Title: the administration sawmill
abstract: illustration shows president cleveland standing next to a large "reform buzz-saw" labeled "pat. 1884 by g. Cleveland" at a sawmill, where three members of his cabinet "manning, whitney, [and] bayard" are milling lumber labeled "for the improvement of the custom house" and "props for the navy"; a carpenters square labeled "honesty" rests against some boards at cleveland's feet. A group of newspaper editors, congressmen, and a dog labeled "blaine's pup" has entered on the left, among them are "dana, mclean, vance, eustis, reid, beck, evarts, sherman, medill, [and] edmunds", they are standing just outside the "secretarys office" where daniel s. Lamont is sitting; through the open door is visible a wagon loaded with large logs labeled "mormon question, silver question, tariff ques, [and] coast defences". Physical description: 1 print: chromolithograph. Notes: copyright 1886 by keppler & schwarzmann.;j. Keppler.;illus. From puck, v. 18, no. 465, (1886 february 3), centerfold.;caption: foreman cleveland (kindly but firmly)-- "boys, don't monkey with the buzz-saw!"; title from item. Date: 1886.
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