The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-12-02
BORN UNDER A LUCKY STAR.
Men Who Think Cleveland Is i
Man Of Destiny.
Secretary Gresham Has Taken Lannon'S
Place as the Presidents Esarest
Friend-Brlght and Sharp Zen s.
of the pipIomatic Corns.


Place as the Presidents Esarest
Friend.-Bright and Sharp Zen S
ofths Diplomatic Corps.
WASHINGTON, Nov. sz-[special i
Next to President Cleveland, Becretar,
Gresham is now tho man who is most talk
ed about in Washington. The Hawaiian
policy of the administration, largely du
to the views taken by the secretary o
state, has been the sensation Of the capi
tai ever since the adjournment of congress
and of course Mr.. Gresham was soo1
brought prominently before the public eye
Secretary Gresham and President Cleve
land are fast friends. No other member
OF tho cabinet goes SO much 10 the Whit
House. Naturally the affairs of the stat.
department take him often to the execu.
tive mansion, but every day or so he calls
there for n chat with tho president because
the two men have great liking for eacl
other, and each is fond Of the society ol
the other. The president and his secre-
tary of state have been off ffssquirrel shoot,
Ing together, and they had planned fine
fishing and hunting trip to the Adiron
dacks, which was spoiled by the long ses
sion OF congress due to the protracted
struggle over the silver bill In the sub
urbs of Washington Cleveland and Gresh.
am may often be seen driving together, and
Gresham dimes at the White House an av.
erage of once Il week. In the gossip of the
capital we hear that Gresham has taken
Dan Lamont's placea as the president 8 near
est friend and most confidential compan-
ion and adviser.
Confidence In tho President.
One of the curious features of capital
life at this time is the remarkable conf
dence many men have in Cleveland's star.
All through this Hawaiian episode, when
large part of the press of the country was
denouncing tie administration and some
of the more radical party papers vere even
demanding the presidents impeachment,
veteran observers in Washington said:
Never mind; Mr.. Cleveland will come
out all right. 1Ie always does. That's
his luck. Just look at that fight over the
silver bill. The odds were 100 to he was
beaten. He thought SO himself, and &c
did tho members of his cabinet. Right at
the last minute there was sudden turn
of affairs, and before any one could realize
what had happened the silver crowd was
down and the president was on top. You
can't beat u man who was born under a
lucky star like that" Even among the
men who do not like President Cleveland
-and there are plenty of them in Wash.
ington--,nlay be found this same supersti.
tion that his luck will carry him through
where any other man would fail
Secretary and Mrs. Gresham have solved
the housekeeping problem in rather nov.
el way. After spending n couple Of months
looking for suitable residence, and de.
clining several hundred houses whose rent.
al would amount to more than the secre.
tary's salary, they have settled down in
quarters connected with the Arlington ho.
tel. They have n separate house, with o
private entrance, and a number of large
parlors admirably adapted to social uses.
When the party is large and more room is
needed, there are four or five other spa
cious apartments ON tho same floor which
can bethrown into communication by slid
ing doors. The space thus made available
Is larger than that to be found on one floor
OF any private residence in town. Accord
ing to the social law, the secretary of state
will have to give ssbreal fast" to tho
whole diplomatic corps New Years day,
and after that series of dinners to the
foreign representatives at this capital.
Mrs. Gresham had been dreading this or
deal-the struggle with cooks, caterers,
florists, confectioners, servants. Now she
escapes all this. All she has to do is to
issue an order to the landlord for dinner
of SO many covers, to cost SO much per
plate. She pushes tho button, the land.
lord does tho rest and the secretary pays
the bills. In the end this will be found
cheaper than renting house, besides SO
much easier that the other ladies Of the
cabinet nre congratulating Mrs. Gresham
on her escape from tho cares and worries
incident TO tho maintenance of n house
through tho social season.
Social Matters.
The house which the secretary of state
lives in is already historic. 1t was foi
many years the home of Charles Sumner
and was then one of the best known houses
in Washington. Lord Ashburton, British
minister, once lived there, and in its par.
lors the treaty which defined our Cana.
dim boundary was signed by Lord Ash.
burton md Daniel Webster. Here also
lived Bulwer Lytton and his almost equal.
ly famous son, the author of stLucille.' -
That great poem, by the way, was written
in these parlors.
1t is noticeable that as tho years go by
the representatives Of foreign nations at
this capital do less and less in the way of
social entertaining. They give fewer par
ties and dinners than they did years ago.
At the present time the British minister,
Sir Julian Pauncefote, is the only member
OF the diplomatic corps who entertains on
large scale. Every winter he gives se-
ries of dinners and balls. He does so be-
cause he likes it--because he is never so
happy as when surrounded by company
OF gay men and women. He can well af-
ford to entertain, because his income as
British minister, counting salary, allow
snces and house rent. is equivalent to
about SG5, 900 u year. The British lega-
ton Is by long odds the most important
legation at this capital, considered both
from the political and the social point OF
view. Most of the other legations give a
few dinners and occasionally a reception,
the most active i'll this respect being the
Coreans, the last people in the world one
would suspect OF social ambition, and the
Brazilian minister, Senior Mendonca Tho
Chinese do very little in the social line.
Since their bail OF some years ago, when
they We're overrun by uninvited guests,
who made n very hoggish display of them
selves, tho Chinese stationed here have
looked more or less askance at Washing.
ton society.
But Yet q Heathen.
II any one thinks these Chinese diplo.
mats are to be taken for greenhorns, he
makes avery great mistake They are
among the brightest and nharpest. men OF
the diplomatic corps. As a rule they nre
exceedingly affable to visitors. When a
newspaper man calls ut the Chinese lega.
hon--whith is almost palatial in its mag!
nifi.ence-he is politely received. But he
gets little or no information. After the
conversation has ended and the caller Ii
on his way home, he thinks it all over md
discovers the heather Chinese has extract
ed from him everything he knew about
the eAmericango government, while what he
haslearned nbont the Chinese government
md its intentions could be written doWu
tn u five line paragraph: s.'.'-,--, -,
Colonel Charles H. Taylor, editor,of thi
Boston Globe, gave q dinner the othel
day in Boston to about twenty OF his oil
associates On the Boston Traveller whe,
he was an apprentice iii the composing
room of that paper in 1SD2-J5.
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