The Detroit times., 1910-08-22
TAFT TAKES NAP
ANY Old TINE
It Is No Uncommon Thing To See
President SHOCKING in HIS
Automobile.

BEVERLY, Mass, Aug. 20.-The
secret Of President Tafts splendid
health Is out. 1t is his ability to take
advantage of every opportunity to re-
cuperate from his labors and to
snatch a few minutes of refreshing
sleep between activities.
Residents along the shore boulevard
have grown accustomed to the sudden
appearance of an automobile with a
big passenger just visible through the
dust-and that passenger sound
asleep. 1t is the president. The en-
ecutive often sleeps In his automobile
going and coming from the Myopia
golf links-that is, when he makes
the journey alone. The other day
when the presidential party motored
IL miles over TO see Miss Della Tor
rey, the aunt of the chief magistrate,
the executive slumbered peacefully
nearly all the way back. The auto
mobile went nearly As miles an hour
the greater part of the way.
II is this faculty of the president
to snatch a moments rest at every
available opportunity-the ability to
throw of the cares OF state and gain
strength In little eat-naps-that keeps
the head of the nation strong and
healthy despite his arduous labors.
It Is said that on his trip across the
continent and back last fall the presi-
dent would board his special train
completely worn out after speech
or reception, drop into a chair, and
In q moment be fast asleep. Twenty
minutes later, when a crowd at an
other station clamored for his appear
ance he would awake, fully refreshed.
Captain Archie" Butt, military
aide, has caught the habit. Ii Is q
common sight late In the evening to-
catch a glimpse OF the presidential
under an electric light,
and see both Executive Taft and Capt.
Butt sound asleep. There are always
two other occupants however, who
are very much awake-Robinson, the
chauffeur, and the secret service oper-
alive.
Most people--including the presi-
dent of the United States-come to
the summer capital with the idea of
ENJOYING the ocean breezes. Hundred
Ol DOStOu DublntDb tiCh ilN0 III DCF
erly and commute to Boston daily.
II has remained for Joe Jung. pro-
prietor of one of Beverly's justly cele-
brated laundering establishments, and
a countryman of WI Ting Fang the
wise, to reverse the usual order OF
things. Joe "commutes" to Beye
and lives in Boston.
mo like climate" he said to a
group ,of newspaper correspondents.
Business him good, climate velly
bad. no standee weather here. Bos-
ton, him heap better"
President Taft's clerks in the exec
utive Offices here are to have the lux
ury of a private bathing beach. Just
back of the Pickering house, in which
the Offices are now located, and where
the employees likewise eat and sleep,
is a nice stretch of sand beach. The
bathing would be fine II 1t were not
for the boulders at the waters edge.
w. s. Hinman, of the stenographic
force, was painfully injured by one of
these stones when taking a swim re-
Gently. Secretary Norton promptly
ordered a laborer to clear of the
beach to prevent repetition of such
aCCluSLl5 anu HdS pIOlllbtu Ulb lOICo
first-class bathing beach.
Being clerk In the executive
Offices Is rather a pleasant job these
days.
Last season the executive Offices
were located In the Board OF Trade
building, at the corner of Federal and
Cabotsts. This year. however, Sec
rotary Norton decided on a change.
He leased the big house fronting on
the ocean and turned the first floor
into offices. On the second and third
floors are enough rooms 10 accommo-
date all the clerks. The employees
have dubbed together, employed a
chef, and bought dishes and kitchen
utensils.
There is big porch and fine lawn
fronting on the ocean. The view is
superb and the ocean breezes blow
increasingly. The house Is comfort
ably furnished.
The only people who aren't salts
fed with the new order of things are
the newspaper correspondents. The
town Is scattered out over six or seven
miles; the executive Offices are half
mile from the town proper, and the
Taft cottage is two miles away. The
executive Offices must be watched all
the time for callers. as all those who
go to the presidents house generally
make the arrangements with Seere-
tary Norton
There isn't any press room In the
big house now constituting the execu.
tive offices. The newspaper men are
not allowed to loiter in the building.
The only thing left for them to do is
to sit on the sidewalk; occupy the
kitchen porch, or sit under the, trees
In the front yard The nearest tele-
phone or telegraph--save the wires
for the use of the offices-is half a