Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-12-22

WHAT WAS THE IMMEDIATE CAUSE OF GOV PoR-
IkRs kEsrsNrSo FROM THE STATE DEPART
AST-A MILD SENSATION IN A HoRsE-cAR-rHE
socIAL SWIM AND IFS FASCINATION FOR WOMEN.
II think" said well-known correspondent
70 . STAR man the other DAY that was the
orect cause Of Gov. Porter leaving the State
department"
How was that?' asked The STAR man.
well, IL you remember there had been no
great amount Of intimacy between Gov. Por-
TOR and Secretary Bayard for some time. It
had been rumored that Porter was tired Of re-
naming in the department and was liable to
resign at any time. Still think he would not
nave left just when be did if il had not been
Tor an interview with him which l printed /
was then doing the work for a New York paper
while its regular correspondent was off on
vacation, and one night received a telegram
Stating that the paper was in receipt of a pri-
vate cable dispatch that Mr.. Joseph Chamber
lam had been appointed chief of fisheries
commission on the part Of England and
that it was understood the government
OF the United States would appoint
similar commission to settle all the fisheries
oimculties between the two countries. / i'm
mediately went up to Secretary Bayard's house.
formed me. then saw Assistant Secretary of
State Porter at the Riggs house and showed
b i'm my telegram. He was very much sur
prised and said that the rumor could hardly be
true. as II was unlikely our government would
appoint any commission. because. although the
Secretary Of State and the President had ur-
gently recommended such a course in cOmpli-
ance with the promise made to Lord Sackville.
Congress had absolutely refused to make any
provision for such commission. Under these
circumstances Mr. Porter did not think it
probable that the President would appoint any
commissioners, and he added that if Mr.. Cham
berlaln had been appointed under the impress
sion that we would appoint fisheries commits
sion II was under q Misrepresentation. He was
inclined however. TO think that the dispatch
was erroneous. OF course / printed Mr.. Por-
ter's opinion in the shape of an in
terview. and / learned afterward that
Secretary Bayard was much displeased.
1t Is now history that the whole scheme of the
fisheries commission was thoroughly under
stood in England when Mr.. Chamberlain was
appointed. II is believed however. that the
Secr0ry of State kept the knowledge of the
INTENDED commission entirely to himself and
did not confide il TO his first assistant. The in
terview OF Dir. Porter, expressing an opinion
that the governme 1T could not and would not
do exactly what it had determined 10 do and
did do. made II rather embarrassing to Mr..
Bavard. and nm satisfied was the last straw
that snapped tie strained relations between
himself and Mr.. Porter. The latter. if YOU re-
member, sent IN his resignation the following
week.
There was a sensation of a mild sort in
14th-street car the other afternoon. The car
was crowded. Men were standing on the front
platform and the driver had hardly room to
work the brake. The seats in the car were all
filed. mostly with ladies. and every woman
had one or more bundles with her. Men were
r-1f,rr n. aer o~,1
flowed upon the back platform. where the con-
ductor was vedysd in between a 2CO-pound
Treasury clerk and fatscoiored woman with
big bundle of clothes, which evidently
some family's weekly wash. Ali at once a
shril and piercing whistle came from the in
terror of the car. 1t was a musical whistle.
too. and II rang out clear and strong a pot
pourri from 'Troyators." II BIlen. Di Quella-
pira. the AisereTe. AMI other well-known airs
from Verdis opera followed each other in rapid
succession.
Every one looked TO see who was making
such an innovation upon the ordinary silence |
of horse-car. IL was youth Of about twenty
years who stood " tin his back to the forward
door. and who whistled away a. though he ,
was the only occupant of the car One old
woman turned TO her next neighbor and NUT
tered something about -'awfully bad manners" /
A little weazened-faced man. who looked as if .
he hadn't drop of blood in his body. coughed. |
and said the young man was id impudent. 1
A bluff. but good-natured fellow holding on ,
TO strap. called out to the musician and asked |
him what he'd take for his whistle. Two girls |
who were exchanging condolences about their !
beaux. looked annoyed. and one of them said !
she couldn't hear herself talk. but the whistle
kept on, until from being surprised the pas
sengers. or many OF them. got angry. and some
Of them told the youth TO stop. He paid no
attention, but whistied right on.
Say. conductor" said the weazeled-faced
man. make that fellow stop his noise
"An right. replied the man with the bell
st n - al L IL
Just then Rhode Island avenue was reached.
and the Young man opened the forward door
and jumped off, carrying his whistle with him.
Didn't do any good to talk to him. said the
postulate for having permitted the whistling,
hes as deaf as post: but he can whistle"
e.
When a woman once gets a taste Of WASH
inston society it's hard to get her away from
this city" said a well-known society woman
recently "Iousee she continued. IA woman
has broader field hers than anywhere else.
In other cities she moves in her own particular
circle and rarely gets out of it, I mean the
woman whose husband is in moderate circum-
stances There are no su b things as official
receptions which every one can attend Here
a woman whose husband holds any sort of a
government position can keep in the swim all
the time. She can call upon the families of
the justices Of the Supreme Court, of the cabi-
net, Of Senators and Representatives and keep
going from the beginning to the end of the
week woman likes that sort of thing il she il
not tied to the house BIZ children. and when she
goes back 10 her home she tells her friends of
her visits TO Mrs. Justice This. Mrs Secretary
That. Mrs General, Senator. Representative,
and so on giving the impression that she was
upon terms OF intimacy with these ladies WHILE
IN all probability. she never called upon them
save upon their regular reception DAYS. It's
going to be vry hard upon these women when
their husbands have to retire from governments
life next March"
1t viii be harder on their husbands inter-
jected the STAR man.
Il don't know but it will. said the lady, but
IN most cases a man when he loses his govern
nent Office will go back to his former home and
resume his former occupation. Where a man
has wife. hike the one have described she
will try and keep him here in Washington II
he's got little money she will want him TO
10 into the real estate business Just so she can
remain in the social swim of Washington
e.
''Yes," said the ladys husband. who had been
listening to his wife's remarks, land if ne does
go into the real estate business he will hnger
along for a while. and in the end have to go
back 10 his old home. I'll tell you, sir" he
added warming nm ..no man who has avar had