The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-15
VISITORS TO
azE1
THE PRESIDENT
Neither Hot Nor Cold Seems to
Affect Them.
FILIPINOS PASS THROUGH
Thought That Secretary Porter May
Abdicate, and His Assistant, Cor
telyon, Will Get the Berth
Studying Golf Drinks.
FILIPIN0S PASS THROUGH

Washington, June 14-(Special.) -Neither
the heat nor the cold has any effect upon
the presidential visitors They came in as
great numbers last week when the Their
mometer was nearing the hundred point as
they did last winter when the mercury
dropped below zero. There were an I'M
usually large number OF callers last week,
and men and women sweltered and per-
spired for hours in the presidents ante
room while waiting to get word with him.
Mr. Porter used to say that on the hot
test and the coolest days there were more
visitors than at any other time This used
to bother the employees good deal until
they learned the fact that the state of the
weather was responsible for the crowds.
The hotter or the colder the day were the
chances the greater that the number of
people figured out to see the president.
The White House is not a comfortable
place in hot weather. The president does
not fret, however. He has the faculty of
taking things easily. He keeps cool and
lets the other person do the fretting. The
past week Is just the kind of weather Mrs.
Mckinley likes. She is very sensitive to
cold and is never as happy as when the
mercury goes over ninety. The president
prefers cold to warm weather. AS he said
the other day, one can get warm in winter,
but it is next to impossible to get cool in
summer. The presidents office has a south
ern exposure however, and looks out over
the Potomac, up which stream there some
times comes breeZes. All during this all
Washington was the second hottest place
in the country. Other cities changed first
places continually, but Washington was al
ways second to whichever happened to
comes first 1t is this record that causes
Mrs. Mckinley to love the capital as much
as she does. The White House is more @
living home during this administration than
it has been since the old days when the
presidents grew vegetables in the rear of
the mansion and kept their horses and car
riages on the place. Since the warm
weather set in the president and his wife
spend every evening on the southern por-
tico outside the blue parlor. Here they are
found by callers, who drop in after tea.
This portico is well shaded by vines and
clinging roses, so in the afternoons and
evenings it is not only delightfully."- cool
there, but fragrant with the odor of flow
erS.
BY the way, the presidents household
has gone back to the simple old custom
of having dinner In the middle of the day
and cold meats and tea in the evening
fers only a light meal at night.
Fiiipinos Pass Through
On Sunday the party of Filipinos that
were detained at San Francisco pending
the decision of the immigration bureau as
to whether they could come into this coun-
try under the labor contract laws, passed
through Washington it having been decid-
ed that they could enter, and are now on
their way to New York. The party con-
sisted of six men, four women and two
babies BY the time they reached the cap
ital they were so bewdered and astonished
at what they had seen in America that
they we're scarcely able to say what they
thought of this great country. The FLIP
mos were simply overwhelmed at the sight
of the capitol, and asked many questions
as to how the big white dome was held up
so high in the air. They were not so sur
prised at San Francisco, but they were
struck speeches. over the tall buildings in
Chicago. When they heard that the presi-
dent of the United States lived in Wash
ington and that they were so near him
they rolled their eyes in awe and wanted
to know if he lived in the top of the dome
of the capitol. They had gotten quite used
to the sleeping cars, and the porter had
hard time to get the women and children
up in the morning.
One of the Filipino men whose name was
Maxine and who was quite intelligent
and spoke broken English said:
America is a big country. Me no see
much of San Franciso, but Chicago big
place, much bigger Manila. Houses so
high. No wonder how people climb UP.
No houses like that at Manila" In talk
ing about Aguinaldo Maxine spoke of
him with great disgust upon his face and
indignation in his voice. He said: "Aguin-
aldo, he want to make money. He soon