The Washington times., 1901-10-04

( After President Madison, President
| Monroe occupied the pew. He was in the
! habit of walking over from the White
| House every Sabbath morning. and sell
| dom missed a communion. That was in
the days when nearly everybody in
| America was member of the Church of
| England. After Monroe. Martin Van
! Buren worshipped at St. Johns. During
the short month that William Henry
Harrison was in Office before his death,
he attended services at the church. and
Tyler and Zachary Taylor were both reg
ular attendants. President Arthur was
noted for the regularity Of his attendance,
| as were< also Presidents John Quincy
Adams, Andrew Jackson, Millard Fill
more, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan.
Andrew johnson and General Winfield
Scott, and Chief Justice Chase. Within
the church windows tablets have been
placed to the memory of the Presidents.
Tn Rev. Alexander Mackay-Smit one
of the most prominent clergymen of the
Episcopal Church. is the pastor. AT the
present time he IS attending the Episco-
pal conference at San Francisco. Mrs.
Roosevelt will probably attend her first
services at st. Johns on Sunday, before
he returns. Mrs. Roosevelt has entered
her daughter Ethel in the Washington
Diocesan School, the cathedral school OF
which Bishop satterlee is the head.
Miss Alice Roosevelt will not come to
Washington until the latter part of the
month. It is her intention to come to
Washington with her father when he re-
turns from the bi-centennial exercises at
Yale. where he is to receive an honorary
degree.
Tne President deema the relations be-
tween employers and employees one of the
most important economic questions of the
day. He will deal at some length with
the interests of organized labor in his
message to Congress. President Samuel
Gompers, of the American Federation of
Labor, accompanied by Ralph NJ. Easley,
Secretary of the National Civil Fedora
tion, called on the President yesterday
and formally requested him to make
reference in his message to Congress to
the expiration Of the Chinese Exclusion
act in March, 1902, and also to mention
the Elght-hour Day bill which has been
before Congress for a considerable time.
They spoke to him of the proposed Ma
tional Industrial Conference to be called
for the purpose of enabling representa-
tives Of great industries and of great
labor organizations to come to a better
understanding. Mr.. Roosevelt expressed
himself heartily IN sympathy with the
idea.
Representative Babcock had quite a
long talk with the President yesterday,
ana thinks that ex-Representative White,
of North Carolina, would be a credit To
any position the Administration can pro-
vide for him. He recommended Mr.. White
to President Roosevelt as a splendid eX-
ample Of the progressive. educated negro:
II Is said that President Mckinley had
contemplated appointing Mr. White to an
authorship.
President Roosevelt does not desire any
changes made in the White House
Charles A. Moore, clerk of the Senate
District Committee, in the course of CON
versatiOn with the President respecting
the plans Of the Park Commission, spoke
incidentally Of the contemplated enlarge
ment OF the White House, whereupon
President Roosevelt said that neither he
nor Mrs. Roosevelt desired any altera-
tons.
Henry Pincleney is now the steward of
the White House. having been appointed
to succeed w. T. Sinclair, the former
steward. Ever since President Roosevelt
was Governor of New York Pinckney has
been his body servant. He understands
thoroughly the business Of his new posi-
tion. which carries salary Of $500 per
annum.
Col Russell B. Harrison saw the Presi-
dent for a quarter Of hour yesterday.
When departing Colonel Harrison stated
that the call had been purely soc al He
and the President were clOseis' associated
twenty years ago in the West. when the
/ former was an officer of the Montana
Cattle Growers Association. They were
comrades on many hunting trips and in
a number Of exciting episodes Of life on
the plains.
On October President Roosevelt will
touch a button which will set in motion
all the machinery of the annual carnival
at Richmond, Va, which opens on that
day. A committee from that city called
upon the President yesterday morning and
requested that he perform this formality
which he promised to do. The deIegat ton
was composed OF l.. Il. Morris, Wyndham
r. Meredith. and John S. HarwOod
Among other callers at the White
House were Representatives. Maddox and
Fox, Prof. Langley. Of the Smithsonian
Institution; Justice Bradley. of the Su-
preme Court of the District Of Columbia;
Senator Foraker and Miss Foraker Sec
retary Hitchcock, and Charles Mage, of
ST. Louis. and +. II. McCaull of Virginia