Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-01
CARPENTERS GOSSIP.
Senator Carlisle's Health and His
Habits of Application.
HIS RANK IN THE UPPER HOUSE.
Ex-senator Garland is New q Recluse and
Abjures Newspapers.
MEMORY OF sPOONER AND INGALLS,

| work OF the Senate, and it is something of
question as to whether his constitution will
stand the strain of his new position. 81
has one of the hardest committees Of tn
Upper House, and he Is, OF course, am
bilious to distinguish himself. took
good look at him as he sat on his spine il
one of the red leather seats of the chambe
to-day. His desk was covered with letter
and documents, and his tall, thin fran
seemed more stopped than ever. As h
raised his face to vote upon a measure,
I eyes seemed to have sunken deeper unde
his high, broad forehead.
Senator Carlisle is fully six feet tall, bu
he does not weigh more than 150 pounds
His complexion marks him as a man will
liver, and he walks about packed full o
the malaria secretions which fill the al
of the Ohio river bottoms, added to thos,
which which float up from the miasmati,
Potomac. He has the students stoop, anG
he has never been a disciple of physica
culture. He pays no attention to his diet
and he plods away day and night at hi!
studies. He gets up an hour before the
rising time of the average Senator, which
Is at o'clock or later, and he works in his
room until he goes to the Capitol.
ONLY RESTS WHEN HE SLEEPS.
He eats his lunch in less than ten min.
utes and he often works while he is eating
it. When he was Speaker he lunched in
his private room, and it is said that he never
took lunch while the House was in session.
He is not fond of society, and he goes about
just as little as he can. He is a man with
no recreations whatever, and his great brain
only rests when he sleeps.
Still Speaker Carlisle does not look much
older now than he did when he came to
Washington IL years ago. He was then 43
years old, the same tall, pale, thin, black
haired, gray-eyed, smooth-shaven, dignifed
man. He lived for years in boarding houses
and hotels, and it has only been a short
time since he bought place and went to
housekeeping. He paid, 1 think, S24, 900
for his home. 1t is located within three
squares of the White House on K street,
and is in the most fashionable part of the
city. Mrs. Carlisle presides over it. She
Is tall, well-formed blonde lady, possessed
of fine social qualities, bright and we'll
educated. She takes very good care of
Speaker Carlisle, and it is due to her that
he stands the strain of his work as we'll as
he does.
Senator Carlisle will be stronger man in
his present position than he was in the
House. He is more of logician than an
orator, and his speeches are more noted for
their thought than for their brilliancy of
diction. Spreadeagleism has practically
died out in the Senate. The great speeches
have become like those OF the English Par
Lament,
TALKS BETWEEN THE SENATORS
uttered in q conversational tone, and il is
ideas rather than words that tell. Carlisle
will be at the head of the Southern men of
the Senate. He will rank with Butler, Vest
and Morgan. and will be the peer of any
man on his side of the chamber. He is in
character more like Joe Brown, Of Georgia.
than any of these men, and he will not have
to wait like the average new Senator for two
wears to make himself felt. The change
from Beck to Carlisle has been no loss to
the strength of the Senate The same can
hardly be said OF some of the other changes
which have taken place within the past few
years. Neither of the Senators from Ar
kansas Fave the same prominence that was
held by ex-Attorney General Garland, and
Senator Gray does not figure as a national
character as did Thomas f. Bayard. Wal
thall is undoubtedly an able man, but he
has not as vet reached the proportions of
Lucius Quintus. Cincinnatus Lamar and
the millionaire Farwell, though be is a good
man in committee, has no such place in the
public eve as was held bv John A. Logan.
In the whole United States Senate there
are not more than a dozen men who have
national prominence and whose minds al
feet public legislation. The average visitor
names of the 60 other odd Senators as to
whether they belong to the Senate or the
House, and their personality is unknown.
GARLAND A KIND OF RECLUsE.
Speaking OF Garland 1 saw him walking
down f street yesterday with black SLOUGH
hat pulled down over his smooth shaven
nut-cracker features. He has law office
near the Ebbitt House, and is, am told,
getting into good practice. He once told
me that he liked the law better than the
Senate, and he has bought house here on
Rhode Island avenue, and has evidently
settled to stay. He still owns, however, his
estate near Little Rock, Ark, where he has
some hundreds of acres of forest, and in the
midst OF this a log cabin which he calls.
Hominy Hill. There are no roads which |
lead to this cabin and it is in it that Garland |
spends his summer vacations When he |
enters it he gives orders that no mail or
kilograms are to be brought to him, and he |
has all the pleasure of solitude.
He has cut himself as far as possible off |
from the world here at Washington. He |
does not 60 into society and does not take |
and will not read a newspaper. He got SO
sick of seeing the daily journals at the time
Of the Pan-Electric scandal, that he swore |
they were all bad and he would have none |
of them, and more than this, he sticks to his |
VOW. Whether he will get into politics
4 lna in har6 tn 10 still hn1l fa
residence in his State by this Hominy Hill |
property and, it is not an impossibility that
ne NAV again come to the Senate.
One of Garland's law partners is General
lanes w. Denver, tall, fine looking man
'f over 20, who has made as much history
Is any man in Washington. He was in
Congress from California before the war, and
hough he has always been an opponent of
he code he killed man in
A DUEL IN CALIFORNIA.
He was Secretary of State of California
It the time, and, as such, was attacked by q
nan named Gilbert, who was editor of the
1lta California. General Denver replied
o this attack and Gilbert challenged him.
Denver accepted the challenge though he
new that Gilbert was a deadly shot. The
Weapons were rifles, and Denver received
Iilbert's fire and shot off his gun into the
ir. Strange to say Gilbert failed to hit
i'm, and when General Denver started for
'ard to shake hands Gilbert refused and
tated that he was bound to kill Denver or
e killed himself At this Denver decided
. de eud himself, and at the next shot
Hilbert fell pierced through the heart.
l met General Denver last night and
sked him to tell me the story of the naming
Denver city after him. He replied that
was when he was Governor OF Kansas in
500. A number of Governors had tried to
ohtrol the people and had Jailed, when
'ucnanan appointed Denver, and he