Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-01

spondent fair play would fequIre me to sec
them all If correspondent has some mat
ter of regular interest to his locality to make
inquiry about, and will indicate to me on his
card what the matter is, / will see him II
there is anything to be said concerning it."
So the correspondents turn their attention
to Assistant Secretaries Wharton and Adee
and to Mr.. Walker Blaine. Not a week passes
in which these gentlemen are able to escape
the annoyance of being called out of bed to
deny some foolish rumor that has somehow
nobody knows how-been put in circulation.
Yet Adee and Blaine do not mind it. The
former has been at the work a good many
years, and has great natural aptitude for it.
Mr. Adee was born deaf and dumb, and if
there is any profession for which deaf and
dumb man has peculiar qualifications it is the
sort Of diplomacy which fourishes in our
state department. Adee has learned to talk
little, and his hearing has developed till he
can carry on a conversation when he wants
to- But he is not a pleasant man to inter-
view. He has provoking habit of failing to
hear your most pertinent inquiries, and of
giving the most irrelevant and undesirable
replies. 1OuuS Dldluc, wv, 40 ouCu tu lHtct-
crate and gluttonous oyster eater that he ap-
pears at last to have absorbed some Of the
qualities of the bivalve. When approached
by the interviewer he has shell of absolute
and impenetrable ignorance into which he
retires, and no sort of probing can scare him
out.
Secretary Blaine made very interesting
picture one day last week as he stood in front
of the Hotel Normandie, at which he has
been living for some six months, watching
about two dozen children Chamber into the
hotel wagon. There was lot of screaming
and a chorus of infantile shouts and laughter,
all of which appeared to please Mr.. Blaine
very much. A few minutes later the wagon
was bowling along Pennsylvania avenue, by
the treasury department, and thence the
driver directed it to the port cochere Of the
White House. These hotel wagons, by the
way, are one of the novelties of Washington
life, and a very pleasing novelty at that.
The oldfashioned rumbling omnibus has here
been pretty generally discarded, and in its
place appears the light and graceful wagon
or carryall. A very pretty custom the hotels
have is to take out in the carryall every fine
afternoon the children OF the guests of the
house
One of the favorite rides about Washing
ton is by electric railway TO the new Catho
lie university, about three miles north of the
Capitol. This university will in ten years, if
the plans Of its projectors are carried out,
become the greatest institution of learning
in the world, or at least on this continent.
One great building, as large as an ordinary
state capitol, has been completed, and the
plans call for the erection of eight or nine
more buildings of similar size. In addition
TO these. there will be many smaller build
ings, as a number Of societies and orders are
preparing to build homes, schools and retreats
within the shadow of this great university.
The electric railroad to the university runs
through the farm owned by Mrs Kate Chase,
which was purchased by her father, Salmon
P. Chase, in 1860 or thereabout, for 5000 or
$4,000. The farm consists Of sixty acres of
beautiful land, lying between the university
and the city OF course, it is now a very
valuable farm. 1t is expected that the uni
versity will attract large numbers of rich
Catholic families to the vicinity, and land
adjoining Mrs. Chases is already held by its
owner at the snug figure of dollar a square
foot, or nearly 49, 900 an acre. At that rate
Mrs. Chases farm is worth great fortune
vi COURSE, she uoeo not expect 10 sell IL out
for figure as large as that. but she does
hope to hold it till it has made her children
independently rich. The chances are that
she will not have to hold it long. Every fine
day crowds of people ride out on this electric
railway to see the new university, and nearly
all of them stop to see the famous house in
which Chief Justice Chase lived and died
One of Mrs. Chase's theories is that she has
been forgotten by the modern world, but if
she could hear the comments of the strangers
who stroll about Edgewood she would real
ize that the fame Of the great characters of
the war era, both military and civil, is indy
ing. Chief Justice Chase and his brilliant
daughter appear TO be as well known to the
young people of the day as any statesman
and society belle Of the present
ROBERT GRAVES