New York World (Newspaper) - September 7, 1887, New York, New York TUB WORLD is til o ov paper tUut OPENS ITS to and t has by far tho tr n any 1upor in XX 12 NEW SEPTEMBER 12 COUNT THE WOELD prints every day more than all the other Morning Pa pers except and nearly TWICE as many as that PRICE TWO THE PRESIDENT AT HOME His Views Upon Many Points of Na tional Interest and Probably His First Officially Interview Since He Was Elected President Clevelands Views on the Motives and Public Services of The He Admits the Editor of Tho World Never Asked a Favor or Appointment of Him In His BIS CIVIL SERVICE THE FINANCIAL SITUATION AND THE Very Full and Expressions to a World lo Use Them lor State incut us to HiH Alleged tu Tho World us an Opposition Newspaper Harden and the Bolt of lie Not to Call Democratic Partys Advanced Attitude on Civil Ser vice Wheeling and His Conviction as to Tamils Cour Proposed National Hoard of Arbitration Upon nt Work and nt His Pride in His Jirst Real I have Had during the past lew a series of long aud interesting con with the the substance of In relation to certain public he lias since consented shall be used lor publica tion m THE Me Immediate object of my visit to Washington was to deliver a message from editor of THE to i President Cleveland touching the mutter of his recent to tlie Commis at San It will be remembered tnat when tno Commissioners telegraphed the President recommending the employment of counsel to argue the question of whether tho Commissioners had the right to compel witnesses to the Associated Press despatches reported that tno President simply replied that they should use their own THE WOULD unsuccessfully through its cor respondents at Washington and San Francisco to obtain an exact copy of tho Presidents The application wua denied both at the White House and by tbe THE assuming that tho Associated Press spoke by au commented upon tho action of tbe Presi dent in not meeting more directly the suggestion of the Some days afterward tho President cave out tne text of his and THK WORLD as promptly expressed Its regret that It bad been led into criticism when 1C as the Presidents published telegram fully gave commended the emphasis of his response to the suggestion of the At tbe same time that the President furnished this reply to tbe lie was represented to have referred to THE as an opposition and to misrepresentations of whion He was re potted to navo said it Had been in regard to I ivaB instructed by Pulitzer to express verbally to tho President his regret at the mistake alluded to to say that while tho editor of THE WORLD criticised frankly what Ho believed to bo wrong la party or as In any organiza community or he was more than ready to give his warmest advocacy to every act of auj person or organization which was in the luter eit of tbe I was also Instructed to if bo was correctly he considered THE WORLD newspaper and what were the occasions wherein lie had been sented br UIB PRIDE IN HIS BUSHIER I found that tho President was at Oak his country place on the some three miles out from tho White The messenger who carried my note to him met him in the grounds surrounding the a straw hat upon his Helping the gardener at work on some Ho word that He would be glad to see me that It had Happened that I bad a great deal of Cleveland as Mayor of Buffalo and as It Had been niy fortune to be with him at several very notable occasions la bis public as a newspaper to have been able to secure expression ot his views upon the public questions then involved included an interview with him upon the of his nomination as Governor another after he bad sent in to the State Senate at Mhaas that most emphatic message upon tbe refusal to confirm tho nomination ol which the most direct and unusual In Its terms of any which waa ever n by any Legislature from any An other occasion was on the day of his election as when Ho remained at his desk at the ex office In apparently very little BO far as he personally waa by tbe Importance of tho It had that I had not seen him since Ills ration aa and I was from the newspaper to find a very considerable change In his personal lint when I drove out at 5 and he walked down the portico of bin cottage to meet It seemed clear that he had neither gained In flesh nor lost any thing of tho alertness of manner or thought lias always marked him in familiar Tne place Is really a very beautiful When no was first asked to look at Cleveland told he was much prejudiced It was then a house of with the grounds and aud only tne view to recommend But that view was even I spite of intervening since cut certainly la one of the most entrancing in the There are many high bills and woods between house and but tbe house is on such a jug eminence that all ot Washington la the grand dome and Capitol in the very the monument marking the limit and the big government beyond the Eastern tho With tlie fine which tno land cd me I could locate nearly every conspicuous as well as In the Between city aud house was a most charm ng Inclosed on both sides by what seemed almost a continuous avenue of and with many undulations of country in the miles that in HISTORICAL The property was a part of the original Green a famous one since colonial a daughter of this family years married the son ol that hapless Emperor bide whom Santa Anna shot to death alter his suc overthrow of Spanish rule la Mexico and brief assumption of Imperial son In an was adopted as heir by the still more hapless and after tne execution of that second usurper was brought back after many perils to himself and partly educated at the Georgetown College and partly with the ing Napoleon at His estates iu Mexico were lately restored to and the young Prince is I in Hew Eight years ago It was my privilege to meet at the old which I learned from the President was only a little distance from his She was a stately and worthy daughter of a distinguished She took me out to a ccr aln point on tho crest of tne hill and showed mo much tho same view aa that which tho President lad just but not so comprehensive ior so well It was while standing on that same that Washinston sc the site of the city to bo named for with the Trench was on a visit to her and the view was so en gaging that he made hla decision on the The President haa added a picturesque roof and tower to the old square a long L for the and other domestic and has built a portico about two sides of the main with a porte on the Tho trees are very a considerable grove of oaks and several splendid specimens scattered about tho grounds giving a part of its namo to the There Is a single beautiful pine over to tho of a species peculiar and not known to which who curne down at this said was her if Us race and singular beauty among its stepsisters led Cleveland to select this as particularly his his enthusiasm may be easily The President had dismissed my saying that ho would drive me in At 9 oclock we went up to the second gallery of the aud here there was a now phase of the Washing ton lay like a phantom seemingly only a little way below The slight mist that had arisen veiled its and except that exactly at Its poured its radiance upon that grand environed it about with white touched with such less profusion the out Lines of the Capitol itself that the dome seemed as though hung in the TUB AND THE I had already told Cleveland the object of my and we had talked of his experiences as I now gave him Pulitzers mes sage and he said fully appreciate tho valuable work THE WOULD has done in tho reformation of abuses in New and its efforts in so many directions In behalf of the Bat I have seen in THE WORLD with great regret and surprise a disposition at times to throw obstacles In the way of my efforts to establish civil service reform so firmly that there can never be a return to the old pernicious although seeming to be Its I refer to the of the comments of newspapers hos tile to me and my often Republican news and thus giving currency through tho great circulation of THB WOULD to carping attacks which otherwise would be limited to the small and local circulations of in which they first ap No man In the country can know the ments and the perplexities which have surrounded me In attempting to amend the condition of With these limitations to tho immediately successful accomplishment of my but guided by every light possible to be made I know I am trying to bring about tho remedy without tho least personal ambition or Not withstanding the natural aggravation which I have felt In noting tho apparent disposition against me I see the desire of through Tnn to aid iu tne same direction but the fact Is I am necessarily tho person now to bring this reform and Is there any better way to secure the accomplishment of tho reform than by helping me now to accomplish it if ho believes mo honest in my purpose The man who holds tne reins is the one to whom those who aro interested in a safe termination of the journey mnst of neces sity I you have been quoted In some newspapers as having attributed this alleged un friendliness to Pulitzers failure to secure from yon the appointment of CHarles Gibson to a certain f Will you please state ex the facts iu that case In tho earlier part of my term I did receive from Pulitzer a telegram Indorsing that appoint ment Gibson 1 Pulitzers at torney In a personal It was a natural Indorsement for him to I could not make the and so frankly told Pulitzer In long and cordial con which we had together here a year or so when he dined with and long after the matter had been passed But that such a reason was cause lor his apparent unfriendliness to me I can hardly It would preposter ous that so small a matter should alienate ness which had been so effectively displayed during my candidacy for It would not be in harmony the previous conduce of his Has Pulitzer asked any favor or appointment In his life tHo has Let me say Cleveland that if the disappointment arising from my In ability to name for all those recommended by my near personal and political friends were suffi cient cause for those who wish me well would be very few The facts as to Gibson appeared lo be that tho Missouri delegation had unanimously Indorsed him to the President for appointment to the Berlin and that Pulitzer had telegraphed from New mentioning this fact aud adding his TOE FUTURE Going downstairs we found with and tho first time he had seen them since ho brought them back from their visit to his homo In Cleveland was enthusiastic about her the little New England town and the people ahe had met She expects an excellent result of the studies Gaudens made for her has already been modelled In the clay aud of which there will be a The talked at much length of his efforts to find a suitable for a summer and the pleasure he had had In improve ments in the house and and took me ni thro ugh tho cottage to point out its many conveni It is admirably at every turn evidences of Clevelands taste In decora in pictures and In It I the first home the President has ever and there Is a contrast very marked even to my own unpractised eye between this with a wife to Illuminate and to dignify and the bachelor quar ters In which I hod first known Cleveland in The President spoke of this property as an excel lent Investment and intimated that after a time he might be willing to sell It has been generally that bo had changed his residence as a voter from Buffalo to Washington with the presumable Intention of making the capital city his future this may it did not appear to me that he regarded his residence at Oak View as a permanent lie mentioned a curious fact to me in this that a corre in New York State lind recently written o him that while there many hundreds of and private estates In this country and the names ol which were made up of oaK In combination with other only the residents country place bad the particular combi nation Oak t was now nearly 30 oclock In the and Cleveland said that he had much work to do at he Whito which would him at his desk tho greater part of the and that we must be The open carriage was sent for and Cleveland said to the President that site would drive in for him the next Cleveland told icr to bo sure to bo in time for and we drove I may be pardoned for saying that no two persons in this broad land more happy in each other than tlie Chief Executive of our sixty millions of people ana his beautiful and accom TUB PACIFIC RAILROAD The road to Washington from Oak by through a wooded lane and into Sixteenth is the prettiest about the Our conversation naturally began with a refer ence to the Pacific Commission aud tho work it lias The President said while ic bud not personally examined Into the nor had yet to rend the decision of the Federal Court of California declaring that under the act of Congress establishing the commission that body had not Judicial power to compel wit nesses to answer he was very that the issue had not been raised until nt BO advanced a stage of the Much valuable Information had already been The appointment of tho he was a matter of even very unusual thought and consideration with I think the good judgment and fidelity of the members have shown It to be an Ideal When I first sounded of as to tho hu begged that bo be relieved of tlie It would bo serious he to his professional aud tlie duty could only be undertaken by him nt a very grave loss to him lie recognized his duty us n citi zen his obligation to make any If culled to do but ho hoped in this Instance that I would find myself able to relievo This Is tne disposition toward accepting office all be glail to willingness to assume Its re if imperatively called upon to do but not seeking or desiring I know that tills was tno disposition of all three members of tho Pacific Railroad and It was a guaran tee of their faithfulness in performing its I let Paulson go home without any assur ance one way or the and when the time came for Paulson and Anderson to be notified of their appointment i sont for them separately to come to and had them meet without tho knowledge of cither In a room at the White Then I explained to them was wanted and what I conceived to be their obligation to the and left them They deliber ated together for an hour or and 1 came back they were ready to begin their arduous work at As to the matter of their employing additional counsel before the I received dispatch announcing their belief that it was and on the telegraphed back to them authority to do Why they did not employ additional counsel I have not yet been Informed bnt I understand from Paulson that the Commis confidently expected in view of the Importance of the question at an adjourn for an adequate period to examine fully into tho law upon the subject would be granted by the In any although It Is to be supposed that tho argument for tho people was ably pre sented by tho decision of the Court was against tho application of tho com mission but as I have testi mony had been secured from witnesses at tho previous both in the East and tho I have given close attention from tho start to the investigation aud to matters before the commis THE GRAND AND HIS VISIT TO Touching the recent agitation In the Grand the or Tuttle and the Wheeling the President said Tho soldier having laid down his after making so many sacrifices and enduring so many having achieved such a vast and good work in perpetuating our should be pre eminently tho best When he in time of peace resumes his his desire for the peace and quiet of his country and Its entirely dependent upon should bo sized by the very trials he has I do not believe he can be carried away from the even plane of that good citizenship by tae devices of men who would use him for partisan pur 1 referred to a despatch from Louis Intimating that there might bo overt acts in that city in re taliation for the Wheeling incident that bis portrait would bo displayed at prominent points along the route the Grand Army procession with hostile to see It any demonstration should be made against I do not believe there la any truth In he It is contrary to what I know to bo the spirit of tho municipal and commercial bodies which have Invited me and which I believe to bo the spirit of the whole of They certainly are animated by the intent towards September and will leave undone which the most courteous host can do to make the stay of the Grand Army delegates as memorable and as pleasant RU sion as 1 believe that they would omit to do anything which would Interfere with the com fort and thorough enjoyment of their The ot my portrait there la very un important matter wherein to incur the chance even of If Its omission should In any way bo regarded as in the interest of peace and feel sure there will be no attempt to display MIDNIGHT AT The wellknown think they brought us into the city by a full fifteen minutes better time then I had made going In reply to a wlah expressed on tne way to aee tbe Whito Bonse at tbe President Bald that be had imperative work for an hour or bnt that I would find him at leisure about It was J that hour when I did find him it tho desk In his on the second floor of tho hard at work with a pile or papers bc ore imd n secretary at Intervals taking papers away as they wero disposed of ana adding to those At the main door I had found tile alert Edwards disposed to bar my President and evidently of any permission to disturb him at his Another apparently worn ivas taking a midnight nap In chair by tnc nner In the were several Hard at it and with seemingly a work before The President had a big parchment on the desk md was studying it I learned it was un appointment which hnd Just been made He Had just signed another of like portentous which the secretary held m his hand while waiting take away the But Pr turned it over on Its facn and I must consider that a little Then he turned to me and said This been tho room which has witnessed many trials aud but I feel that It has tbe scene In which a very great improvement lias been made In civil service Iu tue first In the year and i hull of my tbe same battle was fought day alter Men came here by tho the com pany filling the room and emptying It only to make way for another and there wus always the name formula I have 0 ask Tho 1 would he Is a would be tlie uniform repeated over and over ind over again Iu each case with ugly 1 could the same You must bring me of his as a public I stood very well their Inability to Knowing very well the processes had ob here for BO many 1 could but sympathize with their I havo per more clearly In u letter which I wrote on this subject just years The success which thus far has attended the work of civil service I said Is largely due to Uio fact that its practical friends havo proceeded upon the theory that real and healthy progress can only be made as such of the who cherish pernicious political long fostered and encouraged by vicious aro persuaded that the contemplated by the reform offers substantial improvement aud bene A reasonable toleration of old a graceful recognition of every a sensible utiliz ation of every Instrumentality that promises assist and a constant effort to demonstrate the advantages of tho lien order of arc the means by this reform movement will In the future bo further the opposition of in corrigible spoilsmen rendered and Ihe cause placed upon a sure But now the formula is altogether 1 have not beard that expression lor many It is at the outset of every application for a change This man Is a faithless public and these are tho THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND CIV I Is not this a very ancom Is not for the time that has to those who may com plain that more has not been accomplished Harder than anything to endure have been the Im of personal friends In tbe party that I have not regarded sufficiently their requests In making could I have resisted the demands made upon me by if I yielded to the mere request of one known to bo near mo In personal friendship They would have put me la opposition to the very thing I was trying to carry 1 But it Is a wonderful for a political party to have put aside the of al though at such apparent disadvantage to and to have acquiesced iu the newt order of al so opposed to previous political Iu that which 1 have already referred this was fully pointed The support which has been given to the present Administration In its efforts to preserve and advance this by a parly restored to power alter an exclusion for many years from participation in tho places attached to tho confronted with a now system precluding the redistribution of places In its called upon to surrender tages which a perverted partisanship had taught the American people belonged to and per turbed with a always raised In such aa that their In the conduct of this reform had not been scrupulously should receive duo acknowledgment and should confirm our belief that there is u sentiment among tho peo plo better a desire to hold and u patri otic Impulse upon which may safely rest the Integ rity of our institutions ant the strength and tuity of our BIS VIEWS AS TO A Concerning the question of Cleveland said It to bo the universal belief that a Presi dent desire n I cannot under stand how any man who has served one term us President could havo u personal ambition In secur ing a second with all its solemn Us harassing duties and Its constant and frl OUB upon his mental and physical His seems to to accept a second term should only upon his sense of a solemn obligation as a citizen and an appreciation of his duty when called upon to particular part of tho burden of Thus tho can It can have for per sonal If my administration during my term should bo useful to the should respond to the wishes aud expectations of those who elected should Justify the reason for substituting in control of the Government the party which I represent for that which had ad ministered the affairs of the for a quarter of o my satisfaction would be hope my present term may bo concluded with profit to the and with as few mistakes on my own part as aro Incident to fallible Human An hour and hod and the President had much work to I bade Him eood night after his Invitation to come to the White House again the next day at 1 At that time I met Cleveland with the The day before she had been dressed In some simple arid moat becoming costume of but her handsome gown of Ibis ua the I have not the knowledge Whatever Cleveland wears or does seems to become to admiration of every man or woman who has seen It Is the conventional oven among all tho republi cans that wo to speak of a liarly stately and graceful woman aa If Cleveland had descended from a line of gentle perhaps she Its origin lost in tho of her simple ease In tae place she fills us a bride of only a little over a year and graduate of a rural school of just a year could not be more graceful and All this Is but It Is a ment which la very clearly that of everybody who The White House la In the throes ot Its annual ana Cleveland is giving It her personal Four portraits had newly been hung la tae great East and Cleve landa eye saw that was a grievous she they have placed Jefferson and Lincoln so that they turn backs to each other I So she arranged It forthwith that the gaze of Washington and hla noble of the great Democratic commoner and of tho martyred should be di towards tlie centre of the not that of two of towards opposite When we were again alone the president spoko of all when I to the absorption of his There aro duties to be ho and I must do It has happened that my life han been a laborious one with no I am now fiftyone years When my professional labors had secured to me of a competency and the right and opportunity tor I was called to perform public duties much more arduous than any had pertained lo my private As you the duties at Albany were Hardly lesa exact ing In then only in their than those of this I havo now come to a time of and particularly to an epoch In my when I should gladly welcome leisure and freedom from 1 may say 1 have just begun to live In all that Is best and truest in When I alluded to tbe possibility that the coming Presidential campaign might find Him again exposed to its anxieties and respon no sold Tlie tlie the slanders as to as to as to mere allurement of continued could entice one facing nil and know Ins just what they mean 7 1 If yon pursue the course you did ut all this will not affect so ut as outward ffo For It Is tho President the excitement and tho requirements of u catu would make little In my dally 1 should pursue tho course of today and of yesterday and of the day before and of nil days since 1 came inn 1 can only repeat to you with 11 full sense of what the words that I can understand no Temptation and no ex cept His of His obligation aa a which could persuade a President to desire a second THIS 1ROIOSED EXTRA I asked the President as to His reasons for not calling uu extra session of Congress to consider tHe questions of taxation left unsettled by the last ses and which operated to pile up In the Treas ury a useless surplus of some eleven millions of dollars a To this He said I gave tho subject tho most careful study and There was to bo said on both after considering the matter In all Its I decided that an extra session was not Imperatively The convening of Con gress In extra term lias olten failed to realize the anticipations of good to proceed from Hut in this particular exigency I should havo called the extra session If at any time the needs ot tho coun try seemed to demand It The expedient we adopted of disposing of that part of the surplus tho retention of from the channels of might Hav e proven too groat a strain upon tho by calling tho ought to subserve what Is imperatively appeared mori to the public Interest that the members of tho now Congress should spend the usual recess among their and learn there by as long and as Inti mate communion us possible just what the required of With the ample discussion of the subject In IHe public press and tho discussion among the people themselves representatives should bo so educated to a true understanding of great matters at issue that speedy action ought to bo after the organization shall have been THE CASTLE GARDEN You Have TUB WORLDS in Into the abuses at Castle Garden That was a matter you took groat Interest in when Gov ernor said tho it Is excellent THE WOULD has also I much prominence to extracts from my message ou the subject sent to the Stale Senate four years Tho truo facts of the proceedings which led to that sent In the closing Hours of the session of Have been made After the ex act Had been passed many changes In tho system at Castle Garden anil nutting U in charge of a tingle looked about for a lit man for the I I In of and sent In His name tu the Senate for Immediately there began an astonishing pressure to secure promise that the of the office should bo duly apportioned between different polit ical parties ana factions represented in and that liii promise should be a condition prece dent to Of course I paid no atten tion whatever to this and when It was at its utmost Senator himself appeared at Albany lo see I said to lam amazed 10 see you Here what does It mean He 1 left homo to escape tho Importunities of applicants and their who Have besieged me by 1 am assured that I can bo con firmed forthwith If I will promise a division of offices agreed upon I would make no such whatever might bo the I could not go after doing such a and face my wife aud I believe said If you Hud made that or had promised any thing In the way of disposing of the I withdraw jour name at very object and purpose of the law would be violated by 1 Tno luw could only bo given effect by the con of tbe It was admitted on every hand that the changes contemplated by the law were demanded to tho helpless im migrant from imposition and from It Had passed houses of the Legislature by a large and so abundantly obvious was its crying No charge or valid objection was ever even attempted against the confirmation of Senator was ad mitted on all bands to be a conspicuously fit man for the Yet day by day passed and the Senate had taken no The morning of tho last day and was si 111 no disposition to in default of a promise as to tho It was within two Hours of the I when I de termined upon preparing the message referred I felt sure that a final presentation of the admitted facts aa 10 the cruel treatment of the immigrants and of the scandalous circumstances attending the failure of the Senate to perfect to act must shame at least some of the recalcitrant Senators into vot ing fur the confirmation of the I believed that some of the members from at would lay aside partisanship and vote for per the So I went downstairs to my pri vate and wrote tho It canio near going to the in my own for there was barely time to have It copied and to eond It In before the Senate But there was time to have confirmed the My ex had been The spoils sys tem was more potent than regard for decency or the manful sympathy these men must have aa human for the of their aa they had been fullr pointed oat In the debate over the It wan for these that I la much stronger than are usual from a Governor to a but which were fully justi fied These facts t lift tho efforts to reform the management above partisan considerations and nuke the cause one In which every rightminded nan should be nml one In which those to protect the and the honor of the of the should gladly ihe refusal to confirm Hie is not baaed upon any allegation of nor has such a been It and as I understand tho Has Its In an overwhelming greed for the patronage which may to tlie aud which will not be promised n and In questionable which s insisted ou at Die expense of important lu It will thua be seen trat I was not appealing to my own party but to the better sense of the entire act was not and still remains ipon the statute after four inoperative ind Helpless to the purposes for which It was and Imperatively It Is a cant and wholesome fact that every one of the Democratic Senators who opposed that confirma tion was retired Into political TUB DOWNING I said that I supposed the fact that the new In the following con n hostile majority was tbe reason that Ho did not renew His to fill the and recalled to him his action In the matter ot of as Having Had a very material bearing upon that It Is he that I sincerely hoped for a and friendly majority iu tho next State Iliad the perfecting of tho Immi grant as well as the success of some other pub ic measures very much at U seemed very probable that there would be a Democratic major ity m the und that these measures would be paused bnt that even the election of a single member might decide When charges were presented to me against Downing and He Hud Himself nominated for tbe state Senate In that strongly Democratic dls It Is true had I withheld action upon tne charges until after he would In all probability have been returned to the and doubtless Havo voted for any measure In which I had an But my duty was and all the more because I might havo had the In terest referred to In His success us a I found that the charges were and removed Him from a few days before the lie was Notwithstanding that there was a hostile ma nt the next session I canvassed the chances of properly filling the but situation was such that I was compelled to abandon tho at I have no doubt tno same difficulties that I met Have confronted my successor In His Inclination to carry out the purposes of the A NATIONAL BOARD OF As to some questions which I naked Him concern Ing the labor and particularly its politi cal tlie President said that he did not con sider It for him to discuss the subject In this bnt He dwelt with great earnestness upon the recommendation which he made In u special message to Congress in and re in His message In December of the same for tno enlargement of tho present Labor Bureau and adding to its present functions the power of arbitration In coses where differences arise between employer and I re ho what I then Under our form of government the value of labor as nn cle ment of national prosperity should be distinctly and tho welfare of the laboring man should be regarded us especially entitled to legisla tive and 1 Though the of a better accord between these Interests Is ap It must be borne In mind that any effort In that direction by Die Federal Government must bo greatly limited by constitutional Labor has It very clearly and very easily within Its power to demand aud obtain from Con gress all legislation within the Constitution which is needed for Its protection and commensurate advancement In relation to the Interests of other elements of the body AH one means to this end I suggested as an improvement upon a then pending in in case of any important dispute between employers and lor tho appointment of a court of arbi tration In each one member to bo named by each of tho contending and thu third by the Federal Court of estab of a permanent board of arbitration In the Bureau of Labor und the giving It powers ami functions as would permit It to act when necessary between labor and capital under limitations and upon such occasions as be deemed proper and I regret that In the press of other legislation thla proposed board was not Tbe President looks forward with tno greatest in to his visit to the the Northwest and iho IIo Is dally in receipt of new invitations from various towns and villages along tho proposed and In tbe anticipation of his visit He Is very sorry Unit the exigencies ol his duties Here compel so speedy a return that He must abridge to tho shortest practicable time his stay at each of tho points where ho and Cleveland have already arranged to lie expresses extreme at his inability to visit many other places to which good friends most cordially bidden The na was only in reference to Louis and au all other have grown up from either the towns to bo belug en route or the circumstances being such as to make it very desirable and convenient to make u detour to see Another visit to Oak View to obtain the Presi dents full permission to use for publication the precise expressions I Have and to make sure that I had In no word misquoted aud my mission was Speaker Carlisle and his wife Imd been making a visit of several days to tho President at Oak and the Speaker was with tho President on this lie seemed to agree with the President In tho remark before quoted in the that Congress would taki speedy upon the tariff question at its cession this BALLAUD Weather For Aew New East cm anil light footer weather and high westerly For West ern York and Western ralna clearing weather ana westerly Tho following record shows the changes In tho temperature for the post twentyfour hours a 01 OJ 1887 6 76 12 Have Been Closed during tha be thoroughly aired and dla infected before rely upon CHLORIDES a the household V Keep tho Bottle end clem by washing It with jou would DM the best f HE THEATRE A DEATH liLY ONEHALF TUB GALLERY AUDIENCE AT EXETER BURNED THE BARRED DOORS OF ONE EXIT BURST FROM THEIR July a Crooked Stairway by Which to Found Wedged in and Piled ill a Huge One Hundred and Fifty Iead and Sixty Ini Perish mid Are Found Clasped in Each Others Awful Scene During Tim Company Fork SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE aro many things toj c cleared up before ft can uc understood how BO many people wero literally rated in the Theatre at nit half full and with the breaking out he In the reports from tue scene ot the terrible calamity only one exit from the is The architect of tae edifice ina card thla evening states nro aa he broad and The streets of the town are There is not at house where shutters are not up and curtains Men walk about the street gazing at smoking with crape encircling their If any are have no dear one to la but the terrible calamity Is borne on whole with solemn There are It Is somewhat remarkable that tho Royal Theatre at Exeter was twice destroyed by as waa Bluff before at terrible calamity came which had in both instances been twice In answer to sir John Home secretary Mathews said tonight that the government had no jurisdiction over prav theatres that they were under tHw supervision of the county Raj added that in view of tao horrible calamity ati Exeter the Government would soon suggest a measure which would go as far aa human fore thought prevent of From the very latest and moat which have reached me thla morning It Is clear that many of the victims wore suffocated and not burned to death as has been The number of victims still remains and it may be known bnt tlie loss of life Is at least one hun dred and and It may possibly be 03 high as two of those who perished wore occupants of the the others being from the pit and upper FOUIl IN TUB Quite of the victims perished staircase leading from the gallery to The only means of exit from tho gallery was of stone with stone walls and ax iron railing running along on one 1C had four distinct turns and In a spiral The result waa that as the people madly rushed down they became hopelessly jammed crushed at each In their attempts to free themselves the limbs of some appear to havo been torn in others At bend ol angle was found a pile of charred human The post about Halfway down the winding passage was another fatal obstruction to the freert passage of the terrorstricken But for twol windows in the staircase very few Indeed have One of these windows opened upon leaden The other overlooked the Several persons climbed ont and leaped to the of distance of fourteen or were rescued by Out of 110 persons known to have in tho gallery very few escaped by tho prise aud indignation Is expressed that in a mod ern building there should have been bnt one exits from the and that of suchon tory ONE EXIT For the pit and stalls there five separata and nearly all In these parts the house wero aud all Havo escaped had not one of then emergency exits from tho constructed to open been fastened by a bar on the i Against this obstruction the people tHrowl themselves impetuously until the doom wero wrenched off their Nearly all those who wore lost were residents of j Exeter and ot the villages in the and were for the most part of the working Several tradesmen of the city Daylight revealed an appalling In a shed at the back of the London Hotel dead bodies laid in rows of about twenty each awaiting Crowds to Guild as early as six oclock tor tickets to admit them to tha I yard to look for missing relatives und j While the melancholy work of viewing the bodies went ou the police were continually bring ing IQ shapeless human By dej greca the shed floors adjoining tho stables were Mutilated trunks and discovered as tho work of the search were laid out on straw in the open In only a very few oases can the bodies be identified by their In one corner of tho yard la a heap of calcined bodies and burnt The scenes In the were most Women fainted as they by some familiar j their lost and their lamentations Among the lust of the bodies brought m was that of a father beneath whom was found his only a few mouths Tho position of the rigid In showed that the poor was doing his best to save and shelter the infand when he Women are la some cases only bo distinguished by their wedding the females seem to have suffered AS the search proceeded today it became all too evi dent that the leas of life was not to the gallery Lives were lost in the pit where a terrible crash took placo and In the Alany charred bodies were recovered thia morning from tho gallery saloon aud second i The victims had apparently become blocked In rushing for the The fact that tho theatre was not over onethird i filled la one saving circumstance In the horrible HEROISM OF Deeds of were done which enlighten tile terrible blackness of this Bewildered by the terrble outcry which arose immediately after dames were paralyzed mentally and physically by the terrible crackling and hissing sound ot the flames aa they ted on the painted can vas of the Miss Janet who was ing the part of Romany in thai Long after all the other actors had saved for the first ttma her absence was Then Gilbert proprietor of the and Frank ani rushed back the flaming stage deter mined to save Several times they wero beaten back by the but at scorched and holt asphyxiated they reached her and earned her oat of On Elliotts
