Evening star., 1926-08-09
PRESIDENT ON WAY
BACK TO HIS CAMP
Throng of Relatives and
Friends Go to Station to See
Him Leave Boyhood Home.
By J. RUSSELL YOUNG.
Staff Correspondent of The Star.

ON BOARD PRESIDENTS SPE-
CIAL TRAIN, Rutland, Vt. August
9.-President Coolidge said good-by to
on his way back to the Summer White
House in the Adirondacks.
Back of the smile there was per-
haps a hint of a tear. The President
has thoroughly enjoyed his little out
ing on the slopes OF Vermont hills,
where he wandered and romped as a
boy
lie is going back to hard work and
plenty of it.
The letter of Clemenceau declaring
that France could not possibly accept
the Berenger- Mellon debt settlement
interested the President this morn
ing, but the interest was unofficial.
Letter Held Unofficial. ,..
He made it quite clear that he does
not intend to take cogniZance of NJ.
Clemenceau's composition. He regards
it as entirely unofficial
AS he boarded his special car at
Ludlow a report arrived that a New
York newspaper carried a story that
on Sunday President Coolidge had
talked with President Gales of MeXi-
co over the long distance telephone.
The Presidents advisers were unani-
nous in declaring that such a report
was too ridiculous" to warrant Sc
rious attention.
Any one who knows the habits of
President Coolidge in international re-
lations knows, il was indicated, that
he would no more think of calling up
President Gales. even if it were
ho
think of taking train for Mexico
City.
Such communications as he wishes
to address to Mexico are sent through
regular diplomatic channels.
No Display of Feeling.
Several score men and women were
at Plymouth when the President left.
Most of them were Vermonters.
friends and relatives of the Coolidge
family. 1t was typical of the chafac-
ter of these Green MountaineeIS that
there was absolutely no demonstra-
ton.
About five minutes before President
Coolidge got into his automobile to
start for Ludlow, and the special
train, a man and woman hobbled up
the road
They were Uncle John" Wilder
and his wife. Aunt Sarah" Mrs.
Wilder was the Presidents mothers
sister. Both of them are over so.
President Coolidge spied them
standing unobtrusively in the cor
ner of the yard and he hurried down.
hat in hand. He had a warm hand
shake for Uncle John" and a kiss
for Aunt Sarah"
1t is probable that President Cool
idGe will revisit Plymouth before he
goes back to Washington. Most of
the people expect it. anyhow.
Will Arrive This Afternoon.
They figure that the honling instinct
is Just as strong in a President as it
would he in one of them.
The special train is the same one
on which he came from the Adiron-
dacks. 1t is routed over the Rutland
Railroad and the New York Central.
The President is due at White Pine
Camp about 4:3O. standard time.
President Coolidge spent a quiet
Sunday at his old home. Mrs. F.lmira
Goodhue. Mrs. Coolidge's mother,
motored over from Northampton to
luncheon. In the afternoon the Pres
ident and Mrs. Coolidge attended
services in the Union Church. just
across the road.
The pastor was iieF. H. a tnllilpS
of Paterson. y. j.. who is Vacationing
in Vermont Most of the conSrega-
tion were friends and relatives of
President Coolidge.
Several hundred SightSeerS who had
heard where the President meant to
Worship tried to get in the church.
They had to content themselves with
listening at a distance to the sermon
and the singing. Their reward came
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