The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-02
President Says Nay When Asked
Whether He Wants an Out
door Office Rigged Up
Again This Summer
.TRYOUT OF PLAN
PROVES FIzzLE
Teddy's "Top" Resurrected Last
Year But Visions Of Delightful,
Cool Days Soon Fade
From Fancy
BY JOHN EDWIN NEvlN.

| oOr1N Edwin MELVIN.
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
Washington, June 2.-Tent life in
Washington is complete failure. II
you don't believe it ask President Will
son. Last summer, with congress on
his hands, the president viewed the
approach of the heated term with
alarm. He had heard the various
stories of temperatures that ranged
above the 100 mark for weeks at q
time. So he talked the matter over
with various Of the attaches of the
White House. They suggested that 1t
would be fine plan to dig out of the
garret the ancient tent that had done
duty as sort of dressing tent for
Former President Roosevelt and pitch
it in the grounds of the White House
overlooking the Potomac.
Great ideal" President Wilson is
understood to have replied. Fix it up."
Well it was fixed up. 1t was a
thing of beauty and joy forever.
With fly overhead to shut off the
rays of the, sun. and pegged out be-
tween two beautiful elm trees, It
seemed wonderful office.
The president thought so for a day.
There was fine mahogany flat top
ped desk equipped with telephones and
all of the various labor saving devices
of the ordinary business man. In one
corner was fine little table with
cut glass water pitcher filled with
lemonade. Easy chairs were in con-
venient corners.
Send in the callers said the presi-
dent on the first day.
Hon. Patrick H. McKenna, chief
doorkeeper for the chief executive.
and the one individual who has the
ability to make it plain even to a testy
United States senator that he has
overstayed his time. began the usher
ing of callers to the president. Along
a hall, down a long flight of stairs
and out to the tent he took the first
seeker after the presidential favor.
He had five minutes to stay. After
the Honorable Patrick had awaited
ten minutes he went in search of the
missing applicant. He was talking OBJ
livious to the flight Of time. The cal
endar fixed to excuse the president at
noon ran over until we'll past o'clock,
the hour fixed by custom for the pres
idential lunch.
From then on Patrick McKenna was
against the tent. s
But the president still believed it
good thing. He went out there in the
afternoon to be alone with the PROG
lens of state He said nothing to any
one at the house. Two hours after
he entered the tent sudden squall
and rainstorm came up and the wind
blew the presidential papers all over
the greensward.
The next day the morning program
was the same. In the late afternoon
the president went back to do some
work. The wind was from the Poto-
mac river. On its wings it brought
the real thing in mosquito. And he
brought all of his uncles, all his
cousins and his aunts, to say nothing
of his more intimate relations. What
they did to the presidential epidermis
would not be nice thing for a patriot
who does not know how to exterminate
mosquistoes to record. But for a few
days there was an irate chief execu-
| tive
From time to time through the sum.
mer the tent was used But it was far
hotter than the executive office which
has several tons Of Ice distributed
where it will cool the incoming air
And gradually the tent fell into dis
repute. But the final blow-off came
one afternoon when the president wal
\ debating paper Of state to his pri
vate stenographer, Charlie Sven. JUS
a short distance away is the White
House tennis court. It has not beer