Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-12-08
other large basement-room was his billiard
parlor
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HIS SLEEPING APARTkYs1.
The prcaident's private Office was in the
rorthwest corner of the building on the hrst
aoor. Immediately in the rear OF TINS was
the main parlor. On entering the 'front.'
door there il first q rotunda which leads
mo main hall. which was used for recer-
t;ons-the room 90 the left was used rs
summer dining-roOm. Just over TINS room
was the Presidents sleeping apartment
the one over the parlor Oelng Airs. Daeis =
between them were two small dressing
rooms. go. -
The stable and kitchen buildings were
two stories high originally, one OF when
was torn of in the march OF scho0l lih-
Where the I2.foot brick wall now runs
on the Twelfth-strcet side was neat IRON
fence. -, ill.,,
yard" bare grayelly ground, was theh
n handsome stretch offower parteTres, ter
races. and the like. This garden ran tho
whole distance from Twelfth street nearly
To the bottom Of the hill. now Thirteenth
street probably $50 yards. In the rear OF
the stable was fine orchard.
THE APARTMENTS.
The walls of the building are unusually
thick. rendering all the rooms except those
in the basement comfortable both IN WIN
ter and summer.
The right-hand fight from the first to
the second floor are genuine winding
stair" and though tho building has been
used for school purposes for eighteen years
no accident of any consequence mas e'ei
occurred on them.
TIE MANSION DRAPED.
Yesterday morning Mayor kEyson haa q
consultation with Mr.. W. F. Fox, Superln-
| tendent of the Schools of the city. and adj
yised that the Central-SchoOl building for
1nerlv the residence OF Mr.. Davis, be draped
I in mourning. Mr.. Fox had the front porch
/ and the borders to the windows on the
/ Twelfth-street side Of the mansion draped
with white and black Grape.
DEATH or JOE DAVIS.
/ A number Of conflicting accounts have
/ been written as to the accident wnlcn
eau ed the death of the little son OF the
/ President .,
MIR. William Davies. then youth of eigh-
teen. who was the messenger IN the Presi.
dents Office. saws the account he heard III
the time was that JEFF and Joe, the tWo
bows. were walking on the railing Oh tnt
back porch from one pillar 10 another; Jeh
the elder. had successfully accOnplshec
| tho feat. but when Joe tired 1t he fell tC
the ground beloY, probably some twenty
feet or more. causing a fracture OF Ih'
I skull, which speedily Itouittu III u'"V"'
Mr. and Mrs. Davis were at the time il
! the Presidents Office at the customshouse
and a negro servant came rushing dowi
there to tell them. He made known M
GRAND TO young Davies, who went INTO TN
room and with ~ much cOmposure as n
could command communicated TO the pa
rents the fact that little Joe bad met VIII
EN- accident. The fatalness of 1t he con
cealed. Mrs. Davis's carriage was then n
tho custom-house door con Bank street
and Mr.. and Mrs. Davis got INTO II am
drove home az rapidly as possible.
However. before the President got mt
the carriage young Dayiesfoundo emporium
tv TO whisper into his ear go that Ar,
Davis could not hear ~ that Joe was dead
The President secured a section IN DO
lywood cemetery and there buried IN
child. n,
After the war the young people o., Rich
mo1d erected q marble head and foo'
board to mark the grave, and on every Ale
morial-day the mound IS covered VII
flowers. go,
MIR. Davis's section is on the bill nearess
the river. not very far from MOnroe's tomt
and on the line of the fence which former
" separated Hollywood from what Is no.
called the new part of Hollywood.