Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-01-04
PRESIDENTIAL CARDS.

Different Tastes Regarding the Calling
Price of Pasteboard
Correspondence Philadelphia Times.
PRESIDENT Arthur's card has also caus.
ed some discussion as to whether or no
there ls any precedent for it. It has
only his official title "Ihe President" on
1t: VI course there is no good reason.
why the president should not have such
q card, as we'll as the vice president, the
speaker, and the members of the cabinet,
but it seems that no other president Of
whom any one have questioned has
any recollection has used such q card,
and there was no card.plate of that kind
at the white house which his prede.
cessors had used, 80 one was prepared
for President Arthur. He has another
card, too, which has only his name there.
on and which he uses when calling on
his private friends. The other he uses
for official visits, of which he makes but
few, such as he made on the president of
Guatemala when here last summer. He
also uses it when he sends flowers to
gentlemen in official life, as, for instance,
when he sent them to Mr.. Alexander
Stephens on his birthday. He then
wrote on the card somo kind expression
IN addition to ''The compliments of the
president"
be has SO seldom used card that /
have found very few even among high
officials who knew he had one. l saw
the one he sent Mr.. Stephens or should
not have known it. But Secretary Lin
coin tells me his father had no card al
all, that he never went anywhere except
to see Mr.. Seward, or some other intim.
ate friend where he would merely leave
word with servant if the friend was alb
| sent, or be ushered at once to him If he
was in the house.
am also informed that presid emf
johnson had no card and in reply to m,
question IN letter a few weeks ago
Gen. Grants private secretary wrote me
that Gen. Grant said he had no recollec.
ton of using card while president
even on the occasions I had suggested
when he called on Dom Pedro, emperor
OF Brazil, and King Kalakan, Of Hawaii
He said if he had used any, it woul d
have been one with his name:only there
on.
Mr.. Hayes while president, on the few
occasions when he had use for card
had one from the same plate which h.
had used for twenty years previous te
l LILO AvAA6 IA VuO Wu1to uOu6e. IL T6A(
merely Rutherford B. Hayes" Durln,
his administration Mrs. Hayes sent tn
flowers from the white house alwayI
with compliments written on one of he
own cards, which reads: "Mrs. Ruthel
ford B. Hayes"
| On the other hand, Mrs. Tyler, widow
of President John Tyler, while at Sar1
toga last summer, used card for bel
self and daughter upon which was Ell
graved: "Mrs. President Tyler an
daughter"
Until lately she used card bearin,
simply the words, Mrs. Tyler, Sherwoo
Forest, the latter being the name of he
own place on the James river, for hav
several of hers SO worded, the last Q
which I received within three years,
think.
In response to my inqiry, one Of Ger
Garfeld's intimate friends told me tha
he did not think he had any cards pre
pared during his brief term as president
Last summer, in looking over some card
which had been accidently kept for tw
years before destroying them, We
startled almost as if I had seen o fac
from the dead by little bit of whit
pasteboard, scarce more than two inche
long, which bore in German text tn
name, J. A. Garfield. It was one whic
his wife had left me with one of he,
. when she returned call in the spring
1890.