Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-10
President and Wife
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Hoover will stop en- route to CALI
fornia and will take up a number Of
government matters during his con-
ferences with the President.
Mr.. Coolidge, accompanied by Mrs.
Coolidge, early this morning left
Plymouth. VT, where he had been at
his boyhood home since last We'd
nesday and soon after 9 o'clock. de-
parted for Ludlow, VT, IL miles from
Plymouth, by special train. Arriving
at Gabriels, miles from the sum
mer White House. at o'clock this
afternoon, he drove at once to White
Pine Camp.
There he found Chief Justice Ar
thur P. Rugg of the Massachusetts
Supreme Judicial court. long a close
friend. and Mrs. Rugg, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank w. Stearns, of Boston,
who are house guests at the Summer
White House. For dinner, also, Mr..
and Mrs. Coolidge had as a guest
Senator Ernst, Republican, Kentucky.
a strong administration supporter
who has been at Paul Smiths Hotel.
Edward T. Clark, personal secre-
tary to the President, who is In
charge of the executive offices, went
to White Pine Camp soon after the
arrival of Mr.. Coolidge and report
ed to him on number or matters
Meanwhile no word came from the
president in elaboration of the orler
statement informally made in his be-
half last night concerning the letter
Of former President Clemenceau OF
France urging new viewpoint by the
United States on the wartime DEBTS
At that time the president let IL oe
known definitely that he considered the
negotiations for funding the Frenth
debt closed and Furthermore let 1t be
known decisively that the Washington
government would take up questions
with the French people only through
their authorized diplomatic represent
atives.
In leaving Plymouth, Mr.. Coolidge
parted from old friends and scenes
with manifest regret. The visit mao
given him opportunity to renew 90
ties and to attend to number OF mat
ters about the Coolidge farm. 1t also
had enabled him and Mrs. Coolidge TO
visit every day the grave of their
Young son, Calvin, in the hillside cem-
eterv where lie four generations or
the Coolidge family. of whom the last
TO he laid to rest was the presidents
father, Colonel John c. Coolidge.
As Mr.. and Mrs. Coolidge went TO
their automobile this morning from
the farmhouse, John and Gratia VII
der. so years old uncle and aunt or the
president, bent with age, walkeo
slowly to them to bid farewell, FIRST
Mr.. Coolidge and then Mrs. Coolidge
kissed Aunt Gratia and, turning
shook hands with Uncle John. The
aged couple stood in the country lane
gazing at the departing automobile
until it disappeared around bend IN
the road.
On the return journey Mr.. and Mrs.
Coolidge were greeted warmly by the
people up to the time they left their
train at Gabriels, where they found
a large crowd of natives and summer
residents who gave them warm well
come to the Adirondacks once more.
At Ludlow, VT, when they entered
the train they were applauded by
throng which included Attorney Cen
ers1 Sargent and his family, who
shook hands warmly with Mr.. and
Mrs. Coolidge. Then at Rutland, VT,
the first stop of the New York Cen
trail special train, several hundred
were rewarded at the station with
mods and smiles from the president
and Mrs. Coolidge from the observa-
ton platform.
Proceeding over the Rutland Rail-
road, other groups were met at Burl-
ington, the home city of Mrs. Cool
idge, and at smaller places frequently
Mi. and Mrs. Coolidge waving greet
ings from their car windows as the
train passed cheering citizens.
The train slowed down at Chateu-
gay, N. Y, for State Senator Warren
T. Thayer and the chamber of COM
merce of that town, out in force, and
a bouquet was tossed on the train for
Mrs. Coolidge. Then at Malone, ".
Y, where the train passed to the New
York Central tracks, still other hun