St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-15

commissioner of the District of Column
bia Col. Robert has achieved many re-
forms lin the way of cleaning out the
diSreputable parts of the city. He has
been especially severe in the allowance
OF licenses to saloons and there has not
been time for many years when there
were so few lOw-down grOggerleS as
now.
Among the pension office employees is
Judge TOmpkins, who for several years
was county Judge of FOn du Lac county.
He is well known to old residents of the
state and retains his Old-time interest in
Wisconsin people and affairs.
Over in the census building is an.
other celebrity from Wisconsin, e. o.
kimberly, who was one of the first
Badger boys to enlist in the war. He
started out as leader of the band Of the
Third Wisconsin infantry, and became
leader of the Third brigade band of the
Fifth army corps. which was one of the
crack bands of the service, and it soon
became the favOrite of the army. Gen.
Logan often asked Kimberly to play for
him, and, as he was a good singer, he
was invariably asked to sing. During
the march to the sea the band fell UNI
der the notice of Gen. Sherman. 1t was
while occupying the city of MOntgOm-
cry. Ala, that Lieut.. 5. Ii. NJ. ByerS.
who was the author. and who was the
other day appointed to a good place in
the diplomatic service, wrote the famous
song of "Sherman'S March to the Sea-"
One night in February, 1865, Just as the
band had played tattoo. Sherman sent
his orderly tG MIR. Kimberly with the
manuscript of the famous song and the
request that he come at once to head
quarters and sing it. Just then a ter
rife storm came up and the song went
unSuDg. A fortnight later at GOldsbOro,
\. c.. kimbeTly'S band SeTenaded the
Old Hero of the march to the sea at his
headquarters with the song that he
heard so many thousand times in after
years, Kimberly himself singing the
words after the band had played the
music. This was the first time the
famous song was ever sung in public.
Kimberly is very pleasantly situated in
office, and he enjoys the life in Wash
ington. His old home is GAINESVILLE,
Rock county.
Daniel 2. Mccormack. of BelOit, is a
81 900 clerk in the records and pensions
division of the war department, having
come here four years ago fresh from
college.
In the adiutant generals Office in
the war department is George E. Giles.
of Watertown, who enjoys salary of
S1,2CO.
The pastor of the First congregational
Church of Washington, which is prob
ably the foremost evangelical society in
the city, is Rev. Stephen NJ. Newman,
who for many years endeared himself
to the people of RipOn while he was
pastor of the Congregational church
there. Coming here in 1885 to succeed
DR.. Rankin. who is now president of
Howard university, Mr.. Newman has
rounded out five years of devoted labor
among his people, and has enhanced his
fame as pulpit orator and as devout
and affectiOnate pastor. The society has
increased greatly in numbers under his
preaching, and already there is talk %
buying a larger site uptown. where a
new church edifice may be erected
equal to the demands of rapidly-grow
ing congregation. G street. on which
the present church stands, has become
a business thorOughfare in the last few
years and the church site is worth sew
eral hundred thousand dollars for bust
ness purposes.
Among the Wisconsin women that
have come to the capital there are sew
eral who have become famous. Here
lives during the greater part of the
year Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby, one of
the leading lights in the woman's stuff
rage movement and editor of the Wom-
ans Tribune. Mrs. Colby distinguished
herself in the state university as a stu
dent, where her standing was unequaled
both In The sciences and classics. She
married Gen..L. ID. Colby, also q gradu-
ate of the state university and of the
law school, who was recently appointed
assistant attorney general of the United
States to represent the government in
the hearing of Indian depreciation claim
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will make his home in Washington,
where his wife had preceded him. Mrs.
COlby'S Office is Il spacious, old-fashlOned
building at the corner of Tenth and
Pennsylvania avenue, where Sc de-
votes her boundless energies to the
Tribune. The circulation of the paper
is large and influential, and it is the.
recognized organ OF the Woman's Stuff
rage association. its chief contributors
being Mis-. Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Miss Susan b. Anthony. and other able
leaders in the movement.
A Wisconsin man who has suddenly
had fame thrust upon him is Herman j.
SchultieS, whom Secretary Foster has
selected to act IN the place of Gen.
Grosvenor on the foreign immigration
commission. Schulties was thirty-liye
years old last spring. and is an accom-
pliShed scholar. He was born at Port
w tOil, anu cdlHG Will Ills ldbilSE
to this city several years ago. Through
the civil service he secured a minor
clerkship in the land Office. whence he
was transferred to the treasury depart
ment. where he was discovered by Sec
rotary Foster. 1t was only the other
day that he resigned his thousand
dollar place to 90 abroad with the immi-
grafton commission. His father was
state senator one or two terms and held
Office here several years. He died a
year or two ago.
Dir. Kempster, who is also member
of the commission on immigration. is
| Wisconsin man who has had his home
in Washington a long while. HIS resi-
dence here has been almost cOincident
with Senator Sawyer'S service in the
senate, the delicate health of Mrs. Saw
yer for many years requiring DIR. Kemp
, ster's professional services. Making
his home at the senator's house. he was
there all those years day and night at
the call and service of Mrs. Sawyer.
and naturally endeared himself to the
senator so that ne is regarded by all as
! virtually member of the family. Dur
| ing the last three years, since Mrs.
/ Sawyer's death. Dr. KempSter has de-
! voted himself to developing what Is