New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-14
OYSTER BAY CRANKS.
Secret Ser7ice Men Hare to Keep
Bugs" from the President.

oyster Bay, July Is (SpeciaD.-"How Is the
bug crop this year," asked one of the village
physicians as he paused under the awning of
Moore's grocery store to shake hands with a
good looking young man who preparing to
climb into an automobile headed up the Cove
Road.
Rather poor" replied the other; but as we
got one on Monday well probably have more
SOON"
The doctor was not inquiring about winged or
wngless insects. although his question certainly
had chronological sound, and had the young
man replied with an essay beetles the ply
stefan would have been greatly surprised He
merely asking about that growing class OF
Presidential visitors ordinarily called FRANKS
and the man to whom he propOunded the ques-
ton was one of the Secret Service guards whose
summer duty it is to stand watch night and day
at Sycamore Hill.
In the vernacular of the Secret Service all
cranks are bugs" and in this category are
placed a great variety of we'll meaning human
beings. In the eyes of the. service all men and
women who call upon the President with per-
sOnal grievances to air or with schemes to I'M
fold are buggy" and will bear watching.
For many months after the Buffalo tragedy
the list of dangerous and suspicious characters
included almost all strangers of foreign appear
anCe. and any unknown caller at the W mite
House who had an impeachment 70 his speech
stood fair chance of landing in the lookup
for inquiry into his mental condition. While
this state OF Secret Service hySteTia continued
number of perfectly rational women and men
were bundled down to police headquarters. there
To be bundled out again with apologies. and
great many plain DRINKS" who happened TO
wander int" the sacred precincts of the White
House grounds seized on the charge or
harboring anarchistc designs upon the head OF
the administration. The detectives are not quite
suspicious nowadays, but II one has business
with the President his secretary II will paw
20 be brief and to the point when stating the
errand. If you have novel theories 10 demon
strate regarding the laws of graVitation, the
power OF explosives or the habits of the people
you want to see-don't tell them TO the Secret
Service guard
The young man who travelled to Sycamore
Hill from New Jersey i'm an automobile on Mon
day morning landing in the Presidents front
ward at ! a. M followed this wise course, and
consequently Is still at large. Had he told his
business TO the Secret Service men AT the hill
he would I'm all probability have been detained,
and might even now be languishing behind the
bars at the Mineola Jail. But he had the good
Judgment to maintain djgniied silence when
asked about his mission 10 the PTesident-nereIy
said he would call later after seeing the score
rary-aud went back 70 town in his auto When
he met the secretary he was little more COM
nunicativc. but not much. Il have some great
improvements in submarines to show the PresI-
dent he said To Mr.. Loeb. and as II IS iTnpor-
taut that my plans he adopted before the Meet
sails for the Pacific, the sooner / see nm the
better II will he for the nation