Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-05

rays It has perhaps the most beautiful
marble mantels in America, which were
carved in Italy, and which have great
mirrors above them. Its big table Will seat
so, and Uncle Sam has supplied the Presi.
dent with enough china to dine hundreds
and have a cnange of plates at as many
courses as you will find at the swell dinners
of the Chinese. 1t is nice to drink out OF
cut glass and eat even your buckwneat
cakes and sausage on Dresden plates and
drink your coffee out of the finest OF Hav-
iland cups.
American Chins ON the Table.
It was Hayes who bought the Haviland
set of china for tho White House aud Mrs.
Harrison has added to the china closet .
new set of American china which will COM
the Far East. The designs for this china
were made by an American artist Among
the articles in it are an especial oyster plate
service, dozen soup plates, IL fish plates,
dinner service of . dozen pieces with plat
ter, and II plates eSch for the game course
and the dessert There are after-dinner
coffee cups and saucers, teacups and saucers
and other pieces all elaborately and appro-
priately 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 nephewa The napkins
used at the White House at State dinners
are almost as big as table cloths and they
shine like silk and they are very heavy and
thick The glass used in the White House
is cut glass, and whether one wants to drink
out of the water goblet or the champagne
glass, or wishes to end his dinner with .
pony of brandy, he can have his esthetic
soul delighted by vessel as white as the
purest diamond and as thin as an egg shell,
and as he looks into 1t he will see the Amer
ican eagle engraved upon its side.
shopping at Uncle Sans Expense.
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
Government expense in replenishing the
linen and china closets of her establishment
She will not have the pleasure of doing her
own marketing. That is QUO of fashion now,
though President Harrison's grandfather
used to start out every morning and walk
cuts for his own table. The President now
has steward, and I don't suppose that
either Mr. or Mrs Harrison have any
idea of what they are going to eat before
they sit down to the table.
The cooking is all done in the basement,
and Mrs Harrison has had the whole lower
part of the establishment renovated. The
kitchen is now tiled both as to floor and as
to the dado of the side walls When she
came in she found that there we're three
rotten wooden floors placed one on top of
the other, and she had these taken out and
these tiled floors put in their place on a
basis OF concrete. The laundry of the
White House is very fine one, and all Of
TO f. of has
Word About the Conservatory.
It must take nearly half an acre of glass
to cover the flowers of the White House
conservatory. 1t keeps two men busy all
the time to take care Of it, and the finest of
all kinds of flowers from orchids to roses
are continually in bloom here. There are
broad India rubber plants which are worth
from $50 to Sl00 apiece, and there are some
flowers which are absolutely worth their
weight in gold. On the night OF White
House dinner or reception the whole man
sion is decorated with flowers, and at one
state dinner not long along there was q
floral piece on the table which used 5000
flowers in its making At dinner to the
Supreme Court 1000 flowers were used to
make temple OF Justice, and at the last
diplomatic reception the mantels of the
parlors were banked up with flowers. and
at another time they were covered with i'm
mense double tulips rising out banks of
green.
There are many odd things about the
White House. There is a very nice billiard
room down in one corner of the basement,
which if the next President can handle the
cue, will give him a fair chance to play
with his Cabinet when the good people
think they are discussing the affairs of state,
and there are no end Of good wine closets
which can be properly stocked for consid-
Grafton.
The White House Vino Closets.
These closets have seen good liquors in
the past. 1t was in them Andrew johnson
kept his favorite Bourbon and the sherry of