The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-05

On VACATION
Booms of Many Candi-
dates Waiting for
His Shoes.
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WASHINGTON. D. c., May 49,
President Roosevelt has virtually begun
| his long summer vacation and as gooC
as turned his back upon Washington
and its official cares till the brown OF
October is on the foliage. Of course
| he will be back here several times be
| fore he goes away to his rural home
| in Oyster Bay He will come back
| here Thursday of this week, after he
has had his fill of walking in the woods
around Pine Knot, Virginia, and has
enjoyed to the utmost riding and rest
ing in that out of the way corner.
But he will be in Washington again
only four or five days before he starts
out anew. He leaves Wednesday, May
30, for the West, especially to deliver
a Memorial Day address at Indianapo-
lis. He will speedily return to Wash
ington, from that trip, but will depart
once more June 8 to be present at the
jamestown Exposition-which the ir-
reverent in Washington are now styl-
ing the HJimtown Imposition ''-on
Georgia Day. The President makes an
address on that occasion. His mother
was a Georgian and therefore it was
peculiarly appropriate that he should
be present. He will return to Wash
ington June IL and day or two later
start for Oyster Bay for the summer.
Unless there be something unexpected
to call him here, the President viii
hardly see the White House for more
than three months after that day.
His trips viii be few after that time.
Along in September he has promised
to visit Canton on the occasion of the
dedication of memorial to the late
President Mckinley and from there
will go on visit to Mississippi river
points in connection with the work of
the inland waterways commission. By
that time business will be looking up in
the national capital. The nights will
be cool and the army of officials will
be back from their vacations. The
Government will be ready to resume
business once more at the old stand
Many Presidents could not get away
from the city as long as President
Roosevelt does. They could not get
their desks cleared off. Mr.. Roosevelt
has fine faculty for turning off work.
He does twice as much in the same time
as most men in public life could do.
He gets at his conclusions quicker and
he does not leave matters alone as long
as many Presidents would do, follow
ing the magnificent Fabian principle
once declared by Senator Evarts of
New York in these immortal words:
:" Most problems viii solve themselves
if let alone long enough
When the President and Mrs. Roose-
welt started off for Pine Knot the other
day some young man, who was hard
up for news to telegraph his newspaper,
sent dispatch that the President had
broken down the day before and there
fore decided suddenly upon an outing |
in the Virginia woods. AS a matter of |
fact the President had been looking |
forward for weeks to this Pine Knot |
trip, where he and his wife could live |
for few days in true rural simplicity.
He did not intend to go till his work
was done, but when his work was done
he did not intend to delay. If any
matter develops which requires the
President S attention Secretary Loeb
knows how to get at him in short order
md it will be so all summer while the
President is away from Washington.
The White House clerical force well
comes the President s outing. All its
members remain in Washington, but
hey have a little let up. Their hours
AVE to conform to the President s re-
Iuirements when he is here. The type
writer's in the big west room of the
White House offices are often clicking
,usfly till we'll along into the night.
The telephone exchange and the tele-
raph force are occupied night and day,
laving relays of course. But there is
n absence of strenuosity when the +
President is out of town.
Secretary Loeb, at such times, sits
.onehalantly back in his swivel char
nd smokes a cigar. Callers are few '
nd far between. The work of being I
uffer between the President and the
ublic is light. Mr.. Loeb likes to ride ;
horse. He does not often go riding 7
nth the President, but he dons his y
iding breeches nearly every afternoon
hen the President is away, strides out =
T the White House offices, goes down |;
,ward the President s stables, where d
here are two or three equines for the
ecretary's own use, and picks out
God saddle horse and canters off into Il
lie country. n
The President has had no press of T
,r,or+ work of late. While nearly ev- /.