The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-28
READY FOR FRANCES.
RICH ROOMS AWAITING THE FIRST
LADY OF THE LAND.

/
Arlington hotel pending her triumphant
return to the white house. To be sure, in
/ oidentally, President Cleveland and Baby
| Ruth and Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland
| will share the same quarters; but they are
/ all merely more or less essential adjuncts
| to be taken for granted in considering the
! abiding place OK Mrs. Cleveland. The Ar.
liugton has repeatedly quartered a Presi-
dent-elect awaiting Inauguration, but the
part IN which the Cleveland party will be
domiciled has been erected since the last
inauguration, and heretofore has known no
glory greater than sheItering the illustrious
head Of Patti and the suggestion Of a crown
which the Compile de Paris carries with
him.
The particular rooms which already go
egltbly as the Cleveland rooms" are on the
second floor, and include a parlor, dining
room and three bedrooms, for the especial
use Of Mr.. Cleveland's family; also parlor
and three bedrooms for Col. Lamont and a
parlor and three bedrooms for MIR. Dick
inson.
Entering a hall where Az exquisite Vene-
tian lamp burns softly in lieu of sunshine,
which is shut out TO the right opens Mrs.
Cl5veland's spacious parlor Here five win-
draperies Of dehcately wrought lace and
lustroue silk.
The walls are almost covered with rare
pictures, and on the floor the foot falls
silently upon the thick pile of rugs, whose
warm, blent tints are broken here and there
with the sharply defined colors of tiger
skins. Luxurious chairs diYans inviting
! Incidence, French frivolities Of tapestried
seats on absurd gold legs, with ridiculous
gold backs, an inlaid cabinet of wonderful
workmanship, bronze, famous pottery and
china, beautiful and frnll, COmb ine in the
furnishings of the room 20 make back
ground for Mrs. Cleveland, which none OF
her loyal subjects would have one whit less
royal
Leading from the drawing room is Mrs.
Clevelands bedroom. A massive covered
mahogany bedstead is conspicuous until one
stands before magnificent pier glass and
realizes that here the coming Presidents
wife will stand, and with a delicious sense
of satisfaction survey the sweep of a 60 wn
that would be a coronation so be If queens
were crowned in the United States. In the
adjoining bedroom small white and gold
bedstead describes the domain Of another
monarch that completes the trinity Of the
coming administration. Beyond this is
M.ss Cleveland's room.
Opening to the left from the hall ia the
dining room, which is furnished In oak with
a Rlittering array of china and cut glass
1t Is interesting to know that Mrs. Cleve-
land will use knife, fork and spoon which
we're once the property of the Empress Eu-
genie, and that the Presideut-elect will
drink his coffee from cup that one time
belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte
Col. LamOnt's parlor communicates with
the dining room, with MIR. Dickinsons
directly opposite The entire suite is SO
placed that it can be wholly separated from
the remainder Of the hotel. This will be
done by means OF screen placed across the
corridor, at the opening of which Mr..
Cleveland's butler, Sinclair, will be
stationed. Mr.. Cleveland will be ac-
companied by four servants, in addition to
Baby Ruth's nurse. Two servants Of the
hotel, butler and waiter, will also be asa
signed 70 his exclusive use. A chef, with
two assistants, will be entirely at his service.
and anything he wants to eat, from nightin-
gales tongue on toast to straw berries on
gold dollars, will be at bis word Of COM
mand.
In going to and from the street the Presi-
dent and his party will be obliged to pass
through the reception room and hall, which
are the common property OF the permanent
guests Of the hotel A body of Pinkerton
detectives. however, will guard him from
any possible annoyance as he passes from
the elevator to the street, and at the outer
door Gordon Of police will be stationed to
protect him.
The presidential board bill will be S475
per day, this not including the charge for
the extra service which he has. The demand
for accommodations in the Presidents hotel
is 50 great that Mr. Roessle, the proprietor,
says he is daily obliged TO refuse app!ica-
ttons for rooms from persons who offer
anywhere from $50 day to whatever sum
he Is pleased to fix for anything he may be
able TO give them.
THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION CHURCH.
Interest in the temporary stopping place
OF the presidential party is only rivaled by
the activity in church circles to discern
now which is to be the administration
church. The Church Of the Covenant.
which has figured as such during President
Harrison's administration, ia SO conspicu-
ously identified with the Republican party
that it is hardly within the range of a demo
cratic Presidents choice, though its creed
corresponds with his own.
There is one other fashionable Presbyte-
rlan church apparently available, still the
odds are given in favor of the old First
Presbyterian church.. which Mrs Cleveland
attended during her husbands former ed-
minlstration. This church is remote from
the white house, and quite outside the social
swim. The building is plain, substantial
brick edltice, not at all ecclesiastical in its
style OK architecture. No towering steeple
marks its character, and it might be passed
on the front attract the eye with the in
scripton:
The church is open from 9 until daily.
Come in TO rest and pray"
Within 1t is so essentially comfortable in
appearance that all else it is makes no i'm
preston. More than half way down the
centre body of pews is one distinguished by
silver plate marked THE President" This
Is quite in keeping with the keen aDprecia-
ton Washington has of the value of care
fully identified historic associations The
plate was put on not to reserve Mr.. Cleve-
lands pew, for no other pew in the church
is reserved for anybody 1t was done by
The congregation with the same charitable
regard for the exacting nature of human
curloslty that placed gold star on the floor
OF che Pennsylvania railroad station to
mark the spot where Garfield's head fell
when he was a9sassinated.
This church will celebrate its centennial
Anniversary i'll couple OF years. Its pas-
tor, DR.. Sunderland, who married Mr.. aud
Mrs Cleveland, has lately finished the for
tieth year Of his charge. Charles Sumner
Zach Chandler and William Henry Seward
have been among DR.. Sunderland's intimate
associations, and his congregation has num-
bered four Presidents-Jackson,P Polk, Pierce
and Cleveland.
At DR.. Sunderlauds house, which was
once occupied by Gen. Fremont, the Path