The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-22
THE HAYES SlDEB ARD
JOHN WESLEY QAINEs's, FIGHT
 FOR SENTIMENT.
saloonkeepsr Arranging to Take the White House Relies to Worlds Fair and Furnish . Bar
 room With Them.

Washington, April 2L--<speciaD-Con gressman John Wesley Gaines of Tennes- see did e signal service for pure seni- ment when In the House. at the last ses- sion of the Fffty-seventh Congress. he attacked the ruthless desecration of the executive mansion Of the United States by the reckless sale of furniture and treasured belongings of unquestionable historic value. A curious aftermath of the good work of Mir. Gaines is now coming along. It will be remembered that he call ed attention to the sale Of magnificent chandelier. which afterward turned out to have been presented to President An drew Jackson by Gen. Robert Patterson of Philadelphia, to whom 1t was a gift nally came from the grsat Napoleon Bc- naparte. Another interesting piece of fur niture which was sold from the White House was a beautiful sideboard, which Of President at Rusberfosa B s Hayes, es Sy Tas ths W c. T. U. of CinciuhAti.
 When MT. Gaines had called attention to these things in speech full of im- tired saloon keeper. went to the Capitol and informed the Tennessee Congressman about the Hayes sideboard. MT. Frank said he had bought the sideboard at sale QA w Alt6 IxOQSG FIutnitaIG idSI JdnudIy and had placed 1t in his saloon in this
 MT. Frank is going this week to Cincin. natl to establish in proper form the fact Hayes, as reported. He is provided witf clues by Col. Webb Hayes, son of the de ceased President, who came here to buy | back the handsome furniture with. thu
 Ssa or sSnH 6 Hayins 'ss asSS nome in hi purpose. Mir. Frank will go to St. Louii
 to close a deal for the display of thu
 sideboard. together with other Whit.
 came out of the East Room, at the St
 Louis Exposition. Franks first msisior
 at Cincinnati will be to establish, if pos
 sibfe. the story that the highly artistic
 work of a Cincinnati woman.
 What Mir. Frank paid for the sideboart
 is quite song compared to the value ! now promises to assume. Colonel Bing House furniture. superintendent of pub lie buildings and grounds. stated tha the sideboard was purchased by the gov
 ernment from William D. Fry of Cincin
 ness Mir Frank has had the sideboard se | up in his own dining room at ar Mary land Avenue, Northwest. this city. Th'
 fiattering offers the present owner has re | ceived for the article leads him to be lieve he has a small fortune in his dininl room with it's White House additions. H.
 states that he has been proffered $l0.00 for the entire lot, that one firm offeres
 him for the sideboard alone 5000.
 Various St. Louis breweries have mad overtures to Mir. Frank looking to tn establishment of a bar in St. Louis durin! the exposition in which the furniture wil
 be placed as an allurement Tor pipulou visitors with possible historic penchant The bar is to be fashioned after the Eas Parlor of the White House. It Is towar' the consummation of this proposition tha | RT, nE vviI nNntfnUa hiR trin iron Cincinnati to St. Louis.
 Thus 1t appears that the beautiful gif l of the Ohio woman's Christian Temper ance Union to Hrs. Lucy Webb Hayes the good woman who got next to thei hearts by. refusing to have wine serve
 at the White House tables. is destine to do service in a St. Louis beer saloon.
 Tt Is a reeling world. indeed, my lord