Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-04-08
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON. APRIL. j, 1902.


All Fools Day ought to be a national
holiday there are 50 many of US, and
we are bound TO be annually fooled in
81 many ways. Today, for instance,
there is an organized effort throughout
Wisconsin AMI in some other parts, To
ct left at the polls. Just who sue
creded in this endeavor at Waussu, and
elsewhere, will be known by the time
this Reaches you.
have chosen this day of mutual in
terest as an occasion for giving to the
PILOT the benefit of some rather ramD-
ling reflections that it occurs To NE to
put forth.
As regards the weather. This par
ticular first of April succeeded in per-
petrating large sell in that regard up
on the inhabitants of Washington BY
right we are entitled here To the pref
test. sweetest sort of weather when
April makes its appearance. And yet
here we are shivering and issuing hurry
orders for more coal. To give an added
touch of irony to the sltuatlon-we had
allowed our coal bins to become empty
because the greater part of March has
been like summer here. ISe grass had
got green aud dainty, the buds were
bursting on the trees, the magnolia
olOoms were making hillocks of snow
all through the parks the peach trees
mad taken on delicate blush; and, in
unhesltating recognition of ali these an
nouncements of the advent of Spring,
The birds were everywhere joyfully
twittering and the early crocus was be-
ginning to croak. Aud now April
orings cold, west wind, sullen sky,
and a dreary drizzle-all worthy of Mil
waukee at this season. it is very evil
dent that. if Inauguration Day is to be
postponed, it should be- TO make sure of
respectable weather, to the last instead
II the first OF April Yesterday the chill
Dirt of Washington rejoiced in their
annual egg-rolhng" TO see the tod
dlers, rs well AS the larger children of the
city, arrayed in their prettiest, carrying
baskets OF many colored eggs, aud con
voyed by their nurses, or sisters, or
mothers, all making for the White Lot,
III the afternoon OF Easter Monday, is
10 suggest very dainty, graceful poet
ical custom. You can picture the
youngsters rolling their eggs down the
various grassy slopes of the beautiful
White House park, iii innocent rivalry,
or gleefully picking eggs, with the
President and his wife looking ca APP
pluylngly from the South balcony, aud
heir own children democratically join 1
ing IL the sport But if you happened
To have been upon the scene itself You
would have seen much more than Your
fancy painted You would tud min
gled with the children aud their guard
itns crowd of half aud full grown BOYS
aud girls mostly of sable hue, engaged
ia u9couth sport, devouring eggs like
rtilroad luncher, and firing the surplus
a, one another, until the ground is
plasterered and Streaked and the trees
a. well as the militants, are spattered
with all sorts and conditions OF billed
tigs.' 1t tends to dispel the poetic
charm of the festival, and to give one IA
disrelish for eggs.
1t Is, trust, safe to recur to the re-
cent visit of Prince Heinrich, without
being subject to the charge of "trucu-
lent sycophancy" OF course he could
not very we'll be expected to follow his
inclinalions, by coming directly 10 my
office. Etiquette required him to 60 To
the White House first; and he uld so
with brave escort OF cavalry, who
formed two lines of shiny steel through |
which h. rode in entering the gate of |
the White House grounds. Meanwhile |
the cannon thuudered nearby, aud |
bugles sounded and all Washington |
was out to see aud cheer But as soon |
IS he could escape he came, as | knew |
he would, with all his glittering staff, |
straight 10 my office, where be knew |
De,ttsch could be gesprechen. He did |
more. He rode by without stopping, |
merely saluting, on his way to the Ger |
man Legation. AS he didn't look my |
way when he saiuted | did not return /
the courtesy. But we understood each |
that the Prince Is a fine fellow. Not a
little Dutchman," by any means, but
a tall, wholesome looking, manly |
Deutscher, fully able to knock together
the wooden heads of most any two of
the cadS who sheer at him as a prince /
ling.
Other notables pass by my office at
times. Often, about four in the after
noon, there comes riding by a round
bodied, square-shouidered man, in a
comfortable SLOUGH hat, sitting on his
horse with an air of easy strength, aud
behind him an orderly. Behind the or
DERBY Is always formidable looking pol
iceman on bicycle, for so must our
President be watched and guarded now.
the President is on foot
with Senator Lodge, and always con-
versiDg with the greatest animation.
The Junior senator from Massachusetts
has long legs, but they are taxed to
their utmost TO keep up with the swift.
alert stride of his companion, who in
every look and gesture conveys the
of restless, tiresome energy
and power Then there is Secretary
Hay, who was Lincoln's trusted Priv
ate Secretary, and who wrote those full
booded ballads of the West. Jim Bud
soe' and Little Breeches,n aud vet
who, his enemies will have, is snob.
Usually he walks through Lafayette
Park, on which my Office fronts, to the
State, War and Navy Building Just be-
yond with the portfolio of state in his
hand Lord Pauncefote, in his car
rage; Minister WI, in lis automobiles:
a gathering battery, dashing troop of
cavalry, parade of eolored Odd Eel
lows-all go by, down 10 Camelot .
So you see, | have a fine vantage
ground for sights, if choose 10 look no
from my work Yours,
LOUIS A PRADfs