The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-17
WHITE HOUSE EMBELLISHMENTS
The Reason DR.. Scott, Mrs.. Harrison's
Father, Left the Executive Mansion.

The Reason DR.. Scott, Mrs. Harrison's
Father, Left the Executive Mansion.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-Tne ground
floors in the White House are being beauti-
fully done up. The east room is always
very much in the condition that poor
| Charles Lamb declared himself to be-never
could afford whole new outfit at the same
time. He would buy himself a ne% coat
and hat, and meanwhile be would have to
continue wearing his seedy trousers, and
when new trousers were attainable the hat
and coat had lost their pristine freshness.
SO 1t is with the east room. One year-like
the last, for example-it gets a new carpet
As 1t is eighty feet long by thirty broad, it
will be seen that it is no trifle to carpet il
with the superb carpets that are really the
cheapest in the end in the white house.
Then the next year the chairs and sofas get
new covering, and the year after the win
dows get treated to new set of curtains
This year it is the turn of the chairs and
sofas, and they are being covered with a
delicate golden brown satin, lowered in
white. The state dining-room, which al
ways was a commonplace ROOM entirely
lacking in true elegance, is to be completely
changed. Over the old-fashioned windows
are placed screens of Moorish fretwork.
| which will wonderfully improve them The
middle the blue room, with the
red room on one side and the
green room on the other, prescribe
that these colors shall be followed in the fur
nlshiugs. But the delicate, artistic tints in
greens and blues and reds which now pre-
vail, 3 are "a tremendous improvement on
those of the fathers. The picture of Mr..
Cleveland by Eastman johnson has been
hung in the grand corridor along with the
Otbar TlraSi1Anfial DOrtraifS 40
BILE, aud had only half-length painted
President Arthur who was a tall and res
markably elegant looking man, had full
length. When Mr.. Harrison goes out. he
too will have half-length-that is, if the
sound good sense which he possesses contin-
ues to govern him.
WHY DIR. SCOTT LEFT THE WHITE HOUSE.
The immediate cause of DR.. SCOTS leav-
| ing the white house was a visit of his grand.
son. Russell II. Scott. The doctor went to
the Pennsylvania railroad office, where
| young Scott is employed, and asked him to
| call at the white house the following even
| ing. The doctor thought a reconciliation
might be brought about between the family
of young Scott and the family Of the Presl-
dent.
MIR. Scott called, and was kept long
time waiting. He heard loud talking III
| stairs between Mrs. Harrison and DR.. Scott
Finally the doctor came down stairs. He
was greatly excited, and walking up to hi;
grandson said: "You are as much hel
blood as any but she will not receive you
You do not deserve this. Your Aunt Car
RE is an ungenerous woman. will mo-
live longer under the same roof with her.
The doctor made good his word. Ii
wrote to his son, Judge John Scott,
lawyer, at Port Townsend, Wash. father O
young Scott, detailing his efforts at a re
Cancellation, and closed by saying that 1t
was going to home for INDECENT minister
in Ohio.
This brought Judge Scott on to Washing
ton at once. The interview between Mrs
Harrison and her brother was anything bu
pleasant. Judge Scott refused TO renal
at the White House, but went to a hotel il
stead. When DR.. Scott left for Port Town
send it was given out that he was going o.
a visit, but Judge Scott said he would neve
allow his father to come back, aai the oil
gentleman added that he never wanted tC