The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-29

change for the worse, and, like the east
room, suggest the saloon OF a river steam
beat.
Reports have been industriousIy spread
abroad that it was intended to turn the
east room into state dining room. There
is no foundation for this beyond the fact
that, as the present state dining room was
adapted only for the president his wife
and fifty guests, and II is sometimes in
cumbent on a president nova days to
entertain more than fifty at once 1t is
deemed desirable to bear this in mind in
altering the east room, 50 that resort can
be had to it in emergencies. The plan OF
treatment for the east room will have for
its central idea, however, the restoration
of the style of a great drawing room of
century ago as far as practicable.
A considerable change is contemplated
in the entrance hall, where the Tiffany
screen" of colored glass has been one
of the familiar features for over twenty
Years. Considerable study has been given
at different times 10 the question, what
could be done with this screen TO improve
1T, and the conclusion finally reached
seems to be that it must be improved out
of existence if at all.
For Residence Purposes Only.
This is incidental, of course. to the
removal Of the clerical force from the
White house proper, and the return of the
latter to the purposes of a family resi-
dence for which it was originally design
ed If the horde of visitors on all sorts
OF business errands were to continue pour,
ing through the main hall TO get to the
stairway leading to the officers, there
could be no privacy for the presidents
family from the hour the screen disap-
peared. The essential change once made.
however, there would be no longer any
objection to throwing into one large hall
the present entry and the private corridor
Behind the screen This would produce
grand effect on entering the building
and was undoubtedly what the first archi-
tect had in mind. There need be no pre-
tence Of shutting out the public: silk
rope stretched from east to west on about
the present line of the screen. when the
prsident's family were using the parlors.
would answer every purpose as a re-
mlnder and curiosity-se visitors to
the house could still see a good deal
more than they do now without trespass-
ing upon the forbidden ground.
The proposal to remove the clerks from
the second story offices raises at once the
question of new quarters for them; these
it is expected to secure by putting up a
temporary building in the space which in
tervenes between the west end of the
conservatory and the highway on that
side. This will probably be one story
nigh, built Of brick and painted white
1t can have dry, well ventilated base
ment for the plumbing accommodations
and for the storage of the files. which at
present are very inconveniently slowed
away.
Where Jefferson Held Forth.
This is where Thomas Jefferson had his
Office when he was president, following
the fashion of the fine Virginia houses Of
his Gay; some traces of the foundations
OF his building are still visible.
The new house would be temporary in
character. and distinctly designed only to
serve overflow purposes till a permanent
edifice could be built in accordance with
the palm of the Burnham Commission
The obpjection has been raised that not
enough floor space could be put into such
building, in the little corner allotted to
1t for a site. But the answer to this is
that there is sufficient ground in the anglo
to get a floor space of from 5000 to 5000
square feet in the clear, whereas now the
office business is shut into paltry $500
The president would still keep his private
office or work-room in the White house
probably next to the library, and use the
conservatory for going back and forth
between his home and his place of busi-
ness.