The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-07-28
Presidents Just Frank To Neighbors
Welcoming Him On Hyde Park Vacation
By WALTER T. BROWN
(IIy Associated I'rcAAl

co. ne WOflQ az large
calls him "Mr. President, "
but to Duchess county he is
Frank" Roosevelt.
! 1t is as Frank" rather than as
"Mr. President" that his home
town and home county prepared
to welcome him when they learned
Of his plans to leave Washington
during the last few days of July
for Today vacation at Krum
Elbow on the Hudson, ancestral
seat of the Roosevelt family for a
couple Of centuries.
Neighbors looked forward to
| the August visit. Mr.. Roosevelt's
first to his home since he became
President. They arranged for a
couple of bands. the American
Legionnaires in uniform, the
Roosevelt home club to meet him
but knew that chiefly neighbors
and friends would be there to
welcome Frank"
Many Roosevelt Welcomes
Hyde Park has had many Roose-
welt welcomes. 1t was a sur
prised and somewhat unbelieving
crowd that called on him % years
ago when he won his first poll
teal office, a state senatorship.
Duchess county had been so over
whelmingly republican that a
! democrat running for office was
believed to be wasting his time.
Mr.. Roosevelt's neighbors ac-
claimed him as an assistant secre-
tary of the navy during the world
war. They gave him lots of cheers
but comparatively few votes when
he was James M. Cox's vice presi-
dental running mate in 1920.
Tears. not cheers, marked the sad
Homecoming sE.ey infantiIe paral..
ysis had stricken "Jiln's boy,
Frank"
Twice as New York's elected
governor, Hyde Park shouted a
welcome, and last year there were
two homecomings-one when the
master of Krum Elbow returned
as the party presidential choice
and again, on a rainy night in
November, when Mr.. Roosevelt
motoreds up fronn New. York just
after he had been elected Presi-
dent.
Sign Out When He's Home
The Roosevelt home is mile
south of the village of Hyde Park
and four miles. north of Pough-
keepsie, county seat of Duchess.
1t sits we'll back from the Albany
Post road. hidden in summer by
trees along the driveway and on
the lawn. When Mr.. Roosevelt is
at Krum Elbow, his mother so
notifies his friends by raising a.
small marker at the estate en-
trance. The marker bears the
legend "F. d. Roosevelt"
The home is on a hill high
above the Hudson river. From the
south side of the house one may
see the stretch of the broad river
over which is held the famous,
college regatta.
Mr.. Roosevelt has always had
two working corners of the house.
one his office at the north end
of the building and desk at one
end of the huge library on the
south side of the house.
Swimming On Program
House guests Of the Roosevelts
always are taken to the cottage"
for tea. The cottage" is q small
house on the estate adjoining the
Val Kill furniture factory. a pro-
ject begun by Mrs. Roosevelt to
provide work for the jobless Of
the HYDE Park vicinity. In front
of the house is an outdoor pool,
The shady banks OF the pool are
ideal for tea.
Often all of the Roosevelts and
their guests 60 swimming. includ-
Ing Mr.. Roosevelt, A polo game
terminates the afternoons Gun.
Usually "F, n" is one of the
players, In the past Mr.. Roose-
veit hes driven his own car around
the estate.
The Roosevelt family attends
church services ut the 81. James
Episcopal church. an ancient ivy
covered structure of English de-
sign. dozen rods back from the
post road and = fea miles north
az Hyde Park. Generations OF
Rooscvelts and ether pioneers Of
the upper Hudson have worship@si