New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-13
GOSSIP OF THE CAPITAL.
THE HUMOROUS SIDE OF WASHINGTON LIFE

REFORM AND THE PREsIDENT-HE WRITES TO
LITTLE GIKL-oRIGIN or THE DYNAMITE Gun.
Washington, May 12.-Although Tho New York
Tines and other sinful Mugwumpian newsp papers
may adopt apologize tone relative to President
Clcveland's devotion to Reform, all Wash!ngtonians
know that no loves It than life ITSELF and II one
seeks for proofs OF such devotion here why-in she
language OF tho boulsvGrds-" the woods ia full Of
EN- To cite a typical case heard the other day
@. an CT Union soldier who came hero from the Pa
clhc slope, urcd by the tho Presidents earnest pro-
tessions to sock elorkship through the legitimate
shsnnels Of competitive examination. The sub
s,itute whom our soldier-loving Executive sent to
the had then written from the soldiers Home
At Bath, he did lsst summer, such d!scouragins
details Of his grea; principals conduct toward him !;
and the sojourner from the far Pacific recalled with
pndo how Grover Cleveland had shahcn hands with
him long ago In paternaI manner as he laJ In
NewYOTk pital slowly recovering from his terrible
wound. Trusting, therefore, In a splendid war and
social record. In a magnificent education which he
had improved by graduating from heidelberg, this
MANNED soldier obtained designation from tho Civil
Service Commission, and entered mpetitive eXami-
nation. Tie made, learn, the unprecedented mark
ing OF o. points out Of possible 100 and upon IN
quiry aimed that he stOod highest Of all his com
petltors, and AdIutant General Drum, foremost
In all good worR-such, for example, a. the return
Of the Rebel nagspsOmsod MS kind offices TO secure
him appointment After repeated trials how
ever the place he s certainly ontod to- this
gallant soldier having suffered for nearly three years
that hore deferred which maheth the heart Sick" has
abandoned the effort in despair. cite this a. a
modern instance OF the love which Nr Cleveland
bears 20 ro,OrnI,' only ia the abstract but also
in the concrete; love which, Ike Dsyld's love for
JOnathanss Bishop oberly might put - passoth
the love Of woman.
That story about the bread tray, published IN Tho
Tribune OF last SuRdsys recalls another Georgia In
edcnt which proved somewhat embarrassing to the
President judge Crisp, OF Americus Georgia. chair
man of tbs House Committee Elections, Is
friendly terms with Dir. Cleveland He Is an ardOn:
adnrcr Of Mrs. Cleveland, and IL Is said that the
Judges esteem for the President and Mrs Cleveland
Is reciprocGed by tbom both
About yoar ago Judge Crisp was attending con-
ventlon In Columbua, Georgia While the convention
was sitting, from some unsccountabe and never eX-
planned cause, tho became general that there
was an heir ~ the White House Judge Crisp Is too
keenly alive to the amenities OF social vol a.
official life not TO have al telsgraphed bis con
calculations 10 tho father aud mother When the
Judge learned the next day that tho rumor lacked
foundation his chSgrfn knew bounds. Later, when
he returned 70 Washington Il was some time before
he could make up his mind TO face" the President.
The Judges explanation was Of course, accepted.
One who saw him greet Mrs. Cleveland few weeks
sfterwsd says that although the Judge made not the
slightest ntmation 10 her OF his blunder he b!ushed
to where tho OF his hair used to bO and after
the fewcst words possible under the crcumst ances
beat q hasty retreat. He was with the delegation
that solicited the appointment OF Colonel Lamar when
the President showed his Indignation about tbs bread
tray Doubtless, then, the Judges congratulstOry
telegram looked like tho writing that Hs,hszzar saw
The autograph collector and the rolie hunter disturb
much Of tie peace and quiet OF Senators Repre-
sentssives Congressman Tim" Tarsney, however,
Is credited with inventing clever means of answering
the demands of this gentry. He has recently boon
bsciged with requests from his constituents to
the pen with which the late Chief Justice signed the
great telephone decision II was impossible TO gee the
pen, and, even n IL possible the pom coal,l not
pe passed around 20 all who DESTROYS OF obtaining
IL Iarsney finally hit on plan. He purchased q
loo iot OF ancicntoons quils and soaked the points
IN INK One Of these be labeled
with this quill the late Chief Justice penned the
great Anarchist deeisions
'oener bore card on which was wrtttens