The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-17
HOCH IN THE WATER.
Went Bathing on Sunday Only After
Daughter Pleaded.

The following is from the Philadel-
phia Press:
Atlantic City, Aug. 13.-In vain did
the crowds on the boardwalk look for
the governor of Kansas today. until
the rumor got around that he would
not take bath in the ocean because
1t was Sunday and he was Methodist.
Although he was nowhere to be seen
on the walk or in the water, he did
overcome his scruples, and the party,
composed of his wife and daughter,
Miss Anna Hoch, who was sponsor for
the battleship Kansas, slipped away to
chelsea and went into the ocean.
Miss Hoch was much in favor of go
ing in bathing without regard to the
day The bottle she broke over the big
battleship's bow was full of water in
stead of the customary champagne.
rather" she said, 1--WE are going
away tonight on the o'clock train,
and this is the only opportunity we
VIII nave to go into that beautiful
bounding water
IF the news ever gets back to Kan
sas" murmured the governor.
1T never will pleaded Miss Hocfl.
for we will slip off somewhere and
nobody will know u.s.
But the reporters" said the gov
self, and the owner of a weekly paper
in the Sunf1ower state, and he knows
something about reporters.
"Oh, father" exclaimed the daugh-
ACIr DcSlIIIllI1B TO cry. NOW IndC was
an argument which the governor of
Kansas had never learned to contro-
vert. The party went in bathing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Going, friends of the
party were living at Chelsea and they
all went there to battle. 1t was their
first time in the ocean. Miss Hoch
and Miss Ora Smith, in trim suits
| were first in the water, and they en-
| Joyed themselves immensely. In fact
| the entire party had the time of their
| lives ~, hot
| bathing suits by Mrs. Going.
In the afternoon the governor sat in
the suite of rooms recently occupied by
Charles M. Schwab, looking thoughtful
| ly at the ocean, as the whitecapped surf
ran to the shore, a sight which he had
| seen before only in pictures.
L have been thinking how wonderful
| it is that the ocean obeys its tides, but
after all everything in nature obeys
| laws. Man is the only anarchist.
What do I think of Atlantic City?
| Well, it is just as I pictured it. The
ocean, the boardwalk and the piers, but
l did not expect to see so many people
| The great crowds here attract my at
| tention more than the place And ii
does not seem like Sunday, at all. 1t is
| quite revelation for US to get down
here and 1 have enjoyed every minute
of the time, but 1 have so much work
to do at home that I feel that I must
get back to it.
1--WE intended stopping over until
Monday afternoon, but my wife is wor-
rying about her boy. He is at the law
school at Washington very ill and could
not come to the launching. So we have
changed our plans and are leaving to-
| day instead of tomorrow.
THE thing that strikes me as peculiar
in the east is that 50 many persons
seem surprised that this is the first
time we have ever been east. That is
the first question they ask. Now, re-
taliate by asking if they have ever beer
4 west Why, we elected a president Of
| the United States who had never beer
west of Ohio. That was Cleveland
How did you enjoy your bath this
morning down at Chelsea, governor p
/ Dear me- he replied, now 1 know
that will get back to Kansas. It wa.
glorious, and we enjoyed it as we will
not enjoy anything again very soon.
| wanted to go sailing in the inlet thi.
afternoon, but am afraid I will have t.
forego that pleasure in order to catcl
| the train"
I The entire Kansas party, most O
whom are colonies or wives of colonies
under the leadership of Adjutant Gen
| eral Hughes, boarded the Philadelphia
express out of the Reading railwa,
station en- route to Washington and tn,
! west.