The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-29

Algonquin's deck. Then Scotch bal.
lads were sung. and old-time war
songs. and the quiet banks of the Po-
| tomac echoed with the classic strains
| of Tramp. tramp. tramp. the boys
are marching. Cheer up comrades and
be gay!" Marching through Geor-
! gia," "Oh Susannah. Don't you cry
for me-" winding up with "Home again
| from a foreign Shore" when the
| Washington monument hove in sight.
| On the way down the Algonquin APP
| preached the Sylph. whose passengers
included Secretary Moody Speaker
| Henderson and Representatives Gillett
OF Massachusetts and Metealf of Cali
| fornia. The channel being blocked
| for the Sylph. she was forced to pull
down her flag; after which a frisky
i congressman, who shall be nameless,
raised megaphone and startled the
| waterfowl for miles around by shout
ing through it the remarkable Sunday
| query, Say, Dave, what's the ante?"
| Owing to their dilatoriness in the ear
| lier part of the session, or perhaps to
the obstinacy of a few in clinging 10
the bones of contention, the number of
| congressional travellers viii be slim
mer than ever this summer. There
will not be time enough left for ex-
| ploring parties to the uttermost eIas1
of the earth where now fly the Stars
and Stripes. Since Uncle Samuel be-
gan the work of charging his domain,
there have been many junketings from
House to Senate. to Cuba. Porto Rico,
| Hawaii and the Philippines. Last
| year every outgoing transport
across the Pacific was loaded down
with congressman; each of whom late
| freighted the Congressional Record
with his observations. There is one
| prospective possession which has not
yet been visited; but the pilgrims OF
the House will be making their way
thither after the fall elections. That is
| the Danish West Indies-the three lit
tie islands whose transfer yet hangs fire
| but which. sooner or later, are bound
| to be ours.
Few extensive vacations have so far
been planned among our lawmakers.
| Even the customary mild dissipation of
| fishing trips will be superseded by hard
campaign work, soon as ever Congress
| closes its doors. A few senators. whose
fences" will not need fixing for sew
| eral years to come. are going to Ha-
wall later in the summer, and a small
company will sail for Europe on six
weeks trip.
If you are fond of historic curios and
| want relic of the first water in the
| American line, now is your time to get
| it, while the old White House is under
| demolition. The tearing up of the
| floors in the East Room, particularly
have uncovered many marks of age.
The planks of the floor, put down a cen
| tury ago, have never been renewed
| They were held to the big Orders by
means of iron cleats. which look like
distant relations to a railroad spike.
! The bodies of these old-time nails are
| long and slender, but the heads are
| almost as big as ordinary butter-dishes
| Among them are many handmade
| nails, what are still more curious. Few
| of the present generation has any idea
| how the handmade nail of our great
| grandfathers looked. Naturally, there
| is great demand for souvenirs from the
work in the East Room, and the fore
man has his hands full to keep the
| curio-hunters at bay / may whisper
| in your ear. however, that by some
| mysterious hocus-pocus, known only to
| the powers that be, the coin of the
| realm, in the shape of quarters and
| half dollars, is nowadays frequently
| transmitted into old nails from the
| White House floors.
One of the finest building that has
| ever RTdCeQ w ION, dSlue lIOlh tllt
| government structures, will be the new
apartment house. about to be erected
| by Secretary of State, John Hay. A row
of very good houses, belonging to Mr.
Hay, on fashionable Connecticut ave
| nue., are being torn down to make room
for it, and muchused alley in the
square will be closed, as he is the own
er of all the abutting property. The
new building will be constructed o.
brown stone, brick and terra Gotta
eight stories high, with twelve suites
| of apartments upon each floor above
the first, each equipped with the mos
elegant of modern contrivances known
to up to-date fiat buildings, On the
| lower floor will be located an office,
| splendid cafe, and an immense Orienta
reception room. Everybody knows tina
| each suite of rooms in such a swell
apartment house rents for more per an
mum than the full amount of the aver
age mans salary. 1t does not require
the brain of a mathematician TO guess
! at Mr. Hays future income, from thi:
building alone, with it's eightyfoul
suites; to say nothing of the cafe. AND
then there is a good deal of other prop
| erty in Cleveland and elsewhere. Faith
| er-in-law Stone was a very wealthy
man, and Mrs. Hay his only daughter
Senator Pettus of Alabama, and Mrs
Pettus will quietly celebrate their fif'
ty-eighth wedding anniversary to-mor-
row at their home in Washington. They
are in mourning for their son, Stat
Senator Pettus, who recently died II
Alabama; so no further celebration
than the congratulations of theil
| friends is expected. Senator Pettus Il
81 years young and Mrs. Pettu'
| is Just two years behind him
She was Mary Chapman, only daughter
of a well-known Alabama judge, ant
and away back in the June of 1874, she
married a young fellow Ito fortune and
tc fame unknown" who studied law II
her fathers office and was Familiarity
known as Ed" Pettus. Both are In
vigorous health and in all human prob
ability will celebrate many more ami
versaries together. There is not 9
harder worker in Congress than /:
Senator Pettus to-day. One frosty
morning last winter an early visitor
wandered into a big office building
near the Capitol at o'clock and dis
/ covered she Senator from Alabama al
his desk, coat off, working like a wood
sawyer at a vast heap of letters. "UI
early, aren't you, SenatorY queriec
the visitor. "Oh, no." said Mr.. Pettus
| IT go to bed reasonably early every