Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-20
THE WHITE HOUSE.
TIE SETTING AND THE RISING PREsI-
DENTAL SUNS.
Some Account Of General Garfield and
Els Family-The Incoming Ad-
ministration-Etc

Els Family-The Incoming Adj
ministration-Etc
WASHINGTON, Nov. s, 1850.
The President and family arrived here
at $40 Saturday morning, after their long
journey. They went Immediately to the
White House. Besides cleaning and paint
ing, few changes had been made there,
which were projected before they left,
such as the conversion of the former bill
lard room, connecting with the state din
ing room, into compartment of the con-
servatory. 1t was old and decaying and
had to be rehoored and otherwise renewed
in any case. Also the vestibule, or ante
room. into which the north door-the main
front door-opens, and which was covered
with shabby carpet, underneath which
was decaying floor, is now tiled IN patri-
otto designs, the central figure beng
large red, white and blue star. Several OF
the rooms were decorated with flags and
flowers In honor of the Presidents return.
At 10 o'clock be was in his office, a room
on the second ioor-the same room where
the Cabinet meetings are held-and was
valianty demolishing his formidable pile
of accumulated correspondence. Secre-
taries Eyarts and Sherman came in in
formally soon after, and at II o'clock
special Cabinet meeting took place. The
regular days are Tuesday and Friday, but
there had been no meeting held since the
President went West and it was deemed
expedient to call this. The Secretaries
filed quietly in with their portfolios under
their arms. some walking, some riding,
some gloved and some bare-handed. Carl
Schurz and Attorney General Devens are
the only two who are sure to be gloved on
formal occasion. 1t is "just as it hap
pens with the others.
THE PRESIDENT
Is looking feshier and browner than when
he started He says his trip was pleasant
throughout, and that if he had time he
could talk hours about what he heard and
saw; that the scenery was magnificent,
and the contact with the people along the
route was interesting and pleasant. He
particularized Mount Shasta with much
enthusiasm. Mrs. Hayes does not look
worn from her journey. She is woman
of fine powers of endurance, and with the
exception of occasional sick headaches her
health is quite remarkable. She is forty
nine years of age-nine years younger
than her husband-and has been the
mother of eight children. Three little
sons are dead one of these was named
George Crook, after General Crook, U. s.
A., an intimate friend of the Presi-
dent. Fanny, the only daughter, is
twelve years old, and looks like
her father, but has her mothers manner.
OF the same age is Mollie Garfield, the
next Presidents only daughter. By
farther coincidence both Mr.. Hayes and
General Garfield have each four sons also.
The two sons of the former that accom-.
panied their father and mother on the late
trip were the eldest and the third in age
Burchard and Rutherford. Webb, the
and Scott, the youngest, is two years
younger than Fanny.
GENERAL GARFIELD's FAMILY.
General Garfield's four boys are Harry,
aged Is; James, IA; Irwin, 10, and
Abram, s. They are good and bright
boys little Abe is affectionate in his way.
Harry and "Jim" are away preparing
for college, at Concord, N. H. Last
summer Harry took the prize
there for defamation. Mrs. Garfield
is rather intelligent looking woman of
about 45. She was country girl and has
never lost the rural look. She is abso-
lutely without that undefinable quality
called "style, and is almost pathetically
thin, but she has traces of a girlhood pref
tiness of feature. She has borne seven
children. As to costumes, she generally
confines herself to black silk for an even
ing dress, and wears a very high, full ruche
of tulle close under her ears. She has a
good education for country academy
where accomplishments are not made much
account of, and is neat and economical
housekeeper. She did not entertain much
company during the Generals Congress
sional career and has a strong sense of
personal dignity, with reserve of manner
that borders on asperity. She is fond OF
reading, and enters largely into the stu
dent life of her boys-a second nature to
one who was teacher before marriage.
After studying at Hiram, where she became
engaged to MIR. Garfield, she went to Cleve-
land as public.school teacher, while he
went to Williams College to graduate.
Her name was then Lucretia Rudolph.
She has business head, and planned not
only the plain but commodious red
brick house which is their Washington
home, but the improvements on the little
one-story house at Mentor on the farm
which the General bought there in 1878.
The daughter of plain farmer, she is
remote descendant of Nathaniel Greene of
Rhode Island
GARFIELDS MOTHER.
Mrn El;un Rallnn GarHald 70 wears of