Show REPORT LACKS TRUTH Sideboard Presented to Mrs Hayes Not In Possession of Saloonkeeper Washington Feb F b 24 Colonel Theodore Bingham superintendent of public build buildings Ings and nd grounds has concluded an ex exhaustive exhaustive investigation into the statement recently published widely throughout hout the country countI that a sideboard presented to Mrs Lucy Webb Hayes HayS while she was I mistress of the White hUe House Hoube by women of or the W V C T U r 1 has passed Into the hands lands of a Washington saloonkeeper The Tho I statement was made that the sideboard board was presented to Mrs Hayes out of re ie regard I gard gurd for her determination not nol to nermit permit wine to be served sered at the White House dinners I Colonel investigation atlon dis discloses discloses discloses closes clearly the fact that the published statement practically practicably had no foundation So far as the records and a recent volu voluminous voluminous voluminous minous correspondence with interested parties arties go o no such sideboard over ever was presented resented to Mrs Hayes by hi members member of the he W C T U by any ny other ether body of women or by any officials Two side sideboards sideboards sideboards boards from the White House were re no recently sold at auction The offer of these as well as of other articles from frome the he White e House S was made in accord accordance ance e with W eth the th thol ol law Tt The investigation ti has developed the fact that the one which was purchased by b a saloonkeeper was W lS bought boughtor bou bt for or the White House during durin the incumbency Incumbency incumbency bency of President Arthur The other was bought for or use In the mansion at an early date Where it now is cannot be ascertained The only article presented to Mrs Hayes Haves for use In the White House wasa was a carved frame for her portrait It was found unsuitable for Cor its purpose and is understood to be in the possession of the Cincinnati school of design With respect to the criticism that the portraits of former mistresses of the White House were hung in the cellar of the mansion it is stated by b the same authority that the portraits are In the th corridor through which all guests of ot the th president have to pass and that tho tha tb por nor portrait portrait trait of Mrs Roosevelt is hung hun directly I opposite to that of Mrs Hayes Ha es |