St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-30
MRS. CLEVELAND SICK.
Secret of the Presidents Departure from
Westinghouse Swelling at
the Seashore.
Secretary Lamars Weakness for Prett,
Girls--How They Platter Gullible
Old Men.
Ladies Helping Robert E. Lees Son
Into Congress- -DougIas' Capac-
ity for Cock tails.
Lieutenant Powell Aided by Well
SEARCHED Petticoats and Female
Eioquence.
Capital sssassiety.n

SPCSioi W buC OiODc
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-It is said that
! the president fastened his departure from
the city on account of the health of Mrs.
Cleveland. One of her lady friends says:
Mrs. Cleveland was suffering from mala-
ria. She complained of nausea every
morning, and was unable to eat anything
but the lightest OF food. Part of the time
she was unable to retain and digest any
but the smallest quantities of FOOD
Referring to the presidents large catch
Of fish, the Critic, of this city says:
! Nothing short OF denomination and
twins in the White house could have made
him appear in 4 better humor.'
A number of our society IeatIer, are still
at summer resorts. At Saratoga are JUS
tice and Mrs. Blatchford Mrs Commodore
Harmony, Mrs. Wash Mclean Mrs. Gen.
HaZea, Mrs. Col Winthrop. Mrs Cole and
her daughter, Miss Lawtou, ex-senator
Hill, Senator German. Col. Berrett and
Mrs. Gen. Beale. Mr.. Henry Wise Gar
nett, son of Dr.. Garnett. the physician to
ex-President Jefferson Davis (when lie was
an alleged preSldent), went to Saratoga to
attend the meeting OF the American Ear
association, and is still there. Mrs and
Miss Malone the wife and daughter of the
Virginia senator, are part of Washington
society, and they have recently gone to the
Fort William Henry hotel at Lake George
So you will see that our
BON TON SMELLS
are swelling their time away, away from
Washington. Not an inconsiderable amount
of flirting is done at 1.-The musicn evelv
Saturday evening. You know the Marine
band plays on the lawn south of the White
| house every Saturday afternoon from
| to Z O'Clock. The grounds are thrown
open to the public and the young people ap-
pear in force, They take possession of
every available inch OF ground. Madens
fair and youths gallant promenade and
make eyes at each other and go through
all the forms of flirting. until they ret ac-
quainted. Then they go and paralyze the
ice cream saloons and the walters there n.
Also, the young men parayze the pockets
and the dollars of their daddies. One third
of the employees of the treasury department
are away from the city. on their annual
leaves OF absence. The department looks
deserted; but there are great
| ~ MANY PRETTY GIRLS
left for the visitors to look at. These hand
some women, some of them with iron-grey
hair were put into the department by Gen.
| Spinner in the sixties when he was treas
urer. They were pretty Young girls then.
! Now they earn their living by their LABOR,
instead OF by being beautiful to look upon
and ready to 1atter a gullibie old man.
They do say that Secretary Lamar has sue
ceeded in getting more pretty girls ap-
| pointed in his department than any man
has done since the days of Gen. Spinner.
Frank Hatton managed to get the pretty
girls into office, and so did John Sherman;
but they do say that Mr.. Lamar takes the
| entire bakery. And that the sweetmeats
like to be taken. too. A number of our
ladies have been taking an active interest
in Virginia politics lately. They have been
trying to influence the Democratic conven-
ton at Alexandria. You see, ''Runy'' Lee,
the son of Gen. Robert E. Lee, is candi-
date for the congressional nomination. He
is good country farmer and gentleman
But he has no especial claim upon his
party. other than that he is son of Robert
E. Lee. Being so sired he is of high stand
ing i'll society. His distinguished father
was
A SOCIAL LION
in Washington. and all of the s'old fami-
lies" still swear by him, and by his son.
Hence seeing that Mr.. Lee is in sore polit-
zeal distress, some of his lady friends have
gone over there to assist him in his cam
paign. They have been daily attendants
upon the convention. and have been button
boiling delegates with the effective persist
ency of veteran lobbyists, trained at the
capital of their country. 1t is undeniable
that they have done Lee a great deal of
good ana his opponents a great deal of
harm. There is wonderful potency in
the influence OF society hereaways. They
who are ignorant of the fact can never come
here and be Statesmen" John Hancock
was a famous man here in his day. Of
course reference is not made to the bold,
big signer of the declaration of what-you-
may-call-it. But the John Hancock who
was celebrated and whose name is yet of
perennial VERDURE
kept little curiosity shop on Pennsylvania
avenue. 1t was near Thirteenth street, and
the shop is still there with the historic
name painted above the low and mysterious
door. There Daniel Webster, Henry CLAW.
Winfield Scott, Stephen A. Douglas and
other celebrities away back in Andrew
Jackson's time. used to go to get the best
juleps and cocktails to be found in Wash
ington. 1t is brought to mind, refresh
ingly. by friend from South Carolina who
just stepped off train. and said, LET us
go to Hancock's. l haven't been in Wash
ington since 80, the year before the war:
but l must go to Hancock's first" We
went. and your correspondent stood like a
veteran Prohibitionist and watched his
! friend quaff what seemed to be a delicious
julep. But your correspondent forebore
lie did not encourage the vile practice
even in Hancock'S-until his was prepared.
he really, truly, only first-class genteel
place left in Washington, for a stand-up
bar-room, is the old original Hancock's.
There the gentlemen still go. There are a
few good, ChristianiZed imbibing places
where gentlemen may GO and sit about
tables until they fall under them; but for a
regular old-time. honest-liquor. stand-up
place, Hancock's is still the reliable
Beverly Tucker of Virginia drives up there,
as he has done for forty years, nearly every
day. He tells some royal old stories about
the
IMMENSE BIBULOSITY
of his friends Scott and Douglas. He saws
| that Winfield Scott, or Stephen A. Doug
las could drink ten good juleps or cock
tails inside OF all hour, and still feel a tri-
fie thirsty. They used to meet there at sun
up, ON the way to market; and again at
shutdown, on the way home. 1t was a
daily duty. Lieut.. Powell, of the sig
nal corps, is about to become an tissue I"
You see. he is the ranking officer of that
corps, ueAG ~ Gell. daZ6n the weather
crank, who is always fighting some one
when he is here. WE'LL Gen. Hazen is
away, bless the Lord, and the corpse is
commanded, not by Lieut. Powell,
but by Capt. Jones, of the quartermas-
ter's department. Now that, you know.
is a rank insult to Lieut.. Jones, who
is Hazen's next in rank, in his own corps.
Here comes in society, and says, Its
wrong to treat Powell that way. Besides
Lieut.. Powell is popular in society
and Jones is not; and it is an effort to de-
grade Lieut.. Powell. Then there comes
a rustic of
WELL-STARCHED PErTICoATS
and the air is full of feminine eIoquence.
Gen. Sheridan, Gen. Drum and the secre.
tary of war are towards when it comes to
battle Of that kind. The petticoats and