Show WHITE WT HOUSE F OF OP OLD SOUVENIRS New Cew York Herald Pin Fin do surprises have reached th White se use With the t close cO of or the tM year yr an su a i inventory of o the th furniture and ad decorations in the tho preSidents man mansion mn manlon lon sion revealed an astonishing number of souvenirs curious interesting Inter g and ad valuable which link our chief magis magistrate with the imperial royal and civil chU heads of foreign governments For these are presents Some sense were given gilel to the president as president some rame to the president as an as individual The n individual in the latter case cue has lies either ett left them behind or informally pre we preb b seated them te to the nation All iii are al new heirlooms of the White House Housa JM A such su h lawyers In their quaint and ty tJ way would woul class them as 88 real Ge es tate tata They are reminiscent not only of lit liv living J JIng ing lag great ones but of dead great ene and not only of dead great STet ones onN bat mt of dynasties dead and gone one Bona Bon Do partes pastes and have bae alike aUke disappeared but hut the imperial bees sad and eagles arc are still blazoned on the gifts made mode bv by the first Napoleon to President reM dent Jefferson and by th tb second Na Napoleon Nap Napoleon p leon who called ailed himself the third to President Pierce Pierre From France republican and royal as well wen as imperial France Fra eo the larger Jug number of these gifts have me meThe meThe The Red room is especially full of od souvenirs Chief among amon these the e are a apall pair pall of red vases sent by Napoleon III ill to Franklin Pierce The ground is of the soft sort pink tint now it would seem eem almost impossible of ot reproduction whICh is peculiar to old Sere On Onne one ane ne of them painted with dainty art artis artis is Charlotte Corday receiving the sea sen sentence tence tenee of the tribunal for her murder of or Marat on the other Marie Antion ette eUe in the presence of On the chimney piece in the same Mme room are the candelabra presented d by the tire first Napoleon to President Jeffer Teffer Jefferson son The pedestal of each is adorned adom with shields helmets and other pieces of armor in It supports a 11 ball which In turn supports a 11 female figure whose hands uplift a circlet of ot five candle holders Beneath the chim chimney chimney ney piece and arranged on each side of or the chimney are two large luge vases valles of royal Worcester a gift gUt to President Arthur These are finely colored and each Is prettily decorated with a drap draped ed female figure Directly over the fireplace is a large and handsome plaque of ef old Vienna w ware aara around Bround whose edge a distinguish distinguishing h hIng ing mark of this ware runs rune an ex en exquisite exquisite border wrought in gilt The burnished andirons which date from the time of Washington are of curious antique design Between the windows are ire a clock and anda a pair of alabaster and gilt vases pur per puras purchased chased as b by President lent Van Buren for the White House HouseA A highly ornate basin and cover in inI I black on a gilt gUt ground which stand on a small table were strangely enough rescued from a garret by Mrs Grant during her husbands first terse term Another relic of the Grant regime is isa a screen which formed part of or the tM Austrian exhibits of old tap In the Centennial exposition at Philadelphia and was subsequently presented by b Austria to Mrs Grant The rich and mellow coloring set in lit a agUt gilt gUt frame gives the whole the air of an old painting In the next room are a charmingly ugly lacquer cabinet a girt gift by b the Chi Chinese Chinese hi nese government to President Grant and a pair of or bronze gilt candelabra supposed to have been bought for tor the white house by Van Buren which ac acquire acquire acquire quire a sentimental interest from the the fact that they were used ed u at the Cleveland wedding the only ceremony of this sort which any president cele celebrated celebrated heated with himself as groom within the precincts of the executive mansion The mantelpiece of the blue room is decorated with the clock presented to Washington by b Lafayette and always known as us the Lafayette clock and the companion vases which the first French republic sent to the first president pre of the first republic of or the new ns world An interesting memorial of the pres present present ent administration lies on the library table This Is the McKinley family Bible more than one hundred years old wherein the h gene genealogy genealogy genealogy of the president Is 15 i traced to its transatlantic source |