The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-07
GOLF AND STATECRAFT
AT SUMMER CAPITAL
President Finds Plenty to Occupy His Time at
Beverly Itinerary of Tour Is Being
Planned

sionally does an estate get upon the
market.
The President comes into the town
of Beverly very little-not at all ex-
cept when he goes through on an auto
mobile ride and when he comes in for
church every Sunday at the Unitarian
place of worship. The residents ex-
pected he would frequently come into
the offices that have been fitted up
splendidly in the Board of Trade build
ing and that he would attend to his
mail there, Nothing of the kind was
planned. The President attends to all
of his mail at the cottage, whittier it
is taken by Secretary Carpenter, usual
ly once a day. The President has not
been to the offices since he arrived
and probably will never see them ex-
cept from the outside as he goes whiz-
zing by. The other day one of the
big White House automobiles drove up
in front of the building where the
offices are. Word flew that the
President had come and the town, in
a twinkling, was streaking it toward
the offices in the hope of seeing him.
Of course there was keen disappoint-
ment.
And yet, as a whole, Beverly, city
of over $4,000 people, has taken its
honors as summer capital with great
dignity and composure. The people
have shown no undue curiosity. Some
have evinced lively disposition to
see the President but that would be
true of any community of over or I'M
der $4,000 population. For a while
~, IL e he G,,n-
day mornings were not large and con-
sisted chiefly of children but as the
weeks have been flying by many adults,
who feared the President would get
away without their having an oppor-
tunity to see him, have gathered in
the street near the old Unitarian front
to witness his automobile dashing up,
with Capt. A. W. Butt, looking as mill
tary as you please, sitting on the front
seat. These Sunday throngs have been
a source of some worry to the orthodox
churches Of the city. Their own con-
gregations have been thinning even as
the congregation at the Unitarian
church has been growing larger and
larger and nearing the capacity of the
pews. But worshipers at orthodox
congregations have been arriving late
to the confusion of their more regular
brethren. The belated ones stand out
in front of the Unitarian church till
the President arrives and then, having
seen him, they hasten to their own
church homes. But the President is
nearly always late at church and there
fore the people out front are very late
getting into their own pews, to the
scandal of many congregations.
Mrs. Taft's democratic trips to the
town are the delight of the natives.
In seeking the recovery of her health
she is walking much, not only about
the extensive grounds of the cottage
but out upon the beautiful roads of
the vicinity. Her daughter, Miss Helen
Taft, generally accompanies her. They
frequently walk up to town, just like
other folks and go shopping in the ex-
cellent stores which are pride of Bev-
erly. The Tafts patronize the public
library, which is a feature of Beverly,
as it is of all Massachusetts cities and
of most Massachusetts towns. They
come in sometimes on foot and some
times in one of the big automobiles to
exchange books. An incident of that
has been told and is going the rounds.
Soon after the Tafts arrived, young,
lady at the public library was greatly
interested to know whether the Presi-
dent Is family would draw books. One
day big automobile drove up to the
door. Somehow she thought it was the
President IS. Running to the window
she saw the national coat of arms rpon
the side of the throbbing machine. Fly
ing back to the counter she besought
young lady, who had just come in,
to take look at the President IS auto
mobile. To the lady clerk confusion
she learned that it was Miss Helen Taft
who had arrived in the vehicle and was
patiently waiting her turn to get a
book.
: Secretary Carpenter is taking in
quite as much of the country this way
as any of the President encourage.
His work at the executive Offices keeps
him fairly busy during the day but he
gets away earlier than usual He has
his own horses and carriage from the
President s stables up here and takes
long drives out into the adjoining
towns and even into Boston which is
only Is miles away and can be easily
reached by carriage or automobile. The
mail from Washington has been grow
ing heavier and heavier as the days
have gone by but still it is not as
large as during the busy season. The
President dictates nearly every after
noon to Assistant Secretary Forster
and then signs up the letters that Sec
rotary Carpenter brings him. All this
IS generally out of the way by 4 clock
in the afternoon.
Quite number of appointments
have been arranged for callers at the
summer White House and more are to
be arranged in the near future. But
a vast deal of the work at the execu-
tive offices thus far has been in ar
ranging the details for the President s
long western trip. The itinerary was
mapped out long ago but the work has
been in making the program for the
President in the numerous large cities
he viii visit. Secretary Carpenter has
been in correspondence with the author
tiles of these cities all along the route
of travel to the Pacific Coast and back