The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-08
SOME WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
MRS. MCKINLEY HAS BETTER
HEALTH IN OHIO THAN ELSE
WHERE.


People at the National Capital Are
Interested-The Vice Presiden t's
Lovely Daughter The Thing
which Interests Minister Wu Mt
the Seaside ResOrts-A Princess
Who Is TO Visit the United States.
other Matters of General Interest.
Washington, Sept. 4.-The latest good
news from Canton is that Mrs. Nc
Kinley now finds herself in better
health than at any other time since her
husbands presidency. Though so late
ly at deaths door, this remarkable
woman was last week hostess at three
dinners and musical, and every day
receives countless callers and goes on
long drives about the country she
loves. The air and general surround
ings of the quiet Ohio home always
did agree perfectly with Mrs. McKin-
ley's delicate constitution and peculiar
ly sensitive nature. Both the Presi-
dent and the doctors are trying to pre-
vail upon her~to remain there during
the rest of the presidential term. But
she refuses to listen to such a sugges-
ton, preferring to face the trying eli
mate of the capital and the exhaust
ing life of the White House to being
separated from her husband.
Secretary Hay is again in his New
Hampshire summer home, after a short
visit in Canton and Washington. Never
in robust health of recent years, he
looks now completely broken down and
seems to have aged twenty years
since the death of his only son. Dur
ing the winter, the Hays family oc-
cupies and entertains in one of the
handsomest houses in Washington; but
at the approach of hot weather they
sensibly seek health and retirement in
the Hampshire hills. There they have
just such home as any we'll do
farmer might own, with nothing pre-
tentious about 1t. The Misses Hay.
arrayed in short skirts and shirt waists
of washable cotton, fish, ride and walk
every day, as free from style and
the ostentatious nonsense of swell So
ciety as any farmers daughters in the
land. The natural result is that they
return to the capital in splendid health
and spirits for the gay duties Of the
winter, and are among the most genu-
inely wholesome girls in the official
set. OF course the family will be in
mourning the coming season and will
not entertain. Miss Helen Hay is al
ready the author of two volumes of
poetry aid is now engaged on a prose
work, more ambitious than either.
The marriage of Miss Madeline Gary,
the youngest and only unmarried
daughter of ex-Postmaster General
| James A. Gray, to DR.. Andrew Whit
ridge of Baltimore, is announced to
| take place in November, and will be
| the most important social event of the
early season. both in Baltimore and
Washington. Miss Gary, you will re-
member, is one of the seven attractive
sisters who were such favorites in
Washington during her fathers term
in President McKinley's cabinet. The
other sisters, with one exception, have
| married Baltimore men, and 1t goes
without saying that all have made
| brilliant matches. Miss Madeline is
one of the best horsewomen in Mary
land and last spring captured the cup
and blue ribbon in the ladies' class at
the Elkridge Horse Show.
Washington society is as much in
| terested in the announcement of the
| engagement of Senator Aldrich's
| daughter to the son of the Standard
| Oil king as il they knew the young
| lady personally. Although Senator
Aldrich has served so long in the coun-
ellis of the nation, his family has made
few acquaintance here. Miss Aba
all, particularly, is almost a stranger
in Washington. While the Senator
| has. been occupied in Congress, his
wife and daughters have usually spent
the winters in Southern resorts, coming
here only now and then for a few
| days, but taking no part in social af-
| fairs. AS to the prospective groom,
everybody seems to feel quite we'll ac-
| quainted with him, If only by repute,
| though he has never visited the nation
al capital; and everybody has a good
word for the heir to three hundred mil
lions. Though young Rockefeller VIII
inherit one of the largest fortunes in
! the world, he is said to have exceed
| ingly simple tastes and habits, COM
! bined with unceasing industry and a
| capacity for hard work which any
young fellow with his way to make in
the world might envy. Evidently Mr..
| Rockefeller was endowed at his birth
! with business turn of mind, as well
| as with the traditional golden spoon.
On leaving college he Immediately went
| to work in his fathers business and
| learned all the details of ii, from the
bottom up. He cares nothing for the
horses, yachts and other time-killine
but expensive diversions of most mil
| llOfldlTcc SOISs Out LAKES ScIlOuS dilu
| conscientious views of the responsible
ties attached to the vast wealth he will
| one day inherit. Miss Aldrich is the
first girl to whom he has ever shown
attention. The story goes that the in
slant he saw her for the first time, he
realized that he had met his fate, y
| and with characteristic straightfor-
| ward energy, he at once began to lay
| siege to her affections. She, too. had
| q
nance is a particularly happy one or
both sides. Just now the Aldrich fam
lily is aboard the yacht wild Duck
in Newport harbor, and Miss Abby's
fiance is with her. The wedding will
take place some time this fall, at the
| Aldrich home in Providence, r. /.
Miss Alice Roosevelt, the Vice Pres
ident's eldest daughter, now complete
ly recovered from the painful operation
she lately underwent for nolar alb
scess. seems to be remarkably well
equipped, both mentally and physical
| ly, for the enviable position she is des-
tined to occupy this winter at the head
| of the younger set of Washington So
ciety. She is a handsome girl, just IS
years Of age, tall. graceful and of the
pronounced blonde type. Strange to
say, she bears marked resemblance
to her father, although there is moth
ing of the blonde about him and the
widest stretch of Imagination could
not call him beautiful. Miss Alice has