The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-04
SIDE LIGHT ON
FAMOUS PEOPLE.
JUDGE BARTLETT TRIP TELLS
OF FOREIGN POTENTATEs.
He Says the Czar mpresses One as
Knowing His Business, While the
5. Kaiser Is Intensely Human and
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES College

Judge Bartlett Trip, chief judge of
Dakota before it was divided into two
states, United States ambassador to
Austria under President Cleveland,
and member Of the Samoan COM
mission by appointment of President
Mckinley, was guest Of the alumni
Of the Delta Epsilon fraternity in
Minneapolis at their regular weekly,
luncheon at Donaldson's tea rooms
yesterday. Judge Trip, who is Delta
u. from Colby, entertained the fraters
with many interesting and some anus
ing stories of his association with for
eign potentates, and related incidents
in the school and college life Of Pres
ident Mckinley, who. was one of his
classmates.
When Judge Trip went to Vienna
as ambassador of the United States,
as he told the Delta us, he had never
before stood in the august presence
Of a real monarch, and, altho he had
tried to convince himself in his early
life that earthly kings and queens
were human beings. it was with some
trepidat1on, the judge said, that he
dressed for and proceeded to the din
ner which the empress of Austria
gave in his honor as welcome. He
wasn't sure that he had mastered the
intricacies Of the etiquette prescribed
for a dinner with her majesty, and
decided to feel his way gingerly.
"But any fears I may have felt"
said Judge Trip, were dispelled
when the empress, who is an excel
lent, womanly woman, declared that
it was an honor to meet me as a rep
resentative Of the United States.
eve always feel honored to have
Americans dine with U.s. she said. I
love America. You have no aristoc-
racy there except the aristocracy of
intelligence It was as pleasant and
as comfortable dinner as I ever sat
down to-"
The Gar Knows What.
Tell us about the czar Of Russia
said some one at the foot Of the table.
IT have pleasant recollections of
my visit with Emperor Nicholas, =
said Judge Trtpp. He is an able and
brilliant man, one who masters de-
tails and doesn't let his underlings
throw him. That's the impression I
got, altho, Of course, you have all
read of the intrigues Of the Russian
| court. These reports may be true,
but If you were to meet the car you
would say to yourself, doubtless, that
there Is master of the situation
is surrounded by as shrewd a corps
Of diplomats as I ever encountered
There Is one thing about the czar
however, which might cause you tc
think that it is good thing he has
brains and shrewd diplomats to de.
fend hirn--that's his size. He's
little bit of q man. Why, my wife Is
5 feet ~ inches tall, and when she
stood beside the czar saw that he
| was shorter than She"
Then there's William, the kaiser
| continued Judge Trip. "He's wha
we Americans would call bully good
fellow, the kind that slaps you or
the back and makes you feel right a.
| home in his splendid court If hi
were an American he'd call you 'olt
man in that affectionate tone in which
wespeak it to our1ntimate friends. TIL,
kaiser is a. stalwart man in physique
! and intelligence rugged, brillian
man. And he feels very friendly
from what I could Judge, towart
| America and Americans.
Mckinley in College.
"Now, my friends, I'll tell yo1
|. something about a man whom yo1
, all loved and whose memory you al
revere-William Mckinley. We wer
classmates at Colby, and remembe
pleasantly the times we used to have
, | GU VINO n0aEu lI1IQ speak lIl1Qh
him as a careful, deliberate, logica
orator. Not SO when he was in col
lege. Then William Mckinley wa
accounted the most f1owry speaker Of
= the campus. He was in great de
mar.d, spoke much and captivated au
, diences by his elegant phrases, catch
SMILES and epigramatic sayings. H
could fly to unreasonable forensi
heights and sweep all opinion in hi
direction by his eloquence. coul
not but note the change in the ma
when T heard him in the first Nc
Kinley campaign. In college, 70
, know, students are likely to pick on
this student or that and think, there
t man who'd make a brilliant and SAT
Q president of the United States. ca
< safely say that nobody ever had sue
an idea about William Mckinley whe
! he was at Colby"
. Judge Trip entertained the Delt
us further by relating the story {
a. famous scrap" at Colby. TIL
seniors were accused. Judge Trip
:. says wrongly, and the result was thu
!. they declined to accept their diple
;, mas and went out into the wor]
highly indignant with the authorize
Nearly thirty years later, he said,
y was surprised and pleased to receiv
h duly certified sheepskin from Cobb,