Evening star., 1928-12-28
HUNTING SUCCESS
DELIGHTS COOLIDGE
Bags PheasantS and Wild
Turkeys on Island vaca-
ton Retreat.
BY ]. Russell YOUNG.

sAPELo ISLAND, OFF GEORGIA
COAST. December $3.50 great was
President Coolidge's elation as a result
of his success with his guns yesterday,
when he bagged three golden-head
pheasants and two wild turkeys. that
he could hardly wait to resume his
cunning today.
These birds brought down by the
President featured the evening meal at
the palatial home OF Howard E. Coffin,
Mr.. and Mrs. Coolidge's hosts here. The
pride and joy manifested by the Exec
utive In the greatest success of his COM
paratively brief career as a hunter was
unmistakable throughout the meal.
Named After Pirate.
Black Beard Island, where the Presi-
dent Is to do his cunning today Is only
a few miles from the Coffin mansion
and Is virtually part of Sapelo Island,
being separated from the latter by only
a narrow strip of water and marsh.
The island, named for Black Beard the
pirate, who made his home on 1T at
one time. is practically uninhabitated
now, and 1t fairly teens with bird life
and small game, and some deer and
wild hog. Quail are said to be there In
great numbers, and 1t is for these willy
birds that the President Is devoting his
attention on this, his second day Of
sea island shooting.
Mrs. Coolidge and Mrs. Coffin had in
| tended to accompany the party on its
shooting expedition today. but 1t was
| thought by the men that the tramping
about through the thick brush and in
| the marsh would be too hard for them.
Therefore Mrs. Coolidge and her hostess
remained behind and occupied them
selves walking about the grounds and
nearby moss-hung woodlands.
Sits for Portrait.
The President today was again up
ahead of the rest of the household.
| which afforded him an opportunity for
| a good long walk through the woods
and along the beach before breakfast.
Immediately after morning meal he
gave Frank Salisbury, the English ar
tist, who is with the party, another
sitting for an oil portrait. Later Mrs.
Coolidge. whose portrait Mr.. Salisbury
is also painting, gave another sitting.
Mrs. Coolidge has derived consider
of the picturesque surroundings with
her miniature motion picture camera
On all her walks she has been accom-
panied by Tiny Tim" the red chow
dog, who seems to have been promoted
to the throne Of the White House KEN
mel left vacant by the recent death Of
Rob Roy" the white collie.
Tomorrow morning the President will
60 after deer. These are plentiful on
most of these islands. In the afternoon
the presidential party will go to the
beach at Sapelo and visit their first
sea island rodeo, which consists prin-
cipally of the efforts on the part of the
native colored boys to ride wild steers
and to race them. Talking pictures will
be taken during this exhibition and
afterwards of the singing by the colored
boys of their racial songs and rituals
which are so popular with colored ma
tives In this section.
To Visit Historic Spot.
The presidential party will on Sunday
60 to st. Simons Islands, about 20 miles
south of here, to worship. 1t requires
more than two hours to cover the dis
tance in boat to attend religious
services at the little frame structure
used as Methodist Church, and which
is built on the site of the place where
John Wesley preached the Gospel and
where Gen. Oglethorpe. in command of
the English colonial activities in this
part of the New Continent, Is said to
have worshiped.
The President was scheduled to
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