Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-07

From the Baltimore Sun, to-day.
MIS- Harrison, wife of the President-elect,
and her daughter, Mrs. J. r. McKee, of Indian
apohs, viii spend the summer at Deer Park,
hd. Their husbands will stay only part Of the
season there. The President-elect, who. in the
course OF events, will be a full-hedged Presi-
Dent by that time, will be whirled to the
mountains from Washington every Saturday in
Especial car, which President Charles F. Mayer,
OF the Baltimore and Ohio railroad company,
has already rendered him. Mr. Mckee will
travel thither whenever he can spare the time
from his business in indianapolis. Other
people will go there because the President and
his family will be among the residents, and SO.
all IN all, Deer Park viii be lively place next
summer.
Ii will not be the first summer whiah the
Harrison family have passed at Deer Park, but
General Harrison was not President then, and
their presence did not attract much atten-
ton. The first summer they were at the hotel
at the park and il was then they met ex-Sena-
tor Henry G.. Davis. of West Virginia, who is
as much part OF the place its oldest resi-
dent The Harrison and Davis families started
friendship which has continued ever since.
The other four or five summers the Harrisons
passed at Deer Park they were the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Davis.
Mr.. J. r. Mckee. the son-in-law of the Presi-
sons will live this summer from Mr.. Davis, and
Mr.. McKee's mother-in-law and father-in-
law will be the guests of himself and wife.
II is pretty little cottage in a grove Of
naples. which seem mere pigmies by the side
OF towering OAK among them, whose branches
have been swayed to and fro by the breezes of
several centuries. A porch is stretched around
three sides Of the building, and is almost
reached by the low-jutting roof. Around the
house are walks and drives, and back of it is a
big barn.
The Harrisons will not lack for neighbors to
drop in and chat. On the brow of the twin hill
of that on which the Harrison cottage stands
Is the summer home of ex-senator Davis. Then
comes the residence of Hon. Stephen b. Elkins,
Mr.. Davis son-in-law, and a personal as well
as political friend Of Gen. Harrison. On the
other side Of the cottage toward the hotel is
one of the cottages in which Mayor Latrobe
and Mr.. Morton Reed and their families spend
the summer. The hotel is almost in whistling
distance. The cottages stand in a semi-circle,
and there is plenty of space for young Ben
jamin Harrison Mckee to romp and for the
youthful Miss McKees nurse to wheel her
about.
President Harrison will not be the first Pres
ident of the United States to occupy this cot
tage Fifteen years ago President Grant spent
the summer in il, and was visited by many
notable men, Hon. Hamilton Fish among them.
The late President John w. Garrett, of the
Baltimore and Ohio, passed his vacations there
btlOrc nc Hdu uis O"u uiaBuluceut cottage Dullt.
Then Mr.. Samuel Spencer. of the Baltimore and
Ohio, occupied it. and the picturesque little
place was remodeled under his supervision to
suit his ideas. A short distance away is the
coy cottage where President and Mrs. Cleve-
land passed their honeymoon.
Deer Park promises to be a Mecca of politi-
clans next summer. Although Mr. Harrison
will have been President nearly four months
by the time he reaches the Aliegany resort,
and although he may have worked very indus
triously during that time, there will probably
be 5000 democrats in Office, and there will be
five times as many republicans anxious to sue
coed them. Some of these will HE themselves
10 Deer Park. hoping that they will not find
red tape stretched across their approach to the
President which besets them in Washington.
Deer Park for two or three days of each week
will be the political, if not the legislative CAPT.
tai. Gov. Jackson. of Maryland, will be in
vited to spend part of the summer with ex-
Senator Davis