Notes

Secretary James J. Davis, going out of the White Court grounds after seeing the President, remarked to reporters:

"I am going up to Gloucester to see John Weeks before dashing to New York to take the steamer. I think John Weeks has the levelest head and can see further into a business situation than any man I know. I admire him tremendously. Wish you Boston newspaper men would print that."

Charles E. Hughes, onetime (1910-16) Justice, onetime (1916) candidate for President, onetime (1921-25) Secretary of State, was reported last week to have accepted a new job--that of counsel for the receivers of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul R. R. before the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, widow of the President, joined the Needle Guild of America and made a little speech to the branch of Farmingdale, L. I., of which she became a member. She reminded them that the Guild was not a sewing circle and each member must present two knitted garments a year to some hospital patient unable to knit. She spoke on the seventh anniversary of the death of her son Quentin in France.

It was announced that U. S. mints are stamping out gold coins at the rate of a million dollars a day. The law requires that gold certificates in circulation must be represented to a third of their value by actually minted coins. The circulation of gold certificates has grown to $870,564,000.

A fire swept through a garage in Washington devouring costly motor cars. When the conflagration was over, it was found that the official automobile of the Vice President of the U. S. had been destroyed. Congress will be obliged to appropriate $8,000 to buy Mr. Dawes a new car.

The Secretary to the President is one-time (1917-25) Congressman Everett Sanders of Indiana (returned by preference, not by the electorate). Mr. Sanders is married. He and his wife are spending the summer at Swampscott. The voracious photographers of the press petitioned Mrs. Sanders to let them take her picture. She consented--in golf togs--posed on the golf course of the New Ocean House. A golf ball was dropped in a hazard. She took a firm stance, faced the camera and was snapped--with her club grounded on the sand behind the ball.-

*Hazards and Casual Water. Rule XXV: When a ball lies in, or touches a hazard, nothing shall be done which can in any way improve its lie; the club shall not touch the ground. . . .