The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-09-28
PERSONAL AND .PEcuLIAR.

Phll adelphia intends to put monu-
meat in honor of James A. Garfield in
Paramount Park. The sum of $4,000
has already been raised to pay for the
monument, and Augustus St. Gaudens
has been selected as its designer.
The steamer La Bourgogne, of the
French line, which arrived in New York
Sunday morning, brought the famous
Coquelin- Hading Dramatic Comedy of
the Coincide Franchise, Paris, which is
to fill It's first engagement in this country.
Besides Nine. Hading, NJ. Coquelin and
his son, there are 26 persons in the COM
pany.
Paul Bourget, the distinguished French
novelist, who is now in Chicago, express
es himself as more than delighted with
the great fair
Lieutenant Conway, United States
Navy, who.has just died of typhoid fever
at Owensborough, KY, was the first man
to make first rate chart of Behring
Sea. While cruising in those waters in
the season of 1892 as navigator of the
Yorktown, Lieutenant Conway, at the
instance of his Commander, devoted
most of his spare time to the work OF
preparing this chart When done it was
an admirably thorough and seamanlike
production. The NEST capable subalterns
in the navy do a great deal of such
work, and usually without adding eeto
their reputation outside their own ship.
A marble bass-relief bust of the late
Justice Bradley of the United States
Supreme Court is soon to be put in the
Appellate Court room in Philadelphia.
There is to be an inscription stating
that the dead justice was a mem Der OF
the Supreme Court from 1870 to 1850.
President Cleveland will not be able to
attend the Williams college centennial,
which is to be celebrated at Williams
town Oct. s, 9 and 10. The situation in
Washington is such that. he cannot
leave, and President Carter has received
letter expressing the reluctance of Mr.
Cleveland to abandon the trip.
The present Emperor of Germany set
out to have no more of the French chefs
who had directed the royal kitchen
from the days of Frederick the Great.
He banished French from the menus
and put good German in the kitchen !.
Now he has given up the German cooks
again and engaged two French chefs of
high reputation. The menus, however,
are still to be in German.
Henry NJ Smythe, who has recently
been appointed United States minister
to Hayti, has made application to the
Secretary of the Navy for a. war vessel to
convey him to his post. This applica-
ton is taken to mean that the new min
lister has received instructions to obtain
a cession of the Mole St. Nicholas as a
coaling station, IF possible, and that he
desires to go to his post III as much state
as possible, in order to impress the ma
tives Of that impressionable country
with the Importance of his mission.
There will be Congress of Young
Mems Christian Associations at Chicago
on October g. The introductory address
will Re by C. G. Bonney, presideat. At
the morning session the papers will be
on work in colleges, and on railroads,
on physical development and on the edu-
caitonal department. At the evening
session Cephas Brainard Of New York
will speak on the development of the as
sociations, and delegates from England,
France and Germany will speak for their
respective countries!