El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-12

WASHINGION,- Jan. 5.-The new
century came. in here, very quietly:
don't remember that 1 ever saw one
come more quietly-at least in Wash.
ington. There were few tolling bells
and .scowhorns and miscellaneous dis,
cords to welcome it, and some mis-.
4 guided peoples stayed awake later the \
was good for them in order to veil but
on the whole its advent was not noisy
timed it and it came on schedule to
the dot.
i 1t was nearly noon of the first before
tie aforesaid misguided people awoke
4 and began to 'feaiiy celebrate. and be-
forelthe' eggnog began to flow. That is
ofscourse it, didn't t. flow, except ometa-
phorically, but 1T p was, handy, to .e
dipped up in nine houses out OF a DOS
4 sible ten There is a Certain correla-
tion between a9Newa Ysariss tday AN I
feggnoggy a, correlation something like
that Darwin says, exists between M,
white spot on dogs tail and the rest
iof him. and We Of the governing city
1 would not feeis that atSnew year-let
alone a. new century-Hwas properly in
augurated and fit for use by the rest
of the country unless our innermost
fbers' were we'll moistened by that par
4 ticular beverage AS was pointed out
in. the, last campaign several times,
| there is an immense deal Of respon-
sibility for the welfare of the country
resting on the government at Wash
ington, but we are all willing to liqu;-
date, our obligations n L ,am.jfial
In obedience to a custom to which
the memory of man runneth back not
to the contrary, we all went and call
ed on the president. Personally 1 hes
itated at first because Mr.. Mckinley
has never returned my last call. but Il
finally resolved to ascribe his negli-.
genceA to inadvertence. A"i privately
though. I'm not so sure OF it,. There
is some red tape connected with New
Years calls at the white house and
the diplomats went earliest and thea,
all the classified citizens like the Grand
Army men, the union veterans. dis
oldest inhabitants association the
mexican war people followed, while :he
few men in town who cannot be class
flied and are unipue-of whom I am
which--went later in the CURSE of
plain American citizens Our turn
came about noon and there, was u
string of us, in line for three blocks
We filed into the white house, doubled
round table ) where the receiving
party stood and filed out again. 1t
was, highly imposing, ceremony al
least, it looked like imposing on The
president. We went past Col. Bing-
ham, whoais,4Lord High Everything
Ceremonial. bowed, to- the president.
were presented to Mrs. Mckinley ana
then were inspected by a lot of ladies.
who were helping receive ut was all
highly methodical. As came up, the
chief magistrate shook my, hand, said
Good morning. Mr.. Jenkins. Happy |
New Year remarked that New Jersey
was a great state, Il want to mention
parenthetically that Jenkins was sac
l~ol, bod hot .sy,>,r
other sins. l am not from New Jersey;
focused his smile on the real Jenkins, |
and then L was in front Of Mrs. Nc
Kinley, without knowing really how I
got there, Mrs. Mckinley passed mei
along to Mrs. Gage, who paid no at
tention whatever to me. and then was
reviewed by thesr rest Of the 'cabfneS
ladies' . and a whole lot of girls stand
ing behind them and finally found my
self out in the street again. l haven't
seen anything so systematic since I
visited o Mr.. Armour'sc pork-packing
studio in Chicago and witnessed ! mis- |
porcine guests welcomed by official No. !
with a glad hand and block and |
tackle: cordially assassinated by Off
cial No. p assisted about their toilet |
by Nos 3, 4, IS and so on and finally |
ending up in, the back yard in Sec
lions. Not that there was any great |
analogy about the steps OF the recep- |
tions it was merely in the high eff |
cience in result secured byea careful |
attention to detail that a general SOFT
of similarity struck me-. Col. Bling
ham has been managing receptions I
for years now and he has reduced the
procedure to a fine point!si Ordinarily,l
when a man is received. an. usher tells |
him, as he steps into the east room, |
Have your card ready to drop into |
the basket and announce your name |
verbally to Col. Bingham. y you do it. |
he gives your name to the president |
who repeats it and shakes hands and
you file out with proud memories This |
time though, the crowd was too great |
for dallying. With 5000 callers in three
hours, there wat. no time for convsrsa7I
ton.
y The diplomatic people spent the rest
of the day calling on senators and cab ..
met officers and 7stichiike fn1agnatcs.
There are 26icoantries represented here
II find it a,suseful diversion for in l
teliectual young, men to inyeigle them
into trying to make out a list for me
off hand-and each representatives had
on all his prettiesH for theiagreat day.
And the foreign idea of the beautiful
in masculine apparel is truly Interest,"
ing. The Corean man wears Happy
silks and astovepipe hat with a vailsonj
it; the German anlba ssator has an
army uniform mostly brass OF, gold, /
don't know which, the Italian sees
him and goes several better; the
Frenchman is worse and the Southil
Americans beat them all. They were
all cabling it around town then in the
each segment full of heEgnog. is thAl
w ric I hnv ic a