Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1889, Page 7

ADMINISTRATION HOMES. The Cabinet Ministers’ Plans for Mem- bers of their Families. HE HARRISON HOUSEHOLD AND THE TYLER FAM- ILY—MRS. MORTON AND THE DAUGHTER OF SECRETARY TRACY RETURN TO NEW YORK—VISIT OF EX-VICE-PRESIDENT AND MRS, HAMLIN. It is not the intention of Mrs. Harrison or the ladies of the administration to enter into any formal social hospitalities until fall. There will be more or less informal intercourse, how- ever, as soon as the ladies of the families of the Bew cabinet mini: reach here and get set- tled in their Washington homes for the quad- rennial term of their official residence at the capital. The wife and daughter of the Secre- tary of State have been in Washington for some weeks, Mrs. Blaine has been &t home informally, but the accident to her son Walker has engaged most of her attention. The premier of the present administration having taken the historic residence of the Premier of the Lincoln and Johnson govern- ments, will not be able to take possession be- fore fall. The residence will be put through a jorough renovation. Mrs. Blaine has never been particularly fond of Washington society. In her former experiences as wife of aSpeaker, Senator and Secretary of State, she was as- sisted by her talented relative and friend, Miss Dodge. *Her daughter Margaret is Row in society and will assist her mother. The youngest daughter and Founsest child, Harriet Stanwood | Blaine, at school at Farmington, Conn. She will finish her education this year and will be the debutante of the cabinet circle during the next season, ‘MRS. WINDOM. The wife of Secretary Windom is in New York. She will be in Washington within two or three days. She will be accompanied by her daughter Ellen, her * rom daughter, Flor- ence, being still at school. The Secretary will reside at the hotel until he makes permanent Strangements. A year ago the Secretary sold bis fine residence on Scott circle to Mr. Munn, @ retired merchant of Chicago. Mrs. Munn was the widow of one of the Armours of Chi- cago, of cattle-slanghtering and meat-shipping opulence. The Secretary will either purchase or rent a residence as soon as practicable, as all the el tand expensive furniture which he had in his house at the time of the Munn par- chase has been stored. SECRETARY PROCTOR’S FAMILY. The family of Secretary Proctor of the Navy will not get settled here until fall, as their home in Vermont will be more desirable than Washington for the summer months. They will visit Washington, however, for a few weeks. THE FAMILY OF SECRETARY TRACY will not be here permanently until fall. Mrs ‘Tracy is somewhat of an invalid. The home of the Secretary will, however, not be without a presiding lady, who will take an active part in the social life of the capital. His daughter, Mrs. Willmer ding. who has been in Washington” for several days with her father, is a lady of the highest culture and social qualities. Her mother and herself will alternate in their visits to Washington to keep the Secretary company. MRS. WANAMAKER, The wife of Postmaster-General Wanamaker is im Europe, but will return shortly. She will continue her residence in Philadelphia until the Postrfaster-General makes arrangements fora home during hig official sojourn at the capital. The wife of t mn of the Postmaster- General is a daughter of John Welsh, in his day one of the public-spirited and highly-re- spected citizens of Philadelphia. He repre- sented the Hayes administration at the court of St. James. She has had the benefit of experi- ence from her childhood in the ways of polite society, and will be a great acquisition to the gay life of the cabinet circle when society resumes its rounds under the new regime. The elder Mrs. Wanamaker is very much in- terested in works of benevolence. Some of the noblest churches of the City of Brotherly Love owe their prosperity and usefulness to her tender solicitude for suffering and unfortunate humanity. MRS. NOBLE, wife of the new Secretary of the Interior, is somewhat of an invalid. She has been in the city for several week, but will not be able to take much part, even in the informal social ac- quaintance-making, which will take up the earlier months of the new administration. ‘MR. MILLER’S FAMILY. The family of Attorney-General Miller, con- sisting of Mrs. Miller and daughter, have been experiencing hotel life during the busy stages of cabinet making, ina Pores Leeman and getting started in official house-keeping. They are now looking out for a permanent resi- mee. The Secretary of the new De; mt of Agriculture, Jeremiah Rusk, left home in such haste upon a sudden summons from the “high- est authority” that he was accompanied only by his son, Lyeurgus J. Rusk. His family, con- sisting of Mrs. Rusk and daughter Mary, will follow at their leisure, arriving within a day or two. IX THE WHITE HOUSE. A statement has been circulated that the household of President Harrison will be the largest which ever occupied the executive man- sion. The family of the President will consist of Mrs. Harrison, his son, Russell Harrison, and his beautiful wife and one child, J. Robert Mc- Kee and wife, the charming daughter of the President, and two children. The most numerous family flock within the Ti pherr of the domestic circle of Pres. idents was that of John ‘Tyler. His family was very large, while he resided, 1841-5, in the ‘executive mansion as Presi- dent, being the constitutional heir presump- tive to the title, dignities and powers to which the grandfather of the present Presi- dent been elected. Robert Tyler, who was his eldest son, married while there a daughter of Thomas Abthorpe Cooper, the eminent English tragedian, who had an American wife. His wife often presided. Mary Tyler, the eldest daughter, married Henry Lightfoot Jones, of Virginia, and assisted her mother. Letitia Tyler married Judge Semple, of Cedar Hill, Va., and who took charge of the executive household after her mother’s death, in the executive mansion, in September, 1942. (Mrs, Semple is now a resident at Louise Home.) Elizabeth Tyler, the belle of the White House, married William Waller, of Williamsburg, Va., in the executive mansion, in 1842, just before her mother’s death. John Tyler, next to Rob- ert in age. assisted as private secretary. He is # tall, handsome sper apn of his distin- guished sire in looks and courtly demeanor. He lives in Georgetown, but in exceedingly ili bealth from the infirmities of advancing years, Alice was a child in the executive mansiou, She afterward married Kev. Henry M. Deni- son, of the Protestant Episcopal church. Tazewell was a stili younger child. Mrs, ‘Tyler did not often take part in social festivi- ties, but all her married daughters appeared. In 1844, two years after Mrs. Tyler's death, the President married the beautiful Julia Gardiner, of New York, and brought her at eS ee asa ro and gave a grand w ing reception. ler household while mee executive iia ran the entire ic _ experiences, marriage, births and death, The domestic of the family was well represented in a ° ly number of children of the sons and ughters and of the parents of the exalted household. Levi P. Mi and family Mrs. Wi ing, the shter of Judge Tracy, the The ladies go to New York with Colonel Elliot T. = in his private car. Colonel dining, one given to in of bis oclontieas a cabinet place, and the second to the party leaders asa. memory of the success of the campaign, unching of the Rew istration the unity of political forces in New York and 3 Hanvibal Hamlin, of Maine, to the capital to icipate in the ceremonies attending the res- — of the republican to power was one of the most int features of the weason of national festi and display. ennouncement last winter that the states- man had actually taken to an over- Cott a a eren at Cay am 5 cvent Bational interest, but was regarded indi- Siteding to the fact the ag =e ing to t ex-Vi to a friend who met on the Avenue: did get an overcoat and wear that was not F he = Speaking of politics, Mr. Hamilin said: “I am old in years, if not in .j rite end infirmities, but I thought t the restoration of the republican to power and to see it safel unched on a new career of wise and intelli- gent administration of public affairs was a fit- ting occasion for an old man who was nt at its birth to make @ journey of hundreds of “I entered the Senate of the United States over forty years ago. That .was in 1847-'56. In the latter year I was elected governor of Maine. That was our first real repub- lican campaign, but I had only held the office for thirty days when I became Vice-President of the United States on the ticket with Abraham Lincoln. This earried me down to 1865. I was then out of public life for four years, but ip 1869 was again chosen to the Senate of the United States and served in that body until 1830, Iam delighted to see the republican party in power, and trust for the good of the country that it may continue there for many years.” Mrs. Hamlin, who accompanies the ex-Vice-President, is an _ attractive bright, intelligent woman and somewhat younger than he. She is the half-sister of his first wife. The first wife was Sarah Jane Emery, born in Paris, Oxford county, Me. She mar- Mr. Hamlin in 1833 and died in 1255. The present Mrs. Hamlin was Ellen V. Emery, who was also born at Paris, Me. She was edu- cated at home by her father, and also at the Norway academy and Gorham Female semi- nary, Maine. Her father, Stephen Em- ery, was prominent in state affairs. He was attorney-general of Maine, member of the governor's council and of the board of educa- tion and also judge of the district court. Her mother was Jennette Loring, daughter of John Loring, of Buckfield, Me., a prominent country merchant and man of distinction in his locality. Miss Emery and Mr. Hamlin were married in 1856. She has been with him in Washington during every session of Congress, and while he was Vice-President of the Unite: States, except for four years, when he was not in the Senate. Mrs. Hamlin is therefore well known in the higher circles of Washir m life among those who were associated witl Food affairs down to 1831. DzB. R. K. ae BSR A PECULIARITY OF WASHINGTON The Disappointed Office-Seeker and What Becomes of Him. The inauguration is over, and the great mass of people has disappeared. The only strangers left behind are those who are looking for an office, Tney have come and are going to re- main until they are rewarded with an appoint- ment or until their last penny is gone. There isno class of persons who can live longer on small capital than the office-seeker. He has been out for a long time, and has become ac- quainted with the ways of the world, or, in other words, he is used to “roughing it.” The average office-seeker, whether he is after a for- eign mission or a laborer’s place in one of the departments, puts on a bold front when he starts insearch of asituation. In the first place he thinks a suit of broadcloth is necessary, or he takes the next best or the best he can get. Linen from the laundry must be worn and this is an item of additional expense. Clean collars d cuffs are donned each day, and to complete his presentable appearance an additional nickel is squandered on a bootblack. In ail the appli- cant finds it rather expensive business, but then he,expects soon to be rewarded and all will be right. Days, weeks, and months pass by and yet he has not even succeeded in getting some one “fired” to make a vacancy for himself, His hotel bili must be paid, and soon he finds that financial embarrassment is sure to follow. He must leave his hotel and secure more eco- nomical quarters. Expenses in every direction must be curtailed. His laundry bill must be lessened. Then he wears a collar two or three days and turns his cuffs to get double wear out of them, His current expenses have been cut more than fifty per cent. He still continues to hang about the public offices and more and more does he begin to realize that a “public office is a private snap.” CASTLES IN THE AIR. He then builds casties high in the air. Thinks what he conid do with the salary of the office for which he is an applicant. In his mind he could sport diamonds and bnild houses. Failing to secure an early appoint- ment he becomes miserable. His money is fast going. and what to do he does not know. His expenses must be further lessened, and he invests in a few celluloid collars and cuffs, Theme dispenses with linen shirts and wears flannel, They do not have to go to the laundr, so often. With his flannel shirt, celluloid coi- lars and cuffs and a necktie he presents almost as good an appearance as he did when he stopped at the hotel, paid big laundry bills, and indulged in an every-day bootblack. He can now black his boots as well as any colored boy in town. Finally he begins to pire up hopes of securing his appointment and desires to go home, but he knows how his friends will tantalize him, and that he could not stand. He waits awhile longer. and by-and-by the position which he desires to fill becomes vacant. DISAPPOINTED. Then he watches the newspapers for his ap- pointment. He watches in vain, for after sev- eral days the name of another individual ap- pears, and then the unfortunate is greatly dis- appointed, but he manages to brace up and urges his name for another position. equally sure of getting this one. He m friends, tells them his story and they give encouraging news. Then he has reason to ri joice, and they take a drink together. Day after day he wastes his time in a saloon. He is soon christened “colonel” or “majah,” and as long as his money lasts he is a good fellow. The other office slips from him, and it is not long before he becomes a vagrant in attempting to drown his disappointments in ram. His board bill gets lary nd he is told to look out for another ing-house. He fails to take the hint, and gets the “grand bounce.” FROM BAD TO WORSE. He next appears at the pawn shops; puts up what spare articles of clothing he has, Each deal of this kind affords him another oppor- tunity of getting druuk. He goes from bad to worse, and his neme finally appears on the register of “invited guests” at the police sta- tion. He next — at the station as “a drunk,” and is locked up over night. He has now lost all hope of bettering himself, and is unable to solve the difficult problem. ‘What shall I do?” he asks himself. “Shall I tramp home? No! I would be disgraced.” Day after day he spends in this condition. He becomes despondent, and determines to end his troubles forever. He perhaps chooses drowning as the most painless dea’ The body is recovered and placed in the morgue, where other ic and unfortunate victimsare placed, The sharp knife of the coroner is brought into service, and the disfigured remains are either interred in Potter's field or sent home to his relatives for a decent burial. Thus there is one can date out of the way, and room is made for an- other applicant. “COLUMBIA’S GLORY.” A Song Written to Washington in the Last Century. Among the relics that have an interest in connection with the approaching centennial of the first inauguration of Gen. Washington as President is a poem which is now in the pos- session of Dr. J. M. Toner, of this city. Ex- actly who the author was is not known, as only his initials are signed, nor can it be ascer- tained whether the lines were sung as sug- gested in the note to Mr. Wignell. Thomas Wignell, however, to whom the verses were directed, was the manager of the Chestnut street theater, in Philadelphia, in1794, and for several years afterward. The sheet from which these lines are copied bears the post- mark of February, 1797, and on it is shown that 17 cents was T The note to Mr. Wignell, which is at the end of the verses, is as follows: Ma. Wx 2 on the evento of Washi answer to sing at the theater Ww.88, This is the song, and while there it be some fault. found ‘in ite” constraction fone critical standpoint, there can be no question as to its earnest patriotism and Gevotion to the Father of his try: COLUMBIA'S GLORY, } INAUGURATION CROWDS. How the Crooks Were Prevented from Robbing the Public. DETECTIVES ASSISTED BY THE WEATHER—THIEV- IXG AT FORMER INAUGURATIONS—HOW A PICK- The inauguration with its attending festivi- ties is over. The innumerable stands have nearly all disappeared and the decorations have been taken down. Everybody is tired and to- morrow is hailed with much joy because per- sons will then have achance to obtain their much needed rest. For nearly one week the city was in an uproar. Bands of music, with many thousands of soldiers, paraded night and day and many persons were unable to get little if any rest. Hotel men, saloon keepers and bartenders, boarding house clerks and many others spent night and day at their work. ers, generally, were well provided for and the city was highly com- plimented by many of the visitors for its hos- pitality and accommodations. The meals far- nished were first class for such an occasion. Prices were increased in many dining-rooms, but even then they were not extortionate. The majority of the strangers have now left the city, and home folks are settling down to their work. “Bob” Pinkerton has returned home with a feather in his cap because he claims a large share of the credit for keeping the city clean of thieves, His name makes the average “crook” shaky, and no doubt some of the nimble fingered men are kept away from where they know he is looking for them. His corps of de- tectives went with him, and the detectives from the various cities have also returned. GOOD WORK OF LOCAL POLICE. The police have been congratulated a number of times for their work on inauguration day, As compared with four and eight years ago there was very little stealing here this year. There was no reason why there should have been, because there were enough detectives to have looked after a dozen cities. Then there was the regular police force and 400 specials, On the other hand there was not the usual large number of crooks here. Many gangs started for this city but were frightened off be- fore they reached here. Some got as far as Baltimoreand senta single member over to see if the coast was clear, Their reports were evi- dently not favorable, because they either re- turned home or remained in Baltimore. There was but little “grafting” or stealing on the trains, notwithstanding that a great many of them were crowded. The railroad detectives watched the trains closely and succeeded in do- ing good and effective work in that direction. The Pinkerton men watched the depots closely to pick up all new arrivals, and they also looked after the pension building. The local detectives did duty in all parts of the city and worked with Pinkerton men. The weather was favor- able to the side of law and order and no doubt had a great influence over the actions of what “crooks” were in the city. ON THE AVENUE. The wire stretched along the line of the pro cession kept the crowd of spectators on the sidewalks, and would have been of great assist- ance to thieves had the weather been pleasant. As it was there were no jams or close gather- ings as there would have been on a dry day. Consequently the opportunities to pick pockets were not so numerous, and for that reason many a visitor went home with his watch and money instead of going home empty handed, IN FORMER YEARS, With all the sharp detectives here from all parts of the country the arrests were not so numerous as they were informer years, Dur- ing the Hayes inauguration the arrests were unusually large, and it was then that detectives MeDevitt and McElfresh broke the record in- arresting more than fifty first-class “crooks.” Among the “crooks” arrested that year was Joseph Bradley, on whose person clerk Gor- man found a German-silver coin, Its theft had been reported by a Dr, Hersberg, and the “erook” was charged with the robbery. Later in the evening the doctor entered the detec- tive’s office to look over the prisoners, Clerk Gorman held the coin in sight of the doctor andas soon as the latter discovered it he grabbed the clerk and held him. Explanations were made and the doctor apologize Brad- ley was identified and upon conviction was sen- tenced to the penitentiary. After his convie- tion the doctor was anxious to learn how his pocketbook was taken from his inside vest mr He visited the prisoner in his cell and id a pleasant conversation with him. “What I would like to know,” said the visitor, “is how you got the money out of my pocket?” “You remember seeing me standing near you?” said the prisoner. “Very well indeed.” “Well,” continued Bradley, “I saw you put your hand over your heart pocket several times. I knew there was something there, and thought I would make an attempt to get the leather. Do you remember when your hat was knocked off 7” The doctor answered in the affirmative. “That was done,” continued the convict, “by my ‘pal.’ When you stooped for your hat I got your leather.” The thief evidently gave the information un- der the impression that the prosecution was go- ing to let up on him, but he was mistaken, for he went to prison, ENORMOUS STEALINGS, Four years ago the stealings amounted to thousands of dollars, many “crooks” were ar- rested and sent away. There is still a-relic of four years ago here now; “Bill” Vosburg, one of the oldest criminals in the business, is now confined in jail = to be sent to the peni- tentiary for picking the pocket of a butcher named Weaver. He was arrested at the time and released on bail. He jumped his bail and was subsequently brought back here from New York. He was tried, convicted and sentenced. An order for the retention of the prisoner was made by the Attorney-General, but the prison- er’s efforts to obtain a pardon’ under the last administration failed. It is said that some years ago Vosburg rendered some valuable work to the democratic for which he was sure of obtaining a a lon. He is now about sixty years old, and served many years in prisons, One man who was robbed the other day said he cared little for the loss of his watch, but hé hated to return home and have his neighbors think that he was so green, HE HAD A GOOD TIME. There was one stranger who certainly played im bad luck. He came to see the in- augural ceremonies, and also to have a good time. He had nis good time first, but he saw the procession just the same. Attired in a suit of broadcloth, a chinchilla coat and a silk hat, he started ont with some friends. He crooked his elbow too frequently and the result was that he got lost from his companions. He soon met some “friends,” of whom he has no recol- lection. At any rate, he was relieved of his gold watch, money and everything of value he find. It was sry 5 when he sobered up. It was cold water that brought him to his senses. He was float around in the waters of the James creek He was overboard, but his silk hat was still on his head. His cries for help were answered by some of the residents in that lonely section and the unfortunate man was rescued from his perilous position, In re- porting his loss to the detectives he some surprise at the fact that his hat not t lost. Inspector Swindell solved the prob- fom by tell him that his head ‘was probably swolen and the hut fit tightly. THE CLEVEREST TRICK Breeze clubs i ¢ & #4, i aH at if $2 i old | bes Centennial Inauguration Celebrations in the Metropolis. BIG BALLS AND GOOD BEHAVIOR—FRKE LOVE DOCTRINES EXTENSIVELY PRACTISED—CHARAC- TERISTICS OF THE SECT—DIVORCES AND THE FACILITY OF OBTAINING THEM, Correspondence if the Evextxo Stan. New York, March 8, 1889. Now that Washington's inauguration cere- monial is all over people can turn their atten- tion to New York city’s celebration of the cen- tennial of presidential inaugurations. A statue of President George Washington stands to-day at the spot where that first in the noble line of Prosidents was inaugurated in New York in 1789. The sub-treasury building stands on the exact site of the old Federal hall, on Wall street, which was selected for the ceremony one hundred years ago, and before that the same site was occupied by the first Dutch Stadt Huys, so that the little square of ground has been a government acre almost since white men first settled on Manhattan Island. When Washington was inaugurated the building con- tained a large room for the Honse of Repre- sentatives, a small room for the Senate, a li- brary, several committee rooms, large lobbies, and a large room where soldiers of the army used to do guard duty and hold themselves in immediate readiness to rally to the protection of the Congress of the United States. Gen. Washington came here to be inaugurated in great style, sailing from Elizabethport, N. J.. one beautiful spring day,with an escort of navy yessels, merchantmen and coasters, and land- ing at New York with great eclat, He was car- ried to Federal hall, entered the little Senate chamber of the United States of America, a room only 30x40 feet and 20 feet high to the ceiling, and after some preparatory flim-flem he stepped out of one of the Senate-chamber front windows on a balcony 12 feet wide which ran across the front of the building, and there he took the oath of oftice which we are apt to think nowadays he carried out to the letter, but which the growlers of those times said he didn’t, nevertheless. There isn’t much that's new under the sun, even in politica, After we re-inaugurate President Harrison down in Wall street and have some other cere- monies patterned after those celebrated a ce! tury ago we shall hold the big centennial in- auguration ball at the Metropolitan Opera- house. And if Mr. McAllister’s committee by that time agrees on who shall and who shan't dance in the first quadrille, the ball will be » very big thing. It’s going to cost, the enter- tainment committee estimates, $15.000 for the ball and supper, #2,500 for the decorations, $2,000 for electric lights, $1,500 for music, and $13,000 for the wine. If the police follow their course adopted at all balls this year and stop the sale of wine after 1 a. m., it will have to be a big ball indeed to get away with $13,000 worth of champagne in two hours. Wonder what G. W. would have said at $13,000 spent for wine at his inauguration ball. History tells us that G. W. “shook a leg” at his inauguration ball, and danced through more than one cotillon, but on the question of how much Jamaica rum and Holland gin was consumed history ain't saying @ word, * * The biggest ball this town has ever wituessed, in the mere matter of numbers, was that of the Wine, Liquor and Beer Dealers’ association, of New York, held the other evening, at which over 12,000 people danced. There were some twenty odd thousand tickets sold, and if the evening hadn't been a very stormy one the at- tendance would probably have been larger. Only one structure in New York can farnish a roof over so many people, and that is Madison Square garden, which was used for this occa- sion. To go to this ball you paid two dollars for your ticket, and then they wouldn't let you inside unless you paid half a dollar more for a hat cheek. I wore a soft cap, bought my check, and put the cap in my pocket. I was just in time to get a box seat to watch the opening grand march, and just in time to hear a complaint from the couple who were to lead it that there were so many people in the march that nobody could tell who were leading and who weren't. And the complaint was a just one. There were rich brewers and dis- tillers present in swallow-tail coats, with their wives and daughters in decollete gowns accord- ing to the nee of Sth-avenue society, and there were mixed in with these poor devils of corner-saloon keepers whom the brewers and distillers owned, Body, soul and bar-fixtures, and they wore jackets and sack .coats instead of swallow. » and their wives and daughters didn’t have one low-cut gown amon; ‘em. But they got there just the same, ha just as much fun, and they were a handsomer lot, too, than their richer sisters. It was a democratic ball throughout and a big one, but Inever saw one of the kind where less dis- turbance was created. . on Since the emigration of Mesdan.cs Victoria Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin to England, now many years ago, there has seemed to be no apostle of free-love left among us, And yet I am prepared to state that the free-love doc- trine exists in New York city and is practiced jot as widely as when newspapers were pub- ished and sermons preached to justify it, There is a sect of Swiss people in New York which lives pecoeving: to this doctrine, and the members are gradually drawing to their fold a number of people of other nationalities. prin cipally Germans. They call themscives An- tonians, from the name of their founder, one Anton Unternaehrer, who organized the society in the canton of Berne, Switzerland, in 1759. Unternaehrer was educated in the Roman Cath- olic church, but became an apostate and de- voted himself to healing the sick by some sort of incantation. In 1800 he began to ape and two years later announced himself as the Son of God. He had many followers, and the reports of his powers of healing made him out a worker of genuine miracles. He was several times imprisoned, and finally died in jail in 1824. He eee that the primitive law between God and man held but twocommands, to love and multiply and not to eat of the tree of knowledge. Since the second command had en broken through Satan's machinations, there must be, Unternaehrer’ssaid, ‘‘the great- est stress put upon the observance of the first command, to love and multiply, and in order to put no obstacle in the way of this the restraint of marriage must be removed.” In New York there are, perhaps, four hundred poeple who practice the Antonian teaching. ‘They are all well to do and apparently respectable, and the couples I have known were as devoted to each other, in outward appearance at least, as any pair of legally-wedded people. Whena birth oc- curs each couple in the sect is assessed $10 for the supportof the child,and when a death occurs the funeral expenses are met by the entire sect. They are a very devont people, holding dail services of prayer at their firesides and atteu ing services of a religious nature every Sunday afternoon. One of their number, an intelligent ‘oung printer, tells me that the doctrine they follow not made an excuse for excesses, and that the average duration of the relationship between a man and woman among the Anton- seal Stes ioen Years One man may have but one woman at atime, but he may give her up for another, or she him, at any moment either finds another more to ils or her liking. There area ising number of instances, my An- tonian friend says, in which both parties are fectly true to each other from early youth the death of one or the other of them. He also says that the absence of any binding law of union Pied The facility with which divorce may be ob- tained in this age makes downright free love, without marriage, entirely unnecessary, it would seem; and yet there. are more men and women living in illicit relations to-day in New York, in to the population, than ever before city’s history. And somehow ~~ THE TALK OF NEW YORK. THE PENSLTY OF POPULARITY. Mrs. Burnett Writes a Vigorous Protest. From the New York Critic. “Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett is still a re- garded figure in New York on account of her eccentricities of dress and behavior. Boston lionized her, but the metropolis is inclined to find her amusing.” It has not hitherto been quite possible for me to believe that the public could feel an ab- sorbing interest in the details of my exceed- ingly simple and—since my return to America —entirely secluded life, but the above clipping, taken in conjunction with several others equally surprising, has suggested to me that I might as well make a few statements. Perhaps if people are kind enough to be sufficiently in- terested in me to reed such paragraphs they may also be kind enough to consider for a few moments what I say myself, particularly as I am not witheut the supporting testimony of one or two comparatively respectable persons who know me. . For the clipping quoted, and for several others, Ican only account by saying that I think some one must have been masquerading under my name. This would not be an impos- sible solution of the mystery, as it isa thing which has occurred to me several times before. What the inducement could be I really have not imagination enough to explain, If { were an individual with a taste for impersonation, I should certainly not choose Frances Hodgson Burnett as my favorite role. It seems to me it would be so easy to furnish quite a long list of persons so much more interesting and pro- viding so much more material for the imper- sonator to build upon, To proceed with my statements: Three weeks before the production of “Faun- tleroy,” I went to New York with the lady who is my secretary, took rooms in the quietest flat I could find, and devoted myself strictly to the business I had come to attend to. Every morning I drove down to the theater to a rehearsal, and every afternoon I drove back to my apartment very tired indeed. shut my- self up, 2nd was seen no more. During my stay I accepted only one invitation, and that a most informal one, to a quict house where I met six or eight persons. My eccentric dress consisted of a black nun’s veiling which cost xbout £1 in London, and two dark cloth snits I took the liberty of changing with the first mentioned startling costume. Toa ates that anyone had segn them but the ladies and gentlemen of the Broadway theater, and I cer- tainly could not imagine their awakening the faintest interest-in the most imaginative mind, My only appearance in publie—apart from three or four business visits to certain theaters—was on the first night of “Fauntleroy,” when I was again represented as “shocking” the audience by appearing in a dress the minnte description of which was untrue in every detail of cut, color and material. My dress, I feel sure, can- not be a matter of interest even to the most lenient and long-suffering public, but in such a description there are suggestions involving more serious points. I went to New York to attend strictly to an important piece of business,I gave every mo- ment of my time to it and when I had com- leted it Treturned at once to my family in Washington. Since that time Ihave been en- gaged in the rather strenuous domestic duty of removing into, furnishing and superintending the decoration of a new house, and I think any unprejudiced person who has done the same thing will certify that I cannot have had much time to “weigh 160 pounds,” attire myself in “strange outlandish costumes,” “hunger and thirst after attention” and “amuse the metropo- lis with my eccentricities of dress and be- havior.” It has for some time been the habit of unfor- tunate persons under discussion to remain silent, feeling that life is not long enough to allow of replying to false statements, but it has latterly appeared to me that a point may be reached where some protest is due to one's object in writing one. I appear to ask for informa- ter the manner of Miss Rosa Dartle. Like Miss Dartle “I may be wrong—but I want- ed to know.” The question I would put 1s this— and I put it first to the editors of respectable journals, and next to the public which reads such journals: Is it, or is it not, of consequence that a state- ment published and copied all over the United States is untrue in every word and detail? Does it, or does it not, matter in the least that @ man or woman who has done honest and re- spectable work should on that account feel that his or her character, good taste and good man- ners may be impugned atso much a line in any newspaper? Does it not matter that such an individual cannot live a life so simple, so se- cluded and so well-meaning as to escape the most grotesque misrepresentation? I ask these questions not only for myself, but for a number of modest respectable persons who have had the misfortune to write a popular book or play, or to occupy —— posic tion. They are questions I have heard dis- cuased with strong feeling by such people, who have all agreed that they present a serious problem it is time to face practically. When an article is presented at an editorial office, is its truth or untruth, its justice or patent malig- nity, entirely indifferent to the purchaser? Will some journalist of established reputation answer this question? I put it with all mod- esty and respect for journalism, Ihave before me an unsigned article pub- lished in a New York newspaper on Sunday, January 6, It is a monument of fiction, i offer this comment to the paper which pub- lished, the person who wrote, and the public that read it. I would at this moment cheerfully pay the writer's expenses to Washington, and add a check four times as large as the one he received in payment for the work, if he would come and tell me candidly and simply what his mental attitude was when he wrote it. This is nota jest. Iam interested in the solving of a problem which affectsscores of people of much greater importance than myself—people whose work and worth entitle them to the respect and consideration of the country which professes to be proud of them and of what they have ac- complished. : The letter that I refer to is so untrue that it is fascinating. Two things in it are not false, The first, that I am an uninteresting person, whom it pers nobody to converse with. This Tadmit cheerfully. Having realized it early in life, [have resigned myself to it, and hence have never endeavored to be either instructive or sparkling. It is nothing when one is accus- tomed to it. The redeeming feature to the ca- lamity is that sometimes Iseem_ to get alon, quite well with indulgent people who, thoug brilliant themselves, would think it rather a bore to be called upon to be erudite at an after- noon tea or with a string band playing within 6 feetof them. The second true thing is that the credit of inviting the orphan children to the theater is not mine, but Mr. Sanger's. If it were mine I should be glad, and if it is true that the plan was ee ene by the kind act of @ young Woman. my iration for that young lady is very warm. For the rest, the latter begins with an as- tounding statement concerning my domestic relations. The number of my family who would be missing if it were true is at the pres- ent moment, I believe, reading in an adjoining room. Itsays I am harsh to women. This ‘may perhaps account for my being continually surrounded by a number of the very dearest and kindest, and for all my business affairs being in woman’s hands, It describes me as encircled by an army of young men. Iam en- | Piso’s circled by an army of two young men—aged re- ere twelve and fourteen. They draw is nocence of the fact Fpohrlge on cy Smogiey erie gs was crossing the Atlantic, rather occupied with certain practical educational for my army roung men, who were to called pipe 09 exter iusto mortal combat leasant French and Italian routed with iblic sentiment toward this relationship seems | York I be and of the disgust and | mia. ny re might ha . ompenay. or init haere soribed as @ When I init Beton, we own , Sees NO One, goes , does pet says nothing, wears nothing worthy of the slightest notice—no use at all from a news- paper point of view. What shall I do with her? he is a nor ~~ ly ne ; Happy thought! write an arti which wits st that she isall three! Did he say this, and was the letter the outcome, and is it quite indifferent to reputable, truth- loving people that he should be at liberty to do it? it final result of such a system, it seems to me, will be, that the man or woman of liter- ary or artistic’ reputation will become a sort of social leper. To be the friend of such an indi- vidual is to share the ignomy which follows the misfortune called success. People will rush down side streets toavoid the future poet, actor or novelist, heavens,’ they will say, ‘there is Jones! Don't let him see us!’ ‘What has he done?’ ‘Why,’ he has written the great- est poem of the age, and his new tragedy is said to be Shaks; I wouldn't be seen speak- z to him for the world!” or myself, I have merely, through sheer force of circumstances, un’ iy written a did not do few books and a — of plays. it melignantly or with felonious intent. Tonly did it because it happened to be the thing knew how todo in a sort of inoffensive way. Really ,looking at it coolly, I do not see that i could avoid it, or that it should bring scorn jay on my innocent friends and de- fenseless family. I endeavor as far as possible to make up to my sons for the misfortunes I have inadvertently brought upon them by being their mother, but I find it difficult at times, as their own ‘inoffensive young charac- ters are impeached, and in the midst of their lessons and juvenile amusements they share the materuai ignominy, and appear—in the hands of such persons as the writers quoted— sometimes as odious little . Sometimes as violent little animals, I uld like to spare them if I could, I will close by asserting that if any apparently insane person, attired in broid silk Kate Green- aways belted with wide sashes, and collecting by the foro of her attractions armies of young men, has been amusing the metropolis, it has been some one far more imposing, far more fascinating, aud with far more leisure on her hands than Frances Hoposon Burnett, Exruoxzo Yovsos Comraxy Orre SPECIAL PRICES ON THE FOLLOWING LOTS, VIZ.: (FEBRUARY 20, 1889.) 300 dozen cans Sugar Corn. per dozen, at 86 cents. 100 dozen large cans Golden Pumpkin, per dozen, at 96 cents, 200 bottles Maple Syrup, 50c. size, at 44 cents, 1,000 pounds Extra Choice Sugar-Cured Breakfas Bacon, special selections, at 14 cents, 2,000 pounds Best Imported Macaroni, in pound Packages; regular 15-cent goods, at 11 cents. 150 bottles Hyden Salad, a vers delicious relish: 20-cent size, at 14 cents, 1,000 pounds White Clover Honey, in 2-pound caps; regular 45-cent goods, at 39 cents. 500 cans Franco-American Soups, the finest goods of the kind known tothe trade; regular 40- cent goods, at 34 cents Now, bear in mind these are remarkably low prices and, of course, the goods will soon disappear. 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