The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-11
HORSES MUST GO.
Taft Will Use Automobile In
stead, 1t Is Said.
70 Be No More Rough Riders
or Tennis Players.
NEEDS BIGGER CHAIR
One Will Be Built Especially
for New President.
The Early Rising Custom Also
Will Be Abolished.

| washington, Nov. 11.-Foreman Con-
! over, presiding genius over the White
House stables, who knows more about
| spInts, spavins, shoe blisters and the
! neaVes than any man in the Roosevelt
ADMINISTRATIONS man who can tell the
age Of horse by his cough-may soon
nave to forget his equine learning and
study up on carbureters, sparkers and
petrol to hold his job. Rumor has it,
ana motor car sales agents are cock
sure OF 1t, that Mr.. Taft is going to
depart from the Roosevelt policies in
| one instance at least and install motor
cars IN the stables of the chief execu-
| tive. Where now broughamS station
| carts and Victoria furnish the mode OF
locomotion of the first man in the ma
| ton.
Mr.. Taft has become quite fond of
the motor car. In the summer he
| Travelled at least 300 miles in as many
different machines and not once did
the candidate suffer any delay or in
convenience from a broken trace or a
coHcky mare. The new executive is
convinced that the motor car. is the
thing. In Cincinnati his greatest de-
light was his daily spin in Brother
Charities touring car, a machine SO big
by the waw that it can hardly turn
around in a 4-acre field.
President Roosevelt has froWned on
the motor car. His tastes have run to
timber toppers and single footers. But
Mr.. Taft has ideas on the subject him
self and shortly after March 4 the big
barn set aside for the presidents
equipages may house touring cars,
roadsters, runabouts and electric phae-
tons. The last named may Supersede
Mr.. ROoSeVelt'S brOugham and the run
abouts may be designed for the use of
Miss Helen, Mr., Robert and Master
Charles Taft, who for the next four
he he Interesting
dren in the land. The touring car may
safely be kept in the garage subject to
the call of the president.
This innovation in the new admins
tration will occasion some disquietude
among the rubbernecks of the capital.
The red, white and blue cockade and
the red, white and blue rosette on the
heads of the footmen and horses re-
spectively have long served to identify
che White House carriages. Just where
the rosettes will be attached if ma
chimes are used is a matter that will
have to be left to the private secre-
tary, Mr.. Carpenter, who, by the way,
will be quite another change in the Or
der of things at the White House
Mr. Carpenter is a much different
man from Secretary Loeb. He is young
err, smaller and less known than the
present conf1dant of the president; also
he is not married. The motor car will
dispose of one vexing problem. The
secretary is entitled to government
carriage with a half ton of silver
mounted harness thrown in. 1t would
have been a shame for so much style
to go to waste on single man; a 30
horse power fast wagon will be more
in keeping with his bachelor tastes.
Another change will be that of Frank
Forster. present assistant secretary, for
Charles Mischief. Not such a differ
ence will be noted here, however, as
both are silent and wear soft soled
shoes with grace and dignity.
The greatest change the administra-
ton will inaugurate will be the custer
of the Rough Riders and the tennis
cabinet by the Yale class of '73 and
the veterans who carried the conStitu-
ton and the flag in the benevolent as
similation of the Philippines. No more
will the joyous shouts of Jimmie" Gar
field and Archie" Butt, or Clifford
Pinchot and Ambassador Jusserand re-
sound from the famous White House
tennis court while the rubberneck wa
gon orators inform their patrons thai
if they look quick they may see the
president reaching for a highball.'
The high tennis balls suggest some
thing else about the new administra-
ton. Mr.. Taft is an abstainer from
vinous, malt, hop and other intoxicat-
ing liquors. They do not agree with
his digestion. In this connection be it
said also that the day of 6 o'clock
rising in the White House will end
with March 4. Mr.. Taft, unlike Presi-
dent Roosevelt, who jumps out of bed
at 6 and rushes for a cold tub, be-
lieves that sleep at that hour is the
best employment that time can be
put to.
The national sports will change with
the swearing in of the new president.
Mr.. Taft likes fish as a gastL1nomic
anr sporting possibility. He likes to
read about hunting, but he frankly
confesses that hunting as a pastime
does not appeal to him. He much pre-
fers horseback riding with his cronies,
General Edwards and General Crozier.
This exercise, with gOlf, will keep him
in condition, and the tennis racquets
now littering the executive mansion
will have to give way to the brassic
and midiron. Even the White House
furniture will change somewhat. The
large comfortable chair which once
was Mr.. Taft's as secretary of war in
the cabinet room will be moved to the
presidents place, again proving the
Scotch proverb, Where MacGregor
sits is the head of the table"
The presidents swivel chair in his
private Office will give way to one built
on more generous architectural lines.
The library shelves in Secretary Loeb's
room. now bending beneath the weight
of 1.-The Works of Theodore Roose-
Welt" "Big Game in the West"
"Camping and Tramnin- With Presf-
dent Roosevelt 1.-The Many Sided