Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-24


worth adding to the so-called crank file"
Inc frequent appeals for loans or gifts Of
money which are addressed 10 the President
py mall never reach him. Persons who want
him to indorse notes or TO help them buy
homes waste their time in writing TO him
He Is not, as some Individuals seem to i'm
agine in the business of furnishing cash to
lift the mortgages from old family estates
threatened with foreclosures. Applicants
for cups. saucers and other bric-a-brac. to
remember the Executive Mansion by. should
address their requests. though not too hope
IulIy, TO Sinclair. the steward.
The Correspondence.
Even the kilograms addressed to Mr.
Cleveland rarely get beyond Private Secre-
tary Thurber. The President. by the way,
conducts most Of his daily correspondents
with Officers Of the executive departments
by the wire which connects the latter with
the White House. He communicates with
the capitol in the same manner. A very
iaoorious part OF his business consists in
signing his name TO documents. Early In
s s,lis administration an old friend OF his
spsri. a hour with him in his Office. At the
ehu OF mat time the visitor remarked: ION
eile "hole, Grover 1 don't know that I envy
You your job" Said Mr. Cleveland In reply:
., nou We, We no call to. Jim Another annoy
ahce which the President has TO nut up with
Is inflicted by delegations which Visit him
rom an parts Of the country He has got
20 pe poilte 10 them. though they take IN
f,Il,, rnadoie uine and bore him dread
Le "a Usually they wish to urge the Claims
Oh candidates for Offices
oh me DAYS Mr.. Cleveland manages To
ger our sometimes for drive. in which he
r. Always accompanied by Mrs Cleveland.
Ihough he has five beautiful carr5acss Sn
ciuding landau, brougnam Victoria ana
phaeton-the last his wife's own veb,ciaN
ns p.eiefs a surrey, which has less style
aoout than any OF the others willis.
me white House coachman drives NJ
leouhan goes along to add to the swell
e1ect OF the turnout, though a groom.
aNallable Tor that purpose is emnloy.a ~
me stable Once in a while the Presidart
hhds time to go to the theater 1t was al
Ine urgent recommendation of James q.
blaine That the District Commissioners
some years ago required the theaters OF
washington to adopt electric lights He
insisted that such precaution against
Ife was much more Important here than In
ony o,her city In the country. because II
o;ten happens that a play is attended by
the chlef magistrate, the members of his
CABINET and other conspicuous mon an the
same night. Thus catastrophe of this
sort might actually wipe out at one stroke
the principal men in the nations affairs.
leaving the ship Of state without captain
or officers.
One Day To Himself.
one day in each week Mr.. Cleveland re-
serves to himself Sunday he devo.es IN
getting acquainted with his family ana 70
appropriate amusements. On that day he
does no work unless 1t is absolutely recess
sary. In the morning ne attends divine
service at the First Presbyterian Church.
ne would even prefer that friends should
not visit the White House on this holiday.
he is very fond of playing with the chill
dren, though he is not expert like cen
Harrison IN making up bear stories for the
entertainment of the little ones Even
bapy Eutn' however. is not old enough yet
20 appreciate bear stories. Mr. Cleveland
Is hardly nimble enough to indulge I'm nil
low nights at which his predecessor was q
proficient.
Though so hard a worker Mr.. Cleveland
hugely enjoys a vacation. He is q thor
ousngoing sportsman and a very fair
snet IN this respect he is superior TO Cen
HARRISON, who on one melancholy occasion
alsubSaished himself by knocking over a
tame hog in mistake for a coon He thinks
great run TO pop at ducks from behind
blind, for which amusement the Chesa-
peake anords unusual facilities; but be-
yond al things he loves to troll for blue
| nsh. 1t is not very often that he gets
| time 10 use the billiard table which Presi-
dent Garfield put up in the basement Of
| the White House. but he is fairly cxpert
at that game. He plays a good hand at
| whist and is rather strong at poker. ac-
cording to the testimony of intimate
friends who have contended with MIN at
| a small limit.
One OF the penalties Of being President a.
10 be abused No matter what Mr.. Cleve-
| land does, he is violently attacked from
some quarter. No matter whom he ap-
points for an Office the nomination is
/ sure TO be termed unpopular" No man
| has ever oeen represented in the pictorial
prints in greater variety of unpleasant
l guises. Fortunately, he is gifted with a
profound Indifference TO popular clamor.
| In that respect he may be compared with
| Gen Grant. The latter cared not at all
/ for the attacks of the caricaturfsts
| though his wife did. Napoleon Mckinley
processes to be equally Indifferent on the
| subject. He once said to the writer:
| Cartcaturists are great makers and unmak-
ers of public men," Probably they have
| done him more good than harm. Gov.
| Flower likes to be caricatured, but John J.
| ingalls, frankly confesses that comic por-
traits of himself are very painful 10 him.
/ 1t is certainly very interesting to compare
| the physical characteristics Of Mr.. Cleve-
land as represented pictorially by friendly
I artists with the presentments of himself
by unfriendly pencils. RENE BACHE.