The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-03-31
DAVID BENNETT HILL.
His Washington Quarters-His Per-
sOnal Misunderstanding but not
Exclusive

Exclusive.
From the Washington Post.
Taken from any point of view,
David Bennett Hill, Governor in
retrospective, at present Senator,
and President in prospective, is
an interesting parsonage, and
what he does and what he re-
Trains from doing are ma, tiers in
which the public feel the livellest
concern. No one man in the
United States is at the present
time more talked about, more
highly praised on the one hand,
and more roundly condemned on
the other.
A first-class and thoroughly
reliable mind-reader, with a
guarantee that he " ould proper
ly interpret the thoughts of the
distinguished gentleman from
New York could find renumera-
tive job by applying at once to
either wing ofthe dominant par
ty In Congress. Unruff1ed by
open letters Of the anti-silver
men, calmn and serene under the
assaults of those who oppose,
declining to take up the gaunt-
let thus hurled in his presence,
the Senator goes about in the
even tenor of his way.
The daily life of Senator Hill is
not out of the ordinary. The
man has no eccentricities or pc
culiarities that stamp him as be-
ing distinct and apart from his
fellow-men. He occupies an ele-
gam suite of rooms at he Ar
lington on the third floor, over
looking Vermont avenue and |
street. In this suite is e large
corner parIor, a small reception
hall, bathroom, and a bed
chamber, all furnished luxurious
ly. No bachelor enjoys more
comfortable quarters than the
junior Senator from New York.
Senator Hill is an art connois-
seur, and upon the walls of his
apartments hang some of the
best productions of the BRUSH of
Daubigney, Corot, Rosa Bon
heur, and Millet. His parloris a
combination of the dra wing
room and Office. In the center of
the room is a large, fiat-top oak
desk upon which yesterday there
was spread out an enormous
amount of mail awaiting the
scrutiny of the Senator. In a
corner on the Vermont avenue
side was another rolling-top
desk, with it's pigeon-holes cram
med full OF documents and the
desk strewn with papers, indi-
eating that the owner wasin the
midst of a task that Was almost
overpowering.
It cannot be said that Senator
Hill ignores the daily papers.
He may be unsensitive to attack
and unmindful of praise, but he
watches what the press does and
let's nothing escape him. The
first paper he reads is the Post,
beginning thus naturally as a
man would skim the cream from
the top. His office yesterday
looked like the exchange-room of
a first class newspaper office.
Gen. Dan Sickles. sheriff OF the
county of New York. who ac-
companied the Senator on his
trip South, sat in a huge uphols-
tered chair, with his head hidden
behind the pages of a morning
paper, while the Senat tor, at his
desk, was scra itching away at
his correspondence in an effort
to get half a dozen things out of
the road at one time. About
the floor lay the New York and
Philadelphia morning papers,
and on the desk shimmered the
polished steel of a pair OF long
pointed scissors. A paper here
and and there, with a cash torn
in it's pages, indicated that those
scissors had been at work, and
that the article missing from that
particular sheet had been filed
away for future reference.
No man ever made an appoint
ment with Senator Hill and was
disappointed. He is punctuali-
ty personified. He rises in the
morning precisely at the same
hour and as the clock indicates
$50 he enters the dining-room.
He lunches at the capt., |, except
on sundays and when the Senate
is not-in session, aud returns to
his dinner punctually at 6:15.
The Senator is a great walker,
enjoys The best of health, and
Possesses an appetite that needs
no sharpening, but he is mode-
rate eater. His breakfast is of a
substantial character, and when
he has finished he is ready for the
work of the day. His table in
the dining-room of the Arlington
is not conspicuous either by it's
publicity or it's retirement. The
Senator eats alone save when
his friend, Gen. Fariisworth, of