Cool in Washington
Relief from the hot weather in Washington took on special urgency after President Garfield was shot in 1881, when for nearly three months he suffered in the summer heat before dying. For his comfort, naval engineers constructed a device using ice and air blowing on cold cloth, but it couldn't save Garfield from his own doctors. Ten years later, Inventor Alexander Graham Bell installed an early air conditioning system in his new house. Cool air for the public was still a novelty when the new luxury hotel, The Mayflower, opened with air conditioning in 1925.
Before air conditioning became affordable, being cool in Washington required importance, brilliance, or riches. Fortunately, there are other kinds of cool. This guy had all of them.
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