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Colebrook, Home of the Addisons, Impels Rambler to Nature Study THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, MAY 3, 1925—PART 5. " But, In Spite of Trees 'I“hat Whisper of the Past, There Is Much Information to Be Dug Up There Relating to Original Patentees and Others. HIE house of Colebrook, to which the Rambler led you last Sunday. stands on a knoll | in Oxom Run Valley, two-fifths | of & mile south of the ®ast boundary of the District. he District line and the stream called Oxon pass through the fields and woods to Colebrook The garden of the house is green and shady. In the grass are straw berry blossoms and smal!l blue flowers of ground ivy, which you knew when You were a child as gill-over-the zround, and which your plant-wise friends call “‘nepets hederaceae,” and the Rambler will risk being run out Washington by botanists for trans. 39 Bluecoats, White Care for 75,000 Visitors in Year House Guard, BY DUFFY GILFOND. ITH the addition of six men to the White House guard, the responsibility for the | peace and order of the most important residence in the country rests on 39 brawny, blue-flanneled "pairs of shoulders. Tt costs more to maintain the tranquillity of this household than it does to pay dent, its chief occupant umbers exclude the Presi- onal guard, a corps of secret service men working in co-operation with the Write House guard. The 39 bluecoats -aeutioned are merely the persons ,ou might encounter should you dssive a tatc-a-tete with the Services of These Men, Selected With Great Care, Cover the 24 and Represent Gradual Growth in Numbers and in | | Hours of Each Dav Duties. proper, morning and evening, and tw | after midnight: six patrolmen and a duty sergeant on the grounds from 8 to 4 o'clock, and a re guard room; five men from 4 to 12 o'clock, and number on the grou night. The other m: days off and sick lea You will learn tha have been here so long that the not mistake you Senato { ecutive Offices v Sergt. C. L. Dalrymple has bee on guard since 1 he separated fro ! the President’s private rooms. E. M Seamon, one of the three duty se the name as “a member of the v i ? : ¥ § d |Presiterc or a nap under a shady i mint family which resembles ivy.” In| EESgEd 38 e s - {Wiite [louse trae the grass, which is rather high, are ; Necer in tha history of our country, thousands of wild white violets, small- | e duriug the war, was the White er, sweeter and far less common than | [E 5 % 5 jHouse s dotted with brass buttons 7 , AT Their blue relatives. Nearly all are of | § 2 3 o | Then, surround=d by 55 of these uni- 3 3 } |able. At Teceptons the narrow-leaf variety, the three | . formi R blazel in its unnatural se-| ) | they know mc the guests. How. lower petals being veined with pur. ; : ¥ clusi»n, Even Roosevelt, the greatest ¢ | ever, they have 1 the invited ple. There are patches of jonquils, X ¢ g srtainer of them all, had only 36 7 | to he ; Ty descendants of ancestors planted in his house. Harding had . 3 {50 man crosses ’ that garden several generations of | and McKinley o 7 | thres: nen and many flower generations ago. only 30 vears before President 4 fise Euve There are bushes of lilac, spirea, for 4 » . % McKinley took up the reins of the ; x | : Pre-guare sythia and Japan quince, in bioom, s A 7 3 e < 3 : { White House the whole of the City of - a8 cLevex jood ot ithe and rose bushes which had not un’ 04 - | 2 - Washington had but 27 men on its : Whie onse Byl S N Tolled their blossoms when the Ram- | ! Mot i posaibls for 3 EUest to hiaye e T eI PrE — pocket picked while being presented Above this garden stand two old 3 fofflh Enetiden. (O el ne cedars, one of great at least a thus imposed upon while shaking <entury—and close to it one not so : S 3 S e R 3 v residence today hands o charming e old. but which reached the age of dis- | e § ¢ 3 Whery hanan’s favorite niece. in trees 40 or 50 y ago. | 5 it £ $ bt he 1oad leypopt These cedars are parent and child ;m.xJ £/iwas Col ige of 19 | day police force, two more than the | President needed to guard his home | three decades later, and 12 less than 3 . President Coolidge requires for his : l s an ambitious but highly impractical burglar could barely hop lover the White House fence at pres. | ent without being dazzled by two | R v ) rows of shiny buttons, an old tramp | }!\ml no difficulty in frightening poor of Solebrook and of the children who | SOUTH FRONT OF COLEBROOK. o fon e o e attempted to convince the Colonel of played in thelr shade, went out into | —— " ~ = = = — | south portico ster £ o foon buththa bgentieman (e _'M;\“\i'r(h} and passed away—that IS, | ood. Many families went from | Eastern Branch, and he went to the s interpretations of what| as late as the administration of . i . : e e L T i Pred rom, men, for perhaps these|Southern Maryland and the eastern | secretary of the governor's council |iS a good family that the Rambler| president Cleveland. Thomas F. Pen : cane, whereupon the Colonel drew a o oy he spirits of fhelr old|pgrtiof the District to St. Louts and | "or no oy ciev and ented 700 | Y€fUSes to get mixed up in the con-|gel. the doorkeeper, when sent out e ot T 1ds. Near the house are locust|jig nejghborhood in' the early 19th|in St. Marys City and patented 700 r,vergy. John Addison had been 1o |iyith a telegram for the President, had " Newspaper accounts of presidentia whose age and length of resi- | cantury. when St. Touls had lost lit:|acres. The surveyor took in part of [Oxford = College and, being an |t leave Siea Cleverand s dressing i Tanlcats Mo e o at Colebrook qualify them for | (ja of the character of a French vil. | the lapsed patents of Pleasant View |Oxonian, he named his first patent|muid o wateh in his stead | they were. The following account de- membership in any society of old and | jaze. On Grant's marrlage to Miss |and Walnut Hollow, and Sam Robin-|of luu. on which he setted, Oxon | sl . - o Loy weve, The folk onitide honest trees | Dent, in 1845, her father. Frederick,|son named his tract Happy Living. |Hill. He built there as fine a brick | % D et iy o el D teeits fhay are scarred | gave the couple 80 acres off his farm. | He never had an idea of moving from house as was In Maryland. It was| NOT until the Winter of 1594 did s I v storm, and few of you have a word | Whe Tlysse: SOl - St. Marys City and living in the|burned about 1892 and if you want [+ ¥ the White House ever have more | 4 > . - 4 e : s 7 e 7 o to say of beauty in @ locust. You have | Wi gy SHIPHR SFNL T6 | lilgerness, but Jim Johnson. an in- | the date ama circumstances you il | than two policemen on guard. Then,| SERGT, C. L. DALRYMPLE. WHO HAS BEEN GUARDING THE fore_noon the doo as keen an eve for comeliness in | {14 on that land and farmed it most | dented servant whose indenture has |find them in an older ramble. Thomas |in Cleveland’s . administration. the | WHITE HOUSE FOR MANY YEARS, HIS RECORD RUNNING [opened and the rush began. 30 5 iix some pther things.” When | traierently ot ioee. oia maeres| expired, cories along’ and wanthi 0| Dent (o0l U & s tract of, wm-|suard’ was suddenly: ineressed £o 25| BACK TO 189. Copyright by Harris & Ewing. | Buchar a e and many nota locust hangs out its panicles of | {pe tract “Hard Scrabble.’ | start life in n country. Sam |settled land, built one of the fine|patroimen under two sergeants. The — e o "‘l“ Tk “"_”M'_ i creamy flowers and every branch is * AR Robinson has perfected his patent of the Potomac Valley and|extension used much criticism | 213 mumbled#that while the White | replaced by manifold “ambassadors of | Toon O tAat 9 [0 mobbaa pendulous in bloom no tree excels it and it ed in the statehouse it Gishory boro) | and discontent among the people, who : s Leoeg e St ] in_a_disorderly and m Growing close to more old homes in | JN records of the land commissioner's | at He sells the land to Dent home sland or an|did not relish this blue and gold bar- | House was barricaded, the streets of e Lord” and victims of all sorts of | manner, ladies and gentlemen, officers Maryland and Virginia than any other office at Annapolis are ori h . who moves up i the ve with which the Dents | rier between them and the President. | Washington were deserted persecutions ' workmen, childr ses \\\dll: tree, it is one which a million men | grants to all lands in the District and | Indian wilds along the Bastern |were associated. I do not know which.| During the administration of Presi. | handsome guardians of the la; Fortnightly levees were held for|and drivers. The rush at the doors hold in tender thought. Maryland, and the Rambler when he | Branch, puts up a log house, clears |In the ramble of Gisborough, printed |dent Taft the community muttered |succeeded in reducing the nu; {the public by President Lincoln and|was terrible. People clambered inand In the Colebrook grove are also a|has time to do a little writing may | some land, raises his family and. as |several years ago, I set down much | horse chestnut and a tulip tree, and | give you stories on the subject. Most | time flies or creeps, clears 300 acres, | genealogy of the Addisons in Mary- | = these were there when men and wom-|of his friends, however, think that|builds a brick house. buys a dozen |land and the District and you can | e en now gray were children. Bevond | rambles based on land patents are too | slaves, becomes colonel of the county |turn back to that. if vou want, in ;fi)\ ”) - the grove you see fields which a plow- | dry even in these arid (officially) times. | militiz, justice of the peace and goes!the Washington Public Library . e man has turned from green to tawny | Colebrook was built by John Addi- I3E A shades tinged with dull red. Fields not | oL of Glaboronan. & dlcact deanena- 2 yet plowed are green with many ant of the first John Addison of | plants, and some acres thick-grown | Oxon Hill. He built Colebrook house with wild mustard are vellow. Clus- | in 1808, and with his wife. who ters of fruit trees give to the land-| Sarah Leitch (daughter of Andr scape patches herry blossom white, | Leltch, Revolutionary sold apple blossom white and palest rose | at Harlem Heights) and th dren moved froin and the pink of peach. e { ; b y 4 | Colebrook. John Addison bequeathed | 4 | Colebrook to his son Anthony, | I last Sunday's ramble it was; 3 { was born at isborough in written that Colebrook house | ‘ % | Anthony Addison’s wife was Mar stands on a shoulder of the south| { Julia Thompson, daughter of Wil-| slope of Oxon Valley. That is wrong. | & 2 # %! |liam Mills Thompson of (‘ulpepe If you should walk to the north front | % 2 : , A | County. a. The first child of of the house and go no farther vou | @ ‘ 3 Anthony Addison was John Fayette would see how the mistake was made. | Addison, killed in the Confederate | Last Sunday the Rambler went again service at Williamsburg, Va. The| to Colebrook to get more pictures and 5 A G y second child was Sa Catherine | saw that the house stands on a knoll § ; 2 B | Addison, who married first Clement | that rises from the valley floor. From L. West, 1 A., and second Maj. the south front of the house the land | George Mitche A. Al arel slopes steep, and between the foot of | dead. One daught 2 "of Col. C.| that slope and the foot of the south p D. W. Willcox, U. S A. survives.| slope of the valley is a vale. At the | i 2 T by . The third child of Anthony Addison south front are a black walnut tree | x | was Mary Mills Addison, deceased,| of unusual size, a holly tree and ven- % # who married the Rev. Osborn Ingle, erable black locusts on which are Ry oA ¢ %21y Fae 5 iy - deceased A daughter, Mary Addi- four or five bird boxes. 82 § 4 ! | son Ingle, lives in Washington. The A pair of wrens had signed the f > { fourth child of Anthony Addison was lease for the Summer for one of these g - X % | Murray Addison. deceased. who ma houses, and they were busy, trilling SR TE Lege f > B & ried Miss Clare Gantt (living) of they worked, fitting up the home. z 3 4 Washington. The fifth child was| They had just come from one of the < T g £ i Olivia Clageite Addison, who died | Gulf States and the Rambler lhm‘.:h‘ 259 " & - g ied The sixth child of| Tot a venturesome sport, will bet a 4§ ¥ * y Addison was Keturah Leitch five-cent cigar that this pair of wrens g $ $ o5 ¥ o v Addison, living, who was married to | passed last Summer and perhaps other 3 7 % Edmund M e Cobb, U A ummers in that house on the locust | | ceased. Children of that marr iree. Very likely they sang their first 3 5 i , ; . 4 E | were Elsie Cobb, who married Col note and made their first flight at 3 55 & ey Little, U. 8. M. C.: Murray Cobb, Colebrook and are descended from i e 4 who married Carolyn Huff of Wash- generations of wrens who have spent | ingtor dee Cobb, who mar- Summer in the Colebrook garden. | riea nelius M. Bliss of New York On the slope of the hill are patches The seventh child of Anth Addi- of grape hyacinth, or globe hyacinth. son was Arthur Dulany Addison, who Long ago this little plant, with its married Caroline Steele of George- raceme of blue, urn-shaped flowers, town. The eighth and last child of was called muscarium and became Anthony Addison of Colebrook was naturalized in the American colonies Anthony Callis Addison of Washing- when they were young. Press one of ton. these little flowers, whose shape you will not be able to make out with un aided eyes, and look at it through a strong glass. The grape likeness be plain The juice will als your finger as does the juice Coneord grape. hey Hye so close that their branches Trigeay. The man touch. Only death will part them. As | #0ft avinds blow among their boughs they talk in tender tones of the past, 2 tragedy. The 1nan charged with the crime was a ré spected merchant of Alexandr e HARRIE S EWIN G- SIX OF THE RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE WHITE HOUSE GUARD. THE MEN MUST BE AT LEAST 6 FEET IN HEIGHT. THE OFFICER BEING MEASURED IS 6 FEET 2 IN “HES TALL. Copyright by Harris & Ewing. White House police from 36 to 24 |his rotund little wife, and Mrs. Har-|jumped out of the windows, and con- | : men. What they really objected to|rison's private parlors were traversed | fusion reigned from the entrance mgers on 10r AIM Y OSCIN | was not their lack of protection, but | dozens of times a day. Today 99 per |the President and from the President | the cost of the upkeep of so many |cent of Washington folk must neces-|to the retiring room. : sarily be excluded from the presiden-| Lincoln's first public reception was BY PRESTON WRIGHT. | ropolitan Opera Company and intro- b HHul veceptions and only persons privi. | described thus ; ) T e b s ten el : N 1890 Hience gathered at|duced German Opera to America. leged with a congressional pass may| ‘It was a triumphant success in 1671 as Brothers Joint Interest by X T g e { 2. 1890 an candlence g b Born in Posen, Polish Prussia, | JJODAY the $83400 pocketed by view private portions of the White|Everybody seemed pleased, except Thomas Dent and Willlam Hatton, = PAONEIE RO DNTO COTRBHODEREOUSE the Metropolitan Oper o ar: | Leopold = Damrosch _desired fr()m'T White House police in a v Hous . |those who got badiy squeezed in tne ot rant o boughl, foom {ne " good, but ‘wk le Tesldlat A ine ol it s e “Barber of Bagdad- | youth to be a musician. His family|a part of the Federal pay ro Nevertheless the growth of Wash. |erowd, and a fow who lost their coats Patentees by John Addison. who Neriln good, but who :.: ;‘1(‘ ;e;'.x,\u ure. ine old family :_mrn‘lim fir:: m;:e perceived that |opposed him and, on his father’s in- the District fugds. , | ington, its facilitated accessibility ;md‘;'x:l‘l“m i ;xrnrgg‘”r 1‘e<~\ -ho‘uLeLm}h» D el T W I e s momos i Mciles Stomnll = N oo ani (e Raniiior Uedas io|| et s ilas oneibiie. Anionsealy | smtence, he stugisch atIBEENA Unt) WImyen IR sudinla fn WA the increased migration of delegations |18 always ss t s PR s e r'l.'.ll';“nhr | the Rambler’s way of thinking Annapolis and grubs among the | did not appear. versity, graduating as a’ doctor of| ‘,“‘;(‘"““‘9“;““"‘“" "‘ha}’l well pressed | here could not "”“; < ""“e’“l”:’“;‘ ‘Another paper waxed poetical about tracts, hought tracts from patentaes, zinal gra papers he finds only that Sam Robin- | Instead the baton was in thefmedicine. e acight in| Ihen ovee 15,006 permis cot 40 e ooy ot 1 and also came into a large estate in patentee” and “original s son was the original patentee to the | hands of a young man well known| Returning home he sous R L e T v Ry T el the Dis v marriage with the | are often no ame. The Rambler |land. The earlier pa s not | to sic lovers of the metro- e St iter . St arity TR CanE B Y coats are | & crush, it was an omnium gatherum \..m,ln,.r 1‘m1...- ’r'» |’1‘x!)Lhn\)-”:umlr}:l ).eh;\x;s"fl.: l;!‘: .':—:g.ml patent” is l.r"dm.,lrr‘f an.llil;.c{-éli}z‘e:“:a;e line ;:.,1.:\9m:‘("{ . y‘e‘;‘:nhmu the recog- ":l‘he;‘c._ :;srs:ud‘\r “_xuly‘;x};;;?eii ‘: different matter. Even the popularity But it can’t be. The bluecoats are B September §. 1663, a fract of unset.|not in many cases the first patent to | about Jim Johnson, who took up the |nition which later was to be yielded |have obeved you. No ill follo; ncoln could not draw more than | their own unconscious -boosters, For-|Of all sorts of people, an ‘irrepressible tied land on the Potomac and Eastern | the unsettled land. A patent would |land, turned it into a farm and |to him as America’s leading conduc- | My desir I shall never be any- 000 persons to the White House on | merly scheduled by the chief of police (CORflict. a suffocating pressure” y : Arganyy New Year day of 1865. .But on|jq it e batr th e G| L In s d_the follo Eranch to which he gave the name | be taken by John Smith to a tract |founded one of the old families of |tor. thing but a musician. for the “White House beat,” these o ’ He was Walter Damrosch, then in| In Berlin he had become the friend Easter Monday of last year 36,000 peo- | ficers were not the cream of the|CiSm of these levees of Gisborough. | of land he had not seen. He named | fhe State. In the Rambler's work b the e snitaron hr sl e M tie| o weia Dot -t ik Sttt L T penre oo The maiden name of Mrs. Thomas |it Pleasant View. He did mnot com-|Jim Johnson is the only one in the |his 28th vear. of Hans von Bulow, then struggling force. Today they are not only recom: Mansion. mended by Maj. Daniel Sullivan of | 1ors and reception rooms of the presi | healthy and hearty consumers Dent was Rebecca Wilkinson. and in | plete payment or meet other obliga- | bunch who is interesting. 2 Where the Rambler gives you a|of “The Barber of Bagdad” Anton ranny of the Rambler's memory is that her father was the first Episcopal vlergyman in Maryland. The Rambler has also heard ever since he was was the wife of Gen. U. S. Grant. Mrs. Grant was a daughter of Frederick Dent, who lived in St. Louis County, near the city of St. Louis—I believe in the Creve Coeur Lake neighbor tions required by the patent the proprietary and | Bill Jones |s tented 500 acres he had never seen the survevor included 300 John_Smith’s boy that the Dents of Gisborough | o were ancestors of Julia T. Dent, who | View. He failed to find a purchaser at advanced price for Robinson heard from about an “original patentee” he | Seidl had become dangerously ill also the original settler. John mund C. Stanton. the director, Addison of Oxon Hill, 1660, and|geriously considered postponing the | Thomas Dent of Gisborough, 1663, presentation. Damrosch was the sec- were original patentees and originallond conductor, but hitherto he had settlers. Addison and Dent were rich been intrusted only with the left- men—as rich men were then rated— | over. “"Giiq) “eeping for himself the when they came to the proprietary of Maryland. They were of English families that were called good. There | role of conductor of all the difficult | Wagnerian and other German operas. Lilli Lehman, the great soprano, who had been brought over from the Royal Opera House in Berlin, pro- tested vigorously against intrusting the baton to Damrosch. She had achieved her position after long years of the most exacting preparation and she did not believe a youth like the second conductor could fill Seidl's place, particularly at a first produc- tion like this. “The opera is too difficult, too in- tricate,” she said. “Walter has not had enough experience.” But other members of the com- pany, who had worked with Dam- rosch in the lesser operas, defended him. “He can do it,” they told Stanton. The director yvielded to them. Walter Damrosch scored a_triumph and at once ranked as a full-fledged opera conductor. Lilli Lehman was among the very first to congratulate him and to admit she was wrong. If the singers who worked with him_were the discoverers of Dam- rosch’s ability to conduct great ope; in a great manner, it was his father who first perceived his musical qualities. Dr. Leopold Damrosch was one of the greatest men of music of his day. Conductor of the Breslau Orchestra Verein at Breslau, Silesia, he tired of conditions in Germany and came to the United States in 1871 as conductor of the Arion Society of | New York. Subsequently he or- zanized and conducted the Oratorio Society and the New York Symphony Boclety, became director of the Met: Two dass before the performance|toward his triumphant career as a pianist. Von Bulow saw in his play- | ing of the violin, upon which he had | practiced at night, following his medical studies of the day, real musicianship. He advised him to go to Weimar to the great Franz Lisat. Liszt received him with open arms and embarked upon his career by making him leading violinist of the opera orchestra. In “discovering” Dr. Leopold Dam- rosch, Hans von Bulow might almost be said to have “discovered” Walter Damrosch, for the career of the son has been a continuation of the father’s. Born in Breslau, Walter Damrosch was 9 years old when he arrived in America. Receiving piano lessons, he also was a lover of painting and he did not definitely decide to devote himself to music until the was 16. Dr. Damrosch hoped he would be a musician and early found in him a real talent. But, despite his desires, he did not press the boy. “If he is to become a musician it must be from his own resolve,” he told his wife. In the end he was rewarded. “And I remember well the look of happiness on his face when I told him my decision,” Walter Damrosch is fond of saying. The boy had been constantly sur- rounded by a favorable atmosphere. His mother was a finished musician. The greatest artists of the day were regular visitors at the Damrosch home. He now began studying with ex- treme seriousness. His father taught him violin and gradually introduced him to the details that went to make up his own work. Through training a group of 1,200 singers that took part in a_huge music festival arranged by Dr. Damrosch in 1881 he acquired ex perience which led to his becoming conductor of the Newark Harmonic Society, taking with him for each per- formance 50 or 60 men from his President Lincoln thought nothing of walking to the home of the Secre- tary of War, -accompanied by only one bodyguard, and was as accessible to a portrait painter as to the Am- bassador of Madagascar. In fact, it bwas more difficult to gain an audi- ence with his secretary than with him. President Johnson sat up until mid- night to see all his visitors, and Pres- ident Cleveland kissed all the babies brought to him by proud mothers for that purpose. Today if President Coolidge saw all the painters of his pictures he would be conducting an_art studio. And though the fad of having baby kissed by the Chief Executive is extinct, these troublesome mothers have been ther's orchestra. He was but 19 years of age. In 1885 the senior Damrosch was taken suddenly ill from overwork. Pneumonia set in and he died a week later. While he lay dying, word was brought him that Walter was keeping the opera going—a necessary task— and would conduct the monumental Wagnerian operas, ‘“‘“Walkure” and “Tannhauser,” in his place. Dr. Damrosch recalled the training he had given the boy and the gen- ius he long had perceived in him. He smiled. “He can do it,” he said. But the son .was not to obtain im- mediate recognition as an opera cons ductor. Following his father’s death, he took the Damrosch Opera .Com: pany, a private venture of his parent, on its Spring tour, but when the di- rectors _of the Metropolitan Opera House finally named a director they chose Edmund C. Stanton, a relative of one of them. Damrosch was made assistant director and second conduc- tor. As assistant director he engaged (Anton Seidl, the man whose illness finally gave him a chance as conduc- N the Metropolitan police and Col. Clar- ence O. Sherrill of the park police, but are then sifted by the aide ap pointed by the President to select the guards of his home from the sub- mitted number. They are men whose past performances have distinguished them from their colleagues and whose judgment and common sense are the best protection the White House could have. * x % % IN the recent addition even stature was considered. Stunted, under- sized, 5-foot-11 men were rejected and only 6-footers could enter the Wkite House door. True, Gen. McClellan was so short that at West Point he had to be provided with a fire-lock lighter than those of his qomrades; Gen. Sheridan, called “Little Phil,” was, be- cause of his height, the butt of his class, and Napoleon was known as “Little Corporal.” However, Maj. Sol- bert set his heart on giants. Says he “Since we pick only two or three men a year for this job, why not have them look nice?"” When you seek that tete-a-tete with the President or that bit of reépose under a White House elm, you will no- tice that none of the “thirty-niners” wears a_‘“keep off the grass” expres- sion; rather a “I'd just love to help you" look. And they do. They see ti You get to the person you want—pr vided it is not the President. More- over, they, make you feel that the substituted person is after all the bet- ter one to see. Should you desire to ascertain the truth of these words you may find these men at the foilowing post: Two at the front door and one at the basement entrance of the Execu- tive Offices every day from 8 to 4 o'clock; one at the front door and one at the basement entrance every eve- ning from 4 to 12 o'clock, and one after midnight; one at the front door, one at the private stairway and one at the basement of the White House dential mansion on every reception night were crowded to overflowing with soldiers fresh from their camps with boots covered with mud, while representatives of the lower classes who paid no regard to dress or clean |liness, were seen mingling in the crowd in great numbers. Bhis was so marked a feature that no lady with a rich dress could venture in the East Room without danger of spoil ing it.” * x % ¥ I Cleveland's administration not only the guard system was amended, but the burly brass-but- toned policemen detafled to the White House for receptions were replaced in the drawing rooms by dapper, frock-coated secret service men. It was Miss Cleveland's ob- jection to brass buttons in Tiffany's artistically decorated rooms which ef fected this change. | Horrified as we may be at the idea lof a President being loudly and of fensively addressed at a_reception- which is exactly what happened at one—there are even more calamitous situations revealed by tife pages of history when the White House was inadequately guarded. ¢ Poor President Ty.cr’ was aroused from his sleep one night by a band of angry Whigs, w20 objected to his veto of the bank ineasure. After imbibing |too muc.: fiquor at the Log Cabin Tavern, they marched up Pennsyl vania uvenue in riotous fashion. Gath ering on the portico, they hooted and | hissed until they thought they had | sufficiently disturbed the President jand then departed 1t was really this incident which de |termined the necessity for an auxiliary guard, to be used at night only, ir Washington. From this group of 15 men devel | oped the present-day powerful foree out of which the best 39 are preserv ing ladies’ silk dresses and the Presi dent’s right hand. LY