Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-10-08
Jackets,


one of the Admiraps tricks. He isn't
running joint stock company for the
rnantIfacture Of glory which can he
bought at 500 a share. He Is the Wnole
show. and if any side issues pop up ne
gets the telephone to ring OF or breah5
the connection with an axe. Dewey ana
myself are two men who know that unless
Won make monopoly out Of glory you
are very apt to get spurious atucIe'
Tho ceremonies closed with the bene-
diction by Cardinal Gibbons. 1t was q
wonderfully impressive sight TO see TINS
venerable man, attired IN MS roues Oh
crimson. step forth and invoke the press
ings upon the multitude MS coSIulllc
made a beautiful contrast with the UNI
forms of the naval and military oicers'
and his presence added greatly 10 the
artistic effect Of the whole scene.
On Tuesday night we happened TO stop
bv the White House (On the OUTSIDE, now
eyer1 lust after the supper which had
been rendered Dewey-only they call 1t
dinner in washington. We merely hoped
IN get Whit Of the quail on toast OF
10 see IL the gas-fttings were working
all right. but fortune favored US. we
arrived Just in time to see the whoie
bunch OF celebrities rs they LETT. IN less
than half an hour / breathed the same
air that was inhaled by some Of Amer-
cas- most prominent men. we asdIii
eaw the Admiral and once moro
Looked on SchIey and Sampson. The 1T
tle crowd of humble taxpayers VINO
v,ere hanging around on the outside for
e,cb ecraps of comfort as might be De
rived from looking at big men cheered
Schlev yociferously, and if he had beeh
q eweet-girl graduate getting diploma
no couldn't have acted more coyly anu
cuteIv. Sampson didn't get grunt' ana
he walked off by himself with a cigar
(probably Pittsburg stogy IN ms
month BY and by General Mics caine
ont. The woman who bulldozes me THINKS
he's the best-lookng fellow she ever saw
INIT had she known what some or the
southern papers say ABOUT mn m
would have sworn he was inc
Observation-Disclosures white man. she ever
looked upon. BY and by General Als.r
cama smilingly forth. Whlle my VIE
,gould never allow a man or MS poor
iudement to buy her sirloin STEAK sH0
yyos forced to admit that ne was eA-
ooodfnelv handsome, distingue loohiis'
and benign III appearance. Inc I'm
,,,arder-in-C Chief. however, confessed Una
- Md seen him cartooned so often thal
she expected to behold MN urdss.Hs
dead COW after him or mixing euioe'i'iI...7
f,,ida. AIger didn't take Z carnase' p~'
walked off by himself. In Few momel'l1
Chauncey Depew came Iorth N sPo'''
array. He had a shave whlch WouIu nav
served as a sign Tor any barber-shop-4l
US ga smooth-and his genial face look
cd as handsome as possible. Unih'
Deu,er senator Depew Is man Wn'
looks like his pictures.
Rut | can't begin 10 name all the hls
muck-a-mueks we saw, though II uiu u
good when Governor Tyler, LOOKING not
tba Least like a farmer in his dress SUIT
cams forth with that same genlal siiii,e
r,bicb gathers in a vote every time IL
o,,,,,e. the corners of his mouth. All the
Virginions present had a cheer Tor MN.
A fov, minutes later Senator'S Daniei ana
Martin appeared, and though the laino
lion" wore no ribbons or gilt' ne was os
| no means the least handsome OF tnat ui
tineuished company. Give us tiuo "
giniana clean shirt, ana we arc W.
| apt 10 hold our own
| Nobody has told me what these sreal
men had for supper, or what lhey
GUESSED or whether they fousht one an
/ o,hor for the chicken-gizZard ana the esb
,,a salad. but as / saw them Depart
| 49,. enc nv one, some in carriages ana
soma ON foot some smiling ana happy'
soma looking buoyant and some depress-
"a could not help suspeoting that the
feast must have been hollow anair' anu anu
that tho embers OF ambition. envy ana
disappointment glowed rudolly IN 'he
breasts OF many. or course, sampson
hated Schley, and Schley had no particu,
lar love for the former; Miles, despiseu
Alger. and Alger thought the iat'er W.
all fuss and feathers. Possiply ~
sei, as well as any in the lot. though ne
mat have had an occasional sly thought
about the presidential nomination. Inc
president himself evidently did a grea'
dcal OF thinking. too. OF all the distlh'
guished gentlemen present, ] SUSPECT M
| Governor Tyler and Senators Dahl.l an,
Nfa,,in felt best. senator Daniel hash