The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-16
Our Washing ton Letter.
PRESIDENT GRANTS RECEPTION.


WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. 10, 1877.
Editor Rutland Globe wendell Phil
lips score or more of years ago, about to
embark from France, to return home, was
asked by his escorting French friends when
they should have the pleasure of welcom-
ing him back to la belle France. He re-
piled, when the slaves are free and the
women can vote. Wendell ought to have
been present at President Grants last 70.
seen and felt such crowd, such jam,
such squeeze, now slight advance, now
possibly retrograde movement, now
long remaining in obey ance, no motion ex-
cept that of pressure, sometimes doubtful
whether your feet touch the floor, you are
wedged in by female apparel, not like the
ship Polar's as painted by MIR. Bradford In
the Polar harbor where the midnight sun is
flushing luridly along the icebergs, but like
a ship impaled in burning ice, ice that
moves, ice that ia animated; for far as the
eye could reach-excepting here and there
some compressed anatomy in male apparel
you could see only in the different de-
grees of youth and antiquity, in the differ
ent degrees of fashionable and unfashion-
able attire, some short, some tall, some
thin, some rotund, some silently enduring,
some vociferous,-
Women to right OF you,
Women TO left OF you.
Women in front OF you,
Women in rear OF you,
Women everywhere. Some ladies sue
ceeded in retiring from the crowd, some
tried and failed, some tainted, one was at
tackled with hemorrhage of the lungs; none
will ever forget the scene. The greatness
of the gathering was complimentary to the
president, for while many were from the
humble ranks of life, those high in position,
native and foreign we're also there; soon
after the reception an obese negress was in
the blue room, whether she had shook
hands with the president and family didn't
appear. The hugeness Of official receptions
here may appear from the fact that one sec
rotary actually received one afternoon eight
hundred callers. If the rush at the last
presidential reception typifies the Lind Of
meetings that will prevail when women
vote, what sweet time awaits posterity,
when in large cities both sexes and all con-
ditions crowd to the ballot.box.
AS lent is at hand, four great receptions
and parties were held last evening: at Fer.
nando Woods, the japanese embassy, al
the Misses Riggs and the German of the
army and navy.
Mrs. Fassett is sketching the members OF
the presidential commission, the prominent
senators and members of congress, the
prominent lawyers and others, intending tc
paint large, say Sxl0 feet, picture, and
she hopes great painting commemorative
this event as one of the memorable epochi
in the nations history, which will grow il
value as the lapse of time shall demonstrate
its importance.
The strictly party vote Of the commits
sion Is a sad feature in its action the dis
loyalty of the democrats to the decisionl
of tribunal they were 30 influential il
creating seems revolutionary.
In some of the public offices there Il
placed Immediately in front of the register
an evaporator, consisting of an earther
vase filled with water and enclosed with
perforated tin case, the object being Il
diminish the dryness and headache tend
eucy of the hot air from the register, con
structed on the same principle, it is said
as the calabash Of the tropics, an earthei
vase hung under the trees. the water II
which, 1t is claimed, grows the colder tn
hotter the surrounding air, and the CREATE
the consequent eyep )ration, and does, II
fact furnish the tropic jewellers their onl,
! drinkable water.
A graphic story was recently told by one
of the prominent actors therein Of the orr
gin and effects of the introduction o.