The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-01-29
TIE RUSSIAN REPRESENTA-
TIVES.
A Dlsreputable Family Represents
ing the Gar in Washington.

Washington, Jan. 19.-Now that
the Russian Minister, M. Barthol-
emei and wife have left the capital,
new stories, very racy, daily lind
their way into print, since the begin
ming of theIweek. BartholemeiEwas
admired for his magnificent proper
tionS and dark, handsome face.
His English wife did not make so
agreeable an impression, as from the
first she was voted queer" She is
a fat, red-faced woman, with sore
eyes and red hair. Ii was not how
ever, her personal appearance so
much as her ObStrusIVe and innate
vulgarities. For many weeks they
rented a house on Connecticut
avenue, they lived there without
furniture or servants. Visitors
were never admitted to the domain,
and the servants whom ithey hired
always left in few days and car
ried away some of the awful secrets
of the quite mysterious household.
Not until last March, when the Gar
was assassinated and funeral cere-
monies were performed in the man
sion, had outsiders an opportunity
to see the inside of the house. The
answer was always given to callers
that madame was i'll, or lot at
home.
One diplomatic dinner was given
by the minister and his wife, ana
soon afterwards fashionable society
was conYulsed with laughter and
Disguised as the details of that din
ner leaked out. 1t was reported
that the guests arrived and were
shown into the dining room, where
table was set but no dishes were
seen. After all were seated mad
anne came in from the kitchen. her
naturally red face consi lerably in
carnadined by her eXertiOns, and
brought in a tureen of soup, which
she Labeled out and recommended 10
her guests in the following manner:
you must eat this soup. L know it
is good, for | made it myself, and
watched the cook to see that she did
not spit in it. 1t is a Russian GUS
tom for the cook TO spit in the
soup.
Other articles for the dinner were
brought in by the porters Of the
trades-people from whom they had
been ordered, and the hostess in
the most genial mannsr1 asked her
guests to make themselves at home,
and assist her in tearing off the
brown paper and putting the arti-
Giles in the dishes. 1t was real pic
mic dinner. The conversation was
as refined as the banquet, for mad
anne, with the utmost frankneSs an
nounced that it was quite the thing
to be illegitimate-'that her hus-
band was Legitimate, she was lille
gitimate. and, she added, our child
rem are illegitimate."
BLAINE IN A QUANDARY.
Since that awful dinner the his
tory of the Bartholemeis has been
no secret. The diplomacy of Secre-
tary of State Blaine was taxed to
the utmost how to obta Ii an indef-
mite leave OF absence for RuSsia's
represent tive. 1t is averred that
Mr.. WilIdinOv, the first secretary of
the Legation, has remained in New
York anu refused to come to Wash
ingtOn until the Bartholemeis left.
Fir. Willamov is now Charge d At
fairs Of the Legation.
1t is also said that Mr.. Barthole-
mel was favorite of the late Car,
who was not such a paragon of
virtue as to be shocked at the i'm
moralities of others, so that the
liaSOn which existed between his
favorite and the person who was
not then his wife WAS no bar to
diplomatic promotion. However,
husband who had for years been an
obstacle TO marriage, died just as
obligingly as did the unhappy wife
of the late Emperor, and the subject,
like his master, went through the
forms of marriage.