The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-05-23

sons election to the Presidency Mrs.
Harrison tried the task of being her
own secretary. As the mail incre a ed
TO forty and sixty letters per day she
called in the Presidents stenographer,
Miss Alice B. Sanger, to write her
letters, and she herself signed them.
Ever since her return to the White
House in October she has leen obliged
to delegate the whole duty to Miss
Sanger, and only personal friends re-
ceive letters in the handwriting Of the
mistress of the White House.
When the morning mail coa.es to the
Executive Mansion the letters are quick.
ly separated by a clerk, who puts al
directed to Mrs. Harrison on Miss Sang
er'sdesk. She runs ovcr them quickly,
throwing aside those that bear the I'M.
mistakable script Of the crank. The
others she carries to Mrs. Harrison's
room. The two sit down at the desl.
Miss Sanger selects those that bear the
writing of any Of Mrs. Harison's in
innate friends, opens them with her
silver paper knife, throws away the en-
velope and passes the letter to Mrs
Harrison. Ifit is anything she wishes
to answer herself, she places it TO one
side. Otherwise she returns the letter,
to Miss Sanger, who takes ste~nographlc
notes of the desired reply always on
the letter, S % that there can be no mix
ing of answers. Then the grand bulk
of lcttcrs-the begging variety-arc
taken up. The Secretary reads them
at a glance. and tells the gist to Mrs.
Harrison. For instance. a woman in
Wisconsin, OF Alabama. or Texas writes
for a dollar 10 bny a rheumatism plas-
ter, and i'll leading up to the request
inadvertently relates her whole history
and tile laborious process by which she
contracted the disease. Miss Sanger
says: Mrs. -, of -. want 81 to buy a
cure for her rheumatism
According to the reply shcputs eyes
or"no' at the head Of the letter. and
in a few days Mrs. -,of -, is delighted
with a letter on White House paper
bearing the words:
Mrs. Harrison hegs me to state that
she is very sorry for your atl.ict;on.
hut there are so many calls Oh her
charity, ETC."
Miss Sangcrs signature is probably
known to-day better than any other
womans in the United States. Usually
threc-quarters of an hour is taken mp
In going tho lgh tn mail. Mis- Sa: :
gerthen gathers up all the letters, goes
back to the Office and takes the odd
half hours between the Presidents or
SECRETARY Halford's calls upon her To
write the answers. 1t is said that Miss
Sanger knows more about the l'resi-
dents affairs than any one exceot
Private Secretary Halfcrd. and for a
matter Of ten days before the opening
of Congress she was the only one, be.
sides Nh. Halford, who knew the presi.
dents message,
She lisa jewel of secrecy, this young
woman and both the President ant
Mrs. Harrison trust her with every con.
fidence. She is a down East girl ani
was born in Connecticut twenty-fou,
years ago. Her parents moved to In
dianapolis when she was a child. and i
was there she had her schooling. A
10 she graduated from the high school
and expected togo to college the follow
ing year. Her father, who was traifi
manager of an Indiana railma!. me
with rcverses, lost his health, and TIL
young daughter was forced to stud,
typewriting and stcnography. sh
wrote in various Offices, and was takin,
court reports one day when Mr.. Mile,
of the law firm Of Harrison. Miller
Elan. rushed in and asked for a steu
%ograrhcr. She went to his Office. an
was there two years. when Gcncr;
Harrison was nominated to the pres
deticy. She knew him but slightly, a
the other stenograper in the Office di
his work; but the day after the nomir
alton Mr.. Miller sent her to the llarr
son homestead, and she remained the,
until January, when the President ga,
her a two months leave. She travele
abroad during that time: and, in q,
dition to being one of the best stcno.
raphcrs at the capital, she is also a Gu
= tured and noble looking girl.
CAROLINE SlrToN PEPPER.
$4,000 REWARD.