Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16

may see the pictures and engravings which
he picked up abroad. There is little new
furniture in the house, so Mrs. Morton tells
me, and the most of the things used were
brought here from New York and Paris.
Leave the workshop and cross the hall and
you enter the parlors. They are separated
from the hall by pOrtieres. You notice that
one OF these portieres is of rich brown velvet
plush embroidered with flowers and the
other a costly Turkish curtain, which evil
IDENTIFY once closed the door of a Mohomme-
dan mosque. You pass by screen, covered
with fine Broussa embroidery, in going into
the library, and this library is the first Of
the parlors. 1t is a large room walled with
low bookcases and hung with fine paintings.
The cases come to the height of your waist,
and books in fine bindings look out of the
shelves through glass doors. Above the
cases the walls are hung with dark red satin
of a fine enough quality to make dress for
White House reception, and against this
background hang the paintings. There are
two full-length portraits of the Vice Presi-
dent and his wife by Bonnatsnd-these hang
on the two sides of the back of the room.
These portraits are very fine and the one Of
the Vice President the great French artist
says he considers
THE SECOND BEST THING
he has ever done. 1t represents Vice Presi-
dent Morton standing. 1t is life size and it
is a work of wonderful art. The painting of
Mrs Morton is equally fine and the Vice
Presidents wife is one of the handsomest
of the wives of our statesmen. She is of
medium height, straight, well formed and
her face is full of strength and character.
She has blue eyes and she dresses in ex-
quisite taste. This picture represents her in
an evening costume of dark red velvet, and
the color shows to advantage her beautiful
neck and arms,
The photographs of the room, however,
are quite as interesting as the pictures.
They are as numerous as those of the study.
They are scattered from one end of the Ii
brary to the other, and they stand in col
lections and singly on every available spot.
One screen-like frame OF 80 cabinet photo
graphs represents the royal families OF
Europe and Mrs. Morton picked these up
while she was abroad. 1 asked her whether
she had met all the persons represented in
the frame, but she told me that the French
court was republican one and that her ac-
Qualntances had been more democratic.
She pointed to another frame In which the
pictures of Gambetta and other French
leaders stood side by side with Blaine, Lin
coin and other American statesmen and she
slowed me a small Sevres bust of Presi-
dent Grevy which he had given to Minister
Morton.
DUPLICATE OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
Vice President Morton's house strangely
enough rivals the White House not only as
society center but even in the style of its
finish. The library is the red room, and
the room that opens into this is furnished in
a tint very nearly akin to that of the blue
room of the White House. There is third
parlor whose walls are hung in satin of a
greenish tint, and should the Vice Presi-
dent take out his dining table and turn his
dining room into ball room he would have
a small East room at the end.
The furniture of these TWO second parlors
is of gilt wood upholstered in delicate yell
low satin, and the pictures which hang upon
the walls are BY noted artists. A red velvet
carpet runs through the 70 feet of reception
rooms, and red velvet rug forms the center
of the dining room. The house itself is
furnished in exquisite taste, and it
is one of the finest though not
the finest house at the Capital. Mr.. Morton's
stable is as elaborate as his house. 1t is a
part of the house, and is of the same red
pressed brick, with black lines running
around it. The Vice President has a swell
coachmsn and footman in a rich plum
colored livery, who wear stiff cockaded hats
and drive his housekeeping bays, hitched to
big coach with red wheels.
THAT SHoREHAM BAR STORY.
During the winter much has been said
about the Vice Presidents bar at his new
Shoreham Hotel. This hotel is big apart
ment house at which many of the most noted
of Washington people live, and for which
they pay from 81, 800 to 81 500 per year for
a suite of furnished rooms. There is a res.
taurant on the ground floor, and it was in
this that the bar was said to be located. Mr..
Morton's agents were interviewed on the
subject, and he himself expressed great in
dignation at the statement The truth is
that the application for license to sell
liquor was made without his knowledge,
and that he had no interest in the hotel
beyond the leasing of its apartments through
his agents. 1t was true that a license had
been granted and it was part of the agree
ment at the time of the renting of the fats,
that no part of them should be used as bar
or saloon for the sale of wines, malt or spir-
ituous liquors.
PROBABLY A GOOD INVESTMENT.
These fats now contain 16 Congressman,
and among the noted men who live in them
are Senator FarwelI, Speaker Reed and Rep
resentative Cannon, The fats cost in the
neighborhood of $3.50, 600 to build, and, in
asmuch as no rooms are rented except by the
year, they probably pay good interest on
the investment. Mr.. Morton, as Vestryman
of the American Episcopal Church at Paris,
as the son of a preacher and as good Chris
tian could hardly permit any of his tenants
to run saloon on his premises, and am sure
would not if he could. He is proud of his
fats, and has named them 1.-The Shoreham,"
after the New England village where he was
born. FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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