Show elih THE FIRE presidents HOME how it is F furnished nashed and W what hat la Is done therein the executive mansion popularly I 1 own ns as the while house was d in ili the alic dys of Jeffers jeffersonian onlan simplicity and while bile it was t then lien considered a magnificent afla i ir adopted adapted to the ibo needs of future greatness it il it is today to day con scarcely a suitable palace for or the executive of people rankine ranking among tile first nations of tile the earth surrounded by beautiful 0 grounds rounds a 2 plit plat of 20 acres it appears like a a fine old country teal seat aside from its modest appearance and limited capacity the structure is crumbling away from old vige age 0 during tile past twenty years the amounts nna expended in repairs re furnishing redecorating etc run well up tip in ili the hundred so 80 that tile tho ill interior presents an aspect of modem splendor the situation of the mansion manion could not be more beautiful the ground are arc filled with lower flower beds and well kept lawns and adorned with marble fountains the rear or south front looks out over a gradually sloping park opening a far reaching prospect of the placid P atom ac e and t alic blue hills bills of v virginia irgin C lic S stately y 0 oaks sycamores amores a and I 1 poplars give tile the Z grounds rounds in summer a most beautiful sylvan appear arrice find the official mansion is then almost hidden by expansive foliage in the summer afternoons when till famous marine band 0 gives concerts in ILI these grounds rounds throngs of people come to listen to them and frequently the of tile white muse house enjoy lite brilliant scene from tile south porch it was carter claril sons humorous picture of the delight li lit democrats ats would cx experience perien e when their turn came to cook cock their feet on oil the balustrades and listen to the Fall sic that saved these concerts to future T generations and till tile Mil marine rilie hand band fruitt croul bli 8 11 0 ulal in tile the lalli congress Con cress w when lien rigid economy lias as tile the slogan sloan 0 an of Defilo democratic 1 cratic majority tha vorner stone of the white house iva was s laid with milt MabO inc rites and ceremonies on oil the 1301 of october 1792 and the structure is is therefore nearly years year s old president washington atoll full and a large concourse of aco people ale witnessed tile important event the abe buil building dil was completed ru iii 1790 at a total tota I 1 cost cost of si and after tile the interior iva was 9 partially burned by the british troops in 1314 1814 a 1 I further expenditure of was nas required in lecon st ruction and te furnishing tile the architect of the bui building Iding 0 was vt is a young man mail named cioban who ulio won viol tile prize of offered crad by tile hie chininis commissioners for thle alic best design find was subsequently employed to superintend tile the construction it at a salary of guineas per 3 icar car the design 0 1 is 9 in ili close resemblance of th abit at of the plate place of the duke pf af J leinster in dublin which the architect if had ad seen and followed it is of tile the grecian order of architecture lias has two stories and at a basement and is surmounted by a wide balustrade at the main entrance is a grand portico of ionic columns and tit at tile the rear a senti colonnade tito ma ilia lerial used in construction was vas virginia freestone painted pain cd white adjoining on there is accouter a conservatory containing n a choice and varied collection of plants and ex e cities the famous rooms of the white house ire aro the E east ast room the beell little and green rooms tile the library and state slate dining room the insist room was nas originally 8 nully tile the luu quel hall but is now oil ony of the lie public reception rooms it is the largest apartment in ili the house bein being 10 by so 80 with lofty evil ceilings logs and ina magnificent ilif appointments three massive crystal crist nl chandeliers ban hang down own from tile the ill three ree profusely decorated panels of tile ceiling and fight eight 0 long 0 beautiful mirrors mirror so supported up ported on oil curved mantels if in while and gold arc placed on oil tile four sides of the room the carpets ar pets hannings hangings hang 0 ings and upholstery fire arc exceedingly 1 V lich liali and costly I 1 full ull length paintings 0 of general and martha hashii washington 0 toll hall liang upon tile alic walls evening re reception are arc alven given by the president tile room is is fra fragrant rant and beautiful with fl loners flaviers oviers 9 ant I 1 and I 1 I 1 when hen chuh adorned brider a i full all I 1 hood of 0 gaslight lit 1 I ith the added effect of licau beautiful ifal women in ili evol evening lilli toilets oles it a q see ilk rarely brilliancy the green blue anti and lied rooms are arc named front from tile boinis of 0 like luicir decorations and h hannings hangings hang ings and all belong to tile the suite of reception I 1 rooms nolus the president receives his debts in ill thi the title blue room ill illich alich ich is tile thu center of the suite and 01 al shape ship cd jl it is the most richly and tastefully fully E room roani of lt alic four the cited room is tile president coning room it i and arr arranged a as a family pallor lias has hooks and ft a bric a blac 1 1 I jog e auy table over one li hundred midred years old and a cheerful cosy iipp carance arance A fill iriti poil poLl rail rait of hangs above tile Il manic lante rile state dini dining in chich tile president ident gives ives ceremonious dinners juring during the winter to lite members of tile cabinet ben giors and representatives tile justices of tile fc unicille court the diplomatic chips chip 3 find other oilier alicd personage ei is ii at al tile etterli yr chii cibil of tile the corridor it il Is furnished and fit al its table 0 ocr or 50 per persons can dine when stitch dinners ore fire g shell lite house louse is lights and flowers with willi court coort costumes toilets inith fair aomen and caneely sl acly men tile table able is set sel wilh tile gitlic altini oil is I 1 tile f anlin toil anil flora of america and with willi manss es cs of bilyck and delicately till lilt gl glass ass in tile cabinet cabi it room is 1 I 1 avirl I I 1 id icat it arau M ed for tile pill purpose sc the meets fleets tilt tile of liia his cal cibin linet ct day abid 1 rily nl fit and ami around a long in table covered kith etli books anil and they discuss ilia cuss lie of state to pass in hiew the alir successive occupants of tin tile white house fron from to lo thu this pien tit little unit in clu caudo doall all lite that might lie he recorded would make a good sized bouk and it il n not W be fail I 1 either ill in fourtly ib ami ill ot llelah etiquette of all ait tin tilt dents v vere cru monroe Buchan alk and arthur and UK tilt beul IV r re IC je ferson ion and the aliu mua aut t frugali frugal of all our chief einingis magistrates was pros hayes jefferson was noted borlik for iiii exalted ideas equality and entirely discarded the aristocratic foppes as lie ile called it or of official life bie and sot set himself the hie pleasant task of making all the callers at the mansion perfectly nl at home jackson opened the doors ot of the white while house to everybody and visitors visitor of nil all sorts sort poured in and roamed about tile the rooms room at will the hearty old soldier disliked ceremony anite as much as jefferson and saw sair no reason why tile presidential abode should bo be hedged bed ed about with formal etiquette 11 he went about tile house and grounds rounds smoking in an old corn cot cob pipe and is as may bo be suppose supposed his example led others to avail themselves of the privilege of smoking ei ci oil en in the alic state parlors ile he calleri called 1 his friends by their christian names slapped people familiarly on the back and would say by il the ct ernal ever lie wished to emphasize a sentence ills his hospitality was so bountiful that hat the proceeds of ili hh ifer hermitage farm in tennessee had to be used to pay the expenses of liis his entertainments in fit which he was not so 90 prudent as the late pros clayes who is said to have laid up ili the life wherewithal to pay off of a mortgage oil his ohio firm while hile occupying occupy ingy tile the white house many people unacquainted with ith public affairs regard the Exe cul ile as simply tile the place where here tile the president sleeps lines dines and receives liis his visitors but as a 1 matter of fact it is about as much of a business us ness institution as any of tile the 0 adov government departments A foice of nine clerks lind employment her C i in in ansi answering cring 0 filing aud and g tile enormous pile of correspondence received recording appointments etc and d hey licy ire arc a busier lot of clerks th all will be found in w any other public office every morning the vate tic secretary sorts over the hie bag of mail received selects the letters relate to the affairs of the various departments part ments and they hale haic to be endorsed over to the proper official pres arthur kept a clerk who took charge M of all tho the hundreds of newspapers received at tile marts mansion slid and cut out ont and placed in in a scrapbook kept tor for that purpose all the 0 good bad and indifferent things 0 said of his administration this book was laid before the president every crory morning morning for liis his administration but pres cleveland dispensed mill the services services of the alic scrapbook scrap book clerk I 1 lien lie cattle came to the alic white mite house S still till it would mould hardly be safe to assert that he dout dont know vi what hat some of the papers soy say it is tile duty of one set of clerks to keep a 1 I complete record of all appointments the con fin nations and rejections by the and the alic removals from froin office so that the history of every c case can be readily ascertained from the record books up to the present time pres cleveland has made 1380 appointments point ments which has in vold a good deal of labor label yet there are arc patriots who nho would like to see sec him bim and liis his assistants work at a rood good do deal al harder to and dispose dispose of the vast throng 0 of callers every lay day men mell who want office and delegations alio want to recommend somebody for ollice is tile the hardest task for tile executive flold his chief assistant tilt the ante rooms are usually well occupied by 10 Ocl ocl in ill alic morning and each visitor thinks liis his is oil an important case it is proper for tiny any one OLIC to call on 0 i tile president on oil pit lilic business or simply to pay the regular 0 reception hours are arc front from 10 am to I 1 pm on oil wednesdays thursdays unit saturdays s coi lamont Laino nl it alic prisident s private secretary is a young man of qualifications for tile llie place lie ile made himself so indispensable to mr alir cie cleveland c at albany by his acquaintance quickness iiii in understanding 0 men and their purposes and n his great reat tact in ill condal conducting tim tile lie affairs of the antechamber ante arte chamber chimber that when it alic I 1 c governor was vias about I Olt to ile become president lie cont concluded that lie could not get CL along 0 with without olit at firt first tile latter was dis inclined t to 0 tome c to IQ washington 0 laid and the preto dent to him one day 1 I well vel I 1 ian if you dont go go I 1 vont 11 allt and I 1 its lliams its all thele i is S about it so dan caino anno mr ir lament iamont joins OIL Il ident tile tilon thousands sands of govern ineil clerks are arc hurrying to their desks at nine in tile llie morning morning ile is with jilt him for ili an hour dis disputing poil I 1 of the mornin a mail the rest est i of tile day is given tip lip mainly to tins tile ret of cf business blaisine its aki visitor ors vilio can call I 1 ilicia leir a ff ties through gilr ir Lani lamont ont or secure by tile llie pow erful tile f divor avor of a pe cial iii with tile president late in ILI tile llie afternoon they ride out to together wether their tire hrc today to lo day prec icly viliam aliat they were ut at All riny they ic not lot yet quite accustomed themselves to political cil aud and promotion tot tor ablong biliti intimate binate friends the is its as likely to jcak of liisi his private secretary as dan aud and tile secretary to refer to the t governor ai ft other is to peak more inore forni alij itna 1 I nd accurately the tans is not fiat done at Ili lit for lie spends tile llie hours until 12 oraien until I 1 or 2 in the morning in tit nl tile lesk desk of tile president assisting baul it in t clearing learing up till a vast of business cannot lie disposed of doirin during the hours given ii ell up tip to the never ending throng cf callers toledo lil vide lide the rho cost of uni a tai ili tin lilt larr is H about t S per afir car tit fit tile Il residents salary of 1000 the arl anub cura a ry ref receives aives 1250 aud and liia his firtl firel ab abristo sisto 1 it 2250 2230 THO 1 0 o ex cx cullim clerks iau 1 2000 ind it tin other oilier clerk adith tit alic i apher n hers lers loor keepe rs and witt linian aggregate regate soun souie thill likac 7 UlU in ili I 1 k lit there is ii lit an allowance allowan cu of for conling tiit ex coults cIUl ts s 0 for the llie holli c and ami 85 65 aioo for the alic care of uio the and ami sa S ilou for other J I 1 ion erOll v ilg ia lie he mide ins his acuri about the lit lily y of on I 1 foot fool or upon tile bick b ick of a slow going but in our thillen the president malot tills a 1 file sintilur iab ile of rint ranta anil ml arthur had biad sil toi eral leral of it tin bet bait borse in tile land hiorth of dollars aali and ami pres is not much ile ic bind toledo made the Big irest things thines on earth bart h alio greatest wall in the world is tile the chinese wall built by the on cm of the ilic tsin tain dynasty a about b irit i t 2 2 0 B C ns as ft a p rot e c t 1 n against s s t 11 ilic 1 0 it t ra e r s e s t tins lill northern boundary of china and ami is 13 carried over the highest hills through the deepest valleys across riccio rivets s and every other oilier natural obstacle Us its length 0 Is 1250 miles among the ilic mo most st remarkable natural echo es is ii ot of kalks yest on oil the banks of 0 killarney Kil larncy lit in ireland which r repeats a 1 bugle call until it seems to ile be sou sounded ndel from a hundred instruments and that of tile the banks of the Nl balic alic between bingen and coblentz 0 which repents repeats a sound seventeen times the most remarkable artificial echo known is abat of ill the efti castle gic of Sirri onetta about two mik miles m from emilii it is occasioned by the existence of two parabell para prill lell walla wall of considerable sid erable length it repents repeats the report of a pistol sixty times the most remarkable whirlpool is the maelstrom oft off the nort linest coast of norway and southwest of oil ol 01 tile ilic most southerly herl of the bofo den isles it was once supposed to be unfathomable but tile ilic depth tins lias been shown not to exceed twenty fathoms the greatest cataract in the world is that alm of niagara tile horseshoe fall on oil tile the canadian Cn nadian side has ha a perpendicular descent of feet tile tho height if the Ai american fill fall is feet the rile fill fall which carries 1 I lar larger larer er volume of if than the american american fall is about COO yards wide IAN e and extends trot from tilt calla canadian diall shore jo to goil goat go il wind the biggest diamond 11 ia tile thu hurld if indeed it be a d diamond is tile ilic breganza aih fornis forms a part of tile the portuguese crown cronn jul juleli eld it ineil weighs gs 1860 carats barats kloever |