New-York tribune., 1910-07-23
.FAvORS LONGER HOLIDAYS.
Americans Realize Two Weeks Is
Too Short, Says Mr.. Taft.
BAR HARBOR VISIT ENDS
Presidential Party Entertained
by Mrs. Mark Hanna and
Charlemagne Tower.

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Bar Harbor, Me, July 22.-President Taft
brought his visit to Bar Harbor to a close
this afternoon. He landed here on Wednes-
day from the yacht Mayflower, He left to-
day as a member of a merry coaching
party behind four spirited horses, headed
for Seal Harbor. eleven miles away
The Mayfower picked up her anchors at
noon and steamed around to Seal Harbor
to meet the President The yacht later
went to Northeast Harbor and anchored
there for the night, with the Presidential
party on board Tomorrow morning she
will steam across Frenchmans Bay to the
take q special train to Bangor. After Wis
iting that city for tive hours and making
a speech he will proceed by special train
to Ellsworth, the home of Senator Eugene
Hale, to be the Iatter's guest until Sunday
afternoon. Mr.. Taft will also make little
speech a Ellsworth
The President left everybody in Bar Har-
Dor happy After being entertained by
to-day on the village green, and made a
value Of vacations and won a lot of ap-
longer suficed as the period of summer
rest and that sixty days seemed the proper
time in which to recuperate from the nerve
exhausting work of the winter The Pres-
dent congratulated the people of Bar Har-
Dor on living in such a delightful climate
He said the summer air was like cham
pagne in a prohibition state and that the
severe winters tended to build up a sturdy
and never s,lrreuderinc race
Rain Falls as President Speaks.
The day was raw and blustry. and rain
began to fall as the President spoke It
did not damp the enthusiasm of the
crowd in the least. They all seemed glad
to see the President They cheered him
he alighted from the coach which
brought him from the golf grounds with a
flourish of coaching horns; they cheered
him again as he entered the bandstand on
the green, and they frequently interrupted
his speech with cheers and applause. Mrs
Taft preceded her husband to the band
stand She was quickly recognized by the
throng and greeted with applause
The President was introduced by First
Selectman J. E. Bunker, jr, who said that
Bar Harbor had grown accustomed to en-
tertainins distinguished guests, but that it
was rare to have a President of the United
States on the island. He was sure the peo-
pie of the village appreciated the honor.
The people applauded the sentiment
As soon as the President had finished his
address he again mounted the lofty coach,
which was fooled by Philip LIVINGSTON, of
New York, and with another flourish of
trumpets was away for Seal Harbor. Ar
riving there he and his party were enter
tained at luncheon by Mrs. Mark Hanna
Tonight the party was entertained at
dinner by Mrs. Charlemagne Tower, at
her place, two miles from the harbor.
No Suggestion of Politics.
Mr.. Taft is adhering strictly to his deter
mination to keep away from politics on
this trip. There was not a suggestion of
politics In his speech to-day. He said in
part:
In behalf of Mrs. Taft and the party
who have accompanied me here I wish to
return grateful acknowledgment for your
very cordial reception. The presence of
the national colors and the flags on the
various buildings here indicate to me what
L know, that this reception is for the
President Of your country, and that if is
for the Office much more than for the per
IL
Nevertheless, the person who occupfes the
ONCE enjoys the reception all the same
One of the things which forces itself
upon the mind of one visiting such conn
try as this is the fact that the American n
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 7 came
to the bar he suggested that if I staved
at home during the summer months 7
would make a good deal more money than
If I went away
Justice Strons's Vacation.
But the American people have found
out that there Is such thing as exhaust
ing the capital of ones health and consfi
tuition, and that two or three months va
cation after the hard and nervous strain to
Which one is subjected during the autumn
and spring are necessary in order to en-
able one to continue his work the next
year with that energy and effectiveness
which he ought to have. Mr.. Justice Strong
OF, the Supreme Court bench, who lived tn
be eighty-eight or eighty-nine, told me that
1t was part Of his life to take sixty davs
each year out In the woods away from, the
people, exercising and living in the omen
air. and to that he attributed his long life
And so the American people have come to
the conclusion that the women and cbi1-
dren especially ought to have change Of
air where they can expand their lungs and
get exercise in the open. The men can po
when they can
Under these conditions a place like this
that represents the most picturesque. the
most Vltallzing summer resort in the
United States is full of ipferac+ L. 49,.