Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-07

latter came to the Notch, accompanied
by Mrs TilsOn, to pay his respects
and to inform the President that he
intended to go to New York very
shortly to open the Eastern headquar-
tiers of the joint Senate and House Re-
publican campaign committees which
will have general supervision of the
election of members of both branches
of Congress this Autumn.
Business Reported Better.
During this brief call the President
and Representative Tilson touched on
politics in a casual way. They talked
| principally about New England. Dis
cussing business conditions in Con-
necticut, Mr. Tilson's home State, the
| President was informed that the metal
trades were flourishing and that the
| textile industry in the eastern part of
the State, which had been in bad
| shape for a year or so, had picked up
remarkably within the last two
months. The conversation then turned
to the business situation generally
| throughout the country, and the Pres
ident reaffirmed his statement at a
newspaper conference last week that
the situation generally was exceed
| ingly satisfactory.
Soon after the departure of these
guests the President and Mrs. Cool
| idge motored to Proctorsville. Is miles
away, where they called upon the
Presidents aunt, Mrs. Sarah Pollard.
A group photograph was taken of
| the President and Mrs. Coolidge, and
| the members of the Pollard family.
| On their journey back to the Notch
| the President stopped in Ludlow and
| called upon Homer L. Skeels of the
| Ludlow Savings and Trust Co., of
which institution Col. Coolidge was a
director at the time of his death.
Just before supper last night the
President and Mrs. Coolidge went for
| another motor ride. They made no
stops and We're apparently out just for
the scenery along the way and to en-.
| JOY the cool air of the late Afternoon.
Grave Marker Selected.
One of the personal purposes for
which the President and Mrs. Coolidge
came to Plymouth, it is understood,
was accomplished yesterday when de-
signs for a marker for the grave of
Calvin Coolidge, jr., their son, who died
so suddenly in Washington two years
ago, were submitted by q Rutland
manufacturer. The graves of the
other members of the family in the
| little hillside burying ground have all
been marked with the exception of
that of the Presidents younger son.
Covered wooden bridges over rivers
and streams are familiar sights in
this section of the country. These
were strange sights to several of the
correspondents in the Presidents
party and at yesterdays conference
among the various questions pro-
pounded was one asking why these
bridges are covered. The opinion adj
vanced by the President was that the
bridges of the earlier period were COW
cred for purely economic reasons, to
keep out the weather, as one would
cover a house. The President APP
peared to enjoy answering this ques-
ton. He remembered one on the out
skirts of Springfield, Mass, which had
stood for 100 years and which the
wreckers found it very difficult to tear
down. There was one also across the
river at the Presidents hometown,
Northampton. Mass, which he re-
called was blown away when a man
and horse and carriage were on it
some years ago. Generally speaking,
the President pointed out, the wooden
bridges had a longer lease of life than
| the old-time iron bridge. The wooden
bridge, according to him, also was
more ant to give warning of weak.
ness than the iron bridge.