Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-24
IN EXECUTIVE MANSION
President Roosevelt Takes Pos
session OF the White House
at Washington.
Ate Dinner There and Slept In
the Room Occupied by
Mckinley.
Personal Effects Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Mckinley Removed. Shake
Up In Army.

Twas at half mast, thus being a double
signal of the passing of one president
land the coming Of another. The officia
world in Washington does not really &c.
lcept president as such until he actual
~ comes into the white house, and II
has been extremely difficult for many
4 people to realize the great change which
has taken place, because Presiden,
Roosevelt has been living a half mile
from the white house, and has beer
world like a cabinet officer or a high
grade department. clerk.
4 Monday. however, the president
moved his personal belongings into the
white house, and the ordinary routine
Twas re-esta blished. He broke off work
at the noon hour and took lunch with
his two brothers-in-law, Commander
Cowles and Douglas Robinson, and Pri-
vate Secretary Loeb. This first official
lmeal in the white house was extremely
i informal, and the time was largely ta-
ken up with the discussion of official
matters.
/ In the evening President Roosevelt
dined with Commander and Mrs.
lCowles. Mr.. and Mrs. Robinson, and
Secretary Cortelyou. This dinner was
1.-THE complete changes In the personages
was much a dinner as the president and
Mrs.. Mckinley had been having day
after day for years.
This was q trying night for President
Roosevelt, because he spent 1t alone in
the white house, save for the attend
ants, and his taking possession Of the
executive mansion could not fail to
awaken memories which were extreme
lily painful to all the attaches. Col.
Roosevelt himself was deeply affected
at dinner time.
Mrs. Roosevelt and some Of the chil-
lidren are expected tomorrow. and by
that time matters Will be adjusted in
the white house to such an extent that
the uncanny feeling which was SO gem
orally remarked last night will have
disappeared.
When President Roosevelt took up
his residence in the white house today.
the last of the personal effects of Mrs.
mckinley and of her lamented hus-
band had been packed away in boxes
/ in the basement of the mansion ready
for shipment to Canton tomorrow. The
work of collecting and packing these
effects was performed by trusted SER
wants of the late president and Mrs.
Mckinley, under the supervision of
Secretary Cortelyou and Colonel Bing-
ham, superintendent of public build
ings and grounds.
Various boxes and pieces of furniture
of which there are large number will
be sent by express. addressed to Mrs.
Mckinley.
President Mckinley and his wife had
only little furniture of their own in
the white house, all necessary articles
of that sort being provided by the gov
eminent. but of clothing and bric-a-
brac and various valuable souvenirs of
William McKinley's term in Office there
Is large stock.
Some of the articles are of consider
able intrinsic value, and among the
number are at least score or two that
will be dearly priced by Mrs. Mckinley
as mementos of her husbands great
career and as reminders of the loving
esteem in which he was held by his
people.
est intrinsic value which have been
given President Mckinley during the
last five years were stored away in
other places for safe keeping there
are still large number OF things in
the white house which represent n
large value even as old gold and silver.
Among these are the beautiful vases
presented to the late president by the
president of France. a solid gold plate
Weighing at least two or three pounds.
presented to Mr.. Mckinley last spring
by the knights Tenplar of California,
and other articles made of precious
metals, deliberately embossed and en-
graved with appropriate inscriptions.
All these presents Mr.. Mckinley kept
in his library in the white house. some
of them in plain view of such visiting
intimate friends as he some times re-
ceived there
The late president also had con-
siderable number of books in this
library and in other rooms in tile pri-s
vate part of the mansion, which were
his personal property, ;lnd which will
be shipped to the Canton home of his
widow.
During the first three years of his adj
ADMINISTRATION the president had a num-
Der of pieces of furniture in the private
apartments of the white house, but
when his Canton home was remodeled
and enlarged these We're removed
thither SO that there is now practically
nothing in the way of chairs, tables,
bureaus, or other pieces of household
furniture remaining in the executive
mansion.
In the selection of Colonel Whitney as
an aid to the president gossips around
the department buildings see the evil
dence of prospective shaking up at
army headquarters, which may have
sensational results. AS every one knows
there has been long and bitter feud
between Lieutenant General Miles and
Adjutant General Corbin. When Col
onel Roosevelt signed the round robin
at Santiago advising that the army be
Immediately taken away from that city
Adjutant General Corbin was rather
pronounced in his criticisms, and later
on went on record as being opposed to
granting medal OF honor to Colonel
Roosevelt.
1t has been supposed, therefore, that
President Roosevelt would naturally al
~ himself with General Miles rather
than with General Corbln. This theory
seems to be borne out by the designa-