The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-20
BY PAUL HARRISON


to make the 1928 race for governor
of New York, thereby adding the ex-
ecutive mansion at Albany to the
family's list of residences, everyone
was surprised but Mrs. Roosevelt.
She knew it was about time to move
again; realized that her husbands
improved health and undated am
bition would send them on again,
and upward.
They already had gone from the
ancestral home at Hyde Park, N. Y,
to Washington and to New York
City. with periodic excursions to
Campobello, N. B., and Warm
Springs, Ga So now they moved to
Albany-with their next stop the
White House.
The governors mansion was not
quite the type of house they would
have selected had it not been in
cluded with the job. Red brick, with
a big semi-circular porch around the
front: more than a little gloomy
within. and in need of some slight
refurbishing. The grounds are rath-
er cramped. and there is view of
family washings on tenement-house
clotheslines. In the rear is an or
phanage.
However, with the installation of
few Roosevelt children, gross or
more of the governors beloved naval
prints and ship models. and SWIM
ming pool. the place was transform
ed into fairly typical Roosevelt
home. The states First Lady now
found herself in a more eXacting
role as hostess, but she did not let
this interrupt her teaching of cur
rent events, literature and history
twice a week in the Todhunter school
in New York.
A RIGOROUS SCHEDULE
For four years. with scarcely a
break, she maintained this eXacting
schedule: Leave Albany Sunday
night for the New York City house;
teach, write, look after the affairs
of the Val Kill furniture shop. make
speeches, and. lately, edit magazine
until Wednesday afternoon. Rush
to Albany for her regular lat home"
in the executive mansion from 4:30
until 6. Once each week during ses-
Sions of the legislature. she planned
a formal dinner for Thursday, Fri
day or Saturday night. She kept
household accounts, maintained
large volume of correspondence, and
dashed about visiting the children at
their schools.
Anna was married; James was at
Harvard. and in love; and the three
younger boys were in prep schools.
Romance has wrought swift
transition in the daughter of the
family-from lady farmer to urban
housewife. Some of her earliest re-
collections as a child were of being
held on the front of her fathers sad
die as he rode about the Hyde Park
estate and told her how. If he ever
could find the time, he wanted to
go in seriously for farming.
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ANNA. FARM MANAGER
Anna grew up with the idea that
some day she would take hold of the
big estate and put it on a business
basis. First, though, she had to I'M
dergo the coming out" process,
which included graduation from Miss
Chapin's School, some trips to New
port, an official society debut at the
Colony Club and tour abroad.
But the more she saw of society,
as such, the more Anna wanted to
be a farmer. The summer after her
coming out, she went to Geneva, N.
Y, and worked at the Agricultural
Experimental Station there. Next
she took the "shorthorn" course in
agriculture at Cornell.
That autumn. at party. she met
Curtis Bean Dali pronounced to
rhyme with "shall'D. He was a
Princeton graduate, had been over
seas with the naval aviation forces
during the World war, was nine and
a half years her senior, and had be-
come manager of the syndicate de-
partment of Lehman Brothers bank
ers. Within few months, they were
engaged; the following June they
were married. The Hyde Park estate
had lost a manager.
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ATHLETIC BOYS
James Roosevelt had gone to Gro
ton school, won his football letter,
and had become one of the busiest
and most popular men at Harvard.
He was only a sophomore when he
met Miss Betsy Gushing, daughter of
a prominent Boston surgeon, at a
riding party at Milton, Mass. They
were engaged when he was junior,
and married soon after his gradua-
ton. They went to Boston then, and
James studied law at Boston univer-
slty while he held down job in an
insurance brokerage house.
Elliott had gone to Groton too,
and then to the Hun School in
Princeton, N. j. He passed his en-
trance exams for Princeton and was
enrolled as an undergraduate when
he created mild sensation by toss