St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-12
THE PRESIDENTS DAY.
What Cleveland Does Between Z
O'Clock n IN. and Midnight.

O'Clock n IN. and Midnight.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The president has SO systematized his
work that it does not trouble him. He is
cool, calm, self-cOntained, and naturally
industrious, with happy faculty of con-
centrating his attention on the particular
task before him, and he dispatches business
as easily as he receives visitors. He is al
ways up at z o'clock and breakfasts at s.
After breakfast he goes at once to the IL
brary, the large, oval room, where he
spends most of his time. 1t is on the upper
floor of the mansion, directly next to the
presidents private apartments. The cab
met chamber opens out of it on the east,
and next the cabinet chamber is the Office
of the private secretary. Col. Lamont
rises and breakfasts as early as the presi-
dent, and is waiting for him when he en-
tiers the library. know no other slightly
built. nervous man, QwhO can do as much
work as can Col. Lamont. The president
finds ON the big oaken desk in the bay win
dow. behind which he takes his seat, such
letters and papers as Col. Lamont may have
prepared for him, either ut his special re-
quest or out of the mail the day before.
In the hour from to 10 the president
and his secretary, aided by the stenOgra-
pher. will dispose of the morning business.
Then it is time for the morning reception,
receptions, rather, for Col. Lamont has as
many visitors as the president. They have
been gathering in the ante-rooms on the
north side of the mansion for an hour. and
still they come. They hand their cards to
the doorkeepers (whO love rare collections
of queer and absurd cards., and if they are
admitted, pass into the library or the pri
yate secretary's room, as the case may be.
If the rush is greater than usual, LeOffier.
the gray-haired soldier who is the chief
doorkeeper, organizes an overflow meet
ing in the cabinet chamber. From 10 to
into the two rooms.
The president stands up throughout. He
moves about as much aSlpoSSible, though,
for the sake of the exercise. He moves
from man to man, from group to. group.
Everybody gets chance to speak and
courteous reply. The president is kindly
even to the undeServing. To agreeable
people who do not want any favorS he is
positively charming. He has humor and a
keen sense of wit, and he laughs easily and
muSically. His power of repartee is little
known, but it will be well-known before
he leaves the White house. 1t has served
him in many trying and annoying CONVEX
SatiOnS since the 4th of March. If it is
cabinet day the reception closes at -
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 cabinet
table and opens the days session. If it is
not cabinet day the presidents reception
continues until o'clock. Then if there
are any delegations or other large bodies
waiting to see MIN, he receives them, going
down stairs.in the East room for that pur-
pose. On the hottest day in this week he
shook hands with 800 men and women in
the delegation of railway master mechanics.
AT o'clock he goes to lunch, returning to
his desk in the library before 5 o'clock.
There he works steadily, save as he may
be interrupted by caller who has made an
engagement for some hour in the afternoon,
until after o'clock. Sometimes, when in
terrupted by too many of these callers, he
finds that it is after o'clock before he can
leave his desk, and then he must forego his
afternoon drive.
But usually, with his private secretary or
some other intimate friend. he is driven
over the hills around the city, behind the
housekeeping seal browns, until o'clock.
Then he dimes quietly and simply with his
family and perhaps friend or two. Be
fore $50 he is back in the library again, and
at work behind that big desk with its load
of papers. Presently members of the cabi-
net and their assistants drOpin for formal
conferences. The business of the day and
Of the morrow is talked over. These in
formal cabinet conferences have had prob
ably as much to do with shaping the gov
fernmental policy as the formal cabinet
meetings. By IL o'clock all his visitors
have gone. The president works on until
midnight, and then retires, and by
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