The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-06-07
ROOSEVELT
ON VACATION
(Mail Special to the Advertiser.)

WAsdiNtION, ID. u. May ~
President Roosevelt has virtually begun
his long summer vacation and as good
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
20, for the West, especially to deliver
a Memorial Day address at 1ndianapo-
lis. He will speedily return to Wash
ington, from that trip, but will depart
once more June 9 to be present at the
jamestown Exposition-which the ir-
-reverent in Washington are now styl-
ing the "Jimtown Imposition ''-on
Georgia Day. The President makes an
address on that occasion. His mother
was a Georgian and therefore it YVES
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 will
hardly see the White House for more
than three months after that day.
His trips will be few after that time.
Along in September he has promised
to visit Canton on the occasion of the
dedication of a memorial to the late
President Mckinley and from there
will go on a 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 a 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 will 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 a dispatch that the President had
broken down the day before and there
fore decided suddenly upon an outing
IN the Virginia woods. AS matter of
fact the President had been looking
forward for weeks to this Pine Knot
trip, where he and his wife could live
for a few days in true rural simplicity.
He did not intend to 60 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 attention Secretary Loeb
knows how to get at him in short order
and it will be so all summer while the
President is away from Washington.
The White House clerical force wei
comes the Presidents outing. All its
remain in Washington, but
they have a little let up. Their hours
have TO conform to the President Is re-
quirements when he is here. The type
writer's in the big west room of the
White House offices are often clicking
busily till we'll along into the night. |
The telephone exchange and the tele.
graph force are occupied night and day, |
having relays of course. But there is
an absence of strenuosity when the
President is out of town.
Secretary Loeb, at such times, sits
back in his swivel chair
and smokes cigar. Callers are few
and far between. The work of being
buffer between the President and the
public is light. Mr.. Loeb likes to ride
a horse. He does not often go riding
with the President, but he dons his
riding breeches nearly every afternoon
when the President is away, strides out
IF the White House Offices, goes down
toward the Presidents stables, where
here arc two or three equines for the
own use, and picks out
good saddle horse and eanters of into
he country.
The President has had no press of
irgent work OF late, While nearly ey'
,rything that reaches his desk IL Of
Importance, nevertheless much o. II IL
outline work AZ this time Of year, lie