The Washington herald., 1911-01-03
HUMAN NATURE IN WASHINGTON
BY FRED C.. KELLY.

ting each others mail and each others
bills. So now the Washington George
b. has decided to change his nomencla-
ture to George Mckinley Mcclellan
McClellan's difficulties with human
designations are by no means limited.
however. to his own name. For instances.
the name Of the Hawaiian Delegate he's
secretary to is J. X. kalanianaole. Now
The work OF secretary to a Delegate
from more or less foreign parts and who
is naturally less familiar with Amer
leans ways than a native Congressman
would be. Is really more managerial than
merely secretarial. The secretary must
take the Delegate around and introduce
him to folks and show him the ropes.
And the introducing Of Delegate Kala-
nanaole is a good deal Of a task. Even
such brainy man as Senator Aldrich
gave UP trying to pronounce the name
some time ago. and calls him merely
Mr.. Delegate" Others ask Mcclellan to
repeat the name just to hear him say
it, taking the view that II sounds like
one OF those contingent rhymes such
as schoolboys use to determine who shall
be it for leapfrog So Mcclellan feels
that he has met up with more difflculty
in matters nomenclatural than ought
to fall TO the lot of any one man.
n,
the Kansas insurgent, did after getting
back to Washington was to express re-
gret that the session won't last long
enough to give him chance to take in
any of the American League ball games
here next spring. Vic" has a peculiar
way of getting his full share Of the en-
joyment out of a ball game. He used to
be a newspaper sporting editor. and he
likes to imagine when he's at a game
that he's still a sporting editor. Score
card and pencil in hand. he jots down
every play by the scientific system used
by professional scorers, at the same time
making mental notes Of the feature
plays of the game. They tell Of base
ball writer in Washington who got mixed
up over an intricate play last spring.
after he reached his Office, and instead
of calling up another newspaper man he
got Vic" Murdoch on the phone. Vic"
had it all down on his little card, and he
soon set the writer straight.
Whoever goes along with Murdock to
keep him company at ball game gets
in on lot of funny baseball and umpire
there's lull in the game. He'll be work
ing away at his score card and telling a
story at the same time.
And now the automobile is fixing to
spoil a good fisherman. For the first
| time in his life. Senator Frye this last
summer did not devote the major portion
Of his vacation to fishing. He has re-
Gently taken up automobiling as a pur-
suit. and though he is loath to admit it
as befts an old fisherman-he finds that
he gets more fun out OF riding around in
a machine than he does out Of casting
flies for trout It's queer notion. but
he has it
Senator Frye spent a part of the sum-
mer as usual at his camp on the Range
ley Lakes, Maine. 1t was near this camp
that he won the record-which he still
holds-of catching the largest speckled
trout ever caught on a hy-almost thir-
teen pounds as nearly as one can recall
offhand. At that time it was the largest
trout ever landed with either fly or bait.
but since then one or two others have
| caught bigger fish with bait
Even yet Senator Frye rarely gets
through a month without receiving a
| number of communications from people
wanting to know about certain points of
procedure in trout fishing.
Copyright fAl, by Fred G. Kezly.)