Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19
nv MARGARET n. DOWNING.

He will also take rank among the
Chief Executives as its first walker,
for the elder Theodore Roosevelt
though famous for his furious piunges
through Rock Creek Park and over
the rough country on the Virginia
side of the Potomac. had more
widely accepted reputation as an
equestrian. President Coolidge walks
daily for miles and miles. and comes
home looking fresh and clipper, not
hair out of place and his collar
showing no sign of collapse. Presi-
dent Roosevelt got himself up most
picturesquely for his walks. ana m
variAbly left the White House on his
horse, dismounted at the place as
signed and began his PAGES at some
remote spot beyond the city limits.
Any afternoon President Coolidge.
looking much as he does on his way
to church or to make speech or at
tend any sort Of function. may be seen
on the Washington streets leading To-
ward the wooded heights beyond the
city. making rapid progress on 1901,
but with no apparent attempt az
haste. He selects different route al
most every day, for he dislikes to be
noticed too much or made fuss over,
so to word II, for he is out FOR e1er.
else and has his mind bent toward
that Two hours is the maximum
given to these brisk walks. and some
times they do not consume as muS ,I
as that. Mrs. Coolidge likes to walk,
but she takes a more leisurely gait.
and her promenades are usually about
the Mall or in the woods during
motor ride in the suburbs.
The Secretary of State and all his
family are good walkers, and may pc
seen daily at some hour going briskiy
across the Connecticut Avenue Bridge
toward the park. The Secretary or
Commerce, Mrs. Hoover and their
two boys. are excellent mixers. but
this is generally confined to vacations
at their Santa Barbara home. There
was a trio Of pedestrians to be seen
almost any morning last Spring and
early Summer between and 10
bundled in thick sweaters and taking
a violent gait and in step-Senator
Wadsworth Of New York: the former
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Col.
Theodore Roosevelt. and Representa-
tive Nicholas Longworth. Senator
wadsworth walked because he wished
to keep slim and shapely, and Repre-
sentative Longworth to decrease his
growing waistline. Col. Roosevelt,
who already is slim and angular,
walked to increase his weight and to
improve his physical structure. But
all three took much pleasure in their
intercourse in this flight across the
park, and scorned all offers of a lift
from motoring friends. With these
shining exceptions, Washington's ofi-
cialdom may be said to keep in con-
dition through the racquet. the horse
or the mashie. Nearly a hundred of
the national legislators take their
daily canter through the bride paths.
and several hundred may be found at
some hour of the day on the golf
links.
The Secretary of the Navy and Mrs.
Wilbur. who are just getting COM
Portable in their new home on Q
street, are being showered with con-
CALCULATIONS over the arrival OF
small son to her eldest son. Paul. and
chieftain, with I'd attached. will be
given this latest Wilbur. The lusty
youngster confers the brand-new dig
nifty OF being grandparents on the
somewhat youthful-appearing Secfe-
tary and his wife, and it also places
them in the class with Secretary
Hughes. Secretary Weeks, Secretary
Wallace and Secretary Work in this
regard The Wilburs have a young
daughter and two very attractive
bachelor sons, thus making an ideal
family circle. The others of the
presidential counselors who have any
children at all have grown-ups, but
are unmarried, except the Secretary
Of Labor. who has the youngest
group Of little folks who have adorned
a Cabinet home since the days of
David Houston, and before him Of
Harry Garfield. The Wilburs have
not yet made the acquaintance of
this youngster, for he was born in the
old home in San Francisco. but they
are hoping for an opportunity to see
him when the excitement OF the first
week of November has passed away.
Only the stress of the times pre-
vented the Secretary of Agriculture,
Mr.. Henry Wallace, from assisting at
that memorable ceremony which &C.
Cured in Americas greatest city last
week, when the Borough Of Man
haitian took title to a small plot of
ground on Spuyten Duyvil Creek on
the State. But the Secretary was
represented by the Chief Forester,
Mr.. W. B. Greeley, who, with Mr..
Wesley b. Leach, the city forester,
dug the first spades Of earth for the |
fence with which the lovely old tulip
tree will hereafter be protected. This
Arboreal curio towers nearly $50 feet,
ana has a circumference Of % feet.
There are shell formations near the
tulip tree and the remains Of Indian
rock habitations, which antiauarians
a1lege must have been there when
Hendrick Hudson sailed into East
River on the Half Moon in 1909. His
tory carries no record of the planting
of this tree. but botanists give it ex-
istence dating some 80 years after
the Dutch navigator entered in the
greatest harbor OF the world. They
believe it was probably brought in by
some home sick settler and planted in
memory Of the old homo on the dykes,
where tulip trees are SO numerous.
New York City intends hereafter to
cherish its oldest tree ana to mark in
brass all the happenings Of moment,
part and present, connected with it
rhfox's Neck, now the Huntington
estate, but then belonging to the Liv-
ingstons, was planted. according to
the family annals, in 1871, as vic
tory" tree, after the battle of York.
town. This also has passed into the
hands of the State foresters for the
most careful preservation.
Rev. Arson Phelps Stokes, who re-
Gently was elevated to the office Of
canon of the beautiful Cathedral OF
S. Peter ana Paul. in Cathedral
Close, was for many years chaplain
at West Point, and at the same time
he held the post OF secretary for the
alumni of his beloved alma mater,
Yale. In this dual role DR.. Phelps
undoubtedly acted at weddings, chris |
Jennings and other felieiscus family
events for Yale men and West Point. |
efs more numerously than shepherds |
Of souls could boast in four times the
score Of years which this popular |
clergyman has served. In addition !
to his nuptial activity at West Point