The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-12-16
KNOWN IN THE CAPITAL
Jerseymen Who Are Familiar
in Washington and Some
Of Their Sayings.

A Washington correspondent in the New
ark Cali of last Sunday says.-"Come
with me to Chamberiain's and let me in
troduce you to some Washington folk
whom you should know said the courtly
Raymaster Mcdonald. of the United States
Navy, to me one evening at Wizards.
He Is not at Wizards now. He came
near being suffocated in the mud of the
Navy Yard basin al Brooklyn a few days
ago. He has recently been assigned to
the care of the shekels ON the Inflated
battleship Texas. He knows everybody of
any possible account at the Capitol, and
he was generously solicitous that / should
know more Of them than / did. 1t was
an invitation that / couldn't decline, n
l didn't decline it.
We had not fingered many minutes over
the hot apple toddy tina Chamberlain
skill has made famous among the states
at our table about as choice a little
coterie Of good fellows as one would want
to meet. Having made me at home among
them he excused himself for half an hour
h a he might enjoy the society of a
bright eyed lady newspaper. correspon-
dent who awaited him in the ladies' par
lor- When he returned at the end of an
hour he looked ON with a surprised face.
Not a soul did he know of those now at
the table where he had left only friends.
The scene at Chamberlain's is an ever
shifting one. The crowd he had left had
drifted away and a new crowd had taken
their chairs. What surprised him was
that I was even more at home with these
new faces than he had made me among
1sT 1890 e. .alr.ceS:
raw canf = y ~ soine ~reuuc
him ac-a,ssin{aa witb 70 nm, and ! maze
many ) iast ana ,n,,o NY latea9 aE,G
chair legs ~ nue eacAe' q moving
they 1,era on ras~-
I was SO much en- rannort uri aabb M ~hs WY
crowd that had dronnad into tha sasts n IL
crowd had iaft T = IN ! .ns Seats ms
the famous hosteirv mo aftar ~ other
ia take ! Hts ond syn AZ sad,,ct W. e to oi
The advenf ~ q nar, sass;on ~ Tan9ress
brin "a Them "a MIND as anaonr tba ~
seym7en wbom tba si++,nos an sni4e, Hi,l
atfrac - 10 We shsr 800 $500 1870 "a
T,ha hte.ast - 49, sssiy wl.sJ
"JoAo Cnnninpharn ~ srsanN hans ua,,
noticed how SsIne;ss Shadow baanst haan
growino less If iata $500 His .mnIa
foryn no ~ ~ mnia. ssah annp,t
banbe,,o;n, n T. Am = stSaies
RIVER HE ea-en,ng frolc at rpa nhor,a !;
has its h,,s;nass end 1rhere Is some nns
IL = e~.ootaS - -
Soc hsfare he 80 rs Ma ~ ny IL ,'saa ~
some dourr hers - ,oor : star tba Goonar1
Ean,;4+ ;n+ore-ta nara ~ hof
conrarnaa p ~. WaSh;rat oeosrs ae
tba ia5a vvi,nsna wsitar 5balnsnnnm ha
has ! uhn,a iot = 800 - ~ Az anS
ha ands n about a. yo,,ch as ha con ID
r. tasn +hsrn II, bot IL camas near ~
heinz ana ~ tha ha,siast man in W shines
Ton Irhan tha lepiala live mill ,S acfiva and
the more active # is fhe more active he is
4 much more al1iet visitor is Ex-senator
Henry r Winton ~ Rerren He has
been around the Csapifol more than a little
since Cleveland went 10 the White House.
His marriage has made a gentleman of
elegant leisure Of him. He can AFFORD to
newsnane ofIice IL other hands nowadays
and enend his ftyna AMONG fhe nabobs Of
fhe land He was a devoted follower Of
ex-senator MACPHERSON and his voice went
d long distance in .infl,encinQ appoint-
manfs fo nositions IN in his section of
tha state He has struck m a close friend-
shin with POSTING wilson. ana
racentix, named tSa new Posfmas ter AT
HacEensark Wher, one asko- what the
secret If his tnauence here Is. he IS told
that .Winton has made it a practice to
soend q week ont of each month in Wash
infon SMOKING and chatting around
arnonp the Big men. till he has put HIM
self ii personal terms with a good many
Of them. and they do things for him on
the score Of personal acquaintance"
o,,ired ! liking for washington life during
he sarvica 3n Congress- and he has not
since lei a winter slide without Spending
the hest mart Of q week her. HIS adher-
enca In the ADMINISTRATION tariff policy
hir, a otrono n,Yal AZ tho WHITE