The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-30
Imposing New Warm Weather White House. Parrarnetta" No
Ready for President When Congress
ny JOHN ELrRETH WATKINS.


The new capital OF those sizzling
United States Of ours is to be Mont
serrat, which Is on some few up-to.
date maps
Motoring up along the Massa chusetta
north Shore" where sea ana forest
meet you pass Lynn. the city of shoes.
) whizz through the witch town of Salem
ana buzz thence out of the land of
Hawthorne onward TO the .Beyerlv
shore" which includes all of that gar,
oen strip tw!xt the ancient village. but
monerh shoe town, of Beverly proper
ard Cape Ann. paradiJe of Lucy Lar
com.
You breathe the balm OF virgin nine
forest fringing the foam kissed bIuffa
ana nit past fields of sweet clover.
mustard and chamomile. dotted by
quaint windmill towers and separated
by dry walls" of stone. You rumble
over old Beverly bridge, which Wash.
lnston himself descended from his
coach to admire; you hike through the
witch woods. which the Puritan faith
ers believed to he infested with blood
THIRSTY lions. and as the slight of the
nations gr8ndcst strip of coast limo
smiles upon you you pity poor Taft
sweating down there in his bachelor
nan at Washington with Majors Domo
Hilles and Butt
MoHtscrrnt ind Parra mettn
slanting inland for miles spin he
.oho BeN'f village, you come upon
Montserrc' the new summer capital
OF me United States. and fetch up at
the sate OF the new summer White
House. Parrnmetta. which. some dis
lance back from the highway, and hid
den by a park of old trees. crowns a.
hish NIL. and whose eastern and south
ern windows command a view of Rev
cry harbor and the sea.
inc estate OF the late Henry w
Peabody In an ample mansion Of
twenty-five large rooms. OF which that
aiTeany occupied by Mrs Taft com
manhs the best sea view and tho fun
exposure to the sea breeze The Presi-
uehts study looks familiar to those
VINO visited him at Burgess Point dur
ing The two summers past, for tho
desk and chairs used in that former
summer home have been presented to
MIN by It's owner. Mrs. r. B. Evans
inc Tafts sorely regretted tho re-
moFal OF the Evans cottage from BUR-
CESS Point to Marbchead. for they
could get no other suitable house di-
rectly upon the sea. But although Par
rametta is a mile farther from the
oench. II is nevertheless n mile nearer
70 the Presidents Savoritc playground
the Myopia Golf Club. The former
sections witch will he ferried across
Salem Bay on pontoons At Marble
mead II VIII he put together again on
lot adjoining the Crowninshield es.
tate, and tho space which IL will leave
upon the beach at Burgess Point Is
To be transformed into an italian gar
den.
The garage at Parrametta will ac-
commodate three of the four White
House motor cars that will be shinped
up from Washinston--the big summer
touring car. Mrs. Taf,'s electric buggy
and the automobile baggage wagon
Clubhouse for Office stnH.
The entrance 10 tho Presidents prf-
rate park is commanded by a pic
turesque lodge. and this cottage will
be used. not as an office. as has been
stated. but as n sort of clubhouse for
the Presidents once force.
The summer executive offices will he
mile away. in the rooms OF the build
Ing of the Beverly Board OF TRADE.
the White House. has been arranging
his special wires which Will connect
the sumner capital with the world at
Ecmc and oNersesF.
Tic PRESIDENT Is not exc ..ai to visit
tl.sH culces. which Will &c in charge
or Secretary H!!ies aud pickles. squad
rotary Will motor out TO Parrametta
ei,h morning with such documents as
need special attention. ami after re-
ceiving the days instructions will re-
turn to Beverly village
This village is one of tn. oldes. in
New England. having peen settlri in
1850, only decade after the Pilgrim
fathers landed on Plymouth Rock. nifty
miles to the south by the way the BIRD
flies Indeed. Beverly can boast OF
having been an Independent incorr o.
rated town for PAS years.
"Bcggnrly" No Longer.
BY way OF emphasizing the contrasts
wrought by time they will show YOU
In the Essex county records a petit
tioE, maze by one OF Beverlys found
ers. Roger Conant, to the general
court, in 1871. TO change the name of
the settlement from Beverly to Bud
leigh. And good Father Conant BASED
his petition on the great dislike ard
d:scontent OF many of our peoo.e be-
cause 1--WE being a small place. 1t hath
caused on; us constant nickname OF
Beggarly"
Eut Beverly can be called "Pesear-
~" no longer. For 10! these many
years this garden CITY by the sea-
-