Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-09-02
DersAmAR's rLEAsusE mARRED.

DeIsAMAR'S PLEASURE MARREl,
Following is correspondence il
the Burlington Hawkeye, under thu
signature Of Robert Graves:
We lost our most distinguished
swell Of the past social season, HI
has gone to Europe. AS swell he
was great snccess, but he had mar.
row Escape from closing his Wash
ingtn career with tragedy. Hi.
name was DeLamar, Belgian, who
came to America years ago to seek
his fortune and found it in the silver
mines OF Idaho. Having become
acquainted with Russell Harrison,
the Presidents son, he took kindly
to young Harrisons suggestion tina,
be come down to Washington to en-
Joy the winter. Mr.. DeI.amar was
rich, young, tolerably good looking,
fond OF display, nm accomplished
horscman, a devoted beau.
But finally Mr.. DeLamar ran afoul
of another social swell, none other
than the attache Of ons Of the foreign
Legations. There was some rivalry
about young woman's hand at n
german or some dispute at dinner
t.ble. Just what il was no one appears
to know. But any rate Mr.. Della
mars quarrel with one attache led
bin into the blunder OF denouncing
the whole tribe Of attaches. Permit
ting himself to be interviewed by the
correspondent Of . society paper, the
swell young man from the Silver
State uttered publicly and pointedly
his opinion that tho legation attaches
in Washington we're a pack Of adj
ventnrers, dead beats, and poverty
stricken pretenders. He added that
while the aforesaid attaches AFRO
gated to themselves all the good birth
and breeding in Washington society,
they we're as matter OF fact sour
ny set, low born and lily reared in
humble conditions OF life from which
they were rescued by accident. There
was more truth than poetry In all
this, and the thrusts were felt. They
struck the spot.
Within two days after the appear
ance Of this interview Mr.. DeLamar
was called upon by at least dozen
irate attaches who desired either ex-
PLANTATION or satisfaction. The young
Idaho silver miner had no desire to
figure In duel, though he was not
entirely averse to a fight of some sort
or other. His western training had
fitted him for scrapping match, with
or without shooting irons, as might be
desired. DeLamar's friends told him
he had better disavow the interview,
and intimated that II he didn't the
whole diplomatic corps would take
up the cudgels against him, and that
would cook his social goose in this
town. DeLamar replied that he
could take caro- Of himself, in society
or elsewhere, and that at any rate he
had slipped about all the sweets of So
cial triumph that were to be had in
Washington, and had concluded to go
elsewhere aud find more worlds to
conquer. Then he adopted char
acteristlc western fashion of express
ing his contempt for the squad of at
taches who had been harrassing them.
Instead OF retracting the offensive
article he sent for fifty extra copies Of
the journal containing it, marked the
Objectionable interview and mailed
the papers with his compliments to
the whole corps Of attaches. The
young men who gain social distinct
ion by hanging about the foreign Ie-
cations on meager salaries we're
wrought up to a dreadful pitch.
They held meeting in the Metropoli-
tan club and in four or five languages
discussed ways and means of bring.
ing the offender to justice. Some
were in favor of having him to fight
a series of duels, while others wanted
him publicly insulted, degraded and
denounced. While the discussion
was at its height and those Young
men who had been favored by fortune
with mustaches we're pulling at them
tiercely some one pointed TO a para
graph in the morning paper. 1t read:
"Mr. DeLamar left Washington YES.
terday for New York, whence he will
sail for Europe tomorrow"