Evening star., 1934-11-17
ROOSEVELT VIEWS
PROGRESS OF IVA.
Compliments Workmen Who
Are. Carving Dream Prof.
eCts Into Reality.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG,
STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

NASHVILLE. Tenn, November IT,
With Jacksonian gusto, President
Roosevelt today started the day right
with a breakfast of turkey hash,
scrambled eggs and bacon at the Her
mitage, the plantation home of An
drew Jackson, a few miles outside
this city.
These were the things "Old Hick-
ory" liked most for his morning meal,
the little group of hosteSses, members
of the Ladies Hermitage Association,
told the President as he sat down to
this steaming Southern meal. In ad-
dition Mr.. Roosevelt was served hot
beaten biscuits, made just like Gen.
Jackson is known to have loved them,
the hostess assured him, and coffee.
This presidential breakfast in Jack
sons old home, which, next to his wife,
Rachel, was, according to historians,
the dearest thing in the world to him,
was greatly enjoyed by the President
and Mrs. Roosevelt, who was with him.
Pay Tribute to Polk.
The presidential party arrived at
Nashville at O'Clock this morning
and after motoring to the grounds of
the State Capitol, solely for the pur-
pose of paying tribute to another
former President-James K. Polk-by
placing a wreath on his modest tomb,
drove II miles beyond the city to the
Jackson home. The charm of this
old place and the personality of the
seventh President of this United
States, were SenSed the moment the
little caravan of cars turned into the
lane leading to the hermitage. The
unbroken line of majestic trees, lin
ing both sides of the lane, quite natu-
rally drew the admiration of Mr..
Roosevelt, who is lover of trees. In
formed that these trees were per-
sonally planted by Jackson, when he
acquired the hermitage plantation in
the early years of the nineteenth
century, added immensely to his in
terest.
Gov. McAlister, Representative Joe
Byrnes, majority leader of the House,
and Senator Bachman were among
the notable Tennesseans who joined
the presidential party for this visit.
Besides Mrs. Roosevelt and Secretary
Marvin H. Mcintyre the others in the
party on this expedition were Secre-
tary of Interior Ickes and Senator
Barclay of Kentucky.
Furniture Is Interesting.
Before sitting down to the jack
sonian breakfast the President and
his party were shown about the rooms
on the first floor, which inspection
was made all the more interesting
because of the presence OF so many
pieces of furniture and other re-
minders of Jackson.
After breakfast the party was es-
corted to the grounds for an oppor-
tunity to admire the shrubbery and
quaint walkways, and finally to visit
the grave of Old Hickory, upon which
Mrs Roosevelt placed wreath, and
beside which is that of Mrs. Jackson,
who died few weeks before he was
inaugurated President.
With this brief excursion into
Tennessee history complete, the Presi-
dent returned to his special train in
Nashville and at IL o'clock he was on
his way to visit more projects in the
great Tennessee Valley experiment
Probably the most gratifying II not
thrilling period of the Presidents ex-
perience since leaving Washington
Thursday, was his inspection late
yesterday afternoon of the Norris
Dam, on the Clinch River, about rs
miles northwest of Knoxville.
With DR.. A. E. Morgan, chairman
of the Tennessee Valley Authority,
standing beside him on little plat
form erected atop the palisades on
the western side of the river, Presi-
dent Roosevelt viewed the work of this
dam, which is now about one-third
completed While listening to DR..
Morgan explain the features of the
gigantic construction work and pic
turing how the dam will look when
| it has risen to its intended heighth
Continued on Page 2. Column So