Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1910 — TAFT TO MAKE SEA TRIP [ARTICLE]
TAFT TO MAKE SEA TRIP
President and Party Will Make Voyage Up Maine Coast. Will Explore Mount Desert Islana— Start Will Be Made on July 18 on Yacht Mayflower. Beverly, Mass., July 8. — President Taft is going to spent part of his vacation on shipboard. Unofficial announcement was made at the executive office that the president would make a ten day trip up the Maine coast. The voyage is going to begin July 18, three days after the absolute vacation, which Mr. Taft is now enjoying, comes to an end. The presidential yacht, the Mayflower, will become the summer capitol for that, period. According to the plans already made, Mrs. Taft, Miss Helen and Charle, Secretary Norton and Mrs. Norton, Capt. Butt and possibly H. D. Taft, the president’s frother, will be taken along. The Mayflower will set out for Bar Harbor, but a stop may be made at Biddeford Pool, to pick up Mrs. Louis T. Moore, of Cincinnati, a Bister of Mrs. Taft, who is summering there. It is expected that the president will stay at Bar Harbor for at least three days. He prcbably will remain aboard the Mayflower at night, but will explore Mount Desert Island by day. A circle around‘that island on the yacht is in the plan now being per. fected.
