The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-04
TO THE EYE AND EAR.
Frank G. Carpenters Double
Means Of Entertaining.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Great Correspondent Proves Him.
self Great In His New Field Before
. Seattle Audience.

The portrait talk Of Frank G. Carpenter in
plymouth church lest night was . strict fulfill
msnt OF the promise made In the speakers adj
vance notices. to conduct his hearers around
the world and present them ssriatim to the
great ana able men and women of al countries.
me method and arrangement OF the lecture
were very good. At the back Of the main audi
torium was stersopticon, which threw por-
ualss ana scenes on . large white screen fixed
over the chancel. The pictures were something
remarkable for their beauty and fidelity. They
wers models Of the photographer art.
The lecturer came upon the platform at 80,
afrayed In evening dress. He raised laugh by
declaring At the outset that newspaper men
were the most modest Of men. He knew this
from his own experience, and told how, when
with his heart In his mouth ct the prospect of
interviewing James G. Blaine, he had been stiff.
tened up 70 his task by rejecting that that great
man had once been just such . sQualling,
shapsleo mass Of human kind - his own baby
at home. He illustrated these points by pic
lures OF an infant in neglige, Of Mr.. Blaine and
OF the house OF the latter In Dupont circle,
Warrington City. The speaker referred to Mr..
Blaine's courtesy and simplicity and then
flashed Chief Justice Fuller and the full su-
prsme bench Of tie United States, declaring
that they too, were all of the same unprete1-
tious kind. "Indesd," said he, II think you
could ind . dosen young lawyers in Seattle
with more airs than any Of these great men,"
The speaker then gave the Quaftette group Of
the famous Field brothers, Cyrus, the 6nancier;
Henry NJ, the theologian: David Dudley, the
lawyer, and Stephen j., now senior justice of
the supreme court OF the United States. He also
showed great curiosity In the shape Of IN old
picture OF Cyrus Field taken before the rebel.
lion By Brady. the wartime photographer, with
piece OF the original Atlantic cable lying over
the back Of . chair.
Presidents Harrison and Cleveland both ap-
peared on the canvas In turn. Mrs. Cleveland
then appeared In two poses and after her Mrs.
John A. Logan, followed by the husband of the
latter. Senator George Frisbie Hoar. of Mass q
chusetts. would not talk ut all to Newspaper
men. but the speaker had once had the pleasure
OF carto0ning him. In the senator's board
ing house In Washington City his next
door neighbors used to hear In the mornings
row like an amateur debating society: peering
over the transom one morning they saw the SEN
ator In his nightgown rehearsing one Of his
speeches in preparation for its delivery before
the United States senate MI. Carpenter made
sketch. and it was printed In the paper of
which he was correspondent He then flashed
copy Of 1t on the screen and roar of laughter
went up from the audience
Senator Joe Brown, of Georgis. appeared, and
OF him the speaker said that he had been de-
scribsd BY HE old enemy, Robert Toombs, a a
man who 'could steal the soda out of biscuit
without breaking the crust"
Speaking Of Gov. Mckinley, of Ohio the lee
turer said that ''Some men were born great,
some born in Ohio" Mckinley, though ressm.
bling Napoleon and frequently reminded of il.
did not like It Ohio, the presidential baby
farm, he said, would probably produce another
presidential candidate in Mckinley In 1896,
statement which produced long applause.
Among the next pictures was ono believed to
b the last even taken Of ex- President Hayes.
just . few weeks before his death. He also
showed copy Of an old daguerrotype taken of
Mrs. Hayes when . child, . "Madonna face" q
the speaker said Prssident Hayes called it
John Wanamaker and his ideas of the postal
service set forth In IN autograph manuscript
were reproduced on the canvass. Gen. sher-
man and Gen. Sheridan passed quickly before
the eyes OF the audience. sheridan's horse,
"Winchester." which carried the general in
forty-three engagements, followed his rider.
Among the next were Justin Morrill,, sena-
tor from Vermont, author of the Morrill, tariff
OF 1861, and q fine portrait OF the now venerable
Frederick Douglass. the colorsd orator and ex.
minister of the United States to Haiti
The lecturer threw William Malone, of Vir-
ginia, on the canvas and told how his wife had
wept when, during the war, che had heard that
her husband was wounded In battle. Being
told that it was only flesh wound she refused
to be cOmforted because "Billy had no flesh on
him to b wounded In ana It must be fatal il he
10 hit at all" Other great Americans touched
on included Robert @. IngersolI, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton,
Dr. Calling, OF machine gun fame, Bell, the
telephane man, and Edison in his $500, 900 lab
oratory. Going to foreign lands portraits were
given OF Pornrio Diaz president of Mexico,
the mikado OF Japan, the king of
Kores. and Ii Hung Chang. viceroy
of China Tho last named had prophesied to
to him, the lecturer said. that China, with her
coal and iron resources, would yet manufacture
for the whole world. The last produced
were the sultan of Johore, king of Greece
and the late khedive of Egypt, Tewfk
Pasha, father of the reigning khedive, Abbas
Pasha The speaker paid high compliment to
the Temperance and abstinence from stimulants
that characterized the late khedive and then
concluded with brief peroration on the glories