The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-10-01
MEMENT0ES OF M'KINLEY.
His Personal Effects Ready For Ship
ment to Canton-They Include
Many Articles of Value.

Many ArticS,s Of Value.
Washington special to New York
Sun: When President Roosevelt
took up his residence in the
white house. the last of the per-
sonal effects of Mrs. Mckinley and her
lamented husband 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 servants of the late president
and Mrs. Mckinley, under the SUPER
vision of Secretary Cortelyou and Col
onel Bingham, superintendent OF public
buildings and grounds. Various boxes
and pieces of furniture. of which there
is large number. will be sent by ex-
press addressed to Mrs. Mckinley.
President Mckinley and his wife had
only a little furniture Of their own in the
white house, all necessary articles Of
that sort being provided by the govern
ment. but Of clothing and bric-a-brac
and various valuable souvenirs Of Mr..
McKinley's term In Office, there is a very
large stock. Some of the articles are of
considerable intrinsic value. and among
the number are at least score or two
that will be dearly priced by Mrs. Nc
Kinley as mementoes of his great ca
reer and as reminders of the loving es-
TEEN in which he was held by the peo-
pie. Although some Of the presents of
greatest intrinsic value. which have
been given to President Mckinley during
the last five years, We're stored away in
other places for safe-keeping. there are
still very large number of things in
the white house which represent a large
value, even as old gold and silver.
Among these are the beautiful vases
presented to the late president by the
president of France solid gold plate,
weighing at least two or three pounds,
presented to Mr.. Mckinley last spring
by the Knights Templar of California,
and other articles made of the 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 sometimes re-
ceived there.
The late president also had consider
able number of books in this library and
in other rooms in the private part of
the mansion, which were his persona!
property and which will be shipped to
the Canton home of Mrs. Mckinley Dur
ing the first three years of his admin
istration the president had number of
pieces Of furniture in the private apart
ments Of the White house, but when his
Canton home was remodelled and en-
larged these were removed thither, so
that there is now practically nothing in
the way of chairs, tables, bureaus or
| other pieces of household furniture re-
| naming in the executive mansion.
| When the late president and Mrs. Nc
! Kinley went to Canton early in June the
| greater part of their personal wardrobes
| was carried there, but there remains
| here a large amount Of clothing besides
thousand-and-one odds and ends of
things such as alwayS9 accumulate in
every household. 1t wa4Dhot until today
that all these articles fere removed.
When new president comes into Office
it is usually known for months before
hand that he is to occupy the White
house, and the family of his predecessor
according makes arrangement for NOV
I ing out promptly at the expiration of
the presidential term. But Mr.. McKin-
ley's tragic death found his Washing
ton home as he had left it, and the days
Immediately after his passing away were
| 80 occupied with mourning that nothing
could be done toward preparing the pri-
vate part of the mansion for the new
presidents occupancy. Mr.. Roosevelt
urged especially that there should be
no haste in the matter, and he gave d.
rections that plenty Of time should be
taken for removing Mrs. McKinley's
effects in an orderly way.
| A part of the goods that will be ship
ped to Canton tomorrow consists of
souvenirs of President McKinley's ex-
| tensive tours over the Continent. Every
where he went in his travels, extending
over not less than thirty or forty thou
sand miles, he received some token Or
tokens of the esteem of his fellow citi-
zens. A president always receives many
! gifts also from notoriety seekers and
persons who are eager to displa" to the
president the results of their own handi-
work One man two or three years ago
gave to President McKinle" Il large
model of full-rigged ship with every
part of the vessel perfect in detail An
| other sent a bottle inside which had
been arranged a framework OF sticks,
| which causes one to marvel how it
| could have been constructed with only
| a small neck Of the bottle through which
| to work. President Mckinley ;eceiv
probably not less than forty or fifty
canes during the first administration
/ nearly all of them representing the
| handiwOrk of some veteran OF the civil
war or of some person who had occn-
pied idle moments in executing spect-
mems of rude skill in carving.
These are semples of hundrei is or ar
ticles that were presented to Mr.. NC
Kinley and which were presented &c
over not less than thirty or forty thou
| president during his term in the White
house. Mr.. Mckinley always had these
scrupulously preserved. although some
of them were rather cumbersome ana
bulky and of no possible value or inter-