The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-01-30
MISCELLANY.
THE CABINET AND rrs MEETINGS
How the Sessions of tho Presidents Conn.
fea1 ell are Held. iH -


Very little is known about what goes on
in the Cabinet meetings. Regularly, they
are held twice a week, ON Tuesday and
Friday noon, but when there is any i'm
portant business nfoot extra ones are called.
The Cabinet meets in handsome room on
the second floor of the White House, from
whose swelling windows wide view down
over the lawn over the Potomac including
the Washington Monument and the Long
Bridge, and bounded by the hills of Airing
ton, is spread. While the President and
his advisers are in session throng of cor
respondents and public men sit out in the
private secretary's room, waiting to hear if
any business is Transacted Each member
of the Cabinet is provided by law with n
carriage. Secretaries Lincoln and Chandler
never use theirs to come TO the White
House, for their offices are only just across
the lawn. Brewster's Department of JUS
rides. No one ever saw him afoot. His
carriage is wen enough, but he has the
scrubbiest looking old nag about the city
in front of it. Secretary Teller drives a
brisk pair, never arrives until the last min
ute, and is off again before the rest have
Judge Gresham has a smart gray horse and
coupe. He is entitled to u pair, but push
ing Frank Hatton takes the other. Judge
Folger sometimes walks and often rides.
He never stops in the White House, but
walking over to the Treasury the reporters
generally find out what has happened. Mr..
Chandler stays and chats with them in Mr..
Phillips room, but seldom gives any news.
Mr.. Teller sometimes done so. The rest
are never asked, especially Brewster, who is
avoided by every one ON official topics, for
he never appears to know what is going on,
even in his own department. Messrs.
Chandler and Teller are the two who keep
track of things. They look something
alike, and they are both under fifty. Each
one intends to be elected Senator year
from this winter. Brewster is the most
punctilious member, Frelinghuysen the
most aristocratic, Lincoln the quietest,
Gresham the ablest and Folger the most
judicial Gresham is, think, most popu-
lar and Chandler with more irons in the fire.
Judge Folger lives way up ON the hill by
himself, with his dapper little secretary,
Frank Sperry, of New York. Last winter
he had house on Connecticut avenue and
boarded George Bliss, for whose board the
the government daid $40 week Brews-
ter STAYS in that neiuhborhood and gives
high little dinners on occasion. So does
Secretary Chandler in his handsome house,
only he never drinks wine. Frelinghuysen
entertains good deal in general way, re-
ceptions generally, when the attraction is
the people, with the tea which Miss Tillie
Frelinghus sen charmingly dispenses. Ten
of these does not cost as much as one din
ner. Lincoln does not entertain at all.
He can't afford it, and his mothers death is
an excuse. Gresham will do something in
that line this winter, but Teller never at
tempts anything of the sort. His wife has
some very pretty Western girls always with
her, but 1t is not an ambitious household
Brewster is the only unique specimen of
the Presidents advisers. He makes
study of it. Take the homeliest man in
creation, disfgure him by fire.. put yellow
pants ON him, a brocaded vest, great
ruby breastpin and tremendous collar,
with lace frills at each wrist, and you have
the oldest looking Cabinet Minister ever
seen in Washington. = Washington Cores.
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