The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-23
Two or Three Months
Needed toRestore Ex-
hausted Energy.
TAFT ADVISES
LONG PLA YTIME
President Closes His Visit at
Bar Harbor and Leaves Every
body Happy-With Merry
Coaching Party He Drives
Off for Seal
Harbor.

Bar Harbor. Maine. July 22-Presi-
dent Taft brought his stay in Bar
Harbor to close this afternoon. He
landed here on Wednesday from the
yacht Mayfiower. He left to-day as a
member OF a merry coaching party
behind four magnificent horses, headed
for Seal Harbor, eleven miles away.
The Maydower weighed anchor at
noon and steamed around to Seal Har-
Dor TO meet the President. The yacht
afterward went TO Northeast Harbor
and anchored there for the night with
the President and party on board. To-
morrow morning she will steam across
f'renchman's Bay to the Mount Desert
ferry, where Mr.. Taft will take a
special train to Bangor. After visit
ing that city for two hours and making
speech. he will proceed by specia.
train to Ellsworth, the home of Sena-
tor Eugene Hale, to be the latter's
guest until Sunday afternoon. Mr..
Taft will also make little speech at
Ellsworth
Leaves Everybody Happy.
The President left everybody in Bar
Harbor happy. After being lavishly
entertained by the summer colony, he
met the townspeople to-day on the
village green and made a little speech
to them. He spoke OF the value of va
cations. The day was raw and blus-
terry, and rain began TO fall as the
President spoke. It did not dampen
the enthusiasm OF the crowd in the
least. They all seemed glad TO see him.
Mrs. Taft also was recognized by the
throng and greeted with applause. The
President was introduced by First Sc
lectman J. E. Burke. Jr.
AS soon as the President had finished
his speech he again mounted the coach
which was fooled by Philip livingston,
of New York. and with another -four
ish OF trumpets, was away. for Seal
Harbor Arriving there. he and his
party Were entertained at luncheon by
Mrs. Mark Hanna. Tonight the party
was entertained at lunch by Mrs
Charlemasne Tower, at her place, two
miles from the harbor. Mr.. Taft in
his speech, said in part:
One of the things which forces it.
self upon the mind OF one visiting such
country as this Is the fact that the
American people have learned a good
deal in the last generation. In my
fathers time he thought, although a
hard working lawyer, that two weeks
was ample vacation time during the
entire year, and when came TO the
bar he suggested that II / stayed a,
home during the summer months ]
would make good deal more money
than II / went away.
But the American people have found
out that there is such a thing as ex-
hausting the capital of ones health
and constitution, and that two or three
months vacation, after the hard ana
nervous strain to which one is sub.
jected during the autumn and spring,
are necessary in order to enable one
to continue his work the next year
with that energy and effectiveness
which 1t ought to have. Mr.. Justice
Strong, of the. Supreme Bench, who
lived to be eighty-eight or eighty
nine, told me that 1t was a part of his
life to take sixty days each year out
In the woods, away from the people,
exercising and living in the open air,
and to that he attributed his long life.
And SO the American people have come
to the conclusion that women and chill
dren especially ought to have change
OF air. where they can expand their
lungs and get exercise in the open.
The men can go when they can.
Red Letter Days.
y ChoS4 .liSSc COIuI llOIlS, place
like this. that represents the most
the most vitilizing sum-
mer resort in the United States, Is full
of interest. In this region. where the
come down to the sea, and
the air from the mountains mingles
with the air from the sea. we have all
the delightful effects of champagne in
a prohibition State and without un-
comfortable consequences that follow
the actual enjoyment of that liquid.
Just what the winters are here, l do
not propose to dwell upon except to say
that I do not doubt that they have
made an enduring and progressive race.
Certainly. those of us in the West can
testify that every time you make an
inquiry as to the origin OF a successful
man., the chances are quite even that
he has either come from Maine or Yer
mont, and I doubt not that among
those whose palatial houses rear them
selves among the trees and IN the hills
hereabouts are many who as boys
started without any opportunity for
in the summer and who have
come back to enjoy the breezes of their
boyhood, The three days we have
passed In Bar Harbor will be red let
ter days in my life.