The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1904-02-17
WASHINGTON LETTER
fspecial correspondenee. ]

The new congressman D TO 20 TO
the White House receptions. Take any
reception Immediately after new con
gress convenes. and all the new mem
bers are always on hand. Some of
them have evening clothes made or
rented for the occasion, while others
are lot so particular and attend the
receptions in frock coats or even the
rutaways of ordinary day wear. The
new congressman and his wife fall In
line in the subway" or tunnel or
whatever it is that leads toward the
White House proper They are pulled
and jamned along with ambassadors.
senator's, representatives. government
clerks. the Washington smart set and,
in fact, with all others who are on the
invitation list They crowd up the
stairs; they remain in line for an hour;
they are finally announced tS-the presi-
dent; they shake hands and then are
pushed into the east room. Here they
wander about looking decidedly uneom-
Portable and i'll at ease. Presently they
see some one they know, generally from
their own state. Then they form q
group and make an effort to appear
cheerful and think that they are hav
ing u good time. This is at the first
reception Before the season Is over
they have caught on
Costly Local Pride.
Representative Mic Longworth is
sadder and wiser man than when.
not long ago. he met Representative
Gardner of Massachusetts in the Re-
publican cloakroom. For the honor
and the glory of Cincinnati" be wager
ed bunch of money, which promptly
went into the inside pocket OF the Bay
State congressman.
A conversation started about the man
ufacture of shoes. Just how it does not
matter Mr.. Longworth preeipitately
asserted that outside the Lynn district
Cincinnati shod more people than any
other congressional district in the broad
land
I'm lay You fifty it doesn't rejoined
Mr.. Gardner. with alaerity.
well. just for the honor and the
glory of Cincinnati said Mr.. Long
worth. using phrase which is very
Pbpuldi uuibAiS al 10y al 1itiNllHdAA PcO
pie, I'll lay YOU like sum il does. y
There was an eager consultation of
statistics of the last census as affecting
| the making of boots and shoes in divers
3arts OF the country Thereby it was
established that the Haverhill district
which Mr.. Gardner represents. ranks
econd, or next to the Lynn district,
md that Cincinnati comes in third,
with product about S19,000,o00 less
than the product of the city on the
banks of the Merrimac.
Site of Pulaski statue.
The commission authorized to select
4 site for the statues of Count Pulaski
md Won Steuben. for which appropria-
ions of $4,000 each were made by the
asst congress, consisting of Secretary
Root Senator WetInore and Repre-
sentative MeCleary. the chairman of
he senate and house committee on H.
orary, and T. NJ. Hellnski chairman of
lie control committee of the Allied
| Polish Societies of America. has select
q the triangle at the junction of Penn
ylvania avenue and Thirteenth street
I northwest for the statue of Pulaski
Mr. Casimir Chodinski of New York
| has been selected by the commission as
the sculptor for the Pulaski statue. He
is Polish-American and is required to
furnish the commission with model
Of an equestrian statue of Pulaski
within twelve months. Ii this is salts
factory full sized model in clay is to
| be furnished within the succeeding
Twelve months and, If approved, the
statue In bronze is TO be completed dur
ing the third year
Can't Remember Them All.
Ex-senator Pugh of Alabama, feeble
and reminiscent, stalks about the
streets of Washington this winter