The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-23
BY Ernest G.. Walker.
Mail Special to the Advertiser.)

BEVERLY, Mass, Sept. 6.-The
summer capital is on the last week
of its first season, but calm, confident
and assured. The dull days are near
at hand with the disappearance of the
big man who flashes upon the horizon
and darts along the well oiled roads
in high power automobile. But he is
coming again. He has said so. He
praised the people of the summer cap
ital for the care they had shown in
giving him pleasant vacation and put
his name to lease of the Evans cot,
tage on Burgess Point for another
year.
That suffices for Beverly. The city
had been through period of feverish
anxiety. No one quite knew whether
whether he liked the cottage and its
surroundings sufficiently to want to
spend another summer in this vicinity.
Those close to him knew the President
was having the vacation of his life.
There was little likelihood from the
very start that he would want to spend
his next vacation anywhere else.
The leasing of the Evans cottage for
another season was the very natural
thing to expect of the President. At
heart he is prouder of being Of Massa-
chusetts extraction than being native
of Ohio. His mother was a Boston
woman, the daughter of Samuel D.
Torrey, of Boston, an old time East
India merchant. And East India mer-
chants were the kind of men who set
the fashion many years ago of having
summer homes on the North Shore.
They and other fine old Boston families
gradually monOpolized some forty or
fifty miles of ocean front to the north
of Boston for their summer pleasures.
Therefore it is that hundreds of SPLEEN
did summer palaces rear their roofs
through the foliage of rare old trees
along that region, known as the North
Shore. and therefore it is that thou
sands of fashionable vehicles travel the
roads in that vicinity during the heat
ed term President Taft has adopted
the style of vacation, which was Gus
tomary with his maternal grandfather.
He likes it. Hardly anything else could
be expected.
Mrs. Taft will stay in the roomy and
magnificent house, while the frosts,
which have already tinged the foliage,
turn the leaves a splendid brown and
the soberness of autumn comes down
upon the gaities of the summer season.
Her North Shore neighbors will not
all have hurried to their homes on
Beacon Street and Commonwealth Ave
nue.. Boston people linger on the North
Shore for weeks after the vacation
ists'' have scurried back to their en-
ployment and their homes.
/ The President is taking his last auto
mobile rides and penetrating to few
OF the unvisited places before he
q hikes' away on his long transconti-
mental wandering. Probably no other
county in the United States has such
magnificent roads as Essex county. The
President has now explored practically
all of them. There will be no surprises
for him in beautiful patches of country
hereabouts that he can find next yea
with any one of his half dozen big
government touring cars But by the
time next season rolls around, the
President will be glad to ride over the
same roads again, even from Beverly
to the rugged rocks and the stretches
of sandy beaches where the ocean rolls
in from the wide expanse of the At
! lantic. A few of the roadways, prom
ising interesting and rugged scenery,
are closed to touring cars, in conse-
quence of which the President thinks
/ of bringing to Beverly next year a
span of high steppers. Then there will
,be other roads, especially through the
, wooded sections, of the county, open
to him.
Now in that hour or two day, which
he snatehes from the pursuit, of rest
and recreation, the President is wind
ing up his work. The distinguished
! visitors have continued to come on oc-
casion. Members of his cabinet still
drop in upon him-a practise which he
welcomes because they keep him in
t better touch with governmental affairs.
The President has said that he feels
as though his hand were not firmly
on the helm while he remains so far
from Washington and there is a feeling
of reinsurance when a member of the
cabinet comes around to tell him what
is happening. The President is most
assiduous reader of the newspapers, but
naturally the members of his cabinet
can tell him about a lot of things not
mentioned in the daily chronicles.
! One of the best visits the President
has had from any member of his cabi,
net was from Secretary Of State Knox
The latter spent the best part of a
week at Prides Crossing, Just a short
way from Beverly, as the guest of his
fellow townsman, Henry c. Frick, of
Pittsburg, who has on the North Shore
one of the most palatial residences in
all the country. From there the secre-
tary could motor over to the President :
cottage in five or ten minutes. The
secretary had his departmental mail
sent to Prides Crossing every day and
every morning he met the President