Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1889, Page 7

—_—— THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY. ’ MARCH 16, 188S9-TWELVE PAGES. The family of Secretary and Mrs, Windom shed and gifted chil- D. Windom, who is n architect, re- sh Windom, just LADIES OF THE CABINET. in Boston, turning twenty. } a8 HELPMATES OF PROMINENT MEN, Who Will Be the Leaders of Society at , the Capital. eines i i at Farmington, Conn, Jebut next season, Sh | artist, her work in drawing and pai ing both genius and skill. ‘Th will join their mother in a few days. During the closing years of his former public career at Washingto Windom erected a spacions mansion on Scott circie in one of the most attra and fashionable quarters of the A year ago he sold this fine _prop- n. a retired merchant of Chi- daughters QOMETHING ABOUT THE DOMESTIC CIRCLES OF THE | NEW CABINET OFFICERS—SECRETARY BLAINE’S FAMILY——MR. AND MRS. PROCTOR'S EARLY LIFE— 'CRETARY TRACY'S ACCOMPLISHED DAUGHTER. The Secretary will secure before _ the ——>—— son an attractive home. where Mrs, entertain with all the elegance of The first act on the statute books establishing & line of precedence in the executive circle was Placed there on January 1886. That enact- Ment of the law-making branch provided “for the performance of the duties of the office of President in case of the removal, death, r@signation or inability of botlrthe President and Vice-President” and specified the line of succession vested in the members of the Statutory council of the President. By the terms of this legislative instrument the order of social precedence of the ladies at the head her two gifted ane hters. SECRETARY OF WAR, When the balloting for the nomination of candidate for President of the United began in the republican national conventiot Chicago last Ju mont having t a Harrison.” 5 Sherman was the most probable, and James G. Blaine a contingent - outcome of the of the executive is by constitutional right of wry pata pore retea a sfice of their husbands, Mrs. Harrison and | joincid Proctor, chairman of the delegation, Mrs. Morton. and by statutory recoguition of | proclaimed the devotion of Vermont tothe te their husbands. Mrs. Blaine, Mrs. Windom, | tinguished son of Indi T ic country Mrs. Proctor. Mrs. Miller, Mrs, Wanamaker, | grsjanied the receen : Mrs. Tracy or her_repretentative, Mra. Noble. | Green Mountain state when her own eminc at and Mra. Rusk. This is returning to the order | citice ce her chief magistrate, was clevatec of the first cabinet with the other departments | othe dignity at secretane for the Depurtinent added in the chronological sequence of their | “t Wart is a self-made man, creation. His own tribute to his su architect of a distinguished and tise- Politically, he is the der of the re- in party of his state. The magnificent nd arch: . Which appr SECRETARY BLAINE. eak in detail of the premier of the ad- m ion wouldbe to traverse a career of political and personal distinction not exceeded publie: grand staire adorn the the admiration of cultured taste weste of jibes of congressional dem: gogues, are constructed from the output of th marble-bedded hills of Proctor and Rutland, owned and operated by the Minister of War. TOR. ton. a native of the village of Cavendish, celebrated for its quar- ries of serpentine, became the wife of Redtield Proctor. then about mak his start in life. The ancestors of both were among the earliest colonists of Massachusetts nd were among and graduated at! the pioneers of the rv y antecedents distinguished in national history. ndfather, an officer of . a friend of Washington general, ont of his private nce helped the contmental | the most desperate straits for | army food, After a carefnl edneation in the preliminary courses he entered college. being one ot three who | in the direction of hamplain, Mr: From Washington college | Proctor’s father was a lawyer, a state legislator tine became a professor at the West-| astate judge, anda man of high repute. She rn military institate at Blue Lick Springs. | was carefully educated at the b chools in ly MW students, He not | New Hampshire and Massechus he Young name, but they were | peop! id not particularly encouraging pros- | pects, but through the untirin ‘ enterprise of the husband and the thrift 4 » wife, the one built up t Miss Harriet Stanwood, like | *largefortune and tie other raised 1 any other New England girls before and nd danghters which are the p engaged asa teacher. She belonged to | mily which had settled in Massa- MRS. BLAINE. Their eldest child, . Arabella G. Holden, is the wife of a prosperous merebant of San an chusetts bay in the early days of colonization, | ¥; and were the most active of the sturdy . Pri » wife was Miss men and women who built up that section. | Robinson, one of the ttractive young ‘They afterward went with the advance guard | ladies of Northamy resides on the of civilization into y4,, ahem a dependency | Jarge family estate nd has of Massach charge of hia father h is the After rs spent in teaching in Penn- | control of the entire product of the vast marble *yivania in 1853, throngh the imtiuence of his quarrying industry of Vermor wife, Mr. Blaine removed to Augusta, her | A younger daughter, Miss Emily D. Proctor. home, and embarked in journalism, being a is receiving instruction under a governess, and Whig. In 1852 he entered the state legislature, | the youngest child, Redtield Proctor, jr.. now snd in 1862 the lower branch of the national te ars of age. promises to follow in the Congress. In that year Mrs. Blaine made her | footsteps of his distinguished father. first appearence ia Washin life. | The Proctor estate embraces one of the Since that time during the long period of nin teen years down to 1881, when Mr. Blai tired from public life, Mrs. Blai over his household, as he rose s tative to Speak . With the ass ader of his ot being its nomin largest and finest farms east of the Alleghanies. andean boast of one of the finest flocks of Merino sheep in the world. Mrs, Proctor has been in California on a visit toher cldest daughter. She is expected to reach Washington in ten days, when the -y will confer with his wife upon the rtant topic of a Washington establishinent Pp its gift and finally its candidate. suitable to the official and social duties of a MER CHARACTERIOT | member of the administration. The natural tendencies of Mrs. Blaine are to- Ee OF SEE Ae a ward the quiet of domestic life. In Angusta,| The chief of the law-advising department where her father, Jacob Stanwood, and her | Of the exeentive, a native of Oneida, the her marriage Miss Sally Cald- | County of classic names in New York, not well. of Ipswich, Mass. lived for many years, | only bears the patronymic of the grandfather, where Mrs. Blaine was born, she is be- | but has been associ professionally for fif- all her neighbors and friends. Her | teen years with the present head of the supreme father. who was a wool dealer, while be never | executive, His career is also linked with the held any public office, was a man of influence. | late chief of the judical branch of the govern- He took great pride in his daughter, who wasa | ment, having studied his profession in the office tall, queenly girl of fine natural gifts. strength- | of Morrison KR. Waite. His name has never ened and applied by liberal education. She | been associated with public of was ami ‘ing # young woman of | life has therefore becu passed force, determined to make her own wa . | conspicuous surroundings of a private citi After her marriage her womanly affections | home. went back to her old hot There James Gil- | lespie Blaine and E anwood be; united lives in ears The eminent st which » career of Mr. Blaine his wife's advice, in Augusta, | Mr MR. MILLE The lady who has presided « ircle of the Attorney-General before she becans Miller was Gertrude A. Bui ughter have ¢ e, st tributes to the uracy of her | of Sydu Bunce, of Clinton, also in fair ‘intuitions. All through her married | Oneida, Her father. in his younger life. was a life Mrs. Blaine bas been the companion and | farmer. but later became ‘a banker, and was | lier of her husband. The world often ates woman from the standpoint of femi- nine follies and frivolities. The applause in- spired by such a standard is transient. It may bring a certain degree of evanescent satis: tion. but the home circle is the truest test of the better instinets of a true womanly nature. | The home at Augusta and the friends who make up its circle of intimates is the best evi- ne domestic and social instincts of | the Bl Mrs. Blaine hax performed her part in of politico- | social life at Wa as a matter of duty than from a sense of fondness for fashion- able gayeties. Her reserve of manner is often interpreted as austerity. But beneath this reserve is ali the warmth of womanly tender- ness. ' THE BLAINE CHILDREN. Mrs. Bloine is again the presiding lady of the home of the premier of an administration. She will now have daughters who assist her in her social duties. Alice Blaine, the wife of | . Coppinger, of the army, and Margaret be with their mother, in her home ayette square. Miss Harriet Stanwood jaine, the youngest c will be a debutante Xt season, sine. who has been a party leaders, and served conspicuously in the New York legislature. Miss Bune Ohio, where her father lived at th: subsequently, when his dan; Walker child, removed to New York. ihe young people ' ; | were thus brought up in neighboring towns, itemend a bape Ges = sons | __After passing through the preliminary stages hax just entered upou his duties as vies, | 08 the highway to knowledge, in the village of ut of the West Virginia Central railroad, | ANgUSta. where he was born in 1840, 5 d will find the Washington home conveni. | Miller entered acollegiate course at ol tly at hand. James G. Blaine, the youngest | t8-) It isa singular coincidence th i pon. having settled in life in earnest, has his | *°? bas three graduates occupying distinguished career before him. } nt tsdig” seamen He MR. WINDOM. The Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. dom are well known in the capital. Mr. Win- dom had figured conspicuously in public af- fuirs for twenty-five years when he left the Senate several Fears ago, first as a Representa- tive for the long period of eleven years. dating then as a Senator for eleven vears more. as the finance minister of the Gartield administration line of duty cut short in several months by the assassination of the President. the succession of Vice-President | In 18 : Arthur and the appointment of Charles J, | With a fine education and an ambition to make Folger. and then for two years again as a Sen-| a name in the world, William Henry Harrison - He now reappears in the cabinet full of | Miller and Gertrude Bunce cast their lot in life ears of duty and experience. together in the holy bonds of matrimony. ‘The Glenni_ W. the United Stat ms. Who became an alumnus Hamilton in 1840, William Henry Harrison” Miller, now attorney-general, in I . William Alvan Bartlett, th emiuent and eloquent minister at the New York avenue church, ata later date. It was also to Clinton the Richard Cleveland, the father of the late President, came to eda- cate his family. THE WEDDING, In 1863, now a young man of twenty-three, MRS, WINDOM. post hamlet of Vernon, New York, witnessed this During these varying and alt ting ex-| event. In 1566 they went d settled ion a eae = {Fort Wayne. In 1874 they removed to I periences of legislative and veer | dian: . Mr. Miller having formed a Mrs Windom has ornamented the social | partnership with Benj environments of her brsband. She was | Attorne ueral experiences the culmination Miss Ellen Hateh, a daughter of | of human happiness in his fam: The eldest hla, Flor G now in her twenties. received every opportar of a fine education at Indianapolis and ) Haven, and since her entré into society has been « great help to ber mother in the so duties of the wife of a distinguished attorn and will assist her in the more elaborat public requirements of the politico-social life of a member of the cabinet circle. Miss Miller has « fine voice. which has been cultivated with are and will be one of the attractions of arlors of her father’s home during the gay season The second child, Samuel Duncan Miller, a junior at Hamilton, his father’s alma mater, is He entered Hamil- tive years after the graduation . He has shown him- elf exceedingly bright im his studies. uangest member of the family, Jessie sa bright girl, just entering her teens, She has been attending school in Indianapolis, and will remain there until the end of the pres- ent term. Mrs. Miller, who spent a few days in Wash- ington during the inauguration, left for a visit tober old home in Oneida county. She will then return to Indianapolis until’ a residence shall have been selected in Washington, Miss Florence has been the guest of the daughter of Representative Butterworth, of Ohio. She will remain a few days longer and will then join her mother at Indianapolis, The Attorney- General does not expect to bring his family to the capital until after the summer solstice, THE MERCHANT PRINCE of Philadelphia made his debut in public life when his nomination was sent by President farrison to the Senate as chief of the great ex- ecutive department, charged with carrying the people’s mails. The selection was promptly ratified by his confirmation, He followed this official act by purchasing the spacious residence Hampshire, but came to Warwick with her ats, where she spent her girlhood. She re- ed her higher education at Holyoke. It was during « visit to hor sister. Mrs. Douglass, a teacher at Mount Vernon, Ohio, that she met Mr. Windom. who was born near that thriving In k 1806, at the age of nineteen, Mr. Windom marrie ad Mi k. ss Hatch at her father’s home at Warwicl wing thus united their rospects in life, they went to Minnesota as Rise territory was verging into statehood, and Mr. Windom became its tirst Q opp in 1558, and Mrs. Windom was first lady to ‘adorn tbe social relations of that growing com- monwealth in the circle of the ular branch of Congress. As the wife of a Senator and of a cabinet officer she displayed that affability and grace which made her so popular then and ill make her one of the favorives in the social Life of the new administration, prominent congregational divine at Warwick. Mass. She was born in New | mented by the presence of | xlland mus- | was born in | oung | | rel | tl owned and occupied during the late adminie- tration by Secretary Whitney. His arrange- ments for the social duties of “his position have therefore been planned on the same generous scale which have characterized all hin opera- | tions, Mr. John Wanamaker was born near hia in 1837, His only education was | gathered in a country school ‘house. For all | else in his magnificently successful career he is indebted ouly to his natural endowments of an acquisitive mind, a keen mercantile instinct, a marvelous capability for administrative details, a phenome al comprehension of the minutia: of gigantic business enterprises and unerring | judging of men. After going to Indiana in 1856 with his futher he rematned there long r that his field was in Yr . Thither he returned and 1561 ‘ked on his own account in | the clothing trade. In a single decade and a half he laid the foundation of a business, which in the thirteen years since has developed to the almost incredible dimensions | of transactions, involving an aggregate value of over $25,000,000 annually. MAS, WANAMAKER. | In 1860, one year before he launched into business for himself, Mr, Wanamaker married Miss Mary Erringer Brown, daughter of Thos. Brown and niece of Nuthan Brown, his part- ner. Mrs, Wanamaker's mother was Harriet Erringer. a sister of Livingston Erringer, presi- den of the Philadelphia trust company. Her | futher was one of the old-time merchants, ‘The active lives of Mr. aud Mrs, Wanamaker | therefore ma their marriage. he since intervened have been be said to have commenced with r years which have thronged with acts | of public spirit . Mr. Wan maker rejected eve cept polit cal honors, but foremost in enterprises in behalf of the pubhe, His con- nection with the financial operations of the Centennial exposition, his us activity in relieving the fi embarrassment of gi gantic corpor: prises. and his associa- tion with religions movements and municipa al and international charities e d his name indelibly on the brightes pages of his city’s history, In all these ‘works of humanity Mr. Wana- maker found a zealous and sympathetic co- laborer in his wife. The Orphans’ Industrial home and the Children’s hospital, in connee- tion with the Presbyterian hospital, ing monuments to the charity of M maker, . Wana- IN THE FAMILY crncLe the Postmaster-Gencral is deservedly rewarded. Thomas B, Wanamaker, now twenty-eight years of age, is his father's partner His wife, whom he married in 1887, is a daugh- ter of Samuel Welsh and granddaughter of | John Welsh, formerly minister to the court of St. James, The second son, Rodman Wana. maker, now twenty-five years of age, shows ex- cellent business capac His wife, Fernande | Henry, daughter of Ferdinand Henry, a Paris- ian merchant, 14 both beautiful and accom- plished. The third child. Miss Minnie, just losing. and a younger child, Miss Lill, = just entering her teens, are studying |in Paris.” Their mother, who wintered at | Cannes, is with them. They wiil soon return | to the United States, and will be in Washing- | ton in ample time to take possi n of their historic home and continue the hospitalities so generously dispensed by the queenly hostess of the late cabinet circle | The Postmaster-General. in addition to bis elegant home in Philadelphia and his new es- blishment in Washington, has a country sent, ‘helton Hurst elton hills, in the sub- | urbs of Pennsylvania's metropolis, SECRETARY TRACY. On the picturesque banks of the upper waters of the Susquehanna, in close proximity to Owego, the romantic county seat of Tioga, in the Empire commonwealth, lies a beautiful es- Marshland.” The host is Frank + but the real head of the household is Benjamin F, Trac the Sec- y of the Navy. In 1832 the aristo- imilies of Owego interested them- | in a neighborly way in | gratulations upon the birth of a | His parents named him Benj | grew to man’s estate. In 1851 he opened a law oftice in Owego, his native place. | In 1852 he married Miss Belinda Catlin, daughter of Na- thaniel Catlin, a gentleman of leisure and of an old New York family, The evs are of New England extraction, the great ‘great grand- father of the pres one of the first to shoulder a musket in the cause of independence, fell with Warren on the sacred soil of Bunker Hill, The Catlins, on the maternal side, are j deseended from Capt. Daniel Broadhead, who served with Ge hols, in 1664, in the ex- pedition under the Duke of York agi Dutch in America, and upon the sur their posse fo the English settled ii York, This head of noted elonged to an ent York- nd was i or with his king. pendants were Daniel Broadh lier of the Revolution, frie ington and member of the society of the nnati, and of a later generation John Romeyn Broadhead, the scholar and historian, deceased, who wes « cousin of Mrs, ‘Tracy. MR. TRACY'S CAREER, In 1853, having commenced a successful | career in polities by defeating the democratic | ca ate for district attorney in a democratic y subsequently served in the | legislature, and in 1862 went into the military | as colonel of the 137th New York volun- | teers, distinguishing himself in the battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania, Having been transferred to the command of # regiment of colored troops, he was stationed near his prison camp at Elmira, At the close of he war, having formed a partnership with a ew York law firm, Mr. Tracy removed with his family to that c muking his home in Brooklyn, but he reta’ his family seat near his native town of Owego. MARSHLAND. ‘The home at “Marshland” is not only very beautiful, but the fondness of its distinguished head for fine horses finds its realistic applica- tion there, as he is the owner of many animals valuable both for pedigree and speed. The prominence of Secretary Tracy in the profes- sional and politicel circles of New York and Brooklyn has always been attended by equal prominence in the highest walks of the social life of the great metropolis and its municipal offspring, Brooklyn, MRS. WILMERDING. Of late years Mrs, Tracy has been quite an invalid, and therefore relies almost entirely upon her eldest daughter. This beautiful | woman, whose charms of person and gifts of mind have been admired by distinguished per- sonages of two continents, was educated at the | best schools of Brooklyn. Paris, Berlin and Kome. Her presentation at the Italian court was one of the events of the fashionable sea- son in the immediate surroundings of the roval cirele. In 1875 Miss Emma Louisa Tracy.while stillin the early years of her maidenbood, married Ferdinand Suydam Wilmerding, son of Wm. D. Wilmerding, a scion of the purest from s town of the ii olland, but the late pally seat was Brunsweich Germany, Fi ure endur- | le | home and family while in command of the | a nand Wilmerding being the fifth gener- ation in America. His mother was Miss Dore, whose father was a cousin of Daniel O'Connell. After a happy but brief wedded life of sixteen months Mr. Wilmerding died, leaving a dangh- ter, Alice Tracy Wilmerding. who is now twelve Years of age. She has inherited the beauty and mental gifts of her mother, and is being educated with great care. Mra, Wilmerding is a blonde. Her face and figure are of a classic mould and her manners are of extreme grace. She was a great belle in the whole region about her town and in the fashionable life of New York and Brooklyn. During the visit of the Grand Duke Alexis she danced with the royal Russian at the ball given at Brooklyn in his honor. The second daughter of the Secretary of the Y. Miss Mary Farrington Tracy, is @ gifted artist. She studied three years at Paris under me celebrated French painter, Charles Cham- plain. The youngest member of the family, Mr. Frank Broadhead Tracy, is a graduate of Yale | and the Columbia law school. He is very hand- some, Although a practicing lawyer, and making his residence at *-Marshland.”* the fam- | ily seat near Owego, he will visit Washington during the season, and will undoubtedly be very popular in society circles. Mrs. Tracy and her eldest daughter will di- vide the time in Washington with the secretary until fall. Inthe interval they will secure a residence. Mrs, Wilmerding, besides relieving her mother of her active social duties, is of great assistance to her father, having charge of his private correspondence. ‘She will not on! be a leader in society but will be one of the most Drilliant (speaking several languages), and popular ladi the social life of the present administration. SECRETARY NOBLE'S FAMIDY CIRCE In point of nativity Ohio leads the w present cabinet, having Windom, Noble and Rusk as her representatives; Pennsylvania and New York are a tie, the former claiming Blaine and Wanamaker, and the latter Tracy and Miller, while Vermont stands alone with Proc- tor. D. Noble. the Secretary of the Interior, began as a student of law in'the offi of Henry Stanbury, of Cincinnati, President Johnson's counsel during the trial for impeach- ment and his Attorney-General, In 1855 he settled in St. Louis, but soon after returned to Keokuk, Iowa, where he a leading member of the bar. In his profe associated with Henry Strong. visiting her sister, the Mr. Noble met Miss It was whi! ife of Mr. Strong, that lizabeth Halstead, who became his wife in 1864, They were married | in Northampton, Mass., the’ residence of the bride’s father, Dr. Hatfield Halstead. The paternal family were originally Quakers, aud ived for generations in Dutchess county, N. Y. | Mrs, Noble's mother, who was Merey” Com= | Stock, belonged to a family of the same county. In 1861 Mr. Noble entered the third Iowa cavalty ag a private, and rising to colonel, was made a brigadier-gencral after the war. He married while still im the army, and took his bride to Memphis, where he was stationed, the close of the war he returned to Keokuk, but in 1867 again established himself in St. Louis. TWO SISTERS, ‘The Secretary and Mrs. Noble have no chil- | dren, but their family interest is enhanced by the presence of Mrs, Noble’s two sisters, Miss Lulu Margaret and Miss Leonora Buell Hal- | stead, who have de their hon ith them since the death of their mother. ladies are in society. Both have sta the elder finishing at Vassar, and both complished, the younger being a fine mu MRS. NOL lady of literary tastes. Lo } The is was one of the most attr valuable library and numerous works of ttesting their refinement and cultivation. Noble and her sisters will be a valuable | acquisition to the new element in the sociai life of the capital introduced by the change of | akministration, | ‘oble home at ‘active in the | city, THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE. In the expiring hours of the late administra- tion Congress having added a new executive de- partment to the cabinent list a Secretary of Agriculture took his place at the cabinet board and his wife appeared at the last reception of the retiring President among the assisting ladies. The new Secretary, Jeremiah MeLane Rus will have the organization of the new execn= | tive establishment, and Mrs. Rusk the honor ef | inaugurating the social relations of its chic | Secretary Rusk is another of the | growth of Ohio born statesmen. | went to Wisconsin, and embarked in farmin, Lut the war in defense of the Union found hi | dropping the pruning hook for the sword, rising | from major to colonel and brig: general by | brevet for bravery in battle, From the gory } flelds of war he entered public life, beginning | that portion of his national career in Congress | in 1870, which he voluatarily surrendered after i J both a diplomat | Having b | norship, his most distinguishe | was the promptness and effec quelling of the anarchist movement in the me- tropolis of his stat | In 1856, having ‘made some advance in the | concerns of lite in his new home, Mr. R | married Elizabeth Johnson, daughter of John | Oleson Bergum Johnson, Thisimportanteventi hislife took place at Veroqua miles from Lacross, The bride of the young farmer was born at Christiana, in Norway, the beautifal royal city of the romantic fiord of the same name. | Her father came to America in 1840, when she was but two years of age, and was one of that | pioneer settlement in Dane county, composed of thrifty emigrants from the Scandinavian eninsula, who began the tillage of the soil. rs. Rusk’s mother was a cousin of the cele- { brated Norwegian poet and novelist, Bjorn- stjerne Bjornson, born in 1 In 1849 Mr. Rusk married his first wife, Miss Mary Mar: in Ohio, and removed to Wiscon- sin, where she died the year of her arrival in that then distant state. “The Secretary has an interesting family. Mrs. Charity Rusk Craig resides in the home town of Veroqua, where her husband is agent of the Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad, and she is national president of the Woman's relief corpsof the Grand Army of the Republic. Lycurgus J. Rusk, is an attorney-at-law of fifteen years standing at Chippewa Falls, Wis, He is a member of the state examining board for the examination of students admitted to the bar. Mary Rusk, in society, was educated at the Wisconsin university, and Blaine D, Rusk, a boy of fourteen, is applying himself’ to his studies, Such is the interesting narrative of the public services and social experiences of the families of the new administration. De BR. K. ee. Sun and Storms. From the Rochester Democrat. ‘The great storm which began on inauguration day, March 4, and increased in fury to nearly the close of the week, was fifty-two days, or two revolutions of the sun from the great storm of January 9 and 10, which blew down the new suspension bridge at Niagara, and leveled buildings in Pittsburg and Reading, Pa, After the storms of January 9 and 10 an observation of the sun showed a very large and bright field of faculw advanced several days from the sun’s eastern edge. No spots formed on that occasion, Upon the present storm date spots have formed and were v: ble yesterday a little beyond the sun's meridian. hey are three in number and about seven days from the sun’s eastern edge. The disturbed region was on the sun’s edge March 4, but the greatest storm energy was felt on the Sth, 6th, 7th, and 8th. An earth- juake occurred on the 8th in Pennsylvania. uring the entire week there was much mag- netic disturbance, On the 6th, at 8p, m., the barometer was down to 28.98 at Boston. In this ey January 10 the barometer was 29.10. new storm center is now developing in the northwest, with a rapid fall of barometer and considerable magnetic disturbance here. ‘This storm may move to the north of us, but we shall be on the southern border, The two great storms of the winter season were the result of the solar disturbance which has now developed spots. There is another disturbance on the sun, which at times has shown considerable energy; but as no spots have yet formed it cannot be accurately lo- cated. The disturbed ‘ion now visible will return by Gigaoen about March and may render mo’ y ve “4 yy the mPa of depends on the If there be high in the | | 1 | | ext of Roman Catholies, LENT IN NEW YORK. Not Much Life in Society, but Plenty of Gossip. DEVOTION DIVIDED BETWEEN THEATERS AND CHURCHES—TRF. GOSSIPS BUSY ABOUT TWO WELL~ KNOWN WOMEN—A PRINCE GoING TO WORK— WILL NEW YORK APSORB BROOKLYN? Correspondence of THE EVEXING Stan New York. March 15, We are well along now in the lenten season, and it’s safe to say nobody knows it except the ecclesiastically inclined and the society folks. If other people know it it doesn’t interfere with their enjoyment, The society people, of course, don't have any balls, and they go to church on week-days ‘because it's fashionable, but apparently it isn’t a sin to go to the theaters in Lent, for all the honses have been packed this week, and many of the McAllister set have been quite as devoted to the footlights as they have to the nave and chancel. ‘The theaters seem to be, most of them, endeavoring to bring farm- ards and pastures into town. Denman Thompson started it with hts farmyard and real ox team in “The Old Homestead,” which has ran straight along for nearly a year at one of the biggest houses in New York. the ademy of Music, and which has been booked to run there for yet another year, Every ger ave talked” to for has f Touly had an ‘Old Homestead’ E dn't worry another day en Ch Hoyt, who has been getting rich for four 5 through the medium of such nonser Dles a iy he Tin Soldier” and +A Brass Mon- +” has wondered at Den Thompson's sue- so Jong that he has a va k a corn-husking r he has done great business. vetor’s new theater on 23d street has been opened by Neil Burgess in another farm- full of milk-strainers and sun- ud it is drawing to the . Whether the rest of the countr will find these kwoods, homespun plays a3 taking as New York does isan unsetiled ques- tion, but here it is a genuine era of calico and cow-hide boots in theatricals, * If sovivty can't dance in Lent, it ean gossip. It hax been gossiping considerab 8 week about the all ed divorce of Mrs. L: her English husband, and he day later with young M reis nothing in it, he Gebhard’s cronies told me t should get a divore die wouldn’ arr Freddie Gebl gilded youth « Gebhard. One of Mr. at if Mrs. L which she hasn’ her. In th all that, is one of the strict- The Roman church doesn’t countenance divorce for any can it frowns severely upon marriage toa d il M i person, In the second pl hard’s crony, Freddie is years old, while the Lily lacks only 4 When Freddie Platonic affection between a man of nda woman of hers is all right; but marriage and love never, Society has also & voree between Mr, ter. No two peopl g me story about it, but all un { pity for Mr, Potter, whi nd Mrs. J, ping about a di- mes Brown Pot- enough, tell the ite ina feelin has no doubt suf ‘Ostler Joe” episode in Washington, Prince Georges Eristoff de Gourie, the un- Ru fortunate ung story I told in Tur sian nobleman whose some weeks ago, after being jailed (and finally bailed) for his inabil- | ity to pay for an overec ted draft from hom wasn't a very larg best his poor weak did what not ev t, received his long- e last week, Fridey, draft, either, but it w uther could do. The prince man in his position would have done lout every bit of itas would the neediest of his creditors, only enongh to get him a second-cab to Havre. nd on Saturda he boarded the French ship 1 Gourgogne — j was; off. and time prot more than half way to There he will be assisted to get to ly home, where, he says, he intends to rest of his day He at length understands some of the sacritices his father bas made to keep him in sty parts of the world, and he declares that he will setto work as hard y. It would be brought up has been, without even a notion of money-earn- ing, can succeed at such an attempt aftcr pass- ing his twenty-cighth year. Ihave my doubts. es The first move has been made which is to unite New York and Brooklyn under one muni- cipal government, which is to make of them one great city. On Tuesday Assemblyman Crosby introduced at Albany a bill of which 1 told your readers a few wecks ag terms of which a commission is to b to inquire into the expediency of TI mittee will consist of twelve report to the legislature is likely to present the rosy side of the scheme. The ideaof Mr. And Green, the chairman of this committee, occupy with the new city a much | than that | mentioued in my first | subject. Mr. Green wants not onl: Broo! Iv New York, ster townships to be y. but also the whole of y (Staten Island), and three of the hmond counts the largest towns in Queens count, This dition would give the city an area sand a_ population of 3.000.000, so that if the » of increase in population cor Ww w York would in thirty ars be thi largest city on the globe benefit of the most genero: crease in population, In area, however, Lou- don would be still twice as large, as that covers nearly 700 square mi of Brooklyn have almost unanimously opposed the scheme of unification until they have in- vestigated. and then they have become almost unanimously of it, It will really _ be great thing for Brouk- lyn.” Brookly at present has acres of loc \d wharves, which are all for the bene- fit of the city of New York and are an expense to Brooklyn. That city is also taxed too heavily. It has a large residential portion and a small mercantile portion, Most of its residents make their m 1 New York and their wives spend it in New York. With the completion of the bridges and tunnels over and under the East river, which the commission is to recommend as a part of the scheme, much of the business portion of New York, as weil as its residential portion, would overtlow into Brooklyn, * aed Shrewd men are predicting a big crash in up- town real estate unless some measure is taken very soon to secure for the city a good system. of rapid transit. Values are now hanging on the ragged edge, work has been suspended upon many buildings in course of erection, and great rows of flat-houses and stores are stand- ing untenanted in many of the streets above 72d street on the west side and abote the Har- lem river on the cast side, The *Arcade” plan of rapid transit, which was expected to be the first to go into operation, was knocked clean out this week by a decision of the court of ap- decides its charter invalid. Vice- lent Morton was one of the stockholders of the Arcade company. which has existed since 1868. The reason why it has not in these twenty years done something iu the way of actual work upon its underground rapid-transit line is that for all these years it has been defending itself against a number of wealthy residents along its proposed route (Broadway and Madi- son avenue), who claimed that its subterranean operations would endanger the safety of their buildings, The decision of the court of appeals has nullified every law passed in relation to the company, and ”~ Messrs. Morton, R. G. Dun, John B. Clafiin and others who advanced hundreds of thousands of dol- lars to get the Arcade company upon a work- ing basis, have Jost every cent they invested There are two other rapid transit companies which view the extinguishment of the Arcade company with satisfaction, and the property owners who have been fighting the latter in the courts have no doubt received substantial en- couragement from the rival companies right along. There isa cable company organized by Charles Shaw, which contemplates partly for an elevated, partly for a cable, and joie! & for an underground |, which is to cover 72 miles of New York, x) lector and across town. pal oaal seed = Gap ted railroad com: , whiel acl grant in_ 1870, rales it to build an Sa railroad from Cit) ‘ik northward to the Harlem river with ce nections, An would really be begun in five it would ent the impending tumble in Har- Torn real estate, H. H. Sourz. ‘THE PRESENCE OF DANDRUFF indicates a dis- eased cured, of the bair and neon will seault. Hali’s Re- pewer will cure it, apacity of | CYCLING IN EUROPE, Some Good Advice from an Expert in Touring. WHAT PREPARATIONS ARE NEEDED—ENGLISH CUSTOMS—HOW AMERICANS MAY LIVE EcoNoMT- CALLY ON THE ROAD—WHEELING ON THE CoN- TINENT—FRENCH HOTELS AND CAPES, A desire for independent traveling is growing | daily. The reasons for this are various, may be the person who wishes to indulge the desire is eccentric and eager to make a show of | himself. It may be economy which prompts him to leave a railway carriage and foot it. It may be because he imagines it to be “English, you know,” though let me assure him that this is one of the many myths about the English. Englishmen as a rule are not great cycling tour- ists. More Americans, comparatively, have toured in England and on the continent than Englishmen themselves, and the number is in- creasing daily. Or it may be that the tourist wishes to see the country in the only way itcan be properly seen: and thfs is probably why in the winter and the spring so many pericans: write to me, as the representative in England of the league of American wheelmen, and ask for information about roads and routes. I presume this last to be the real reason for the growth of independent traveling. and I | leave out of consideration all walking tours, miles and eycled nearly as many thousand, I feel justified in saying that walking 1s not for a moment to be compared with cycling. I may some day compare these two modes of tr: ing. but just now this is not my purpose. V y about cycling applies equally well t ing and driving. though of course you c ot ride or drive coutinuously the same number of miles you can cycle. I can very well remem- ber the state of dense ignorance concerning the means of independent traveling in Europe, in which Iwas six years ago, as well as the most utter impossibility of ol ning any definite information, Six years. every one of { which has seen at least one tour, have, how- ever, given me some little experience. WHAT IS NEEDED. course it will be necessary to bring your machine with you, Ask the steamship authorities whether to crate it or not, and you carry it without crating, they nothing. «l; but if you ri an English machine, I should advise you to sell your present mount make arrangements, either with the ler vou know in America or the firm itself England. giving them three or four months to get your machine ready and to have it wait- ing you at th agents in Liverpool. South- ampton or gow, or wherever you may land, Tell the makers what sort o! propose taking, and you will p they will understand your needs better than you. If, however. Yon are contident you kuow exactly what to make suggestions, IN ENGLAND, In riding, keep to the left, Englishmen differ- ing in this, as in so many other respects, from all creation, ibe promptly arre: any eyeler you meet to be more civil to e driver of any other conveyance ubs in England are not what they i in America or on the Conti There- fore you need not look for any of those atte tions bestowed upon home, though you ma’ delightful fellows. Of e: thing to have letters of int: in any save the will not dinner without waiting a lon will prob: ou want you may be able - . = ed, It is useless to yeling the touring cycler at encounter some very duction, time. bly find excellent cold roast ix | you can eat a succession of lunches of b | and cheese and drink a modicum of bitter called beer, My practice is never to eat much in the middle of the day when touring. T! | succession of small Innches and short rests is | better than a single long one. Coff averns— | that is, temperance houses—may be | everywhere, but they range from very good to A yon had better investigate them ciding to stay overnight. It is un- necessary and quite nseless to ain for thing in England. Your lunch sixpenc the waiter a penny for eve have to order your dinner in the majority of places. and in the 1 towns i wiser to have what is called a ‘meat tea,” that is, a chop or a steak. one or two vegetables, jam and tea; or else a cold supper, that is, cold meat or fowl, salad, a tart and cli If you arrive wet. you will find it possible to our clothes dried, and very well s ening in th and the have seen Americans { knew it before fore, and they probably ‘ou opened your mouth, room in au English inn or hotel for sixpenc ninepence a night. This is, of course, abs y ran, if you go to odation for t night. can go to house for nothing. x’ lodging-house for almost as litth npon spending ¢ cessary to count 8 Phillings or #2 a day | but it is possible to though it for h It that ame tly. Even s less than the not_comfortal . presumed that you are a practical home. or will send your ba place to another as you do ther it is wiser to use the P press is very unreliab! ‘ersonally, I either ride a safety or a tandem tries and. whether alone or with my wife, always carry every thing we want on the machine. We are quently ly independent, and have been out for veeks at a time. ving England for the continent. unless is absolutely no object. you must go to re by Dieppe. Havre or St. Malo. By ais or Boulogue the charges are extortion- ate, and yon will have to pay in the custom- houses. “The greater part of Belgium is paved with Belgian blocks, over wh: you cannot ride, To Holland you can go by of Amster- dam, and I believe the riding is fairly good over the brick roads, but I have ne’ been there. The principal attractions in seem to be the cheapness and the scene for both you_ have to walk about as n you ride, which is not my idea of cycling. Au how, it cannot be compared to Switzerland, and the reason it is somuch talked about in English cycling papers is because it isa fine pot-hunting — for racing men. Of Spain I am entirely ignorant, and the accounts of this country all contradict each other with the most wonderful unanimity. No reliable data of the roads have yet been ob- tained. I hope to go over them myself before long. But in the first place, to visit any for- eign country you must understand somethin of the language, the more the better. * * * IN FRANCE. But let us suppose that you intend to ride away from the station at Dieppe. You are hungry. having been landed there at 5 o'clock in the morning. Have your coffee in any caté ‘on the Place, or in the very expensive one in the station. And this is the point where, if you want to live inexpensively, you must re- member the customs of the country. station you never see a Frencliman, and on one occasion I paid 2 francs and 25 centimes for the privilege of huving a pot of coffee and rolls and butter there. The next time I went to a café in the street leading from the pier to the Place. It was full of to people, more gorgeous, the coffee was equally good, and I paid 75 centimes. Why I should pay a franc anda half for having my coffee on the pier I am unable to see. Cafes are good, and charge just about half the pri an hotel or a station restaurant, nd coffee in the hotel uniesshe is in a great hurr; He goes to the café across the street, reads fis mornii per, and pays half the price. The landlor notobject; it is the custom of the country, FOR LUNCH, not at the swellest restaurant on the boulevard, nor at the dirty estaminet of the workman—I | twice that amount could not i F E 3 if i ef } i F i = ft HE | SERS Hs. i i ir i £ i “ii 8 i a E iF if = g 8 I rg | i t $3 Ee i A f i ; i i It} because, after having walked in one year 500 | : | Ifyou are a rider of an American cycle. of If it is a bieyele, | may | the town red. There is no duty on entering | Do uot ride on the side paths or | it is a very good | H towns and on | xe able to get a hot | But yon | or | James I. Stafford, of the revolutionary navy. | at found | eu y ill cost from | to two shillings, and you should give | shilling. You will | an American upon everybody you meet: they |} Thave | it stated and hinted that one can obtain a | or | | the for touring in England; | revolutiouary soldier: + | Commodore P. nd therefore that you will carry what- | ne | He ad | then, a | head with a heavy meet you, do not tarn away, for he will probably eet you as warmly and give you as good a dinner as vou ever hadin your life, You will find at the table a lot of jolly commercial travelers, who will take pleasure in giving you @ list of hotels from one end of your route to the other. And what will it cost you? The dinner will vary from two and a halt to three and a half francs, and your room from one and a half to two and a half, and there will be no extras, Totting chis up. we have eight france fifty for the day. Say vou give the waiter half That makes % at NianT, Bat the next night, being a touring cycler, you have not reached the town where you in- tended to stay, owing to something of interest on the road. or you have passed beyond it. ¥ Will stop in a decent, clean awherge by the road- side—and vou will tind many—or im the best inn | in the village. where your bill will be about francs for lodging, dinner and coffee. And so, in the course of two 01 weeks, instead of exceeding an average of 7 france a day, you | Will fall below it, This is the way Frenchmen do. This is the way men like Louis Stevensom have done, And this is the plan I like to fol- low; not to go to an hotel where one has to pay for the dirty swallow-tail and bad English of the waiter, the sham pla Chote; nor, on the other ¥ in saving asou bere and doing a out of a franc there; but to qnietly aday yourself as much as you possibly can to the habits and customs of the people of the mid- 1d characteristic class, Whose conntry you are visiting. If vou do not like to do this and cannot afford the swell hotels you had better stay at home.” Very much the same ditions exist in Italy and Switzerland. In Italy, however, you must bargain for everything; you must even know | how much your ‘candle is going to cost before | You goto bed, aud bow much yon are to pay | for the waiter and chambermaid. In Germany one lives more in English style. The laws of the road the same in all these countries as in America, Many of the hills on the Connecticut, owing to their S-sh res, are very dangerous, | In England one finds warn everywhere for jeyelers. You ride or be pulled or push up behind a dilig erland that is use | a franc, conti nt vou will find yourself everywhere legally treated as the driver of a carriage. Carry a passport, and do not regard all foreigners as | fools and thereby make a fool out of yourself, Do not regard yourself as the first man who ever visited the place. and do not try to patut Ladmit these foreigners do not understand our little way Jos SNELL IN OUTY | A RELIC OF REVOLUTION, Looking for the Boss of the Inaugural Parade. MR. STAPP« rT JOHN PAUL JONES" FLAG—AN ODD COSTUME, BUT A LOYAL HEART — ACCOMPANYING HIS STORY WITH A SONG—iOW ME CAME BY THE KELICS. “Where's the boss of the procession?” weak, pipin as the door of th: om of THE STAR was cautiously opened on inauguration The eyes of the many scribes who were busy at work turned toward the door and beheld a sight which for unique- ness was hard to surp: With one hand ou the door as if afraid to venture in, stood an old man dressed in a costume much resembling a French burlesque actor. In appearance be looked not above sixty years of age. He wore an old continental blouse, and around his waist was an old army belt in which was carried a boarding sword or cutlass, The odd-looking Visitor represented himself to be Samacl Bay- ard Stafford, the only surviving child of Lieut, said a reporters’ v i | | Mr. Stafford wax referred to a report | Lt P | and to him he told the following story: EOF THE REVOLUTION. he commenced taking the old- from his belt, “is the boarding that remarkable personage John Paul t word. fashined weapo ow did you come by them!” 3 just what I was about to tell you. You see at the breaking out of the revolution my father was living im New York, but fled after the British governor had issued a procla- | Mation requirmg all citizens to take the oath to the king. My father fled to and entered the servic Cay. Phihp Stafford. his uncle, who shortly after- wards iitted out a bark called Kitty. which as commissioned in Boston for a short ern It was not long. | fore the Katty wa v the British, and uds put in irons, They didn't n that way long. for the Kitty was recaptured by down Paul Jo nd the irons were tr: ferred to the British. So jubilant were the re- rt ot lieved prisoners that they volunteered to belp ‘aul Jones, and together with my father shipped uboard the Bon Homme Richard. ” AIDED BY SONG. “Well.” continued Mr. Stafford, scratching his head as if to collect his thoughts, they soon ran ss the British frigate Serapis, d this soug about illustrates what happened,” Here Mr. Stafford y 1 after striking key-note st t boldly in a weak, quavering voice. bat possessing all the fire of a With a ke Ns | * be cried; \ th. i Englishman, n,? | wused in his song for a moment, and s if forgetting something, continued: ~The contest was blood: And the sea seemed to b both decks ran with gore, as the ten cannon roared.* SAVED THE FLAG. “Yes, sir,” he continued, “they were brave brave boys. The Richard was found to be sink- ing, and Paul Jones had her lashed to the Scraps. The flag of the Richard was sho! and then my father leaped into the sea after Securing the banner, he swam to th side and caught hold of the ropes. & British officer saw him and attempted to cat off hi -y cutlass, the blow, my father dropped into the sea and, iu made aneffort toreach the Richard's @eck. This time he was not so fortunate as to escape un- injured, for in climbing up the he re- ceived a blow which nearly severed his arm. He reached the deck though, stili cMyging to his precious burden, which, like himshif, was covered with blood. The battle ri until at last the Seraps was captured just as the Rich- ard was sinking. The flag was then hoisted on that ship, aud later floated at the masthead of the Alliance, which was afterward transferred to the charge of Commodore Barry. The Alli- ance was afterward sold by the government, My father was subsequently honorably dis charged, and on his return to New York re ceived a letter from the naval committee pre- senting him with the flag.” Here Mr. Stafford drew forth a letter much the worse for wear, which read as follows: REWARDING A HERO, PRILADELPRIA, Pa., Sey James BAYARD STAFYORD, Sin: Lain committee to inform you that on last Vth, they decided . 13, 1784. nected by:tine ‘Thursday. the mn and the | cal feeling ran high in New Jersey French traveler, as arule, does not take his | Would wave the banner from her garret win- “ to bestow upon you, for your im torious services in the late war, Paul Jones" starry flac oft the Bon Homme tachard, which Was trausterred to the silance, a boarding swoid of said ship and a mus- If you write to Capt. John Brown at the yard what ship you wish them sent by they will be forwarded to you, Your humble servant, In the | Get captured from the Serapis, James Mevirn, Secretary pro tem. “APTER THE Wak,” Was | continued Mr. Stafford, “my father went out as master of a packet, but on account of his wound in the shoulder he was compelled to ive it up. My father said he always kept Paul ech flag for revenge, and often when politi- my mother 2 riot. “When my father died,” continued Mr. Staf- ford, “he left a will in which he stipulated that his children or grandchildren should ees ee to do so throug! erty.” “Did you evet receive an offer: forthe “We have been offered a ie bes Sarat Anti, wh pent some weekson ie ta of colonies at that E, P i | if HE