Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-04-10

TIE Hon. s. W. McCAn Il Bs~Aon.
congressman fron liz fAu<sn Csm-
hsidSs aud Bsak hss district u guest
his wife. Mr. Mccxlo district - esid
20 be the wsaithissi - the CuiSpd
States. ~be~ion y having rather live
successar ~ Ssnstus l0dge.- said Mr.
last evening. The repnitsunns nom
q reprrspntse.ssa billy Evseets - ths
dr~ocrst oansllss.ss. There vss se.lit
in the rspe blbsan cu,nvention aud osuse
ws shali elect the republican no1inre ~
spite II H.
-Masasehnssrsts 10 faring very vsil ~
the hands q the neW sdminisssstina.
continued Mr. Mccall. Ia he's thus tar
resolved the lion's shar~. by far the
ahiest 81 Nj. ctevclamf's Massachusetts,
appointments 10 that u Richard ',asry.
consider him the siaest man 10 the
cabinet he u scholarly. tinsshed isu-
yer in every sensr Il tine term. lie - .
goo'd fellow. teo and 10 we'll hke<i ~ his
associates. He left = inagnificentc ilsn-
tage 90 acceis the cabinet Iossison. Mr..
Oiney 10 not u man who appeared ire
quently hsforc = jury. In fact. be raieiy
had jury trial; but he 10 one al the
most efficient attorneys ever knew and
almost AL idesl man for the place he nos
holds.
Pat Collins 10 another citizen ii Mas
sschusetts who was PLEASANTLY remem-
bored by the new president. There v
no doubt that he could have had cabi.
net portfolio had he wanted one. Grover
Cleveland Owes his tirss election ~ Col.
Inns. Pat saved him the Irish vote.
which otherwise would have been STAN
peded a. Blaine. Col. ~ 10 the greatest
orator we have in New England. He's
! n good lawyer. TOO. although he has been
too much interested Ina politics ~ give
much attention 10 his practice. lie
makes great plea 10 jury. AZ poll
tician. nobody ever questioned Pats
transccndcnt ability. He IL great man
Ia convention. whether IL he In the
chair OF upon the floor. A. an orator he
is not % AoNery - Eourke Cochran.
lie stands on the ground little more
and kccps out II the clouds.
-Jopiah Quincey's appointment m NJ.
sistant secretary VI stats has given gen.
cral satisfaction. Quincey il good Eel.
low. but he has no personal magnetism
whatever. He's just the reverse II Pat
Collins in that respect. Quincy comes
from the old Quincy stock. One 1t his
ancestors was president Ut Harvard col
lege and mayor II Boston. The family
has been famous In American h,story
ever since revolutionary times. In spite
! 81 his lack of magnetism. Quincy will
do well In his new position. Being q
Bostonian it could not he otherwise,
could it,"
Emile Pickhardt IL Ellington. Mass.
is a guest in the New Livingston. Mr.
Pickhardt il . representative of the
Samuel Frost company. and reconciles
the prosaic employment ii ceiling cor
Gets with the romantic recreation Of writ
ing exquisite bits Of verse. Many 1t his
little poems have been printed In ths
Boston Globe. and Houghton. Mifiiin 4
Co. will eoon issue book Il verse writ
ten by him. The American women ars
slowly abandoning the corset" remarked
Mr.. Pickardt yesterday. They are sub
stituting corset waists and other drcsu
reform garments for t. The sales q
the old time corsets are diminishing NJ
the time. This il particularly true IL
the western and middle states. 'wher'
the women have been advanced a.
keener appreciation OF the necessity To-
dress reform. The women Of the soutl
still cling 70 their corsets and seem re