Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-13
WHITE HOUSE PEOPLE.
THE CABINET FAMILIES = WHAT
THEY ARE AND WHO.
Down in Washington
This Year.

ILLS car
A statement has been made that the
household of President Harrison is the
largest which ever occupied the Executive
Mansion. The family of the President
consists of Mrs. Harrison, his son Russell
Harrison and his beautiful wife and one
child, j. Robert Mckee and wife. the
daughter of Mrs. Harrison and two chill
dren. The largest White House family,
including those OF the married sons and
daughters, irrespective of residence, was
/ that of President Tyler, consisting of Mr.
and Mrs. Tyler, his son Robert, who mar
ried a daughter of Thomas Althorpe
Cooper, the great English tragedian, his
daughter Mary and her husband, Henry
Lightfoot Jones, Letitia and her husband,
Judge Semple, Elizabeth and her husband,
| William Waller, and the younger chill
dren, John, Alice and Tazewell The
Tyler household while in the Executive
Mansion ran the entire gamut of domestic
xperiences-marriage, births and death
PROCTOR AND TRACY.
The family Of Secretary Proctor will not
settle here until next fall, as their home
in Vermont will be more desirable than
Washington for the summer months They
will visit Washington, however, for few
weeks. The family of Secretary Tracy
will not be here permanently until fall.
Mrs. Tracy is somewhat of an invalid.
The home of the Secretary will, however,
not be without presiding lady who will
take an active part in the social life of the
Capital. His daughter, Mrs. Willmerding,
who came to Washington with her father,
is lady of the highest culture and social
qualities. She and her mother will al
ternate in their visits to Washington to
keep the Secretary company.
THE WINDOWS.
The wife of Secretary Window is in New
York. She will be in Washington with.
) in two or three days. She will be accom-
panied by her daughter Ellen, her younger
daughter, Florence, being still at school
The Secretary will reside at the hotel until
! he makes permanent arrangements A
. year ago the Secretary sold his fine resi-.
denee on Scott circle to Mr.. Mum. The
Secretary will either purchase or rent q
residence as soon as practicable, as all the
elegant furniture which he had in hi.
house at the time of the Mum purchase
has been stored.
THE BLAINE FAMILY.
/ Mr.. Blaine's wife, son and daughter
2 have been in Washington for some weeks
Mrs. Blaine has been at aome informally
Z hnt no To hor W. l,
, engaged most of her attention Mr.
! Blaine having taken the historic residence
e of Mr.. Seward, will not be able to have
] possession before fall. The residence will
l be put through thorough renovation
!, Mrs. Blaine has never been particularly
e fond of Washington society. In hel
e former Washington experiences she wa
S assisted by her talented relative and friend
5 Miss Dodge. Her daughter Margaret il
1 now in society and will assist her. TIL,
youngest daughter and youngest child
a Harriet Stanwood Blaine, is at school a
f Pennington, Con. She will finish her ed
r ucation this year, and will be the debu
: tante of the Cabinet circle during the mex
. season.
$ RUsK AND NOBLE.
1 Mrs. Noble, the wife of the new Secre
tary of the Interior, is somewhat of an in
valid. She has been in the city for sew
!, eral weeks, but will not be able to TAX
4 much part even in the informal socia
: acquaintance-making, which will take VI
the earlier months of the new Administra
ton. The family OF the Acknowledgement
has been experiencing hotel life durin,
the busy stages of Cabinet-making and in
= augural demonstrations. They are nov
keeping house. The Secretary of the ne,
y Department of Agriculture, perennial
: Rusk, left home in such haste upon a sud
l. den summons that he was accompanie,
II only by his son, Lycurgus ]. Rusk. Hi
r family, consisting of Mrs. Rusk and daugh
a ter Mary, will follow.
: THE wANAMAKERs.
e The wife of Postmaster-General Wanna
e maker is in Europe, but will return
t. shortly. She will continue her residenc
r in Philadelphia until the Postmaster
Il General makes arrangements for hom
: during his official sojourn at the Capital
. Mr.. Wanamaker's daughter-in-law is
= daughter of John Welsh, in his day on
q of the public-spirited citizens of Phila
d delphia. He represented the Hayes AID
s. ministration at the court of st. james
) She has had the benefit of an experienc
n from her childhood in the ways Of polit
II society, and will be a great acquisition t
e the gay life of the Cabinet circle whel
s. society resumes its rounds under the ne,
regime. The elder Mrs. Wanamaker i
i very much interested in works of benevo
lence. Some of the noblest charities c
,e the city of brotherly love" owe thei
Y prosperity and usefulness to her tende
y solicitude for suffering and unfortunat
L humanity.
j, SOCIAL ENTERTAINING.
e 1t is not the intention of Mrs. Harriso
y or the ladies of the administration to ente
l. into any formal social inequalities unit
e fall. There will be more or less informa
intercourse, however, as soon as the ladie
/ of the families of the new Cabinet Secre
taries reach Washington and get settled i
# their Washington homes for the quadrer
NAL term of their official residence at tn
e Capital. Mrs. Vice President Morton an
.r family will not take up their residence i
Washington until fall. = Correspondent
e Albany Journal.
:, =, A Stubborn Brute.
1t A Balliettsville (Pa) dispatch to tn