New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-17
Mr.. TAFT ENDS OUTING
President Will Return to Wash
ington Via New York To-day.
MAKES ADDRESS AT CHURCH
Tells Unitarians of Beverly He
Hopes to Worship with Them
Again Next Year.

Beverly, Mass oct. 16.-President Tafts
summer vacation officially ended to-day
Tomorrow morning he will start back to
Washington by way of New York. Three
thousand children from the Beverly schools
will be lined up on either side of Lothrop
street as the Presidents automobile starts
for Boston a II o'clock, and they will wave
him a goodby with little United States
flags.
Mrs Taft, herr sister. Mrs. Thomas n
Laughlir. jr, Of Pittsburg, and Miss Helen
Taft will go with the President as far as
New York They will stop over there for a
week or more of shopping. President Taft
will be back in Washington on Thursday
morning to remain until November - when
he goes to Cincinnati to vote on the Sth
He will sail for Panama on November 10
from Charleston, S. {.
Mr.. Taft has thoroughly enjoyed his sum-
mer on the North Shore. He has taken on
some weight during the last month. but
does not seem TO mind 1t. To-day in the
Unitarian Church the President was called
on to make a few remarks. What he said
was entirely informal but he took occasion
to indicate that he intended to remain
summer resident of the North Shore so long
as he is President.
The Presidents recreation during the
summer has consisted principally of golf
and motoring. He has missed but few
days from the Myopia links, and every
afternoon has found him comfortably seat
ed in the tonneau of one of the White
House cars and off for a long spin over
the smooth roads of Essex County. Some
of the Presidents automobile trips have
extended over two days, and altogether it
IS estimated that he has travelled more
than five thousand miles in machines dur
Ifng the summer
Mr. Taft's departure tomorrow will bring
to an end a long season for the eight Secret
Service men who have been assigned TO the
summer Capitol. Their vigilance has never
relaxed, although the task required days
and nights of sentry duty at the cottage
and thousands of miles of motor riding in
following the President over half OF New
England. The Secret Service car always
trailed and always seemed to be tied to its
leader by some invisible rope that has led
il over hill and dale, through binding dust
and flying mud without a skip. 1t was a
we'll tanned, wind blown little company that
packed up their belongings to-day to go
back to something like indoor life for the
winter. In his speech in church to-day Mr..
Taft said:
I should be most reluctant to break into
the regular course this morning if it did
not give me the opportunity, on behalf of
| Mrs. Taft and myself, to express the graft
tude we feel at having had the privilege Of
worshippiRg with you during this beautiful
summer season in a church so full of his
tory, with such a wealth of usefulness in
the last two hundred and fifty years. 1t is
a church that illustrates i'm its history the
growth of liberalism IN religion and the de-
velopment of the orthodox tenetss of those
who came here TO make the beginnings of
New England into our faith of Unitarian
ism
The President then paid q tribute to DR..
Benjamin r. Buckley, pastor of the
church, and said in closing:
Il hope wei mean my family and my
seIf-are going to be able next summer to
be here, or, as they say in the West,
'hereabouts,' and certainly If We are within
any practicable distance, and you will treat
us as well next summer and as Hospitality
as you have this, we shall be numbered
among the worshippers under this roof. 1
thank YOU sincerely"
The expected definite announcement as to
the location of the Presidents nome next
summer was not made to-day, and will
hardly be made now for several days. All
the. chances. however, favor Beverly. and
il is believed that within few days a
lease will be signed for a cottage within
easy walking distance of the present sum-
mer White House.