St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-01
Washington Letter.

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lean tourists go to
Europe every year. Of these at least
$4,000 bring back suits of new clothing.
Of the $4,000 fully 10000 have their suits
remade by American tailOrs. They buy
them in London, and, surrounded by a
nation of addressed men, they do not
realize that their suits lack style. 1t is
the same with suits bought in Paris,
Antwerp and Berlin. The foreign tailor
can give good fit, but he does not pro-
duce the stylish appearance of the
American cutter. A number of the
congressman who went abroad last year
had this experience, and the only one
of them that | know who is able to wear
his clothes of foreign make is John j.
ONeill, of st. Louis, who has a suit OF
Barney tweed. He bought it i'll old
Ireland, and he says he would wear it
for the sake of the ''auld country" If it
fitted no better than bag.
President Cleveland has New York
tailor come to Washington to measure
him, and he gave him an order for seven
new suits of different styles a few
weeks ago. This tailOr'S name is Brown,
and, according to his measurement,
President Cleveland has waist meas
ure of fifty-six inches and chest meas
ure of fOrty-seven inches. President
Cleveland wears better clothes now
than he did before his marriage, and he
is a fner-looking man than when he
entered the presidency. He never APP
pears in slouchy or dingy clothing, and
he is as well dressed, in quiet way,
as any man in Washington. His regu-
latiOn suit is of the statesman's black,
and it consists of a dOuble-breasted
frock coat, with vest and trousers to
match. He wears boots and keeps them
we'll BACKED, and his necktie is usually
a dark one. He generally wears a turn
over collar and puts a new one on every
day. Col. Daniel Lamont wears bust
ness coat while in his office, and this is
often sack. LamOnt's clothes are
elbows or shiny at the seams. His boots
are well BACKED, his necktleS are varie
gated in hue and his collar is white
turnover.
Attorney General Garland wore dur
ing the late cold weather dark-brOwn
overcoat which touched his heels as he
walked. A SLOUGH hat covered his
round head, and the rim of this was
damned down over his little dark eyes.
Garland is noted as the knight of the
double-breasted frock. He will not
wear dress suit, and he has not had
one on since his wife's death. 1t is on
her account, understand, that he has
not gone into society, for, socially, he
has good traits, and he is as pleasant
story-teller as you will find in Washing
ton.
Justice Lamar is not particular as to
his clothes. He usually wears the con-
ventional statesman'S black coat and
vest, but he is fond of light pantalOOns,
and he is as fastidious about the hang
of his gown on the supreme bench as is
a belle getting ready for her first ball.
Lamar wears at home long Oriental
dressing-gown, which he faStens behind
him with string and the tails of which
almost kiss his slippered feet as he
moves about his library. Postmaster
General Dickinson dresses in black di-
agOnal, and his whiSkers, of tan-bark
color, are cOmbed out from his thin,
classic face. He is not so stiff in his
and he is as active as a cat in his mo-
tons.
Secretary Endicott has fondness for
yellow gloves, and noted that he had
pair of these on his hands when he at
tended Gen. LOgan'S funeral. He had
evidently hurried to the senate from the
department and had not thought to
change. When he saw the black UNI
dressed kids of Secretary Whitney and
the black hands of Secretary Bayard,
the improperly of his costume dawned
upon him, and he took off one glove and
put the other hand under his leg while
the funeral Grafton was being pro-
nOunced. AS a rule, however, Secretary
Endicott dresses in the best of taste,
and President Cleveland and his cabi.
net are, as a rule, good dreSSerS. OF
them all, venture to say, Secretary
Whitney has the best wardrobe, and his
pantaloons usually show the crease run
ming down the front of the leg from
waist to instep, which is so popular
among the fashionable young men of
New York.
The favorite dress of the United
States senator is a black brOadcloth
dOuble-breaSted frOck coat, high stand
ing collar, open at the neck, and boots.
Business suits are, however creeping
in, and now about 0ne-third of the SEN
atOrS wear cutaway coats. Don Cam
erOn frequently appears in this style,
and his pantaloOnS are usually OF light
color and fresh. Frank Hiscock has
penchant for polka-dOt neckties, and
John J. ingalls, is never happy unless
there is little handkerchief sticking
out of his side coat pocket. This hand
kerchief is of the color of blood, and
this is Ingalls, favorite color. He wears
a closely buttoned diagonal coat, col
lar of the latest style, and he clothes
his naked eyes in two pairs of gold
glasses. Don Cameron, by the way,
wears spectacles of blue steel. Joe
Browns spectacles are irOn-rimmed,
and the glasses which hide Senator
Call's eyes from the public are clothed
in black rubber.
Senator Stewart. of Nevada, wears
long frock coat, which is always unbut-
toned and which is not always well
brushed. Allison's coat is black dag
onal with a silk face. His white collar
is as big as that of Henry Clay, and it
seems to hug Allison's face as though it
feared its owner might say something
which might injure his chances for the
presidency. Senator Beck is a Scotch
man. and he always wears Scotch tweed.
He also likes Scotch whisky, thinks the
'9Lady of the Lake. is the finest poem
in the English language, and would
like to have Scotch free trade brought
to America.
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Joe Brown is clerical both in looks
and actions. His clothes are made of
the heaviest beaver, and when he first
came to Washington he was Mortified at
the thought of barring his chest in the V
of swaliow-tail coat. He had regard
for conventionality, and he wanted to
attend certain receptions. So he went
to tailor and had coat made with
claw-hammer tails of cloth fully quar-
ter of an inch thick. He wears thick