Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-10-28
DOM PEDRO IN NEW YORK
NEWSPAPER MEN VIII LONG RE.
MEMBER HIS TREATMENT.

Ho~ the Emperor of brsHt Won the RE-
gard "T tho Metropolitan R~port~rs.
ne snabh~d "a. Great Men VIII" Tried
to M"n"poIis- his Company.
There are several men now connected /
with New York newspapers who had the 1
Enod fortune Ia bs more or less in company 1
with Dom Pedro when he visited this city l
Ia iSsd, aud To these the announcement Of |
his death was very unpleasant news.
"He was q jolly good fellow. said an old |
time reporter the other day, Il saw great
deal of him ia the two days that followed
him around town, aud though he gave me
long hours aud tiresome runs, | liked him
all the time, and came To have great respect
for him too. lie was an ideal man ia his
treatment ot reporters.
I'VE met ON the Helyelius down he har-
nor April Is. isi6. and fell in love with him
al first sight We were pleased with his
looks and his hearing, hut what particu.
larly won MS 10 him was his treatment Of
the three secretaries-Taft, Robeson and
Fish-and the other great guns who had
come down to give him royal welcome
lie took the starch out OF those men beau
tifully and We were delighted because hose
same fellows had snubbed us the night he
fore.
You see the government undertook to
10 great things for Dom Pedro The three
secretaries were sent ON here with orders
% confer with the commandant Of the
navy yard with n view To making the EN-
perorfs reception a. impressive a. posi-
ole The conference was held behind
tightly closed doors, aud we reporters were
treated A. though we had no rights a rep.
resentatives Of the public's curiosity TO in
luire concerning the doings at the confer.
ence. OF course we found o,i everything,
just a. we always do.
We said then, speaking from long exper.
i-nce-for some of us had been years In the
husiness--that our turn would come, but
we had no idea that IL would come the
very next day.
"lt was worth twenty five dollars to sew
eral Of the reporters on the lielvelius TO
sec the way that Dom Pedro treated the
official representatives of this great nation
lhe old man shook hands with each man
who was presented To him, and listened
while somebody read AN address To him,
"a which he answered with mere Thank
yuu.'
Then he demanded Of whomsoever it
might concern, Where's sherman
when he WIS told that General Sher
man wes out west he lost all interest la
The distinguished men who had come to
,ome aboard the government boat Alert
iiongsidr, he gave very short answer TO
the effect that the Helvelus was good
enough for him, aud, as II that was not
enough, he actually turned his back ON the
reception committee and began talking Ia
he reporters.
The emperor is in Brazil, he explained
to them. I'm a private citizen
The high joints waited two or three
minutes for the emperor tn come back to
hem. and then sneaked of and slid down
. the deck OF the Alert.
= "All this was nuts for us reporters. fnr
!. We knew that an elaborate lunch hail been
E prepared on the Alert, and that il had been
! proposed to do great things all the way from
quarantine up to the Fifth Avenue hotel
, Tor which special preparations had beer
made.
We'll. the emperor let the Alert 90 he
way and he went the way of the Helvelias
J md was in course OF time landed at Mar
tin's wharf over in Brooklyn. Then b,
4 lnok "A hack TO the Fifth Avenue hotel
Y which he entered just a. any ordinary maI
snters il.
Tine next day and the next was de
allied to keep track of him. The first da,
I started ia at o'clock. Ii WAS Sunday
Dom Pedro went first 10 the Forty secnn,
; he city. wasn't allowed to go with him
but | was consoled somewhat when hear,
I hat, having failed 10 get what informa
4 lion he wished for from those who wer,
+. with him, he had expressed regret that u,
!, reporters were present
They are the most intelligent men tina
I've seen in America he said To one of hi
attendants.
g After breakfast Dom Pedro went I,
e mass ia ST. patriek's cathedral, in Mul
:, berry street When the service was over
,rowd gathered at the door TO see him eli
ter his carriage. 80 that he might not b
. disturbed by the press of the crowd a de
all of policemen had been sent 10 th
I shnrch lie looked at the officers quizzi,
tlly for second aud then said;
a church Is queer place for poles
! aien 10 be at In our country we don't a
l. tow policemen to come TO church
y Monday morning he began, as the da
r before, at o'clock. At that hour he LEI
r his hotel intent on taking ride in Jerse,
. lie hadn't gone more than two blocks b,
fore he WAS upset but he was soon place
=" M another carriage aud of again lie wa
u back to breakfast at . o'clock, aud at
~ o'clock he was out 10 take IA look at som
II the city schools and hospitals.
AT $50 he was at his hotel awaiting III
arrival OF a committee of citizens whie
:, had been appointed to deliver an addre.
!. % him was in the Office of the hot,
!" when the committee came in. IL consiste
y II ex Governor Dix. Ex-Governor Morgan
d William Cullen Bryant and Charl,
le O'Conor As seon a. saw Governor Di
a inter the corridor | rushed mp to hin
m Johnny Green, a well known pewspap,
n. man, and good one, too, was with me.
~ "Governor, we wish to 20 along wit
i you and witness what takes place" sai'
impossible, he answered.
u = "'But you will give us a copy Of the AZ
US lressr
a ~ shall have To decline to do that sal
he the governor, and in an indescribably mal
OF hiiicent way he swept by us and strode II
he the stairs.
In Then johnny Green aud Iput our heaC
n, together aud wrote a note to Dom Pedl
asking him 10 allow us TO be present whi
the address was being delivered.
I'm about a minute down came an II
tendant, and Johnny aud | were ushere
u into the emperor's apartments ia the fine
10 ,tyle imaginable. The committee OF CT
US iIens looked like four old sheep when tbs
:. saw us come into the room. We smils
y beneyolently at all OF them, winked
Governor DIX. and then took our places
lc- he most conspicuous part of the room.
en Presently the emperor came in and ia
"a bored way heard what the committee hs
nd to say to him Then he spoke "a hundrs
en 1r so words of broken English. and II