The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-12
NEARING The END.
Washington Society is Getting
Ready to. Leave,
If Congress Does Hang So
Drearily On.
STILL TALK COXEY.
President Getting Ready to Go
to Gray Gables.

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Already the talk is Of summer outings, and
all sorts of social functions are being an
nounced as the last in their line for the
season Society at one extreme is official
and at the other Coxeyflcial. 1t is given
out by authority that the presidents
family will soon be at Gray Gables for the
summer, and that he will follow as soon
as he can get congress OF his hands, but
Coxey swears by all the tabled gods that
his army will stay till congress passes the
law for good roads and more greenbacks.
In certain sense the army remains, but
it is the saInc army only as q moving cloud
of desert sand may be called the same
which loses on one side as fast as it gains
upon the other. The same old process is
at work which transforms all such bodies
The fellows who were in it for fun and
those who have remnants of manhood and
Independence left are falling away, and
their places are being supplied by new re-
cruits of successfully lower classes Mean
while there are, according to a careful es-
innate made by the police from detailed
accounts received, just about s, 900 mora so
called industrials the way hither, but
railroad men and labor leaders assure us
that few or none of them will get here. All
sorts of obstacles have been thrown in their
way, and more will be. 1t was fun to
cheer on the first column and not much of
burden to feed it, but the second that
comes along is a nuisance, and the people
want no moro of it. So the chances are
that we are done with the Cozey end of So
ciety-
Social Matters.
President and cabinet of course, could
not think of general and prolonged alb
sence till after the unwilling and dedica-
ton of the Mary Washing ton monument,
for it has long been understood that they
were all to be there, but Secretary Herbert
and party are already in the far west, and
official notice has been given that their
tour will continue for nearly a month.
They arc to visit Yellowstone park and
other great sights easy of access, and the
secretary is expected to acquire q largo
stock of information as to the needs of the
Pacific coast in his department Hon. w.
l.. Wilson is soon to take his old place in
the house. and his friends declare that he
is in much better physical condition than
when he left, despite his serious illness.
1t is evident all sides that the spring,
or rather early summer, lulI in Washing
ton gayeties is at hand, and social leaders
making their selections at mountain
and seashore for the summer The thea
tiers, however, have made their arrange
ments for many weeks ahead, and the vol
unteer musical and intellectual entertain
ments are arranged for apparently on the
supposition that congress will be here till
the middle of July at any rate
In the intellectual line the great event
of this month will be the oratorical contest
for the gold medal which is to be on the
18th. This affair is under the patronage
of Mrs. John A. Logan, Mrs. Senators
Cnllom, Teller, Dolph and Wilson, Mrs.
Representatives Picker and Hepburn, DR..
Newman and others nearly as we'll known
in Washington society.
An Electric Device.
At Albaugh's Grand Opera House the
Edgar Strakosch Comic Opera company
has begun an eight weeks engagement,
the first piece being ''GirOfe- GirOha. - OF
course wonderful promises are made as to
but the really striking fact is that prices
have been brought down to true hard
times basis, prices of seats ranging from
25 cents to 81, and the 81 is for the best
seat in the house reserved A real novelty
in the property line, if it be proper to call
it SO, is the electric dance, in which the
soubrette appears covered with miniature
incandeScent lamps of various hueS, and
by the manipulation of the currents ka-
leidoscopic views are produced like those
on the famous column which amazed and
delighted visitors to the Electrical building
at the Chicago World S fair. This is said
to be the first representation of this kind
in America, and the interest Of the audi
ence is greatly heightened by very nat
ural feeling that the currents are liable to
go wrong and produce a sensational catas-
trophe.
In the line of more select entertain
ments the week opened with Mr.. Kreh-
biel's parlor lecture on musical subjects,
his talk ranging from the old Greek
tragedy down through all the variations of
music to the Wagnerian drama and the
folk songs of the colored people and other
native and uncultured Americans Toward
the last of this month the annual benefit
for the charity fund of John A. Rawlins
post of the G.. A. r. will occur at the
Academy of Music. In addition to the pro-
fessionals who will appear in the leading
piece, The Three Dukes, - there will be
60 amateur singers in chorus, including
the best Washington voices
Coquetting With Labor.
Although many congressman are an
nounced as among the promoters and pa
irons of these entertainments for charity's
of entertainments generally, yet their work
has certainly not been neglected. Indeed
it is held by the veterans of both parties
that the house has been unusually Ciligent
of late, and even the senate in the inter
walls of the tariff debate has done a great
deal of important business. There is a gen
eral feeling among the members that in this
campaign, as never before, there will be a
great advantage in getting into the field
early, and in the west especially I'M
usually large proportion of the nominating
conventions have been called for early pc
RODS in the summer. 1t IS remarked also
that two or three new elements have come
into the problem In several western dis
tricts the party usually in the minority is
coquetting with organized labor, and there
is much talk of nominating men who hold
positions in various labor bodies. OF all
the campaigns, however, none attracts SO
much attention as that of Colonel Brock
inridge, and it is astonishing how the old
man has gained in the confidence Of his
colleagues When he announced his deter
minatiOn to mako the fight of his life for