The times., 1898-06-27
GOSSIP OF THE L0BBIES.

GOSSIP OF THE L0BB1ES.
Were not doing whole lot of talk
ing but just the same, we're getting
there" emphaticaliy remarked the gen
tIeman from Nebraska, registered at the
Willard, as he faced group in the smok-
! ing-room.
You're right. my friend agreed the
! gentleman from Boston.
| 1--WE don't have to boast that we're on
earth. and waste breath talking about
| what has been and what is going to be
! done" resumed the gentleman from Ne
brska.
That's right" again agreed the gen
tlanan from Boston. And when they
! .:et through with us they Will know
that Dewey and Sampson are alive and
forget that Cuba. Porto Rico and the
Philippines are on the map
What are you talking about?' in
CURED the gentleman from Nebraska.
why. the war, of course" replied the
gentleman from Boston, in some sur
prise. What were you talking about?
Il am talking about the Omaha expo
sition The war is old AS was saying
we are not booming ourselves but"
The gentleman from Boston withdrew
in high Indignation, which failed to inn
press the Omaha gentleman, who con-
tinued:
But we are doing business every min
ute. The Trans Mississippi exposition is
the greatest thing that ever happened in
the West and in spite of little things Ike
war. il viii make a barrel or two of
money and boom the West as nothing
ever has before. Now would you be-
lieve it
The gentleman from Omaha looked
around to see who was liable to believe
/ it and found himself alone. Then he
looked up the head porter and bribed
that hotel necessity into admitting that
the Worlds Fair was a failure, compared
with this Omaha exposition.
There was a row of very warm gentle
men lined UP in easy chairs in front OF
the Ebbitt House last night very busy
trying 20 keep coel. and some of them
very profane about il. too. when r. G..
Cluett registered inside from St Louis.
drew up a chair and sat down.
'Beastly hot. isn't il. friend?" re-
marked the fat gentleman. Only that
wasn't all he said by any means.
why, do you call this hot?" re-
I luI IcI tyiuSlAT t4 81 t@buiS -NO"s
in my town they would call this Summer
resort weather Maybe the thermometer
doesn't mount guard duty u any higher
angle here in Washington. but the heat
is not nearly so dangerous or oppressive
as in ST. Louis. Down there they have
had twenty or more cases of sunstroke
already this year. while here you have
not had a single one"
This was the first consoling thing yet
heard by the line OF warm gentlemen
: and they edged their chairs near the con-
( soler as he continued.
do you know why we have cobble-
r stone pavements in St. Louis instead OF
asphalt like yours?" Nobody knew. and
the speaker proceeded. We'll several
years ago we tried the asphalt on one OF
a our streets. 1t was a great scheme al
5 first and the people wanted that kind
of streets all over town But one day il
= got hOt-real hot, you Understandable
the asphalt turned to the consistency OF
thick mud Several hundred teams anG
more pedestrians got mixed up in II. The
police were called out TO the rescue but
\ before they could extract more than hall
! of the victims. night came on and Il
, turned cold. They had to chop the resi-
out with axes. The next day the asphalt
was replaced by cobblestOne."
"A very remarkable thing about Wash
{ | ington," remarked Charles Coppell, regis
tered al the Riggs House from New York
lis that the people here do not seem tn,
least bit excited over the war. | have
[ heard hundreds of other people remark
the same thing. Now, in New York W.
spend one-third of our time reading wa
bulletin boards. Men go out for lunch
grab a sandwich and a piece of pie an(
resort to the nearest bulletin board [,
read while they eat. One would thinl
/ | that here in Washington, the very sea
of executive war operations, the excite
ment would be even more intense; but i
is not Nearly as many people read base
. ball scores as war bulletins, and man!
more display an equal interest in both.
! ---~-
"It is the irony of fate said Mr. Harry
II. Pierce of New Mexico to reporter
for The Times yesterday that the frs
l volunteer army officer to get killed in tht
first engagement between American sol
diers and the Spaniards in which volunteer:
were engaged should be the only officer
so far commissioned whose native tongue
was Spanish. He was MaXimilian Luna
of Valencia County, New Mexico, whose
n ia her was a delegate in Congress from
q that Territory some fifteen years ago.
f Max Luna was one of the best known
: of the younger New MeXicans, and whil,
a but ttwenty-eight years of age. had acquired
n a prominence in the Territory which bad
- fair to make MIN a natlOnal character II
y the immediate future had he lived to full
fill the promise of his early manhood AL
n ready he was prominent in the polite!
t0 of the Territory, having filled several i'm
: portant offices.
f when the now famous Rough Rider!
a were being organized. Max Luna Sc
+ about collecting troop of New Mexican
cowmen and range riders noted for thei
dash and daring. and was given com
f mand of the troop.
f He was brave and impetuous man
| yet fully qualified to lead. and when tn
detailed story of the fight at Baiquiri i
written, 1t will be learned, l have ~
\ doubt that Max Lunas troop was in y.
D thickest of the fray and he fell at tn
, very front
q Nothing else could be conceived b,
i | the New Mexicans, of both races, VIII
knew and admired the brave young fel
= low, and many of whom will feel tina
r his untimely taking off is a personal be
f | reavement'
f DINED WITH THE PRESIDENT