Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1887 — DANIEL LAMONT. [ARTICLE]

DANIEL LAMONT.

Personal A ppearanees and Occupations of the President’s Secretary. Washington Letter in Boston Herald. , Col. Lamont is looking well, and has fattened a little since last fall, when I first met him. He is little more than 5 feet 6 inches in height and probably weighs about 145 pounds. He has stiff reddish brown hair and a heavy red mustache, which is thoroughly unique in its way, and starts out horizontally an inch and a half from his upper lip. It appears as energetic as the man himself, and wohld undoubtedly extend its length but for the constant clipping of which it hears evidence. The Colonel's face is a strong one, neither handsome nor ugly, but not attractive; his hands and feet are small, and his figure good. He generally wears a navy blue handsome suit with sack coat, a standing collar, a dark cravat of the prevailing fashion, and low shoes. A heavy gold watch chain, plainly designed, ornaments his low-cut vest, and when he goes out he usually dons a white plug hat, which in winter is usually changed for a black silk one. The daily life of Colonel Lamont is as regular as it is busy, and that is saying a great deal. Eight o’clock finds him out of bed and nine o’clock finds him walking down the avenue to the White House. An hour later he is closeted with the President, and together they are going over the official mail of the latter, that is about a hundred letters that demand the personal attention of the President himself. At 2 o’clock he hastens home to lunch, and at 3 returns to complete the business of the day. Besides signing nearly every letter that leaves the executive mansion, he skims through the leading dailies, which his editorial training has taught him to do with great rapidity. Articles for the Presidential eye are marked with a blue pencil, and those to be cut out and pasted in the scrap-book are marked 1 with a green pencil; Although the Presidentgenerallv leaves the office at 4 o’clock for a drive with the pretty mistress of the AVhite House, indefatigable Daniel frequently stays there till 6 or 7, when the cravings of his inner man Remand a cessation of labor. But he has a spanking team of bays which are always driven fast, and a couple of hours of the early evening are Sometimes spent in spinning over some of the lovely supurban roads with his family. But that is only a recess. At 9 o’clock he is back at the office, and rarely leaves there before 11 o’clock. If he takes a night off, and goes to the opera with Mrs. Lamont, he returns to the office as soon as the entertainment is over. Colonel Lamont is by no means a society man, and never “goes out” except when obliged to, and then only as a matter of business. At the White House receptions, however, he is al ways the major dnmo, and manages things as if he had lived in a spiked-tail all his life. I venture to say that Daniel is the only Democratic Colonel in this city of “Kernals” and “Majaws” who never drinks or smokes, and he has never indulged in either habit in his life. By the way, this title of Colonel is not one of courtesy only, as he was appointed on the staff of Gov. Cleveland, of New Yorx, with that title.