Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-12-11

houses and $4,000 for care, repair and
refurnishing of the White House. It
is out of this latter sum that Mrs
Wilson can have purchased for her any
new furniture, carpets, draperies,
china, silver or cut glass, which she
thinks she needs, and there will be no
one to say her nay, unless it be her
husband
Upon assuming her residence in the
house March 4 she will find that the
present master of ceremonies, Col.
Spencyer Cosby, has comfortable
sum to be spent by her until the fiscal
year expires on June 80
In addition to the regular appropria-
ton for the items mentioned Mrs. Will
son will find it an easy matter to in
duce the appropriation committees of
Congress to allow her any special APP
preparations she may deem necessary
for extraordinary purchases or reno
vations.
All furniture and appointments
which Mrs. Wilson may choose to dis
card when she takes possession of the
house will be sold at auction by the
master of ceremonies and the money
will be turned back into the Treasury.
When Mrs. Wilson enters the White
House to take possession, she will
mount to the second floor in an cleo
trio lift and find herself in corridor
which formerly extended from
one end of the building to the other,
but the eastern and western ends of
which are now sitting rooms. Along
the rear or southern side of the house,
facing the river and overlooking the
Executive grounds and Potomac Park,
she will find five large rooms. Begin
ming at the western end of the floor,
for tour of inspection, she will enter
the first apartment to the right and
find herself in bedroom which,
though sunny, is darkened by the
memory that President Garfield lay
within 1t after he had been shot, and
that Mrs. Benjamin Harrison died
within its walls. This chamber opens
into the western sitting room, and has
also door leading to an ample dress
ing room, with bath at the end of the
house.
Proceeding eastward, toward the
Capitol, she opens door into what
has been known as the State Bed
ROOM" or the Prince Of Wales" room,
the latter name being in honor of the
fact that Prince Albert Edward, later
Edward VII of England, occupied this
chamber when he visited President
Buchanan.
Mr. Wilson will select this as the
presidential bedroom if he follows the
example of most of his recent prede-
cessors. The chamber was simplified
during the Roosevelt renovation, and
the heavy decorations were erased.
1t was here that Frances Folsom
dressed for her wedding on the day
that she arrived at the White House
to marry Grover Cleveland. The pres
idential chamber was then across the
hall.
A door of this room opens directly
into great oval apartment which
has always been used by Presidents as
a family parlor, where intimate guests
are entertained. Sometimes it has
been called the library" and some
times the sitting room"
From it Mrs. Wilson passes to the.
adjacent library" or study" which,
prior to President Rooseyelt's altera-
ton of the building, had been the cab
met room of President Johnson and,
his successors. The walls are covered
with plain buckram and are lined with
low tiers of sectional bookcases.
At the end of the southerly suite of
rooms the new mistress of the man
sion finds, in the southeast corner,
large new bedroom, with bath and
dressing room adjoining This and
similar suite on the opposite side of
the house are new guest rooms pro-
yided out of the office quarters which
formerly occupied the space over the
great east room. Each has low
and new wooden mantels,
as well as new furniture Between
them is a coy sitting room, from
which Mrs. Wilson to, complete the in
specti0n OF her new quarters, descends
three steps into the corridor. After
passing the stairway on the right she
finds a pair of bedrooms whose win
dows open beneath the roof of the
great front porte cocheTe They are
directly opposite the oval room and
are entered from a hallway separating
them and running north and south
Each of these rooms has in the rear a
private bath.
Now passing the elevator, in which
she assembled, and returning to the
western sitting room space, the new
enters the last bedroom on
the north side of the house. This, like
the first one she entered, directly
across the house, has ample dressing