, 1889-06-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
wASHr>aTox. MAY p. l~-a.
From rsr Regular Correspondent

20 lOOE less immaculate hEN 'tst '''''
Of callers which precipita'ed itself upo'
the president yesterday aided very ma
tsriAlly 10 the work o' Destruction l
sas another uf these very busy day
HhIch comes at least twice week, anC
as the president shut down promptly a
1890 tie multitude had 70 file through
IL hurry They were a weary looking
lot OF place hunters, but they hung or
and hoped, just as they have been
banging on and hoPin. for months past
and some OF them will be hanging on
and hoping for year to come. The
sentlsr sex has commenced to be nu'
nsrous. Up to the present time but
Ges OF the feminine gender have trou.
bled She president, but now they are
gathering courage and the president
has TO sec several OF them daily. If the
Increase continues the president will
soou be talking about "a lodge in some
vast wilderness.
An old landmark iH now disappearing
IN the demolition of the annex to the
AEllnRtOu l1Oltls hLt II a. 1bC y OAAIoOA4
House. The house has sheltered many
distinguished people. 1t was built
more than half century ago by Reverdy
johnson, when he was the attorney gen.
ersl in President Taylor's cabinet, aud
the very last resident of it was Redtield
Proctor, secretary Of war in Harrison's
cabinet. II the people who, between the
times of these two cabinet ministers,
gathered together, it would be the most
notable assemblags ever seen in this
country, or probably IN the world.
There would be an emperor, king, sew
eral presidents, any number of great
statesmen and beautiful women.
II vas about 1868 or possibly a year
later, that the old house became a part
OF ihe Arlington Hotel, and ever since
thsA all the great banquets given at the
hotel have been in the big dining room
OF tho johnson Anuex" as it was
called. President Arthur's first cabinet
dinner was given there. All of the din
nsrs given by Mr.. Chamberlain, the
English statesman, were part8ken of in
that banquet hall and it was there that
Mr.. Blaine dined the French guests that
came over TO the Yorktown celebration.
But the men who have slept there are
known the world over. Dom Pedro,
the emperor Of Brazil, now old and fee
bic vas one Of them, and King Kalakua
vas E lodger there. There have been
th.se presidential guests, and one who
as mr. Bennett says, ''if be was not q
president Of the French republic gave a
mighty good imitation Of one" These
Vsrs General Grant, President Diaz, of
the Mexican republic, and General
Bodlanger. Two entire Chinese EN-.
bsssies have occupied the house. and
Patti sang and slept there.
Mrs. Harrison has entire.y recovered
from her slight indisposition of the past
week and is as busy as ever again in her
preparations for her summer fitting.
The pretty doll house, once the property
OF Nellie Arthur, in which so many
happy hours Of her days at the White
House were spent in mimic housekeep-
inR apon-the southwestern lawn, and
sshioE has eyer since her departure been
slowed away unnoticed and uncared for
IN enc OF the basement outer corridors,
has through Mrs. Harrison's instrument
sality been unearthed, and after few
nsoied repairs again placed in position
Tor her little grandchildren, who, with
their nurses, may be seen at any hour of
Q bright day enjoying the shelter and
privacy thus afforded them in the midst
Of the understanding green lawns.
Tho president also occasionally wanders
ont from the absorption of musty follics
snd cares OF state 10 take one or the
other OF the infants in his arms for a
brief relaxation OF duty. Nellie Ar
thurs pet playhouse, in which she
sometimes invited dignified officials TO
take tea with her OF an afternoon, is
once more the scene of childish glee,
and interests strangers who wander
through the surrounding grounds.
Secretary Wipdom is probably the most
crowded man in the cabinet. Day after
day the ffice-seekers and their friends
swarm in upon him, and his room fire.
queDtly contains forty or mere men
waning for q word in his ear. The re-
suit has been to delay the natural ad-
vance of public business-inciuding the
satisfying of the huugry-to a consi1er-
able extent. The secretary is in the
habit of telling those who grumbIe at
che slow grinding of the mill that ''if
they don't give the jury a chance to re-
tire they will never get a verdict" r.
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