People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — RECEPTIONS DISCONTINUED. [ARTICLE]

RECEPTIONS DISCONTINUED.

The President Institutes a Bule at the White House That Causes Disappointment to Tourists. Washington, Sept 27.—The president has discontinued his public receptions and it is not likely that they will be resumed for some time to come. Receiving the public in the east room Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 1 o’clock was inaugurated by President Cleveland early in his first term, was praeticed by President Harrison throughout his term and was renewed by President Cleveland last March up to the time he went to gray gables to recuperate his health. No receptions of this kind have been given since then, and it is understood th’e president means substituting special receptions to visiting bodies whenever the occasion justifies it This rule has caused considerable disappointment to many tourists, who had come to the city from far distant points with the confident hope of being able to pay their respects to the chief magistrate in person. It is not generally known that these receptions are no longer held, and excursion parties regularly assemble at the white house in anticipation of greeting the president as their neighbors had done previously. An effort is being made to have the president relax his rule to the extent at least of one reception a weelc for the benefit of strangers, and there is a reasonable prospect of success.