The National tribune., 1902-10-30
CHAT OF THE CORRIDORS.

-SOnifecticut avenue anu ~ street. VIII tiiis
season be one of the most brilliant houses
i'll the city. Lord Sackville-West and
Lord Pauncefcte both entertained lavish
ly but heavily. There was no snap or so
to the affairs there and while the Paunce-
fote young ladies were pleasant enough III
=. their way, they were not prepossessing,
. but were just plain English girls of mid
die class ability. Lady Herbert is an
American girl, she has money and she has
brains and ability. She will make So
ciety hum when she gets her hand well
on the wheel and she is accredited with
the desire to be a leader. The BrIi
Embassy has been mag,iincently renOyat-
cd and fitted up, and being by long odds
the largest Legation home III Washington,
is perfectly adapted for great society
functions. Unfortunately the British En-
basSy will no longer furnish the dean of
the Diplomatic Corps. Sir Michael Her
bert. being the newest arrival, must go
to the foot of the list OF Ambassadors
ard Ministers.
Mrs. Z. S. Grant has returned to Wash
. inStOn from her Summer home in Co
burg, Canada. She is not ill, as was re-
ported, but tired from her journey. 1t Is
feared she will never again be very strong.
%ns
Mrs. Letter and Miss Daisy Letter are
. in Paris for short visit before sailing
for India to visit Lady Curzoa, the old
est daughter of the Letters. The Letter
girls are splendid types of the real
American girl. They are all beautiful as
blush roses, exquisitely hammered, al
ways well gowned and never overdressed
. They have had enough adulation to turn
all but the best balanced heads, yet are
Swcet-vOiced, unaffected American girls
who enjoy life i'll all its fullness. For
eign uppcrtendom affects a sneer at the
''shopkeeper's" daughters, but it cannot
match these same daughters for beauty oil
grace Or brilliancy. That is what jolts
them so. And there are thousands of the
Letter type all over the United States.
Past Commanders Chief Ell Torrance
has written a very complimentary letter
to Past Commander S. Il. Faunce, of
Washington, praising his work as Chair
man of the Committee on Camphres.
Everybody knows about the 1st Mimi,
the regiment which sustained the great
est percentage of loss at Gettysburg of
any regiment in any war. Yet IA of its
members met at the National Encamp-
ment in Washington. and had little Re
union of their own. There met with them
their old commander, Col. William Col
will. who received the brevet of Brigadier
General for gallant conduct of the field
of Gettysburg. The faithful IA acted as
an escort to the carriage which carried
Coi. COivill, leading the Department of
Minnesota. The band escorting the De-
partment of the Commander-in-Ch Chief was
Geo. II. Morgan Drum Corps, of Mime
ap0lis. ,--
Gradually Vicksburg Battlefield Park
is being made beautiful. Secretary Root
has just authorized the construction of
siaduct on the battlefield, over Stout's
Bayou.
:. Col VIM. A. Rafferty,, of the 9Th q. S.
Cav, died Sept. 6, of a fall over an EN-
bankmeat near Manila, and was buried
: in Arlington last week. Col. Rafferty,
was born just little too late for service
in, the war of the rebellion. but he dis
tinguished himself on the Frontier in the
early 10s and again in 1882 in campaigns
against the Indians. He was with the
I'd q. S. Cav in the Cuban campaign, and
went to the Philippines as Colonel of the
9th q. S. Cav. in March, 1901.
Col. Eugene Ware, Commissioner of
Pensions. is mourning the death of his
father, Mr.. Hiram b. Ware, who died
Col. Ware on p St Col. and Mrs. Ware
left on Tuesday to take the body of the
aged parent to Fort Scott, Kans., for
burial. Mr.. Ware had been an active
man all his life, and was an inventor of
some note. While working to perfect an
invention his eyesight failed him. and he
was totally blind for some years before his
death. He was a native of Connecticut.
In some unaccOuntable manner, but GER
tainly not premeditatedly, the Department
of Massachusetts,, G. A. r.. was omitted
from the story of the parade in The Na-
tiOnal Tribune of Oct. 16. Massachusetts
was there in all her glory, her splendid
veterans led by knights Band. of Balti-
more The various Posts were handsome
ly uniformed, and marched with clean.
even step in close ranks, arousing much
enthusiasm. At the head of the Depart
ment of Massachusetts was Col. Wilmon
w. Blackmar. Commander. Posts in line
were Bartlett Post, 5, of Taunton; Louder
Post, of Lynn: Reynolds Post. of Boston;
Post 10, of Worcester; Post 13, of Brock
ton; Post Is, of Boston; Post 16. of
Springfield; Post 10, of Fitchburg; Post
46, of Fall River; Post AZ, of Lowell;
Post 53, of Leominster: Post &C, of Med
ford: and Post 80. of StOneham.
The Kearsarge Naval Veterans, of BOs-
ton, We're also in line. and seemed to have
pretty good, sound legs. 1t is estimated
that there were nearly 1000 Massachu-
sets veterans in line, and they made a
magnificent showing.
1t is unfortunate that any young girls
name should be banded about connected
with this mans and that because they may
have looked at each other twice; but it
happens frequently. because Jenkins feels
quite sure that it is safer to be prema.
ture and incorrect than to lag second in
the running for news and get things
straight. This time it is Miss Roosevelt
who is suffering from over production of
ina gination. The yellow Journals have
announced her engagement to Capt John
Greenway, a Rough Rider. This engage
ment is emphatically denied at the White
House. Capt. Grcenway is Yale man,
and distinguished himself there in ath-
letics. He won promotion for gallantry
in Cuba. and is Il personal friend OF the
President, being Il welcome gnest at the
White House. That is all there is of the
story.
Col. l.. y. Hinson, Mayor of Beaver
City, Neb., and his brother have been Wis
iting in Alamance Co, N. c., where they
were born, and on their return took in
the sights of the National Capital. Col.
Hinson is a minister of the Gospel, and
Carolina. which he left in 1857, but is quite
welded TO Nebraska and the more progress
siye North. He said that there were some
30 factories running in Alamance County
now, aud tile people of the State are really
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