The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1890-09-06
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
From our regular Correspondent

WASHINGTON, ID. G., August 81, 1890.
Mrs Cen John A. Logan. would at
tract attention by her striking appear
ance in the worlds most distinguished
assemblies. Her handsome intellectual /
face and sparkling eyes, under legal
crown Of natural snow white hair, is
well known in Washington, and yet, I
when | saw her driven down one of our |
busiest streets Yesterday every other
person stopped to stare at her carriage. I
True the turnout is somewhat odd and
yes, | might rs well say it-conspicuuus. I
Imagine the body OF an ordinary side
bar box buggy slightly increased in
length and width, perched upon the top
of unusually high carriage springs,
while the drivers seat in front is higher
still, and you haye ii crude idea of the
vehicle. The coachman il a Young
black man and the horses an elegant |
pair of very dark bays. almost black
exactly matched, showing spirited move
meDt their good breeding, to say nothing
OF the hard cash they represent, The
turnout is Il far more expensive one than
the late General ever owned, and Inli-
Gates that the widow is prosperous.
which her hard work, and otherwise,
entities her to be. Mrs. Logan nvaria-
bly, dresses in black and her intimate
friends say that she will never wear any
thing else. No woman, not excepting
Mrs. Cleveland. was ever more popular
i'll Washington.
The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, or as
free and easy Frank Hatton has dubbed
him, Teddy Roosevelt, who has gone
to spend his vacation with the cowboys
on his western ranch, has already become
one of the characters of Washington, and
| dos 20 ho Of ,iu1
service commission, of which he is part,
he has attained a wide personal poFu-
larity by his many manly qualities. He
IS young, handsome and us pugnaciOus
us ever Ben Butler was in his younger
days. He is also hard hitter. and
never fails to give his opponent all the
punishment possible when he get4 the
upper hand. His natural field is in u
| Legislative body; and it is earnestly
hoped that he will get out of the civil
service grave yard and yet himself
elected to the House Of Representatives.
Such men are always welcomed; by the
newspaper men, ii not by congressman.
Samuel l.. Clemens, better known as
MARX Twain,' is lingering around his
old Washington haunts. He is here in
the interest of the International copy
right bill, and no man has lost more
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law as this bill proposes than he. Mr..
Clemens was once. away back in the dim
: past. al humble Washington cores
pOndent, and there is an old house near
the City Hall in which he the late II. j
Ramsdcll, the late Charles IIalpine
('Private Miles O'Riclly'O and other
newspaper correspondents had rooms
during the late sixties or early seventies.
The house was pointed out to me one
day, several years before his death, by
Mr.. Ramsdell, aud very naturally spoke
of the pleasant memories which must
cluster around IL home occupied by such
men. YES" said Mr.. Ramsdcll, Il
often smile at my recolleCtiOns of those
times and the fun we used 10 have; but
there was also something decidedly uhs
pleasant about il.
''What is that?" [ asked. the
scent of the filthy old pipe which Giles
!. Etnens used to pre4ist in smoking il
preference to good cigars; feel cHrtahl
that it still clings to the walls Of the
room in which he used 10 sit and snoKs
almost constantly" replied Mr.. X rns-
dell, who dislikcd the scant Of u pipe
more then any man ever met. .
By the way, speaking of Charlie Hal!
pine reminds me that he for qditG awhile
did some PECULIAR work as II Washington
| correspondents llc itdu liz SSOOu lOIlstuc
10 be on the very best Of tCrms vita tne
great rivals in New York journalism.
Horace Greeley and james Gordon Benz
net, the elder, and he actually repre-
scented both the Herald and the Triopns
in this city at the same tim. writing up
the news of each day from the directly
opposite standpoints OF the rival editors.
1t has since then become popular for one
man 10 represent syndicates Of papers;
but he was the first and probably the
only man who ever ate npted to repre-
sent two rival, newspapers published ia
the same city, in order to fully appre-
ciate the difficult task he assumed il
must not be forgotten that political mat
ters, watch formed the basis for nine
tenths. of his matter, were in wild
and turbulent state at the time, and that
Greeley and Bennett were not only OPP
ponents ia the columns of their papers,
but hated each other as bitterly us pos
Si5le. How Halpine, with all his versa
Utility managed to satisfy both of these
editors | never could see, but he must
have done so for they both remained
his friends until his deaths