The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-14

and TO be carefully guarded by an
/ augmented police force. Hereafter the
| Threshold of the main front door can
| be crossed only by the chief executive
and those whom he specially invites.
| The public win be admitted in the
basement. as il were, at the door of the
new East wing. opposite the Treasury
Department Passing through the lower
hallway. the visitor will turn to the
/ right and ascend a staircase TO the
/ East Room and the parlors above. The
| servants quarters and the laundry.
which were formally in the basement.
have been transferred to the west wing.
on the site Of the splendid old conser-
vatory, which has also vanished from
the face of the earth That
ancient landmark will be sadly
missed All our Presidents wives
have loved ii, especially the late Mrs
Harrison, and Mrs. Mckinley. who
spent much time in its leafy seclusion.
AT all private receptions since time out
OF mind. the conservatory has been
open TO all invited guests. who rightly
considered a ramble through the cleo
tric-lighted wonders of the floral king
dom large part of the evenings en-
tertainment. From il have been gath
cred the flowers and plants that have
decorated the mansion for all great
functions. and many of the choicest
fruits that have adorned its tables
Orchids were its speciality, giant palms
and acacias. A new conservatory viii
be built by and by on the most up-to-
date plan. 1t will be located directly
south of the executive offices, compar-
atiVely inaccessible to evening guests
at the White House. 1t will be reach
ed by winding paths through imitation
italian gardens, or by a walk which
Will be laid on the roof of the servants
quarters. All the plaster designs and
ornaments to be used in the new build
ing are being nodded on the premises,
the old Blue Room being filed with
casts and material in different degrees
Of completion. There are shields and
swords, miniature colonades, spread
eagles rampant and eagles with a pen
sive expression like that on our silver
dollars, which seem to be musing on
the legend inscribed beneath: I'm God
We Trust'-for the lacking five cents
II does not seem possible that order
can be brought out of all this chaos
by Oct. 1.-The date set for the Presi-
dents return; but Contractor French
says that he hopes to accomplish it
The new building in the rear of the
mansion, built for the executive offices.
looks at this writing, exactly like a
third rate stable. Every strang-
er, in looking at it for the first
time, would come to the natural con-
clusion that it was the home of the
Presidents horses, and would wonder
why it was placed so near the house.
In the opinion of nearly everybody but
the strenuous" Roosevelts, who go
ahead on their impulses regardless Of
sentiment, it would have been inf1n-
itely better to have taken the historic
old mansion for offices, preserving in
tact its general characteristics and to
have built a new White House up to
date as desired, on the ample govern
ment grounds adjacent.
The Secretary of the Treasury and
Mrs. Shaw and their daughters re-
turned to Washington the latter part
of the week and have re-opened their
home on Massa chusetts avenue.
Contrary to popular expectation, Miss
Shaw, the eldest daughter, will not en-
ter Washington society this winter.
She left on Monday. for Cornell, Ia,
to complete her collegiate course. Her
younger sister, Miss Errna Shaw, will
remain in Washington and attend a
private school. The only son of the
family, a youth still in college, will
also come to the capital for the win
ter. He is now returning from a trip
through Alaska. Mrs. Knox has been
here off and on lately, dividing her
time between her home and husband
here, and Atlantic City, where the fam
lily spent the summer, and Miss Knox
still tarries. Mrs. Miles, wife of the
general of the army, who will accom-
pany her husband on his trip through
the Philippines. has gone to Hot
Springs, Va, to make a farewell visit
to her daughter, Mrs. Reber.
Society is divided in its opinion as
to whether or not Mrs. Roosevelt did
. the right thing, in her position as
First Lady, of America, in refusing
to meet the Grand Duke Boris on his
visit to this country. The youthful
rake of the royal Romanoff blood, first
cousin to the Car of the Russias, has
certainly trotted through his american
tour at a very fast pace. With the as
sistance of his dissipated-looking
suite, and those Americans who wor-
ship titled foreigner, to say nothing
of innumerable soubrettes and shop
girls-he has literally painted red"
every town he has so far struck. Hav-
ing heard of his astonishing exploits
from Chicago to New York, in the line
of fizz- guzzling. delirious dining with
female dancer on the table and wine
drinking out of chorus girls slippers
it is an open question as to whether
even the Presidents wife, who is also
lhC AiiOthSt VI SOQllS QduSuteTS is conn.,
PEELED by International courtesy to
admit such a fellow to her respecta-
bic home. Newport society is notorious
ly untroubled by any such squeam-
ishness-so that the visitor be rich or
titled. There the Grand Duke is in
great demand, from dawn till dark and
thence again till morning; and the en-
tertainments planned should keep him
respectfully amused up to the very
minute of his departure. The spectacu-
lar record he scored in New York and
Chicago seem to be in keeping with
the traditions of his family-if cabled
accounts be true of the doings of his
sister. the Grand Duchess Helena. 1t
is said that her new husband Prince
Nicholas of Greece, has been made
aware of the fact that she had pre-
viously loved and attempted to run
away with a young student, who was
to plebeian to aspire to her hand in
marriage. Thereupon. the groom.
being furiously jealous and
with manifest reason, said
things quite unfit for publication
and the result made a very thrilling
story.
Anent the much written-about Ouch
ess of Marlborough, whose visit to her
mother, Mrs. O. H. P Belmont, has
been made the occasion of slIch elah