The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-08-16
WASHINGTON Le,rer.
(rrom our regular correspondent.)

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gay music of triumph that installs the sue
cessors Right here in Washington scores
of them remain. Some of them fall in love
W it'll the wide avenues, the cleanliness and
the elegance Of the city. Others find that
they have been so long away from the
places that they once called 'home, that
old associates and interests are severed.
You can hardly go block on the avenue
on any sunshiny day in the season without
seeing half dozen people intimately asso-
ciated with the official life of yesterday.
They are for the most part prosperous,
happy set, fond of good dinners, inclined to
doze over the wire, and worried no more
by their constituents. The govt has now
more terrors for them than the ''district
committee" ever had
There is General Belknap, whose wife
has recently returned from Paris to intro
duce her daughter into society here. His
erect, slow moving figure and long white
beard seem always on the street in the
evening. He smokes slowly and solemnly.
after tie manner of his old chief, then
President Grant. The shadow of the big
scandals that distinguished his administra-
ton as cabinet officer seem TO have died
out of his mind, even as the recollection Of
the insane extravaganza Of his wife that
forced the good natured weak man into the
tolls, has been softened. Gen. Belknap is
now lobbyist.
The iron gray hair and brown eyes of
Grants Secretary of the Treasury, now
Lawyer Boutwell,, are familiar to all
club men. He looks upon the time when
he did not call Washington ''home' as be-
ing lost, and the thought makes him SOM
bre.
His successor in the cabinet, William A.
Richardson, is now Chief Justice of the
Court of Claims, and lives in a magnificent
house in the Northwest. His residence is
near that of Ex- Postmaster General Cress-
we'll, still another of Grants advisers, and
now the busy president of the Citizens
National Bank.
Hon. George Bancroft, waiting, old and
full of honois for the coming of the given
messenger, is figure of the long past.
He wasSecretary of the Navy under Presi-
dent Polk, and had brilliant career in the
diplomatic service, although his political
reputation was long since swallowed up in
his fame as historian. He abandoned
horse back riding last season and even sold
his saddle horses. and is now seldom seen
beyond the flower beds of his own home.
Ex-Secretary McCulloch has consti-
tuition of iron and is as hale and hearty as
when he was Secretary Of the Treasury
under President Lincoln, an Office that he
has twice had the honor of holding.
Ex-Secretary Robert c. Schenck has
been for several years an invalid, and the
famous orator of Gen. Harrson's hard
cider campaign of 1870 speaks Eo more in
public. He simply sits and waits for
death.
EA-Attorney General Garland will prob
ably never return TO Arkansas. He has
been appointed the legal representative at
Washington of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road Company, at salary of 100000 and
is glad to remain here
Frank Hatton, who was the youngest
of President Arthur's cabinet, is
now making money as one of the proprie-
tors OF the Washington Post
Mr.. Hattons partner is Be1ial Wilkins,
formerly Representative from Ohio. He
is only one of thousand ex-members of the
House in Washington. You meet them
everywhere and in all classes of society
Many are well-to-6o or even wealthy and
some, alas, are financial and moral bank
rupts. A few are common bar-room
loafers, with dirty alleged law offices of
dim back stairs which they never visit save
when some former constituent, who has
given one of them case in the mistaken
notion that he is still man of Importance,
turns up to look after his own affairs.
The families of public men who have
passed to judgme nt, do not prosper so
easily. Men in political life are paid
according to their merit. A laundering in
competent may get 81, 800 per annum, and
an addle-headed coxcomb of a second lieu
tenant the same, but the big Drained men,
who really amount to something, are paid
salaries altogether inadequate to support
themselves in the style their positions de-
mand. There is the family Of Chief JUS
tice Waite, the daughter and the aged
widow, reduced to keeping boarders. There
are dozens of such instances, lamentable
but unheeded warnings against taking no
thought of the morrow.
Mrs. John A. Logan is back in Wash.
ington preparing for hard work, which as
sumes for her the shape of editorial manage
ment of the "Home Magazine" which
sometime ago began to show some touches
OF her direction in the publication of the
contributions of few of her intimate per-
sonal friends. For great obvious reasons,
it is not to be expected that the "Home
Magazine" will be permanent success,
though if it is, it's success will be due
entirely to women, as no men are to be en-
ployed in any important capacity.
WESTON.
Ex-Governor Albeit will foreclose his
mortgage on the New Jersey Democracy at
Trapton m, tho nth of Gaptombar tbat ba