The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-24


House was never so white a house be-
fore. inside and out. The departure
~ the presidential family on their
GUNNER outing is the signal for be-
Ginning the annual work of renovating
THIS year the outside work was al
most completed before the President
D.ent away. That the repainting of the
White House is something of a job
may be inferred from the fact that
nearly nineteen tons of paint are re-
,nrad. and that it costs in the neigh
borbood of $4,000. The White House
has recently been fitted out with cleo
rr,r lights from garnet to cellar, with
a down" attachment. The man
sion itself is now in the hands of the
cleaners, and being all torn up. is
again closed to visitors. There will be
two new bath rooms put in and an ad-
ditional living room provided for the
Presidents family; of course, every
thing is to be shrouded in linen and
canvas and mosquito netting, but the
work must be greatly simplified since
the old days, when the East room was
gorgeous with carpet and window dra-
peries ana other beautiful furnishings,
which had all to be changed in sum
mer time.
The President is having the por-
trait of all his children painted. Wal
ter Russell of New York and Edward
Curtis of Seattle are the artists Sc
lected for the work. They have been
at it for some time. Mr.. Russell paint
ed a portrait of Quentin which now
hangs in the White House, and the
pictures of Ethel and Archie painted
together, are under way. When the
President went to Oyster Bay he an
nounced that he wanted to be quiet for
a few weeks. Therefore, the people
have left him comparatively undis-
turbed. But Mr.. Roosevelts idea of
quiet time differs from that of most
people With him strenuous action is
so natural as breathing and his every
waking moment is occupied. He and
the boys are up at daybreak and off
for a good healthy canter of an hour
or more. After the ride comes the
swim in the sound. 1t isn't a dip or
plunge, but is the kind of swimming
that takes time and would save lives
in an emergency. Mrs. Roosevelt and
Ethel are having a really quiet time of
1t. The First Lady of the Land"
needed rest after the great social
strain of last winter. She will prob
ably visit Cape May during this month,
while the President is in Washington,
and that is the only absence planned
for her from Oyster Bay until she re-
turns to the capital for the winter.
Miss Alice is still extremely busy hay
ing a good time on the North Shore.
Mrs. Hay, wife of the Secretary of
State, went to visit her Youngest
daughter, Mrs. James w. Wadsworth
Jr., at the Wadsworth place in Gene
SEQ, N. Y. She will remain with her
several weeks and then go to her sum-
mer home, 'the Fells," at Newbury, N.
H, on Lake Sunapee, Secretary Hay
having left for that place the other
day. This closes the last of the cab
met homes in Washington for the sea-
son. Mrs. Shaw, wife of the Secretary
of the Treasury, left last week for Bos-
ton where she met her two daughters
who have been visiting in Northern
Vermont with their father. Mr. Earl
Shaw the only son, arrived in time to
accompany the reunited family to
Portland, Me. Miss Wilson, daughter
Of the Secretary of Agriculture, is still
in Colorado, the guest of Mr.. and Mrs
Thomas P. Walsh. They are touring
in an auto, from one of the Walsh
places to another in that Land of the
Sky" There are two large auto cars
to conduct the party which consists of
Mr.. and Mrs. Walsh Miss Wilson, Miss
Evelyn Walsh and Mr.. Vincent Walsh.
Navy society in Washington are en-
thusiastic in their welcome to the new
secretary, Mr.. Paul Morton, and his
family. Their coming will add three
charming women to the cabinet circle.
Miss Pauline Morton, about whom the
greatest interest is conferred, is not be-
trothed to young Mr.. Cudahy, as has
been enormously stated. 1t is her
cousin, Miss Jean Morton of Omaha,
who is engaged" and her marriage
next fall to Mr.. Cudahy will take place
In the Morton homestead, "Arbor
Lodge" in Nebraska There has not
been hostess for the Navy Depart
ment in many years. Secretary Her.
bert was a widower. Mrs. Long, whose
health was feeble, was seldom in Wash
ington and never entertained and Mr.
Moody as everybody knows, is a bach
eIor.
Mrs. Metcalf. wife of the new Sec
rotary of Commerce and Labor, who
VIII replace Mrs. Cortelyou in the re-
celving line next winter, is well known
IN Washington society, where she came
every season with her husband when
ne was a member of Congress. She is
now at her home in Oakland Cal, and
the change in her status officially seems
not to be disturbing her in the least.
While by no means a devotee of So
clety she is a woman of much cultiva-
ton, who makes friends wherever she
goes.
Naturally, the women of the family
OF Judge Alton Brooks Parker, Demo-
cratic candidate, are just now under
me social lorgnette. Besides Mrs
Parker, the judges mother, the lovely
old lady who lives with her daughter,
Mrs. James A. Miles, in Derby, Conn,
and Mrs. Hall, the only daughter, who
Is the wife of Rev Charles Mercer
nan, rector of the Church of the Holy
ross, in Kingston, N. Y; Mrs. Hall
mas two interesting children. These
mule grandchildren of the perhaps next
President, are Alton Parker Hall,
years old, and his sister Mary, who is
sun baby in her second summer.
Judge Parker's only son died at the age
OF Z years. Mrs. Hall is said to be a
particularly interesting woman. Mrs.
Parker is fond of driving. horseback
riding. walking and rowing. Though
twice a grandmother, she is by no
means an elderly woman in looks or
habits and has retained all her youth
Iul tastes. She and Judge Parker are
as familiar figures on the country
roads about their summer home as the