Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 29, 1888, Page 12

G SRR FUBE I 8 TR THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JAN S Y——— THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF WOMEN — A Buginess Woman — A Shrewd Girl Gambler. A SURPLUS OF THE FAIR SEX Nancy A Fine Present—The Boston Girl—The ‘Whistling Craze—Female Mayors— The Sultan's Mother--An Amer- ican Girl in India, Nancy. John A. Fraser, Jr. In brown holland apron she stood in kitchen Her sleeves were rolled up, all aglow: Her hair was coiled neatly, when I, creetly Stood watching while Nancy was kneading the dough. Now, who could be neater, or brighter, or swecter, Or who hum a song 8o delightfully low, Or who look so slendor, so graceful, tender, As Nancy, sweet Naney, while kneading the dought How deftly she pressed it, and squeczed it. caressed it. And twisted and turned it, now quick and now slow, Abj me, but that madness I've paid for in the and her cheeks indis- 80 s y heart shie was kneading as well as the dough. At last when she turned for her pan to the dresser, She suw e and blushed, and said shyly “Please o, Or my bread I'll be spoiling, in spite of my toiling 1f you stand here and watch kneading the dough.” 1 begged for permission to stay—she'd not while I'm listen The sweet little tyrant said, *‘No, sir! no!" Yet when I liud vanished on being thus ban- ished, My heart stayed with Nancy while knead- ing the dongh, T'm dreaming, sweet Nancy, and sce you in fan Your heart, love, has softened and pitied my woe' And we, dear, kitchen, ‘Where Nancy the dough! no! are richin a dainty, wee my Nancy, stands kneading A Business Woman, Philadelphia Record: Mrs. Dow hav- ing been i a_horse railwa, ) , the reporters have been after her, and have obtained an instructive story of how she came to engage in a business heretofore monopolized by men. According to the published story, Mrs. Dow, who was a small stockholder in the road, discovered that a Boston syndicate, purely as a mat- ter of investment, was trying’ to buy up & majority of the stock at about one- third its cost. She quite naturally con- cluded that, if a foreign syndicate could afford to buy control of the road,sheand other residents of Dover, with propurtv interests at stuke, could better afford to keep it in their own hands, so she out- bid the Boston syndicate and obtained a wajority of the stock. Then she- had herself elected president of the road, so that she could look after hér property, thus acquired. Mrs. Dow deserves to succeed. It is given as another proof of her business acumen that she has al- aendy reduced fares from six cents to ve. A Girl Gambler on Ship-board. New Yor! A professional male gambler can nearly always be found aboard. Glib of tongue, plausible in speech, sedately dressed, he manages to prove abig w uner at every sitting. The opportunities for gain for a female ambler are even more numerous. oung fellows, and even old ones, under the excitement of ship life, and the abundance of time on th' hands, are easily roped in by the baiting smiles of a protty girl. If her behavior is deme- cratic her company is all the more sought after, since her preferences, no matter how glight, toward one man are sure to cause rival A sample of an American girl, with a taste for cards, was on the Alaska. The young | lady was “‘going it on her own 0ok.” Unattended and ostensibly de: tined for London, she was not twenty four hours on the vessel before she had three admirers furious in their atten- tions to her. She told them all sorts of stories ubout her life; how her mother was a French woman from New Orleans, her father an Englishman and herself a Canadian by birth, but there was no chance to mistake her mannerisms. In an ungarded moment she would yell at the top of her voice when the ship would lurch, “Hello! you bet that was a tum- ble.” A number of times she empha- sized her wor da with a final “‘and don’t you forgetit.” All the same.she won a handsome sum at cards the first night, Yrose who layed with her were reticent’ concern- ug their losses A Surplus of Women. ‘Washington Correspondence: Ac- cording to most reliadle figures avail- able, there are about 20,060 more women in Washington than men. The fact of ite being the seat of government very naturally attracts scheming women and adventuressess. The scheming ones nre not necessarily all women of the vicious and immoral’ class. Schemers can move in the best cireles, Many a woman comes here because she im- ngines it isa good place to win a hus- band; others think they can get em- ployment, and still others who bave a ittle money manage to make friends among the residents, and they pass a winter in the hope of getting into so- ciety. It has always been a mystery how many of the females known to be hon- estand respesiable manage to live heve, Tt is an expensive place, but they man- age to keep up appearances. Thoy have nearly all been reduced from some higher sphere. Many of them are the wives or daughters of men who haye been in government positions in the army or navy, or perhaps in congress, and have died leaving nothing for their families. Some of those who have been 80 reduced have trod the highest walks of social eminen Those of more common place qualifications have surren- deved their social position and opened boarding houses or gone into the de- Eurtmunlr-. There is an ex-represen- ative still alive here in Washington who has two daughters in one of the de- partments. Employment sought by accomplished Iadies of reduced cireumstances is that of chaperone for young people. A chaperone is a very important attach- ment for young ponpl.- in \\xhhlm_'mu society, and one it is not always easy to get. 1tis embarrassiug, and besides, enerally inconvenient, for mammas to ave to sit in the corner or against the wall and nod while their fair daughters whirlin the waltz and tread the mystic mazes that lead to premature old m:«‘ An amiable chaparone, who Nll with the girls to the theuiet, &0 and parties, and where not, is \lwnp m. most any price, and can find plenty to da profitably. Of course they do not ad- vertise: *Wanted—A situation as chap- erone.” Nor do they ask Mrs, Penny- 0 t if she does not want to hire a chaperone with long experience sand good references. Not atall, It all comes abous very naturally. The lady. is so aecommodating and Mrs. l’ulm\hl\r\est is so gratesul that it all comes to be understopd. Another occupation ol ARY o fashionable ladies of reduced cireum- stances is thut of reading to invalidsand entertaining them with all the small talk of the du All these means are resorted to by ladies who have hy some misfortune been thrown on their o resources, yme perform these services openly, ith no pretense of concenlment of lhniv necessiti Others manage to keep their occupation a secret between them- selves and the one they ser ach patron thinking that she is the only one so favored. Washingtnn is the place for the cultivation of clever women, and they ave found living upon their sharp wits in all the walks of so- ciety. Many do a thriving business in the *lobby.” There is one young girl, who is about the capitol every winter, who is snid to make a large income out of her practice before the house. A Fine Present. Christmaseve there wasa tree in a town hall in Bucksport, Me., and one mischicvous young lady who thought the proceedings were too solemn, laid a plan for waking the old folks up by elimbing to the top of the tree on a step- ladder after the glass and_crockery was distributes and accidently (?) falling into the bushes. She took one old gen- tleman into her confidence, and he, un- known to her, improved on the scheme by hooking on her dress a tag with a young gentleman’s name on it. The all came off aceording to programme, and the wicked joker caught the young lady and boldly read off lhn- oung man’s naime. 4To my surpris iid the old gentlemen, * he boldly took his pr the applause of th dience.” The yowng man and lady had never ‘spoken to each betore. Th Chicago the secrefar, young other Terrible i ribune: Richard Mu of a concern whi building some large warchouse burn Junction, had an experi long since with a Boston girl. Murphy, in his innocent way, chanced to speak of a well-known C goan as ‘s humanitavian.” The Boston girl was up and at him in a moment **Oh, but he isn’t that, is he e in=- Why, certainly. that is his reputa- tion,” retorted Muvphy. “Well, too bad.” rejoined the young lady from the Hub; **T thought he was a good man, a religious man.” It was now the bland young secreta- ry’s turn to express amazement. What could his tormentor be driving at? At last he founa out. ““Don’t you know what a humanitarian is?" she inquired. *“Go and get your dictionary, read, and henceforth be ful how you speak of good men, particularly of leading lights in the church as” ‘humanitarians.’” In the dictionary Murphy read: ‘*Humanita- rian—One who denies the divinity of Christ.” Then he whistled softly to himself, remarked that that was a new one on him and inwardly resolved to steer clear of young ladies from Boston. Girls and the Whistling Craze. New York Mail and Expre “There are few young ladies in society who cannot whistle,” remurked u professor of music, who has a_great many pupils in the aristocratic circles of New York. “\\ Iml has given them the whistling wh ances of Mrs. Alice shaw and M Jennie R. Campbell have stimulated a legion of beautiful imitators. But the fewest number can whistle with any- thing like succe They can carry air through very well, but the shading and the piccolo‘like melody arc absent. It is sometimes very amusing to sce a young lady pucker her ruby lips and try to whistle some popular_air to her own accompaniment on the piano. The companiment is admirable,but the whis- tle is often marred by glaring deficien- cies in the art of blowing sound through the lips., Mrs. Shaw’s flute-like notes are simply phenomenal compared to the average young lady’s, and those who expect to emulate her suc- cessfully must in the flrst placg be assisted by natural aptitude. Some men can whistle with se, produce notes of a cle: while others who ar too, can scarcely whistle a common tune. The same can be said of women, Some years ago it was a rare thing to hear a young lady whistling, but now nearly ‘every houschold has a young duughter that goes about the houschold trying in a dolce far niente vay to imi- tate the birds. T remember the time when it was considered very unrefined for a young lady to whistle, and the mothér always chided her by repeating the very tri lines about a whistling woman and a crowing hen never com- ing to a good end. Al that is changed now—I mean among social circlesin the large cities, and the mother and father are just as proud of their daugh- ter’s whistling accomplishments as Llw used to be of their skill as musicians. The mandolin, guitar and banjo for the present are relegated to the back stairs of unpopularity to muke room for the new craze know a young lady who can whistle a Waldteuful waltz with such sweetness of expression that her listeners are charmed. Her beautiful lips scem }u‘im pally constructed for waltz time, for she does no other pieces as well, It takes practice, confidence and a natural gift to attain the highest rung of the ladder as a whistler.. Mrs, Shaw is the great diva, and stands un- rivalled. In'afew years all the young ladies will hn better whistlers than the young men.” He Doesn India 'he wonderful stling perform- go0d mus Like Female Mayors. pohis Journal: “Female may- ors are no good,” saidthe ox-c n\' mar- il of Avgonin, Ka mln»r has just killed 1 to have u hotel there and was the ul\ marshal, but I couldn’t stand it. so I just scooted, and T expect I'm to blame for her election, too. “You know she wasn'tnominated in any of the conventions. About 9 o’clock on ‘lection day all of us boys were feeling red to meet at a hall and iate a candidate to knock out Wil- Jack Ducker, he is the toughest man in the place and the undertaker, got up in the meetin’ and nominated Mvrs, Susanna Medora Salter for mayor, and the nomination was made unani- mous. We rushed into the str and commenced to work for our candidate, At noon her husband came to us and begged us to quit the racket, sayin® it was an insult to his wife. We wouldn’t do it, and the voters commenced to come our way in clusters. We got full of whisky and enthusiasm, and at 4 o'clock every one was votin’ for our our candidate. Well, you know as how she was elected. We had u jollification, and when she took her seat like a man all our fun was busted. “1 sent up to Kansas City for some crab apple cider, just to please the boys. She heard of it and asked me to stop it. You can't fight a woman, and she the mayor. Then I started a little poker room, more for sociability than an thing else. Chips weve only 10 cents, She heard of it und came to e aud I had to stop. Then the druggist, before she was elected, used to keep blue-grass bitters, lemon rye, and extract of malt, an® a few other things like that. He don't do it now. The mayorheard of i Then thie two billiard rooms were run- i elosed up now. The mayor don’t think it is fashionable to push the ivorics. That's the way it is with everything. the town and so T came up here,” ‘‘She's 'the only woman mayor on rth. is she noty"” ““That's just what &he is, You ought to see the letters she gets, foreign let- ters and the like, askin® for her auto- graph, and askin® her if it istrue that shio is the mayor, and all questions like that. When I was marshal I used to act under her, and many's the letter she has shown me from abroad T just couldn’t stand A Girl on a Rope. ¢y News: Belated churchgoers on Sunday morning had a chance o wit- ness o rather unusual comedy in the story of a Main street block, the prineipal actors in which were two young ladies, It seems that one of the ladies had dropped a parcel from the window to the roof of the adjoining building, some distance below. There being no other way to gain the roof, a short ladder was attached to a rope, and while one steadied the combination from the window, the other climbed hand over hand down the rope until she reached the ladder, thenco descending the roof and gaining the parcel, she threw it up to her companion aud then returned in the same manner, An Ameri Buffalo Courier one of the mi irl in India. Miss Mary Graybiel, ionaries sustaincd in kunown as Disciples. esting letters to her The place at which now located is in the the rail- Bambay The chil- mmm in this city aybicl is heart of India, on the line of rad which is to be built from irectly across to Caleutta. dren of the Sunday schools of the de- nomination in the United States con- tributed a fund of some fonr thousand dollars with which to erect a house for this mission, and in her last letter she modestly tells how the work was done. It appears that she had to serve as arch- 1tect, master builder, and general boss mechanie, . she bought four yoke stodo the teaming: then a es—they are very scarce in that part of the country She employed a hundred natives, or nearly that number, whom she aught to quar the stone, which had to be hauled s mijes, and to make brick, first trampling the clay fashioning it into the bricks, and then burning them, using the spave portions f $he trees for fuel. The tranks of the wes were laboriously by hand sawed into boards for the floors, roof, ete. stone foundation three feet thick was laid three feet below ground and as much above, this solid base wall being deened necessary to keep out the w hite a great pest of the coun- a good job was made of S w ll, for Miss Graybiel ingenuously relates that an Englishman visitor quired who had been the enginee expressed much surprise when told that she had directed the work herself. Im'i(iwmully Mi-«s( ybiel states lh:lL orty miles dl-.l..nn. \\.u killed by n m.m.- She attended the funeral, mak- ing the journey through the rolid jungle in a.cart drawt by a paiv of the “buffa- loes, with the chance of being sprung upon by that or some other tiger at any moment. Such is life in the wilds of Hindostan. 3 CONNUBIALL "There are only eight unmarricd men on the St. Lonis police force. A Pennsylvania young man recently mar- ricd agirl who had refused him eighteen times. An Ohid man has been charged with mak- ing love and becoming eungaged to three sis- ters all at onc Frank Damrosch, 1ES. chorus-master of the Metropolitan O, . was lately mar- ried to Miss Hettic Mosenthal. Seven engagements were made at a leap- year party at Woodland, Cal., the other night Where only fourtesn couples were present. Miss Amelie Rives, the authoress, is said to have been overwhelmed with offers of marriage since her portrait was published re- cently. The emperor of China is to be married at an expense of £,000,000, but his bride intends to get along without a hired girl for a year or 50 to make up. “Father, comment is unnecessary,” she re- marked, with a wave of the head, as the old man began to remonstrate against her pro- posed marriage. Miss Hooper, of Cinein who sided in Paris for many years, is the wife of the Marqu and wll reside in Milan. Minnesota couple drove ok when the atmospherc ‘0 in order to get married. The proceeding was a brave one, it must be allowed. A town in hasu law prohibiting drun mg. Every town and zed world ought to have such a law and enforce it rigorously. Miss Louisa Corbin, l' New York, will soon wed Mr. Hora pole, nephew and heir of Lord Oxford. T]IL English say that “the lady has great expectation: The daughter of the president of the sister republic of Me: arried recently to Senor de La Torre, She should have war- ricd a Torcudor to have been popular in Mex- ico. A Syracuse wife, lately divorced, testified that whenever she asked her husband where he was going or when he would be home gave her such un awful look that she almost fell in a heap.” Clara Louise Kellogg's ma Strakosch has just been ofticially announced by curds from her father and mother, coupled with the advertisement of a spring concert through the eastern state: An enterprising clothier advertises guar- antecing a wife to every man who buys a suit of clothes. This is no inducement at all, What would do for this country better would be a guarantee of a suit of clothes to every man who has a wife London society is agitated over the coming age of Mis byl D'Israeli with a Mr, vyn Caly . The young lady is a daughter of Ralph, Lord Beaconsfield's brother, and is said to be as bright and charw ing as the heroine in her unc tale, afte whom s named. She hus moreove her uncle’s power of epigram und briilianc of wit. A Montana paper remarkable notice ¥ ‘harles Johnson and Miss Fann, were married by Rev. S Hills on Wedunesday. So far no trouble has resulted and those best informed as the situ- ation say there will be none.” The next day the editor apologized and explained that ) of an item regarding an incipient strike had got in the wrong place. That was & brave and merry matrimonial quartette, consisting of Kl Boggs, Miss Rhoda Smith, and Marion Greenhill and Miss Kate Chandler, who walked from Carter county, Kentucky, a distance of 100 miles, to Rugsville to be married. But when youths determine to wed and there is opposi- tion they will go to any length to tie the connubial knot. True love grows upon oppo- sition, The mysterious disappearauce of Bride- groom George W. Little on the night of his wedding at Uniontown, Pa., is still the cause of much excitement. He left the house of his tiancee last Monday night, and has not been seen since. A visit to his room and cigar store showed that nothing had been disturbed, so the theory that he had tied to ape the bonds of matrimony finds few beli Foul play is expected. He had received sev ening letters, Several shots W the store on Monday night. The disap) ance is supposed to be the result of jealousy. A Greek wedding is a tedious affair,lasting a whole day, though the religious services last about un hour. The young bride has her eyes sealed and is led by her maids of houor, and she takes the bridegroom’s hand and they kneel upon . cushion in front of the priest, wreaths of tawdry mulhml flowers tied & ribbons. These laced upon the two bowed heads and A zed back and forth three times. A long rvice is read, incense burned and a service chanted und rings exchanged and blessed, and finally they are pronounced married, an the priest takes a glass of wine and a piece olukemdhhwundumhuwuy. has re- o become “d’Adda-Salvaterra, ht miles last as 0= below riage to Carl THE SOLDIER AND SAILOR. Their Life in Washington--The Pets of Society. LITTLE PHIL'S HANDSOME HOME. . Prominent Members of the Service— Naval Ofticers Who Dislike Salt Water — Gallant Knife and Fork Warriors. WASHINGTON, Jan, 2 respondence of the B is the Mecea of the arm as sud, ull good An J=Washington v and navy. If, cans, outside the go to Pariz when they die, all army and navy officers turn their eyes in the last moment, if possible, towards Washington. It is the home of,the gen- eral staff, the refuge of the retived, and the camping ground of the **soft service brigade.” In addition to the large number of officers who are detailed for ¢ jobs in connection with the war de- partment, the District of Columbia, the navy department and its various bu- reaus, several hundred of™etived army and navy officers and their fumilies are located at the natioaal capital, These make a large colony of their own. The greater part of two whole streets is oceupied by their residences and rented nouses. The great influx of the army and navy officers into Washington has occurved within the past fifteen y that time Washington was t able vesidence and even its » attrd and far between, as unnpln-(i to what they are at | ent. Butsince the Shepherd regime, which transformed Washington from a dusty and unsightly c¢ity to a handsome metropohis, all is ‘hanged. To-day the nationul eapital is the most_beautiful vlt\ o ‘n—the Pu —and bids fair 1 v, to he the handsomest city in the world, In consequence it has drawn to it many prominent and wealthy resi- dents of all clas and among them huulr ds of retired army and 'y to whom its socie lnh- form pleasant featy dence. Wi ston is pecu orahl wee of resider famili In the national capital, anywhere else in the iv number and close y se a mighty sway over social eir- It is an unwritten law that shoul- ttes, brass buttons ers for the social standing of their wearcrs, In Washington the army and navy 1s courted us no other cliss is, except” the heads of the excentive departments. They are. with one exception, the ouly permanent oftice holders in the country and their social position affords them the entr nilies of wealth which, , results in eligible o) are a close clique. They visit o te chiefly with each other wh sasionally con- descending to give tone to vmlmn oc- cusions, but in private they d place any civilian cirele on !lu same footing as their own. s has been said, they are peculinr in having a life- tenures of oftice which they share with no other office holding class except the justice of the supreme court. Thev are distinguished even from the justices in = hav- ing steady promotion always before their eyes and the possibility of supreme command. y second licu- tenant or ensign, with fourteen hundred dollars a yoar pay, can look forward to the time when he may head the army us chiel, or the na admiral, with i of thirteen’ thousand dollurs a promotion or no promotion, cvery fi rs sees ten per cent added Lot nd their allowances for quarters, wy privileges, transportation. idd at least 'ty per cent an- y to their pay as set «down in the 215t The officers of our army and nav about the hest paid in the world. other one of the great nations p: thing hke what soldier and sailor and owing to the small proportion to the civilian population, mno other people accords them the same deference. In Germany every other man met on the streets seems to be either a soldi or an oflic In England the sailor arve five to one in proportion to our own. In all the great continental countries the number of army officers is infinitely merica. hington is the headquarters of hife and fork and petticoat” cam- paigners, It - accepted maxim in oflicial eircles that the way to rapid promotion and comfortable billets lics through the national capital, and that o winter campaign av Washington, well conducted, is worth ten in the field. Here gather, during the session of con- gl hundreds of ambitious officers who are looking with envious eyes on possible vueancies and who are anxious to - bring what influence they to bear upon the chief executive in securing their own ad- vancement. Here are collected hun- dreds of prominent names in army and naval aunals, who entertain handsomely on their retired pay and give toue to the ||tmn-uf‘ snators and representa- s in return for what influence they 1'uu secure for friends and favorit Here are clustered at the heads of var ous bur si of old soft service” campaigners who know the manual of llh- knife and fork much better than they do that of the pistol and sword, and whose handling of a con- gressional committee, over a handsome linen cloth and u fine collection of parti- colored wine glasses would throw in the shade the best tactical management of his company by any colonel on the frontier, G RAL SITERIDAN who commands the army, lives in the vesidence which was presented to him by his friends and admivers in Chi- cago. The general has rapidly aged in the last ten years owing to- comfortable living and continual dining out. His hair is now nearly snow-white, but his little legs still carry an ¢ close-cropped, bullét head and g mustache and goatee, which have for years been fumiliar to the country, Dur- ing working hours, which are not more protracted than necessary, the general occupies u handsome suite'of rooms on the first floor of the war department building, in which he is surrounded by his staff, who are comfortably quartered in adjoining rooms. The general is al- ways accessible to visitors, and his good nature in this respect makeshim the re- cipient of calls from_ hordes of bores whose only apparent aim is to secure a r000d square look at little Phil. Since General Sheridan’s name has become so prominently mentioned for the presdency as tho preferred candidate of many of the 0ld zoldiers, he had closed his mouth as tightly as a clam upon amy political question, and wisely declined to commit imself, pro and con, regarding an measures which might affect his presi- dential chances, Therc ii a well-de m.d are No our 1888, ~TWELVE PAGES, and growing feeling at the national capital that among the few available men for the position of chief executive who may present their elaims before the next national republican convention, jeneral Sheridan will be found with considerable latent strength, General Richard €. Drum, the adjut- ant general and head of the general stag, has been brought into consider- able prominence recently by his advice rogarding the battle flags which got Secretary Endicott and the president into such an embarrassing dilemma last summer. General Drum has been shedding red ink for country for the st rs. Since 1861, when < appointed eaptain and assistant adjutant general, he has never heard a drum beat or a gun fir During the entire war he was comfortably engaged in stafl duty on the Pacific coast, and for the pust eight years he has been at the head of the adj general's de- partment at Wi i "he adjut- ant general is prac 1y the chief clerk of the entive military establishment, who issues all orders for the general and has under his direction the general supervision of the pen and ik matters and red tape of the army. General Drum lives in a handsome residence in A hington built in connection with the one of Commodore English, of the navy. He entertains frequently and puts his invitations where they will do the most good. sral Holabira, tne quartermaster- ieral, is oue of the staff ofticers at the ional capital who gives alkhis time work and is enthusiastic in im- i t service, To labors during the hefore and since his pro- motion to the head of the quartmaste department. is largely HGEL L Has aE ciency of that department and the fact that our army is to-day the hest clothed and best shod at the least ¢ any in the world. The gener tire within the next few son of age and there will struggle for his shoes, One of the most interesting oflicers connected with the st at Washington is l,.'wm . A. W. Greely, al Hazen as chief suffering ¥ h\' a In.-l\ VI and sufferings as an Aretic exvlorer are too well known throughout the country to need repetition. He was brought baek from his journey towards the north pole broken d in health and seriously enfeebled in mind, i thought. Shortly afterwards 1 promotion in his own regiment, the Fifth dry, and beeame a captain. An effort was made by his friends to se- cure the passage of a bill making him a major and istant adjutant general, in order that he might seek retirement from the army within a few months thereafter, upon pay which would allow him to live comfortably, if not luxuri- ously for the rest of his life. Owing to bitter opposition of the **soft service * the effort was de ed, and ptain Greely was once morve igned to duty in the signal serv which he had so greatly hondved. General Ha- zen's death, which ¢ »d not long after the failure of iin Gree- ly to secure retirement, at once gave his friends an opportunity to more signally show their apprecia- tion of his private charac wnd their recognition of his distinguished services on hehalf of seienec name was presented to the president as w candi- date for General T 1's old place, and the nomination, which was promptly made, was aspromptly confirmed. With- in two years Captain Greely. by this combination of civeumstances,was raised from a first licutenant with a salary less than $2,000 a year, to the rank of brigadier-general with $5.500 a year. He has improved materially in health during the last twelve months, and,while still, as he always will be. ade te look- i no outward signs of a seriously impaived constitution. At the president’s reception he_ spoke warmly to several Nebr nsof his former re dence in Omaha and inquired with in- terest about & number of his old ac- The one hu with the varic burc partment or engaged i about the national cap They are variously employed in oyerseeing clerks, working on the publication of war ree- brds, supervising the improvements of the District of Columbia. directing the shipment of quartermaster and subsist- ence stores, compili tisties in the office, ing on sports, and grading from h wl work to doing as little as seems ticable under the present circum- stances on a detail at Washington. But if the army is well represented at the national v 11 pe said of the nav) absolutely swarms with naval office leave and on shore duty, on temporary detail and on permanent service. The number _ of naval officer who make Washington their ~ home when not at sea is le n, and the num- ber of naval officers, wives and families is almost innum ble. They swarm at rveceptions, fill the parlors at social gatherings, crowd the floor at bulls and germans, and are aprominent feature at every private and publie social enter tainment. The number of naval officers here on station, on shore duty, or on leave is largely due to the small number of ships and floating coffins which th government has provided for the act employment of its sailors. There ar enough e are between seventy-five and i connected us of the war de- hed duty NAVAL OFFICERS away from the smell of salt water to man a dozen of the largest-siz men- of-war from forecastle to quarterdeck, but under the topheavy organization of the department, into a do. burenus, desks, and oceupations of more or less importance is found for scores of them within a short range from the white house, and in elose proximity to the parlors and ball rooms of the " na- tional capital. Including the marine corps, there ave thirty different hureaus connected with the navy department in Washington alone, The head of the navy is Admiral David D. Porter, whose office is in his elegant residence at 1710 H street, Ad- miral Porter is a medium-sized and rather portly gentleman, with full moustache and beard which is now lib ally sprinkled with grey. He draw §1:4,000 a year for conducting the opera- tions of the department and adds con- siderably to his income from the work of his pén. The admiral is more proud of the slight success which he has gnined in literature than he is of his naval rec- ord during the war, I noticed him last week standing absorbedly before a large bill board on Connecticut avenue, on which was printed the advertisement of McKee Rankin, who was billed to pp- jear in “Admiral D. D, P thril- ing play of Allan Dare.” is the novel which was so frequently cut up by the critics a couple of years ago, and which Admiral Porter consi one of the most sterling works of fiction of the age. It has not proved so profituble to him as his **Naval History of the Rebel- lion,” which was issued by subscription some twelve months since and has brought in good returns in the way of royalties. SIX COMMODORES are also stationed at Washington in charge of various burcaus where their duties are by no ueans onerous. A doz- his | en commanders, twenty captaing with a liberal allowance of lieutenants and en- signs make up the naval contingent in actual service, Those on shore duty and leave overtop in number those who have been fortu- nate enough to find a little eme ployment in bureaus. 1 was informed the other day that there were at least 200 naval officers at the national capi= tal and that this was no unusual figuro for the season. During the session Washington 18 especially attractive to the navy, and the gold-laced sleevos and caps, which distinguish the naval ofticers from those of the army, drug upon the social market. is quite a rivalry between the army navy as to which has a p pre-eminenc 1f the 3 can be taken as a critevion the navy leads, ‘There is an element of romanco about a life on the volling deep which is peculiavly attractive tosentimental givls and which, when added to astraight fig- ure and a handsome uniform enables the ss0r to venture boldly where inn angels would fear to” tread. Now that there scems to be some prospect of making the United States navy some- thing more than a mere name. and of furnishing quarter-decks for officers to tread, in place of the office floors which have worn into ruts for so many the naval contingent at Washing- fon will at no distant ds ay he gre ll) lessened. 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