The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-26
BY Ernest G.. Walker.
Vail Special to the Advertiser. J

fallen upon the Federal capital but big
officials are streaking out for the at
traetive point by the sea where Fresl- !
dent Taft has settled down to strenu-
Gus golf in the forenoon and strenuous i
automobiling with Mrs. Taft IN the al
ternoon. Every day some one as PACK
ing a portfolio for Beverly.
The President wanted a rest. 80 ne |
| told people when he whirled away IN his
private ear. He wanted to rcuperate
physically. He took along director
in physical training to coach him every
morning before breakfast and to help
| him into the best of trim before the
| long Western journey. He IS working
as industriously as prize hghfer not
particularly to keep his weight down
| but to get his muscles hard.
| Public business. however, encroacnes.
| The President has been successful IN
| fighting off the invitations of hundreds
| of local organizations in New England,
/ but he has not been able to fight OF
matters of pressing mportanee-pon-
ties, appointments, correspondence and
| the like. His cabinet officials find they
have business of which the President
| should have knowledge and away they
go Beverlyward. OF course the Presi-
| dent can not keep them at distance
| They are getting part Of his time
| between the luncheon hour-which
| varies from l to 2 o'elock-and the
start on the automobile ride with Mrs.
Taft.
/ At least FIVE of the nine members
of the Cabinet have already sought the
President at Burgess Point or are seek
ing him and he has been On his vaca-
ton only about ten days. First was
| Postmaster General Frank FL. Hitch
cock He has lot of Southern politics
in which the President is interested and
especially in connection with the an
| nouneement of Census Supervisors for
4 the South. Tt was understood that Mr..
Hitchcock might remain on the lid in
! Washington for a while but it develop
ed that he would go to the North Shore
and be the guest for month or more
of J. 3. Waller, who has a cottage not
far away from that of President Taft.
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Charles Nagel has also been TO see the
President in connection with those same
census appointments and Incidentally
desired to talk Southern politics. See
rotary of the Treasury MaeVeagh left
Washington speedily for visit to his
| summer home at Dublin, n. H., but he
! had already arrived there before he
found it necessary TO communicate with
J. the President. That made cabinet Of
fetal No. 3, who had pressing business.
| Mr.. MacFeagh had been commissioned
to look up the names of qualified ex-
perts who could serve on the tariff com
! mission of five, which the President was
I bnrs cd w.
with the new tariff law. But Secretary
Knox has also been commissioned TO
take up some work for the President
the reorganization of the Bureau of Far
Eastern Affairs. Congress appropriated
| 100000 to be used in considerable part
| in that reorganization work. So the
head of the State Department was d.
| rected to effect the reorganization and
find a suitable man to take charge of
; the bureau. Secretary Knox, dividing
his time between Washington and his
summer home at Valley Forge, has been
working out the very important matter
of getting the Far Eastern Bureau on
a good footing. His fellow townsman
and personal friend, Henry Clay Frick,
of Plttsburg, has beautiful summer
home at Pride S Crossing. Just about q
stones throw from Beverly. He has
invited Secretary Knox to make visit
there and it is expected in the course
, Of few days that Secretary Knox
: VIII make the visit and that he viii
, journey down to Burgess Point. where
| the Presidents cottage IS. and that he
will report about the Far Eastern Bu-
] reau and also talk over quite a lot of
diplomatic and state department affairs
II Of course it is unlikely that Secre-
tary Knox VIII get away from Burgess
! Point and from Beverly without hav-
ing a rial Of skill on the links with
the asident. They tried their skill
often at Chevy Chase during the early
summer and sometimes Vice President
sherman was present. Up at the Myopia
links and at the Essex Club links. where
the President has been playing since
he left Washington. he has been hav-
ling bad luck. John HAYS Hammond
beats him at twosomes and W. J. Board
man and Gen. Adelbert Ames. the one
OF Washington and the other Of Lowell
who was a Civil War Major General
and United States Senator from Mis-.
slsslppl IN reconstruction DAYS. have
been putting it all over the President
and Mr.. Hammond in the foursomes.
80 the President IS likely to want 70
nA up some arrangement with Secretary
Knox by which be can win a little game
once in a while.
Still another cabinet official IS head
ing that way in the person Of Secretary
I | OF the Navy Meyer. The fishing season
IN Canada ends this week and the Seere-
tary can no longer kill salmon On the
Restagouehe. He viii get into touch with
important navy reorganization work
as soon as he returns to the states and
Will be consulting with the President
forthwi about certain plans he has n
. hand.
Even others in officiaIdor are streak
ing it northward to Burgess Point. As
{ slstant Secretary Of Commerce and
] labor McHarg has been one Of them
lie had something 70 do with the Cen
sus Supervlsorships The Department
o. Commerce and Labor rather than
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