The Washington critic., 1888-02-25
UNDER THE DOME
WITHIN ITS SHADOW.
Major Handy and President Cleveland
at the Glover club.

town to assume the chiefship of the New,
York World bureau here. The memories
OF his recent visit TO the Capital, when
tried to tell you what he looked like,
proved so pleasant that he determined TO
be influenced by the pressure brought to
bear at his home office and come for at
least brief soiourn at the Capital of the
Nation.
Nov that am here" he said to me
yesterday afternoon, as we sat putting
blue smoke in his cosy quarters, II am
very glad that decided as l did decide.
In the few days that have been here
have discovered that host of good
friends were glad to see me- / have been
asked to join the clubs, go to dinners
and have had lot of cordially pleasant
things said to me.
"Washington is no unread book to me,
however. / have been here at all the
main events of the past decade, but the
stay was necessarily very short. / have
always held that every managing editor
or editor-inc chief should come TO WASH
ington at least once winter, so that he
might breathe the atmosphere of this
great news-producing centre. IL makes
him en- rapport with his Washington men,
and no one can really properly edit who
has not personally experienced the condi-
tons and, surroundings in which his
| forces work"
| presidency of the Glover Club, now that
lie had left the city of Brotherly Love.
'The good boys thereof say that must
| not" he replied, "and, speaking of the
| Glover Club, reminds me that u friend
| asked me yesterday if the President
seemed displeased at anything done or
said at the dinner he attended in Septem-
Der last. Many of the stories printed
about Clover dinners in general, and of
that one in particular, give very errone-
| Gus impression. We are called q club OF
interrupters, and IL is asserted that we
ask men to dine that we may laugh them
| down. Nothing mole wrong or unkind
| could be said. No man has ever had any
thing to say, whether it was pleasant,
pungent or pathetic, that he did not say
| IL. IL is only the meaningless talker that
is Kissed, and he gets it with vengeance
| with reference to the occasion of the
| Presidents visit the facts are briefly these
Knowing that he was to be in Philadel-
phia at the time, we invited him, and
what was never before done in the history
of the club, changed the day of the din.
ner from Thursday to Friday, as a special
honor to him. When the club committe,
was sent to escort him from one of the re
ceptions he was holding that highland
hand-it was suggested that as he came
in we should sing For He's jolly
Good Fellow l said no, wait and Sc,
if he is or not. A few moments
4 later he entered and without any
preconcertion, the six score members
and their guests, including eight Stat,
Governors, a half-dozen Senators, ant
twenty notables of national fame, cam,
to their feet, singing Three Cheers for til,
Red, White and Blue The refrain wa
taken up by the vast crowd on the side
walks, and it disappeared in the wave o
applause that came from the throngs il
the surrounding streets. The picture II
the Clover dining hall that moment was
grand one. The beautiful clover-lea
table shone with its snow-white naper!
and sparkling crystal. Flowers and trail
ing plants adorned the columns, walls ant
candelabra, and the mellow light of fiv,
hundred candles gave poetic illumina
ton.
PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's FACE
flushed with pleasure as the chorus rum
out. He reached my right as it wa
coming to an end, and said: "Mr. Pres
ident, we only wish to show our respect
and If you prefer not to be called upoI
will not do SOL. He replied immedi
ately, but somewhat nervously. "Why
no. j am very much pleased with this
and I'll try to say something"
81 then called on Editor Mcclure of th
Philadelphia Times to introduce him
Everybody remembers Cleveland speech
II was one Of the brightest he has ever de
livered There were two Interruption
when he sand there were several reasons
why he was present, the first being that HI
wanted to come, somebody cried 'Neve
mind the Others The President laughe,
and at once lost all trace of nervousness
Toward the close he said that he wishe,
he could stay the GInner out rather thai
keep his other engagements. The phras'
Isn't he a dandy was then uttered by {
club guest and not by member. AS h
left the room Jolly Good Fellow wa
sung as ii had never been sung before, be
cause the Chief Executive had prove,
himself in the best sense a good fellow.
Later in the evening sent Mrs. Cleve
land the floral Liberty Bell under whicl
the President stood while he spoke, an,
the next day a message reached IN
from him to the effect that he would eve
remember in the pleasantest way the to-
brief minutes of the night before. II
also accepted the honorary membershi
of the club to which he had been elected
"Those who criticise u.s." conclude
Major Handy, ''are those who have neve
enjoyed the dinners of all dinners. A
who come once want to come again an
again, and the leading men of our owl
and other nations have often crooke
their knees meath our mahogany. In
word, the Glover Club is the exponent {
the Democracy of good-fellowship and th
catholicity of hospitality"
UNIQUE cHATELAINE.
Mrs. George S. Ladd. whose husband
identified with the telephone interests {
San Francisco, is well known to all VIII
have enjoyed the hospitality of the cit
Of the Golden Gate, as o very hant
some woman and delightful hostess
She was recently in Washington for
short visit, and assisted Mrs. Hearst /
receiving on her last Thursday. Ever
visitor that day noticed uniquely beat
tiful ornament worn by Mrs. Ladd.
was q chatelaine bag fashioned of gol
web, and held in place by belt {
golden buckles, the main clasp of whic
bore the coat-of.arms of the. Gar of q
the Russias. Its history was as interes
: ing as the bauble was valuable. 1t wa
made by Partisan jeweler to the orde
and from the personal design OF tn
Princess Dolgorouki, the morganatic viii
of his Czarship Alexander ii, Just befor
he was bombed out of existence. Th
Princess was no longer brilliantly popu
lar favorite at st. Petersburg, and sh
was forced to leave. Tiffany of New Yor
heard of the golden bag, and told h
Paris man to buy it from the jewele
who refused for three years to sell il, fea
ing the ire of the Princess, should 81
some day wish to pay for the bijou. NJ
Ladd strutted into Tifiany's last Chris
mas eve, and Mrs. Ladd had beautifr
present ON Christmas morning.