| Show THE WHITE WHITEHOUSE L HOUSE MAIL MAIL Cranks of MI il Kinds Leters Letters to tho Pr President M NY SC SUGGESTED Ire of r l rl tro o Sel Seen by b lr 1 IC oric DOlo Sidle lt at l 1 H Special Correspondence Washington Jan Jasi 4 crank le let letters lers nr are to the White than to alY ammy other one oe plies In tle Its country There Thero Ire are al 11 sorts l ot of letters from ape ap for the oto In tire the gir gift ot to the 1 for tor foran nn an autograph Of course the great bulk snail matter relates largely to appoint monts but there aN are many mony leters letters ot of advice dIte and many that are simply Imply beg begging ging leter letters asking nl the for fora or ora a few tew hundred doln dollars or n a few lew cents There are numerous crank lete letters writ written ten len by men who vh are ol off In the upper story ont and who suggest quor queer and c corn schemes to Mcl While Ime some ot the leter letters are ure critical ot of the policies of t the the Iho threat threatening ening leles letters MO are few tew nothing like the tho number received nt at the house whets wen Mr Ir Cleveland was President Nearly ni all ot of the leta letters that are sent to th the White house le jim nn an answered Some ot the most foolish ore are ignored but IhO those whirls which make mate request which lm seem to 10 b be written In by who are neither crazy nor ugly receive n reply ot Of course President McKinley can neither Iet ace ret reed not nor even sign n replies to n a hundredth ot of the tho leters letters that er are received and sent nt Ibis his work I Is done b by the secretaries Only the letters ot of greatest importance are brought to isis his attention HI lie aIgn but tel few ot of the tho let letter friends ter tern and those to close Personal LARGE LAnGE FonCE OP OF Leter Letters received nt at the White house relating to business ot of the tho government are arc answered and then sent to the tw proper department The time was as when ni all such snail al was vas referred to the departments t answer from the President During Mr In Incumbency Incumbency snore more attention was ni given Ien to White House mal snail arid And since Ir Mc c bias hns been President I it has been 1111 1118 wish that thol ni leter letters Sent to the White house should receive a reply repy It If des deserving ansi and the tho subject thel referred to the proper department for tor nt act on This hns hns necessitated largely Increasing lag Ing the fOt force ot of clerks nt at the Whit House and the rooms use used for omens ot of the chief executive are wills crowde wih deks desks and typewriters while the cerks clerks In these roms rooms nt not only work al all day but often until II late to Into the night This 11 is especially the ease case at the begInnIng ot of the administration when many appointments ar are being made made the t tendency of the tho time Is he to do more work at the White house Iou Chester A Arthur the Int last Frost t dent who Insisted that nearly al all om del work that could be done In tim tho do de should hould be performed there thero and not to him nt at the White house hInder both Mr Cleveland Cleeland and Ir harrison the executive work WiS was centralized at the hito House an and Mr M McKinley has continued the practice I IN ARThURS TUm Senator Teller of at Colorado who was In President Arthurs cabInet WM was talking to me upon the subject and slid said that In Athur Arthurs administration mel mei CIO caine to the to consider executive matters and maters espe It WIS was trun truC that the President mode made I seine personal ers iii appoIntments he never noer made r them In any department without first consult Ing the tho head ot of the department while In most cases even like tIre tho selection elton of at governors ot of the there thero were man many WIS lef left to the cabinet Senator Teler Teller while secretary ot or the tho Interior named F E Warren governor of Wy oming and Watson C Squire governor of Washington returned In later hater years earl a and 11 served a as fellow senators wih with Senator Teler Warren Is still In the Senate President Athur Arthur In lea hear log Ing so much to hil his made roade his term tenn In the Hou house hoes burdensome than thon have been those ot of his Mn MR WAS CIALLE GED William D 13 who I a put ot of the city of Cincinnati ed d many to railroading and un mediately after the tho CivIl War was par interested In and reestablishIng different lines In the South and aM cam caine In contact with men mun who still adhered t to the code One day a 11 dispute arose fiR as to lie condition ot of a 0 certain roll rOad and In ina II a letter which Mr wrote tie he said that the ot of some Eoma man was ns entirely untrue The man mati much offended rent word that ho he would de do mard mand the un dun lt linn mm n un v vue Scorn from another I made sense Ome In said Mc Sh alII anti I found that this a duel auel to the Ideas Idoo prevailing at that hat time anti for about tour jour or hc five days I resting under a and unel M ad able os as a man mall could be t did not want vant to stand up and be b shot at ce as th the mn man sending th the churl chal lenge lied killed two or 01 men In similar encoUnter after a 0 consultatIon with General Beauregard It was arranged that in case S mn gallon should show hol I wu was wrong In my conclusions regarding the statement about the challenge J I was to apolo gize Ize As the man who challenged nd mo me did not vant on an investigation made h lie Wrote that the apology maple amplo and and that ended 1 the only duel dud I ever eer had nn tiny connection with I 1 Im CONCERT Will Go to John Gallacher the Well TIlst Next ext evening February SIb there will be II a benefit concert for John Gallacher ho recently lost his line IIno restaurant on East Temple street by fIre The Tho toll following owing program will be rca ren tiered dered Piano solo 1 J 3 Dayes Tenor and aUlI baritone duett duet I I II I S B an arid John nr Robinson Glee Glet el Glee club Bas solo eolo lr Ii 11 S Ensign Alex McCarthy McCarth Cornet solo lOla Fantasia F L 1 Christensen J Tenor fenor solo I Fred Cm harn h am Soprano and baritone Q solo from fourth Act ll II r L T Edwards EdWArd roil Robinson Contralto selected 11 Miss Mabel Coo Cooper r PIano solo Aria tabuco Verdi Mrs John Harmon Glee Olee clUb selected |
