San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-06-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, May %, 1885.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

WASHINGTON, May 40, Aooo'
Mr.. Cleveland has established
very systematic routine at the White
House. He has so arranged his time
and his affairs, that there is no clash
ing. He has his hours for work, and
when they are over he stops work. He
rises at a reasonably early hour, and
is always ready for breakfast, which
is set for nine clock. He has never
missed his mornings meal, nor been
even late to it, since he has been in
the White House, and he expects the
same punctuality from those who sit
ct table with him. Almost immedi-
ately afterwards he is ready to begin
the business of the day, and after at
tending to important letters, or other
matters which are brought to his at
tention, he begins to receive callers.
At half-past one o'clock lunch is
served. and no one is afterwards adj
mitted to his presence, except by spe-
cial appointment Thus he has time
at his disposal to see special delcga-
tons, or to shut himself in his office
for the consideration of important
matters, requiring his attention, and
to take his customary afternoon drive.
Dinner is served promptly at seven
o'clock. The evenings are devoted to
the relaxation of conversation, or to
the consideration of business, just rs
it happens. ....
The President himself has been en-
abled to stand the strain upon him
for the past few months remarkably
well. He is looking we'll, and seems
perfectly SO. He is n good strong
eater, and is fond Of q good table. 1t
is his wont to invite an intimate per-
sonal friend, or cabinet officer, to
stay to dinner with him, but as yet
he has not given either state or Il
private dinner-party, and probably
will not, until next season, 1t is COM
paratively easy to secure an audience
with President Cleveland. A great
deal of credit for this systematizinS
of affairs at the White House, is due
to Col. Lamont, his private secretary,
who worked himself sick in n couple
Of months. His ways are the Presi-
dents ways, and the two understand
each other perfectly.
The long and serious illness of eX-
secretary Frelinghuyson, beginning
SO soon after his term rs secretary of
State expired, and followed by his
death Wednesday, and the illness OF
his wife and lamoness of their eldest
daughter at the same time, has natur-
ally excited much sympathy in Wash
ington, and been discussed as a most
tragic conclusion of the brilliant part
that family took in the social life of
Washington during the three years
Secretary Frelinghuysen served in
the cabinet Of President Arthur. This
has evoked the comment that in the
four years covered by the Garfield
Arthur administration, lSsl-'S5. so
many tragic episodes have occurred
in connection with those most promI-
nent in II at some time during the pc
rod, beginning with Mrs. Garfield s
illness. 50 soon followed by the as
sassiuation Of her husband, the Pres
idont. and his long. cruel illness and
death. Hunt, Garfeld's Secretary Of
the NAVY. died in q foreign land three
voars later. while minister to Russia.
after a protracted and most Painiu
illness. which began year before his
death. Howe. President Arthur s
first postrnaster-CeEeral, and FOlger-
h:s first secretary Of the Treasury.
both del in Office the latter after
beng an Invalid most Of tie time be
was IN the cabinet Secretary LIN