Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-05-16
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A Washington correspondent of the
n. Y. World, furnishes the following
"reminiscences of the Adamses, now
that one of the family has been brought
freshly to public notice:
John Adams the elder was the first
President to occupy the White House.
When the government removed to
Washington, in 1900. the Executive
Mansion was not completed, and Mr..
Adams lived for short time in George
town, in small house, which is, 1 be-
lieve, still standing. In November.
1900, the President and his wife took
possession of the White House, and
found it in most uncomfortable state
Of incomplete grandeur: Mrs. Adams,
in a letter to her daughter, thus gives
her impressions of the house and the
city:
The house is upon a grand and SUI
perb scale, requiring about thirty SER
wants to attend and keep the apartments
in proper order, and perform the or
binary business of the house and sta
bles-an establishment very we'll pro-
portioned to the Presidents salary.
The lighting of the apartments, from
the kitchen to tho parlOrs, is a tax IN
deed, and the fires we are Obliged to
keep to secure us from daily aeues is
another very cheering comfort. To as
sist us in this great castle and render
less attendance necessary, bells are
wholly wanting, not one single one he.
ing hung through the whole house, and
promises are all you can obtain.
This is SO great an Inconvenience
that know not what to do or how to
40. The ladies from Georgetown and
in the city have many of them visited
me. Yesterday returned fifteen WIS.,
its. But such place as Georgetown
appears! Why, our Milton is beauti-
full. But NO comparison; if they nut
me up bells and let. mo have wood
enough to keep fires I design to be
pleased But, surrounded with for
csts, can you believe that, who'd !; is
not to be had, because people cannot
be found to cutand cart It.. Fl = =: :
We have indeed come into new COIN.
try. The house is made habitable, but
thereis not single apartment furnished
aid all within side except the plasterlng,
has been done since B. came. We have
not the least fence, yard or. convenience
without, and the great unfinished audi.
ence-room make a drying-room off ia
hang up the clothes in. II
the twelve years in which this place has
been considered as the future .seat o1
government had been improved. a.
they would have been in New England,
very many of the present Inconvenience
es would have been removed. It is 6
beautiful spot capable of any improve
ment, and the more Iview it the more ]
like it, -,
There is very, very prettv little
story told of the second Adams in hi,
| old age, given me by an eyewitness
He was always fond of visiting the Sen
ate Chamber-the scene of his forme,
labors-after he became q member d
the lower House. One lovely day II
June he wandered into the old Senate
Chamber, now the Supreme Court room
The windows were open facing the east
ern park !; the birds were singing in The
trees it was, in short, one Of those
rare June days, So inspiring to lover.
OF nature such as was Mr.. Adams
While he stood at the clerks desl
looking toward the window, one of the
little pages came up to him, and plac
ing before him most dlminutive al
bum, asked him for his autograph
Smiling kindly on the little fellow, Mr.
Adams took up a pen and with scarce
a moments hesitation wrote in the An
est possible hand these impromptr
lines:
Sure this the album of Queen Nab must be
And writing of propOrtioDed size must claim
Then bring me bright humming birds from
| yonder tree,
From thy wing pen wherewith to write m,
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