The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-05-26
AROUND THE CAPITAL
General Sherman and the Dam.
r0Sch- Blaine Wedding.
A Marriage of True Love-A Brief and Simple
Ceremony Made Miss Rosecrans Mrs.
Governor Toole Of Montana.
washington Correspondence of THE CALL.

week apart, the old campaigner is given
plenty OF time to see and enjoy all of his
friends. Age only improves General Sher-
mans qualities. and since his retirement,
at the age of 63, he has almost grown
younger, If such an active. enthusiastic,
tireless, busy and jolly person could in
tenSify any Of those traits of eternal youth.
His exhausted staff officers used to say that
on one of his great inspection tours he
could tire them all out, one by one, and
then be just in full enthusiasm and fair
start himself lie rushes about the city
now with the eagerneSs and alertness of
youth, and what he accomplishes in one
day would make long story if put down
by the trueSt reporter.
On Friday evening Senator and Mrs.
Sherman gave a reception for the General
and Miss Rachel Sherman, and their large
house was crowded with those whom
JUNGLE CUMP"
Welcomed with both hands and said, "God
bless me-" etc, in greeting. New York is
so near Washington and the exchange of
social life so great that the General has by
no means lost sight of his friends in going
there, and his remarkable memory for
names and faces does him equal service in
Broadway crowds, Washington drawing
rooms and Grand Army reunions. The
succeeding day he lunched with the White
House family, and in the evening the Pres
ldent and others assisted at Senator Sher-
mans dinner OF celebration for his birth
day. Whenever General Sherman comes to
Washington he never fails to look up the
widows and families of his old friends, and
be Is more sure TO see those who are in dis
tresS or at1IcilOn or reduced circumstances
than 10 Call on the great and the prosperous
His great, kind heart goes out to all these
and no visit Is too short TO not permit him to
see or send word to those TO whom he is
cheer and tonic. In appearance he is
perhaps little grayer and O little more
deeply wrinkled, but his eye is as kindly
tNlnkIng as ever, his voice as deeply
sOnorous and his laugh as Infectious. He
delights in crowds, in movement and actiy-
lily. oI every kind, and is still the one and
only
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN.
Miss Blaine's marriage to Mr.. Walter
DaHrosch IS now set for this next Satur-
day, the 18th of May, despite all the say
lngs about May weddings. 1t will be a
quiet home ceremony at l o'clock, with
only relatives and intimate family friends
present Handsome presents have already
begun to come to the bride, and the re-
membranes that she will have received by
her wedding day will be past counting
Andrew Carnegie's present is looked for
with considerable interest by the curious
outsiders, as Walter DamrOseh is not only
a special pet and friend OF his, but it was
on MIR, Carnegie's famous coaching tour
through England and Scotland that Mr.
DamrOSch and Miss Blaine met. Mr.. Car
negle was griZZled messenger of cupid in
throwing those two young people together
Ia every way and fostering each ones
fancy for the other. The whole Blaine
family are said to appreciate Mr.. Dam
roseh's good and charming qualities as
much as MI. Carnegie, and it is a very
happy arrangement all around. Mr.. Dam
rosch is tall, dark and strikingly handsome,
and Is said to be
THE IDOL OF ALL
The unsteady inclined young women in
New York. While he has a fine income
from his professional work he Is not rich.
and the marriage is an affair of true love
entirely Since his fathers death he and a
married brother have kept the home and
made one household with mother and sis
ter, and from his conduct as son every one
has reason to congratulate Miss Blaine, and
augur well for her future life. For the
Blaine parents it must be very hard to give
up tins daughter, as the home will now
hold only the youngest daughter, Miss Hat
tie, and the son, James G. Blaine Jr
The wedding of Governor Toole of Mon
lana and General R0secTans' daughter was
most quietly celebrated this week. The
groom is not Catholic, and as dis
pSAottLtOu AOE q CHURCH wedding could not
De obtained in time the ceremony took
place at the parsonage, or priests house,
adjoining st. Matthew's Church. 1t was a
very brief and simple ceremony, the bride
wearing travelling dress of dark green
cloth closely braided in black, and her two
friends, Miss Campbell and Miss Horsey,
wore light spring gowns, with hats. There
were no bridesmaids or any elaboration of
THE sIMPME SERVICE,
by which the two people were united, and
Governor and Mrs. TOOle drove from the
pastoral residence directly to the train. 1t
vii! be month or two before they settle
IN their new home in Helena.
Senator and Mrs Stanford have returned
from their short trip home wonderfully re-
1reshed and recuperated, and Mrs Stan
ford claims that the California air and
home surroundings there were cure-all and
tonic for her. They have given several
dinners since their return, and on the 10th
are TO give large dinner to the President
and Mrs. Harrison. One of the most inter
esting of their dinners was the one given
last night to the sixteen small boys who act
as pages on the floor of the Senate. SEN
ator Stanford is sort OF father to all these
youngsters and takes a personal interest in
each one OF them, and Mrs. Stanford
warmly seconds him. All the boys who
come IN contact with Senator Stanford
have cause to consider him a friend and
his Christmas dinners to the telegram
Newsboys' Home, the Children's Hospital,
and kindred institutions, further prove it,
For the dinner to the little page bows
everything except in the matter of wines
was done IN the same way as if for din
ner TO
BROTHER SENATORS.
The china and silver were the same, the
decorations as pretty, and there were even
more faYors. toys, trif1es, candies and SOU
yenirS than are set out for elders. Early in
June Senator and Mrs. Stanford sail for
Liverpool and will spend the summer at
German baths.
There has been every sign of the gather
ing Of the clans, and by the hotel arrivals
alone one could have argued that something
was about to happen. Tomorrow the
Republican National Committee assemblies
TO choose successor to Senator Quay AS its
Chairman, and the chiefs have gathered for
deep and solemn session. After the mar
tyrdom of criticism, abuse and caricaturing
that Senator Quay has endured in this year
and half he can hardly urge any of his
friends TO attempt to succeed him, but a vic
tim will, OF course, be fouHd and one an
xious to endure the penalty of being the
Chairman. There is no connection between
the events, but the facts that Barnum ar
rives on the day following the committee
meeting marks the week with twin events
to Barnum, and a quorum Of either House
OF
CONGRESS
Can be found under the great canvas any
night that 1t is in town. General Sherman
was always snre attendant at first nights,
and President Arthur gave circus parties of
dozen or twenty friends and enjoyed the
SHOW apparently as much as when a bow
General Grant was another patron of the
sawdust ring.
Another sure sign OF the season is the
succession of shad bakes at resorts on the
Potomac River. The lawyers of the Dis
trict bar and their friends enjoyed their
annual frolic and picnic yesterday, and
planked shad Drowned and sizzled before a
Pioneers are TO revive old memories and
tell Of the days of '49 In connection with
planked shad, at Marshall Hall. All Cali
foTnians take part, and the pioneer may
only have visited California by train within
the last ten years to be eligible to eat
planked shad with the veterans who crossed
the isthmus or the plains at the time of the