The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-04-29
A STORY OF EMORY sToRRs.
II Was Related by Chauncy NJ. De-
pew in n Recent speech.


That a foreign mission is not bed
of roses or decoration which can al
ways be worn with increasing pleasure,
can establish by story which never
before have publicly told. 1 found on
the steamer going to Europe one sum-
mer that brilliant advocate and eccen-
trio genius, Emory Storrs. Every such
man has q fad. and the fad of Storrs
was to have 365 different colored neck
ties, one for each day in the year. He
was going abroad for the first time
He had been disappointed in securing
the position of attorney general ana
the president had immensely grained
him by signing a special passport IS
sued by the state department and writ
ten on parchment, commencing MN as
a distinguished citizen to the represen-
tatives of our government all over the
world and also giving him a commls-
sion as special envoy to treat with the
British government upon the regula-
tion which they had made against the
introduction of American cattle, otOrrS
would come on deck every day, In the
afternoon-for Neptune was his supe-
rior on the ocean, and demanded IRON
him frequent tribute-Wearing new
necktie, and take out of his pocket Il
waterproof envelope, produce from II
the passport and his commission, sol
emnly read both of them to me, and
then inquire what l thought would be
the effect of these documents, when eX-
hibited abroad, upon the worn>out
monarchies and effete aristocracy OF
the old world. Then would follow
series of those inimitable anecdotes, IN
imitably told, for which Storrs was IA
nous. On the last day of the voyage
as we We're sailing into the port of
Liverpool, Storrs, repeating this per-
formanCe, said: ut is not the worn
out monarcihes and effete aristocracies
of Europe that l am after, but it is old
Lowell. I understand that he never
entertains Americans. l am going to
make him give me a dinner and let
me select the guests, or teach him that
there is God in Israel
MADE HIM FAMOUS.
"Iowell was mortified and mad that
the functions of the minister or any
part Of them, should be transferred TO
this peripatetic diplomat, and Vigor-
ously denounced Storrs for his bad
manners when / sat beside him few
nights afterward at dinner. NeVerthe-
less Storrs carried his point, and when
Lowell asked him, in fear and tremD-
ling, whom he wanted to meet, suppos-
ing it would be the royalties and the
ambassadors and other impossiblities,
to his delight and astoniShment Storrs
requested him to secure, as far as pos
sihle, Tyndall, Huxley, Lecky, Tenny-
| son, and other great lights of science
and literature, because he desired to
meet, as ne said, gentlemen of equal
| and congenial intellectual equipment
| I did not hear of this at the time but
| Storrs was again on the ship on oul
| way bone, and l said, 'Storrs, did you
| get that dinner"
| "'Well,' said he, Il will tell you. AT
| ter three weeks l left London and wen
upOn the continent. l was in that lit
tie room in the gallery at Dresden, an
/ sorbed, enraptured, almost translated
| before that marvellous Madonna o
| Raphael The room was crowded. Sud
1 denly felt that the crowd was look
! ing at me and not at the picture.
turned. and said, Ladies and gentle
men, [ have come three thousand mile
to see this inspired painting, the mos
wonderful work of the brush the worlt
has ever known. / supposed you cam
for the same purpose, and yet you ar
looking at me. If it is my clothes
! they were made in Chicago" A gen
tleman stepped forward and said t
me: "Mr. Storrs, you are more inter
csting to us Americans than any paint
ing, however famous. You are the onl
American to whom Lowell ever gave
dinner"
ITO make a good story, Storrs di
great injustice to the most brilliant @
our ambassadors to Great Britain an
the one who has left a reputation i
London which increases with the years
Mr.. Lowell was not only brillian
ambassador, but was always repre-
| sentative American"