The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-20
In SUMMER CLOTHES.
How Congressman Cool Brains
and Bodies.
WHAT THEY WEAR AND HOW.
Tom Reeds Lavender Suit and His Candy
Belt-Amos Cummings White Plug
Ingalls, New Clothes.

WASHINGTON, July 16.-iSpecial CORE
spondence of THE HERALD. - Speaker
Reed has one of the gaudiest summer suits
In Washington. / saw him on Pennsylva
mia avenue this afternoon His big, round
cannon-b bail of head was covered with a
broad-brimmed straw hat, and his 300
pounds of bone and flesh were adorned
with suit of lavender gray. His coat was
a cutaway, but itwas unbuttoned at the
front, and ] noted that he had no vest TO
cover his flannel shirt, and that his panta-
looms were held up by blue silk band fully
one foot wide, aud necessarily at least six
feet in length. This is the fashionable
congressional scit for summer, and it has
been adopted by Reed, Henry
Cabot Lodge and others of the eastern
congressman. About one half OF the mem
bers of the House now appear upon the
hoor without vests and dignity has gone to
the winds. \ large number of the states
men wear flannel shirts and Henry Cabot
Ledge has one OF navy blue and he varies
this at times with another of lavender. He
wears :: flannel shirt collar fastened to the
SHIRT and his coat is also OF blue flannel
Ills paaLaloons are light and deep blue
silk band holes them III place. Below the
bottom of his pantaloons show out russell
shoes aud ho looks more ready for foot
IL
spe ch making.
tscneral Spinola sticks to his
BIG WHITE COLLAR
but he willis five every day and spends
o: @ fourth of his time IN rushing into the
cloak rooms to change them He has the
Same DiDe shirt that he wore in the winter.
but hc wears his vest unbuttoned and dur
ing the last few days the prespiration has
run of OF him in streams. He does not
seem 10 mind Is, however, and he manages
TO get along without the use Of d fan.
DockCry, of Missouri, always has fau in
his hand and he always looks hot Amos
Cummings has been ia a par boiled state
ana though he works right along he cannot
stand the heat His summer suit is Of
gray and his handsome face is shaded as he
walks upon the avenue by tall white
plug hat. Stewart, of Vermont, is now a
symphony in yellow. His coat is delicate
chrome His shoes are the brightest of
golden morocco, his neekte is of Jersey
cream and he wears vest which has a
yellow tinge All of his clothing are of
some cotton or silk goods and his sallow
them as though they were touched up by an
artist to be part of the yellow whole.
Even
RIsE-UP WILLIAM SPRINGER
has shed his vest, but he pounds the air
just Us earnestly as though the thermome-
ter was at zero, and he is ready to make g
speech whenever he can catch the speak
er's eye. He has roses in his buttonhole
notwiths landing his negligee dress, and he
frequently gets an admiring glance from
the galleries. One of the brightest anC
braneisJ of the young men of the House is
Frank OF Missouri. He came out yester
day in black silk coat, white vest ant
black shoes, with the brightest of yellow
uppers Mckinley made one of Lis bigges
.tapc how dow rtrIth I j.
wore Prince Albert coat and this wa!
thrown open at the front, and his big Elk
panse of white shirt showed out with al
the gloss of the Chinese laundry. Wher
he raised his hands up towards the ceiling
In emphatic gesture, the little round tag
that is fastened to the end oil
The BOSOM to hold it in place
popped out and stood straight at angles
with the bosom and just over the centr,
button of the black band of his pantaloons
As he enforced period after period witt
emphatic gestures this little white sigl
kept bobbing up and down and Mckinley
who isusually as cool as the centre seed o
cucumber, grew warmer and warmer
His collar began to weaken and the Sof
parts of his shirt chung to his body. makini
his well starched bosom stand alone.
have seen other statesmen who hav
spoken under similar circumstances and
is the general conclusion among the men
bers that the flannel shirted statesmen ar
the best off. Among the handsomest c
these is breckenridge, of Kentucky, VIII
has dotted his statesman black and ha
clothed his big frame in pepper and sal
gray suit He does not wear vest an
his flannel shirt is OF the most delicai
cream. Round the collar of this he ties
nobby blue scarf and upon the lapel of b
coat he wears bright buttonhole bou9ut
of La France roses.
JOSEPH c. CANNON, OF ILLINOIS
makes all of his speeches in a gray Gu
away suit. He works himself into swe,
whenever he speaks, and he has no summt
gestures. He has changed his standin
collar for turnover, and he wits tn
every time he takes the floor Gener
Banks wears white duck vest and a su
of black goods of light weight He covel
his handsome white head with u blac
slopch hat, and his necl1tie is a black ri
bon which he ties himself. General Rur
Lee. the son of the great confederate ge
eral, wears a gray suit Tom Bayne,
Pittsburg, hobs around in S35 Scoto
tweed, ard General Tracy, of New Yor
has a gray business suit, boil
shirt and no vest Ben Butterwor
looks like s preacher in his viii
tie. Rising Sun Morse, of Ma
sachusetts, the man who max
the stove polish, has coat of bombazir
which shines as though it had been pc
ished at his own factory, and his big fran
is bound around with white vest Jud;
Wickham, of Ohio, has married winter
summer and sticks to his black winter sui
having put on yellow cloth vest for a.
pearance's ke.uO'Donnel, of Michigan, :
ways looks cool, and his white silk neck,
makes him cooler than ever McComas,
Maryland, is a brunette, and he is Il
handsomest black haired, bright-eyed you
man IN Congress. His light summer 81
sets off his beauty, and his snowy shirt a
his white necktie make him look as thou
he had just jumped out of a bandboX.
THE GENERAL APPEARANCE OF THE HoU
is far different now than in the wintt
Instead OF men in stately black you ha
all the different sorts of suits above roe
toned, and number of instances have be
known of members taking off their CO:
and working away at their desks in tn,
shirt sleeves And still the capitol is t
coolest place in Washington, and is one
the coolest places in the country. Thol
ands of dollars have been spent in order
make it SO. and the same power that is US
10 cool Congress would run vast mar
featuring establishment. There is tunl
which extends from the foot Of Penns,
vania avenue UP through the grounds il
the basement of the capitol, and there &
two great forcing fans over twelve feet
diameter which draw in a current of FIRE
air and send it into the houses of Congre
This air is passed through fountain
order to cool it Of, and il loses some of
heat in Its underground passage Anotl
tunnel is talked Of, and in this CT
the air will be brought from greater d
sance and will consequently be cooler. I
engineer of the capitol thinks that the
ought to be passed over ice, and he ser
good part of the air through the heat
mines in warm weather in orie, IN cool