The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-04-23
PRESIDENTIAL REVELs.
An American Restoration In Politics
SiN.BottIc Men In Our Day-An Amaz-
Ing Stntemcnt Of Mhitc MOuse Mnblts.

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six BOTTLE Mcn In Our Day-An Amaz-
ing statement OF white House Habits.
Special to the Saturday Evening Gazette
wAsniSGroN, April 3, 1882
"The boys" are having good time in
Washington, and they like 10 come hero This Is
crowd Of good fellows almost any day In Cham
botlin's pleasant chief Of them Is John him
self, who has the ear OF President Arthur on more
subjects than the sciectOnof Wines and cook. Every
one who knows ANYTHING about Arthur knows that he
was about town III days not very far back, and
the truth lsho Is about town yet. ''The boys
are welcome here, notwithstanding the Presidents
sOwness IN providing places Tor them. lie likes their
fast PAGES and their money. spending procliyltes,
Some day the country viii wake up and mud them a
taken Of. The country would hardly like TO see
the change now aud the President Is shrewd enough
| to understand what he and what he cannot do.
lie nut Pnchback Into the New orleans custom
house, because New orleans Is good way ol but tho
places of men who are so much In the force light OF
. metropolitan press us johnny Davenport,
clint ~ wheeler, n. w, Cooper "Bllly y, Fey
',This is the crowd that 'ohct used to travel
with, - said one Of them, the other day, "and no
isn't shaking his friends, I can tell you. ~
II really looks rs though this slangY patriot, who
had new shiny sllk hat and yoll,feG face, were
sldent aud he is making life very pleasant 10 them.
Tho crowd In Chamberlln's VIII tell tho story any
back room are Gen. Brady's party. Brady and Dor
sey the heroes. They arc tho only ones who have
/ received tho Instruction Ol tnulCtmBnt Nallet ME-
| bourn shines next. The administration has been
forced by Postmaster General Jewell to turn tho
handOf these people Whom Dorsey suub-
bed Jewell In that notorious Indiana campaign, IL was
q very costly snub to him The Connecticut man with
the white shirt bosom that dsplcasng TO Grant
| has never forgiven Dorsey, and with the help OF his
| faithful friend and follower, Woodward, has made
II impossible for the Administration to give its cOun-
tenance TO these favoritc sons They still have hopes
however, Of "eNccutivo clemoncy.n with them Is
Gorham, tho versatile politician and rather brilliant
political wrltcr. Gotham ~ not half as bad rs his as
Il 10
old party. Thcsc men represent the Western contln-
gent. In another aud more private room are couple
aud tcrrapin, while up stairs large partyincludng
tho President aud not over bright looking
| son-arc having long -drawn-out dinner, ut which
eating aud drinking last for couple OF hours, when
real solid drinking begins.
These make NJ tho hangors-on of tho white
House. II Is truly not Hayes administration We
are hnvng the period OF the restoration. The young
prince Of the klug who dethroncd six years agp
has come to his own and the old camp followers,
who have been improving on their Vices in retire.
mcnt have come with him. The day OF tho Puritan
has been succeeded by not only the day OF reyery,
but the night of reycry. The change is neither n
pleasant nor healthy one.
"oh but the President is 80 dlEnincd, and used
Ia the ways of the best society ~ cry out all the
fashion OF the country which, to say truly has not
had the run Of the white House for some years Wei
sodd Charlie H. for that matter, but that did not
| prevent his being u very diSsipatod man, nor did
| E1abeth's liking for Burleigh prevent her from,
falling in love with Essex. man who loves the
| society Of fast New York may nevertheless have n
sense Of the fitness of the position The etiquette o
the best society Is learned easily enough, and Mr.
Arthur like Thousand other men of his kind whom
New York AMI Boston know, Is clever enough IA
| make himself agreeable to pretty ard agreeable
women. lie has an excellent cook, aud lie was edu
Gated while he was collector of New York, by tn,
famous rcStauratcur, sutherland, To know good
dinner from bal, and 10 tell Sduteras from bout
Sd,ttorng. fancy that Mr.. Arthur can even detcc
the difference betweena light Burgundy and heavy
caiet. lie has people about him who know how Il
use flowers for decoration. Whatgraccs of hospitality
he has exercised hero might have bceu exercised by
much and dullor man than the present rrcs
| dent OF the United states. high liver and fas
man does not change his habits In a day any NOR,
| than leopard changes his spots the Ethiopian hi
| skin. saw him the other evening at tho theatre
late, because he dimes very late and very long. IN
| face WAS red with overcating aud drinking ant
there the signs that told he Is kcoping up hero til,
| habits that characterized him before he became
\ President. Tho truth cannot DO disguigcd-th,
| President has not become good, quiet, dvneSti,
citizen by his elevation tn the White House. lie still
| likes TO have spree with tho "boys,' aud he ha
made preparations an extensive scale to have jus
as many Spte,s rs he wants white no rs in the Whit,
| lInusc.
| He started out 10 hhvea ''gooi tune" while h,
| was Vice President. AS soon rs he reached wash
| iugtou he renewed his intimacy with John Chamber.
lin, AN intimacy which began when chambern WA
selling chips, which he very rarely called upon
redeem Arthur led Mr. Conliing as,ray and brok,
up the mysterious retirement NJ Woimlcy's Hotel
| Both took their meals ut Chambcrns, which was
little ont OF the way for Vice President. At any
| rate, II introduced what had grown to he Il slrang,
element in onclal llfein Washington. Under MIR,
Hayes there had been q very strong regard for TIL
| ueCenCieS ana proIfleteS Ol me. BuI MT. wheeler
successor not ut all like him.
The New York "boys'' began at once to max
Washington u headquarters whenever they wanted
a real good time. Arthur had been famous a nigh
| owl, and he was known as man who would never &
to bed or leave the streets as long as he could get
one tu stay out with him. 'Iho boyS' had faith II
his luck, and used often see him home early in TIN
morning, aud congratulate him and themselves tina
some day he would DO Senator from New York
| 'Rufe'' Andrews is the only man who Is RECORDED
as having congratulated Arthur In familiar stoOp II
Lexington avenue as a coming President: Here h
and he has chung ~ 'the boys' ever since he CANT
here.
Revelry began at the Vice Presidents end amos
at the beginning of the Garfield administration
| People here used to wonder how Garfield had becOm
| so very Intimate with "Tom'' Murphy and 'Clint'
| Wheeler, but they know now that these people an
| their pals constituted the Vice Presidents Court
Cooke the proprietor of Wizards, saw the comin
storm, and he made the standing In front of hi
office twice rs large as II used to be- lie finished u
| q lot of little rooms too where heavy drinking nigh
| go on undIstu,led. 1t took him all summer TO com
pIcte the changes and he lost the large summer busi
ness, which was the result of Garfield long Illness
but he has found his profit In It,. 1t Is hard not
Imagine ones self In the lobby of the Fifth hyenu
now Of an evening, so familiar are the faces AM
| voices one sees and hear. IL Is the old New Yor
ConkiIng aud Arthur Tho wlne-rooms full u
| far into tho night, ant the hall boys have heave
loads to carry M stairs than came In OF the train.
| The little dinners at which the Vlce~Prcsdent use
to assist very characteristic. Unfortunately on
night visiting company OF Albany soldiers insiste
| on serenading Mr.. Arthur while lie was engaged n
one OF these dinners and 1t took the united strengt
OF the recipient Of the compliment and OF Elbu Roc
and reyton to make the response.
| Arthur has a better time in the White House tina
he did when he was boarding at John Chamberln 4
lie has two whole days of absolute privacy, when b
need not, and very often does not, any but - IL
boys or course very Few persons call Oh the Prcsl
dent Sunday, and on Monday members OF Congress
and all whose presence is not desired excluded
Mr. Arthur's first care in the White House no
only to announce that his would be emo Hayes ad
ministratiOn, ~ but TO set about making IL lust
different as possible. lilo literally loaded up his eel
lars with wines and liquors. lilo bought enough no
only to start bar-roOn but to MI up all his thirst
| New York friends, who hadn't had drink with
| President since the days Of Grant. Tho change wa
sudden and so great that even the walls of the oil
cellar must have wondered at tho presence Of
| loud smelling company
The people here glad at first that there was
be change from tho old Apollinaris days. when ten
course dinners and no wine bred dyspepsia through
utoncla life. But then there ought to DO limit I
drinking, and there seems no limit here
| one OF tho New York patriots said the other Tia
that he had been down into tho Presidents wine Gel
lar and even lie astpnshed at the stoc
on hand. "Why, II looks as though there wer
enough FOR the whoe United States,' he said
"There were cases of champagne and barrels OF whIs
ky, and bnsof still wines, and casks OF claret. III
take us the whole three years to drink all that up. "
The President has had one good, long, tim
spree IN tho White House. Twcnty-One OF 80 til
boys came over osensibly to give their old conrad
were ''Johnnle'' Davenport, Elihu Root, Bign
Cregan and all the rest of that stamp. The spree be
gan with an elaborate dinner.
''What are you over for, Dayenportg'' asked I'll
little man, rs he poured down cup OF black COLE,
| which was his noon breakfast after the Saturda
| night prelude TO the big spree.
son, no politics. We'ro Just hereto dino with Il
/ | President and have an old fashioned time ~
T fashioned time. The dinner was so elaborate an
DrOfuse that the OF ''the boys - site