The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-24
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
WE'LL KNOWN PEOPLE SEEKING
SUMMER HOMES.


The Washington Monument
Danger Spot in a Thunder storm.
other Matters of General Interest.
Washington. June 22.-About the only
social gathering of the present week
aside from numerous church weddings
have been depot parties" marking the
departure of society's favorites for pas
lures new. These depot parties, by the
way, though not exactly new, have grown
greatly In Importance during the past sea-
son and now assume almost the proper
tons of daylight receptions, with about
the same elaborate dressing as required
for garden-parties and kettle-drums.
Many times of late have the railway sta
lions of Washington been crowded with
fashionably attired-throngs, come TO
waive farewells to departing friends--to
the confusion of the trainmen and the in
terest of ordinary travellers. whose heads
decorate the outside of all the car win
dows.
Several carloads of aristocratio horse
flesh also went off this week, attended to
the stations by solicitous owners, as well
as their stablemen. Departure for Eu-
rope have been another conspicuous fea-
ture, and the next fortnight will witness
many more. Interest is on the qui Vive
to know exactly who are going, it belng
the fad nowadays, to conceal the deep-do "n
desire in every American heart TO travel
in foreign climes. and then, at the last
minute 10 surprise ones friends. Inc
general clearing out occurred just in time
for the Philadelphia convention, many
people preferring to begin their summer
amusementS by attendance on the great
American circus. That was The reason
why Unprecedented numbers of the polit-
ically famous remained in Washington so
long after the adjournment of Congress
| instead OF scattering at once to their DIS
| tant horres in all corners of the country
as is commonly the case.
The closing day of q session of Congress
differs widely from its opening day but
! is fully as interesting to onlookers from
another point of incorporating, OF
course that the onlookers have no per-
| sonal concern in the hundreds of bills that
| have failed to pass. But these keen dlsap-
| pointments that often amount to tragedies
| escape the notice of the general pubic,
who crowd the galleries and make Juol-
| liant picnic of the occasion. You observe
| that the costly fiowers-harbinger of IA
| vors eXpected-which are such consplc-
| uous feature of opening day, are never
| much in evidence on the last day OF the
! session. But the strained nerves of Sen
ators and Representatives who have been
holding all-night sessions for a week and
working like Trojans TO make up for time
they fooled away in the earlier days of the
| session-cause them to be scrappy as boys
of rival schools on a football field. Their
| peppery exchanges of personalities and
| blessings said backwards" afford no end
of amusement to the galleries, as well as
material for the use Of political spell
| binders in the presidential campaign. Old
stagers, like Grosvenor of Ohio, can call
| q fellow member of the House a liar in
parliamentary language with impunity-
| though outside Ii would not go unchal-
! lenged; and in the Senate, Carter of Mon
| tdua may cali Petugrew of South Dakota
a cur, in such way that there is no re-
buke from the chair although that his
! toric seat is occupied by such a stickler
for senatorial dignity as Senator Frye
! himself. 1t is only the new and uneNperi-
| euced members who call each other names
in plain, everyday language.
| According to present plans, President
and Mrs. Mckinley will remain in the
White House all through June and part OF
July and then go for visit of several
| weeks to their recently furnished home
! in Canton. The cabinet families will main
| tai ma bold front for a while yet, the only
| Withdrawals, so far, being the female
members of the Hay family and Mrs. Root
| and family Both have summer homes,
most tempting at this time of year; the
| former in New Hampshire, on the pictur-
esque shores of Lake Sunapee--the latter
on Long Island.
The Misses Hitchcock will be the first
i of their household to forsake this city for
| the heated term, and will shortly be Joined
| by their mother in the New Hampshire
home. Mrs. Smith and Miss Wilson sail
| together for Europe on the 9th inst. to
| be absent about three months. The Sec
| retary of the Treasury and Mrs. Gage will
| pass this summer, as last. at Chevy Chase
! one of the near suburbs of Washington
| connected by electric cars-from which
| point they will make short trips, as fancy
dictates. Secretary Long will run over to
| his home at bingham, Mass, whenever
| official duties will permit, and Secretary
| Wilson will spend his vacation In the West
Most of the diplomats are already es-
| tablished in summer quarters-exoept poor
| Mr.. WI. the Chinese minister, who is just
| now about the most worried man in the
| world. Lord Pauncefote will remain on
| this side of the big pond, and has rented
| the De Rham cottage at Newport for the
| season. 1t is probable. however, that Lady
| Pauncefote and her daughters will make
| a short visit TO England before the sea
son is over, while the British Ambassador
| is compelled by the duties of his position
to spend a good deal of the time in Wash
| ington.
| The Brazilian minister and his family
| are occupying "Finisterre," one of the
most desirable places at Narragansett
| Pier; while the CHILEAN minister and his
wife are established in one of the neigh
| boring Earle Court cottages. The family
| Of the Mexican ambassador excepting
| Sonora Azpiroz who has gone to Mexico
are registered at the Hotel Essex, Spring
! Lake, N. j. The French ambassador will
! shortly visit Europe, and the German am
! bassador will make the same trip later in
| the season. The Italian ambassador and
| Baroness Fava are now in New York pre-
| ferrlng that city to this. and will spend
| the greater portion of the summer abroad
An interesting ceremony about to take
place on abe high seas, will be the pre-
scntation to the chaplain of the Kaiser
! Wilhelm der Crosse, the steamer, upon
| which the Russian Ambassador and his
! suite sailed last Tuesday-Of the Cross OF
St. Anna, which was given to the Am
| be- sador by the Car of Russia, for that
purpose.
Report comes from Lennox that Mr. and
| Mrs. John Sloane hope to have the honor
| OF entertaining President and Mrs Nc
/ Kinley on the 4th of July. which Is al
ways celebrated with extraordinary pa
/ triousm at that favorite resort. The cot
| tagers vie with each other in honoring
the day. 1t is said that the Westinghouse
family, OF this city, will have the largest
| illumination and fireworks display ever
seen in that part of the country.