Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-28
WHIRLPOOL IN WASHINGTON.

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Western Kansas World CoyYesbondence.
WASHINGTON, Nov. %, 1885.
Colonel Robert Ingersoll, the noted
lawyer, infdel and lecturer, has just sold
his elegant residence on K street to a
California millionaire. The price paid
for the house was $4,000, and the fur
niture brought $1,000. Washington resi-
dences, no matter how handsome, pass
through the house agents hands. The
White House alone is exempt.
There probably never was a cabinet
minister or public man here who had so
many houses furnished and kept up as
Secretary Whitney. He has an elegant
one in the most fashionable quarter of
New York, another in Lenox, Mass, one
out in the country here beyond George
town heights, and the Freylinghuysen
mansion in this city is being fitted up for
him. While the last mentioned is being
prepared, the secretary has taken fur
nished house on Massachusetts, avenue.
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| The members of the cabinet who will
not entertain extensively are Secretary
Lamar, Attorney General Garland and
Postmaster General Villas. Secretary
Lamar is living in rather modest bachelor
quarters upon the sixth floor Of the Port
land Flats, and can do little beyond
giving an occasional dinner to some of
his friends. Mr.. Garland refuses all
kinds of invitations. He makes no calls
and receives none except on business.
He is especially opposed to dinners. Mr..
Villas is keeping house. and is said to
have an independent. fortune, but his. house
is too small for large entertainments.
Secretary Endicott's Washington resi-
dence is the one formerly occupied by ex-
Senator Pendleton, who is now minister
to Germany. 1t is handsome house on
Sixteenth street, and during Mr.. Pendle-
tons occupancy was famous for its hos
pitality. If Mn Endicott keeps up its
reputation, so long maintained by the
wealthy Ohio senator, he will have a good
deal on his hands besides his official
duties. Mr.. Pendleton always gave one
formal dinner week during the season,
and rarely ever dined without few spe-
cial guests. And then his house was
always open upon two or three evenings
every week.
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Senator Logan has bought and fitted
up for permanent home an old mansion
on Meridian Hill near this city. Mrs.
Logan has put great deal of old-fash-
Toned furniture into it, that has made it
look very quaint and home-like without
much expense. She has hung up blankets
made by the Navajo Indians as portieres.
The blankets were not quite long enough
for the tall doorways, and Mrs. Logan
heightened them out with macrame fringe,
(the ladies will know what it is) made by
herself. The floors of the great old rooms
are covered with Indian rugs and the
skins of wild beasts. She has been hunt
ing up old furniture for long time. She
has dressing table and bureau that
belonged to ex-President Buchanan; a
lamp stand used by Henry Clay; sofa
that was once the property of Mr.. Slidell,
of Mason and Slidell notoriety, besides
many other antiques and curiosities.
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Probably no member of the Cleveland
cabinet is so little known to the public as
the secretary of war. Mr.. Endicott was a
long time making himself felt even in
Washington. His order sending certain
officers to to their regiments, and
his brief struggle with General Sheridan
were the only incidents of his official
career until the contest for the Boston
collectorship began. No sooner had his
states interest come up than Secretary
Endicott showed all the eagerness of
partisan to control the spoils. In pre-
senting Mr.. Saltonstall he dwelt upon his
descent, his high position, how he had
never been a partisan, and lastly, urged
his standing with the Independents. He
played upon the presidents well-known
faith in the Mugwumps, and persuaded
him to pass by the Democracy of Massa-
chusetts. The secretary of war is much
elated over his victory. He has now the
contract of carrying Massachusetts, next
year for the ADMINISTRATION as the fulfill
ment of pledges given in the Saltonstal