The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-09
Out in Bay Today With Hook
and Line in Hopes OF
Landing a
Tarpon.
GOLF THIS AFTERNOON
First Day Of Vacation is Busy One,
After Railroad Wreck Makes
Night Interest
Ing.
[By Raymond Clapper, United Press
Staff Correspondent.1

by Raymond Clapper, United Press
Staff Correspondent
POINT ISABEL, Texas, Nov. g.
Throwing aside the restraints of pub
lie life, President-elect Warren G.
Harding got into soft shirt and
baggy trousers today and went out
into the bay to fish for tarpon.
His chief ambition on this trip Is
to land one of the monster fish, q
feat said to be the height of every
anglers desire, down here.
This afternoon Harding expects to
| motor over to Brownsville Country
club for. golf. The Harding party
/ shifted as best it could last night
| as the one train running from
i Brownsville i,,mped the track with
| all the bagg. 2 aboard. There was
much clamor, but all was in vain as
nobody around would do anything
until daylight
Senator Harding said today he re
called having seen cable from
Elihu Root during the summer in
which Root urged that the league
covenant be modified in ACCORDANCE
with the Lodge reservations, rather
| than thrown over entirely. To scrap
, the league, Root argued, would bring
chaos and loss of the results of the
| war
Harding would not comment in any
way on the Root message, only to say
that Root is one OF those he expects
to call to Marion for conference dur
ing the winter.
There is great hustle and stir in
this normally sleepy little fishing vii
lage. No quainter spot could have
been chosen by Harding as a retreat
from the hordes of Office seekers than
this struggling little place with its
low weather stained shacks on the
bare sandy point here at the southern
extremity of Texas, just six miles
from the Mexican border.
Senator and Mrs Harding are
quartered in the roomy summer cot
tage of R. B. Creager, Brownsville
lawyer and personal friend Of Hard
ing. The low green house, built on
/, comfortable rambling lines, stands
out on the point overlooking the
village on one side and the serene
bay on the other. Fishing smacks
bob at anchor along the beach.
A hundred yards from the Creager
cottage is the only hotel at Point
Isabel, two story affair with rallied
porches running all the way around.
Pigs and chickens wander about the
court yard Indifferent to the excite
ment attending the arrival Of the
next president Of the United States
, The narrow gauge railroad connect
ing the point with Brownsville runs
! down the main street Of the town
The inhabitants 9live in small one
and two room shacks, unpainted
some with matched roofs, others
pieced together by rough boards in
most rudimentary fashion. Dark
! skinned, black haired Mexican chill
dren run all over the town. Every
woman holds an infant in her arms
while the fishermen Of the village
sit lazily in front of the general
store, chewing tobacco and swapping
yarns.
Members of the party who ven
! tured out into the village af~er dark
carried lanterns, there being nc
street lights.
| Harding will sail from New Or
| leans, November IS, for Panama. ant
will arrive at Norfolk on his return
December 4.