Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH,

fSFECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.i
WASHINGTON, April 13.-The President
had fully intended to slip out of the
clutches of Office seekers and take a run
down the river to-day on the trim little
steam yacht Holly, used as Government
Lighthouse tender, but the second mild edi-
tion of the blizzard of week ago prevented,
and the trip is postponed until fair weather,
when Mr.. Harrison and two or three men,
bers of his Cabinet will run so or go miles
down the Potomac and back again, just
for breath of river air.
The Office seekers evidently surmised that
the weather would keep the President in
doors, and they were therefore on hand as
usual, but only few of them gained an au-
dience. Soon after they began filing in
Secretary Window came and consumed an
entire hour of the time sacred to the office
seeker, and when that time ended the doors
were closed, and soon after the public re-
ception came on, at which about 300 persons,
many of them giggling, gum-chewing Sun
day school girls from Baltimore, shook
hands with the President.
WHAT PALMER WILL DO.
Ex-senator Palmer, one of the callers to-
day, has just returned from visit to his
log cabin home, where he took last look
at his fine stock, previous to sailing for
Madrid. In answer to inquiries about his
movements, the genial Spanish Minister
said: 'I shall remain here for about week,
and then am going back to Michigan. The
good people of Detroit have arranged to
give me farewell banquet on the 25th, and
1 have been led to understand that my pres
ence is necessary to make the thing a sue
cess. My present intention is to sail on the
9Th of May. Mrs. Palmer may accompany
me, and SO may my niece, Mrs. Hamilton;
they have not definitely decided to do so.
Mr.. Grifiths, my private secretary, will be
along. He is a valuable mana good lin
gust, and ready-lnade diplomat"
In response to question as to the nature
of his errand to the White House to-day,
Sunset Cox said: 81 simply said sgood-by'
to my old friend, Benjamin Harrison. I
feel well; very much better than a little
while ago. I have been through the valley
of
THE SHADOW OF POLITICAL DEATH
with the rest of the Democrats, and now I
am off on lecturing tour through Indiana,
OulO, dlSSOuEl anu hdQSdS. N eW
lectures? No, just a few old ones. Some
thing to make the folks smile while gather
in a little money. trust 1 shall have no
more eggs than 1 pay for.''
Colonel Fred Grant merely came to have
little chat with the President previous to
his departure for the magnificent city of
Vienna. Coming out of the library he was
surrounded by many old acquaintances and
held quite complimentary little reception
for 20 minutes or so.
The ladies Of the White House are all
together again, and in good health. Mrs.
Harrison seems to have entirely recovered
from her late illness, and endured the re-
ception of the afternoon with very little ia
tigue. Mrs. Mckee is feeling much bene-
fited by her Southern trip, and went with
Mrs. Russell Harrison to Mrs.
Charles NordhofPs tea, where Mrs.
Francis Hodgson Burnett read extracts
from an unpublished story. Mrs. Har-
rison wishes to give as much as possible of
her personal supervision to the spring clean
ing at the White House, which Colonel
John M. Wilson will have in charge, and,
therefore, the Presidents family will not go
to Deer Park, Nd, until the summer is
well advanced.
WHERE THEY WILL SUMMER.
family that they will take possession of the
for May, and probably for June as well.
Lieutenant Parker, of the navy, who has
been appointed Secretary to the American
Commissioners at Berlin. and sailed
to-day, is a nephew Of the Presi-
dent by marriage. Lieutenant Park
er returned this spring from
three years cruise, much OF which time was
spent among the Samoan Islands. Last
week he went with Mrs. Parker, who is the
drughter of Mrs Scott-Lord and the niece
of Mrs. Harrison, to visit his parents in
Piqua, o: They were suddenly recalled, as
the Lieutenant's appointment was in re-
sponse to a need for well-equipped secre-
tary, such as Lieutenant Parker's knowledge
of Samoan affairs peculiarly fits him to
be. Lieutenant and Mrs. Parker returned
arations, and left for New York last even
ing. Mrs. Parker is the author of a clever
and interesting article, "Samoa and Its
People" which appeared in the CosmopoI-
itan Magazine in November, last year.
Mrs. Dimmick. who is the widowed daugh-
ter of Mrs. Scott-Lord, is in Dresden with
some young relatives of her late husband,
who are studying music, and will welcome
her sister on her arrival in a strange coun-
try.
A PLEASANT ANNIVERSARY.
A company of the friends of Senator Nor
rill, of Vermont, among whom were Presi-
dent and Mrs. Harrison, this evening cele-
brated the seventy-ninth anniversary of the
birth of the Senator at his home on Thomas
Circle. The venerable Robert C. Winthrop,
lifelong friend of the Senator, also made
one of the company. The Senator was
warmly congratulated for his vigorous old
age and for the health which has almost
continuously attended his IL years of SER
vice in the House of Representatives and
his subsequent % years in the Senate.
AN ELEPHANT ON ITS HANDS.