Evening star., 1925-05-04
PRESIDENT TO FIND
SWAMPSC0T QUIET
Police Guard White Court
in Preparation for His
Summer Sojourn.
BY Consolidated Press.

SWAMPSCOTT, Mass, May A.
White Court, where Preside
Coolidge will spend most of the Sum
mer, is being put into shape for the
occupancy of the Nations Chief Since
the announcement that the President
was coming to the magnificent estate
1t has been visited by thousands of
autoists, and the owners of White
Court have found 1t necessary to
bar the winding drives from the main
highway of the town. A police guard
watches at the main entrance
The fine shade trees and shrubs of
White Court have begun to bud
The Sloping lawns will soon receive
their first trimming of the season and
the house itself is being thoroughly
renovated inside and outside to re-
ceive its distinguished guests. Presi-
dent Coolidge is expected to arrive
here soon after his return from the
Norse-American centennial celebra-
tion at st. Paul and Minneapolis,
where he will speak on June s.
There has been some talk that the
President would be here for Harvard
commencement in mid-June. and there
have been intimations that the uni
VerSity would confer IA degree upon
him, but college authorities, who al
ways try to guard. such matters, re-
fuse to discuss the subject. The col
leEe conferred honorary degrees on
several Presidents of the United
states. 1t was prepared to thus honor
Grover Cleveland while he was in the
White House, but it is said he took
the ground that there was no special
reason why the college should give
him degree, and the matter was
dropped
Moreover it has usually honored the
Governors of Massachusetts with a
degree, but it failed to do so in Mr..
COolidge'S case.
There Is also "A report that Holy
Cross, Worcester. a Jesuit institution
will give President Coolidge a degree
this Summer. While Mr.. Coolidge
was Governor of Massachusetts he
was on friendly terms with the head
of that college. and one year was
chief speaker at its commencement
This is great historical anniver-
Sary year in Massachusetts. LeXing-
ton and Concord have just celebrated
the l5Oth anniversary of the Battle of
Lexington and the fight at Concord
Bridge. Cambridge is banking on
having President Coolidge as its chief
guest July 3, when that city will cele-
brate the anniversary of Washington
taking command of the Continental
Army. The exercises will take place
III.
under which Washington formally
took command of the unorganized
forces of the revolutioniSts The his
toric tree died of old age a few years
ago. but the site is marked by a hand
some granite monument.
Cambridge is preparing for the big
sest demonstration in its history for
the occasion. The scenes of the mem
orable day when Washington took
command will he depicted There will
be huge military and civic parade
and n banquet, with speeches by the
President. Gov. Fuller, Mayors Quinn
of Cambridge and Curley of Boston,
President Lowell of Harvard Univer-
sity and others. Mayor Quinn said
today that he had assurances that the
President would attend.
Ample Guard for President.
To assist the secret service men to
guard the President and his residence
While he is here. Gov. Fuller has ten
dered the services of the Nassachu-
settS State ConStabulary and the au-
thorities of Swampscott and nearby
Lynn have rendered the services of
large police details. The President
has accepted these offers, and the To-
cal authorities will work under the
direction of Dick" Jervis, head of the
The President will have his eXecu-
tive office in a downtown office build
ing. White Court is about a mile and
a half away, at Little's Point.
Swampscott is 13 miles from Bos.
ton and marks the beginning of the
North Shore. famous for it's drives
and homes of millionaires. Until the
rich began TO build homes here it's
people lived by fishing and farming.
Nearby is historic Marblehead,
whence came Gen. Glover's web-footed
Sailormen of WaShingtons army, who
rowed the latter across the Delaware
in the Revolutionary War. 1t is one
of the most popular yachting resorts
on the New England Coast.
Swampscott has one big, frst-c
hotel and many smaller ones. Rentals
for cottages and other acCommOda-
tions in this town and the adjoining
villages have taken a jump already at
the prospect of entertaining the Presi-
dent and his official family.
While he is in New England Presi-
dent Coolidge will follow his annual
custom of spending ten days or two
weeks with his father on the old farm,
atop of Plymouth Notch, in Vermont.