Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-07-21

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
fashionable tailor established himself In
Washington during Grants term, ard his expe
| rience dates from that time. We have neye,
begun to sell as many clothes here since Gran,
went out CfOf1ce. said he the other day. 81 made
all of Grants clothes. He was very liberal and
easy to please. The public men of his time
| were great buyers of clothes. It was a com.
| mon thing for senator or a member to buy q
dozen suits year. Grants Cabinet people were
very dressy."
'How was 1t under Hayes"
1--WE never did but one job for Hayes That
knocked him cold. He came down one hot
summer day during his first year in office and
ordered us to make him thin sack coat out of
the very best grOs grain silk. The material
was expensive 1t cost US exactly S23 to get up
that coat. We had heard that he was close, and
as we wanted to catch his trade, wa put the
price at s25. That paralyzed him. Oh how he
did Kick! But he paid the BILL That was the
last order we got from him. He had the rest of
his clothes chopped out for him by his old tailor
In Fremont. He sent his boys to us for ready.
of the White House under him. We had some
OF his Cabinet on our books but there was very
little dressing under Hayes. The purchase of
clothes by public men fell off fifty per cent. !
never again expect to see SO much money spent
in my shop as when Grant was President
/" How was Garfeld?"
HE was very careless dresser. He did not
have much taste. He was rather slow paw when
he was in Congress, but when he got into the
White house he began to buy much better
grade OF clothes and to pay greater attention to
his dress The day he was shot he had on a
very handsome suit we made for him, price $50.
Hayes would have died before he would have
paid that money for a suit of clothes"
500 you do much for President Arthur"
mot dollars worth. He does business with
his old tailor in New York-the man who makes
the suits for the members of the coaching club.
He is'a very high priced man. He does not
make the plainest business suits under $40. He
was over here the other day to take an order
for the President. He said he did not care any,
thing for the Presidents trade. He was so hard
to suit. He took up twenty pairs of trousers
| the other day, made to the Presidents measure.
and spent an hour with him before he could find
pair to suit. He says the only way he can get
along with the President is to be right up and
down with him. One day Arthur spoke to him
very sharply about the fit of coat and the
tailor turned his back on him. At least he said
he did. Then the President said:
"'Oh, come now, don't take any Offense
can't afford to quarrel with you.'
"You see f1rst-class tailor is pretty indie
pendent man; but while he is particular with
the President, he Is very careless with the work
for the Presidents servants. We used to fur
nish the White House liveries, but the Job goes
to the New York man now. The new livery
coats of the Presidents cOachmen and footmen.
made of cream-colOred hammer cloth, cost S125
apiece, but. God bless youlsthey are the worst
fitting things ever saw, 6kcept the clothes the
Fremont tailor used to chop out for Hayes"