The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-03-19
Tie White House Early Bird.

Albany, March 1.-THE Sun's Wash.
ington correspondence about the new
family in the White House is eagerly
sought here every morning Albany is
very much wrapped up in the President
and regards him as i,s own product,
while Mr.. Cleveland admitted before be
left here that he had grown to love
Albany.
"When first came here as Governor.
said he "my friends used to inquire how
| I liked my new home. To which l
replied: "This is no home of mine. l
belong to Buffalo But long ago
ceased to feel that way, and for more
than year have enjoyed every day Of
my life in Albany"
The news that "the Governor" as be
will ever be called here. has ordered
breakfast at O'Clock atthe White House
suggests to his friends and those OF Col.
| Lamont d good story about Cleveland's y
first days in Albany. He gave Col.
Lamont list of his appointments to be
published in the Argus, and the first
name on the list WAS that of Daniel s.
Lamont. The astule Colonel was then
a newspaper man, accustomed to turning
night into day.
"What time will you be at the Capitol
tomorrow he inquired OF the Cover
nor.
"Oh, about half.past 8 o'clock" Hr.
Cleveland replied.
The Colonel's eyes were distended.
Never, perhaps, bad Governor begun
mis- work at such an early hour. He
told Mrs. Lamont what the new order OF
things was TO be, and managed to reach
his desk at the Capitol at a few minutes
before 8 o'clock. He had just taken his
seat, after having hung his hat aud coat
up, when the Governor came in, half an
hour earlier than the time be had ap-
pointed. After that the Colonel felt
himself taking part in q race to be the
earliest at work, and seldom or never was
he distanced by the Governor.
Unlike most men oil his build Mr.
Cleveland requires very little sleep. The
| stories are very plenty here of visitors to
the Executive Mansion who have stayed
up until O'Clock or 2 o'clock in the
morning with the Governor. and then at
6 O'Clock in the morning have been
awakened from half completed rest by
! sounds of heavy footsteps and of whist
ling, to peep out of their rooms aud see
The Governor before his looking glass
shaving himself and whistling as cheerilly
as schooboy. Once shaved and fully
dressed, the Governor would then let
| himself quietly out Of the front door and
stride away beyond the city's outskirts
TOR his daily constitutional, in the com
pany of the rattling milk carts and
beIated truck farmers on their way to
the city market. In a small circle OF
intimate. he Was known as "the break o.
LAY Cove nor"
-Four or i've hours sleep and three
light and entirely plain meals day bill
nut the programme requisite with him
for good health and buoyant spirits. and
in pursuing the course he has begun IN
Washingt n he will be following bis
natural bent. He will miss the walk tn
and from the Capitol six times a. to
which he has been accustomed, and ne
1 may miss it so greatly as to make new
departure 10 Washington. In former
times, before Line lin was President, the
Chief Magistrate had tho entire White
House to himself and his household, and
nis work and that Of his secretary were
performed iu rooms set apart for the pur'
| pose in the Capitol. President Cleve.
land may return to that practice,
only because it will afford him exercise,
| and more important still, euable him t.
use the White House rs a "resting place
| and a retreat, but also because under the
] present arrangement there is not sufti
cient room for an ordinary household
there. When President Arthur desired
| 10 entertain friends, he was obliged t.
send them to q hotel ut night, apd it IL
| understood, and is probably, true, that
1 not all the servants could be accommo'
! dated under the While House roof. In
| Mr.. Lincoln's time the great apartmen,
into which callers were ushered and the
I smaller one now used by the private Sec
retary we're taken from the household
either to free the President from dsiy
aud frequent exposure 10 hostile person.
in the streets or for some reason that j,
probably poa.e1istenc now.-New Yorl
| Sun.