The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 7, 1934, Page 11

WINE AT WHITE ‘Figrht May Come on Civil : Service Job Distribution gAY pRESIDENT HOUSE REGALLS LAVISH DINNERS Two Glasses Now Where There Was Once Six, All in a Row By BESS FURMAN WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—Wine is coming back again to, the 16 Bac- chus and bacchante figurines of the famed mirrored centerpiece which has reflected a century and a quar- ter of White House state dinners. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has decreed prohibition repeal in offi- cial social standing at the White House with the serving of light American wines at state dinners this season. Ld Her ruling of “not more than two wine glasses” at each plate may seem somewhat scanty to the gilded bronze figures of Bacchus and bacchantes, for they've seen, reflected in mirror depths, six wine glasses in a row. Purchased By Monroe The phrase “and champagne with every course” -usually was added to descriptions of these six-glass state dinners. And many’s the time THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, DEC. 7, 1934. By HERBERT PLUMMER WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—One of the first signs of what the Demo- crats may be in for on a wholesale | basis for a while has made its ap- | pearance. It comes from Ohio (the state which elected “Honest Vic” Dona- hey to take the Senate seat of Simeon D. Fess) and from Repre- | sentative Lamneck, a Democrat, | re-elected for his third term. | Lamneck is disturbed over what | R A e | twice that sum. The dinner to Prince Arthur cost $1,500 without including wine and other bever- Claimed For Temperance However, the Grants were also claimed as temperance trail blaz- ers by the woman crusaders in that | cause, one of them recording: “General Grant, in traveling !amund the world, was an abstainer | at banquets of kings and nobility; also Mrs. Grant, when mistress of the White House, banished intoxi- cants on New Year's day, not only from her own table, but through personal influence, largely from the cabinet circle.” Next came the Hayes adminis-| tration, with Frances E. Willard and her W. C. T. U. scoring their greatest White House triumph, with SAN FRANCISCO he describes as the ]Kequunble dis- tribution of civil servce jobs. There have been many such complaints in the past—so many, in fact, that ’ o usually scant attention. is given e P Rormer Senator Smoot o Utan, Claims Bonus of $350,0001 dean of the Senate before the Roosevelt landslide of '32 swept n: him out of office, constantly was Million Deal chided because there' were so many people from Utah on both Repub- SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., vec. T.— lican patronage and civil service Herbet Fleishacker, prominent San lists. Francisco bank president, was charged yesterday with having ‘RIDER’ MAY HELP pocketed a bonus of nearly $350,000 Lamneck, however, apparently in negotiating a half million dollar has timed his shot. bank loan in 1919. Senator McKellar, of Tennessee, The suit against Fleishacker was a Democrat, succeeded in having filed in the Federal court by & attached to the treasury-post of-|group of bank stockholders Who fice appropriation bill in the last|are living in France, and asked Congress a “rider,” now under fire that Fleischaker and the other de- in the courts, which prohibited fendants be required to make an payment of any treasury funds accounting, and that a ‘“secret after December 1 to any employes | profits” receiver be appointed to dropped by the Justice Department | collect and distribute the money. between June 10 and December 31, i Was Pocketed in Half It was also charged in the suit that when the banker agreed to negotiate the half million dollar loan for J. B. Barde of Portland . jand L. B. Barde of Seattle, he | demanded that they turn over to {'him. personally half of the profits | made on subsequent business. | The claim is also made that the profits netted at least $348,125. | Bardes sought the money to bid jon steel hull construction from the | U. S. Shipping Board and Emerg- | the firm was successful in the bid. | At Portland, J. N. Barde, presi- dent of the Barde Steel Products Company, said that Fleischaker | “personally” loaned $500,000 to his company and that as far as he knew the banking institution had nothing to do with it. D Build Own Church | NORFOLK, Va—Led by their pastor, Dr. W. H. T. Squires, mem- bers of Glenwood Park Presbyter- {ian church built a new edifice | with their own hands, toiling by loodlights at night after their own day'’s work was finished. 1933. ettt e This “rider” has brought about the dismissal of some 960 employes of the Treasury Department. “Hoo- ver Republicans” is the way Me- | Kellar describes them. Encouraged by the McKellar “rider,” (it was only recently up- | A nnouncemen t ency Fleet corporation, and that | those old figurines have stood there patiently, holding up small bou- a PFirst Lady who ‘‘not only turned | held by the Comptroller General) | her glass upside down, but also al- | Lamneck has served notice that ALASKA’S OWN BIDS FOR EXCAVATION., GRADING AND FILL Bids will be received up until noon Monday, December 10, 1934, at the office of Frank A. Metcalf, Engineer, 210 Seward Building, Juneau, Alaska, on the work described helow : Description of Work Excavation of tract 300 ft. by 1800 ft. located at the proposed Puacific Alaska ™ Airways, Ine., Airport (Kendler Ranch). Bids are to be received as follows: Lump sum price per cubic yard for excavating approxi- mately 5,000 cubic yards. Average depth of cut appro: mately 4 ft. Excavation only, no hauling. | quets of fl"""e“s' through & 29- 1,064 no alcoholic liquor to be | patronage henceforth must be dis- | course dinner! | served at White House social func- | tributed under provisions of the L Since that cen&erplece. mledh ;;me or diplomatic dinners.” | state apportionment rule. | surtout de table” in the old l‘ Unveiling a life-sized portrait of |° “Some states,” he says, “have of lading, was purchased in Paris |, —y,.." webb Hayes presented |three or four times as many jobs by Monroe in 1817, part of flv;‘_k‘“gelby the W. C. T. U. to the White |as they are entitled to, while oth- shipment refurnishing the 7 | House in 1881, and still in the gal- | ers have none.” House after the British burning, 27 lery of Presidents wives there, ) Presidents and their guests have |,y o wiarg said: “Think of what | HIRED IN A RUSH i Lump sum price per cubic yard for excavating approxi- mately 10,000 cubic yards. Average depth of cut approxi- mately 4 ft. Exacavation only, no hauling. PILSNER BEER ON DRAUGHT AT Unit price per cubic yard on the above two items. gathered in state dinners. |it means to the total abstinence| The Civil Service Commission Grade stakes to be furnished by the engineer in charge. Crossing the ocean ?’“"t;he wihe |cause when the First Lady of the agrees with him, Lamneck says, terpiece, made up in € WINE | ephublic, instead of cherishing in- |that the state apportionment sys- motif with garlands of fruits and |\, ;o0iing liquors as an emblem of | tem is out of whack. They blame Unit price per cubic yard for hauling and spreading approximately 5,000 cubic yards as directed. Average dis- & Shipensie of 30 «chsew containing banishes them from cellar, side- |during the world war. tance of haul 1,500 feet. 1200 bottles of champagne and| .4 anq table as enemy to her | Then, people had to be hired in b“"g“"dyl ‘f°" Pr::ici:;\h HM(:nroe | home and the guests to whom she | a rush. There were more jobs than | WA eawon) s o | would do honor.” But Monroe's consignments were | MINERS® RECREATION | applicants. Jobs had to be filled |, THE ALASKAN E | regardless of where people came Unit price per cubic yard for hauling and spreading Sathi S approximately 10,000 cubic yards as directed. Average len ‘ame Prohil modest compared to the earlier| ones of Jefferson, who showed the signs in the White House of that | lavish hospitality which caused | him in his old age to be “eaten out of house and home.” Records show that Jefferson spent $10,855 in his eight years as | President for wines purchased ‘in| Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, | Hungary and France. And part of the fame of Dolly Madison as hostess rested on the rare old wines she served. Of this administration, one commentator wrote: “Quality of the wine seems to form the chief topic after the removal of the cloth and during the dessert.” For years and years, following Monroe, wine went along with New Year's receptions, now ruled out al- together, and with all the spectacu- lar executive functions, levees, re- ceptions, balls. Ball At Season’s End Executive business, too, had its social touch. John Quincy Adams, receiving a committee of mail con- tractors, served cake and wine and the fitting toast was: “Success to you all through highways and by- ways.” “A most magnificent bride’s cake | and sparkling champagne” awaited the guests at the wedding recep- | tion for the second Mrs. Tvler, and | a ball for 2,000 closed the Tylers’ | social season, causing one guest to | write: “It is said this entertain- ment cost the President near two | thousand dollars. Wine flowed like | water. When will Washington see | the like again?” | Six wine glasses, 29 courses, were | said to be the custom in the Grant administration, when, one writer | recorded: “The average state din- | ner cost about $700. Special din- | ners to distinguished visitors cost After 15 Years AN OLD ALASKAN FAVORITE HAS RETURNED PETER DAWSON “SPECIAL" SCOTCH WHISKEY Ask the Old Timers At all Liquor Stores W. J. Lake & Co., Inc. Distributors, Soufl'rh But by Harrison’s time, it was| “wine like water™ at state dinners | once again, and a bowl well filled | with champagne punch aj all re- | ceptions. Southerners got their | turned down their glasses. Teddy | Roosevelt grew the famous mint | |bed in the cause of juleps. Guests | thing be done. ‘‘Somebody's going clustered close around the Taft and | Wilson punch bowl. | Then along came the World | ‘War, prohibition — and 16 Bacchus and bacchante figurines, with their festoons of fruits and vines, keep- ing watch over the wineless state dinners. Thony THE ARCTIC Since then, the commission says, it has refused to certify eligibles from states in excess when there () were persons on hand from states | whisky-and-sodas; total abstainersstill shy of their quotas. Regardless of tihiat, however, | Lamneck is insistent that some- to catch the devil” is the way he expresses it. With the McKellar “rider” as a precedent he might make it embar- rassing for the Democratic pat- ronage dispensers—even the chief dispenser himself, “Big Jim" Far- \ vines as well as the figurines, Was ety kindness and good will, [it on conditions which prevailed | ! { { ) \ ) Distributed by J. B. CARO & CO. Juneau PILSNER BREWING CO., OF ALASKA Ketchikan e ] . . . and many other "GIFTS of DISTINCTION engagements, dinner rings and a variety of pendants, ear drops and bracelets. Beverage Sets. No home or man’s room is com- plete without a shaker and goblets of sterling silver. Coffee Sefs. 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