St. Paul daily globe., 1892-11-18


ties of this sort would debar him from
rising in the Tammany organization.
The Gllroy family lives in large and
well-appoiuted house at No. Z West
12lst street, which is within a ball's
throw of the residence of Richard Gro
ker, the sage of beautiful Mount Morris
Park. Mr.. Gilroy'S home is not oSten-
tatlouS. You walk up the front steps
and find yourself facing pair OF glass
folding doors, bright as diamonds. An
electric bell rings. and in moment you
are ushered into a luxurious drawing
room. 1t is tastefulIy and richly fur
nished, though the stricteSt watch on
the part of those assigned to that duty
cannot keep the telltale doll and top out
OF the apartment
Gllded chairs, luxurious lounges, onyx
tables bearing enormous lamps, and a
great big open fireplace, with shiny,
bronZed irons, first attract your eye.
The room looks warm, and there is vel
come written all over it. The lights
blaze up as you enter, for the sun is on
its way to other lands, and it is cold and
gloomy outside.
Tiae 'sChild's DreaGnland waltz
The paintings. of which there are
many, are all very human, many of
them telling tales of cOurtShip. In a
corner, after awhile. you find crayon
drawing of the owner of all this. 1t IS
the other side of the piano, in front OF
which there is chair. and i'll the chair
is little piece of ribbon. Some one
has been playing. In the music rest
is the "Child's Dreamiand Waltz
When the moon is beaming,
Ger the waters cleaning,
Little ones are dreaming,
Free from toll and care.
When Mrs. Gilroy comes in it is hard
to believe that she is old enough to have
raised so large family. She is a woman
of charming manner and Of great com
mon sense. She doesn't like the no
toriety of politics.
when Mr.. Glroy first spoke of being
candidate" she said, Il was fright
ened to death and asked him TO do no
such thing. Idldn't like the idea of the
newspapers abusing him, but find that
they have been wonderfully kind.
Il couldn't stand the idea of having
Gilroy told me that if 1 didn't let them
have a photograph they might print a
make-believe picture. | suppose he
was joking, but have seen pictures OF
the wives of public men that looked as
if they were made up. | believe the
artist was mad because he couldn't get
real likeness and made them ugly out
of spite.
Il think that as mayor Mr.. Gilroy will
be able to do more with less work than
he does in his present position. He
thinks that he can do wonders for the
city. The secret of his life has been
work and plenty of it. He really works
too hard. very common failing with
American men, but happily he has not
suffered in health by it.
Il am a Democrat" said Mrs. Gilroy,
in reply to my questions. II think the
Mckinley taxation scheme is wicked. 1t
places the burden on those who can
least afford it the man who lives on
small salary. In matter like this
there are two classes for whom | have
no conSideratiOn-trampS and rich peO-
Pile. Ii is a man with family and S15
a week that [ feel for. The rich peO-
pie can afford the taxes. but they should
be heavier on diamonds and lighter on
necessities"
Little Woman Politicians.
Little Dorothy Gilroy, three feet high,
pretty girl ina red dress and white
apron, here came into the room. She
had heard that there were newspaper
artists and people about the premises
and she wanted to see what they looked
like.
| learned from her that she, too, was
a Democrat. and that her kitten and doll
had been punished for showing symp-
toms of RepublicaniSm. During the heat
of the campaign Dorothy spotted the
Republicans in the block and went to
them and said: why don't you be a
~ fax.
papa? Wouldn't he make a good
mayor"s
The Republicans. of course. were
bound to confess that he would, and
then Dorothy put their names down as
converts. Thirty-siX Republicans in
Mr.. Gilroy's district voted for him. 1t
is likely that this all came of Dorothy'S
eIectioneering. After Mr.. Einstein's
defeat ne wrote very pretty letter to
Mr.. GilrOy, complimentlng him OH his
election, and then Dorothy began 10
feel sorry that she had aided in the dis
comfiture of so pleasant-spoken gem
tleman.
After the trials of the campaign Mr..
and Mrs. GiIroy were preparing for a
ten days. vacation. The latter knew
that their destination was New Orleans,
but she had no idea where they would
go after that. The mayor-elect, she
said. was a great traveller, and the
faster the train went the better he liked
it. When he got in a Pullman car with
powerful locomotive attached TO 1t he
was very happy.
Mrs. Gilroy knows all about house
keeping. and that her way of bringing
I'D family is the correct one is shown
by the department of her boys and
girls, who are ladies and gentlemen
from the cradle up. They are healthy,
too, condition of things she has found
hard to maintain in city. All are
strong-llmbed and jolly.
II do all my own shopping" she says,
''as want to be sure that my husband
and family have what is good for them.
We have a large circle of friends, of
course, but we do not go in much for
social dissipation
Outside IN the hall large tray piled
high with cards showed how many had
called to congratulate the mayor elect.
A horseshoe made of flowers, as tall as
Dorothy Gilroy, hung over tine hat
rack. 1t was sent in on election night.
What my husband most longs for Is
leisure, but he will never take it. We
have large library, and he looks at it
sometimes regretfully. He would like
to devote larger amount of time to his
books. shall never forget how he felt
when we went to Europe and the steam