St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-12

Dana, Par1e Goodwin, Cyrus w Field, Judge
Barrett, Algernon s. Sullivan, DIR. William
| A. Hammond, Sherman s. Rogers, John
Foord, Hopkinson Smith, John B. Carson
James H. Rutter, Horace White, Victor New.
comb, F. B. THU Der, George Parsons Lathrol,
Noah Brooks, Edgar Fawcett, Theodore
Roosevelt, Prof Botta, Henry Cabot Lodge,
John Mccullough, N. P. Handy, Elihu Root,
Albert Bierstadt, William Winter, Rush G.
Hawkins. and dozens of others whose names
| escape my memory at this moment. The
principal speakers of the evening we've Mr..
Evarts, Mr.. Irving and Mr.. Winter Mr..
Chauncey NJ. Depew had been counted on for
one Of his
| LIVELY AND HUMOROUS ADDRESSES,
| but he was not able to come to the dinner.
Mr. Irving was at his best on this occasion
and the drift of his bright and earnest talk
was that he loved America with tender and
noble passion. 1t is a somewhat singular
fact that every actor who comes from Europe
and makes money here is speedily infected
with an intense love for the
country; but that is, perhaps,
weakness of human nature. Mr..
| William Winter, whose readable and thought
full little book on Mr.. Irving's acting was
published by Mr.. Coombes only few days
ago, made his speech chiefly in poem. Mr..
Winter NAV be described as the poet laureate
of famous actors. A banquet for the glory
of an actor without an affectionate and
graceful poem from Mr.. Winter would hardly
be complete meal. The accomplished dra-
matte critic of the Tribune has written
verses for Miss Cushman, Miss Nelson, Mr..
George Fawcett Rowe, Edwin Booth, Law
renee Barrett, John Mccullough and Henry
Irving.
SOME FACET1oUS JOURNALIST
has suggested that poor Gen. Grant was not
permitted to read the newspapers, because it
was feared he might endanger his feeble
health by scanning the verses written to mis-
great name. Many poems about "Grant
| Dying'' and ''Grant" and ''Shiloh'' have
certainly appeared during the last few days,
few of them by well-known authors.
Joaquin Miller contributes, for example,
three impetuous stanZas to the Illustrated
| Newspaper; sonnet by Edgar Fawcett
headed column in the Tribune yesterday;
Mr.. H. C. Bunner has a dirge in Puck in
very big type, and Charles DeKay was repre-
scented in the Times last week. Mr.. DeKay's
poem seems to be the best of the four, and
it has ringing refrain in the single word,
Grant. Mr.. Fawcett's sonnet closes with
these picturesque lines:
1.-The great spirit of Lincoln looks for thee
Where flies of shadowy soldiery are drawn,
Waiting their mighty captains last review
Walt Whitman, am told, has prepared a
dozen verses on Grant which will be made
public somewhere next week.
%x%
was in the studio of Felix Moscheles
for half hour the other day. Mr..
MOscheles, as a prominent English portrait
painter, has all the work that he can do in
this country, though much of his work is
done out of pure devotion to art. A great
deal has been said in the newspapers about
his portrait of Mr.. Cleveland, and it has been
| intimated that this has been paid for out OF
government appropriations. As matter of
fact it has not been paid for, and it belongs
! to Mr. Moschees himself, and not to Mr.
Cleveland. 1t is simply sketch-an ex-
| cellent sketch-and the artist will take it
with him to England on the Umbria. When
Mr. Moscheles was in Washington recently
the president said to him cheerfully: Il can
hardly tell you why I am president. For
while was the mayor Of Buffalo, and then
AN UNEXPECTED OPPORTUNITY
sent me as governor to Albany. 1 was not
anxious to be governor and not ambitious to
be president. When my term is ended, !
think, on the whole, that l should like to be
the mayor of Buffalo again. Mr.. Moscheles
declares that Mr.. Cleveland is in no sense an
ambitious man. ''His chief aspiration, the
artist said to me with a smile, sis to attend
to his business" Nevertheless, the presi
dent has decided appreciation of his own dig
nifty He remarked -humoredly to Mr..
Moscheles: "These people will discover by
and by that Pm not to be set up as kind
Of tobacco shop sign"
! THERE WAS REVIVAL OF SOCIAL GAYETT
as early as Easter Monday. The childreu's
carnival was given Monday evening, al
though the carnival, in spite of its popularity
and respectable purpose, is by no means
what is called a''fashionable'' entertainment
! 1t is controlled and directed by persons who,
| in spite of their work, are never spoken of as
| persons of fashion. The fact is not dis
creditable; it is simply fact which illus
trates society in New York. The Kirmess
will bring out all the brilliant sets next week,
and many of our loveliest women will appear
there in costume; in the French booth
clever man about town will act the part Of a
| cook. We are to have dozen amateur per-
formances in aid of charity during the COM
! ing month-two of them at Daly's theater,
and three of them at the University Club
| theater. The wonder is how some of the
men and women-like Mr. Coward and Mrs.
James Brown Potter, for instance-fnd time
| for their work on the amateur stage. Their
services are demanded constantly. Lord
! Garmovle, to whom the late Earl Cairns al
lowed 800 a week, has just returned to
England. 1t is quite likely that We shall have
bachelors ball shortly, at the Hotel Bruins
wick. Many prominent New Workers will
spend the summer in London after all. Mr..
W w. Aston, who is done with his Italian
mission, is going to Newport
G.. L. MONTGOMERY.