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dence fronting the capitol grounds from
the north, where first Senator Angus
Cameron, then Senator SpOOner aud
Hon. II. A. Taylor have made their
homes in Washington. Mr.. Taylor. hay
ing formed very pleasant impressions
of the house when Senator Spoon /
lived in it, did not hesitate To engage il
at once when he came to the capital tC
enter upon his duties as railroad conf
missioner. A nearby .neighbsr is eX-
Congressman HaZeltOn. who for ten
years has lived on the corner, three
doors to the west Mr.. Taylor finds
his duties here in official station pleas
ant, and the life in Washington So
ciety full of charm. Mrs. Tay Tor and
Miss Taylor are fond of society, and in
the season are busy with the round of
social pleasures. Willis Taylor has a
lucrative position in the government
printing office, aud has during the past
two years been pursuing his studies i'll
the Columbian law school.
In the office of the director of the
mint sits day after day a Wisconsin
man with national reputatiOn-JOhn
j. Lalor, an Irishman of the ripest
scholarship and the most urbane and
genial manner. He is we'll known
throughout the world as the translator
of ROscher's "POlitical Economy" and
editor of the '.POlibcal Encyclopedia, +"
one or the most thorough and c0mpre-
hensive works ever published in this
country. Mr.. LalOr is one of those uu-
fOrtunates who fell in the Ashtabula
disaster, and he has never recovered
from the injuries there received. He
fell eighty feet, and barely escaped with
his life. His vision was permanently
impaired by the shock, ana he is not
able TO work long with his eyes at one
time. He was invited into the treasury
to act as tranSlat +. his remarkable &C
QUESTIONS in languages making him a
most invaluable man.
One of the most Obliging and thor
Oughly good fellows in the treasury de-
partment Is Fred Sackett. of Berlin.
Green Lake county. brother of the i'm
mortal HObe, of the Burgundy com
pleXiOn and wide open pocket, God
bless himl Fred has charge of the
whole treasury building, a position OF
great responsibility, which he fills with
absolute satisfaction to everybody. To
him every official in the building. from
the secretary down to the humbleSt
clerk, looks for whatever they want in
the way of changes and improvements
and cOnvenienceS. Under him are hun,
dred or more employees. with whom he il
most popular chief.
Frank \. Mute. of Racine. fills an i'm
portant Office in the second auditors
office.
All Badger state people in Washing
ton were very glad when Col. Henry
CaSsOn was selected by Uncle derry
Rusk to act as private secretary. In
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counsel here for the Pennsylvania Rail-
road company, and appears only in
cases of great Importance involving
large fees. He has pleasant home in
this city and also large farm at Boyd's.
pretty little village in the hills of
Montgomery county, Maryland. where
he spends twO-thirds of his time when
free from Office and court labors.
DIR. John j. Little, an old soldier of
Irempeleau county. is a clerk III the
supervising architects office. He served
through the war in the Second WiscOn-
sin infantry.
Judge Moses NJ. Gibson, of Hudson.
is clerk in the sixth auditors Office,
and has been there for, To- these MANY
years-ever since the war, in fact.
A prominent man in the pension
office is Jugde Allen, of Black River
Falls, who is chief of the Southern
division. He was turned out under the
Cleveland administration and became
Congressman Bill Prices private secre-
tary, but, with the return of the Repub-
licans to power, he resumed his old
place, where he gives very efficient
service and is extremely popular.
A rising young Badger boy in the
census Office is John Hugh Lewis, son
of his father. the redoubtable Hugh.
IN 10 q HNAN ollIG NO young
fellow. good deal as his father was
thirty years ago.
One of the oldest clerks in the treas
urv department is George Ii. Cooper. of
Beloit. He was the first college student
to enlist in 1861, and after the war he
preferred to go to work rather than re-
turn to his books. He has been in the
sixth auditors office for over TWENTY-FIVE
years. where he is one of the trusted
and reliable officials. His eldest son is
now man grown, though Cooper him
self looks as young as ever.
w. L. ColladaY has been a clerk for
ten years in the office of the comptroller
of the currency, being one of Congress-
man CaswelPs appointments. He is the
son of ex-senator Colladay. and his home
is at Mcfarland, Dane county. 1t is his
duty to send out all moneys to the ma
tlOnal banks. and not penny goes forth
until his initials are on the packages.
lie is most efficient public servant,
and one upon whom his SuperiorS de-
pend with absolute confidence.
Another Mcfarland man is John
johnson, the One-armed soldier who is
i'll the registers Office, where he has for
many years done good service.
Wisconsin may lay claim to one of the
finest homes in Washington, as we'll as
one of the most popular. 1t would be
hard matter for jury OF Da Vinci's
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Ously beautiful in its decorations ana
famous for the gatherings that have
been held in it. On the days when Mrs.
White receives, the splendid house is
filled with the celebrities and beauties
of public life. To the senator all the
gayeties of Washington life are as moth
ing compared with chat with an old
friend from home, and the room
most used in the big house is
the library, where he spends his
time while at home. Here he
meets his friends and attends to his
correspondence. OFF of this room is his
bedroom. the smallest room in the
house. but one nicely suited to his SIM
pie taste and frugal habits. The story
of Senator Sawyer's service IN public
life is an old one, and it would be idle
to dwell upon it, but it is not out of
place to say that here, as at home, he
is the same mOtherly old fellow, and the
poor of Washington have constant rea-
son 10 bless his name for his goodness
to them.
One of the best of Wisconsin men has
recently made his home in Washington
Col. William Helm, of Madison. All
the old Wisconsin people in Washing
ton were delighted when they learned
that Col. Helm had decided to take q
place in the public service here. His
large acquaintance, genial disposition
and invariable kindness to all made him
a most welcome acquisition. For year
he has been clerk in the division of
which Doug King is chief, in The post
office department. But for the past
three months he has been acting super
intendent of the entire ee-delivery
service of the United States, position
of great responsibility, and one for
which he is especially fitted by his long
experience in the postOffice at Madison.
A great many people are living in
Washington as relics of by-gOne adj
ministratiOnS. 1t is a charming place.
and when family has become accus-
toned to life here it is with great re-
luctance they leave it. One of the most
fortunate of the prominent officials i'll
the Cleveland administration was
Thomas Roy, whom Col. Villas called to
Washington 10 take the place of chief
clerk of the pOstotfice department when
Col. Nash was put at the head of the
railway mail service. His business
qualifications made him a thorough and
responsible official, and he could have
continued in Office much longer under
the Harrison administration had he
chosen to do SO. He resigned and
opened an Office and began practice be-
fore the postoffice department as attOr-
ney for a vast number of claimants for
whom congress had appropriated sew
eral hundred thousand dollars to pay old
back debJS for office rent, clerk hire,
etc. Ont of this business Mr.. Roy has
made clean and cool $4,000 year.
Mai. Powell, of the geological survey,
is Wisconsin man. He was brought
up on very poor farm in Walworth
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hard-fOught battles in war and politics
he is socially and politically at the head
of the colony. His home is ALWAYS wide
open to rybOdy who has the slightest
sort of a claim on him. but it is never so
absolutely dead wide open as it is when
anybody from Wisconsin comes to seek
him. He lives on Massachusetts ave-
nue., step or two from Fourteenth
street. in sight of the splendid eques.
trian statue of Pap Thomas" that his
old comrades have erected in one of the
most conspicuous points of the city.
Here Gen. Rusk mingles hard work
and the pleasures of Washington life as
well as he can. The great excess of
work over the pleasures makes it doubt
full sometimes whether he has any fun
at all. Mrs. Rusk, in her simple and
sweet-hearted way, presides over the
social duties of the home, assisted bv
Miss Mary, who is a most lovely and ac-
cOmplished aid. Blaine Rusk, whose
name DetraYS the fathers political af-
iectiOns for the last quarter OF CEN
tury, attends school, and in his range
OF acquaintance is a popular fellow.
'Uncle Jerry" is liked by everybody.
and has really got further into the
affections OF Washington people than
any other man in this administration.
Everybody has heard of Nathan
Smith, the time-worthy standby of the
pOstOtfice department. 1t is a good
many years since he saw the Badger
state, but ne is as loyal to his old home
as any man can be. No other place can
call him her citizen. and he would
rather go back to his old haunts in Wis
cOnsin to spend his old age than to any
spot on earth. He has been for many
years confidential clerk in the post
Office department, having charge of the
appointments in the vast service of
fOurth-claSs pOStmasters. He is a
staunch Republican, but politics can
have but little effect on his tenure of
Office, for Democrats as well as Re-
publicans have insisted upon him STAY
ing where he is. When Col. Villas was
postmaster general he accepted
Nathan's resignation. but in less than
year he sent for him to take his old
place. The confidence imposed in him
has always been deserved. As Col.
Villas said of him, when Nathan is in
charge absolutely nothing leaks out
about department matters. Mr.. Smiths
old home is La Crosse.
one of the most comfortably situated
people in Washington is Judge Near
thur, the eX-chief justice of the District
OF Columbia. Rlpe IN years ana expert
ence and surrounded by all that well
earned wealth can provide, he is spend
ing the evening of his long and useful
life in honor and esteem. His home on
NJ street is one of the large and hand
some houses that came in with the
Shepherd regime, and it would be hard
TO conceive of one more to the taste of q
person of culture and social aptitude
Having retired from the bench under
the Cleveland administration, Judge
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his several years of service as the gov
ernOr's private secretary during Gov.
RuSk'S successive terms, Col. CasSOn
made the acquaintance of everybody in
the state who could lay claim to any
distinction whatever in either politics
or business. Although coming into a
line of duties wholly foreign to his
preparation, Col. CaSsOn very quickly
seized upon the various threads leading
up through the various branches of the
department to his office. and he per-
forms the work of the place to the full
satisfaction of the secretary Col
Casson brought Mrs. CassOn and his son
to Washington with him, and they are
enjoying life at the capital very much
Although he has sold his paper. the
Viroqua Censor, Col. Casson clings
fondly to his old home. and looks for
ward with longing to the time when he
can return TO it.
Among the best known clerks in the
pension Office is c. w. Hill. forme rly
county clerk of Grant county and a
brave soldier in Uncle Jerry's regiment
during the war.
One of the Understanding clerks in
the pension Office is Charles Ne1burgh,
of Beloit. He has been a clerk for four
years, and has made an excellent record
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Macarthur enjoys a large salary and has
only to devote himself to his books, his
wife and his health, which happily is
now greatly improved.
One of the best lawyers in Washing
ton is Col. Enoch Totten, who married
the daughter of Senator Timothy O.
Howe, Col. Totem is still young man,
and has probably what is the finest
practice in Washington. He is chief
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iron and, glancing. in A"Hs OoLHNAN'
fiicted the deadly wound.
Associated with his father is AL Cole
man, who was born a Badger boy at
Fond du Lac. and graduated at the Co
lumbia School of Law in New York.
For time he practiced al ST. Paul, but
he prefers Washington.
For fifteen years there has been but
one private secretary to the commits
siOner of Indian affairs, and his honor
belongs to a Wisconsin lady-One of the
best officials the bureau ever saw. This
is Miss Emily f. Cook, who came from
GAINESVILLE. So familiar is her face to
the many people from all over the coun-
try doing business with the department
that she is usually called ''the' Indian
commissioner. There is nothing in the
whole range of business in the Indian
Office that she does not know as well as
her own face. The history of Indian
affairs for the past quarter century is
at her tongues end, and she is consulted
invariably in all the important business
of the bureau. Commissioners may
come and commissioners may 90, but
Miss Cook Will be the commissioner as
long as she stays.
Miss Cooks sister May has made her
home in Washington for two years
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Sp0oner are warm friends, ami Miss
Jennings often assisted Mrs. SpOOner at
her receptions in the winter season.
Charles NJ. KanOuse is clerk in the
general land Office, where he has been
for several years. His father, Abram
Kanouse. is a brother OF T. ID. Kanouse,
the noted temperance advocate ami pol
itician, who now lives in South Dakota.
Abram KanOuse lives at Sun Prairie,
and for several years he was a clerk in
the treasury department.
The taIleSt man in the sixth auditors
Office is Ben Holman, of Beloit. He has
lived in Washington for fifteen years.
He has gone straight to the front in de-
partment work. and it would be hard to
name any one with better record or
more influence in the sixth auditors
Office. With shrewd eye to the value
of real estate. Mr.. Holman has made
investments i'm and around Washington
that have made him rich man.
mo. ) B street northwest" is an adj
dress that w isconsn people have fOl
ten years been in the habit of writing
pretty often. This is the pleasant resi-
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tanJ proceeding W. f. SPENCER.
of the executive session. There
have been times when, if he were
willing TO risk his position and
his honor, Jack" could have made a
small fortune by using the information
at his command. But no such thing
ever happened with him. Senators on
both sides of the chamber have the
most thorough confidence in him. and
lie will undoubtedly retain his place as
long as he CHOOSES TO keep il.
Few people living in Wisconsin nova
days remember the first state geolOgist,
Col. Edward Daniels, vino is now living
at GunstOn hall, an old colonial estate
on the Virginia side of the Potomac a
few miles south of Washington. Col.
Daniels is still in his prime. and man
of great learning and rare ability. He
commanded the First Wisconsin cavalry
in the first year of the war, and drove
jeff Thompson out of Missouri in
series of battles that for daring and
sagacity Stand unriyaled. BY shrewd
Investments in the pioneer periods of
tue West. Col. Daniels amasSed a snug
little fortune, and at the close OF the
war settled in Virginia, making his
home at Gunston hall. but spending
most of his time in Richmond editing
the Daily journal. He made this a
circulation of $4,000 iii the North for
its weekly edition. but the daily ate up
nearly all his wealth, and he retired to
his farm for reflection and recuperatlon.
He has $50 acres of splendid orchard,
and lives in house built POO years ago
with bricks brought from Glasgow as
ballast in tobacco vessels.
j. III. Rindlaub. who is clerk i'm the
records and pension division of the war
department. is the son of NJ. p. Rind-
laub, of the Piatteville Witness. he is
devoting his spare time to studying
medicine, and Is attending night
course of lectures at the Columbian
University.
Cornelius A. Harper, who is also a
clerk i'll the war department. is the
brother of Sam Harper. of Madison,
United States district attorney for the
western district of Wisconsin.
Another clerk IN the same Office is
John WaddingtOn, who comes from
Crawford county, and is the son of ex-
Senator WaddingtOn.
Maj. ID. Gray Purman, who has lived
in Washington since eX-COngreSSman
HaZelton's first term. is an old Grant
county man from PlatteviIle. He is an
examiner iii the patent office, and he
| lives at Tacoma Park, where he has a
very pretty home.
Mrs. Williams, of Grant county, a
sister of Hon. George Parker, vino is
now a special agent of the Indian of
| flee and was formerly a member of the
Republican state central committee, is
clerk in the census Office.
Arthur Yates, who was formerly mil
itary instructor at Pewaukee lake, has
| got place in the geological survey.
| He spent several years abroad before
| going into government employ, repre-
| senting a new army rifle which he was
| chosen to exhibit before several foreign
| powers. He was married last year, and
is very pleasantly settled at the capital.
| Mr.. Yates has recently undergone an
| examination for a second lIeutenancy in
| the regular army.
Another well-knOwn man is James
| Coleman, formerly Matt Carpenters
| law partner and well known as one of
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for his industry and fitness. He is one
of the best educated men in the public
service, being son of celebrated Ger
man university p. Dfessor. and thor
Ougb scholar in Hebrew, Greek, Latlu
and SanScrit.
Roscoe E. Roadway, who is an $500
clerk IN the pension office, is secretary
of the Wisconsin association. He was
for some time Matt Carpenters private
secretary.
Among the solid men of Washington
is Capt. j. ID. CrOissant, of ShebOygan.
He was brought up on farm near the
lake shore, and enlisted at Sheboygar.
He is now engaged in the banking bust
ness, and is president of the Carette
company. one of the important trans
pOrtatiOn concerns of Washington. He
makes frequent trips to Europe, and is
increasing his already large fortune by
large operations in Washington real
estate. He has built some of the finest
houses III the city. Capt. Croissant lost
his left arm at Gettysburg.
Prof. and Mrs. kennastOn have for
several years been members of the fac
ulty of Howard university, coming here
from Rlpon college. They are devoted
workers for the cOlored students in
their charge, and are greatly beloved by
them.
Thomas A. Robbins, one of the expert
employees of the dead letter office, is a
son of Hon. Hammer Robbins. of Platt-
vile. He was page in the state senate
fifteen years ago. where, At the same
time, his father was serving as a MEM
Der of the legislature. He has fine
record as clerk. and has recently grad
uated from the Columbian Law school.
He is one of the most popular clerks in
the department, where everybody af-
fectionately calls him TOmmie.
William E. Spencer, or Jack" as
his friends all know him, has been a
familiar figure in washington for
nearly twenty years. He is the eXecu-
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the strongest members
of the Fond du Lac
bar. Mr.. Coleman ha
a pleasant Office OH I
street, a few doors
east of the Ebbit
house, and with his
son Al for a partner
handles a large busi-
ness. 1t was he who
cleared Frank Ward
last fall on the ingen-
iOus theory that War.
was drunk, and in fir
ing his pistol to scare
the man he shot the
ball, struck a pillar of
=
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tive journal clerk
of the senate, a
position requiring
a man of absolute
fidelity and rare
20 cd Judgment.
He is present at
all the secret seS-
SlOnS of the SEN
ate and keeps the
record of them. No
one but a strong
man could keep
such a place with
out yielding TO the
constant tempta-
ton to disclose the
'oftentlme impor-
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dSIICuIIuIdI uO- MAJ RUChW UUD.
partment is A. T. Longley, who used
to live at Delton. He was for many
years in the agricultural department be
fore the Cleveland administration. and
in common with thousands of others he
was victim of that reform period.
When Gen. Harrison came in Mr.. Long
ley was put back in his old place.
Capt. Whittleton, another highly val
liable agricultural official, is an old Wis
consin man, having lived for many
years in the town of La Prairie, Rock
county. He has charge of the seed di-
vision. and through his hands, both in
buying and distributing, passes the
seed business of the department.
In the pension Office. as clerk in the
Southern division, is Horace E. Warner,
Continued ON Eighteenth Page.
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county, not far
from the Out-of-
the-way little
town of Sharon.
There he took the
hard knocks of a
boys life in a new
country on a piO-
neer farm, AMI
there he picked
up by dilligent
labor. in the few
books he could
procure, the rudi-
mentS of the
scholarship that
in later years
has made him
E-- H. 49,,
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to find a house in Washington that
could honestly be pronounced better
one than Senator Sawyer built under
his own supervision, and gave as a
birthday gift to his daughter. Mrs.
Howard Ganson White. 1t is at
the head of Connecticut avenue, at the
intersection of Twentieth street, a most
slightly point commanding a fine view
down the avenue to Dupont circle. and
westwards to the heights of Kalorama.
Mrs. White is active in Washington
society. and her entertainments are
sought eagerly by those who lead in the
social world. Her ball room is marvel
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All Badger People We're Glad When "Uncle jerry
Chose Col. Henry Casson to Be His Private
Secretary.
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,
agricultural de-
partment, is too
well k II o w n
thrOughoutWIs-
consin to need
any specialmen-
ton. His abili-
" as a writer
ana as master of
executive labor
made him inval-
liable to the
place he holds.
He has with him
his family, who
seem to enjoy.
w a S h in e ton,
life.
One of the old
officials of the
Agricultural de
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Long and Justly Celebrated Roster of Lawyers and
Judges Poets and Artists Singers and Travellers Pol
iticians and Old Settlers.
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ncle jerry Secretary Of Agriculture Leads Off the
Hero of Many Hard-Fought Battles in War and
Politics.
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Famous Men Women Who Have Contributed and Added
Glory to a State Rich in the Possession of Wealth,
Talent and Beauty.
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Short Biography of the Stirring, Active Career Of Maj
Powell, Of the United States Geological Survey,
and Many others.