The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-12
SHAW
AS A CANDIDATE
Ridiculous Figure Cut by the Banker
From Iowa.
ALL WASHINGTON LAUGHS
PRINCESS ALICE NOW KEEPING
IN BACKGROUND.
special to The Herald3
ihIASHINGTON. Nov 1L-They tell
Wv a great many funny tbiDps


w a great many funny things
about Secretary Shaw's re-
sources as his own advertising
agent in his candidacy for the
office OF president. Here's one of them:
Whenever newspaper correspondent
enters the secretary's Office he finds
him immersed in d pile of letters. I'm
conscious of the Intrusion, the secre-
tary carelessly takes from the top of
The heap a letter which has carefully
been placed there Half TO himself the
secretary reads the letter in an under
tone sufficiently audible for the reporter
10 catch every word. As he completes
this well-rehearsed act the secretary,
with an expression of surprise, looks up
ana pretends 10 recognize his visitor
Secretary Shaw will never make a sue
cessful politician because he has no
memory for faces or names. The Sec
rotary excuses his oversight i'm inflict-
ing upon the writer his correspondence.
but he does not permit the subject TO
be CHANGED from the contents of the
letter. He insists upon discussing il.
That's nice letter" is his stereO-
typed comment. 1t appears that the
secretary has secured from different
parts of the country a dozen or more
letters endorsing his presidential as
plrations. The scheme that MIR. Shaw
has hit upon is novel. It's merit is only
impaired when the reporters compare
notes, then they find that their expert
ence is common to ali that they did not
surprise the secretary reading his pri-
Vate correspondence, but that he is al
ways prepared when a newspaper man
enters his office to be caught in the act
Of reading a letter which tells how
great Leslie NJ. Shaw is and what
misfortune for the country il will be
should he fail in his presidential as
piratiOns.
Brazilian viii Entertain.
Senior Nubaco. the newly-made am
bassadOr from Brazil, the first diplo-
mat in his country To be distinguished
by the rank OF ambassador, has opened
his new embassy in Washington with
promise of some interesting entertain
ments. There are two very talented
and attractive women with this embas-
sy, Madam Nabuco and Nine. de Pc
derneiras, wife of the military attache
The embassy occupies the home Of
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Ludlow. II is
filled with splendid trophies of land
and sea brought home by the admiral
Mrs. Ludlow is the sister of John r.
Mclean. controller Of the Washington
Post. and of Mrs Dewey.
one of the features of the winter win
be that the debutant class is SO small
that the usual entertainments of De-
cember wiz b6 totally missing From
the official families the first bud Of the
season viii be Miss Helen Chaffee
youngest Daughter of the lieutenant
general of the army, who has already
had some experience in society during
the past summer, when she accOmpa-
MED her parents on their official visit
10 Paris and London.
All OF the Roosevelts are back except
the one at Harvard. and he is not even
quarterback, to revive an old joke, be-
cause he plays at end. And COincident-
ly all came home by way OF the water,
Miss Alice across the great Pacific, the
president through Atlantic waters and
Mrs. Roosevelt with the younger chill
dren up the raging Potomac. Miss Alice
has been in town some time, has ap-
peared at the theatre. yet has been
somewhat in the background since the
transOntinental time race was stopped
when about halfway finished. The
main gossip concerning her being con-
nected with the arrival of her gifts at
the Georgetown custom house for ap-
praisal.
keeP-Mum Commission.
The Keep commission appointed by
the president 10 investigate graft in
the val lOuC STATE uCpdI llllCllLEB uGlAtt
known as the KeeD-mum commission,
are having a real time getting the hon
est ages Of the female clerks which
must be tabulated in a manner that
every one in the wide world can see.
They speak Of the approach Of the tim
pertinent things" with fear and trem-
bling. and all well understand that if
they NIB about il and are caught there
Is a terrible punishment to be melted
pFff them Tho ~
this rude commission have been find
that heretofore when that awful age
query was put 10 them il was Of no
moment 10 their record and each year
some of the old maids grew younger,
the record actually showing a step
backward Of more than ten years after
their appointment in the beginning. on
comparing notes Of one department
with another it was found according 10
the record that a mother in the post
Oftice was only 10 years older than her
daughter IN the treasury department.
When called upon 10 explain the short
disparity the mother said that clerk
must have made a mistake i'm entering
her name when she first came into Of
flee. 'Oh, no." said the Keep-mum
man. here is the blank you filled in
with your own hand" well. how
could / have made such a mistake"
she exclaimed, with a sigh. Anyhow,
I was married when I was Is, so that
little helps me some"
Vice President and Mrs. Fairbanks
have negotiated for a residence the
Levi P. Morton house on Rhode Island
avenue, whish was occupied by Mr.
Morton when he was vice president
and later by Count Cassini when he
was ambassador for Russia Mrs. Fair
banks is simply cast iron where IA
tigue is considered. She can stand up
for hours and shake hands with thou
sands At the end she looks as bright
and clipper as a new hat. Mrs. Roose-
Welt gets limp in less than an hour and
she does not make the least pretention
10 shake hands with the guests at the
evening levee after the first few hum
dred OF specially invited have passed
down the line. Mrs. Root cannot en-
dure handshaking, and il is very nat
ural that these two ladies will, if posi-
bic. avoid juxtaposition with the wife
OF the vice president
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