The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-02
HOMES OF OFFICIALS.
Members of the Cabinet Getting Their
Mansions in Order.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-The members Of
the cabinet are getting their houses in order
for the season of genuine social enjoyment.
which follows the assembling of the supreme
court of the United States on Oct. IA. This
is the most satisfying portion of the year to
the resident official and unofficial life of the
capital. The cd Seward mansion, which
has been overhauled for the occupancy of
Secretary Blaine, is now ready for its dis
tlnguished tenant. When Secretary Seward
ietJ 1t 1t became a government office, and SO
IL remained until a second Secretary of
state secured 1t for a residence
In the modernization of the structure the
ancient cubic style of Washington architec-
lure was not disturbed, therefore four great
Drlck walls, with wide, old fashioned VIM
uo"s and pitch roof, constitute the ex-
ternal features. Within but little change
mas been made from the arrangement of the
rooms when Secretary Seward did the social
honors OF tue Lincoln aud the johnson
| cabinets. Mrs Blaine and her daughter, it
| Is understood, as soon as the family retire
oe1ore the penetrating eascerly winds,
which sweep over Bar Harbor in Septem-
Der, will make their plans for furnishing
| their new home.
The secretary already possesses an elegant
outfit of household furniture in his spacfous
a
Chicago merchant prince, but that is subject
to Mr. Letters coutrol for year or two.
Secretary Window, after looking the field
over, has leased for the remainder of his
present probable cabinet service fine
brown-stone residence in one of the most
| attractive parts Of Massachusetts, avenue
and next door to the home of Justice Lamar
In the same square resided Justice Miller.
| ex-Secretary Bayard and Senator Hearst
al inf it...a A.
CITY and will bring Mrs. Window and two
| daughters back 10 the capital in about two
weeks.
Secretary Tracy having purchased the
| house occupied by Postmaster-G General
Dickinson, has had it much improved, and
will have his family here very soon.
~ POSTMASTER General Wanamaker is the
only member of the cabinet who has been
settled in his own home All the others
have been bivouacking in apartment
| houses or hotels or have been occupying
| temporary quarters in houses vacated by
their owners during their summer outings,
Mr.. Wanamaker has kept up an establish
ment, and his interesting daughter
held drawing-rooms during the spring
months.
Secretary Noble and Attorney General
| Miller have selected their residences. but
will not occupy them until the return of
| their families during the coming month.
| Secretary Rusk sJill clings to his old hotel
| of representative days
| Secretary Mobiles residence is the finest
of all the cabinet houses 1t was occupied
by the high joint commissioners when they
settled the Alabama damages and signed
| the treaty or Washington. 1t then passed
into tue hands of historic Bon Holiday. If
pony express and frontier mail contract
| prominence, but Ben died and 1t was not
| occupied. Afew months ago it was bought
up for a mortgage of $4,000. Since then
| $40, 600 have been put on the interior in the
| most elaborate finish. Mrs. Noble is a lady
of marked literary tastes, and her two
sisters. who constitute the other ladies of
| the household, have the same refined in
stinets. The Noble residence will be the
scene of some of the most brilliant gather
lngs of the coming season.
Three doors from the secretarys home il
one of the hist 5ric residences of the capt.
tai, purchased lastfal by James Richmond,
wealthy Philadelphian. 1t ia not onl,
one of the most spacious and well arranged
houses for the demands of Washington
fashionable entertainment, but it has a
most interesting record Of distinguished
occupants, probably not second to aiy
other private residence at the capital. It
was built by Maj. George F. Lindsey of the
marine corps, who, during the Buchanan
administration, entertained brilliantly II
was nex5 occupied by John S. Clark of New
York, whose wife was daughter of Co..
nelius Vanderbilt, and then by Senator
Latham of California. The sple dor
of the mansion for entertain
ments now attracted the attention
of the members of the diplomatic corps.
Senior Romero, the Mexican minister, was
the first to occupy it, and was followed by
Sir Francis Glare Ford, first secretary of
the British legation, who gave q luncheon
there to Prince Arthur, and then by Senor
Roberts, Spanish minister; Col. e. Freyre,
Peruvian minister; Marquis de Mantilla,
Spanish minister, who gave brilliant ball
in honor of the majority of his young King
Alphonso, Senior Cavaihero Borges, Brazil-
ian minister, and Baron Blanc, Italian min-
ister 1t then went into senatorial hands,
Warner Miller and Roscoe Conkling of
New York and George II. Pendleton of
Ohio having been its tenants in turn. 1t was
occupied by the Lindsey heirs when Mr..
Richmond became its owner.