Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-20
At THE WHITE HOUSE
Work Of Tearing Down Going
on in Earnest.
NO MORE DELEGATIONS
THE EPWoRTH LEAGUERS RE-
CEIVED TODAY.
Arrangements in Regard to Presidents
Western Trip-Immigration
Office Troubles.
NO MORE DELEGATIONS

| Eyes, the new Office building for the
| President will undoubtedly be permanent
| said Representative Cannon, who called at
| the White House today, and who is one of
the House conferees on the sundry civil
| bill. THE architects and Others" he con-
! tinued, may speak of it as temporary, but
Congress intends that it shall be perma-
| nent.''
| At the White House and elsewhere the
| understanding until a few days ago, was
that the new Office building was to be tenn
porary to last only until Congress had
come to some conclusion as to a building or
| larger and more magnificent proportions.
Then the Senate and House conferees who
| called at the White House stated, as here
| tofore published IN The Star, that the new
building, which will not cost over $6OOOO
| is to be the permanent home of all future
| Presidents.
Tearing Down Goes On.
! Many workmen employed by Norcross
| Bros, contractors, are now engaged in and
! around the White House tearing down
| buildings and removing furniture, lumber
] and all kinds of articles. The famous east
| room is not only being dismantled and torn
| almost to pieces, but the greenhouses on
| the west side of the building are being de-
| mOilSheQ. Every greenhouse DtlNeSH lHe
| Executive Mansion proper and the state
| War and Navy building will disappear ana
| on their sites will be erected a permanent
| Office building for the President of the
| United States and his executive force.
| Even the celebrated conservatory is to COM
| pletely disappear, and it will be rebuilt into
| a covered walkway between the Presidents
| home and his Office. The walkway Will be
| private.
| The work now contemplated will put
| stop to the talk that has gone on Tor years
| of spending a large amount of money in
i building wings to the White House or of
putting up fine building for presidential
| residence in some other part of the city.
| After the permanent office building is COM
pleted the White House will become the
| home of Presidents and their families, and
! the long stairway will never again echo to
| the tramp of importuning office seekers and
| politicians
| The general plan provides for most of the
| appropriation to be spent on the interior of
| the White House. The east room, state
dining rooms, red, green and blue pariors
! will be radically changed. The entrance to
| the building for the Presidents family and
| for all visitors, even during the height OF
| the social season, will be in the present
| basement at the east end of the building
! right under the east room. Cloak rooms
| and accommodations for thousands OF
guests during the winter presidential recep-
tions will be provided in the basement.
| The entrance to the basement will be
| through an approach corresponding in
| shape and appearance to the conservatory
| that now sits on the west side. This con-
| servatory already stated, is to be con-
| verted into a paSsageway from the White
| House to the Presidents office. The ap-
| proach on the east side will, therefore, cor
| respond in an architectural way to the
| altered conservatory building. Carriages
! will reach the east approach by way OF
| Executive avenue between the Executive
| Mansion and the Treasury Department
| The conservatory and greenhouses are to
be placed elsewhere in the White House
/ The conservatory erected by
| President Hayes, whose wife dearly loved
| flowers. The foundation for the conserva-
| tory is the walls of the old stables where
| Jackson and others kept their blooded
| horses There was also an icehouse near
| the stable that held ice cut from the Poto-
| mac and Kennebec rivers and supplied cool
| ness for the mint juleps of Presidents.
| The Presidents Office building will fill the
space between the White House and the
! State, War and Navy building. 1t will be
especially arranged to suit President Roose-
| velts views of how the Office of a chief ex-
| ecutive ought to be constructed.
Will Curtail Visitors.
| It was announced at the White House to-
| day that the repairs now going on in the
building and to continue during the sum-
| mer will greatly curtail the number OF WIS.,
| itors who can see the President. 1t is
| stated that cabinet officers. senators and
| representatives and those having the most
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be admitted. No more delegations will be
| received by the President. as there will be
| no room for them The last delegation to
| be admitted was from the Epworth League
| today. The league is in session in this
| city.
| The White House was full of plaster dust
today, and the cabinet transacted business
| to the loud sound of hammers saw and
other instruments being used to demoIish
the interior of the east room.
| Not only is the east room being torn IN
| the furniture in the building is being re-
| moved to storage quarters. Within few
days there will be just sufficient furniture
| Tor the Presidents S bedroom and for tho ON
| tertainment of guests at meals It is nos
sible that the President will find it neces
sary to remove to another home until the
| work Of renovation is completed
superintendent Woods Called In.
The views of the President in the matter
OF the office building to he erected and the
| reconstruction and refurnishing of the
! White House were ascertained for the i,e,,z-
| fit Of the members of the conference COM
| mittee of the House and Senate on the SUM-
dry civil bill. through a conference held
| yesterday afternoon a the White House
| Mr.. Elliott Woods, superintendent of the
| Capitol and Architect McKim were in cor
sultation with the President for more than
| an hour. Mr. Woods went to the White
| House at .he suggestion Of the conference
| committee. The President was apprised of
| this fact, and the President the two archi-
tects and Secretary Cortelyou went over
| every detail in the plans The later report
Of Mr. Woods to the conference committee.
| at once settled the matter so far as the an
preparation for the work is concerned and
| a partial report on the sundry civil bill to
! include these items was at once agreed
upon for report to the House and Senate
today.
The Presidents Trip West.
Mayor William c. Maybury of Detroit
accompanied by Senator Mcmillan, today
saw the President and completed arrange
ments for the visit of the latter to Detroit
upon the occasion of the convention of the
Spanish war veterans in that city in Sep
tember The President win arrive in De-
troit Sunday morning, September p, going
there direct from Cincinnati, which city he
will visit September 20 The President will