White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-06-01
THE PRESIDENTS
SUMMER CAPITAL
PICTURESQUE CORNISH, TEMPO
RARY SEAT OF GOVERNMENT,
Is OF GEOGRAPHICAL INTER-
Est, INVOLVING TWO STATES.

Virginian by birth, New Jersey
man by long residence, President
Wilson becomes a New Hampshire
man, according to the postofice, when
he takes possession of Harlakenden
Hall, the summer residence which he
has chosen for himself, writes Charles
N. Lurie in the Deseret News. What's
more, he becomes a Cornishman. lOf
Cornish, N. H., not Cornwall, Eng
land, however, So you see there's
much geographical interest attached
to the presidents occupation of Win
ston Churchill's beautiful home in
the hills of New Hampshire.
Harlakenden Hall sits beautiful
ly on a hill overlooking the Connecti-
cut river, which separates New Hamp-
shire and Vermont. 1t is situated in
the township of Cornish, n. H., but
il is approached by way of Windsor,
VT, since Cornish has no railroad
Below the house flows the silver
river. amid scenery which rivals that
of the famous Berkshires of Mass
achusetts. Across the valley from the
house rises Mount A%scutney, not ma
jestie in height or conformation like
the western mountains, but possess
ing the quieter charm that marks
Mount Tom and his brother farther
down the Connecticut valley and the
Green mountains and White noun
tains farther north in Vermont and
New Hampshire that lead to the
Switzerland of America"
Two States Claim Harlakenden.
Politically H~arlakenden Hall lies
in New Hampshire, and it served
Winston Churchill as a home where
from he was elected to the New Hamp-
shire legislature in 1903 and 1905
and ran for goyernorship of the
state last year on the Progressive
ticket. But the mail comes from
Windsor, Vt, the telegraph wires run
to and from Windsor, and the rail-
road station is in the Vermont town.
So Windsor is preening itself on it's
distinguished fellow townsman" and
is already making plans for improve
ing the streets and for other measures
of public improvement. Windsor al
ready sees crowds of persons and
parsonage S on their way TO the
summer White House."
1t should be borne in mind that
while no president is like Louis XIV.
in thinking 81 am the state" the
place wherein he resides during the
summer has a perfect right to con-
slider itself the temporary capital of
the United States. With the presi-
dent move the executive staff, and
he t~ransaets government business in
his summer home. He establishes
Offices there. and he keeps in the
closest possible touch with national
and international affairs. To him go
the diplomats and heads of the ex-
ecutive departments for con-
sultation. In fact. save for the semi
seclusion with which he surrounds
himself when in summer residence,
1t might almost be said that the
president of the United States
takes no vacation. Other men leave
their offices behind them when they
forsake their usual places of busi-
ness; he takes his with him.
Why They Leave Washington.
The reason is found in the unde-
STABILITY of Washington as a place
of residence during the heated
months. Washington is ~undeniably
a hot city in summer, and the
breezes that blow across the Poto-
la from Virginia are more apt to
bring with them reminders of the
equator than refreshment. So in re-
cent administrations the presidents
have left Washington. for the sake
OF their own health and that of their
families. Cleveland went to Buzz
yards Bay. Mass; Roosevelt sum-
mered at his W home in Oyster
Bay, N. Y. and Taft found comfort
at Beverly, Mass.
Harlakenden Hall, which Mr.. Will
son has leased from Winston Chur-
chill the famous novelist, owns its
name to the middle and family names
of Mrs. Churchill, who was Miss Ma
bel Harlakenden Hall before her mar
riage to the writer in 1895. 1t is the
manor house" of an estate of 600 or
700 acres, some of which are cultivat-
ed for the use of the occupants of the
house.
Besides the hall there are two cot
tages on the estate, wherein the ex-