People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-03
MRS. CLEVELAND's ROOMS.
Rich Apartments Ready for Her at
the Arlington Hotel.

Cleveland and Baby Ruth and Miss
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland will share
the same quarters, but they are all
merely more or less essential ad-
juncts to be taken for granted in
considering the abiding place of Mrs.
Cleveland.
The Arlington has repeatedly
quartered President-elect, awaiting
Inauguration, but the part in which
the Cleveland party Will be domi-
ciled has been erected since the last
Inauguration, and heretofore has
known no glory greater than shell
tering the illustrious head of Patti
and the suggestion of crown which
the Comte de Paris carries with him.
The particular rooms which al
ready go glibly as the cleveland
rooms" are on the second floor, and
include a parlor, dining-room and
three bedrooms, for the special use
of Mr.. Cleveland's family; also a
parlor and three bedrooms for Col.
Lamont and a parlor and three bed
rooms for Mr.. Dickinson.
Entering a hall where an exquisite
Venetian lamp burns softly in lieu of
sunshine, which is shut out, to the
right opens Mrs. Cleveland's spacious
parlor. Here five windows afford a
flood of light, subdued by draperies
of dehcately wrought lace and lus-
trous 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, divans inviting in
dolence, French frivolities of ia
pestried seats on absurd gold legs,
with ridiculous gold backs, an inland
cabinet of wonderful workmanship,
bronzes, famous pottery and china,
beautiful and frail, combine in the
furnishings of the room to make a
background for Mrs. Cleveland,
which none of her loyal subjects
would have one whit less royal.
Leading from the drawing is
Mrs. Cleveland's bedroom. A mas
sive covered mahogany bedstead is
conspicuous until one stands before
a 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 gown that would be a
coronation so be if queens were
crowned in the United States. In
the adjoining bed room a small
white and gold bedstead describes
the domain of another monarch that
completes the trinity of the coming
administration. Beyond this is Miss
Clevcland's room ~-->
Opening to the loft from the hall is
the dining-room, which is furnished
in oak with a glittermg array of
china and cut-glass. 1t is interesting
to know that Mrs. Cleveland will use
a knife, fork and spoon which were
once the property of the Empress
Eu9enia, and that the President elect
will drink mis- coffee from a cup that
one time belonged to Napoleon
Bonaparte.
Col. Lamont's parlor communi-
Gates with the dining room, with Mr..
DickinsorNs directly opposite. The
entire suite is so placed that it can
be wholly separated from the re
mainder of the hotel. This will be
done by means of a screen placed
across the corridor, at the opening of
which Mr.. Cleveland's butler, SIN
clair, will be stationed. Mr.. Cleve-
land will be accompanied by four
servants, in addition to Baby Ruth's
nurse. Two servants of the hotel, a
butler and waiter, will also be as
signed to his exclusive use. A chief,
with two assistants, will be entirely
at his service, and anything he wants
to eat, from nightingale's tongue on
toast to strawberries on gold dollars,
will be his at the word of command.
In going to and from the street,
the President and his party will be
obliged to pass through the recep-
tion-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 annoy
ance as he passes from the elevator
to the street, and at the outer door a
Gordon of police will be stationed to
protect him.
The Presidential board bill will be
$475 per day, this not including the
charge for the extra service which
he has. The demand for accommo-
dations in the Presidents hotel is so
great that Mr.. Roessle, the pro-
prietor, says he is daily obliged to
refuse applications for rooms from
persons who offer anywhere from
$50 a day to whatever sum he is
pleased to fix for anything he may
able to give them.
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