The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-09-24
BY Emss, o. walker.
Nall sneeIaI 10 lhe Advertl.er. J


hummer capital is on the last week
If it's first season, but calm, confident
md assured. The dull days are near
It hand with the disappearance Of the
big man who flashes upon the horizon
and darts along the well oiled roads I
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 a pleasant vacation and put
his name to lease of the Evans cot
tage on Burgess Point for another
year.
That suflices for Beverly. The city
had been through period of feverish
anxiety. No one quite knew whether
the President would come again or
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 a native
of Ohio. His mother was 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 ant
| the soberness of autumn comes down
upon the gaities of the summer season
all have hurried to their homes OF
Beacon Street and Commonwealth Ave
nue.. Boston people linger on the Nortl
Shore for weeks after the "vacation
ists' have scurried back to their EN-
ployment and their homes.
The President is taking his last auto
mobilcride and penetrating to few
of the unyisited places before h
"hikesn away on his long transconti
mental wandering. Probably no othe
county in the United States has sue
magnificent roads as Essex county. TIL
President has now explored practicall
all of them. There will be no surprise
for him in beautiful patches of countr
hereabOuts that he can find next yea
with any one of his half dozen bi
government touring cars. But by tn
time next season rolls around, tn
President will be glad to ride over tn
same roads again, even from Beverl
to the rugged rocks and the stretche
Of sandy beaches where the ocean roll
} in from the wide expanse Of the A
lantic. A few Of the roadways, prom
ising interesting and rugged scener.
are closed TO touring cars, in cons'
quence of which the President think
Of bringing TO Beverly next year
span of high steppers. Then there wi
be other roads, especially through I'll
wooded sections Of the county, ope
to him.
Now in that hour or two day, whic
, he snatches from the pursuit of rel
D.. and recreation, the President is wint
ing up his work The distinguishe
visitors have continued to come on o
= casion. Members of his cabinet sti
d drop in upon him-a practise which
o welcomes because they keep him
q better touch with governmental affair
The President has said that he fee
: ms though his hand were not firm
on the helm. while he remains so II
from Washington and there is n feelir
u of reinsurance when a member Of d
' cabinet comes around to tell him VIII
= Is happening. The President Is n mo
!, assiduous reader Of the newspapers, bl
y naturally the members Of his cabin
y can tell him about lot Of things n
mentioned In the daily chronicles
One Of the best visits the Preside
has had from any member Of his cal
net was from Secretary Of State KnO
The latter spent the best part Of
week at Prldes Crossing, just q sho
:, way from Beverly, as the guest of i
II fellow townsmnn, Henry O. Frlck,
I fitfsbpTg, who has on the North Sho
one Of the most palatial residences
all the country, From there the seer
y iary could motor over 10 the President
!. cottage IN FIVE or ton minutes II
, secretary had his departmental M
' sent TO Prides Crossing every day nj
~ every morning he met tho Preside
?. over NJ the golf links, They play
~ together and they talked together, 4
"A a. IL