The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1909-06-03
Presidents
Summer Home
An Interesting Description OF the
Fashionable Shores of the
Old Bay State.

Fashionable Shores of the d
Old Bay State.
The selection of a summer residence {
along the North Shore of Massachu-
setts Bay by President Taft thereby
making Beverly Farms the summer
capital of our country, calls attention
to a part of our Atlantic Coast, justly
famous for it's many and varied at
fractions as resort where the discOm-
forts of life in hot, n )isy cities may be
forgotten and exchanged for the silence
of nature and the cool breezes of the
ocean.
The, names North and South Shores
are universally used in Massachusetts,
when referring to beaches and resorts
bordering the waters of Massachusetts,
Bay. The North Shore comprises all
that section of beaches and islands ly-
ing north of Boston to Portsmouth.
The South Shore includes all the
beaches to the south of Boston and
Buzzard's Bay. ALI of this large terri
tory from Portsmouth, N. H., to Woods
Hole, Mass, comprises vast recrea-
tion ground enjoyed equally by all-the
rich and poor, the boys and girls aud
their older brothers and sisters.
To the Bostonese the selection by
Mrs. Taft for the President of a palatial
summer Gotta ye in the midst OF the
ultra exclusive and wealthiest summer
colony in this country, not excepting
Newport, is especially significant. 1t
shows tt at she is we'll versed in social
diplomacy and is worthy mate for
her distinguished husband. 1t also in
dicates her ambition to be the premier
social leader in fact as we'll as by virtue
of her exalted position as wife of the
President. Mrs. Taft's skilled social
move and her genius to select for attack
the blue blOoded Old Guard of the al.
ira exclusive social set, foreshadOws a
campaign that must stagger Bostonians
acquainted with the social prestige and
influence at the command of the First
Fa miles of Massachusetts,.
The outsider, ignorant of the socia
caste into which Boston is divided may
we'll wonder what this discussion hat
to do with lie aches and summer resorts
Beverly Farms is general name ap
piled to the most aristocratic summer
colony in the United States. The pa
iatial residences-called cottages, Dor
der Salem Bay an enclosed arm of Mas
sachusetts Bay, twenty-five miles nortl
OF Boston. The location and environ
ment of these cottages is enriched b.
landscape gardening on the most elat
crate scale.
The families who form this se,ec
colony bear the oldest and proudee
names in the history of America. Th
Cabots, Crowninshields, COdmans, Loo
ges and Endicotts are few that com
to mind. The Endicott family comprise
the direct defendants of Governor-Gel
eral Endicott who was the he ad of tt
government when Massachusetts, VIZ
a crown colony nearly three hundre
years ago. A daughter of this fami
married Joseph Chamberlain, a note
English statesman. John D. Rock
feller, jr., son of the Oil magnate, has
cottage here and with his beautif
wife-nee Miss Aldrich-daughter
Senator Aldrich, is trying to secure
tree to these exclusive circles.
The choice of Mrs. Taft for sui
n1er residence is in striking contrast
the location and environment chOs'
by her famous predecessor-Mrs. Cley
land, at Buzzard's Bay, Mass. The d
tance in miles from Beverly Farms
North Shore to Buzzard's Bay on t
South Shore is about 150-the distan
socially cannot be measured-yet t
Cievelands were happy and content'
Buzzard's Bay makes an ideal place
those seeking rest, health and pleasu
The bay is frequently alluded to as
Naples of America. For society it
not lacking in charm nor surfeited W
stale nothings. Here were famo