Sunday morning globe., 1901-10-20

Yearly visitors to the White House have
grown TO look for the kindly face Of one Of
the ushers who is known by the familiar
title OF Pap" by his colleagues and by
those who enjoy the privilege of his ac-
quaintance. To those not so well known
to him Pap" is wont to spend much time
and care in the preparation Of personal
cards upon which, in quaint lettering he
writes the following:
THOS PENDEL.
ientered upon deuty S6l at the White House
1901.
These cards are treasured by people all
over the country and 1 have heard Mr.
Pendel tell with much pride of having
given them to representatives. of foreign
governments and dignitaries from every
known quarter of the globe.
NIr Peudel was appointed as doorkeeper
by President Lincoln and during this admin.
istration of our first martyed President he
acted as his body guard With a voice full
of pathos he today tells of the fact that OF
was the last man that lc, Lincoln out of the
White House the last night he went out
alive" 1t was hc too. who comiorted little
'radN Lincoln, who cried his heart out
when be learned of the death of his dis
tuguishcd father Itis interesting to hear
this faithful public servant tell of his ex-
perieuces as doorkeeper the White House
during The terms of Office of eleven presi.
dents. Many are the anecdotes, and many
the tragic incidents hecan recall. He is an
interesting narrator ofthese various events
so much so that one day said Pap why
dyn't you write a book about your expert
ence In the White House2
81 did try once, he said, but the fellow
that wrote 1t up for me got sick and lost my
manuscript. and ! gave IL up as a bad job %
told him that if he would come once a
week TO my Office and tell me the incident Is
in chronological order, would record them
just as he told them, and then put 1t in book
form for him He seemed pleased, and the
weekly sittings began All through the hot
summer evenings of 1900 he might have
been seen trudging up Pennsylvania ave.
nue. with his photographs and notes in hand,
bound for his biographer's office. 1 en-
ioyed the sittings, and we soon got the
thing in some sort Of shape, The next
question was what to call ''the sure-to. be-
famous book" He wanted it to bear the
title Of The Last Days Of Lincoln, "
but being rabid "Rebel gal" I did not
think this was so suitable a title as some
thing indicative of his own experience at
the White House so after much argument,
pro and con, we finally settled upon the
name, and ! drew it in bold characters
across the title page Here 1t is:
"ZHiyH-Sit IcayS Di Me UHiie H0USf.
en-, The Last DAYS az .I5yahaUi Linc0iU.H
Personal "reminiscences 9f Zh0ma5 PeUdsi.
bj the same
We had agreed TO divide the profits from
the sale of this book and so soon as the
title was settled upon we began to count
our net gains and found that we had made
at least 500, 900 clear money in less than six
months and had fame to burn Sad TO re-
late, however, these calculations were as
yet on paper-they are still on paper; for
poor Mr. Pendel fell among den of sharks
and his manuscript has been battered about
from pillar TO post by rascally and unprin-
cipaled publishers and It is doubtful If the
conscientious labor of last summer win
ever see the light of print unless I do all
the work over again, and that is hardly
likely