Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-02-15
JEWELS AND PAPERS GOMEZ
Health Officer Sends Dog CatcherS to
Fumigate the White House
DID THEY ROB THE MANsIoNP P
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New YORK, Feb. 14-The Herald s
Washington, ID. c., special says: Has
the White House been robbed? Just
what occurred is what everybody is
trying to find out, particularly the
members of the presidential family,
who are the sufferers. The affair has
not yet become known to many, owing
to the failure on the part of the presi-
dent or any member of his family to
report the matter to the police. They
preferred, il seems, to let the matter
drop, rather than have it aired in the
newspapers, but, Notwithstanding all
the efforts to keep it quiet, it leaked
out this afternoon through a report to
the health office. A private coupe
pulled up at the door of the health
office about II o'clock. 1t contained
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Harrison. Mr..
Harrison quickly asked for Mr.. Ham
init, the health officer of the district,
and he and his wife were at once shown
into the private office of that gentle
man. They remained closeted with
DIR. Hammit nearly an hour. The Sc
crecy which was maintained by the
health officials regarding the object of
Harrisons visit created considerable
speculation among those about the
health office.
Mr.. Harrison, / find, went to
the health officer for the pur-
pose of making complaint against the
officials who had in charge the work
of fumigating Mr.. and Mrs. HarrisOn's
apartments at the White House after
their little daughter had recovered
J from the scarlet fever. As soon as the
little girl had fully recovered Mr. Har-
rison engaged a suite of rooms i'm the
Arlington hotel, where he is now stop
ping He left the White House in
order that the health officer might take
charge of the rooms he had occupied
and thoroughly disinfect and fumigate
them to prevent contagion. 1t was
understood that all the bed clothing
and carpets, sofas, rugs and articles in
the rooms which might take the germs
of the disease should be burned. 1t
was also understood that the toys be-
longing to the little girl should be de-
stroyed
The disinfecting process was COM
pleted a week ago, and few
days afterward the health authorities
pronounced the rooms free from all
danger of spreading the disease. Mr..
Harrison ordered that the jewelry be-
longing to himself and wife, as well as
other articles, consistingof clocks and
such ornaments about the rooms as it
was necessary only to fnmigate, should
be packed and sent over to him at the
Arlington. Among other things were
valuable letters, documents and men,
oranda which were left to Mr.. Harri-
son by his mother. These, it was sup
posed, would be fumigated and not de-
stroyed. L saw Mr.. Harrison at the
Arlington tonight He was evidently
verv indignant at the action of the
health officers in destroying property
and papers belonging to him which he
said 1t was not necessary to destroy.
Upon investigation the health officer
said he had put the work of fumigating
in the hadds of the poundmaster,
which poundmaster had sent his men,
dog catchers, over to the White House
to do the work. These men say they
destroyed the jewelry, but where is the
official record of what they destroyed?
II certainly seems to need an inves-
tigation.