The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-13
the Grand Scale in Which the
Attorney General Lives

Attorney Geueral Brewster i At the
Rowland Hotel Tor the season, says d
Long Branch special. Ills advent vas
heraided By the arrival eight carriages,
seven horses aud a pom sixteen trunks,
tour valisc, and one hat box. He was ac-
cbmpanicd by his beautiful and stately
wife and his little boy Benny. tie was
followed ~ his f~avorite Secretary, MIR.
Wilson Parker. his cockney valet his
coachman, his footnan, and his WIFE,
maid. He has five room in the hotel. a
parlor and chamber for himself and Mrs.
brewster. Secretary Wilson, Parker aud
the maid have the other rooms. He pays
for two rooms more outside, for the use
OF hiS coachman ard fOD:rnan.
lie Turns his parior Tor a part OF the
iag inty az ci1-e. lie has MS papers
and eai,, AMI everything else necessary
necessary to the performance OF his off,
ciai duties. lie gives three or four hour
every morning 10 work. During that
period he rolls up his sleeves and goes 10
with a vim, and viii see no one.
After that he is at leisure and sur
rounds himself with royal spiendor. He
makes a spectacle worth turning round
20 see when he appears on the drive in
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| pleasant breeze is blowing in from the
sea. As he walks out on the hotel piazza
and stands waiting for his carriage TO be
! driven up, a cortege OF negro servants
buzz round him, for he is generous in the
matter Of tips. Presently the carriage
comes. There isn't anything else like it
in the world. 1t is ten feet high. 1t is
a kind of landau, with a capacious body
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in gold the wheels are black and red.
The Brewster arms are painted on its
side and back. Under the arms is the
Brewster motto. 1t Is in French, and
when translated reads, THE truth is my
shield The lackeys sit on the box as
stiff as wooden men. They wear white
corduroy 5reechcs, olive green frock coats,
with big silver buttons, cockadedh hats and
top boots. Big punches of yellow flowers
nod on their chests. The ribbons lie over
the backs of two noble, hig%h-steppinR
bob-tailed bays, that MIR. Brewster proud
ly declares are the largest beasts in New
Jersey. Their harness is mounted with
gold.
As the carriage wheels draw up close
to the piazza, the wooden man who is not
engaged with the reins suddenly shows
some life in his limbs. He unfolds hit
arms and hops nimbly down. The cabi.
net Minister and MIR. Brewster are assis.
ted into the carriage and the wooden
man hops up again and Immediately re-
folds his arms and sinks into his norma
condition of stolidity. Mrs. Brewster
p~arasol is light blue silk drawn taut ovel
the frame. The rest of her toilette is q
mass Of white lace. 1t is given out that
she has sixty-three other toilettes, with
otcourse, an endless possibility of combI
nation, The Attorney General is always
III the same frame. There is the same
Albert coat with its extraordinary but
tons, the same salmon-colored corduroy
vest, crossed with the same enormon,
gold chain that winds round the same
Henry Clay collar and stock, tho same
frilled shirt bosom and wristbands, the
same tight, yellowish trousers, and the
same terra Gotta colored high beaver hat.
with just the same look of having been
violently rubbed the wrong way.
As tho occupants settle themselves
back among the cushions, and take on the
look Of bored disdain that il the prOpcl
thing during a drive, the glittering equip
age starts off. 1t has only gone a few
yards when a boy in an extraordinary cos
tune, mounted on a pony, darts out Of
an alley and follows it. That is Benny,
the heir presumptive. He will play the
part of knight every fair afternoon during
the season.
The cost of all this glory in hotel bills
alone is 800 a week. 1t was intimated
to me that the charge would be $500 to
any other person, but that the hotel pro.
prietor threw off 800 because of the adj
vcrtising that the Attorney Generals
presence would give their house.