Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-10-09
The Renovated White House.

it and corresponding to Miss Clevelands
boulder is a narrow apartment which Mrs.
Cleveland uses for a dressing room. She
used it us such before she went away, and
will find it ready to be used as such when
she returns But the furniture has been
entirely changed. Only the pictures on the
wall remain as she left them, and the little
hundred -ye&r-oid Dutch clock, which she
Brought from Europe. The pictures on
the wall are a large crayon Of the presi-
dent, which gets the place Of honor over
the little white marble fireplace: a crayon
of her brother, taken when he was Il hand
some young man, with q fine, heavy mus
tache: Il small steel engraving Of Mr.. VS..
Bissell, Mr.. Cleveland's law partner. and
a Photographic group Of the Folsom fami-
IL. The room is il the northwest corner
II the building and has one window look
ing out toward Pennsylvania avenu and
another looking toward the state, war and
navy building. The furniture Of the room
is not extrayagant. but it has been selected
with taste. neatly arranged. and the room
is CHEEKY. The principal articles Of furni-
ture are a very plain bureau with mirror.
Il full length mirror in the corner. q snail
writing derk. an easy chair in faded green
and pale pink covering in another part Of
the room. On a stand near the front viii
dow there is q very fine dressing case. con
+atnt,r a1,.a Iaya,c af artinla. iii YonJ4nT
ed in amber. It is a wedding present
from a dear friend, and the case is kept
onan. If Mrs. Cleveland left many little
knicknacks there when she went away
they have all been removed during her ab-
sence.
The rooms on the north side of the cor
ridor, beginning at the west and coming
east are the presidents bed room, with Mrs.
Cleveland's dressing DOM adjoining on
one side and Mr.. Cleveland's bath room on
the other: the blue bed room, which used
70 be occupied by Nellie Author; Mrs.
Cleyelaud'smaid's bed room, a long narrow
room with one window looking out under
the roof of the front p%ortico, and another
spare bed room.
The presidents bed room has had a new
coat of paint. There is a fine portrait of
the president on the wall, and on the man
tel a cabinet photograph of Bismarck and
another of Col. Lamont. In front of the
marble clock on the mantel there is a pair
of tiny oars tied together with a little piece
Of blue ribbon, and on the blades of the
oars is scrubbed the inscription, "Saranac
Lake, 1885" In that part Of the mansion
which is the special dominion of Mrs.
Cleveland the presidents picture, in all
shapes and sizes and colors, stands out con
snicuous wherever 4 peg can be found to
eangit Oh,
New Lace curtains have been supplied
for the East room, the Green uir!or, tie
Red parlor, the private dining room. the
Presidents bed room, Mrs. CeveIand's.
dressing room and the state bed rooom.
The private dining room is the only room
in the house that has a new carpet. None
Of the frescoed walls have been touched.
aud the fancy ceilings Of the rooms on the
ground floor, done BY Tiffany Of New
York, in President Arthur's time, have
not boan renovated. The daloes, c~ornicas
and borders in the Green and Red parIors
have been touched mp and fresh gliding
las been applied wherever needed. None
Of the furniture has had anything done to
it. The Numerous gasaIiers all over the
house have been taken down, washed. pol
lshed ard put up again. There are $4,000
pieces of glass in the three crystal gasali-
ers Of the East room. The carved mantels
and mirror frames, the t1uted Corinthian
pillars, with carved capitals, and the cor
niees and decorative Orders OF the East
room have received a fresh coat Of white
and gold, which makes the entire room
look bright and new.
Somebody has raised the alarm that the
Blue room is being destroyed; that instead
Of a delicate robin's-egg blue the dado has
been painted indago or some such shade of
blue, bat that is TO be followed by one OF
two more coats of paint, which r~eprodnces
the tint that Tiffany applied, except that ii
is q little paler and more delicate to suit
the coloring Oh the wall above the daao,
where it is faded slightly in the sun. The
staircases have all been newly vanished.
and the woodwork generally about the
house has been touched up.
A new granolite floor has been put down
IN the conservatory, instead Of the decayed
asphalt. which a1fIlO.rh GOOD eno1ah for