Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-01
BEVERLY, "SUMMER CAPITAL !"
SWAMPSCOTT PAYS ITS RE
SPECTS TO RIVAL VILLAGE.
Thinks Real Hot-Weather Seat of
Government is Needed by
the Nation.
From the Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald.
An article which is likely TO cause a
stir among Beverly citizens appeared
| a magazine which is issued Saturdays in
Swampscott. 1t severely criticises Bev-
erly as summer capital and contrasts it
with the summer capitals of other nations.
Beverly as summer capital it says, is
a joke. and adds:
1--WE believe that the time has come
when the United States should have a
real summer capital and that it should
be situated on the North Shore, some
where between Swampscott and Manches-
ter. We believe that the initiative toward
this END should be taken by wealthy resi-
dents along the shore, and that the peo-
Pile of Massachusetts should unite in pur-
chasing a suitable tract of land, which
should be presented to the government
with the proviso that proper buildings,
including summer White House, execu-
tive Offices and houses adapted to the en-
tertainment of foreign ENJOYS. should be
erected and maintained, together with
suitable gardens. by the national govern
ment. We believe that something of
this sort is bound to happen in the not
distant future"
Beverly Not Capital.
Regarding the qualifications of Beverly
as a summer capital, the article says liz
part:
I'm contrast to the summer capitals of
Europe, consider Beverly, Mass. Beverly
is nice, quiet old town, and it should
not be put in a false light before the
world. 1t never posed as being in the
summer capital business. 1t was not
designed for that purpose. Originally a
little fishing village, it has grown slowly
and sensibly into a typical little New
England village.
When President Taft decided to spend
the summer there the citizens of Beverly
appropriately and periodically placed at
his disposal the rooms of the Beverly
Board of Trade, which are in a squat
two-story brick building on the main
street. mile or more from the Taft cot
tage. The rooms are loW-ceied, and, if
the truth must be told bit stuffy. But
they are better than no rooms at ALL and
it was very kind of the Beverly Board of
Trade to loan them to the United States,
which is really big enough and rich
enough to equip itself with proper sum
mer quarters.
ITO be sure, in order to get to his room
the President will nave to climb the
stairs, for there is no elevator, and will
have to run the gantlet of popcorn men,
candy vendors and suspender peddlers,
who infeSt the sidewalk. Once enSconced,
however, he will be all right. He can tip
back and enjoy the soothing strains OF
the itinerant hurdy-gurdy man.
The Presidents Neighbours
The President has already been warn
ed not to pay any attention to any ago.
nlZlng screams lie may hear. for these
will merely emanate from one of the
dentists offices on the same floor Ii has
been facetiously suggested that if the
councils of state lead to uncertainty of
action recourse may be had TO the won
derfu powers of reading the future pos
sessed by the oculist and palmist whose
fortune-telling studio is in nearby shop
Would not the interests of true de-
mocracy be better served by building
summer capital and White House, thus
permitting even poor man to aspire to
an office whose dignity cannot be main
tanned on the salary attached? We do
not need to initiate the extravagances of
Europe, but 1t is unquestionably true that
this nation would advance materially in
the worlds respect If it possessed real
summer capital, in the popular definition
of ha torn