Evening star., 1901-12-19
The Dancing Season is Now On in
Smart Society.
Miss RO0SEYELT'S BALL At SHERRY'S
Appraiser Wakeman VIII Not Re-
sign at Request Of Mr.. Gage.
WILL BE FORCED OUT
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

With this week begins a new era in So
ciety. 1t is that Of private dances The
horse show has been held. the debutantes
have made their bows at teas and recep-
tions, the first meetings of the different
dancing classes have taken place, and the
assembly ball has passed into history.
The hard work offs the season is about to
begin. OF that which has passed there
Is little to add TO the daily comment The
assembly was and was not a brilliant ball.
1t did not come up to expectations. Many
who were expected to be there did not put
In an appearance at the last moment. and
many of the notable debutantes were alb
sent. The old discussion has been reviv-
ed as to the survival of the assembly.
The assembly is now the only ball at
which all the different sets meet and
which is truly representative, and it seems
very hard lines indeed, that 1t should be
neglected on the plea of society being too
large Just now. .7,-
The first large private dance was given
at sherrys Monday night by ]. Roosevelt
Roosevelt for his daughter, Miss Helen
Roosevelt. Miss Roosevelt was to have
made her debut last winter. but she was
thrown into mourning by the death Of her
paternal grandfather. She is also a grand
daughter of Mrs. Astor. her mother hav-
ing been the second daughter of the Will
liam Astors. Miss Roosevelt resembles
somewhat her mother. She is tall. and
her type is somewhat brunette.
Reclamation of Appraiser Wakeman.
The resignation Of Wilbur F. Wakeman
as appraiser Of the port of New York,
which was requested by Secretary Gage,
will not be forthcoming 1t is announced
that Mr.. Wakeman realizes that he has
to go, but he will insist on being forced
out He declines to discuss the matter,
fri dc
municative. One of these is Cornelius n.
Bliss. ex-Secretary Of the Interior. These
friends have been consulted and their
unanimous decision was that Mr. Wake
man should not assist in his own decap
1tation. To all outward appearance Mr..
Wakeman is in excellent good humor and
purposes retiring from his office with col
ors flying.
Just at this time there is a great rush
of business at the public stores. much of
which Is occasioned by the receipt OF
Christmas presents from friends across the
Atlantic. These are said to exceed 10000
In number. and the aggregate is daily in
creasing. To get all of these things out
of the way so that they may reach the
Intended recipients before Yuletide Mr..
Wakeman has issued an order to the 800
and more employees that there will be no
vacations no excuses and no leaving the
stores before pm, until all the work has
been cleared up.
Anent Free Tobacco for the Soldiers.
Some army officers have favorable opin-
ion of the bill introduced in the House of
Representatives by Peter j. Otey of Vir-
ginia which provides for regularly supply
ing to the enlisted men of the army and
navy smoking and chewing tobacco. Col
onel Amos S. Kimball, U. s. A, assistant
auartermaster general. says that he thinks
1t will be good thing. ''If a man is ac-
customed to using tobacco 1t Is necessity"
says he. LAS it is now, he Is obliged to buy
it. The pay Of the soldier is small. He gets
S13 month. If he has family he is ex-
pected to allot $40 of this for the g support p
Of his family 1t would not cost the gov?
ernment a great deal to furnish the to-
bacco. In the civil war, when the armies
were fighting in the swamps, the soldiers
received pound Of tobacco a month and a
ration of whisky day. 1t was necessary,
and it saved the lives of many men. You
could cut the malaria down there with
knife, 1t was so thick. ! don't know what
the conditions are In thei Philippines, but I
should think the supply ing by the govern
ment Of tobacco would be good thing"
Stork Proceeding to- the Hammond
Home.
The appearance in the distance of that
domestic bird with q long beak and longer
legs, whom tradition intrusts with the fu-
ture of families, shows that he is making
beeline to the house of John Hays Ham
mond, in Riverside Drive. Most everybody
will recall that Mr.. Hammond is the plucky
American who was Cecil Rhodes engineer
in Africa, and who came near losing his
head in the days of the famous Jameson
raid, and the coming Of the stork recalls
story Of his third little son, now getting to
be strapping boy, who is called the par
don baby This is the story:
At the height of the Jameson trouble Mr..
Hammond was imprisoned, and there were
for time very grave fears for his safety.
Influence of the strongest kind was brought
fO President
manned like adamant, until Mrs. Hammond,
taking matters into her own hands, went
one day to see the venerable Dutchman to
intercede for her husband. Kruger did
listen to her, and few days later she and
her husband and children sailed away to
England. Two months later the little son
was born, and grateful announcement Of
his arrival was sent to the president of the
Dutch republic and his wife. 1.,
Poor Pictures in City Hall.
With the outgoing of the present adminis-
tration persons who frequent the city hall
are beginning to talk about the bad con-
dition Of the paintings hung in the gov
ernor's room and the municipal chambers.
If there is one thing which city adnainistra-
tions, every one of them, since the early
COS, have been neglectful Of it is the mat
ter Of caring for the likenesses of the
former mayors and governors. What sort
Of spirit moved the city governments of the
first half of the last century may be judged
from the fact that then, with less money
and more mediocre artists in the city to
call upon, two or three portraits of mayors
and governors were added to the city COL
lection every year. Since. however, the
of Mayor Fernando Wood and of
Governor Dix were hung in the city hall,
over thirty years ago, not a single public
officer with few curious exceptions, has
had his likeness SO perpetuated.
The MASKING of Masher.
A little "masher'' of the meanest type
sat in the corner next TO the door of the
34th street car, which brings many shop
girls from Long Island City to their work
in New York. His tan-shod feet were evil
IDENTIFY priced by him. By the time Park
avenue was reached the more observing
had noticed that all the girls who left the
car were tripped by the outstretched foot.
Among those who realized the situation was
a big, ruddy-faced man with an avoidupois
which would have sunk the 250- pound mark
on weighing machine clear into the
ground. When the conductor called 18th
and Broadway" the ponderous person rose 4
from his seat with agility and secured
place Immediately behind pretty girl, who /
was one of the first to start for the plat
form. She stumbled over that tan-shod