The Washington critic., 1889-05-17
THE TOWNS PHOTOGRAPH.

THE TOWNS PHOTOGRAPH.
Mr. Maxwell, the gentleman whose
name appears so conspicuously In asso-
citation with n smoking tobacco firm, is
a handsome man and said to bear
striking resemblance to Mr.. Beck, the
Senator from Kentucky. In illustra-
ton of the fact Colonel r. G.. Winter
smith, who is hail fellow well met
with everybody, and especially with
Kentucliians, accidentally ran against
Mr.. Maxwell at the door of the Ebbitt
House few days ago and mistook him
at once for the Senator.
Excuse me, Senator" he said, as he
recovered from the contact.
Mr.. Maxwell smiled and replied;
"All right, sir, no harm done; but am
not n Senator. You evidently take me
for Mr.. Beck Many others have made
the same mistake. should like much
TO see the distinguished Kentuckian, but
have never had that honor"
We'll" said the Colonel, you are
enough alike to be twins; anybody
would mistake Mr. Beck for you or
YOU for Mr.. Beck You should meet
him by all means, and il you will drop
in here about ~ o'clock tomorrow /
will take great pleasure in bringing you
togher."
Mr. Maxwell said he would be happy
TO do so.
AT the lunch hour next day the
Colonel was occupying an casy-chair in
the reading-room at the Ebbitt when
Mr. Maxwell made his appearance.
Mr. Beck was not on hand, but the
Colonel was equal to the occasion, and
pointing TO an uncommonly ugly, stoop-
shouldercd, scrawny, and altogether
disagreeable looking person, he said;
There goes Mr.. Beck. Shall | call
him backY' and he arose from his
chair with some difficulty for the evi-
dent purpose of doing so.
mo, no, :" said Mr.. Maxwell, hastily,
and with an expression of supreme dis.
gust upon his face. IL have an engage
ment, and you will please excuse me.
Saying which he left the room rapidly,
ordered his baggage sent to the depot,
and shook the city on the next train,
Next day the Colonel told the cir
cumstance to Mr.. Beck, and a gentle.
man who happened to be present says
the Senator started toward him with his
cane, and the gallant Colonel departed
from the hotel with something like the
celcrity of the good-looking tobacco
dealer,
Miss Tillie Frelinghuysen, eldest
daughter of the late Secretary of State
Frelinghuysen, was married yesterday
afternoon at the Frelinghuysen man
sion, in Newark, TO II. Winthrop Grey,
formerly of Boston, but later of New
York. The wedding was strictly pri-
vate, owing to the recent death of Mrs.
Frelinghuysen. The ceremony was
performed by Professor Hart of Rutgers
College. Mr.. Grey was an old suitor of
Miss Frelinghuysen, but the match was
forbidden, it is understood, by the Secre-
tary of State while he was alive. A
few years ago Mr.. Grey married Miss
Susan Travers, daughter of VIM. r..
Travcrs of New York, but they were
recently divorced.
Say, Parke,' said a journalist to
Colonel Parke the Charming and ac-
complished' Pennsylvania passenger
agent in charge of the Washington con.
tingcnt returning from the Agnus din.
ner, near Baltimore, on "Wednesday,
"how do you and Boyd and Postlewate
keep from becoming total wrecks in
this business Of being polite to the
numerous parties you carry over your
road? To my certain knowledge you
run one or two every week, trimmed
with cigars and champagne, and don't
see how you stand It,"
Easy enough" was the reply of the
handsome gentleman, with the tender
brown eyes and the large and elegant
| side-whiskers; "easy enough. When
we 90 out with combination of states
men and journalists like this the pres
sure is pretty strong, and 'drunkard' 8
! grave stands yawning at our feet for rs
much as twenty-four hours at a stretch,
but before we tumble in, Y. Nj. G. A..
| delegation or Cold Water Association,
or Missionary Picnic or n Female
Suffrage Outing comes along, and, in
our capacity as official accompanyist of
the same, we are restricted to system
of drymoral espionage which, although
| very painful, Is very preservative of
good, and we come ont all right. We
run on the law of equation, and we
'equate,' as il were, often enough 10
maintain our equilibrium"
The journalist critically surveyed the
three gentlemen in question and con-
Guided that the time to "equate" had
not yet arrived.
~
Mr. Tenney, OF the National Hotel, |,
man of considerable humor, He de-
| lights TO use II on friends, and it's of thu
delicate kind Not long ago gentle
man friend called on Mr.. Tenney in the
interest Of young boy who was anx
ious to secure employment of some sort
The gentleman said, "Tenney, know
of deserving boy who is trying to hell
his parents, and If you can find some
thing for him to do around the hotel
| say the billiard room--I will esteem ii @
great favor" WELL" said Tenney
''if he's good boy my boys will spoi
him, and If he's not good boy | dom
want him. ]"
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In every public Office the chief i
likely 10 be unpopular with some of tn,
employees, and the Government Printing
Office under the late administration
was no exception to this rule. Wher
the Public Printer went out of ofiic,
the employees all filed past him at tn,
door of the Office to shake hands will
him and bid him good by. Some, how
ever, were disposed to withhold thi
symbol of friendship and kept up stairs
declining to go out until the hand
shaking was over. But they all shool
hands just the same. When the pro
cession was moving some of the EN-
ployes who wanted to see tn,