The National tribune., 1903-07-30
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Louisiana Purchase Exposition. 1t is
pointed out that the District is about
the only piece of soil in the United States
that will not be represented ut the Expo
sition OF course. the Government is to
be represented by exhibits from every
Department. but there is no distinctively
District exhibit. For one thing, it is sug-
gested that the portraits of the Presidents
and their wives might be exhibited. On
the theory that Il prophet is not without
honor save in his own country. this might
serve to get the costly oil paintings of
these honored people out of the damp
basement of the White House. that is, if
'Architect McKim'' will permit them to
GO He is the autocrat of the White
House just now. 1t is also suggested that
large pictures of the White House, out
side and inside, as it appeared before the
vandals of the modern Colonial ideas got
hold of the ancient editice, might prove
interesting.
If the rare old carved wood Hayes
sideboard had not been sold to saloon
keeper. it might have been added to the
collection and filed with the few pieces
of old china that yet remain in the White
House. though most of these have been
fired up into the garret. from where they
will disappear as so many other things
have The Dolly Madison spoons would
have been worth looking at, but Mrs
Cleveland didn't like the heavy handsome
things. so had them put in the melting pot
and made over. The dozen that Dolly
had made three dozen for Mrs. Cleveland.
There are some rare old vases somewhere
about the White House that were pre-
sentei to early Presidents. but they Jar
red with the strange interior decora-
tions of AIcI[im. and are probably gather
ing dust somewhere. The rarely beauti-
full old white marble mantels which We're
pulled out of the dining room to make
place for huge colored monstrosity
might be hunted up and displayed. 1t is
said that they We're put in one of the
committee rooms at the Capitol.
Then there are the wonderful glass
chandeliers that hung in the East Room.
They were a perfect delight to the artis
tic eye. aud at night looked like chains
of fire globes. The Architect knew a
company that had seme hideous chande-
liers to sell. however. and the beautiful
old ones, endeared by long association
with the highest and best beloved of the
Nation. were pulled ont and these too
We're taken in mp at the Capitol by a
member of Congress who has been shak-
ing hands with himself ever since to think
that he could get the rarely beautiful
things for his committee room. The new
chandeliers were hung, and you just
ought TO see them, They would he about
right to hang TO an S0-fOot pole out in the
White Lot. The Architect lowered the
ceiling of the East Room till the room
might be intended for magazine"
floor. as a colored brother designated the
lIezzanine floor. The chandeliers were
made for lofty room. They are I'M
with the old ones. They have now been
taken to pieces and sent back to the man
ufactory to be ''cut down"
The cheap pine and cheaper white
enamel paint that was put in the East
Rooms are cracking to beat the band and
causing the Architect infinite trouble.
The paint which was put on last Sum-
mer has all to be renewed now. Then,
the plumbing that was put in perfectly
new and on the latest and most approved
Il
snare. Washington was visited by tre-
mendous rain last week. and what does
this most approved plumbing do but let
the water into the White House base
ment. and now dampness and midew are
mixed up with the beautiful painting of
Mrs. Hayes which the w. G. T. L. gave
the Government. aud the just as hand
some picture of Mrs. Harrison, which the
Daughters of the American Revolution
presented. and the old furniture out of the
Blue Room and Red Parlor and num-
Der of other relics which are spread
around in the basement.
1t is thousand pities that these organ
tzations do not petition the President to
have these paintings taken out of the
basement and hung where they oIght to
be. in the East Room. OF course. he will
say that the picture of Mrs. Roosevelt
painted by Sargent. hangs beside them in
the basement. but really that will be no
Z excuse to anybody who has ever seen the
Sargent picture. IT ought to hang there
Mrs. Roosevelt can lay no claim to beau
ty, although she is thoroughly cultured
. and altogether charming woman, but the
Sargent picture, 1t has no more the ex-
preston of Mrs. Roosevelt's smiling dark
eyes than dough doll. and it gives her q
'Hih INT al pIiSt II lS Sdlu 10
have cost the President 5000. A good
photograph at s. would be much more
valuable as likeness. The basement is
good place for it.
There are great many things which
take real NERVE" TO face. A man has
invented car fender which he is trying
TO induce the Washington electric lines TO
adept. He fastened this fender TO one of
the big electric cars the other day, then
planted himself in the middle of the track
while the motOI1nan threw her wide
open" and wenL down the track like an
avalanche, catchiB. the man in his fender
as though he had been an egg shell and
might break. And il tie fender had not
caught him? Well. the egg shell would
have been ground TO powder under the
awful impact.
Gen. Leonard Wood has been made
Military and Civil Governor of the Moro
Provinces. This honor was conferred upon
him by the Philippine Commissioners. By
this he is given almost supreme control in
the Island of MindanaO. He is empow-
cred TO appoint all subordinates in the
civil branch-the District Governors. Lieu
tenant-Governors. Treasurers. and Secre-
taries. He is Judge and Jury. and an
all around Poo Bah. He is also the Lord
High Commissioner. with the municipal
police as well as the military under his
command. Now just watch things in the
Moro Provinces begin to booml If there