The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-28
PRESIDENTS VACATION OYER.
no LEAVE OYSTER BAY FOR
WASHINGTON TO-DAY.
The President Warned on an Onion Patch
The Fact That He and His Son Cut
Birdie Path From Cold Spring to
Syosset Just Brought to Light.

syosset Just Brought to Light.
OYSTER BAY, L. l., Sept. 27.-President
Roosevelt passed the last day of his vaca-
ton quietly. He attended service at the
Episcopal church in the morning with Mrs.
Roosevelt and two of the children, and in
the afternoon many relatives and neighbors
called at Sycamore Hill TO say good-by.
The President will take his leave OF Oyster
Bay at $50 o'clock tomorrow morning.
and most of the town. it is expected, will
be out to see him off. He will have a special
train. Mrs. Roosevelt and Ethel, Archie
and Quentin, besides Secretary Loeb and
the rest of the executive staff and several
Secret Service men. will go on the same
train.
Miss Alice will join the others of the
family at Jersey City. The Presidents
two oldest sons, Theodore and Kermit,
have already left for Groton, Mass, to re-
sumo their studies. The President and the
others of the party will, it is expected,
reach Long Island City at 0l5 o'clock.
There they will take carriages.
A special ferryboat will carry them across
to Thirty-fourth street and from there
they will be driven at once across Man.
haitian to the Twenty-third street Terry,
where another special boat will be at their
service. The party ia scheduled TO reach
the PENNSYLVANIA station in Jersey City
considerably before II o'clock.
Two special cars will be in waiting for
them These cars will be attached to
regular train leaving at lll5. The Presi-
dent will, according to the schedule, get
into Washington little after o'clock
in the afternoon. Most of the Presidents
baggage and other impedimenta have been
sent on ahead.
The executive Offices have been dis
nantled and the desks and other pieces OF
furniture have been stored away for use
next summer. The nine horses which
comprise the Presidents stable will be
sent from here on Tuesday. special
car is waiting on a siding here for them
now. The Presidents house on Sycamore
Hill will be closed up tight. but caretaker
will be on the grounds continually.
The President expresses himself as greatly
pleased with his vacation both as regards
the pleasure which he has got out of it
and the benefit which it has brought to him
in the way of rest. He asserts that he
was never in better condition physically.
His muscles are hard and his face and
hands are covered with coat OF tan. He
has spent the last week OF his vacation
out of doors almost entirely. Yesterday
he took a row of ten miles against strong
tide. with Mrs Roosevelt in the boat. The
day before that he was in the saddle for
many hours, riding to Bayville and other
neighboring villages
Other things besides riding and rowing
which the President has done this summer
that have come to light In the last few
days OF his vacation indicate that MIR.
Roosevelt has been putting in q summer
as strenuous as any Of his other strenuous
summers. For instance, the report has
got here. from Cold Spring that the Presi-
dent and one Of his SONS cut bride path
for three miles through the woods from
Cold Spring to Syosset
The path lies along the bed of an old
railroad. The President used TO ride over
it on horseback a few years ego, but this
summer he could not work his way through.
It took him and his son nearly a day to
clear it. Probably nobody would ever
have known about the Job if it had not bee n
for the Rev. E. Folsom Baker of Cold Spring
and a ,campful Of BroUklyn bug hunters
only a little way from Mr.. Bakers onion
Now. Mr.. Baker had, besides ONTO ns,
spiders in his garden They were big,
with many legs and numerous feet which
they used mostly for digging holes in the
rich loan in Mr. Bakers garden. They
lined the holes with silk.
The Brooklyn bug hunters got onto
Mr. Bakers spiders. They riddled his
onion patch at night and dug between the
rows. They got large quantities OF spiders
and they disturbed some of the onions.
They also disturbed the Rev. +. Folsom
Bakers large regard for all mankind.
-Not another Brooklyn entomologist gets
into my onion patch" the parson vowed
the morning after the bug hunters raid
And Just about that time Mr.. Roosevelt
appeared in the patch. He had an axe
on his shoulder. The Rev. Mr.. Baker
saw him.
Hey, there!" he shouted $50 along, out
of here; get right out, now. / say. You
fellows have raised enough Ned in my
garden. You can't cut anything in here
The President made a long distance
apology and got out on the road. Then
he struck off up the road for the woods
with his son. The Rev. f. Folsom Baker
heard about his mistake later. He didn't
tell it, The bug hunters also heard of it,.
They did, and later the Rev. Mr.. Baker
explained to them and all agreed that the
Presidents chopping stunt along the bride
path ought to be known generally, if only
to avoid danger of any further misunder-
standing.
big wreath Of roses consigned to Presi-
dent Roosevelt arrived this morning. II
will be given by the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt as tribute to the memory Of
Mrs. Alexander G. Russell the wife OF the
pastor of the Presbyterian church here.
who died yesterday in St IIuke's Hospital,
New York Alexander c. Russell Jr.. a
son of the dead woman, who is senior in
Princeton, tutored the Presidents boys
during the summer.