Evening Star Newspaper, November 18, 1893, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR. ISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 101 Pennsylvania Avenue, corner 1ith St., by The Evening Star Ne’ Company. é S. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres't served to bseribers on their own account, at 10 cents 'y mall—anywhere in the United (Entered at the Pont Oeice a Part 3. Che F pening Star. Pages 17=20. Now York Oiice, 88 Potter Building. EvENrNG STAR in the or ie. per wouth. ‘Copive ‘at the coun- Canada—postage prepaid—50 cents per BaTeRDay QuIeToPLE Suez ran $1.00 per year: as =o eater) enn DC. 7 All mail sudseriptions must be paid tn ad- | “Nistes of advertising made known 00 application MEN OF HIGH RANK: Diplomats and Their Wives in Wash- ington Society. HOW THEY EMPLOY THER TIME. : Harder Workers Than They Are Usually Considered. THE DEAN OF THE CORPS. eget Written for The Evening Star. HE UNITED States enjoys in this | Columbian year of grace diploinatic in-| tercourse with twen-) ty-nine foreign coun-| tries. It is not often, | considering the migh- ty interests invulved, that the faintest rip- ple of discord affects our international well wishing, but if anything should go wrong, these twenty- mine countries are represented here by one hundred and fifty-eight persons, distributed between the four embassies and the twenty- five legations, who would be looked to to help straighten matters out. There are not, however, quite as many as this engaged in the every day business of diplomacy. A good many of the names in the diplomatic Ust issued by the Department of State are those of the wives and daughters of the ambassadors. ministers or their secretaries. It does not follow at all that the ladies of the corps may not, in some instances, wield quite as important an influence as their lerds and masters. It needs no especially long experience to know that some of them have become much more famous than their husbands were able to do. during their! American residence. and a few more have created the liveliest kind of ructions, diplo- matically, socially and every other way. But all these little incidents only add zest to what might otherwise be considered as Father too tame and commonplace at the capital of a great nation. There are the names of thirty-eight ladies in the diplo- matic list. Perhaps about a dozen of these are well known in society. | Pauncefote. ‘The head of a legation who pays any at- tention to the working details of his office _= little time for leisure hours, and a wal visitor any day would find, not only the chief, but all his clerks give a good deal more time to serious business than to the enjoyment of the sociai functions at Which they are always such honored guests. If not students or book-worms, as many of them are. outside of their diplomatic duties, the foreixners have literally nothing else to do but amuse themselves. It is only true to say that they lose no golden oppor- tunities of this kind. They not only amuse themselves, but they also amuse a great many others. Many of them are liberal hosts, and there are no entertainments given in this country that the general run of society people regard as more desirable to attend. Several of the most important embassies and legations are housed on their own Property. These are the British and Ger- man embassies. and the Mexican, Japanese and Korean legations. Outside of the fam- ily men of the corps, the number of bach- elors, widowers and men whose wives are on the other side or somewhere, but cer- tainly not here, is, of course. another de- lightful phase ‘of @iplomatic life. A for- @igner devoted to womankind is a most fas- Mr. J. Patenotre. inating person. He has had a more or less extended experience in foreign lands and courts, and he represents a phase of mod- ern life that Americans of leisure are only too fond of imitating. The c antly re- curring international alliances prove that youns diplomats have learned their full value and power. Within the last three cretaries of the British e of the and two men s will within the coming t Consid- ering the general un’ following | the most of these matches where the Amer- fean girl puts in all the money and the for- eigner the title, or the prospect of it, those with foreigners attached to the diplomatic service have been much more successful. ‘The personnel of the diplomatic corps at this time is especially interesting. Until lately the United States seemed to hold rather the foreign governments when making u| a representation to send here. Consequ ly we were likely to set men who had all their records to make, and Washington was only a stepping-stone to something better. Those who think they that with each succeeding more and more distingu' here who a changes in th frequent. and a new chic ‘y wint The honor of the de: 3 seem to have r. nship of the corps fs a great one. and coming as it did to the | ish amba: ith his elevation to | that rank a: other feather to the | who has the ho: of All_ matters | ! | n . the wife of the dean, the ambas- s . accompanies the ladies of the fam- fly of the n rrived minister on their first round ~ave with that ¥ she bring: tom. if adopted in this city, w garded with gre: faction by of the ladies of the corps. Thue British Ambassador. Sir Julian Pauncefote, G.c. . GOM.G., n of the corp: in the big ma Fejoic n @ut avenue, the property of the government on ¢ lof Queen Victoria, last s WwW ASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1 1893— WENTY PAGES. TO ADVERTISERS. ‘Advertisers are urgently re- Quested to hand tn advertisements the day prior to publication, in order that insertion may be as- sured. Want advertisements will be received up to noon of the day ©f publication, precedence being Siven to those first received, pring, when the letters elevating the legation to an embassy and its chief to an ambassador, were re- ceived. Sir Julian was presented to the President in his new capacity on the lth of last April. Sir Julian and his interest- ing family have been here for four years. Socially and every other way they are well | liked, and there was wide satisfaction and Pleasure when the new henors came to the head of the house. The family have all the typical English virtues. They are fond of the home circle, regular church-goers, devoted to out-door life and sports, and cordial, friendly and unaffected in manner. Sir Julian is a fine looking man, and his distinguished appearance bespeaks his va- | ried and interesting career. This is his | first diplomatic post. He was intended for the army, but gave up that idea to enter | the legal profession. He practiced law in England from ‘52 to ‘62, when he went to Hong Kong. There he became attorney | general, and later on chief justice of the | supreme court. Returning to England in 1872, he received the elevation to knight- | hood and an appointment as chief justice | of the Leeward Islands. Later as the le- | gal assistant secretary of state in the co- | lonial office, then in a similar position in the foreign office. and then as under sec- retary of state for foreign affairs, Sir Ju- | mont avenue, China, Japan and Korea. The Chinese minister, Mr. Yang Yu, is not yet very widely known. He only came here about a month ago, and with his extensive suite of fifty or sixty persons has lately taken pos- session of the new legation on lth street extended. He has three elegant brown stone houses thrown into one, and the parks of them, in which visitors aze received, are most luxuriously furnished. Over the top of the house the black dragon flag floats, and altogether China has set up a legation most imposing in every way. The Japanese minister, Mr. Goza Tateno, is much respected. The legation is a com- fortable residence on N street nea> Ver- but, excepting some tine screens and lacquer cabinets, etc., there is nothing in its furnishing and decoration distinctively Japanesque. Mrs. Tateno has acquired English since she came here to live and speaks it very prettily. She dresses elegantly in the latest Parisian gowns and is greatly liked. Korea owns her own legation building. The charee d'affaires, Mr. Ye, has been a great success here diplomatically and so- cially. He learned English rapidly, as did his wife. The latte> spent last winter in Korea, where a baby was born to the couple, and Mr. Ye could scarcely restrain his impatience to get home to see the new arrival. He has had that pleasure the past summer, and his return with wife and baby is looked for shortly. Mrs. Ye wears the quaint native dress in her house, but on the treet adopts the styles of other ladies. The Russian legation has Prince Cantazu- cene at its head. He is now occupying the old Creswell house, 1829 I street, which he | rented last spring. The prince has a young daughter with him, who is still a school |girl and has a gove-ness. Baron Schilling and Mr. Pierre Botkine, the secretaries, make their home also at the legation, and are eminent society men. It is thought that the legation will soon be raised to an embassy. The Chilean minister and Mme. Gana have been here before, and their return last spring was hailed with pleasure by their friends. They have a charming home at 1330 Massachusetts avenue. Mme. Gana is a typical Chilean beauty, and a woman of great cultivation, speaking three or four languages. They have a large family who, having traveled in so many countries, are thoroughly cosmopolitan. Their daughters are yet under the care of their governess, coo SAVE THE BIRDS. lian’s official life has been a busy one. He | held the latter position when offered the | mission to the United States. In recogni- tion of his special services as delegate to | the Suez canal internaticna! conference, held in Paris, 18%, the queen conferred on him the Grand Cross of the order of St. Michael and St. George, and later on the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. | These titles account for the seven letters after his name. Give Up Feathers on Your Hat if Noth- ing Else Suffices. From the New Orleans Times-Democrat. Two of the Misses Pauncefote are in so-| Some one has said if women could only ciety. Miss Sybil, the second daughter, |know of the destruction of bird life that made her debut here. Miss Pauncefote | their love of finery occasions they would bays general attention to the details of the | axe it untaahiontle te ene tre ventas ny a ote | fashionable to wear the Berne a regal sca heen lof murdered birds. In 1886 5,000.00) birds | and does it well. Both are fond of music, equally fond-of horseback riding, sketch | were annually required to fill the demand |for ornamenting ladies’ hats. Forty thou- Rell and have charming manners. Miss SAR Sheet Se Se De eectiiens T* |senk dates were Mited ix a ingle semen Eee cad Wes Aeron aie noe yet te oe. [oni Cabe Cody, 1680,006 rail and roan, birds | @obelinks) in a single month near Philade!- lian and Miss Audrey, are not yet in so- ciety, but are allowed glimpses of the grand |phia. The swamps and marshes of Florida are well known to have become depopu- occasions occurring at the embassy. Their education is being completed under the care of masters. It is expected that the em- |lated of egrets and herons, while the state at large has become a favorite slaughter )ground for milliners’ emissaries. verity bassy will be very guy the coming winter. thousand birds were killed in a small vil- The appointment of a first secretary to the embassy Is daily expected. Hon. Michael lage on Long Island in the short space of |four months. Herbert has been recalled, as his rank in | service is not sufficient for the position. Poth Mrs. Herbert and Mrs Alan John-| 4 lady in Florence heard the mournful stone, wife of the second secretary. re /notes of some birds in small cages. ‘They ee ee Arar ene eek aml rere itd: ‘Thele ayes, had been ‘put, our. Mr. Ralph Spencer Paget are the single men |The cages are Mane ie they eet, Dut out. ne tar. The birds sing and attract other The French ambassador, Mr. J. Patenotre. | birds, who get stuck in tre men thes nee Was only one day after Sir Julian being | caught and thelr eyes put out. The little Presented to President Cleveland in his new | turts of feathera which have been so much dignity. It was a sort of race for the dean-| worn are taken from the beautiful egrets ship. Mr. Patenotre is a bachelor in spite of | or smail herons, who have them only dur- all temptations that have bestrewn his path ing the breeding season. The bird is shot in the countries he has been. He ranks | while trying to protect its youlie cney, wed high in the diplomatic service of the French {5 easily caught on that acount ed Tee republic. He is-a* linguist, possesses an | young birds are often, tccoum pe artistic temperament that finds expression | {he most useful and beautiful seecee ny the in the collection of beautiful things, and | hina are becoming extinct. Seog a oehee unlike most foreigners, and especially his |in the Boston Herald: “There have been own countrymen, is very much given to|tons of arsenic used in the last few years saying what he thinks. He has been most |in the preservation of the bodies and feath. interested lately in having his government | ers of birds. It settles upom the eves wri nostrils of those wearing the birds and feathers and gives headaches and other iil- feelings.” An extract from a letter from Michigan gives some idea of the complaints made by farmers: “The destruction of birds has been carried on to such an ex-j tent that it is hardly possible to raise any kind of fruit, even the grapes, as well as the apples, getting too wormy to use. It is| estimated that they save $100,000,000 annu- ally to the farmer.” ichelet, the great French authority, sa: “There could be} | no vegetation, and, therefore, no life, if the | | birds were all destroyed. Let every man frown upon ladies wearing feathers or birds | and they*will soon give up the fashion. In| fact, I always look upon a lady with a feather or bird upon her hat as lacking in sensibility and refinement.” ——____¢@¢ _ The Humming of Tele; From the Boston Journal of Commerce. You have all heard the humming and singing of telegraph and telephone wires as you passed the poles along the streets. No doubt you have concluded that it is caused by the action of the wind on the wires, and given it no further thought. But it is not true that the singing is caused by the wind, and if you are at atl observing you will no- tice that often the humming sound is to be heard on cold winter mornin;s, when the smoke from chimneys goes straight up un- Mavroyent Bey. Wires. purchase a permanent home in this city. He is at present in France to buy the fur- niture with which to adorn the embassy he | rented last summer—the old Parker mansion on H street. The French embassy has three secretaries, a military attache and a chan- cellor. Italy's Representativ: Baron Fava, the Italian ambassador, was | home in the fine building $413 I street. recompensed by his elevation to that dignity | for the worries he passed through here only a few years ago. His pathway lately has been strewn with roses. The health of the baroness, never vigorous on American soil, is now much improved. | Marquis Imperialli, first secretary, is the ‘tiddler” of the corps, and no man in it en- more social popularity. Prince Ruspoll, che, and the princess are wealthy, while Marquis de Rudini at once acquired promi- nence as the nephew of the Italian premier. Baron A. von Saurma Jeltsch, German ambassador, was presented to the President in September last. He is a very handsome | man of dignified appearance. The baroness did not accompany him to this country. His daughter, Miss Carmen, who will do the honors of the embassy, is quite young. She has a lady companion. The German govern- ment bought the commodious r lence, No. 1435 Massachusetts avenue about % year ago and during the past summer the building | has been enlarged and a ball room or pic- ture gallery added, with an office for the | embassy. Its appointments now for enter- | taining are ample. Baron von Ketteler, counselor and first secretary of the embassy, is another great social favorite. It has | been reported and not denied by either the baron or the family of the young lady, that | he will shortly wed Miss Pancoast of Phil- adelphia. Capt. Heese, Mr. Hoech, Mr. Buddeck! and Mr. von der Weth are also at- tached to the embassy. The twenty-five envoys extraordinary and | ministers plenipotentiary nave at their head | the Mexican minister, Senor Romero. Mex- | ico is fortunate in having as her represent- | ative a diplomat enjoying the admiration and respect as he does, both in this as well | as in other countries. Our sister republic has long since provided a spacious —. he Mexican legation is by all odds the most popular of all the foreign houses. Much of this is, of course, due to the charming wife ps the minister, who is by birth an Amer- lean. There are no larger receptions held in Washington than the Tuesday afternoons at the legation when Mr. Romero receives, | and certainly none from which every one | not carry away a delightful remem- brance. Lieut. Porfirio Diaz, a son of the president of Mexico, is attached to the lega- tion and is shortly expected back f7om a visit to his parents. Senor Covarrubias, first secretary, and his wife, a tharming young matron, live very elegantly on Con- jcut avenue. Mme. Covarrublas was a Miss Choppin of New O-leans. They have | two pretty little children, the elder of whom though only four years or perhaps not quite that speaks English with her colored nurse, French with her mamma, Spanish with her fathe> and Ital with the family servants. So much for an early education in foreign y, the Turkish minister, is a His establishment _ is in fact he does not keep any but apartmen He entertains handsomely, through picnics in the summer time and opera parties and suppers in the winter. One of the reasons he has given for not marrying is beause the pretty girls will not accept him, and he will not accept the ugly pictur ue sort of way there are no les | gunning trip tomorrow, Breech. mind if I went along ‘with you? I have a/ til it is lost in the clouds, and when the frost on the wires is as fuzzy and thick as a roll of cheniile fringe. The wind has notning to do with the sound, and, according to an Austrian scien- tist, the vibrations are due to the changes of atmospheric temperature, and especiaily through the action of cold, as a lowering of temperature induces a shortening of the wires extending over the whole of the con- ductor. A considerable amount,of friction is produced on the supporting bells, thus in- ducing sounds both on the wires and the poles. When this humming has been going on birds have mistaken the sound for insects inside the poles, and have been seen to peck with their bills on the outside as they do upon the apple and other trees. The story is told of a bear that mistook the hum- ming noise as coming from a nest of bees, and clawed at the pole and tore away the stones at its base in the hope of finding the much-coveted honey. ~ eee He Had Been There Before. From Puck, Amatocr—“{ hear you are going on a Would you great desire to learn how shot off a firearm in m 3 Breech (resignedly)—“All right, Amatoor; meet me at the station tomorrow morning I never |at half-past six.” (The next morning). Amatoor—‘Heavens, Breech! I didn’t know it was going to be a masquerade affair. Breech—“‘It isn’t. This is the costume I always wear when I take novices out gun- tions quite as intezesting as those of | ning.” AMAN OF THE DAY. George B. McClellan and His Place in New York. HOW HE HAS GONE 10 THE FRONT. The Future Has Great Things in Store. SUCCESS IS AT HIS FEET. into all sorts of conditions, sometimes for their betterment and sometimes not, caught McClellan at the right time and he came out of the trial a young man and yet an old one. Young in years, old in discretion. Senator David B. Hill of New York, who, like his mentor, Samuel J. Tilden, believes in young men of the right sort, was the first to see that young McClellan was a trump card in the game of politics, and the result was the democratic leaders took him up, despite his youth. Later Senator, then governor, “Hill put him on his staff, and young McClellan became Col. McClellan. ‘The leaders in New York city had no honors that they were not willing to confer upon this young man. He stood the test. He is as unspoiled to- day as when he played in the freshman’s foot ball eleven at Princeton, and though he must know that the future holds much for him-he is entirely without conceit. In- deed, he is a wholesome young man in these times of some very unwholesome young men. It may interest some of those who served with the older George B. McClellan or who admired him that the young man is a very chip of the old block in look and manner. I was struck by his likeness the other day when I saw him, and though he does not affect the little tuft of hair on his under lip . Speclal Correspondence of The Evening Star, NEW YORK, Nov. ‘6, 1893. 'A NEW PILOT CHART Will Soon Be Issued by the Hydro- graphic Office. OF USE 70 SEAMEN ON THE PACIFIC. To Forecast the Weather on the Greater Ocean. A CHART FOR THE LAKES. HAT MOST Pic- turesque bureau of HERE IS A GOOD deal in a name in these days, particu- larly if the name be McClellan and the owner thereof be the son of “Little Mac” of glorious memory. It was the immortat once asked “What's in a name?” and then went on to moralize as was his way upon the question. A good many men have from time to time essayed to answer the problem put by the poet and have answered it each after his own fashion and according to his light. It is the veriest patch work and rag bag of opinions, and you pick out your own and hold it. Now, the subject of this article is @ young man whose career so far has shown that a name of the right sort is a thing to conjure with in these modern and sentimental days. George B. McClellan, a son of the man of Antietam, the idol of the Army of the Po- tomac, and one of the greatest military en- gineers that history records, is today the idol of Tammany Hall. It is a significant fact that the name of the more successful Gen. Grant excites no interest now except in the career of the man himself. His sons come and go in New York city, and even the small society reporters pay but little at- tention to them. George B. McClellan, . But the name of McClellan is still a living, moving force. Shorn he was of the high military honors that he prized, disastrously beaten though he was in a race for presi- dency into which his friends unwisely forced him, his name is as popular today as it was when the men of the army alternate- ly swore by him and prayed for him. The heart of a man is peculiar organism, almost as pecullar as the heart of a woman. In it somewhere beyond fathoming lies the secret of the devotion that McClellan, like the first Napoleon, was able to inspire in his men alike in success and adversity. It is necessary to recall this remarkable popularity of the organizer of the Army of the Potomac, in order to understand the somewhat astonishing success in life of his son, and to show the worth of a name to a hoe man of even moderate ability in pub- lic life. George B, McClellan is twenty-eight years old, and not more bright or able than thou- d Croker, sands of young men that are working at the desk or between plow handles. But because of hts name as much as—and perhaps more —than for anyother reason he has been elect- ed a member of the common council of the city of New York, has sat as its president, and has ‘been, and is, a leader in that pow- erful political body, Tammany Hall, which, whatever its faults may be, is the mos: powerful individual organization in t country. As president of the common coun- cil, he has acted as mayor of New_York, the youngest mayor it has known. In the democratic state convention of a few weeks ago he could have been nominated for the third highest office in the state, and the nomination would have been equivalent to an election. His managers, the democratic leaders of New York state, advised him to refuse such nominations and he refused them. “Why didn’t you let McClellan stand?” said one leader to the present chief of Tam- many Hall, Richard Croker. “Would you work hard for McClellan for governor?” asked the big chief, abruptly. “Would I? Of course I would,” was the rep ly. Well,” said the Tammany leader, “you | 80 home and think over the old saying about sending a man on a boy’s errand. When McClellan goes on an errand it will be a man's.” His Possible Future. In a general way this represents the posi- tion of young McClellan just now. He is in training and the future has for him, if all plans hold good, prizes even greater than those won by his father. He will in all’probability be New York city’s next dem- ocratic candidate for governor. It has been proved that from the gubernatorial chair in New York state a man may step into almost any position. So the future is bright before young McClellan. He is young, he is pop- ular, he has some means and he has some powerful friends. The young Prince For- tunatus had no more, nor even as much. But personally George B. McClellan, the younger, is a man of the right sort. To be sure he has no police record. He has never been known to take any part in the duties of that swagger set who haunt stage entrances and ogle chorus girls, nor has he ever given up his afternoons to the haunt- ing of Fifth avenue or Broadway for the purpose of insulting young women unac- companied by muscular escorts. The swirl of events in New York city that catches up man, woman, and 1 might say child, pulls and pushes and buffets them “Bard of Avon” who | that was worn by his father and his friend “Phil” Sheridan, he is wonderfully like the old army leader whose name he bears. He has the same frank face his father had, but not marked with the same lines of care and heavy responsibilitiees. The world has gone very well with the younger McClellan. Like his father he is not a big man so far as height is concerned. He could walk under a string stretched five feet seven inches above the ground without seriously disturbing his well combed hair. But like his father he has a fine muscular develop- ment. Gen. McClellan was a singularly strong man so far as the upper muscles of | his body were concerned. He could take strong wrought iron nails and twist them in his fingers as ordinary men twist wires. Like Phil Sheridan ne looked a large man on horseback, for like him he had a large body set on short legs. Young McClellan is also a sturdy man as father had. It may surprise some persons to know | that for this reason aione he cannot be President, even should he in years to come be nominated for that office. “But this mistake. George B. McClellan, jr., was born in Germany, just after the close .of the wer in 1865. But his father was in the employ of the American government, and the American flag, and can be President if he gets enough votes. Always a Hard Worker. So much for McClellan, the politician and son of his father. McClellan, the man, is interesting on his own account. It may also surprise some young men who have inherited great names to know that he i$ a hard worker. He is. But he does not do all the work that is cut out for him. if you look in the great book that contains the names of all the men and women of any consequence in New York city you will und in it ine name of George b. succiellan, With two auterent addresses, aside irom we city hail, mis vinciai address. af you wi casi at either o: Unvse places they will teu you that they nave not seen Mr. McUielan zor days and days. “But his name is on the door!” you will exciaim. ‘What in Jerusaiem 1s he going?” “xes,"’ the clerk will repiy, biandly. “His name 1s on the door. 1t 1s 4 good name, is at not’ it makes business.” After this you go away and wonder why your grandfather or your father was not a great man, and why the business of becom- ing great should be shifted upon you. : At is in his official capacity you see this He is an American young man at his best. through. In his younger days, 1 the wi after spending some years abroad, he had no desire to return to the classic soil of New Jersey. In this he was overruled. He was |brought back and sent to Princeton Col- lege, from which institution he graduated with fair honors as a scholar and an ath- lete, It did him good. Talk as you may, there is no aristocracy in our American col- | leges. You must hold your own by the | Strength of your ability and your arms, and | it is better so. It was so that McClellan | came out of Princeton a young man worthy of consideration. It was so that when his father ceased to be governor of the state of New Jersey and | came to New York to lend his remarkable engineering talent to the task of improving New York's water front, the son was taken into consideration by the men who control politics. He was young, modest, well ap- pearing and he bore the name of McClellan. It was enough. It was a winning card. And that was the beginning of George B. McClellan, the second. As has been told, David B. Hill insisted that he should be put to the front, and he was. He is there now. He will be still more there in a year or so, As for the personal appearance of this very successful young man, I have before sald that it is of a sort to attract. And he dresses well. The day when men could dress in any sort of way and put the thing down to eccentricity is past. The most dem~ ocratic ward in the city of New York, or for that matter any other city that I have seen, has got over that idea that in order to be a friend of the people a man must not wash himself or wear clean clothes. The real leaders of politics now are as serupu- lous and careful in their dress as in their | Speeches, George R. McClellan, the younger, is in line with this growing sentiment that while | clothes do not make the man some kinds of clothes make him look more the man. When I saw him the other day he looked as a man always looks who gives some thought to the fact that some other per- sons look at him now and then. He wore (a dark business suit. a turn down collar, and a four-in-hand tie. in which a small Stone glistened. and he had that well- groomed appearance that some men have and some others miss for reasons beyond explanation. His stenographer and private secretary were within arm's reach, and now and then their services were called in. A rapid worker, relying a great deal on his secre- tary. a veteran newspaper reporter, he can get through a great deal of business in a | short time when he is acting as mayor, as he was on the dav when I saw him. When some of the boards that take up the gov- ernment of the city of New York are in| session Mr. McClellan appears singularly young alongside that veteran, Recorder Smythe, who has sentenced more criminals than any man in the United States, but tact and ability he has. ‘When he presides at the meetings of the | board of the common council it is the same | way. He holds his own. of parliamentary law, and when his gavel falls upon the argument of some city fath- er appeal is out of the question. | Before his marriage Mr. McClellan was ‘a club man. He still retains his member- ship in the swell Manhattan, Union and one or two other clubs. He is a bit of an ath- lete, but he makes no display of his abili- | tes’ in public as some other young New | Yorkers do. | "Sie marcie’ young as many good men do, |and his wife was the daughter of John G. | Hecksler, the merchant millionaire. No ‘children ‘have as yet graced this union. Col. McClellan lives in what is called in New York a lucky and yet an unlucky neighborhood. It is East 17th street, but a stone's throw from where Samuel J.’ Tilden and David Dudley Field lived, where the latter of these two lives still for that matter. Col. McClellan is not seen out much nights. j Now and then you may meet him at the Hoffman House, which is a sort of demo- | cratic headquarters. But for the most part | you will find him at his office in the city | hall in New York. He is a bit of an athlete, | and like his father, loves a good horse, and what is quite as important knows how to ride one. You may see this young man at the theater now and then with his handsome wife. When he is seen there people point him out and say: “That young man is a young man with a name.” “What name?’ will come from another ossip. SetWhy that’s the son of Gen. George B. McClellar..”” “Dear me! You don’t mean it!” and here an opera glass goes up to the gossip’s eye: “Why he looks real good,” she exclaim: again. “He'll be somebody some of these days.” I agree with this matron. I know of no young man in politics today who is quite So well situated as the son of Gen. George B. McClellan. The ball of success lies at his feet. The rest lies with himself. FOSTER COATES. to body, and he has longer legs than his! that this young man was not born in the | United States, and some of them may say | | al so the younger McClellan was born under | He is a master | the government, the hydrographic office, will issue within a few days its first monthly pilot chart of the North Pacific ocean. It will corre- spond, in most re- Spects, with the pilot chart of the North Atlantic, which for many years has been enormously valuable ; to mariners of all nations. People every- | where who are interested in navigation are | looking forward with eagerness to this new | nautical publication. In many respects the North Pacific ocean resembles the North Atlantic. A great ; warm current, much like the gulf stream | and of equal magnitude, called the Black stream or Japan current, runs northward along the eastern shore of Asia. Close to | the east coast of Japan it flows through a marine valley which holds the deepest w: | ter known in the world. It was sounded at a depth of five and a quarter miles by the U. S. steamer Tuscarora in 1875, while sur- veying for a projected cable route between the United States and Japan, The heavy sounding weight took more than an hour to sink to the bottom. But trial was made of a chasm yet more profound, where the lead did not fetch up at all. It is the only depth of ocean that yet remains unfath- omed. Just as a certain region of the North At- lantic northeast from Boston is shrouded = perennial fog, so does a similar bank of moisture in suspension encompass perpetu- ally the neighborhood of the Aleutian Islands. Here the warm Black stream meets the frigid polar current which runs southward through Bering strait out of the frozen Arctic. The result is an evolution of aqueous vapor or fog. Seal hunters often get lost in it, losing sight of their vessels and knowing not which way to row, drift away to death from thirst and starvation. The waters of the North Pacific, like"those of the Atlantic, move in a mighty circle, in the midst of which is an eddy. The lat- ter is situated between the Hawaiian and | Marshall Islands, and between twenty and | thirty degrees north latitude. Here, where there are no currents worth mentioning, is | @ vast accumulation of weeds, somewhat resembling the Sargasso sea. The weeds are growing, though in deep water and | floating on the surface, being sustained by air bulbs, which form part of their struct- ‘ure. They harbor strange forms of animal | life—queer fishes that build spherical nests with their arm-like fore fins, transparent shrimps, transparent cuttle fish, transpar- ent sea worms and pelagic sea anemones. To Predict the Weather. The hydrographic office has plenty of data at hand for making up a monthly pilot chart of the North Pacific. Observa- | tions by mariners of all parts of that ocean have been recorded and compiled for the |Past fifty years. Thus it will be practica- ; ble to indicate, by means of wind arrows and symbols, the weather for each month | which may ordinarily be expected in each 5 |degrees square of sea surface. The usual currents will be similarly indicated. Areas of fog and rain will be shown by colored patches. As for the storms that run up the east coast of Asia, like those which follow the gulf stream northward along the Atlantic shore, help is expected from the meteorological service at Hong Kong and also from Japan, which has as efficien: a system of this sort as is to be found in the world. | An important and conspicuous feature jof the North Atlantic pilot chart is the indication of derelicts. or abandoned wrecks, | the situation and appearance of which are shown by small conventionalized sketches. \ 1t will be remembered that the question of ‘making an arrangement with other coun- tries for marking off the oceans into dis- tricts and dividing up the work of destroy- |ing such hulks among the maritime nations ‘Was brought to the attention of Congress during its recent extraordinary session by the Navy Department. Eventually, no {doubt, this will be done. | Derelicts are not nearly as plentiful in the |Pacitic as in the Atlantic. The reasons ‘why are several. Storms are less frequent ,and not so severe: hence there are fewer wrecks. Not so many vessels sail on the waters of that greatest of oceans in propor- tion to the expanse of surface. According- ly, the dangers to navigation referred to jare comparatively rare. Of course, such |of them us are reported will appear on the new pilot charts. They are among the most serious of all the perils encountered by mariners, inasmuch as a collision with one is almost certain and immediate destruction for the strongest ship. | “Waterspouts” will be marked, as usual, | by a special symbol, wherever they are re- ported. They are termed by meteorologists “ocean tornadoes.” In fact. they corre- spond to the phenomenon cailed a tornado on land, being brought about by the same causes, and exhibiting the same freaks. |Instead of a whirling cloud, there is a whirling column of water, sometimes as ‘high as 10,000 feet and connecting the clouds above with the sea beneath. The | vessel caught in such an aqueous “twister” is lost; but there are possibilities of avoid- ing it if one knows which way to run. Or it may sometimes be broken up by firing cannon ut it. What the Chart Will Show. The new pilot chart will, from month to month, record important or unusual infor- mation respecting the fishing grounds off the coast of Alaska and eastern Siberia, for the benefit of vessels engaged in pisca- torial pursuits. It will mark out, as a guide for whalers, the water areas where so called | “whale food” is found. This “food” is com- | posed of oceanic diatoms—small organisins, | at most microscopic, with flinty she’: Often they cover the open sea for many square miles with a thick layer of dark slime—the “black water” of the Arctic voy- ager. Innumerable crustaceans und other animals on which whales live, feed upon this slime. The diatoms, when they die, sink to the bottom, and their shells, the delicate structure and elaborate patterns of ! ful of objects beneath the microscope, form the well-known “diatom ooze” that covers a great part of the ocean's flow. The hydrographic office receives reports regularly from 2,984 volun‘eer observers, who are employed in the various merchant and fighting navies of the world, Their ob- servations up to date have only covered the North Atlantic: henceforth zhey will be ex- tended to the North Pacific, and thousanas of additional reporters wili send in news About meterological affairs on the grea ocean. ‘They have a great interes: In ¢ tributing the information, which is digested at Washington and made the basis for the pilot chart next forthoomiag. ‘The govern-) mnent’s function is merely to gather the data from mariners for their owa bened: und to publish a resume of ‘hem, with forecasts based upon them In the light of experience in causes and effects scientifically consid- ered. Thus it makes rredictions as to| % —=&=_=_————S[== weather, gives warning of storms, the drift of derelicts, etc. > marked becai Waterspouts are noted. Even the occur: & kelp is made subject of comments connection with storms und currente, Valuable Work of the Office. The normal currents of the Pacific are ab Teady mapped out with wonderful accura- cy. By aid of this knowledge a with a broken screw, which had drifted far out of the track of trans-oceanic navie j with its drown fog-banks, until now it is almost as known if it were so much dry land. rse, the new pilot chart cific will have plotted on it all ice and bergs, so that mariners may steer of them. It will show the routes for steam- ships, giving the shortest distances be- tween American and Asiatic ports. One reason why it is important to lay out regu: lar tracks for passenger-carrying steamers = sg sailing vessels may keep out of the ay, & the paths by which the q may be ma and current: juickest de, with due regard for winds s. water since he last came that way. The region south of Ja- pan is so given to this sort of eccentricity that ships avoid it. Volcanic action is re- Sponsible for such phenomena. Reports of them will be noted on the pilot chart in every case, Mable, use backs of sleeping whales and fishes running along the surface schools of are frequently mistaken for islands and shoals. From West to East. The general movement of the atmosphere all around the globe is from west to east. The weather now, existing in the middie of the North Pacific will govern the United States seven days hence. That is about the rate of travel ordinarily. Thus an accurate knowledge of the meteorological conditions in that region would render it possible at all times to forecast the weather of the United States with accuracy a week aheaf. Observers, in communication with the hy- drographic office, are now located in the Uawalian, Aleutian, Pitcairn, and other Pacific islands. If those islands are ever connected by telegraph with the main- land the conditions above suggested wifl be fulfilled. Tt is rather odd that most consider the Aleutian Islands inhabited by @ race eg- Sentiajly arctic, as if they were far north beyond “the latitude of civilization. As matter of fa latitude as degree north. Take an atlas and for yourself. St. Petersburg is on the of latitude 6) north, while the Pribyloft ye only in latitude 57. e hydrographic office proposes jong to issue a pilot chart of the great Its purpose will be not to make weather forecasts, because that is covered by the weather bureau, but to instruct the fresh- water mariners in seamanship and naviga- tion. At present they are sadly jacking in such knowledge. One proof of this fact —— the loss of life and vessels on these inland waters is vastly greater proportion- ately than on the ocean. When a lake ves- sel is struck by e@ gale, the all-absorbing thought of those on board of her seems usually to be “land at any price,” instead of anchoring and riding out the storm, they do what a real sailor regards as the last Possible resort—they run her ashore and take their chances in the breakers. That is the chief reason why sixteen ves- sels and fifty lives were lost in the storm of October 14, ultimo. The unfortunate sailors had no notion of the art of handling a ship in @ storm. Oil has long been a resort of mariners for smoothing troubled waves. It has saved tens of thousands of vessels on the seas. So far as can be ascertained, no skipper on the lakes has ever thought of using it. In all of these matters it is pro- posed to instruct the fresh-water tars by means of a monthly pilot chart. Such a Publication, it must be understood, has its othegwise blank spaces occupied by printed remarks on all sorts of appropriate subjects. It is worth mentioning inci#entally that soapsuds have been found to be a very good Substitute for oil in storms. They are al- Ways available, unless possibly on a “tramp” ship, and have the advantage of cheapness. The hydrographic office has asked Con- gress to grant $10,00 a year for the Pacific pilot chart, which is certainly very little, considering the value which it will repre- sent. ine seal before lakes. ———_-+e-+—____ A Lover's Miscaleul From_Harper’s Bazar. “I'll take this %-cent bottle of pertume if you will take off this vost mark and put on one with $1.50 on it,” said a young man to the clerk in a drug store. “Great head,” soliloquized the young man. “Minnie will notice that cost mark and love me for spending my substaace so liLerally for her. It never hurts a young man’s chances for the object of his admiration to think he regards her worth getting the very best for.” The bottle of perfume was sent, and am evening or two later the donor called im person and casually proposed marriage. “James,” said the girl. ‘What is it, Minnie, dear?” ‘You sent me a bottle of perfume?” ‘Yes. Did you like it?” “It was good perfume, James, but it wasn’t worth any dollar and a half. Seventy-five cents is the regular price for that perfume, and I can’t say that I have much use for a young man who ts so careless of his money as to pay for an article twice what it is worth.” “But, Minnie’— James was going to explain, but on see ond thought he refrained. It occurred to him that a girl might like hina less for de- ceiving her than for extravagance. So he put on his hat and departed, resolving to try different tactics when he found ancther girl. ————+e-—___ How to Dry Wet Shoes. From Harper's Bazar, When, without overshoes, you have been caught in a heavy rain storm, perhaps you have known already what to do with your best kid boots, which have been thoroughly wet through, and which, if left to dry im the ordinary way, will be stiff, brittle an@ unlovely? If not, you will be glad to learn what I heard only recently, from one whose experience is of value. First wipe off gently with a soft cloth all surface water and mud; then, while still wet, rub well with kerosene oil, using for the purpose the furred side of Canton flannel. Set them aside till partially dry, when a second treat- ment with oil ts advisable. They may then \ be deposited in a conveniently warm place, where they will dry gradually and thor- oughly. Before applying French kid dress- ing, give them a final rubbing with the flannel, still slightly dampened with kero- sene, and your boots will be soft and flex- ible as new kid, and be very little affected by their bath in the rain,