Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-01
BENJAMIN BREWSTER.
The Grand Scale in which the Attorne
EnnarnI Linz


Attorney General Brewster is at the
Rowland Hotel for the season, says a
Long Branch special. His advent was
heralded by the Of arrival eight carriages,
seven horses and pony, sixteen trunks,
four yalises and one hat box. He was ac-
companied by his beautiful and stately
wife and his little boy Benny. He was
followed by his favorite Secretary, Mr..
Wilson: Parker. his cockney valet: his
coachman, his footman, ana his wife's
maid. He has five rooms in the hotel. A
parlor and chamber are for himself and
Mrs. Brewster. Secretary Wilson, Parker
and the maid have the other rooms. He
pays for two rooms more outside. for the
use Of his cOachman and footman.
He turns his paTlor for a part Of the day
into an Office. He has his papers and
seals, and everything else necessary to
the performance of his official duties. He
gives three or four hours every morning
TO work. During that period he rolls up
his sleeves and goes in with vim, and
will see no one.
After that he is at leisure and surrounds
himself with royal splendOr. he makes q
spectacle worth turning round to see when
he appears on the drive in the afternoon
as the SUMS sinking and 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. Pres
emily the carriage comes. There isn't any,
thing else like it in the world. Ii is ten
feet high. 1t is a kind Of landau, with
a capaciOus body and falling top. The
body is painted IN black and 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 brooches,
olive green frOck coats, with big silver
buttons, eOckaded hats and top boots.
Big punches of yellow flowers nod on their
chests. The ribbons lie over the backs of
two noble, housekeeping bob-tailed bays,
that Mr.. Brewster proudly 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 his
arms and hops nImblY down. The Cabi-
net Minister and Mrs. Brewster are as
sisted into the carriage and the wooden
man hops up a%ain and Immediately re-
lOlQS his arms ana SILKS lnUO MS normal
condition of stolidity. Mrs. Brewster's
parasOl is light blue silk drawn taut over
the frame. The rest of her toilette is
mass of white lace. 1t is given out that
she has siXty-three other tOilettes, with of
course. an endless possibility of combi-
nation. The Attorney General is always
in the same frame. There is the same
Albert coat with its extraordinary but
tons. the same salmon-cOlOred corduroy
vest, crossed with the same enormous gold
chain that winds round the same Henry
Clay collar and stock, the same frilled
shirt bosom and wristbands, the same
tight, yellOwish trousers, and the same
terra-cOtta cOlored high beaver hat, with
just the same look of having been Vio-
lently rubbed the wrong way.
AS the occupants settle themselves back
among the cushions, and take on the look
of bored disdain that is the proper thing
during a drive, the glittering equipage
starts off. 1t has only gone a few yards
when a boy in an extraordinary costume,
mounted on 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 $500 a week. 1t was intimated to
me that the charge would be $500 to any
any other person, but that the hotel pro-
prietor threw off 800 because of the adj
Vertising that the Attorney Generals
presence would give their house.