The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1885-10-09
The Egis & Intelligencer
Bel Air, Nd, October 8, 1885.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent; 80.

From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9th. 1885.
The President has been very busy dusing the
past week. As the shortening days betoken the
approach of the congressional session, fresh de-
mands upon his time and patience appear and
his work perreptibly increases The number OF
callers at his informal receptions grows larger
every day, and few men could endure the strain
that Mr.. Cleveland and his private secretary are
obliged to undergo. But the former has robust
constitution, and as tor Col. Lamont, know of
no other slightly built, nervous man who can ac-
complish so much work, with no apparent ia
The President has greatly lightened his work
by systematiZng all his duties He is cool, calm,
sef-contained, and naturally industrious. and
with happy faculty of concentrating his whole
attention on each task in turn He makes appoit-
ments and dismssals, answers correspondence.
transacts business and receives visitors with
equal facility. He is usually upby oeloek, and
breakfasts at 8. After his morning meal, he goes
at once to the library, where he spends most of
his time. 1t is a large elliptica room. on the top
floor of the mansion. Adjoining it are his private
suite of apartments, and the room where the Cab
met meetings are held. Col. LamoLt's room opens
into the latter apartment.
When the President enters the library, he tinds
his private secretary waiting for him. and such
letters and papers as require hisspecial attention
are ready on his big oaken desk on the bay WIN
dow Here he passes several hours in disposng
of the morning business, when it is time for the
reception The anteFooms on tne norm , sde 6b
doors are opened, swarm toward the library
They hand their cards to the door Keepers (who
have quaint collections of cards some or which
are queer and even absurd). The callers pass into
the library or into the room of the private secre-
tary. for Col. Lamont has almost as many visitors
as his chief For couple of hours there is an
unremtting rush for admission into the two
rooms.
moves from man to man, and from group to
group. having pleasant word and courteous
reply for all who address him. Even to positive
bores he is kindly, and it is pleasant to watch him
when he finds one of those Tdrd dUWn who does
s9I of w he and am
He has power of repartee, which will be better
known before he leaves the White House. Ithas
served him in many trying add annoying CONVEX
sations during the seven months that he has been
The interviews with many callers concluded,
he returns to his desk, where he works steadily,
only interrupted by an occasional caller who has
made an engagement for some hour in the after
is pleasant, he usually goes out for a walk or
drive. He prefers walking, and his favorite
stroll is around by the Washington Monument,
distance of nearly mile. Even when driving he
frequently descends from the carriage and walks.
He has two carriages, pretty little victoria and
landau. He owns only two horses. $1,000
team, and he has been talking about getting a
third horse to fill place in case one of the pair
being indisposed. He is not especially fond of
the equine race in which respect he differs from
his predecessor, in whose time the stable was full
of thorough breds, and who used to drive four
finland The President never rides in the sad
die, probably because of some consideration of
avordupois; In former days, when he weighed
less than 200 pounds, horseback riding was a ia
vorite amusement with him.
Western Senator, who was here during the
week, says he has heard very lltIle ABOUT the ne
publican Senators fighting the Presidents nomi.
nations. He thinks that the President may pos
sibly have sharp contest over the offensive
partisan" issue, but he believes that the Repub-
can Senators could not afford to make any idle
opposition to him, and play the part of the dog
in-the-manger. Southern Congressman who
was present during one interview, says that 1t is
his opinion that the President will have very
sharp fight with the Senate. He was anxious to
have this fight come. He said nothing could hap
pen which would be better for the Democratic
party. If the President becomes involved in a
sharp war with the Republican Senators all DEM
ocratic differences will be forgotten