The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-05
''Open 10 q. n.
Closed 2 D. M

hangs. his card is MADE OF TIN anu upon
it in black letters is painted:
"Open 10 q. m.
Closed p. M
The White House is always closed to
visitors after p. M, and after this time If
you have important matters aud must see
the president you must use the door bell.
The door bell is of bronze aud, like the
door knobs. it was especially designed for
the White House. These door knobs are
each as big around as a baseball and they
have screaming American eagles cut in
each of their brass faces. Passing these
doors you come into the vestibule, and this
Is a vestibule with q capital V. 1t is 80 big
that you could turn a wagon load of hay
around in it without touching the walls,
and the ceiling is so high that the man who
drove the wagon could stand up and his
head would not Craze II. At the back OF 1t
is Il wall Of the finest of Mosaic glass. 1t
is made of precious stones and colored
glass and crystal ard at night It shines like
the jewels of the palace of Monte Cristo.
The floor is OF Mosaic, and these beauties
come out in striking contrast TO some Of
their surroundings. There is. for instance,
at the further door Of the vestibnle through
which you pass to go up to the presidents
Office q 81 walnut umbrella stand and the
wood work of the room you see is grained
to represent black walnut and is by no
means genuine. Against the wall there
are couple of S3 wicker chairs in which
the messengers sit. for this room is for
half the day public property.
TIE Presidents PARLoRs.
The parlors Of the White House are on
the ground floor, though there are enough
rooms on the second floor to give place
for sitting room, and the bed rooms are so
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views that any ordinary mortal could sit in
them without getting the blues. OF the
parlors below the stairs, only the east
room is shown to visitors, aud it is here
that the president holds his noon recep-
tions. This is perhaps the biggest parlor
in the United States, and it is wonder of
magnifcence Its walls are of silver and
gilt aud in them are set eight massive mir
rors. each of which is as big as the tops of
two billiard tables placed side by side, an d
your foot SINKS almost up TO the ankle in
the rich velvet CARPET which covers the
floor. This room is 50 feet long and 40 feet
wide, and it takes more than 400 yarGs to
carpet it. The furniture is cushloned-not
with excelsior, but with genuine hair and
it is covered with the finest of satin. This
room is now lighted by electricity, and
there are in the neighborhood of thousand
incandescent lights in the mansion. The
chandeliers in the east room cost s., 900
apiece and each contains 5000 pieces OF the
hang upon the walls, and the portraits
which look down at you have cost Uncle
Sam in the neighborhood OF SO an inch.
ROOMS PAPEREO WITH SATIN.
Most of these parlors of the White House
have been greatly improved since the pres
ident was elected. The blue parlor has
been re-decorated by Tiffany, and the en-
tire wall is now draped in a blue gray silk
fine enough to make a ball dress for a mil
lonaire's daughter, and this silk was made
at Patterson, New Jersey. Silk curtains
hang at the windows, and there is dedo
about the lower part of the wall which is
hand-painted and the mouldings are tinged
with gold. The ceiling has been entirely
worked over by Tiffany, and the chairs aud
sofas are of golc upholstered in satin. The
room has the same blue tint that il had be-
fore, but under the electric light it looks
far finer than it did when Dolly Madison
used to receive within it, and when Har-
riet Lane here held her receptions. Ia ad-
dition TO this is the red parlor, which is
furnished throughout in red and has fine
furniture and many curious pieces OF rare
bric-a-brac. The green room has been re-
decorated, and the pink of the peachblow
and the touch of gilt has been added to it,
The furniture is Of gold and satin, and the
long promenade corridor with its portraits
of the presidents of the past has been made
more beautiful than ever. The blue, red
and green rooms open into this corridor
and also the east ROOM conservatory and
state dining room, and ct one end of it
there is a stairway leading to the second
floor. The corridor itself is fully as wide
as the average parlor, and it is furnis he'd
just like parlor with soft carpets, fine
furniture and cosy corners. l don't know
how much 1t cost TO furnish it, but you may
get some idea of the money spent on the
fixing up of the White House by the fact
that the decorations and the re-itting of
the east room during this administration
are said to have cost more than $40, 000
1t would indeed be an extravagant woman
who would object TO such furnishings, aud
the wives of the various candidates will
not need TO bring any piece from their own
homes in order to help out the White
House.
HOW THE NEXT PRESIDENT WILL DINE.
This is equally so as to the dinner table
arrangements. Mrs. Harrison has i'm
proved the looks of the state dining room
and the private dining room is good enough
for any family. The state dining room is
an immense apartment AID on the nights
OF state dinners it now blazes with electric
rays. 1t has perhaps the most beautiful
marble manuels IN America, which were
carved in Italy and which have great mir
rors above them. It's big table will seat
fifty, and Uncle Sam has supplied the
president with enough china to dine hun
dreds and have a change of plates at as
many courses as you will fad at the swell
dinners of the Chinese 1t is nice TO drink
ont of cut glass and eat even your buck
what caxps eoucona cpf Draedoo
plates and drink your coffee out Of the fin
est OF Haviland cups. 1t was Hayes who
bought the HRviland set of china ior the
White House, aud MRS. Harrison has added
70 the china closet new set of American
china which will compare with the finest
products Of Europe or the Far East. The
designs for this china were made by an
American artist among the articles in it
are the especial oyster plate service, a
dozen soup plates. twelve fish plates, s
dinner service of a dozen pieces with a
platter and twelve plates each for the game
course and the dessert. There are after
dinner coffee cups and saucers tea cups
and saucers and ether pieces all elaborately
and appropriately decorated. The next
president will wipe his mouth with the
finest of damask linen and Uncle Sam
furnishes the napkins and table cloths
for the ruler OF his nephevs.
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state dinners are almost as big as table
cloths and they shine like silk and they are
very heavy and thick
THE GLASS USED N TIE WHITE house
is cut glass, and whether one wants to
drink out of the water goblet or the cham
payne glass or wishes TO end his dinner
with a pony of brandy. no can have his
soul delighted by vessel as white
as the purest diamond and as thin as an
egg shell, and as be looks into il he will see
the American eagle engraved upon its side.
Nearly every president buys new linen for
the White House, and one of the pleasures
Of the next first lady Of the land will be the
shopping, which she can do at the govern