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JUL 08
1810
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ONE DOLLAR A TEAK
By JOHN
CHAPTER XXVIII
Grants Regrets for the Assault
Gen Grant who was the soul of
truthfulness frankly admits the mis
take of the assault In his Memoirs
he says
I have always regretted that the
last assault at Cold Harbor was ever
made I might say the same thing of
the assault of May 22 1S63 at Vicks
burg At Cold Harbor no advantage
whatever was gained to compensate for
the heavy loss we sustained Indeed
the advantages other than those of rel
ative losses were on the Confederate
eide Before that the Army of North
ern Virginia seemed to have acquired
a wholesome regard for the courage
endurance and soldierly qualities gen
erally of the Army of the Potomac
They no longer wanted to fight them
one Confederate to five Yanks In
deed they seemed to have given up any
Idea of gaining any advantage of their
antagonist in the open field They had
come to much prefer breastworks in
their front to the Army of the Poto
mac This charge seemed to revive
their hopes temporarily but it was of
short duration The effect upon the
Army of the Potomac was the reverse
When we reached the James River
however all effects of the battle of
Cold Harbor seemed to have disap
peared
The Ten Most Sanguinary Minutes
In attempting to give in detail the
assaults of the different corps and divi
sions the reader will not forget that all
these were concentrated into a very
few minutes of that figment called time
In the ordinary days of living a minute
End an hour are definitely comprehend
ed and our ideas coincide with the
marks on the clocks dial On such
occasions as Cold Harbor a minute may
become as full of all that makes up
the sum of human life as decades of
ordinary days The heart swelling with
the strongest emotions the mind can
experience may crowd the thrills of
an hour into each second Such per
fect fighting machines had the Armies
of the Potomac and Northern Virginia
become that their collisions were as
swift brief and deadly as the dart of
the serpents fangs
Most writers say that the Army of
the Potomac lost 10000 in 20 minutes
Others reduce this time to 10 and still
others make It but eight minutes At
all events every moment from the in
stant the charge began until the de
feated men recoiled to the first shelter
was deluged by more blood than any
other such period of time in American
history possibly in the history of the
world To say that the Army of the
Potomac lost 10000 men Is no exagger
ation Medical Director McParlin re
ports that 4S17 wounded were brought
to his hospitals June 3 This made
those who were shot dead and buried
-where they lay at least 1100 Evidently
there were very many who did not
vcoma Into the Medical Directors n
fort The Adjutant Generals Office
McELROY
which collected later data found that
there were 17G9 killed and 1537 miss
ing a large portion of whom must
have been killed on June 1 and 2 Add
ing to these the wounded there is a
total of casualties of 994S If we in
clude lis Medical Director McParlin
does all the casualties after crossing
the Pamunkcy and take in those of the
Eighteenth Corps we have a grand to
tal of 14129
A Heavy Toll of Lire
Gen Horace Porter estimates that
from the time the Army of the Potomac
crossed the Rapidan to its crossing of
the James June 12 the total casualties
including Sheridans Cavalry and Burn
sides command had been Killed 7
C21 wounded 38339 captured or
missing 8966 total 54926 This does
not mean however that all these men
were permanently lost to the service
Many of them were prisoners who were
afterwards exchanged and many had
been only slightly wounded and were
soon able to return to duty Some of
them may also have been counted
twice as for instance a man who was
wounded and afterward died Indeed
there is a proneness to exaggerate the
losses of a battle at first the early re
ports seldom being substantiated This
was particularly the case at Shiloh and
Gen Porter tells an amusing story Il
lustrative of this He says
At the close of the first days fight
Sherman met a Colonel of one of his
regiments with only about 100 of his
soldiers in ranks and said to him
Why where are your men
The Colonel cast his eyes sadly
along the line wiped a tear from his
cheek and replied in a whimpering
voice We went in 800 strong and thats
all thats left of us
You dont tell me exclaimed Sher
man beginning to be deeply affected by
the fearful result of the carnage
Yes said the Colonel the rebs
ippearcd to have a special spite against
us
Sherman pxsscd along some hours
afterward when the Commissary was
issuing rations and found that the Col
onels men were returning on the run
from under the bank Of the river
where they had taken bheltcr from the
firing and in a few minutes nearly all
of the lost 700 had rejoined and were
boiling coffee and eating a hearty meal
with an appetite that showed they were
Mill very much alive
The Confederate Losses
As to the losses of the enemy we are
as usual quite in the dark Gen Lee
reported to the Confederate Secretary
of War June 3 that his loss that day
was small which was probably true
Our losses were largely occasioned by
the terrible enfilade fire to which the
troops could make no adequate reply
After the fighting on the morning of
June 1 Lees losses were certainly quite
equal to ours but on the afternoon of
that day they were Ies than ours tho
very heavy Altogether and taking
Into account the disparity of the losses
In the disastrous charge of the 3d Lee
mutt have lost at least half as many
WASHINGTON D C THURSDAY JULY 28 1910
men as we did This view is confirmed
by Lees report of his severe loss in
general officers Nearly all of his bri
gade and division commanders were
killed or wounded
Did tlio Army Refuse to Renew the
Attack
In this connection it may be well to
again recall the much disputed ques
tion as to whether the Army of the
Potomac silently refused to obey the
order to renew the attack According
to the testimony of the man who had
the most knowledge Gen Humphreys
the Adjutant General of the Army of
the Potomac Gen Meade suspended
his orders to the commanders of the
Second Sixth and Eighteenth Corps
but they were ready to renew the move
ment and this upon Gen Smiths sug
gestion with good military reasons At
that time Gen Burnside was moving
Potter and Willcox upon Lees left
Gen Wilson with his cavalry was
striking Earlys rear and Gen Warren
co operating with Burnside was at
tacking and driving Rodess and Heths
Divisions from the Shady Grove Church
road All these offensive movements
were probably in motion when the or
der arresting them was received
Lcc Tries the Offcnshe
As a terrific thunderstorm finally sub
sides into less deafening crashes ana
SETTLING DOWN TO STEADY PLUGGING
less vivid lightning so the main battle
gradually calmed down to minor af
fairs bloody enough for those engaged
but small compared to the supreme ef
fort Lee seems to have understood
how terribly the Army of tho Potomac
was hurt and he leveled some return
blows in hopes to make them effective
in the demoralization which he incor
rectly imagined had taken place His
assaulting columns found no demoral
ization however and were beaten back
with heavy loss At 8 oclock in the
evening Longstreets men came out on
the right of Barlow and left of Gibbon
like a rolling avalanche but were re
pulsed with the unflinching steadiness
of the Second Corps lying behind shal
low rifle pits and firing with deadly
coolness
In a Murderous Deadlock
Gen Grants first thought was to
advance on Lees army by regular siege
approaches This would keep the ene
my In front of him and actively en
gaged while the advances could be
pushed with little loss until the enemys
line was pierced when he would 1b
destroyed in the tangle of the Chlcka
hominy swamps Orders were sent to
the men to develop the shelters behind
which they lay into regular works and
BRASS COEHORNS IN USE AT COLD HARBOR From a sketch by A R Waud
this was done under a continual search
ing lire irom me snarpsiiooiers or tne
enemy only u few hundred feet away
Then followed nine days of the most
exhausting labor the greatest hard
ships and the Intensest mental strain
All day long the skirmishers on both
Ides were busy trying to cut all others
down and protect the workers in
strengthening the lines The musketry
fire would he Interspersed from time
to time with terrific bursts of artillery
firing which seemed to tear up every
thing within range The ground was
level and open which made the work
of intrenching more severe and dan
gerous as there was little shelter to be
found anywhere and every movement
had to be made under fire The men
in tho works had to He close to tho
cround nil ilnv lnnir win imi vi -
water Cooking was almost as difficult
urn utilise uun us me iiiirencning ana
an hours interrupted sleep was a rare
occurrence The heat was intense dur
ing the day all the springs and creeks
were drying up and those that did not
Wprn tmlltltffl llV ilio naocnnr 1K r
a great army Dead horses and mules
Continued on page three
DISCIPLINE IN THE NAVY
Secretary Meyer Swings the Big Stick With Force A Tremendous
Upheaval in the Department Will the Changes be for the Benefit
ui uie servicer
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Special to The National Tritiune j Corps has had a splendid record and
The big stick swings A great mill- s a rule has been pertty free from
I factional squabbles Hut the
tary arm of the Government beholds tion of the cors hIul become
tho salutary discipline Those upon ized quite as much as had the organl
whom the blows fail take their punish- zation of the Navy Department thru
ment like military men But a thou
sand and ten thousand tongues are set
to wagging The blighting of ambi
tious careers stirs up compassion But
the discipline is maintained and In the
end tho service will profit
It has not been the President swing
ing the big stick it has been his Secre
tary of the Navy He began weeks ago
and since Congress adjourned at which
date his naval appropriation bill was
safely upon the statute books he has
been swinging tlio big- stick frequently
Right in the closing Congressional days
he forced Paymaster General Eustace
B Rogers head of the Breau of Sup
plies and Accounts to retire Now he
has forced Admiral Washington Lee
Capps Chief of -the great and very im
portant Bureau of Construction and
Repair to scurry to the retired list and
last but not least he has ordered the
head officers of thcllarlne Corps away
to distant posts This has all been done
in the interest of discipline It was
sharp decisive work onco conclusions
had been reached Tho Navy Depart
ment has known nothing like It for
many many years but apparently dras
tic and almost unprecedented action was
Indispensable
Walks tho Quarter Deck
Now Secretary of the Nayy George
von L Meyer has cleared his path of
obstacles The cause of opposition In
trigue In the Navy Department is dead
Secretary Meyer walks the quarter deck
the undisputed master of the situation
He has ideas about the administra
tion of the Navy When he went to
the head of the Department he found
two factions there The existence of
factions had well night demoralized the
naval organization The head men of
both factions deplored the condition
but it had sprung up fundamental
ideas of naval administration were at
Issue In brief one idea was a virtual
continuation of existing conJUionsan
other was reform in methods and ad
ministration One was for the old Navy
of the last 20 years the other was for
a newer Navy more closely following
the developments of the great fighting
navies of European powers The ad
vocates of the two lines of procedure
fought to the finish and the advocates
of the older and settled conditions have
been ousted
Some cood men have gone down
Rogers and Capps are two of them No
abler and more conscientious naval of
ficers have served under the flag As
far as the Navy Is concerned they are
consigned to the scrap heap altho they
go upon the retired list with the rank
of Rear Admirals of the lower grade
and with three fourths pay of the
grade Their 30 years service and a
recent provision of Congress makes that
possible But with all their ability and
acumen in administration and construc
tion they were out of sorts with the
civilian head of the Department were
virtually defying his authority and
military discipline prescribes but one
remedy for such a condition The men
had to be gotten rid of Whether Secre
tary Meyer Is right or wrong matters
not In the first instance There must
bo harmony In the machinery of the
Navy Department The responsibility Is
with Secretary Meyer If he Is wrong
sooner or later the country Will find It
out Congress will find It out and then
Secretary Meyer and he alone will be
given the blame
And on the other hand if he Is right
the credit will all be his The service
will be Improved materially A new
order of things will be established And
In any event two distinguished Bureau
Chiefs will find their Navy careers
blemished by refusal to co operate fully
with their superior officers Any way
one can look at it there has been repre
hensible Insubordination This has been
toward the Secretary of the Navy di
rectly and also Indirectly In co-operating
with opposing forces in Congress to
the Secretarys embarrassment In a
sense Congress Is superior to the Navy
Department and to Secretaries of the
Navy It holils tho purse strings and
the Navy cannot be maintained without
money and lots of It Congress mean
ing the head men of tho Naval Com
mittees who shape the appropriation
bills and fashion naval sentiment upon
the Hill has not approved of the new
fangled naval ideas noryof -the naval
reformers whom President Roosevelt
encouraged by very unmilltary meth
ods
Sccrc Discipline
Tho Naval Bureau Chiefs whose
heads have fallen sided with Congress
and gave aid and comfort to Senators
and Representatives who were resisting
the so called reforms In the earlier
and better days of the Republic the
Naval Bureau Chiefs in quostion might
have been able to do this with compar
ative impunity Their poworfut friends
upon the Hill would save them from
condign punishment But with Hhe
growtli of the Navy discipline is being
administered severely and with the
current demoralization some very ex
emplary action seemed indispensable
There were Bureau Chiefs vhodid
not sympathize with the newrfangled
schemes and who have reasoned that
the program is not entirely wise But
they have obeyed orders expressed
their views when these were asked for
and gone ahead sawing wood They
have abstained from encouraging Con
gress in one course or the other una
have pot identified thomselves with the
propaganda of either side Their fel
low officers knew where these Bureau
Chiefs stood but there was nopSensive
partisanship about it-
In the Marine Corps V
The Marine Corps cases art a little
different but involve the samairiupstlon
of discipline The officers of the Ma
rine Corps have not beer identified
with tho wrangle over naval aiethods
They have had their troublesiJn pre
venting naval officers from banlsTiing
them and enlisted marinos from on
board warships and from confining
them strictly to service on shore The
which the Marine Corp3 Is adminis
tered
The Commandant and tho staff offi
cers of the corps have been enjoying
appointments for service at Washing
ton with a tenure concerning the re
mainder of their service on the aetive
list This assured very desirable berths
A Commandant with the rank of
had one of the most desir
able positions in all the military service
of the Government He was assured
of residence in Washington for a long
period with Aids to make his coming
and going easy and to make things
pleasant for his wife and for their
daughters if they had any Of course
there were inspection trips which mean
extra mileage and alike opportunities
to travel pleasantly This good thing
could not be Interrupted as long as the
incumbent was on the active list of the
corps
The staff positions have been almost
equally good things Appointments
there have been for the remainder of
ones active service unless promoted
but the head of each staff branch was
very likely to hold on without interrup
tion for the only proomtion possible
for the head of a staff branch was to
Commandant The Quartermaster-General
and the Adjutant General each
with the rank of Colonel have several
assistants Tho arrangement made a
few excellent berths for officers who
enjoyed staying in Washington and en
tering upon the pleasures incident to
continued residence in the Federal City
There has been no question of their
efficiency from a purely business stand
point They have taken good care of
the Marine Corps and have had their
acquaintances and friends in Congress
whom they kept informed and who
fought their battles whenever the Navy
sought to encroach upon the corps
Tho Real Trouble
But little dissensions sprung up
among these officials especially between
the Commandant Gen George F El
liott and the members of the staff The
General Is a plain blunf soldier but
he was rude sometimes and did not
observe all the amenities A big feud
resulted The inevitable court of in
quiry followed with the result that the
Commandant was reprimanded as were
Col Charles H Lauchelmer Adjutant-
General and Inspector Col Frank L
Denny LleuCrCoL T C
Erincey Assistant Quartermaster and
Col Charles A Doyen Gen Elliott has
been virtually suspended till he retires
In October for another officer has been
designated to act as Commandant dur
ing the Generals absence from Wash
ington Col Denny a great favorite in
Washington and a most efficient Quar
termaster has been ordered to San
Francisco Col Lauchelmer Is trans
ferred to Manila and others who had
been found insubordinate or disrespect
ful havo been sent to distant parts far
from their comfortable berths in Wash
ington -
The trouble sprung In some part from
the strife to obtain Gen Elliotts place
but it Is very likely that a limit will
hereafter be placed upon the service of
tho Commandant and upon the service
of other staff officers There is now a
four years term for the Chief of Staff
of the Army and for most of the staff
officers of that military branch The
same holds true of Naval Bureau posi
tions altho strangely enough Army and
Navy officers with a sufficiently strong
political pull are turning up In Wash
ington constantly with some desirable
assignment But It seems as tho tho
very pleasant long tenures of service for
the Commandant and staff officers of
the Marine Corps In Washington are at
an end
Sonic Possible Consequences
It has been a very big shaking up
and the effect of It upon the Marine
Corps as an organization allied with
the Navy will be great President
Roosevelt issued an order removing the
marines from ships of war The Navy
as an organization has been trying for
years to do the Marine Corps but
with a corps of old and influential offi
cers stationed at Washington these ef
forts were frustrated Before the Roose
velt order could bo carried into execu
tion it was nullified and eventually
Congress passed a provision continuing
the marines on ship board
But a new contingent of Marine Corps
officers are plainly to be brought to
Washington men who have been busy
with service in many parts of the
try and who are strange to the mys
terious ways of pulling legislative wires
The Navy officers are not only more
numerous but they now have distinctly
the upper hand and It goes without
saying that they will take fresh cour
age in trying to cripple the Marine
Corps and to reduce it to a very minor
piace xney nave been jealous for
years of the splendid record that the
Marine Corps has and of the -corns
great popularity These officers of the
Navy reason that they and their Jackics
should have all the credit which goes
to the Marine Corps By getting into
an unseemly quarrel with their Com
mandant the old staff officers of the
Marine Corps have been simply playing
Into the hands of their ancient enemy
and now they seem to be almost abso
lutely in the power of the Navy It
will not be long before Navy officers
will refuse to allow the Marine officers
to man any of tho guns on a warship
and will strip them of other duties
while afloat The original purpose of
marines was to poliice the Jackles a
duty which it is claimed Is no longer
necessary
A New Epoch
There will come a virtual reorganiza
tion of the corps as there is coming In
many respects it is already under way
a reorganization of the Navy The tran
sition murks the beginning of a new
epoch In naval administration Not
only have the forces representing the
ild ideas In the Department been oust
ed but there has been a gradual yield
ing on the part of the opposition to the
new regime in the Senate and tho
House The naval loaders in the latter
body began to give way first and it has
been easier for the Department to
riato at the south end of the Capitol
1qr a number of years There was one
fortress however which the advocates
tf a tremendous Naval Establishment
oud not carry and that was the Sen
ue Committee on Naval Affairs In
that committee stood Senator Eugene
Hale of Maine long Chairman of tho
ommittee and a very well informed
man about naval matters He stood
Minute
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VOL XXX NO 30 WHOLE NUMBER 1500J
You can lead the horse to Abater but
forth as the principal backer of Paymaster-General
Rogers and Admiral
Capps They kept him informed of the
movements of the other crowd and
enabled him to confound the Secretary
of the Navy in many well laid plans
Thejr two Bureaus of the Department
were in reality more loyal to Senator
Hale than to the Secretary of the Navy
But the last of the recalcitrant Bu
reau Chiefs has fallen and Senator
Hale has also been forced to retire
from public life His retirement after
long and undoubtedly patriotic service
is due to other causes than his demand
for less extravagance in naval expendi
tures but the reform forces who
clamor for more superdreadriaughts
and moremlHIons for the Navy on-specious
pleas that ft is good for the peo
ple and good ifor the country are re
joicing that their plans will have less
obstruction hereafter in the Senate For
while Senator Hale has many followers
In the Senate none of them has his In
formation about the Navy or his pres
tige to wage further battles
Therefore it Is that Secretary Meyer
has fallen upon a promising course for
the execution of his schemes for the
development of the modern Navy Navy
officers are given more latitude than
ever before but the claim is made that
it is all in the interest of military effi
ciency Many believe the Secretary is
right and that he is certain to make a
record as one of the most successful
and efficient of the many men who have
been at the head of the Navy Depart
ment since the days of Secretary Whit
ney No one questions Mr Mevers
high purpose but the main doubt seems
to arise as to the ultimate cost For It
looks now as tho the way were also
cleared for the creation of a Naw that
will cost the taxpayers 200000000 a
year
WAY DOWN IN MAINE
The President Has Some Very
Pleasant Visits With the Down
Easters
Special to The National Tribune
Bar Harbor July 24 President Taft
has come and gone and a cruel war is
over It has raged all along the rugged
coast of Maine where the natives are
talking about what happened and what
did not happen The natives at East
port which Is the farthest point east in
the United States got the impression
that the President originally did not
intent to visit them This stirred up
some feeling altho it was largely lost
sight of in the enthusiasm of his com
ing and the pleasanft things he said to
them
But here at Bar Harbor no speech-
was scheduled and rio arrangements
made for the President to meet the
people of the village Now while Bar
Harbor or rather the town of Eden
is a village it has 4300 Inhabitants
almost as many as the city of East-
port The Summer visitors are mostly
rich and stylish and between tiiem and
the vilagers there Is a wide gulf in so
cial matters The President and Mrs
Taft accepted a round of hospitalities
from tho wealthy cottagers As this
round of hospitalities grew the grum
bling began among the villagers They
had issued a formal invitation to tho
President A former State Senator E
S Clark Chairman of the Board of
Trade telegraphed an Invitation and
received no answer The First Select
man of the town John E Bunker Jr
telegraphed asking the President to
make a little address and was advised
that tho President did not wish to
speak
An incipient rebellion seemed in
progress Tne resilient Knew nnJlilng
lbout it All tne matters had been
arranged by those about him and he
was simply following -schedule But
one afternoon a friend lemarked to
him that the local people were disap
pointed because he was not going to
uppear publicly where they could meet
him He said at once that it would be
a pleasure to him to meet the towns
people and in a jiffy it was all ar
ranged So the following day ihe Pres
ident appeared upon tho village gieen
where a great number of people turned
out to meet him The village had been
plastered with hand bills announcing
the event He made them a happy
speech and the entente was restored
This also brought the balance properly
between the villagers and the cottagers
and will conduce much to the peace of
mind between the two factions for a
long time to come The fact that the
President had spoken at Eastport n ode
it Imperative that he should speak
everywhere else when he appeared
along the Maine coast It became ap
parent that the folks would feel slight
ed it he did not and ot course tho
Presldent was unwilling to disappoint
them
President Harrisons Visit
The people gave him a royal jvel
come wherever they weretifforded th
opportunity Presidents were not
strange to the people here at the great
est fashion resort on the New England
Coast Presfdent Harrison came to
Bar Harbor by train and stayed a week
one Summer Before that time Presi
dent Arthur made a visit here Cleve
land while an ex President came hero
with some of his Intimate men friends
They still tell a story of how Presi lent
Harrison greeted a Grand Army man
He was stopping at a cottage some dis
tance from the wharf A Grand Army
veteran by the name of Smith was ono
of the many drivers of buckboards
here the buckboard being the favorlta
vehicle for transportation about tha
island on which the village is located
He was engaged to drive a wealthy
woman and her daughter to this cot
tage
I drove down there said this vet
eran telling the story during President
Tafts visit and we pulled up in front
of the door I saw a little short man
standing near by and as I went to tho
horses head to hold them I passed him
He eyed me closely and noticed tho
button I wore in the lapel of my coat
How are you comrade said he
extending his hand And how ere you
sir I said Well as soon as I had
spoken I saw It was the President
The lady who had engaged me to
drive her over to the cottage gave mo
the old boy while we were returning
She said it was presumptuous in me to
shake hands with President Harrison
I stood it as long as I could and then
I asked her what she expected me to
do when the President spoke to me
Did she think I was going to turn my
back on Gen Harrison when he spoko
and extended his hand
A Delightful Cruise
President and Mrs Taft have had a
very enjoyable cruise in the Mayflower
along the Maine coast During most
of the trip they had excellent weather
The scenery along the Maine coast Is
exceedingly rugged and picturesque
The numerous Islands where there ara
resorts are thronged -with Summer vis
itors and the season Is at the hight or
gaiety In fact of the many thousands
who lined every wharf where the May
flower touched there were almost as
many Summer visitors as natives At
Eastport there was an especially im
pressive demonstration It was not of
the wild hurrah sort for the people in
these parts are not prone to shout and
halloe in expressing their admiration
But they clapped hands at every turn
of the way and filled his carriage with
wild flowers The local committeemen
always had a plan mapped out by whicn
the President was driven thru all tha
principal residence and commercial
streets This gave the people very good
opportunities to see him They gath
ered on their lawns bearing flags and
wild flowers
A very notable Incident of the East
port trip was the Presidents drive out
to Tindalis Head several miles from
the town where E M Bullins a Grand
Army veteran 84 years old was wait
ing on the lawn with his children -grandchildren
and to tha
number of two or three score It was
a rugged weather beaten place but
exceedingly pretty for the view out
over the bay and over the St Croix
River The aged veteran wearing a
new Grand Army uniform was present
ed to the President
Another incident of note at Eastport
was the firing of the salute of 21 guns
to the President as soon as tho May
flower anchored out In the harbor Tha
town possessed an ancient pieceof ord
nance but the local authorities were a
little averse to discharging It The vet
erans of Meade Post 40 insisted that
they could fire the salute and under
the direction of their Commander Mor
ris Carney took care of that feature of
the ceremony Commander Carney
handled the watch and his firing squad
discharged the piece with splendid reg
ularity The red hot end of a long iron
rod was used to ignite the powder
The President and Mrs Taft par
ticipated in many social functions dur
ing the trip and the President had sev
eral good games of golf He returns tQ
Beverly much refreshed from his un
usually interesting voyage of 10 day
upon the beautiful yacht Mayflower

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