The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-08
JOB HUNTERS wHOFAILED.
oFFICE SERVERS LEFT STRANDED
IN WdSHINGTON.

/ IN WASHINGTON.
itrures OF Diminished Grandeur Who Can't
Get Hone-sone disappointed Hopes or the
,sAiso Rams "-EHcct or Failure on Their
Manners and Looka-ln Pawn 10 landladles.
WASHINGTON, Aug. Tho Office seekers
involuntarily summering in Washington arc n
i sad lot. Most of them have advanced beyond
the confident, staggering stage OF their quest,
and have taken to meditation. Some scores
of them may be seen meditating apart any day
around the corridors of the hotels. Not that
many of them still retain quarters in the ho-
tells, fer with hope tho inorcst feck on the hori-
Zon, the hotels at which they registered in
round, iiourishinR hands upon arriving here
arc too expensive, SO that the washington
boarding house:(an institution as characteristic
In its. way as the Swiss pension) has garnered
tho major number of the office seekers. Even
the boarding houses are a sore enough trial for
the office seekers purses, which have an infini-
tesimal prospect of being replenishcd, and tho
diplomacy and tlnesse of many of the job
hunters are now doubly excrclsed-frst, fHr
pressing their claims to prcfcrmcnt, and sec
ond, for staying Off the landladies.
The office seeker who still contemplaticely
picks his teeth in the hotel lobbies is easily
singled out. He bears the impress Of an
eclipsed grandeur. His clothing, of rather fine
make, and very impressive in the months of
March and April, has acquired a certain dc.
pressing bulge and bagginess 3, and fresh as his
linen stil remains, his exterior proclaims seedi.
ness. the proclamation being heightened by
tho noticeable fact that he Is no longer so
scrupulous rs to his beard and hair as he was
during his first month here. Moreover. in in
tervals between reverios he appears quite glad
to engage the hotel carriage mar in conversa-
tion-a pathetic sign Of his loncsomencss.
Dne Of tho left -hphinus IL a mnp from ILL
nois. He was very imperial, indeed, in looks,
speech, and manner when he registered at the
Ebbitt House. Mr.. McKinlcy's hotel, two days
before Mr.. Mckinley himself got there to await
his removal to the Executive Mansion. He is
IA very big and very flnelooking man. and
when his skies were Of sapphire he certainly
lowered nobly above all hands in the hotel
lobby. especially above the men who regarded
him as a one to fifty shot, and solicited his in
d dorsf thsre is IN moi th even 'u ane ' OF m tbese TO 5op do him
reverence, for he quite failed to connect, and
Will probably continue to fail-the faint echo
of n whisper Of former trcaChCry, 1t is said, hav-
ing reached Mr.. McKinley's ears. Since the
appointment Of another to the job he wanted,
standing willing to take something equally as
god. but it is said that. now that Congress
the shores Of a New York lake, and the dog is
very dead in general, lie would he very glad
humiliation such a return would involve, could
he arrive: at any sort OF composition with his
featured. implacab!c ~landlady of Il third-ratc
board ing house, TO which he removed when his
sunshine began TO grow, wan and cold. where
he has been provided with four months shelter
and nourishnicnt without equivalent;
Another man whose Buddha-likc medita-
days has stirred the pathetic gorges even Of the
cigar and news stand keepers is an ohioan
whose .tontacles, in his mind. when he came here
IN March had u death grip upon a high office.
He appeared rather q young man for so high
rdencc'was cxuberant, his allnsions to inside ad.
ministrutive matters were winkingly mystcri-
Gus: and he was even seen twice on the arm of
so the Ohio men who came here to pop for
smaller game-,thcir name was myriad be
SO nmiable and easy minded was this young man
with ,what, the touts call "A lead pipe. The days
months, as the story writer's say. and the young
man from Ohio was not heard Of. Then it be-
OF the choiccr consulships. The only notice he
received in this race WAS an editorial para
E Eslr nh in a MsTEi listo9 Newspaper, in which u dhi il
was among the also rams. Whether or not
he has his psgers in now for any sort Of job is
monds with which he hypnotized folks when he
fret came here are certainly, no more in evi-
first month in Washington. the arbiter in neck.
wear effects, In truth, he is painfully shabby:
hard:loser. and, had he not been so excessively
lordly, at the outset of his Washington quest.
everybody would be sorry for him. a 5 it is, he
extracts an occasional good morning from the
hotel clerks, who. however. gaze after HIS re-
ceiling figure with coldly studious eyes.
\ man of more than moderate prominence
from Georgia. who assembled his wardrobe and
came 10 Washington before the inauguration,
is in grave need of the good offices of his friends.
lie Is scarcely ever TO be seen in the hotel lob.
bies. but u push on the swinging doors will
nearly always reveal him in n leaning posture,
nance, against the hotel bars. Apparently,
drink is the only assuagement for his disap.
pointment. which is bitter and bitterly eX.
pressed when the bar drinkers with a nodding
acquaintance with him are generous in their
Orders 10 the barkeepers. lie was Il remark
ably weil-groomeda and withal a singularly So
Der Georgian when he came here respondent
and anchored at Wizards. but now II Is puZ.
cling to understand how he contrives to find
his little hall bedroom away up town when he
comes sufficiently sober TO talk muurnfully of
going home, but he still hangs on, adding To- the
shine Of his black clothes and to the ruddincss
Of his countennnce.
A young Chicago politician who, foolishly
enough, came here to get n job which wns
shielded. by the civil service mantle. has been
attempting, ever since he made the discovery.
to beat all the races in the country by means
or dollar bets. Where he gets the dollars no
body knows, but he probably wins occasionally
existence of the man who has the . poolroom
wheels buZzing In his head. Any afternoon no
may be, seen among the tashy.lookina gang
across the Long Bridge AT the outlaweh pool.
sleepy town of Alexandria. His degeneration
is about as marked as that OF tho man from
Georgia who burics his gricfs in red liquor.
Ho also talks occasionally OF going home, but
fears the taunts of his friends in politics.
MIRF'S LETTER.