Show FRENCHYS PROMOTION Transferred From Cellar to the Top Floor I the White Rouse Nosy York Herald Christian Evon Thurn or Frencby Is un old character In new guise at the White House Until recently he was sta tone In the cellar as a private watchman watch-man with little to do except guard the basemen stairway leading up t thc private pri-vate dining room FreIchy a he Is fanilhlary called by the employees of the famiar executive intinslon Is the husband of Mrs l olln mason mid It Is said that I he received his appointment as a private watchman through his wifes Inluenee with the mistress of the White House Later the same power was Invoked to secure se-cure his transfer to the secret service branch of the government al 3 considerable consider-able increase In salary and with mar congenial I con-genial Frenchiy duties Is a native of Switzerland but has made his home In the United States for more than fourteen years leIs le-Is a typical French butler small In stature stat-ure not large In intellect but possessing considerable native cunning and a liberal supply of egotIsm The latter characteristic character-istic ha developed with marked rapidity since his elevation from the basement t Ute top floor oC the presidential man ties sloI would be dlfcut to describe the out I duties of Frenchy sinless he Is de slgnate as an understudy for Captain Charlie Lemer the German veteran who guards the door leading to the cabinet gards When Captain Locfer Is absent Frenchy bobs up serenely at the entrance bbs trance to the council chamber and holds I the fort until relieved by Her Loemer It has been said tht French1 Is the valet of President McKinley That Is a mistake He could perhaps fill such a position to a better advantage than the positon an amateur Sherlock Holmes which he Is now endeavoring to play I Is understood he Is an experienced house servant having served as butler wih the Cutting family of New York However he Is now carried on the rolls of the secret se-cret service branch of the government at a salary aggregating about 4o a year aggregatng His new responsibilities are beginning to tell upon him He grows thinner and thinner thin-ner each day and his eyes are becoming contracted from their ceaseless search for cranks and suspicIous characters who sometimes visit the White House FrenchY may be seen daily In the anteroom an-teroom mingling with the persons who call to minglng president He docs not converse with them unless he Is asked a j question Then hit replies are evasive I and poncommittal so that he cannot I noncommital blame himself for having betrayed the confidence of the president So faithful is confdence Ives at tho ho to his new trust that hellves White House so that he my be prepared at any moment to give protection to the president If called upon 1me Thar and her husband have an apartment In the executive mansion anti they take their meals In the state dining room with the housekeeper It Is said tobe the ambition of M Tharn to become a famous detective He closely scrutinizes every visitor who enters the White Haute day or night He has accompanied ac-companied the president on one or two out of town trips not In the capacity or valet but as a guardian of the presidents It Is understood that Frenchy person I Wilke of makes it weekly report to Chief Vie the secret service The nature of It Is a mystery Under no circumstances can l renchy le Induced to discuss the contents con-tents of that Important document |