents Home.
While the President is Of the town. 1
his residence Is not IN the town By a |
good three miles The drive from the 4
railway station leads through the VII /
lage, beneath a mile or so Of big. moss
grown locust trees; then up hill and /
down. between woods and farms. until
the highest point On the hill guarding
the eastern side OF Oyster Bay IS
reached-and there Il the house It can
be seen from the railroad station. A
big windmill marks it. and the roof just
peers above the trees. The house is
Just a summer home. more attractive
than usual because Of its broad piazZas
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