The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-02
NOTES FRUIN BEVERLY
Special correspondence

President taft is mixing great deal
of work with his play during this
years vacation period. for the time at
his disposal for accomplishing matters
that must be settled before congress
rouyenes in regular session in Deem
Der is comparatively short. There are
many things requiring attention-hrst'
nraparafion of the first annual mes
SAGE. which will recommend the legls>
lation with which the new adminlstra-
lion will start IFS policy program; Sec
ond. study and preparation of the
many important speeches which the
president is to make in different sec
rioDs of the country in September. DC
| fober and November. 1t is apparent.
| therefore. that the summer at Beverly
cannot be one continuous golf game.
hut the president has the happy facui-
| tv of separating each day into work
| time and play time, so that he is able
! to oct the full benefit and enjoyment
of the exercise necessary to keep rim
in trim.
| Texans Want to See Taft.
| Among recent visitors was Cecil
| lyon Republican national committee
| man from Texas Colonel Lyon came
to discuss with the president his visit
| TO Texas in October.
Everybody in Texas wants to see the
president. according to Lyon. Many Of
| The towns are ready TO go to extreme
/ lengths to get him to stop for visit.
"Out in Temple. Tex said Lyon,
| they wanted Roosevelt when he WIS.,
| tied the state. but he sent word that
| he would not be able to stop. The
| schedule called for the train to run
| right through Temple. But out in
! Texas We have Il way. aJust as soon
| rs Temple got word hat Teddy could
not stop the town council was called
/ In extra session. and an ordinance
was rushed through declaring it to be
a law that all trains carrying the
| president of the United States should
| stop in Temple for fifteen minutes.
Il. r. stopped there and got the best
/ reception IN the stare.
Will Visit Brothers Ranch.
| Charles p. Taft. the presidents
| brother, who. with Mrs Taft, has
been visiting the Roardmans at Bev-
erly farm. has left for the Lone
Star State. He will go down to his
big ranch near Corpus Christi, Tex.
| TO prepare for the welcome to be ex-
tended to the president when he visits
there late in October The ranch is
/ down near the southern tip end Of
the state. and ii is said there will be
great '.doings'' in honor of the presi-
dent. Mr.. Taft will spend four days
on the ranch. the longest stop he will
make at any place during his $4,000
mile trip
1 Makeup of the Taft Party.
The personnel of the presidents
party has been completed Besides
the president there will be John Hays
| Hammond, Archibald W. Butt. mill
tary aid; Wendell ". Misehler, as
sistant secretary; Dir. j. ]. Richard
son of Washington. James Sloan. Jr.;
L. G. Wheeler of the secret service
and Major Arthur Brooks. the presi-
dents confidential messenger Six
newspaper men will go along. The
party will travel iii two private cars.
No Boom For Ipswich.
Real estate spectators who are adj
vertising property ut the expense of
the president got a setback the other
day when Mr.. Taft caused it to be
denied that his brother Charles P.
plans the purchase of a house in Ip-
switch Residents there have an
nounced frequently that the president
is planning to acquire a place there.
This talk has aroused jealousy in
Beverly. which has fond hopes of con-
| tinuing to be the summer capital 1t
has also developed the fact that the
Taft lease on the Evans cottage is
for one year only. He has an option
to renew it from year to year.
Mrs. Taft's Health Improved.
Mrs. Taft's return TO health has pro-
crossed SO far that her sister. Mrs.
Lewis More of pittsburg. who had
been her constant companion since the
nervous breakdown in Washington,
has LETT Beverly to spend the end of
the summer with her husband, Pro-
fessor More. al Biddeford Pool, Me.
Mrs. More gladly gave up her entire
summer to be with her sister. and the
fact that she has left is the best indi
cation of how thoroughly the mistress
OF the White House has recovered
| Mrs. Taft probably will remain in
Beverly until Oct..1 or after Professor
md Mrs. More used the presidents
Yacht Sylph for their trip to Maine.
| Presidents Motor In Frequent Use.
| The president i; Gaily extending his
ale afternoon meter trips, The roads
md scenery are attractive. and the
i tgst5 pllpvS are stltastpd from read mans