Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-12-10
manners.

Once in while one sees walking with bowed
head along Broadway or seated i'll an orches ira
chair at the Metropolitan House tall man
with grizzed beard and peculiar face. which
somehow reminds US of things that happened
fifteen or twenty wears ago. The face and the
grizzled beard were once food for innumerable
cartoons, for they belong to Carl Schurz who
has been an orator, politician. journalist and
business man and is always a musician. If it
were not for bis musical taste Carl Schurz
might have raised himself to almost any posi-
lion III this country, but it is that which has
made him dreamy, restless and changeable. He
has changed from one party TO another SO
many times that very few people could tell to-
day on which side of the political fence he
stood during the last campaign. At the
close OF the Hayes administration Mr.
Schurz came to New York and, in COMPANY
with E. L. Godkin and Horace White,
assumed control of the Erening Post and for
some little time notable figure in
metropolitan life. But after awhile he tired
of Journalism and his partners tired of
HIM, so he retired from his position and be-
came the New York agent of one of the largest
lines of transatlantic steamers He entered
upon this new work with the greatest enthusi-
asm. and took an extraordinary interest in the
development of swift ocean steam ships He
would chat by the hour over tho 20 sibility of
building boat which would cross tho ocean in
less than five days. and when the Fuerst Bismarck
made her first trip he seemed as delighted wi h
issplendid specimen of marine architecture as
| child is with a new toy. But after while he
fell out with the company which employ ed him
and on the LIST of last July he resigned his posi-
ton and is said to be az present engaged in the
compilation of political history of the Uni tied
States. He is still popular as an orator and
| always speaks with cosency, elegance and
| force.
GEN. HORACE PORTER.
Gen. Horace Porter has distinguished him.
self in many ways. A graduate of West
Point, he played a prominent part in the wal
on Gen. Grants staff and when his chief be.
came President Porter made his private
! secretary. Since then he has distinguished
himself in railroad affairs and as an orator
speaker he easily ranks with Depew and
/ Choate. Socially Gen. Porter is an enor-
nous fayorite, and he possesses the entree to
many of the most desirable houses in New
York, but 1t Is at public and semi-public dinner
| par ties that he is seen to the best advantage
Els humor, heightened az it is by sing-song
! voice and q drawing delivery, never fails t.
convulse those who listen to him, and he
| makes his points rather by drollery and his
way OF saying the unexpected than by flights OF
| poetic fancy. That the general possesses q
large fund OF common sense and great execu-
| tive ability demonstrated by his shrewd
management of the movement to build the
tomb of Grant, movement which would have
| languished and died of inanition if Gen. Porter
had not galvanized it into life.
| 1t is safe to say that every southerner in New
| York knows John s. Wise of Virginia and half
| OF those who know him call him governor
\ though he was never elected to that office. Mr.
| Wise is an orator OF the true southern type and
as such is in great demand at all gatherings Of
people who hail from the other side OF
Mason and Dixon's line. He is out of politics
now and deyotes himself to large and lucrativ,
law practice.
/ Col John r. Fellows. who before Bourk,
| Cockrans day was considered the shining ora
| toricai light of Tammany Hall, was born in tn.
Adirondacks, went south at an early age, Rnt
was scarcely more than o boy VIXEN the wa,
broke out and he drifted into the confederat.
army. At the close Of the war he returned tS
the north. began the practice OF law in New
York, got into politics and the district attor
neys Office and became a most useful member
OF Tammany Hall. He is more brilliant
| speaker than Bourke Cochran. but has not the
latters stamina and steadfastness of purpose
He appears at his best when addressing &
political meeting in an exciting local campaign
RUFUs X. WILSON.