Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-01
ACCOUNT OF ILL-HEALTH.
Some of the Retiring Western Penn
sylvania Congressman
WHO ARE LEAVING WASHINGTON.
The Striking Figure of GrisWOld Attracting
Much Attention.
WESTERN RNTRIPOF PREsIDENTHARRIsON
rrRoN A STAFF CORRESPONDENT

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-Letters from
Senator Quay give the information that
though he has experienced some improve
ment, he is vet in exceedingly bad health,
and his friends admit a strong probability
that he will not be able to actively engage
either in politics or legislation to any ini-
portant extent in the future. He is really
completely broken down, and should have
long ago abandoned the wear and tear and
anxiety of public life. Mrs. Quay and her
daughter ere still here, and expect TO await
the return of the Senator before leaving the
city.
No member OF Congress, and no family of
a member of Congress will be more missed
in their social circle than Hon. G. c. Town.
send, of Beaver, and his family, who will
leave tor their Pennsylvania home shortly
alter the close OF the session. Mr.. Townsend
and his family have been the lie and charm
of household com posed of public men and
their families at the Ellsmere, a family ho-
tel composed of combination of several of
the old historical houses on II street near
the Shoreham. One of the houses was once
the home of Senator Zach Chandler, of
Michigan, and was erected by him.
Glad to Get Away.
Mr.. Townsend has no regrets, however, in
retiring from Congress, where he has dis
covered that the chief duties of Congress
man, as they now constituted, are 70 act as
factotum for home pension attorneys, and to
get Offices for constituents. Senator Cameron
will remain in Washington till after the
post-Lenten fashionable season is over and
will then retire for a time to his country
seat on the banks of the Susquehanna.
Representative Bayne and Mrs. Bayne
expect to start on a European tour as soon
as practicable after the adjournment of
Congress. They expect to spend most
of the summer in Geneva, where Mrs. Smith,
Mrs. Bayne's mother, and portion OF her
family now are with thewife of Consul Ro-
land, j. Henemick, the American repre-
sentative at that place, being near rela-
tive. 1t is probable that good deal of the
time of Representative DalzelI will be
passed here during the year, as it is said
he expects soon to begin the erection of
fine residence on lot which be purchased
nearly year ago Oh New Hampshire ave-
nue., near Dupont Circle.
DaizeIPs Great Popularity.
Mr.. Dalzell has made so high reputa-
ton ior ability and peculiar fitness as a leg
iSlator both here, at home and in the nation
at large, that it is expected by everyone
to or not, 10 become exception to the ro-
tatory precedent in Congressional elections
in Western Pennsylvania, and remain con-
tlnually in the House. at least until he De
elected to the Senate, for which body he is
generally spoken OF as a certainty in the
not distant future.
Either the nominating conventions or the
elections OF last year made almost a clean
sweep of the Representatives in the lower
branch of the Fifty-irst Congress from
Western Pennsylvania. Culbertson, of
Erie; Townsend, of Beaver; Ray, of
Waynesburg; Kerr, of Clearfeld, and
Craig. of Brookville, were all de-,
feated for denomination. Scull and
Daizell are the only Western
men reelected, and the former got
in only by the skin of his teeth. Stone, of
Warren, was elected to fill the vacancy oc-
casoned by the death of Watson, and at the |
same time to succeed himself for full term.
Bayne, after a victorious denomination,
tur2ed the office over to Hon. William A. |
Stone, and thus there will be two Stones
from Pennsylvania in the next Congress.
Griswolds Striking Figure.
OF the new men from Western Pennsyl-
vania none will have more striking figure
than Griswold, of Erie, the wealthy manu-
facturer of hollow-ware, who succeeded
Culbertson. Mr.. Griswold has been here
Tor 'ew days. making himself familiar
with Congress and Washington, and has
made friends at every turn. He is large
man, o dignified and commanding mien,
with almost white beard, shock of long,
almost white hair on his head and shaggy
eyebrows, quite coal black, probably the
most remarkable combination ever seen,
and as pleasing as it is striking.
President and Mrs. Harrison have not yet
decided all the details of their Western
journey, but in few days more their plans
will be in such shape that something certain
will be settled. Mrs. Harrison'S time was
pretty we'll taken up during the past week
with the daily receptions that she held for
the numbers of strangers, as well as for
many others brought to see her by friends
Mrs. Russell Harrison has been equally
occupied attending the sessions OF the
Worlds Fair Board of Lady Manager. and |
the business which has accumulated on her |
hands in regard 10 il. LIGHTNER