The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-06
soCIETYS ANNUAL SUMMERING
WAsHINGTON's SMART SET TAKING
IT'S YEARLY OUTING.

weather Permissible Vice Presi-
dent at the Cameron Mansion.
Summer Homes of the Presidents
OmciaI Family.
| Washington, D. c., June 3.-"What is
so rare as a day In June?" is a pertinent
query in Washington just now. where for
weeks the thermometer has been mark
ing lower temperature than the Oldest in
habitant remembers in any previous sea-
son. When this city of Magnificent Dis
tances" is at its best-as in spring time
no pleasure resort in the country can equal
1t for perfection of climate and general
comfort of living. Its broad streets and
Incompatible avenues, smooth and clean as
board floors, shaded upon either side by
beautiful trees, make it a very paradise
for cycling, driving and horseback riding
Innumerable parks, all adorned with stat
ues, fountains and flowers, with benches
set in shaded hooks, tempt the loiterer;
the marine band entertains the resident
world four afternoons of every week-in
the white house grounds, the capital
grounds, the navy yards and Fort Meyer;
several of the opera houses, cool
ed by electric fans, offer Summer at
| fractions Cat summer prices); electric
cars speed into the green and fragrant
country, in all directions, beyond the limits
Of the District of Columbia; and railway
trains carry excursionists, in two or three
hours to the mountains and mineral
springs of Maryland and Virginia.
In ordinary seasons Washington is swell
tering by the middle of May, and everybody
not absolutely tied here HES to cooler re-
gions; but this year. thanks to the re-
markable lingering of spring in summers
lap, the exodus has not yet begun. Few
members Of the official or diplomatic cir
cles will leave before congress adJourns-
which may not be until the middle of
July; unofficial upper tendon always fol-
lows closely in the wake of these leaders
of fashion, and would-be "sassiety" tags
religiously after Therefore, Washington
is enjoying an unparalleled second sea-
son." scarcely less gay than that of the
winter, but with difference in the char
acter of Northumberland parties,
lawn fetes, picnics and tallyho excursions
predominating. President and Mrs. McKln-
ley will probably remain here most of the
summer, if not every bit of 1.-THE first
time, by the way, that a presidential fam
lily has done it in many years The Pres
ident rides his new kentucky thoroughbred
every morning and evening, and Mrs. Nc
Kinley goes in her carriage, neither ever
seeming to tire of the charming suburban
roads. The President, too, takes as much
pleasure as a boy in the several short trips
he has made; and a number of similar
kind, have been arranged for the near flu
ture. But they have been found rather
too fatiguing for Mrs. Mckinley; and as
she cannot CO. dneither will the ladies of
the cabinet participate in the official
junkets.
The Vice President will house-warm his
new quarters In the Cameron mansion by
entertaining his official family, the Unit
ed States Senate, and the President and
his official family, the cabinet on the
evening of June L. Mrs. Hobart feels that
she can make herself entirely comforta-
bic here-an summer, If congress con-
cludes TO tarry so long. When ex-Sena-
tor Cameron bought the commodious old
house facing Lafayette square, the most
beautiful park in District of Columbia
he had the interior almost entirely torn
out and transformed 1t into an up-to-date
abode, or, as the real estate agents say,
with all modern Improvements" The
front entrance is under a projecting oriel
window, which is supported by stone pill
lars. II is now an English basement af-
fair, with a reception room and office in
wants hall and kitchen in the rear. The
| drawing room on the second floor, has
| long French windows opening on a steep
| rooted veranda; the veranda always hor-
| dered with flower boxes, which have long,
| trailing vines The library, diningroom
| and pantry are on this floor, at the east
| end, and the bedrooms above All are
| richly and appropriately furnished, for the
Vice President is one of the very wealthy
men of this administration. The draw
| ingroom is in delicate tints, gilt furniture
upholstered in pale satins, harmonlzing
with the ivory-white woodwork The man
sion is painted light yellow outside, to ac-
cord with its semi-colonial style of archi-
| lecture
1t is already spoken OF as the Cream
| white house." for Mrs. Hobart is born
| leader of society, and whatever social
gaieties are lacking in the real white
| house, close by, with It's invalid mistress,
will probably be more than made up by
the Presidents first assistant.
| Secretary and Mrs. Sherman have often
| remained late in Washington, during his
many years in the Senate when sessions
| have been long protracted so they will
/ feel no extraordinary hardship in keep
ing the McKlnleys company all summer
| II need be. Indeed, II Is said in some
quarters that there is not warm blood
enough In the whole Sherman family to
feel the heat Of any zone. The Secretary
/ OF state and his wife are very early rlsers.
| They are usually down stairs before 6
| o'clock in the morning, and breakfast is
over and the days duties well under way
while the neighbors are yet deep in their
morning maps. But then, beauty sleep"
would be quite wasted on this elderly
| couple; and no doubt the secretary owes
much OF his worldly success to the early
bird business while others were mapping.
Secretary and Mrs. Gage have leased the
handsome residence OF Mr.. Francis c.
Newlands. at Chevy Chase. In the near
suburbs OF Washington, Just across the
district line; and their married daughter
Mrs. Pierce, OF Chicago, will probably
| spend most OF the summer there with
them. II is the ideal country place. the
broad verandas. which surround the house
on all sides, overlooking velvety lawns,
which cover 10000 square feet OF ground
laid out with walks and beautiful shrub
bery-and beyond, the rolling meadows,
now green as emerald, through which the
Potomac winds like a silver ribbon, and
the distant blue OF the Virginia hills.
When this aristocratic suburb was first
laid out by the Chevy Chase Company.
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