The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-07-27
PRESIDENT TAFT HAS
NEW DISTINCTION
Most Prominent Summer Bachelor" in
Washington and He Is Getting
Much Publicity For It.


since the 5th Of the month when he tool
bis family down to Beverly and lel
them there to enjoy the cool breezes O
Salem bay, he has been leading single
life, and since returning to Washington
on the 9th, has "bached it, at thu
/ White House. Colored Mary-her Other
name unknown az the White Houseii
the presidents cook and as she Is Al
expert at preparing hoe cakes and fried
chicken, as well as many other tooth
some southern dishes, the president il
not suffering the pangs Of hunger dur.
ing Mrs. Taft's absence. When Mrs
Taft went 70 Beverly she took with her
Miss Jefferson, the housexeeper, and thg
chief cook Mary seems 10 Be running
the culinary end Of the White House
/ Just at present very well-so well, in
fact, that the president generally has
two or three guests at luncheon and
dinner.
Most Of the afternoons are devoted
TO golf BY the president, and since The
extreme hot weather began he has TAX.
en- to automobile riding of evenings. As
soon as dinner is over, the big touring
ear rolls up to the White House porte
cochere and the president climbs IN
Usually he is accompanied By Captain
Archibald Butt, his chief military aid
Or some member Of the cabinet. The
evening rides are taken IN the neigh
borhood Of Rock Creek Park or around
the Potomac Drive below the Washing.
ton monument. The president rises at
! 7;30 in the morning, exercises with
dumb bells for fifteen or twenty minute
and breakfasts shortly after s. He is
at his Office BIZ $3.50 q. m.
Of late he has broken away from time
honored convention, and has taken an
occasional informal dinner at one Of the
embassies or legations. The first em-
bassy thus 10 be honorcd by having the
presidential feet beneath rs table was
that Of France. Ambassador Jusserand
is quite as popular with the present adj
miuistTation a. he was with the pre-
ceding one. This, despite the fact that
be plays tennis, but knows nothing Of
golf.
Seven LITTLE vessels, unheralded ny
newspapers and undampened BIZ the
splash Of the christening bottle Of cham
payne, have slipped down the ways into
the sea TO become a part of the Ameri.
can navy within the last week or two.
They are the Stingrav. Tarpo0n, Bonita,
Snapper, Narwhai, Grayling, and Sal.
mon, the latest additions to the sub.
marine feet When the machinery Is
installed and tuned W, the Board Of
Inspection and Survey Of the Navy De-
partment viii take them in hand and
put them through the PAGES They viii
then be commissioned to take their
places with the twelve submarines now
in service. Besides these, nine more yes
sells have been contracted for. When all
are completed the navy win have a
submarine feet Of twenty eight vessels,
enough 20 be a source OF anxiety to any
hostile force chat might be sent to at
tack the Atlantic seaboard.
The newspapermen who cover the
aeroplane flights az Fort Myer arc dis
covering new angles N the mental pro-
cess Of Orville and Wilbur Wright
Through a well-known member Of Con
gross who Processes knowledge of
world politics aud who confessed that
he patronizingly talked Of such things
with Wilbur recently, comes the infor-
nation that the elder one Of the DAYTON
boys Is a keen student Of world affairs
and wonderfully we'll informed on inter
national politics Tire congressman ad-
mitted that he had Learned q lot Of new
points from Wilbur az 10 the politics
of the foreign Offices 0f France. England,
Germany, Spain and Italy For instance
that John BULBS fear Of invasion via
the Channel BY aerial craft is wen
founded Is one Of Wilbur conclusions.
There are those who figured that the
Wright aeroplane was merely the result
of constant experimentation III more n
less biz d. miss style. A talk with
0rviile along scientific lines, however,
soon disclOses the fact that he is d per
feet encyclopedia Of aerial technique
lie i as well grounded in physics ana
the higher scientific study Of atmospher.
&c conditions any dynamics as he IS in
the three RS. He is scientist ia the
fullest sense of the word--bnt with that
rare trait among scientists Of never air
ing his technical store Of knowledge un-
less il Is required Of him.
The secret of the n0n.committal at
ttude the two brothers adopt toward
the newspapers and the aversion to in
teryiews is based, so the newspapermen
have come to believe, On the fear that
they viii be misquoted. II il impossible /
for them to talk about the aeroplane
without using technical terms, and it is
their conviction that these terms win
be iuggled and wrongly paraphrasad
that makes the two aeronauts 50 word 4
shy.
.We have never been able to make /
understand the exact I
principles Of the flight Of our aeroplanes 7
said 0rvilie one evening recently. "fhe (
precise points ID our hiplane which are {
covered BY patent have never been per I
fectly explained; my own idea Of the I
cause Of the accident at Fort Meyer last +
fall has never been correctly printed +
You newspapermen can't seem to grasp
NE technicalities of aerial flight.
eff Wilbur and myself want to have F
/ good laugh orville continued smil
me, SAN we have to do il pick up all
newspaper and read a description Of our
machine nobody ever could fly IN the
that are 50 minutely and
graphically depicted"
The newspapermen, among themselves
believe that 0rville and Wilbur Just like
Ill scientists, can't bear to have any
thing called by any name which isnt 4
he scientific appication. When 0rvilIe
says main plane, for instance. iti
hurts him back in his well-ordered scien
life mind to be quoted as saying @main
wing
0rville and Wilbur talk undestrained