The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-02

There are four marble mantels on the sides of
the room, surmounted by four immense mir
rors two at each end of the room, reflect the
light from all sides. Three large chandeliers
serve fer illumination in the evening. Four
full-length portraits of life size adorn the
east wall, one of Lincoln, one of Martha
Washington, one of George Washington and
one of Jefferson. Tho walls are beautifully
frescoed, and all the furniture is in keeping
with the magnificence of the room.
From the main reception a corridor is en-
tered, which leads to the extreme western end
of the building. Here on the south side is the
large state dining-room, with a table. at which
ffty-eight persons can be seated, but which
ordinarily is arranged for thrty-six. Across
the hall from this is tine steward waiting
room and the presidents private d'ning-room.
Next TO the state dining-!0om On the southern
= side OF the corridor comes the RED parlor,"
handsomely furnished and tinted in that color
Next to that is the blue parlor, the hand
soonest room in the house. 1t is large. oval
room, and here it was that the president and
Mrs Cleveland were married. 1t is the parlor
in which Mrs. Cleveland gives her receptions.
Next to this is the green parlor, in which there
is grand piano, the portraits of Mrs Tyler,
Mrs. Polk and Mrs. Hayes adjoining the walls.
Upstairs are the offices and sleeping apart
ments. The presidents office is in the library.
or oval room, Immediately above
the blue parlor. To the west
from this are the private rooms of the
household, and to the east is. first the cabinet
room; next, the private secretary's offices, and
beyond, various other offices for the assistant
clerks
There is not room or hallway i'll this
spacious building but that has connected with
it some historic association. Here the greatest
statesmen our country has known have gather
ed in cabinet council, and here great affairs of
state, of peace and war have been determined.
Here political bargains have been made and
secret intrigues set on foot. From hence thou
sands Of suffers have gone, some with the Ella
ton of triumph and others with the detection
of despair. Men have been made happy and
men have been made miserable by What has
TRANSFERRED here. 1t has been the home of
twenty-one presidents, Washington alone never
having occupied it.
From tho windows of the room now occupied
by Colonel Lamont Lincoln's sad eyes gaZed
wistfuliy down the Potomac to where he could
see the confederate flag floating over Alexan-
dria, which Ellsworth sacrificed his life to
capture. In this same room the emancipation
proclamation was signed, and here it was that
Lincoln received the tidngs of how tho day
bad gone at Gettysburg
In this pleasant bedroom beyond the library,
its broad windows drinking in the sunshine,
while far away flows the silyery Potomac with
the Virginia hills in the distance. Garfield lay
wounded to death. How often, as his eyes
took in that pleasant landscape must he have
thought OF the vanity OF human aspirations.
gled in this historic mansion. and now that
they are oil cruInblsd into dust, how little even
the noblest of them seem
THE PRESIDENTS ROUTINE.
AT 80 the president takes his lunch, and on
other days than Tuesday or Thursday, which
are cabinet days, after lunch he goes to the
east room for o half hour and receives those
who have called to pay him their respects. He
then returns TO his desk, receives such people
as he has to see, and continues lis general OK
+iDap f JTa-i tattr a
drive or 90 home TO Oak View, where lie Is
residing for the summer. Some days Mrs.
Cleveland comes in and drives him OUT After
his dinner, at e O'Clock. he again seats himself
at his desk with papers he has taken home
with him, and works until midnight. This is
substantially his daily routine day in and day
out the year round, save when he is away ON
vacations or business | found, too, that the
president was no respecter OF persons. Oihciai
persons he must see promptly, as matter oil
course, but OF others poor woman meaniy
clad or a poor man stands quite as good
chance, and even little better, than those
who come more richly favored.
MR. CLEYFLANDs APPEARANCE.
NV appointment with the president was for
2 O'Clock, and at that hour / entered the wait
ing room. A cabinet officer was with hin at
the time, and it was not until half hour later
that was requested 10 enter
The first impression one receives In meeting
the president is of his downright sincerity, and
perfect truthfulness Every limo in his face
Shows tenacity and honesty, and for public
man he exhibits in noteworthy degree the
Scriptural virtue Of sing le-mindedness.
Another impression he leaves upon you is
that when once he has taken up a position by
honest processes of thought he is almost i'm
moyably fixed there. HIS face shows mind
equal TO arduous things, and there has been no
more ardu0us work performed by living man
than that Of the presidentns he stood four square
against his party when, AFTER the 4th Of March
three years ago, they marched gayly up 10 the
capital in search OF offices. Platforms arc usu-
aliy paiiiudes, and are made "to keep the
word a promise to the ear but break ii %
the hope" But not so did tho president read
the democratic platform Of 1884 lie saw Ia II
sacred promises, and lac held the politicians 70
them.
his IMPRESSIONS OF THE WEST.
Bat while / am drawing these deductions
from Dir. CleYoland's appearance and the !in-