The morning call., 1894-01-07

to the White House in a carriage. He is
rarely seen walking on the streets of
w ashngton, and / venture there are not a
hundred men here outside OF those who
have met him in a business way " hO know
MIN. Let me tell you how he looked as be
stepped from his coupe to-day and stood
upon tue " hite House steps. The Post.
master-General has been compared tu
President Cleveland. | do not see where
the likeness comes in. Bissel is a much
bigger man than the President He is
taller, broader and better made. He has
giant frame, and the bones of this
are loaded down with muscular fat.
[ don't think his flesh is fla bly,. It looks
solid, and his dark sallow skin appears tc
be healthy. He has a bigger head than
President Cleveland. If you could thrust
a ruler through 1t from ear to ear you
would find It quite as thick as that OF the
President. It's longest dimensions, how
ever. are from top to bottom. / venture il
is nine inches from his crown 20 the
medulla oblongata, and his lace must be a
foot long. His chin is a double one, and
It slopes of into long, strong neck. The
Postmaster General has good, broad
forehead. 1t is high as well as broad, and
he combs his black hair straight up from
it. making it look still higher. His head is
very high above the ears, and the ears are
of good size and SET close to The head.
The POstmaster-Genera has pleasant
expression. He is honest in his manner.
and he can laugh. judge he would make
a good clubman, though he has not spent
much time in club life in Washington. He
is noted for his reticence 10 regard to him
self and his department. and the cold chills
corrugate his fat back until it looks like a
washb0ard when he is asked to make a
statement for newspaper publication. He
is, perhaps, the closest TO the President of
any man in the Cabinet, and physically he
nd ~, HI,
soul. The POstmaster-G General lives here
AT Washington, about two blocks from
the White House His home is a
big brick of three stories and an
English basement. 1t has prison
like entrance, and at the right of
this is little office or library, where the
Postmaster-General receives his entlemen
his work at home, and he smokes and
works here far into the night. He is a
man Of culture. Of good education and a
graduate of Yale. His wife is one of the
most accomplished women of the capital,
young and charming. She is fine must
clan. and received part of her musical
education IN Europe. She was New York
girl and was schoolmate of Mrs. Cleve-
land at Wells College. The Postmaster
General is said to be rich, He has made
a fortune a the law and in railroads, and
is said to be worth as many thousand as
H6 weighs POUNDS. AS Dc Llps Inc beam
al about three hundred, this would make
him the DOssassor of more than quarter
OF a million.
An0the. rich man in President Cleye-
lends Cabinet is Daniel Lamont. He fol-
lowed Bssell up the White House steps
this afternoon. He is six inches shorter
than the Postmaster General, and, though
he has materially gained in weight since
ne was private secretary to Cleveland, he
does not now weigh more than half as
much as Mr.. Bissell. He has not aged in
the past eight years. His mustache is the
same WHY red. His china blue eyes look
out from under the same heavy. un-
wriDkled brows, and his only difference is
seen in fuller cheeks and a perrept;bIe
paunch. Secretary Lamont is always
well dressed. He wears business
clothes as rule. but they are new. and
the creases in his pants are as
clearly defined as were those of Sac
rotary Whitney's. Lamont leads a demo
cratic life at the War Department He
has little anterOom back of his Office
where he receives his friends and in which
many confidential political chat is held
He is rapid worker and knows how to
make others work for him. There are no
lis about him, and though he is now
rich and ia nous he puts on no more airs
than be did when ne was comparatively
door, / am told that the biggest salary be
had ever received up to the time he entered
the White House was considerably less
than the amount he got there. He was the
first private secretary TO get $4,000. but 1t is
now said that his New York railroad and
other stocks bring him in several times