New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-10-04
WASHINGTON ALIVE AGAIN.
GOSSIP ABOUT THE PRESIDENT AND SOME
OF THE PEOPLE

VI lnE GEoIL
[FROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNEI
WAsHINGToN, Oct. 3.-Washington has walked
up for the season. Two successive New-York Adj
illustrations have brought the two towns closer
together than ever before. New-Yorkers, longing
for breath of truly metropolitan air as relief
from their own highly provincial atmosphere. come
TO Washington to get it. 1t NAV as well be said
here anywhere else that the common belief OF
New Workers that everything on this planet
will come to a dead stop in order to watch
the New-York elections Is faacy. There Is
an immense deal going on here. 1t is queer that
the capital Of the United States should be more
like European city than any American town
but it is the fact Americans have adapted them
selves with singular ease and CELEBRITY to certain
forms of a court.
The latest gossip about the man from Buffalo
is that his famous civil service letter was written
by Miss Cleveland. 1t will be remembered that
TIE President lett off shng on the Sth of September
got to Washington on the 9th, Coiioctor Hedden
came over to get the civil service letter from aim on
the 10th and the letter was dated on the llth Now
Grover Cl3ve.and is as slow of pen as he Is OF
tongue. He never has been known To write any
thug promptly and decislvely as that; lle does
not even maze up his mind with ordinary dispatch
all of his mental processes are slow. Now. now
in the name of reason" say the gOssIps, " did he
prepare tnat ornate literary composition III
The few hours he could spare from the overwhclm,
ing em p,ovments of the President OF the United
>tstesf Rose Elizabeth did 1t IN all human proba-
bilIty.o
The winter promises to be brilliant as the case
usually rs With new Administrations. The incoming
officials wI not have time before the season is out
TO find ont how very small their salaries Secre
tary Whitney IL relied upon to give the Aimlnis-
tratiOn It's social start. He has bought ue place
on georgetown Heights. but he will come in town
and take mouse for the winter Secretary Man
nlng wife, IL is said. persuaded him TO take
Cabinet place against his inclination, has set up
an establishment. The two Southern mem 0ers
"a the Cabinet will make no figure socially. Both
are wIdowers, both men of small means. both dis
incned to general society Ii is likely That Senator
Payne, Secretary Whitney and the Cincinnati Me
Leans will dominate Washington considerably In
the next few h. socially well as POLITICALLY
Indeed there been some talk OF newspaper
venture IN which Senator Payne was TO furnish the
capital, and JOnn X. Nc Lean the experience, W TN
the OBJECT of making Secretary Whitney President
of the Uuited States. aud Mr.. Lean presumably
VIce-presldent. John having pecniar qua lhcalons
for presiding the Scna.e. But there Is proDa
bly no truth III the story. Mr.. Mclean cOnteul-
plates running a Washington newspaper some time,
as he anticipates starting great Aew-i ork daliy
q Ia Pulitzer. But when these htsheeSh dreams
call for solid barksheesh tO bring them 70 pass Mr.
Mclean and Senator Payne and Secretary whitney
will stand for loag with their hands In their
cots