The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-20

Bay attained the climax or itS Ianno Although 1t has never before meddied in international politics, the little Long Island village has been In the eyes or the world for some time, and this year it is enjoying to the full its brief sea son of prominence. The hotel ana boarding houses are full of newspaper
 men, yachts of every size. from the great steam palace to the little twenty foot knockabout, swing at anchor in inc beautiful harbor and rows of pri- yate carriages and hacks meet every train, from the city. Every day hood of visitors from every part of the coun- try, bound on business or pleasure, pours through the village from the sta ton close to the waterfront. Some only get as far as the executive omces in the heart of the village. where Sec retary Loeb Is waiting for them, but many are sightseers who have come for the purpose of seeing Sagamore Hill and the Roosevelt home
 The tourist at Oyster Bay has an easy time of 1t. Extreme simplicity marks the Presidents life there and 1t Is hard to realize that the quiet country house looking out over its surrounding belt of woods to the waters of the haroor and Long Island Sound beyond Is the home of the Chief Magistrate of the United States Where the driveway tumblIng down the steep hill from the house joins the highroad skirting the harbor, there Is not even a gate or a fence to restrain curiosity seekers. Only a battered sign post announces to the public that this Is a Private Road. Automobiles not allowed. Thick woods hide the house. and the sandy road, climbing up through them for more than half a mile, carries no sug-
 gestion of pomp or ceremony. Ths .he grounds night and day keep discreetly out of sight and 1t Is not until the car riage is close to the main entrance that one realizes that after all some pre- 1. cautions have been taken to ward or the rush of visitors. A man quietly reading in the shade of tree looks up from his book and the driver under stands There is only one rule that the President has laid down for his own comfort, but that one is rigidly en- forced-visitors must, in the phrase familiar to all policemen, keep nov ing" Throughout the day carriages
 pass up the drive and around the house, but relic hunters are not permitted. as many of them show an inclination to do, to carry off mementoes in the shape of flowers and pieces of trees. nor can camera flends swarm across the lawns in search of the best place for snap shot.
 That the secret service men have been RDI6 10 GnIOTC0 any apparent exercise of authority Is largely due to the alliance they have formed with the livery men of the will laEe. The driver whose fares raise any
 objections to proceeding quietly along the route marked out for them. hears from the detectives very quickly. and
 if he persists in bringing illbehaved persons into the grounds he finds that they are closed to him altogether. The livery men, however. who rely on the short season of the Presidents stay at his old home to compensate them for the dull times of the winter, are not all together pleased with the prominence of their fellow -townsman.
 "zt was better for us," they say, when he was only Governor. Then anybody who wanted to could just drive up to the house and 1t was up to the maid at the door whether they got In to see him or not. Now only those who get appointments through Secretary Loeb can get past the secret service right along" r..
 Although the President of the United States cannot free himself from all business wherever he may take refuge, Mir Roosevelt is firm in his refusal not to allow his summer to be marred by unnecessary intrusions. He himself Is rarely seen fin the village except on his way to and from the station. In the plain, almost bare. executive offices located over a grocery store In the main street, Secretary Loeb wards on un- welcome visitors and attends to the Presidents correspondence and the mass of other details. Two or three times a day he drives over the two
 miles or so which separate Oyster Bay from Sagamore Hill takes up with the President any important matters which may come up and then returns to his offices. For this purpose the Secretary has three horses reserved for his own use. Immediate communication can also be secured through the use of the telephone, although MT. Roosevelt de clined the offer of the telephone com pany to erect 8 private line connecting g his house with the executive ofifces The ordinary citizen, however, is not at liberty to call the President to the l telephone whenever he sees fit and the | operators in the Oyster Bay exchange have peremptory orders never to ring | up the Sagamore Hill house unless Sec | retary Loeb has given permission. ... These precautions-which takes the l place of uniformed sentries and all the | ceremonial SO distasteful to Mir. Roose- velt's temperament-are sufficient to leave him time enough to enjoy the out door life he Is so fond of. Horseback 1 riding is the chief pastime of the whole l family and 1t Is only under extraordi- | nary circumstances that a day passes
 without the Presidents taking long | ride over the wooded hills. the back
 bone of Long Island from which one looks down upon the Sound dotted with gleaming white yachts and the | less ornamental coastlng schooners | Every member of the family has hi. ! own mount. from the heavy charger oi I Mir Roosevelt, well able to carry hi. | 200 pounds, to the little Shetland pony | on which Quentin trots around tho
 grounds. All told there are abou
 twelve horses in the Sagamore HI l stables. most of which are remarkably | good specimens of the various classes
 A lover of horses, as all men wht have lived much in the West almost in evitably become, Mir Roosevelt take
 care that those he is responsible fo
 have the best of treatment. but fo
 of city style he has little taste in tn
 country. His stables and carriage
 alike are unostentatious and the plac
 itself Is left much as nature made il
 The ground mediately around tn
 house has been cleared away. but n
 effort has been made to transform tn
 clearing into smooth level lawns. Mos
 of the rest of the property of ninet
 acres Is given over to thick wood which hide the house from the publi
 highroad. but the President grows
 little rye and is particularly proud O
 his home-raised potatoes. There
 also a large kitchen garden and an old
 fashioned flower garden at the back e
 the house. Close to the road jus
 where the belt of woods ends, Is tn
 tennis court, which this year is bein
 changed from turf to dirt Next [ l rJdfnU tenpIa holds the Dlace of homo