Evening star., 1939-06-12
informally Marks
Farewell Of Royalty
AT Hyde Park Station
Lost Day With RooseveIts
Is Full of CoIorfuI,
Memorable Scenes
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smiled her thanks. Again her arm
went up. This time to wave good-by
to the Roosevelts. The youthful
monarchS continued to wave and
the Roosevelts responded until the
train was out of sight.
Although they had planned to
say their hood -bys at the summer
White House, the President, Mrs.
Roosevelt, Mrs. James Roosevelt and
the four Roosevelt sons and their
wives, with the exception of Mrs.
John Roosevelt, were at the station.
Franklin, jr., appeared with patch
over one eye, the result of a bee
sting yesterday.
The entire party was in formal
clothes. The Queen wore a short
ermine cape with a white fox collar
over her rose chiffon gown while
Mrs. Roosevelt wore her long
ermines over a fuchsia gown lighted
with brilliantS. The President had
on summer formal attire and the
King wore a dinner jacket.
The little red-brlck station, the
last their majesties will see in the
United States, was clothed in mist.
A thunderstorm, considerably
spaced between the picnic and the
departure, had left the night cool
but foggy. No deep-piled carpet
was laid down for the royal feet
to tread on. Instead, a rubber
mating was thrown across the
tracks
Few Officials Go Along.
Only State Department special
agents and American railroad off,
cials remained with the royal party
to escort it to the border, which was
to be crossed at Rouses Point, N. Y,
formerly famous as rum-running
center, at 5:55 am. daylight saving
time.
1t was decided to get the good
bys over at Hyde Park so their
majesties could catch up on their
sleep.
After Secretary of State Hulls
formal farewell in Washington, the
only Government representatives
left beside the Roosevelts to say
good-by were George T. Summerlin,
chief of the State Department
Division of Protocol; Rear Admiral
James V. Richardson, naval aide to
the King during his stay in the
United States, and Maj. Gen. Hugh
A. Drum, military aide. They, too,
said good-by here.
Although their majeSties were at
the summer white house only a
little over "a hours and the pace was
leisurely to the extreme, they accom-
plished many things.
They consumed American hot
dogs. They attended services in the
Presidents church. And the King
did get that swim. On fact, he got
two sWims in the United States. The
other, clothed in secrecy until now,
occurred Friday afternoon in the
White House pool after the question
asking teaD
But the high point of the week
end, as far as the President was
concerned, occurred just few hours
before their departure, when Scot
land Yard lifted the restrictions
that guard their majesties' every
move to allow an amateur chauffeur
to drive them through the winding
back roads of the Hyde Park estate
President Himself Drives.
The man at the wheel was the
President himself It was his own
open car, specially built blue job
with hand controls which he drove
at nice clip down the highway
and up the bImpy, dusty, hilly coun-
<-1, 70 HI
NIT 3 miles from the summer white
house, where characteristic Roose-
welt picnic took place.
Queen Elizabeth sat beside him,
looking more relaxed and at ease
than at any time during the strain
of the last few days The King,
too, who sat on the back seat with
Mrs. James Roosevelt, the PreSi-
dents mother and hostess during the
the ride. AS for the President-he
was having the time of his life. He
nodded. smiling, to the ubiquitous
spectators who waited at the gate
entrance to his cottage road.
Except for the sight-seers who
turned out 1000 strong for the
church service in the morning and
| fingered along the highway to
glimpse their majesties as they drove
in and out of the Roosevelt estate
the British monarchs were given
every opportunity to forget they
were anything but youthful couple
paying a week end visit to country
home
Their majeSties could even forget
the press. Only one representative
each, from the British Canadian
and American newspapers, was al
lowed v'ithln the doors of the old,
ivy-c' church where their majes-
ties PHd the Roosevelt family wor-
shipped this morning. Bishop Henry
st. George Tucker. presiding bishop
of the Protestant Episcopal Church
OF the United States, who gave the
sermon, would have been much in
terested to hear the American re-
porter, with half hundred busily
scrlbbling colleagues around her,
repeat the entire service, chapter
and verse, to say nothing of the SER
mon.
Congregation Gathers Early.
Spectators started gathering for
the II am. service at o'clock in
the morning. An elderly woman
curled up as best she could in
camp chair and spent the night on
the roped-off lawn, facing the
church. Two women tainted and
had to be given first aid in a nearby
ambulance.
One woman stood in the road
clasping handkerchief She
planned to wipe off the running
board of the car in which the Queen
rode and preserve the handkerchief
for her children. She might have
stepped there" she confided
Proudest man in the church was
an unemployed bus driver, one Ar
thur De Croft, the vestryman who
OaSSed tho collection nlate tn tho