The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-19
THE WHITE HOUSE FAMILY.
Little Things People Have Noticed
About the Harrison Folks.
From the Net0 York sun.

| From the NetD York Sun.
| WASHINGTON. Oct bit has been dis
covered by a Washington man, who has
/ been acquainted with most Of the white
house servants in late administrations, that
the personal, everyday behavior Of the
presidents and the mistresses Of the white
/ house aud the white house families Is al
| WAYS interesting to notice, but never tue
same in anv two cases Miss Rose Eliza
beth Cleveland hardly ever paid the
| slightest attention to me Of the servants.
| Mrs. Frances Folsom Cleveland, how
| ever, was very gracious in this respect as
in all others, and TO her the doorAeepers,
4 the watchmen and hOusekeepers, the serv-
| ants in the kitchen even were very devoted.
| Mrs Harrison has made an impression very
similar to this upon the white house serv-
ants. She always bows to them as she goes
| in and out. ana has cen observed Oh III re
| than one occasion to turn around ana 10 *
back in order to do this She Is about the
house seeing that everything is In order
much more than Mrs. Cleve aud ever was
| President Cleveland seemed to enjoy
| cultivating the good sill of the white house
| people. More than once when he had been
| about to leave town, he had directed Col.
| Lamont to tell the d)orkeepers wien he
was 10 depart, in order that they might,
| if they chose. be at the door to say goOd-by
| to him. Have them at the door to see me
off, Dam he would sometimes say. He
would sometimes add, as he was about to
ride away: Now, boys, run the admins
| tration TO suit yourselves"
A remark of this sort from the lips of
President Harrison would make about the
same kind of a sensation in the white house
that the falling Of an east room chandelier
would The President is very much lost in
thought as he goes about the executive
mansion, and has been observed not to pay
the slightest heed to the presence of one OF
the white house servants. That has been
the way with Mrs Mckee, the Presidents
daughter. With Mrs. Russell Harrison it
is very different. Russell Harrison is
entirely approachable too, unless he has
happened to come in very late at night.
The white house people like old DR.. Scott.
He bows to them and seems to appreciate
that their positions are as honest as any
bodys.
Three weeks before he came to Washing
ton Mr.. Harrison sent for list of the white
house employees, aud the understanding
was at the time that he intended to look it
over to see what removals he could make.
Mr.. Cleveland found five vacancies on the
executive roll. He filed these without
much delay, and before the end of his term
had removed four republicans. OF the
seven democrats who remained on the roll
at the beginning OF the Harrison admins
tration the President has discharged six
and left one. The one left is backed by ex-
Congressman VIM. l.. Scott of Erie, and is
believed to be doomed. One of the removed
democrats was a captain of volunteers in
the war, and now has pl ce in the post
office department at 81 200 year. Another
was a cousin of Col. Lamont, and has a
81 900 place in the interior department.
Besides removing the seven democrats, the
President, or the Presidents wife, has dis
missed nine colored servants and put in nine
white ones.
The senators and the representatives have
not all been here together yet during the
Harrison ad uinistration, and it cannot be
predicted just how the republican President
will behave in his everyday home relations
with them. There is tradition that Presi-
dent Cleveland hesitated no more to swear
at a senator than he would at lamp cleaner
who neglected his work. President Harri-
son has not yet bean known to swear in the
white house, and it is predicted that he
never will be known to. When he is angry
he clenches his fists and let's his eyes snap
and betrays a fierce expression on his
countenance, but he does not swear; and
although he smokes fine cigar and seems
to know all about tobacco, he doesn't chew
for solace in his lonely working hours, as
the late President did
Mrs. Harrison has thus far seemed en-
tirely capable of assuming the domestic
management of the white house. The
dignity and decision of the last president,
however, needed to be called into play
sometimes. A colored messenger whom
Mr.. Cleveland had brought from Albany
with him struck his friends with horror
once by getting drunk a second time.
When Col. Wilson, then at the head of the
park department, discharged him, the mes
senger wrote letter in his own defe lse,
which he handed to one of the yellow girls
in the house, and which finally, thu ough
the intercession of Mrs. Cleveland, reached
the President himself. Mr.. Cleveland sent
for the man, but not until he himself had
seen him drunk enough to neglect his duty.
The President told the messenger that he
was perfectly willing he should drink, but
he must not get drunk. The fellow prom
ised never to get drunk, but he did, and had
| to go.
| a black man, and the Washington char acter
mentioned at the outset of this account says
| that he gave the white house family of the
| last administration the name of being
stingy, because he deprived the white
| servants of much that they desired in the
| way of things for their table in order to
| favor the servants of his own color The
present steward is a white man, and could
draw no color line if he chose, because the
servants are now all white. Ziemann i.
| considered a success already in Washington
society, as we'll as at the executive mansion,
because his engagement to lady of this
town is already reported.