The morning call., 1890-06-23
THE SUMNER
CAPITAL.
The Presidents Family to Go to
Cape May.
Mrs Earrison's New Home-A Brilliant So
ciety Event-The Concert at the
White House.
Special Correspondence of THE MORNING CALL,

WASHINGTON, June 10 - cape May
will be the summer capital for the next
three summers, as the certain pres
ence Of the President and his family
viii make it convenient for the other
highest officials to gather there with
their families. Postmaster General Wana-
maker is already on the spot. For twenty
and thirty years past his family have sum-
mered there, and his children have grown
UP on that point of Jersey sands. The cot
tage which the unacknowledged donors
presented to Mrs. Harrison through Editor
Mexican of the Philadelphia Ledger has
lust been finished this spring and occupies
the extreme point of land known as Cape
May Point, three miles from the region of
great hotels which constitutes Cape May
proper. The signal station at Cape May
Point, which displays weather signals and
telegraphs the incoming ships, is back OF
Mrs. Harrison's house.
The house is near the Wanamaker cot
tage and is built very much like it, plain,
solid and comfortable frame structure, with
nothing costly, snowy or fantastic about it.
1t has three full stories, with broad
piazzas entirely surrounding the first and
second floors, and from the front and two
sides there is a full view of the ocean.
hall with large fireplace, drawing-room
forty feet long and twenty wide, recep-
tiOn-rOOm and dining-room are on the first
fl or. There is a kitchen on the floor with
the dining-rOom, aud an outside kitchen
wholly detached from the house, to be used
if preferred. On the second floor there are
seven large bedrooms and two baths, and
on the third floor there are five bedrooms
and a large billiard-Toom extending across
the front of the house. The house has
been furnished and put in order during this
last week, and is complete to every neces-
sary piece of inen china, glass and kitchen
utensil.
THE SAME SIMPLICITY
Has ordered the furnishing, and comfort,
instead uf show has been considered. The
furniture is not expensive, fragile or snowy,
and there was no attempt at a splurge or
display made by the donors, although they
could have made much of a sensation
thereby. There is nothing that will spoil
with using OF storing. and nothing that in
surance money cannot replace and dupli-
cate at once should ii suffer the calamity of
ire. When the family leaves the place viii
be taken care OF through the winter Ter
them, and they have only to take their own
trunks to and fro. Mrs. Harrison is more
than happy over the splendid gift that has
come to her so quietly and pleasantly, and
anticipates many pleasant summers in her
her when the presentation was made, aud
the spokesman said that he had been asked
by certain gentlemen to hand to her
the deed, plans and keys OF the
house on Cape May Point. Early this next
week Mrs. Harrison, with her daughter.
grandchildren and niece, move to Cape Mag
- Tor the summer, and the President will 20
up 10 spend the first Sunday with them.
Cape May is the nearest of any OF the sea-
SIDE resorts to Washington, and Is reached
in five hours from here. 1t has the finest
and safest surf bathing on the Jersey coast,
and facing southwark, the rollers and the
breezes sweep straight up from the length
OF the Atlantic.
Just as the Cape May cottage had been
presented there came the offer of a cottage
90 al CressOn, Pa, on the tipmost summit of
the Alleghanies; the Pennsylvania Rail-
road being anxious to match its rival, the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which had
its summer resort at Deer Park so we'll ex-
plotted las; year. Now that Cape May solved
the problem so nicely and So delicately, a
dozen other resorts and regions are lament
ing that their philosophical citizens did
not wake up to the same idea too.
BARON ZEDwITZ' BRIDE.
The marriage of Baron Zedwitz and Miss
Lima Caldwell comes off Oh Tuesday, the
18th, in the chapel of the Catholic uniYer-
sity, As Baron Zedwitz is a Protestant
German there had to be obtained a special
dispensatiOn from the Pope for the solemni-
zation before an altar, and Cardinal Glib
bons, and Bishop Spaulding, who was to
have married Prince Murat and the elder
sister, viii Officiate. Every one takes an
interest in the brilliant and happy match
of the younger Miss Caldwell, and hers is
far the better fortune than that which
threatened her sister so recently. Her
trouSSeau was prepared in Paris without any
parade and talk. They 20 direct to the City
of Mexico, where the pretty young Baron
ess cannot fail to be great ad diti0n to
the diplomatic circle and credit to her ma
tive country.
SCHOOL COMMANDMENTS.
School commencements have marked the
mornings, afternoons and evenings of the
past fortnight, and diplomas and bouquets
have been matters Of great concern. Mrs.
Harrison handed out the diplomas at
the commencement of one of the semnaries.
Young doctors, lawyers and A. BIS both
black and white have been turned out into
1.-THE sea of life as the yaledictories call
it, and the West Point and Annapolis
commencement festivities have been
matters of local interest The rose
buds of this year and prospective
rose-buds of next season, went to the naval
and military academies commandments,
and they are now returning with their
stock of buttons and cadet photographs.
In the absence of the Marine Band from
the city the military band from the arsenal
garrison played at the White House this
week, and the ladies of the executive house
mold were at home in the mansion for the
last time this season. There was an unu-
sually large attendance all the inner circle
being anxious to see the ladies again before
their leaving, and there was n muster of
remaining society on the south portico and
in the drawing-rooms. The huge bowl-like
blossoms of the old magnolia grandifOra
weighted the air with perfume, and those
immense creamy-white blossoms were a
great surprise to many who saw them for
the first time. The trees are between twenty
and thirty feet high, and have always"
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The lawn was crowded with people in sum
mer light and white gowns, and with the
intense green Of the great lawn and trees,
. and the sunset light on the tall monument
and the river, 1t was wonderfully fine
scene. There was coming and going OF
pretty gowns and hum of conversation on
the portico and in the drawing-rooms. 1t
was one of the gayest Of these music teas at
the White House, and regrets were SIN
cerely given at its being the last.
THE MAINE STATESMAN.
Secretary Blaine and his family are still
in town, and as the icicles are barely off
Mount Desert, they do not think of going
to Bar Harbor immediately. a private
wire, unconnected with any other tele-
phones, has been strung between the Blaine
residence, the White House and the State
Department, and over that bit Of copper
wire state secrets will hum while Secretary
Blaine sits in his own cool and shady lib
rary. Miss Abigail Dodge Gail Hamilton,
WIN mas opbut Ll0 hlulbI Win llc
goes to her own New England home for the
summer, and her departure takes much
from the household. For several months
past Miss Dodge has conducted Bible
class at the Blaine residence every Sunday
afternoon, and twenty or thirty people
known to have deep interest in such
topics as she dwelt on have gathered regu-
larry to listen and discuss Miss Dodge
chose her subject and wrote out her thoughts
upon 1t, clear, brilliant and forcible little
sermon il was each week, Reading il in a
quiet room to a small company and in low
conversational tone Invested it, however,
Of the character Of a sermon, and it was
rather a talk with notes. As Congrega-
iionalist, Miss Dodge takes advanced and
liberal views but she by no means agrees
with or echoes any of the great lights or ex-
FOUNDERS of that sect. In fact, she differs
sqnarely with some Of them, and it was