The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-06-21
GOSSIP OF THE GIRLS.
Alice Confides 10 Dear Louise the
Goings On in Washington.

tion has deserted the Capital. The President
and Mrs. Harrison, the precious Mckee in
fants, Mrs. George b. Williams, Miss Ella War
field, and corps OF the White House servants
turned their backs on the city Thursday morn
ing aud are now furnishing select food for the
Cape May Point mosquitoes. The boom given
to the latter place by the residence Of the
Presidents family has so greatly enhanced the
value of real estate about the Point that Mrs.
Harrison finds her villa surrounded this year
by newly built cottages What she is goin q
TO do about it nobody knows. -, Nor is it gem
orally known how many artists are going to
spend tie summer at Cape May Pointin order
to be on hand to instruct when the painting
mania comes on. Mr.. Putzi has closed his
class here and will leave early in the week for
a spell of rest. He has had fashionable, dis
tinguished, and enthusiastic set of pupils, who
will rally around him again in the autumn.
His star pupil, of course, was Mrs. Harrison.
The baccarat scandal is still somewhat
theme of conversation. The romantic part of
1.-THE devotion of Miss Florence Garner-or,
as some people put it, her sacrifice, now takes
precedence in Importance when the subject is
discussed. Miss Garner, you know, is an
American girl. A lady who knows something
of the family history tells me that her mothers
name was Thorn. She was from New Orleans,
where the family had considerable wealth
until the Civil War broke out and the men of
the family died or were killed in action. Then
Mrs Thorn, grandmother of Miss Florence
Garner, took her two young grandchildren
Burlington, vt. Here Miss Thorn met and
married the late Commodore Garner, and
both lost their lives on the Commodore's
yacht Mohawk Two little girls were the
heiresses to the very large fortune left by
Commodore Garner. At the time of the acci-
dent Miss Edith May was on board. She
afterward married Captain Randolph of the
British army, and she it was probably who is
mentioned in the dispatches as having been
one of the witnesses of the marriage of Sir
William Gordon Cumming and Miss Garner.
Mrs. Randolph's father, DIR. May, died quite
recently here. Her mother and sisters reside
in this city. One of the latter, Mrs. Carrie May
Wright, tradition says, was once on the point
OF marrying James Gordon Bennett. There
is sensational rumor that Mr. Bennett has
been threatened by the Minister of the Inte-
rior with expulsion from France for aiding,
with hard cash, the strikers in the late omnibus
tie-up In Paris Mr.. Bennett has been
notified, so it is said, that he must not do SO
any more or he will be required to shake the
dust of Paris from his feet forever To 60
back to the Garner's, my friend says the late
Mrs. Garner had a brother who married in
Philadelphia one of the Davenport family, of
which Fanny is now the most conspicuous
member
parties to Mt. Vernon and Marshall Hall af-
ford the much-needed recreation. But Wash
ington Is singularly poor in suburban retreats
or desirable hostelries where one might pass
few days in rustic enjoyment. There was an
attempt made two seasons to have the Wash
ington Inn meet this want but it seems to
have been unsuccessful. heard an acute OBJ
server say there was no enterprise in Wash
ington, but it seems to me that it would have
been better put to say that enterprise is not
greatly encouraged here-the conditions seem
unfavorable. There is constant complaint
of the inconvenience caused to the residents
of the upper part of the city by the want of a
cross-town car. One has to go "all around
Robins barn. to get from the northwest to
the northeast part of the city. Yet the afore-
mentioned observer said to me that we should
soon see the carettes abolished, as they would
not, under the present condition OF affairs
pay dividend to the company. Many of
them travel over good part of the rou with
only one or two passengers during
certain hours of the day without any. The
vehicles are very heavy, apparently too much
so for the strength of two horses. The car
cites 60 through districts of the city not
reached by cars or herdics, and it will be a
source OF discomfort to many should the pre-
diction of their failure to pay prove my OBJ
server a true prophet.
The number of marriage licenses issued
this month of roses is, to my thinking, a
proof that marriage is not a failure in the
opinion of the majority. The agony is over
with regard to General Schofied and Miss
Rilbourne, and the doubling Thomases know
and believe. 1t is said that Mrs. Andrews,
the Generals daughter, finds her fathers
marriage a bitter pill to swallow, and, / am
told, she was only enlightened as to his in
tentions at the time the public was also
taken into confidence. Mrs. Schofeld will
have brilliant career here, and being an
ambitious woman, will fully enjoy her dis
tinguished position. She is the immediate
successor of Mrs. Sheridan. General Scho-
field, having been widower ever since his
promotion to the command of the Army, has
been socially ''going it alone" Mrs. Scho-
field, having spent last season here with Mrs.
Andrews, has had sort of schooling in 'the
depths and shoals' of Washington society,
and will, no doubt, understand how to steer
her bark Alright.
A lady who came here for the first time not
so very long ago, when her husband, also new
to Washington, was called to very high Of
fee, wishing to do the right thing,
nearly wore herself out returning the
calls of Tom, Dick, and Harry's wives. After
a YEARS. residence and several attacks of nerV-
Gus prostration from her efforts to meet what
she supposed were the requirements of her
high social position she found out that she had
been entirely on the wrong track. revision
of her visiting list and the assumption of a
haughtiness befltting her place in the world
lessened the lady's labors and restored her
health. But, ah, the tongues the change set
waggng So really think there ought to be
bureau for coaching the wives of newly
made officials.
Diplomats accredited to Washington are
frequently given sort of rowing commission.
The contiguity of Mexico to this country leads
TO the combination of missions, and just now
the Japanese Minister is en- route to the land
of Montezuma In company with Baron Rosen,
of Russia. Madame Tateno, wife OF the Jap
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