National Republican., 1882-12-06
SOCIAL GOSSIP.
Return OF Members and Their Families
Improvcments at the White House.

improvements nt the Whttc House.
Representative Carpenter and wife, of Iowa,
are at $40 Twelfth street.
Hon. Stephen d. Lindsey, of Maine, is at
$40 Twelfth street, accompanied by his wife
and daughter.
Hon. George c. Hazelton, of Wisconsin, has
secured u suite of apartments at Sl5 Twelfth
street.
Mrs. r. @. Pound of Wisconsin, will not
come to Washington until after the holidays.
Representative Belford and family are not
expected here for some weeks yet, private
business and affairs connected with the new
legislature requiring his presence in Colorado.
Senator Fair of Nevada, is expected to ar
rive at Washington the first week of January,
and will be accompanied by his wife and
three children, who will spend the winter with
him at the Arlington.
Hon. Frank Hiscock is occupying his old
quarters in the Sumner House annex of the
Arlington Hotel, and will be Joined by his
wife after the holidays.
senator Malone gave up his apartment at
the Portland in November, and has since then
resided Mt the Arlington, Mrs. Malone and
her family have been settled in their new
home for some days.
Senator Hale and his family reached their
II street residence on Saturday evening.
Hon. Richard Crowley will bring his wife
and seven children here after the holidays,
and pass second winter at the Arlington.
Many Of the ladies who added so much to
the social pleasures of the Arlington last Win
ter have already reassembled here. Senators
Camden ard Davis, of West Virginia, with
their families Representatives Dwight and
Beach, of New York, with their wives and
daughters, and Representative Miles, of Con-
necticut, with his family, are now at that
hotel.
Representative Ranney has taken the
second suite of rooms in the Summer House,
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daughters Immediately after New Years.
The new embassy, returning home to Japan
after visit to the European courts, will reach
Washington next week. A suite of sixteen
rooms has been reserved for thom ut the Arling-
ton, and the japanese flag will float from the
roof, as during the brilliant season when the
Iwalxura embassy stayed here.
Hon. Angus Smith, the great railroad and
wheat millionaire, of Milwaukee, has arrived
at the Ebbitt House for the winter.
Mr.. w. W. Story, the sculptor, is visiting
this country with his wife, and, after being
feted in New York, Baltimore, and other
cities, has come to Washington, where many
flattering attentions are being paid them. Mrs.
| LOring was their guide on one day of their
Sightseeing, which included thorough sur
vey of the Agricultural Department and the
annex building.
Hon. S. S. Cox was greeted at the opening
of the House on Monday bya colossal bouquet
Of grasses straw, and artificial flowers that
was mounted on his desk. To the amusement
of his neighbors on the Democratic side, he
ordered the highly-cOlorrd trophy to be taken
away before he would seat himsclfa Mt his desk
As floral offering il was the most wonderful
affair ever seen on the floor, and excited a
vast amount of interest and comment in the
galleries
The wife and daughter of Representative
| Williams, of Wisconsin, have decided to pass
the winter at their home in Jancsville, Wis.
There are many here who feel severely the
loss of Representative Updegraff, of Ohio
Socially he was a most entertaining and agree.
| able gentleman, and possessed of fine mind
and cultivated taste in literary matters He
was an authority in many things outside OF
his profession or politics. Mrs. UpdegratI is
remembered as quiet, graceful, and rather
| handsome woman whose devotion to her two
children and her home intore jts kept her alooi
from the rush Of official society and endearcd
her even more to tho little circle of friends
that she gathered around her during the three
winters that she spent in Washington.
Hon. John +. Dczendorf, of Virginia, is at
tho Congressional Hotel, and will be Joined
| by his wife after the holidays.
! Senator Saunders and daughter, of Ne
braska, arrived at the Riggs House on Sun.
daW Miss Saunders will remain for a while
as the guest OF her mothers friend, Mrs. Col
Stewart, on Capitol Hill.
hMr Griswold, representing Titfany's Asso
cated Artists of New York, has charge o
the decorative work that is being done in The
state apartments at the White House. The
main corridor, the blue parlor and the state
dining room are to receive the chief share o
attention, and it will be fortnight yet be
fore the work is completed. The lower flool
| is dismantled and filled with staging ant
platforms, and sightscers have been excluded
| from the building for two months. Mr.. Tiff
| bn, inrr tn1 tbut npa hn olloNynf
to inspect the work until it is fully completed
the public will not be admitted to view o
| the inner splendOrs until about New Year.
day. According to Hdrpers Ba=adr, " the firm
of Templeton q Co.. of Glasgow, are making
new carpet for the White House Some timt
since they made one for the King of Sian
measuring 100 feet by "a, its center being
three-headed white elephant. One whicl
represented n whole menagerie was manufac
| tured by them for the King of Denmark as
gift to the Mikado." In view of these feats
one may wonder what designs they will con
slider appropriate to a country of our extended
fauna.
A tourist in Russia describes the quarters
of the United States legation at st. Peters
burg as more comfortable and homelike thar
any of our other diplomatic offices abroad. Min
lister Hunts Office it furnished in dark greer
satin and morocco and the portraits Of Presi
dent Arthur, General Grant, and Other
| American worthless hang on the walls. Pleas
ant gatherings are held each week in Mrs
Hunts crimson satin drawing-rooms, and tht
presence of the stars and stripes as an i'm
portant piece of drapory is not necessary t.
give the wanderer abroad a sense of being un
der its protecting folds.
NJ dc Struve, the Russian minister to thii
country, is expected to return to his post here
in few weeks. Nine. de Struve has takeT
an apartment in ST. Petersburg, and will re
main there for year. Eighty cases of curio.
and valuables were taken with them from ia
pan, among other things the trite of few
thousand teapots that Mme de Struve amused
herself by collecting while she resided in
Toxic. Her salon in st. Petersburg is said tC
be a perfect museum, the frieze and panoply
of plates on the wall representing the choicest
examples of japanese art, while cabinets, con
soles and corners are filled with more ceramics
bronzes, and lacquer work.
SIZE WILL SEND HER WORD.