Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-09


corrsspondsncs Of TEE EVENING" stan.
New YORK, Feb g.
Mr.. William Rockefeller, the standard oil
king. may hold his private winter carnivals be-
fore Lent after all Mr.. Rockefeller and Mr..
Rockefeller's friends early in the winter gloried
In anticipations Of the biggest and most oriei-
nal social racket that winter ever suggested.
and the only thing that has prevented the con-
summation Of the well-laid plans is that there
hasn't as yet been any winter except IN name.
Mr.. Rockefellers large residence stands on 54th
street, just around the corner from 9Th avenue,
and is isolated from the residences Of his neigh
bors by.wide grounds on either side, equal in
area to about dozen city lots. Early in De-
cember Mr.. Rockefeller spent lot Of money
In putting an oak floor over the whole area of
these unoccupied lots and high wooden en-
closure all around them. The floor was made
as level and as smooth as glass, and it was ar
ranged IN such way that it could be flooded
with water forming, when frozen solid, the
nnest skating pond imaginable. Here Mr..
Rockefeller and his guests were to hold skating
carnlvais on winter nights beneath soft electric
lights. and after having whetted their appa-
t,tes to keen edge by this exhilarating sport
they were to adjourn to smoking hot suppers
In the big mansion. Standard Oil MONEY will do
covered, but when it comes to buying weather
made to order this potent influence has to
capltulate. The sudden fall in the thermome-
ter the other day caused corresponding rise
In the dropping hopes of Rockefeller ct al,
and the water was turned on. It froze. too
Just little, and then a thaw came and it was
turned OF again. 1t may be that the cold
weather we are promised this month will get to
work on Mr.. Rockefellers dry rink so as to
gratify the anticipations of the 9th avenue
bellies and beaux.
"When our delegation came home from Chicago
after nominating Harrison" said city repub-
hcan politician to me the other night. I'VE
came like railroad funeral procession None
of US felt that we had much hope of electing
our man, and We weren't even sociable and
friendly to one another. Each man had his own
pocket flask of whisky, and never one of us
asked the other to join in drink. But when
the democrats came back from St. Louis YOU
couldn't get through the car for the impede
ments In the way of iced champagne that
blocked the aisles. Everybody was drinking
with everybody else. and if any man had dared
hint that Cleveland wouldn't be elected he'd
have been thrown out of the car window. Since
the republicans elected their man the New York
republican delegation has been clubbing itself
because 1t didn't have champagne and good
sociable time returning from Chicago. and the
boys have finally decided to make up for their
doldrums OF last summer by enthusing to the
topmost point on the journey to Harrison's in
auguratlon next month. The special train that
carries Barney Biglin. Jake Hess. Johnny
U Brien and the rest Of the gang to Washing
ton will be loaded to the roof of the car, with
extra dry, twenty-five cent cigars and gilt-edged
gruo TO match You bet there'll be no funereal
still-drunks on private whisky TASKS as there
was coming back from Chicago. No, sirr'
l..
week took me along the bank of the Hudson
through Riverside park to General Grants
tomb. While was looking for spot to rest
where the warm sun shone and the nipping
wind was broken, pair of bay horses attached
to brown brougham, trotted up smartly and
stopped close by the sepulcher of the great
soldier. without waiting for the footman the
coach door was opened, and two ladies jumped
lightly to the ground. Both were handsome
women and Of the same style of dark beauty.
The elder wore her wavy gray hair coiled loosely
beneath pretty brown bonnet, trimmed with
some sort of golden feather arrangement Her
gown and gloves were brown too, and she wore
shortish seaskin jacket. The younger lady
had bright, becoming color in her cheeks.
and her dark eyes sparkled with animation.
Her dress was black, hat ditto, with black
plumes, and one side Of her gown had on it
of some kind Of pretty fur. The two
ladies walked unattended to the dead generals
resting place, remained there a moment and
then looked off through the trees over the
broad river The wind was biting and pene-
trating, and the younger lady shivered per-
ceptibly and WINGED when the extra sharp
gusts came, at which evidences of susceptibility
to natures elements the older lady smiled
quietly, and throwing open her jacket held up
her head that old Boreas might have full play
against her bare throat Come. mamma"
ard ha
gray-haired matron, her cheeks aglow with
health, allowed herself to be led back to the
carriage. which was soon carrying the couple
northward toward Spuyten Duyvil at a spank
ing gait. The gray-haired lady who courted
the blasts Of the cold wind upon her bare
the President-elect. The younger lady was,
suppose, Mrs. Mckee, her daughter.
The defeat Of the striking car drivers and
conductors in New York sounds the knell for the
Knights of Labor in this city. 1t also puts every
employer in New York on his mettle in respect to
methodist Of dealing with striking employees, and
when strikes occur in future in any of the big
factories there is going to be q stern. uncom-
promising resistance instead of the willingness
to arbitrate that has been the attitude Of en-
ployers for the past few years. By their hasty
and ll-advised action in calling strike at this
siiuC, duu LUZ grievances WHICH were not OF
sufficient importance to warrant any such ac-
ton. the horse-car men have struck the sever
est blow against organized labor hereabouts
that 1t has ever been called upon to suffer
The strike has also demonstrated the absolute
incompetency Of that pet fad of labor men
and politicians, the New York state board of
arbitration, which was hailed az a new Alexan-
der to lead the workingmen to a sure conquest
over grasping and avaricious EMPLOYERS. This
utterly useless body has cost the taxpayers of
the state nearly CSC, 900 during the past wear
for salaries, travelling expenses, &C., and It is
now laughed at far and wide for its Quixotic
endeavors.
When declared in these columns several
months ago that Mrs. James G. Blaine. IRIS
row with her husband, subsequent alleged ILL.,
ness, and the newspaper publicity over the
affair, were but shrewd factors in scheme to
advertise the coming Of new star in the dra-
matte armament, one or two people wrote me
letters to say that ] was unnecessarily harsh
and cruel to draw such unmanly and unman-
nerly conclusions from the episode. As at that
time nobody's side of the story except Mrs
Blaine's own had been published, it did look as
If perhaps l had done the lady an injustice.
Events since that time, however, have proved
that was right. Mrs. Blaine has now signeda
contract with Daniel Frohman, of the Lyceum
theater, to appear under his management for
three years; and will make her debut in a So
ciety comedy next autumn. That Mr.. Froh-
man doesn't believe in Mrs. Baines powers to
draw outside Of the advertising she has re-
ceived on account Of her career is evidenced by