Daily Republican., 1881-10-21
REAOY FOR SHIPMENT.
Tho Removal Of 0sraeld's Effects
from the white Hoase-Relics OF
the HonOreN Dead.

The RsmOvsa Of G3srheld's Effect
from the WHITE Hoase-Relics q
the HonOreA Dead.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. 90, 1884,
All the late President ,@-!ntied' g affect
have been packed up and are now i
the Eas. Room OF tho White Hous
ready for shipment to Mentor, Ohio
In all there are thirty-eight boxes AM
parcels, containing the private papers
library, pictures, works Of art and per
sonal effects The boxes would fill ar
ordinary sized room and vary in size
vase covered trunk, marked on one ent
81. A. Garfield, Mentor, Ohio" Thi
trunk is the one the ate l'residelt took
with him to the Potomac depot on th'
memorable morning Of the second o
July, when he was shot down by Gui.
teau. The trunk has not, it is uader
stood, been unpacked since the ,att
President arranged its contents on the
night of the firss of July, preparatory
to making a visit to Mrs. Garfield al
Elberon. II is understood that aftt,
the boxes reach Mentor Mr.. Stanley
Brown, the private secretary TO the
President, will 90 to Mentor for the
purpose Of arranging the papers 70,
Mrs Garfield, so they can be easy for
reference in the future.
THE WHITE HOUSE.
The White House has been, or rather
is now being, subjected TO complete
overhaulng 1t is being painted all
over, and the plumbing work, which
has been very defective, is being rear
ranged, so AS to prevent sewer gas from
escaping inside the house.
The room in which President Garfield
endured 80 many weeks of intense SUIT
ferlng, is in dismantled condition, the
furniture and carpet having been re-
moved, amt the painters put to work,
giving tho wood work fresh coat OF
paint. An elevator il being put into
the private part o. the house, in accord
ance with the appropriation made last
session.
When the matter OF putting the ele-
vator in the White House was brought
to the attention Of the House by the
Appropriation Committee, the expecta.
ton was that President Garheld's 3
mother would spend the most of the
time with her son while occupying tho
Executive Mansion, and as she vas old
aud feeble it wouli be in the opinion of
the committee, a graceful act to have
an elevator put into the house, so that
not only she, hut the other ladies could
get from the first 10 the second floor
without being required to use the stairs.
The elevator is now being put in, but
mother Garfield will not in all human
probability ever make use Of it,
Personal RELICS.
Since the death of President Garfield
there has been quite Il rush 10 get
funeral relics or mementoos of his
occupancy Of the Whi.e House. There
is hardly a clerk, watchman, messen-
ger, or emplo,e about the mansion who
has not secured some article used by the
late President. Steward Erlmp, the
faithful nurse, has the mattress upon
which he laid when first brought from
the Potomac station, whea he was
changed TO smaller bed. The mattress
is stained all through with the blood of
the President, which flowed from the
wound for sometime after the shooting
without being obseaved by the surgeon
in charge-Dr. Bliss until Surgeon
General Wales, who was one of. the
original consulting board Of surgeons,
threw dawn the bedclothas to examine
The wound, when he discovered that
the wound mad not been dressed or any
thing done to stop the flow Of blood,
and that it had saturated the mattress
through to the under side.
The pen used by the President in
writing his last letter to the mother
that gave him birth is also in the
possession Of Steward Crump. Some
of the messengers hav5 fans used by
the President, the time memorandum
showing the hours for giving his
lnediciues;g lasses from which he drank
water, anu other little articles iucilen-
tai to a sick room.
These relics are treasured by those
holding them beyond price.
Immediately after President Lin
com ) assassination the White House
was overrun with relic. hunters, who
ruthlessly destroyed TIE lace curtains III
their desire to get some relic o! the
time when Lincoln occupied the Man
sion. A repetition Of this has been in
great measure prevented by the prompt
action in removing all the furniture
from the east room and the lambrequins
and lace curtains from the windows,
there being nothing left but the MOURN
ing draperies, and these have been
made to suffer by the visitors during
the past week on their way TO York
town. fthe attendants had not pre-
vented, every inch Of the black bunt
ing and serge within reach would
have beon pulled down and carried off
as relics.
The one month Of mourning having
passed, the draperies have been taken
down, and will be largely cut up as
relic, for those who Sc IN possessed OF a
mania for such things.