The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-16
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crowds OF CT &c ledueTS III inc nan anu Va
humber supporters outside, the splen-
did gifts, the perfervid character OF the
addresses and speeches. are effulgent
elections of the place he held in the
hearts Of all men in his own particular
realm. And then he stands UP to reply
and words of unimpeachable sincerity
and marvellous adroitness come like
music from his lips, so that the cool and
critical reader Of to-day finds himself
carried away by the spell, convinced,
captivated. swept into perfervid admi-
ration and almost affection. as were the
thousands who cheered him to the echo
that night.
Sir Willoughby Maycock has some
thing approaching genius for unim-
portant detail. Sometimes It verges on
the absurd, as, for instance. when he
begins Chapter Ill by telling us: we
left New York on the morning of No
vember IL, and took the ferry to Jersey
City. Thence we journeyed by rail to
Washington, which we reached safely
at 4:3O. The heat Of the car was rather
oppressive" But. in fact, in this quality
resides no small part of the interest for
American readers. Many names Of
men and places, many OF the casual
happenings and habits of life under the
first Cleveland regime. are recalled with
a naive simplicity which adds to the
reality of the whole picture. When the
Etruria, crack Cunarder OF the period,
comes up the Bay Henry Lane Booker,
the British Consul General, meets the
diplomatic party. They go to the
Brevoort House "in" Fifth avenue, "a
| fine building much affected by the best
class OF Europeans. and the cuisine was
excellent" Six detectives from a pri-
vate agency were assigned to guard
them on account Of the bitterness of
| Irish agitation at the time and Mr..
Chamberlan's hostility to Gladstone's
home rule bill. They stopped ten days
| in New York and received many courte-
| sizes. Maycock "dined at the Manhattan
| Club and met Dudley Field Henry
Edwardes took Chamberlain to Del
/ monico's. Next Chamberlain was asked
| by Mrs. Parah Stevens, who was Just
| then sensationally prominent owing to
| the loss of much jewelry in Paris. to
meet the Duke of Marlborough. father
| Of the present Duke. His Grace was
| rather eager to be hooked on to the
mission hut was mildly rebuffed. so
he and the Chief talked orchids"
| congenial topic To both. The Duke was
| just then paying his court to the opu-
lent Mrs. Hamrnersley ,sic). whom he
married soon after. Most men nave
pet word or locution "Opulent' is the
obsession of this writer There are no
well to do, rich or wealthy people In
| mis- book. but at least a score OF "opu-
| lents" At Delmonico's Sir Willoughby
made his first acquaintance with
Maryland terrapin and canvas-back
/ L..
rated Injuries the latter especially
not a patch on "A good English wild
duck" At the opera, "Siegfried," he
talked dachshunds with Mrs. Witridge
daughter of Matthew Arnold. He saw
some MINISTRIES at Niblo's Garden
rather poor show" What memo
| res there are in every line!
In Washington there il much of the
same sort They visited the Jail and
saw Guiteau's cell our author was
| shrewd enough to refuse To buy the last
scrap of the rope that hanged him.
| very proud Of his shrcwdncss, too. as
| he learned later that enough last inches
| had been sold to reach from Washing
4 ton To Baltimore. All sorts of ghosts
| glide on and off the page. There Is
well done sketch Of Thomas f. Bayard
the book is well padded with biograph-
| ical notices Of notable Americans which,
Of course. are intended for the English
market. and are not. as rule, badly
done. The party saw Richard Mans
field in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde" then
in the height Of its popularity. a young
lady, when Mr.. Chamberlain was pointed
out to her. exclaimed, why, ! guess
he's lust lovely" Sir Willoughby puts
Il guess" into every Americans mouth
just as some Americans make every
| Englishman INTERCEPT Don't We know
between sentences. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
| Phil Sheridan appears short in stat
| ure, rather stout, with forid coun-
| tenancc and a rather bashful and retir-
ing manner" John sherman has men,
ton and John Hay page. William Max
well Evarts contributes one scintillation.
| \ lady asked him at dinner whether
drinking so many different wines did not
make him feel seedy the day after. "Oh,
no. madam" said he, lit Is the ndiffcr-
ent wines which have that effect" surely
"A companion piece to his famous mot
| about the White House dinner where
the water flowed like champagne. THAI
infant phenomenon Josef Hofmann"
turned up at the Arlington. "He was a
dear little boy" and Maycock delighted
| him with a bunch of roses, spells OF
the preceding evenings banquet. May
cock, who was himself a performer on
the banjo in great demand at private
| routs, goes into "a page OF rap.ures over
the boys playing. He ends, after Ia
| menting his severe Illness of 1894. with
this delicious sentence: Whether he
ever developed into a musician OF such
cminence as his childhood foreshad-
owed, | have failed TO ascertain" Truly
| what is fame?
Many dinners were given for and by
| Mr.. Chamberlain. one was An orchid
dinner" a special compliment to the Bir-
mingham amateur, given at the Airing
ton by w. l.. Putnam and j. y. Angel
The florists had to telegraph to a hun
bred places. north, east, south and west
to secure the necessary blooms. Many OF
the menus were Of the deadly prolonged
and terribly overturned type then fash
ionable. There was fresh batch in
New York as the party turned home
ward. Chamberlain figurts as a most
taCtful speaker at these events. Al
one, when ex-Secretary Lamar quoted
some English poe;' as saying that
Commerce is the golden girdle Of the
| globe" Chamberlain made a hit by