The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-17

bog that borders the Potomac,
as st. Petersburg, the imperial
residence of the autocrat of all the Rus
sias, rose from the morasses of the Neva,
at the will of the Peter the Great, Wash
ington wears distinctly the air of a cap
ital which has risen to the emergency and
fulfilled the expectations of those early
dreamers who, a century before the first
stone was laid, named the little stream
that has since been diverted to the citys
sewerage, the Tfber, believing that great
er than Rome would some day adorn it's
banks. Washington has this special charm
above all other places in the United States
that while New York, Philadelphia, Chi
cago, San Francisco, despite their numer-
Gus points of other than commercial in
terest are all work-a-day cities, the
Maiden Capital" as it has been called
shows a gayer disposition and devotes her
self chiefly to social pleasure. 1t is the
difference between the Settled" matron
and the flirtatious maiden. To gain quote
Lathrop: ITO the outsider the difference
is as between Irritation and friendship.
You may like, you may love, the particu-
lar big, local capital where you live and
do business, but you approach Washing
ton with a sense of its being something
piquant and novel. with which you may
trihe and entangle yourself in a make
believe attachment, having all the stimu
lus and none of the drawbacks of a
steady devotion"
Let us join the moving throng on Penn
sylvania avenue this bright winter after
noon. About p. M, the hour when con-
greSS is supposed to ''let out" everybody's
face is turned eastward in the promenade
Ito meet the legislators on their way
downtown. Though stranger in the
courts of the nation, you do not need to
be told that the round-faced man, sitting
on the front of the open cable car, though
a COOL stiff breeze is blowing, is Speaker
Reed. His caricatures in the daily papers
have so hopelessly given him away that he
who runs may read him every time, under
any disguise. And then, nobody but a
man from the Arctic regions of Maine
would choose such a breezy perch on
mid-winter day. Speaker Reed and Col.
Robert Ingersoll look near enough alike
to be twin brothers-both of the middle
aged-baby type, who would make excel
lent models for cherubs, barring the alb
sence of wings and the presence of legs.
The other night, at a fashionable theater,
Mr. Reed occupied a prominent place in
proscenium box; but for once his cherubic
countenance was overcast with gloom. 1t
was all on account of a too jealous laun-
dryman and a low-cut vest. Above the
low-cut abomination the shirt-front,
starched stiff as a shingle, bulged like
balloon, and rode higher and higher. until
one momentarily expected to see the hem
of the garment in evidence. What reader
of the masculine persuasion has not some
time been similarly afflicted, when there
was no chance for the single pull which
would set matters straight? A greater
contrast cannot well be imagined than in
those two southern congressman walking
side by side-Turner of Georgia and
Wheeler of Alabama. The former is slow,
deliberate, sluggish and heavy, surveying
the world with owl-lil1e men; the latter
a perfect observation-disclosures, worked on
springs Mr.. Wheeler is so small in statue
that he is almost lost in the crowd and
one wonders how he ever came to be fam
Gus as a great cavalry leader-unless his
very inability to keep quiet forced him
into action. He rushes at conclusions
as at everything else, with ner-
vous uncomfortable haste, stroking
his unkempt beard while urging knotty
point till all is blue. He is an ardent a
silver democrat as his chum, Mr.. Turner,
is. in favor of gold, and the two is always
quarreling about it.
No, the gentleman head, with the smooth
face and Napoleonic cast of countenance
is not the President-elect as you might
reasonably suppose, but Congressman
Charles N. Fowler, from New Jersey. That
marked resemblance to the French empe-
ror, and Maj Mckinley is the one trial
of Mr.. Fowler's life. Wherever he goes
now days, Office seekers persue him,
cranks gaze at him with speculation in
their eyes and occasionally small boys
cheer him or children give him flowers.
Says he: 1.-THE other day 1 was crossing
the, ferry into. New York. A man who
had been staring at me for some time fin
ally plucked up courage to approach and
ask in awed tones, Are you Maj. Nc
Kinley?' No indeed l was glad to reply.
Wen, l thought 1t was queer, said the
man, you are McI<inley's image, but l
couldn't understand how he could get
here without his coming being announced
by the newspapers.
Yonder comes an oddly-assorted couple,
Delegate Flynn from Oklahoma and Rep
resentative Grow of Pennsylvania. Mr..
Flynn is one of the youngest members of
the House, not yet "a, and looks much
younger, while Mr.. Grow is one of the old
est, having served in congress some thir-
teen years before Flynn was born. Speak
ing Of the younger members, the son of
the late ex-Speaker Crisp is the youngest
about 26, though looking hardly 10. He
is SLIM boyish in manners and extremely
retiring-in marked contrast every way
to his stately, gray-haired colleagues.
When he was sworn in, fortnight ago,
the roster of congressman was complete
for the first time in the history of the
present House-37J members. Among other
popular young congressman is William A.
Smith, from the Grand Rapids, (Mich)
district. on the Senate side, Mr.. Marian
Butler of North Carolina is called the
"Fopulist Baby" He was not quite 80
years of age when he entered that august
body. where angels fear to tread" Next
to him in point of youthfulness comes Mr..
Boise Penrose OF Pennsylvania who will
be about SO when he takes his seat in the
upper house on the 4th of March, next.
Senator Cannon. from the new state of
Utah, was born in 1869 and became United
States senator in 1896 Senator Pritchard
OF North Carolina was born in 1857. Sem
ator-elect Penrose comes of good old
Quaker stock, from the city of Brotherly
Love, where they care a good deal more
who your great grandfather was than to
know the exact amount OF your bank ac-
count. He is a handsome young giant
six feet tall and unmarried. 1t is said
that he Is not particularly partial to the
gentler sex. but prefers athletic sports
or a quiet game Of whist with masculine
friends, TO any petticoated divinities that
ever were born. He is somewhat eccen-
trio In his dress. wearing a sack coat Of
unusual length and a broad-brimmed, belt
crowned SILK hat, OF a fashion I'm vogue
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