Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-30
PRESIDENT LURED
2OM|LES BY TROUT
Last Day of Open Season
Finds Executive Angling
in Alder Branch.
BY i. RUSSELL YOUNG,
staff Correspondent of The Star.

WHITE PINE CAMP, \. Y. August
3O.-President Coolidge is determined
to make the most of the few remain
ing hours of the open season for
brook trout fishing. According to the
game laws of this State this specie
of fish cannot be caught after tomor-
row and the President today signified
his intention to have one good final
fling. right up to the last hour.
To satisfy this thirst for brook trout
angling the President is going to
spend the entire afternoon fishing IN
Alder Branch. more than 20 miles
distant from White Pine Camp. He
intends to fish until it's dark. 1t Will
be late when he gets back to his camp.
1t is his hope to he we'll repaid for
going so far for this eleventh hour
trout fishing, because the reports he
has received are to the effect that
Alder Branch is chuck full of trout.
He has been told that the fish in those
waters are whoppers and that tney
will bite at anything from worms 10
rubber bands. The President, never
the less, will use worms.
Pleasure to Be Missed.
President Coolidge is going to miss
the trout fishing which is brought 10
such an abrupt end. 1t has given
him more pleasure than any thlnS
else since coming to the Adlrondacks
on his vacation. He prefers it to
trolling for pike, and the angling Ior
bass and the other fish in these
waters, Ie likes the ways of the
trout. He has received real thrills
out of his quest for this fish. He
admires trout gameness, and appears
to enioy wading out in the waters
and leaping about the rocky banks or
the streams. Any number OF times
the President has narrowly escaped
serious tumbles. when he lost his
balance or when his foot slipped
while he was casting from rocks out
in the water.
Probably for the first time in his
nuiet and orderly life the President
harbors a resentment for the law.
OF course. in his case. it would be
the mildest form of resentment, ana
IL would hardly border on rebellion.
He will miss this sport. but he VIII
bow to the law, and after tomorrow
will have to be content with the bass
and pike and perch.
On Vast Frost Estate.
Alder Branch is on the vast estate
of LEROY Frost, a New York mil
lionaire. 1t is we'll stocked and only
a few persons have fished in it this
year. Mr. Frost is not at his camp.
but the presidential party will be
cared for during their visit by the
Frost caretaker. Inasmuch as the
President intends to fish until dark.
arrangements have been made to
serve a camp supper to the members
of the party before they start back
for White Pine Camp. 1t is likely
the President will not get back to
his camp until after O'Clock. some
thing almost unbelievable in his
case But the President, since he
developed this hobby, has been late
for supper a number of times. Sat
urday night it was nearly $3.50 when
he returned to the cabin. and the
evening before it was o'clock, there
fore it is natural to assume that Mrs.
Coolidge and the others about the
camp are past being shocked at the
Presidents break in his long record
of punctuality. 1t doesn't even bother
the President when he has guests.
He has the fever good and hard
and he apparently doesn't care who
knows it. 1t is the first time in his
life that he has developed real
honest-to-gOOdness passion for any
thing, and he is having the time of
his life. Besides the fun of it. he has
found a means of forgetting for the
time being the cares of his office. and,
best of all, he is out of doors and gets
lots of exercise and good fresh air into
his lungs.
But for the fact that he had invited
Matthew G. Brush, president of the
American International Corporation,
to visit him this morning and to be
VI guest at luncheon at White Pine
Camp, the President would have gone
after his trout early this morning.
He would not have even gone to the
executive office, which has been his
custom each morning for the past
month. He would have let the office
take care of itself. There is nothing
especially pressing in the way Of
Government business right now, any
way
However, in order to keep his en-
gagement with Mr.. Brush, the Presi-
dent went to the office for an hour,
and. without any great amount of en-
thusias SIN. hurried through the mail
and signed a stack Of letters and other
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