The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-15
ROOSEVELT HAS
REAL VACATION
Those Having Business With
the President Requested by
Loeb to "Write It,"
LUNCHEONS AT OYSTER BAY
PRESSING MATTERS PUNCHED
FOR SETTLEMENT.

Oyster Bay, July 14-President Rcose-
Welt is more fully realizing his desire for
freedom from official cares and pressure
from political personages than he or those
charged with the responsibility OF making
the presidents vacation a success had
hoped.
For a month Secretary Loeb has made
effectual use OF the two words to which
he has trimmed his summer vocabulary,
Write it," No matter how important one
may think he is, how pressing may be
the business, or whether one applies In
person. by letter. telegraph OF telephone
to arrange for an interview at Sagamore
Hill. in every instance one gets a reply IN
the summer vocabulary Of the secretary,
Write it." And it is Mr. IOeD'S most I'M
DOrtant business to mean these words
every time he says them. If a VISITOR
should belong to the numerous and com
mon variety OF handshaker he leaves the
blOckaded portals Of oyster Bay repeat
ing to every one that ''the president really
wanted to see me, but Loeb would not let
him..
If politician with pull calls he
usually takes one of the seventeen daily
trains hack to New York and denies with
ali positiveness which the secretary has
used to him that he ever was in Oyster
Bay in his life.
This years plans. which are to permit
the presidents governing hand TO control
with ever 50 light a touch until Septem-
Der has departed. have solved practically
all of the difficult problems of giving the
president of the United States real va
cation. With the exception OF an hour or
so q day at the routine official matters,
he is completely free to recreate or medl-
ate.
Settled at Luncheon.
When several matters accumulate which
require the presence of the head OF gov
ernmental department, a consultation with
a political leader over federal appoint
ment or the extension of official courtesies
to a foreign visitor. a luncheon is arranged
and all the persons desired, OF niece ssary
to be SEEN are requested to arrive to-
getber. They all come on the 1923 train
and they all go away on the 2-35 train
and no matter how varied the nature OF
the business. each guest has the personal
and individual attention of the president
some time during the two hours In TINS
way the long interview with the japanese
admiral and the japanese ambassador
was held. Nothing was lacking in the
cordially OF the official courtesy D.
/ cause of the fact that the president also
gave his attention for a time to Congress
man Parsons regarding the New YORK Sity
rostmastership, and that Assistant Secle-
tarv of State Bacon compressed the
months business in the state department.
into a fifteen-minute report.
But with all there is OF routine ana
the few there are asked to luncheon, Moth
J ing interferes with the presidents summer
ba bits of exercise and recreation He mas
his morning horseback ride or game or
| tennis his afternoon walks in the woods
or a frolic with the children on the snore
and after dinner in the evening chat
DarticiDated i'm by the whole family on
/ Inc veranda. then reading before bedtime.