Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-07-06
THE PRESIDENTS COTTAGE.
How Mrs. Harrison and the Children
are Located for the Summer.
&c Of The EVENING STAR.

correspondence OF EVENING STAR.
DEER PARK, Nd, July 5, 1889.
A stranger at Deer Park and the lover of the
sublime in mountain scenery cannot but feel
the inspiration of the place and its surround
ings. The hotel, long verandaed structure,
but a few hundred feet away from the iron
highway, which brings it within easy commu-
nication from the sweltering centers of popula-
ton and trade, not only affords the health
giving advantages Of pure air at an elevation
of $500 feet, but takes in a sweep of vision
which presents prospect Of unequaled mag
niicence.
The natural attractions of this popular noun
tain resort during the present season is supple
mented by the presence of the family of the
President of the United States and the flying
visits of the Chief Magistrate himself In a
little Queen Anne cottage near the hotel on the
left Mrs. Harrison dwells i'll all the comfort
and simplicity of an ordinary citizen of the re-
public. No tread of martial sentry. no trap
pings OF royal state invest the artistic structure
with the pageantry and parade of power. A
happy household, as accessible as the circle of
any other family, dwslls there in summer in
formally and affords an example of domestic
comfort unmarried by the conventionalities of
official decorum or the restraints of studied ex-
| clusiveness.
The little sage-green, red-roofed. twelve
WHICH Will hereafter be
pointed out as President Harrison's cottage is
two and half stories high, with artistic gables
/ 1t has frontage of 40 feet and is entered from
| spacious piazza: upon which open three long
windows, without hall ante-rooms. The
I parlor which Is the largest room in the house
takes in the entire width of the building, and
| Is entered directly from the veranda 1t is
| supplied with great fireplace, built in the
middle wall. The floors are covered with new
mating and the walls with buff papering The
fI1Fl nf ha.
number of easy wicker rockers and lounges,
which lend an air of luxurious leisure. Off the
I parlor, in a wing of the building, is an apart
ment which has been devoted to the use OF the
President as library. The dining room is of
I good size, furnished in red and adjoining is the
kitchen. On the second floor are four bed
chambers, and overhead, under the roof are
rooms for the use of the servants. The floors
/ of the other rooms are laid with mating and
bamboo furniture predominates. In order to
add to the comfort of the inmates awnings have
been placed at all of the windows.
THE GROUNDS
/ in the immediate vicinity of the neat little
structure have been beautifed by the hand of
skill and taste, the florist of the Executive
Mansion having been sent up specially to put
! the exterior appearance in becoming garb of
floral beauty. The cottage, which is the prop
erty OF ex-United States Senator Henry G. Da-
Wis, the railroad and mining magnet of the sur
rounding region and proprietor of vast landed
possessions IN West Virginia, was placed at the
disposal of the President by the propritor i'm
mediately after his inauguration. Having
been the guest of Senator Davis during his
senatorial term the President was familiar with
the natural advantages of the locality in fine
| scenery, good water and bracing air. He also
has agreeable society among the families
of Mr.. s. b. Elkins, son-in-law of ex-Sena-
/ tor Davis, and others who occupy their own cot
tages in the neighborhood of the hotel
The region around affords admirable facili-
ties for hunting, fishing and driving 1t is the
4 present purpose of the President to have Mrs
Harrison and the children remain in this noun.
tain retreat until September. He will pass Sun.
days with them and possibly other days during
the week when the heated term is at its height
but will be in Washington portion of every
! week. DEB. r. X