The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-07
American Women Indignant Because of the Dissertation of White House Antiques
 by the Government.

Women of the country are up in arms at the dissertation" of many of the beautiful antiques that have adorned the White House and which have been ad- mired for many years. I say women" but men. too. have cried out against 1t.
 One of the most spirited debates in the last days of Congress was caused by a storm of protest on the part of some of the members of the House.
 It is alleged by the friends of the relics that Colonel Bingham. the retiring Su- perintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, without authority had sold many of the most beautiful and valuable articles of furniture that had graced the White House in years gone by as junk" The fact that these articles were sold is not denied and the absurd prices at which they went make the mouth of a lover of the antique fairly water.
 Among the relics sold as junk was a mirror that had carved upon one side Washington's face. on another Count Ro- chambeau's face. and Lafayette's face, and the faces of other distinguished men of that day. Other articles sold were two candelabra, hve-foot gilded bronze; t2 branches in horizontal planes of 6 each; l central projecting branch; tripod bases, said to have been a. present from General Patterson of Philadelphia to Gen. sral Jackson
 But what caused the most bitter de- nunciation on the part of Mir. Gaines of TennAasaA wQa tha aale 0f a yna vri Aoapt mahogany sideboard given to Mrs. Hayes while she was in the White House, to a Washington brewery!
 The very queer part of this sale was that the sideboard was given to Mrs. Hayes by the women of Ohio because she had excluded wines and all spirituous drinks from the White House, and now, owned by the bfewer at his saloon 1t is filled with siphons. bitters. decanters and liquor bottles. On the top shelf there is arranged a row of fine old German beer steins.
 The sideboard is of fine mahogany with large American eagle carved on its front. It is twelve feet long. three feet thick and about seven feet high. The sideboard Is said to have been put up at an auction of discarded White House furniture and was knocked down to the proprietor of a beer garden for $s5. less than the material cost.
 MT. Webb Hayes. son of President and Mrs. Hayes. when he learned of what had taken place, went to the brewer and offered several hundred dollars to buy 1t back. The proprietor refused, and is said to have remarked that if anyone wishes to preserve the tradition of-the sideboard from violation he could have it for $S,000!
 As Mir. Gaines said "a land without ruins Is a land without memories, but land without relics-what a Iand! The women believe that If there Is not room at the White House for old-fashioned furniture (as there probably is not) then some place should be provided for such beautiful articles as have been admired from year to year by Americans. At the recent Congress of Daughters of the American Revolution. 1t is said that they were aghast to find the portraits of the dead and gone mistresses of the White House which have formerly graced the drawing rooms, now relegated to the NSunnel"