Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-01-08
Great Interest in Miss
Rooseve|fs Marriage.
Nobody Gets More Attention
Than the Young Couple.
Civil Service Examinations ... The Work
Of Maine Members.

Washington, D. c., Jan. 7.-(Spe-
ciaD Probably no young woman in
Washington was more the observed
of all observers than Miss Alice RoOse-
welt, the daughter of the President.
AS rule Washington people are in
different about the occupants of the
White House. Not because they do
not like the President and his family,
but simply because it is not an unusual
thing to see them and there in no nov
city about it. People of Augusta be-
come accustomed to seeing the COVER
norS of Maine in their midst and, pay
far less attetion to them than the resi-
dents of Maine from afar
But Washington people, like all the
rest of the world, interested in pros
pective bride, crane their necks as
much as the reubens from distant
states to catch glimpse of the Pres
| idents daughter. If she enters Il
drawing room, every eye is turned in
her direction. They note how she
looks, how she talks, how she
acts. how she dresses. A ia
vored one to be married in the
White House. Mr.. Longworth is all
| most as much of i cynosure. All the
world loves Il lover and every detail
| of his appearance and everything he
says and does is under constant in
| spectiOn. For the present he and his
| intended wife are of far more interest
| to Washington people and Washington
| tourists and Washington Officialdom
| than the President and matters of
state.
| The inquiries about the interesting
couple are galore and diversified. The
newspaper correspondents are con-
stantly receiving requests from their
| home offices for all kinds of special
stories about the prospective wedding
and about the prospective husband and
wife. Night editors and Sunday edi-
| tors vie with one another in studying
| up some new scheme for an interest
| ing STORY" as the newspaper article
| is professionally called. The WASH
| ington correspondents have to get
| busy" when these requests are made
and so it is that the daily news col
umnS and the Sunday pages are filled
with reading about Miss Roosevelt and
Mr.. LongwOrth.
The fashionable world here is maxi
| ing quite as much fuss about the pair
as the plain tourist who is intent upon
| saying on his or her return home that
she has seen or met the Presidents
eldest daughter. Wealthy hostesses
| struggle for an open date on which to
have the two as guests of honor, and
| then struggle to become as fa-
nous Il list of guests as possible to
| thnp, pf
| thousands of dollars will be spent in
| this fashion in entertaining Miss
| Roosevelt and Mr.. Longworth before
| the wedding comes in February.
The two go about much together and
| are really democratic in their con-
duct. They have been much at the
Capitol this winter, have taken lunch
con at the Senate restaurant, and
walked together through the corridors
They go automobiling considerably
| So all in all there is every reasonable
opportunity for onlookers to feast
| their eyes with the sight of the inter-
esting bride and of the man who has
won her.
The Civil Service Commission has
just made public it's dates for exami-
nations in various cities of the country
for young persons who are ambitious
to enter the government departments
here in clerical capacity. There will
be several of these examinations in
Maine during March and April, Ban
gor. Lewiston. Portland. and one or
two other cities, not including Angus
ia, are on the list. There is great
diversity of clerical employment await
ing those who succeed in passing the
examinations, for with the enlargement
OF government operations more clerks
are required. Then the officials are
attempting to weed out many of the
aged and superannuated and to fill
their places with young blood.
But at the same time, pleasant as
life is in Washington, the old and oft
reiter4ted objections to government
cicrkships apply as much as ever.
There are thousands of college bred
men in the departments. who curse
the day they ever accepted government
employment and settled down to be-
come routine workers with little or
no opportunity to rise. The Depart
ments furnish desirable employment
for young women. as n rule. but are
not desirable places for young men
who have any ability.
Senator Hale has been at the White
House offices several times during the
holidays to talk over matters with the
President Mr.. Roosevelt now sends
for him whenever there are matters
pertaining to the Senate program on
which he wishes information. The
President has recognized the promi-
nence of the senior Maine senator in
councils there and has become aware
that Senators are now all deferring
to him. as a rule. and regard him as
the leader. Mant matters in which the
President is personally interested, Mr.
Hale takes in charge.
Ex-Governor Powers has been work.
ing like Trojan this week with