The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-04
THE PRESIDENT AT HIS DESK.
He Is a Hard Worker and the Warm
Weather Has No Terror For Him
From the baltimore sun.

+ TON Lue BalLlmOre sun.
Washington, July THE hot weather
makes no difference in the conduct of af-
fairs at the white house nor does it pre-
vent the President from working any later
or starting earlier This Is one of the few
years in which the occupant of the white
house has not either spent the nights at
some country home near the city during
the warm spells or else taken frequent
trips to cooler places. The Presidents
health has been vastly improved by his
recent visit 10 the sea, and heis now en-
abled to work his accustomed hours dur
ing the day and evening. President Cleve-
land is in many respects like President
Arthur in his methods Of work. The
greater part Of 1t is accomplished in the
evening, when he is not subject TO calls
and opportunities Of those seeking Office
The President retires late and arises
early. He requires little sleep. With
Private Secretary Thurber he works
ever evening during this hot spell. and it
is seldom that either retire until past
midnight.
Once day the President goes for
drive. This IS usually taken after
O'Clock in the evening, when dinner is
over and the sun has disappeared. The
route taken varies but little and is gen
orally IN the direction of the soldiers
home, where Secretary Herbert and Post
master General Bssel are usually found
sitting around in the shade The return
is made about 9 O'Clock, when the Presi-
dent again proceeds TO his Office and
starts in TO clear his desk. Just at this
season, when the fiscal year ends and
another begins. there are always Iuuumcr-
able little questions (which require the at
tention Of the Executive. Trivial as they
are, the President insists upon acting on
them personally and frequently makes
the Endorsements or disapprovals in his
o WI handwriting The President is not
given to debating, but prefers writingout
all his correspondence on a pad and then
hands IL to Il clerk 10 be Transcribed.
All messages sent to congress are al
ways "in writing and upon only rare oc-
casiOns, when documents are very bulky,
is the typewriter brought into use. These
labor saving devices have but little favor
with the President. In cases Of pardOns
the President, in making mis- Endorsement,
writes il himself on the back of the docu-
ment in a small. clear hand almost effcm-
mate in its character, but invariably
signs himself plain &c. c." one rule is
strictly observed at the white house
When the President does not agree with
his Attorney General upon a pardon case
the public is not allowed to be informed
OF simply approved or rejected, ~
as the case may be, and thus no occasion
IS given for persons hostile to the admin
istration to assert that differences exist
between the President and Attorney
General and that theI resident has turned
down his legal adviser.
President Cleveland has almost as great
a dislike for attracting attention in public
as President Grant had Of receiving it,
The intention of the President TO leave
the city is but seldom anticipated II has
been known to be positively denied at the
white house that the President had any
intention OF leaving the city, when in
reality he was going within few hours
Every effort is made to keep quiet his
movements on account of the Presidents
aversion of being stared at when leaving
tho city by railroad or boat BY the
purest accident it was known in the city
that the President had left for the North
Carolina sound some weeks ago The
Maple was well down near the mouth of
the river before any one here knew that
he had left the white house except the
attaches. The first information came
| from fisherman who had seen the Pres
ident standing on deck when his steamer
was passing a schooner bound up from the
lower-river landings. He reported the
fact to some one around the wharves aud
in this way it reached the newspaper re-
porters