A week in the White House with Theodore Roosevelt; a study of the President at the nation's business . olina wren, but lis-tened in vain for the note of the mock-ing-bird, which the Englishman hadnever heard. Mr. Roosevelt is the first Presidentwho has had time for exercise andplay—and one reason he has time for TKttttb tbe lPresfbent 89 a hundred features of work indoorswhich no other President ever did isbecause he takes time for recreationout of doors. A CABINET DAY AT THE WHITEHOUSE What One Man can Do in an Hour—Listening toAppeals for Pardon and for Appointments,Army and Navy Affairs, De
A week in the White House with Theodore Roosevelt; a study of the President at the nation's business . olina wren, but lis-tened in vain for the note of the mock-ing-bird, which the Englishman hadnever heard. Mr. Roosevelt is the first Presidentwho has had time for exercise andplay—and one reason he has time for TKttttb tbe lPresfbent 89 a hundred features of work indoorswhich no other President ever did isbecause he takes time for recreationout of doors. A CABINET DAY AT THE WHITEHOUSE What One Man can Do in an Hour—Listening toAppeals for Pardon and for Appointments,Army and Navy Affairs, Delegations, andResignations, Righting Private Wrongs, andDeciding Public Questions in a Fraction of aMorning. Friday was Cabinet day, but thePresident managed to attend to a fewsmall matters: He considered and hedeclined to grant a pardon in the caseof an offender from Texas; he calledthe Surgeon General of the Army totake under special consideration thecase of a young officer turned downbecause he was declared to have,though he denied it, symptoms of tu-berculosis; he made the final arrange-90. X o*l LU PhI I- 3 -Qs >, 0 J3 St fell ± o M 5 «.g 1 S o Cabinet 2>au at tbe Wbitc fl>ouse 91 merits for sending troops to the seat oftrouble in Alaska; he gave an unen-couraging hearing to a proposition fromOregon (I fancy Mr. Harrimans smallItalian was in it); he considered candi-dates for the position of United StatesAttorney for the Idaho District—theseat of the trouble culminating inthe murder of the Governor of Idaho;he accepted the resignation of theController of the Currency, bade theretiring incumbent good-bye, and an-nounced his successor; he received dele-gations from Tennessee on the matterof the appointment of a Federal Judgefor the Eastern District; he dodged awell-planned coup intended to drawhim again on the third-term question;he gave some necessary orders for thefleet, now on the greatest maritime ex-pedition in history; he at last reached 92 a Cabinet 2
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