St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-21
Most of the Elite of Washington Will
Stay in the City During the
Heated Term,
Concluding That if it is Pleasant fol
Cleveland it is Doubly Delight
full for Them.
Residences of Cabinet Min1sters--Bay.
ards Plain House--Where
Whitney Lives.
Villas, Cosy Home--Luxury of End1-
colt and Manning--Socfal Do1ngs
Ofthe Week.
A Summer Home.

WASHINGTON, June 18.-The latest
feature of toadyism on the part OF that sec
ton of Washington which calls itself
society is. found in the recent announce
ment that many fashionable people have de-
cided not to go out of town until August.
They find the city so cool and comfortable,
the announcement says, that they have de-
cided not to go to the seashore as early as
usual this season. This fits i'll, too, with a
curious feature that has been observed in
the past few weeks, that there are not as
active preparations for leaving the city as
are usual at this time of the year. The an
nOuncements of preparation for leaving the
city are not nearly so numerous as at this
season in former years. The cause OF this
sudden change of opinion as to the value OF
| Washington as Summers residence comes
from the fact that the head of the govern
ment is preparing to stay here during the
heated term. The president as has been
announced, finds it necessary to keep his
official nose on the official grindstOne, and
so his cabinet officers. They announce that
they will stay in Washington most of the
summer. The president even goes so far
as to say that he will probably not even go
to the Soldiers home, as he finds the White
house very comfortable place III summer,
quite
GOOD ENOUGH FOR HIM.
The cabinet officers, making virtue of
necessity, say cheerfully that they do not
want anything better than Washington for
a summer resort, and that they expect to
stay here indefinitely. The result is that
a large section of society, that section
which has heretofore been the most eager
to get out of town at the first approach of
warm weather, is now suddenly concluding
that Washington is about the best place for
a summer resort, and that it will stay here
until August. This only relates to the I'LL
tra-fashionable who court the court. The
king is dead. long live the king. When the
president and cabinet were in the habit of
going out of town as soon as they could get
away, these people fairly tumbled over each
other in their haste to get away. 1t was
no matter much where they went, SO that
it was fashionable place, where there was
a certainty of an announcement that they
were gong. Washington, they held, was
about the worst place in all the country
for summer residence. They were very
sorry for people who had to stay here,
didn't see how they could stand it, in
fact But now, they suddenly change
their tactics and announced with the ut
most self-possession that they find Wash
ingtOn very cool place in the summer, and
that they will not leave until August. 1t
will be interesting to watch them and see
how long they continue in this opinion
with the thermometer in the nineties. as
it started in at the beginning of the week.
THE CABINET RESIDENCES.
The new cabinet people, who have been
| diminishing for a home ever since the be-
ginning of their reign, have got pretty well
settled down. Most of them have secured
residences, and very comfortable ones, too.
It may be interesting to your readers to
know something about them. Let us run
through the list. Secretary Bayard's resi-
dence has already been described in this
correspondence. 1t is the same he occupied
when a senator, fair-siZed, rather plain
looking brick dwelling on Massachusetts,
avenue, near Fourteenth street, only few
doors from the Chinese legation. 1t is
none too large for the pretty extensive
| family of the secretary of state, for he has
nine living children. There is a fairly
large parlor on the left side of
the hall as you enter, AID another one
back of it. 1t is here that the receptions
are held and are to be held in the coming
four years, unless the new secretary should
conclude that the premier of this great gov
eminent ought to have handsomer and
larger house for his official receptions. The
house and its furnishings are plain, though
comfortable. On the second floor are the
| family rooms, a cozy sitting room, a library
which the secretary uses for an Office, his
desk being loaded with papers and docu-
ments of various sorts. From the street
| the house does not make much of a show
| ing. It looks like about
| A THIRD-RATE RESIDENCE,
and has an appearance OF having been
built twenty years ago. Its color is dirty
drab, in strong contrast with the handsome
new bricks which ornament this handsome
avenue. It is situated on what fashion is
pleased to call Highland terrace" sort
of private street running parallel with Mas
sachusetts avenue, between Fourteenth and
Fifteenth streets, this second street being
| higher and newer than the avenue, and thus
| forming sort of terrace between the resi-
dences and the avenue proper.
Secretary Whitney has, it is announced,
taken residence only few doors from
Secretary Bayards On the same street. 1t
is the residence formerly occupied by Con-
gresham Lyman. It is about the same
sort Of looking house as that of Secretary
Bayard, but probably more roomy one. 1t
is peculiarly constructed within. On enter
| ing you are shown first into the library,
which opens off the hall. If you are an un-
expected visitor you are given seat there
until the colored servant delivers your card
all hall servants in Washington are col
ored-and then, perhaps, you are invited
into the parlor. This is a larger room,
opening off the library, and
| HANDSOMELY FURNISHED.
MrLyman is man of excellent taste, and
wealth, too, and his library and parlors are
| indicative of taste and wealth, which do not
always go together. Opening off the parlor
is a very large and long room, cut off merely
by curtains hung over wide arch. The
floor of this is waxed and the spacious
room and fine floor will enable Mr.. and
Mrs. Whitney to give some very elegant
dancing parties, as well as large receptions,
next winter. Mr.. Lyman used the rear
portion of this large hall for an
office during part of his time
| here. The furniture of this room is
UNIQUE. interesting perhaps to some peo-
4 pie, but not handsome. This is one of the
I best arranged houses in Washington. and it
will no doubt be popular one in the COM
| ing season. The Bryan family, who owned
| it for long time, gave many very large
and fashionable entertainments. as didSen-
ator Hill, who occupied it one season.
Postmaster General Villas has very
pretty but not spacious house on Iowa
circle. 1t is not known. whether he will
continue to occupy it next winter or not.
1t is pretty red brick, with stone trim
mings, three stories high, tastefully fur
nished and pretty well
OUT oFTHE WAY
of office seekers. 1t is pretty long ride
from down town and the postmaster gen
eral doubtless had this in mind when he
selected it, for he is constantly bored with
visitors at all hours both day and night.