St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-01
LOST OPPORTUNITY.

When Mr.. LOWRY strikes New York,
no matter what the weather, he always
becomes voluble. He hurries into the
lobby of the Fifth Avenue or the Wind
sor with his nine feet or more of light
and perceptibly expanding diaphragm,
throws his grip down on the counter,
pushes his tall hat back from his brow,
graSps the reporters who surge about
him with his right hand and his left
hand at the same time, smiles delight
fully, and begins to talk. They ask
him questions. and he answers with
readiness, with profound knowledge of
his subject, with resistless geniality.
All the gentlemen of the. press admire
him, and they reproduce faithfully the
next morning every word he uttered
and some which he omitted. Their
only regret is that they cannot repro
duce his charming manner. But that
is inimitabe.
Mr.. LOWRY was in New York the
other day, talking freely. The telegraph
operators, whom he has also captivated,
have been busy transmitting to us his
opinions on Minnesota politics. How
much more interesting would it nave
been had his interyiewerS asked him
whether he was going to build the cleo
trio line to Como park. whether the cars
would run more frequently hereafter
to West st. Paul, whether he proposed
to improve our transfer system, and
whether we might not have open mo-
tors OH these warm nights instead of
ho nIn I'M fy0xy nj
SO uncomfortable. Aid. WARREN is I'M
derstood to have sent him letter put
ting these questions to him. But Mr..
LOWRY does not always answer letters
promptly. 1t is too bad that some one
did not think to hire New York re-
porter to sound him on these matters.
If some one had, we should have known
all about them by this time. Here is,
indeed, lost opportunity.
PEN PICTURE OF CLEVELAND.
The personality of great man is
always interesting to the public. GRO
YER CLEVELAND may be pardoned, and
even commended, for the resentment he
betrays when this interest seeks, in his
case, to include FRANCES and Baby
RUTH in its not overly delicate mani
festatiOns; but as far as he himself is
concerned, he must resign himself to
beng a target for endless curiosity and
criticism. Much of the criticism of his
personal appearance is characterized by
malignant spitefulness. His public
acts and private life being so unassail-
able, a good many small.bore opposition
organs disgorge their venom through
the channel of vituperative sneers at
his physical proportions. AS he is not
running for president on his good looks,
this is matter of small consequence;
yet it is pleasing to occasionally come
across such an honest, fair and truthful
pen-picture of the man as the following
from the Boston Transcript, describing
Mr.. CLEVELAND as he appeared at the
notification exercises in New York
recently:
He looked like parsonage" indeed, like
a strong man, like a thoughtful man. His
whole bearing suggested at once physical and
mental power. His STEP as he mounted the
platform. was firm and heavy aud slow, not
from WEAKNESS, but from sheer strength and
weight of body. His broad, strong shoulders,
his large head we'll set into. rather than upon
them: his bigness not grossness, of body,
we'll suited the popular notion of the man.
His eyes were clear and bright; his forehead
high and thoughtful, and yet not I'M
duly careworn; his chin strong and agrees
i've, and his whole face, brown now with
wind and sun, firm and impressive. 1t is
nearly six years since first saw Mr.. CLEvE-
LAND as the guest of Harvard at the celebra-
ton of its great anniversary, and now, as
then, his face recalled in an instant the line
under WARREN HASTINGS portrait in the
council room at Calcutta: Mems @Qua in ar
duiS.'