The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-07-02
HOW THE PREsIDEgr WORKS

HOW THE PRESIDENT WORKS.
Philadelphia Record: The pres
ident has 80 systemized his work
that it does not trouble him. he
Is cool, calm, selfcontained ana natur-
ally industrious, with happy faculty of
concentrating his attention on the partic-
ular task before him, and he dispatches
business as easily as he receives visitors.
He is always up at 2 O'Clock and break.
fasts at 8. After breakfast he goes al
once 10 the library, the large oval room
where he spends most Of his time. II is
on the upper floor of the ma -sion, direct
ly next to the presidents private apart
ments. The cabinet chamber opens out
of it on the east, and next to the cabinet
chamber is the Office of the private sec
rotary. Col. Lamont rises and break
fasts ! early as the president, Is he is
waiting for him when he enters the IL
braTY. I know OF no other slightly
built, nervous man who can do as much
work as CT Col. Lamont. The president
finds on the big oaken desk in the bay
window behind which he takes his seat
such letters and papers as Col. Lamont
may have prepared for him either at his
special request or out of the mail the
day before.
In the hour from 8 to 10 the presldent
and his secretary, aided by the stenog-
rapher, will dispose of the morning
busln ess. Then It Is time for the morn
ing neutrality-suspicious., rather, for
Col. Lamont has as many visitors as the
president. They have been gafhering
-. a
the mansion for an hour, 3 I'd still they
come. They hand their cards to the
dc Orkeepers (Who love rare collections
of que er and absurd cards., end, If they
are admitted, pass into the library or
the private secretary's room, { the case
may be. If the rush is greater than
usual, Leoff1er, the gray-haired soldier
who is chief doorkeeper, organizes an
overflow meeting in the cabinet cham
Der. From 10 until IL O'Clock there is q
constant movement into the two rooms.
The president stands up throughout.
He moves about as much as possible,
though, for the sake of exercise. He
moves from man TO man, from group te
group. Everybody gets q chance TO
speak and courteous reply. The pres
ident IS kindly even to the undeserving
To agreeable people who do not want
any favorS he Is positively charming.
He has humor and keen sense of wit
and he lGusns easily and unsteady. His
power of Tepartee Is little known, but II
VII be web kaoWn before be leaves the
White House. II has served him IN
many trying and annoying conversations
since the 4th of March. If it IS cabinet
day the reception closes at u O'Clock
A few minutes before that hour the
library and the cabinet chamber are
cleared and the members of the cabinet
begin to arrive.
At high noon promptly the president
takes his seat at the head Of the cabine'
table and opens the days session. If 1t
is not q cabinet day the presidents re
ception continues until O'Clock. Their
If there are any delegations or OtheI
large bodies to see him, he receives
them, going down stairs into the cas-
room tor that purpose. On the hottest
day of this week he shook hands with
300 men and women IN the delegation
of railway master mechanics. at
O'Clock he goes to lunch, returning Il
his desk in the library before 3 O'Clock
There he works steadily, save as he may
be interrupted by a caller who has made
an engagement for some hour in th'
afternoon after 5 o'clock. Sometimes
when interrupted by too many of these
callers he finds that IL Is after 5 O'CLOCK
before he can leave his desk, and then
he must forego his afternoon drive.
But usually, with his private secre
tary or some other intimate friend, he
ID driven over the hills around the city
behind the housekeeping seal browns
until z O'Clock. Then he dimes quietly
and simply with his family and perhaps
a friend or two. Before $50 he is bacI
to the library again, and at work behind
that big desk with its load of papers
Presently members of the cabinent anC
their assistants drop in for informal con
ferences. The business of the day snC
of the morrow is talked over. These In
formal cabinet conferences have haC
probably as much to do with shaping tn
governmental policy as the formal cat
met meetings. By II O'Clock all hi
visitors have gone. The preslden
works on until midnight, aud then re-
tires, and by O'Clock the White Hous
is as still as Alexandria.