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Show TOOK COLD" PLUNGE PRESIDENT ADMVSS VAi FOND OF WINTER OATHING. That He Would Break tho Ice In the Potomac to Get His Uuo.il Swim Is a Well-Attested Fact. IJoforo the cheerful glow of a well llllcd latrobe stoc ono ovenlng last winter In a Washington residence sov-oral sov-oral gontlemen wero having n sympo Blum. They were talking over al) sortB of matters, including, of course, tho cvcr-recurrlng topic ot thr weathor. "I expect." remarked ono of the party, a man f om lloston, "If that rugged old gentleman from my state, John Qulney Adams, was with us now ho would have a chanco to Indulge In what wo have often been told was ono I of his favorite habits Unit Is. going '! a to the river on cold winter morn-ip morn-ip j t;. ' i -ho lei proparato to a ;.'... ' i-nne. 1 lit. .e i never believed i; a, . .i -n. however," '. continued th" New l-higla-id man, "but ha.o alwn! I.vil'cl upon It as or o! . the muni fnlih s that crop out In thla eity ovory now and then. "Well, you might ns well bellovo it," r.uld a Washington man, who Is pretty well advanced In yeaiB, "for It Is n woll-ntteateil fact. I know In my younger days a gentleman of this city, ono of tho most prominent physicians of nnto-bellum dovs. nnd later on n dlstlngtilEhr 1 nfi.rei In the confederate confed-erate array, who luu r.Hiired mo nud others ns veil ll'n' .i"n lo was a ciero lad he ha t. 'n'-ddont John Qulney Adr.i.ii lri',.. ,' thin Ico In tho Potomac on a winter morning nnd tako a plunge Into tho water. "In my younger days," furthor remarked re-marked tho Washington man, "I havo neon a number of people baptized In tho Potomac when tho mercury In tho thermometer was below the freezing point. Hut don't you ninko any mistake," mis-take," ho mild to the gentleman from lloston, "about John Qulney Adams swimming in tho Icy Potomac. Thcro aro men living in Washington to-day whoso fathers and grandfathers havo seen him In tho net. Maybo that accounted ac-counted for his long life, for ho was SO years of age when ho had IiIb fatal stroko of apoplexy In tho houso of representatives, of which ho was a member at tho tlmo of his death." |