Show AFTER DUCKS CLEVELAND TAKES ANOTHER SHORT VACATION ViI Probably Not Return to Wash iugrton Before the ISth or 14th i the Ducks Will But Fly Low WASHINGTON Dee 5The president presi-dent left Washington tonight on the lighthouse tender Maple to recuperate from the strain he has been under in the preparation of his message to Congress Con-gress on a hunting trip through e North Carolina sounds With him tile Dr OReilly Commander George F Wilde naval secretary of the lighthouse house board and Commander Benjamin Benja-min P Lamberton in charge of the lighthouse district comprising the sounds The light vessel was well provisioned and i is likely that if the weather is fair the president wU not return to Washington before the 12th or 14th of the month The Maple was headed for the mouth of Chesapeake bay just about dusk and the trip began with a cloudy northwest and a rather raw and biting wind that is commonly regarded re-garded a the best possible weather for water fowls in this section Unless It Is deemed well to lie up in the lower Potomac on the chance of I picking up some ducks there the Maple should arrive at Norfolk tomorrow tomor-row forenoon There she will enter the Chesapeake Albemarle canal and pass through to the upper end of the system of sounds which extend from Virginia clear down toN Wiminsti to-N C Reports received by the presIit 1 indicate that ducks and geese have appeared ap-peared In these favored waters in large numbers on their flight southward before be-fore the winter gales and it is hoped that the trip will be even more successful suc-cessful than that undertaken last spring In the same waters when most of the fowl had already started northward north-ward All the presidents companions have made this trip before In his company com-pany and are consequently well a quainted with the best shoeing 7 rounds I is expected that the cruise will extend ex-tend as far south as Washington N C though most of the time the party will be further up the sounds not far from Roanoak island |