The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-29

train,
 Handling reporters on a trip like this is a grueling day and night grind, requiring the patience of Job and the disposition of a martyr. working under high tension, the correspondents are as temperamental as prima donnas and explode on the slightest, or imagined, provocation.
 White House Secretary Mar . win Mcintyre used @ to handle
 press relations on transcOn- tinentaI trips, but was 9 dismal flop. Although once a news paperman himself, he seemed .utetrHy unable to get along with
 the correspondents = chiefly because he necessarily hung around the President and the
 reporters couldn't find him
 when most needed. Last year at their urging, Eugene (Red) Liggett, ex-ncwsman and head
 of the National Emergency Council, was taken on the cam paign train to do press work, and was great improvement.
 The correspondents discreetly suggested thats sLiggett accompany the President this year, and al- though Roosevelt agreed that Mo- 1ntyre would not handle the press, he passed over Liggett in favor of his son.. Jimmy, he decided, could use, a baptism of fire.
 Jimmy is taking his duties very seriously. He is always available, affects no airs, gets replies to z. queries promptly
 Es0mething Mcintyre never didl, and appears eager to be help fuk @@ ..."
 One of the correspondents re- ceived a telegraphic inquiry from his editor at 2 a. m. It wasn't in- portant and could have waited until morning. But he decided to test Jimmy's good nature. Kick ing on Jirnnny's compartment door, he demanded action.
 "Okay, I'll be- right with you," young Roosevelt yelled cheerily, and he was. The Train
 The presidential train is similar in equipment to the 1886 cam- patgn caravan. It consists of eight Pullman and compartment cars, a diner, changed whenever the train Is. switched to a new railroad, and the Presidents private car. 'The 30 newspaper men and photog- raphers who are chaperoning the President, plus his military aide, doctors and Secretarial staff are qiartered in compartments, two to aSrooTYi. . "' F
 Local reporters, politicians
 and other guests, who travel part;Aof the way, are put up in .
 Pullman car carried expressly
 for, this purpose, Among the
 Washington correspondents this
 car Is known as ".THE VISIT
 ING FIREMEN'S SPECIAL"
 Another Pullman provides sleeping quarters for walters. and porters, Ordinarily they would bed themselves in the dining-car. But because the reporters demand restaurant service most of the night the car is kept open and the walters work in Shifts.
 A compartment in the car adjoining the Presidents is the
 official White House office. It
 is manned by H. M. Kannee, chief clerk; Miss Grace Fully and Miss Roberta Barrows, stem
 ographers; and Herbert Theur- CT, veteran postal clerk.
 Theurer handles all incoming and outgoing mail, of which there is | good deal, since the Pres ident continues to work as he travels Bundles of mail rushed from Washington by, plane. are put on the train several times a day., s@ ttr ...
 Miss Marguerite LeHand, the Presidents personal secretary, and Mrs. Malvina Schneider, personal secretary to Mrs. Roosevelt, share . compartment In the car adjoining the Pres idents. DF. Ross McIntire, the Presidents naval physician, and Colonel E. ,Ms Watson, the mili- tary aide, also share . compart- Taent. z:
 A new face in the, presidential party Is Colonel F. c. Harring- ton, an army engineer on duty with the Works Progress Admin- istration. Harrington supervised the construction of some of the great power projects the President Is visiting and is now. guide and adviser..i ga. r Presidents Car
 The Presidents home on this .. aAv-t..