The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1920-02-03
Folks and Things
Around Washington
Labert St. Clair.

Representative Bell. of Georgia,
sent a number of eulogies on dead
members of Congress TO a constitu-
ent and received a warm letter Of
thanks for his trouble.
Send me all of these eulogies that
you can get" the correspondent
wrote. I'm always glad to hear OF
another dead Congressman"
Dealers in rubbers, arctics and other
similar footwarmers enjoyed a SPLEEN
did business during the recent visit of
the foreign delegates to the Pan
American Financial Congress. These
gentlemen, most OF whom were I'M
used TO snow. landed in Washington
during a very slushy period and
promptly began TO pad out their feet
Many of the delegates liked their
rubbers so well that they wore them.
along with their frock coats, through
out the sessions of the conference.
Besides bringing many new financial
ideas to the United States. the dele
gates also brought many new styles
In whiskers. The favorite whisker in
Latin-America seems to be the square
chopped cut. This fashion runs in
straight lines along the sides and
across the bottom. In other words. a
hood cover for a flivver would make
very acceptable soup guard for it.
Miss Lucy Price. who in years agone
was the principal platform orator for
the antisuffrage forces Of the country,
now is a staid business woman in
New York. She does almost no public
speaking save over the telephone.
Anyhow. while Miss Price recently
was searching for an office in New
York, she came upon two native Man
hattanites who were arguing over
whether one. a Mr.. Oppenheim. should
rent part of his space to visitor.
Mr.. Van Something. a scion OF an old
New York family. Mr.. Oppenheim ex-
pressed a desire to rent his space only
to someone who came well recon-
mended.
Sir" shouted Mr.. Van Something.
in reply. I'll have you know that my
family has resided on this island for
240 years"
"Oh, WELL" responded Mr.. Open
helm, Length of residence means
nothing to me-"
'Indeed, indeed" countered Mr.. Van
s. with whitening scorn. Then, sir,
I might add that my grandfather
made the first sealing wax ever manu-
featured in this city!"
And with those few words he
fiounced right out of the place
AS if that were not fun enough for
one day. a few minutes later Miss
Prices new stenographer handed her
a letter addressed to "Mr. Ella Hugh
Root" L
Fred Vile, who $as been doing
more or less famous war correspond
ing in recent years, has come to
town to write pieces for Mr.. Cy
Curtis, a Philadelphia publisher who
Is doing right well with his various
papers. All of which recalls how
Fred, aided by the late President Nc
Kinley, broke into the game. The
yarn reads just like a regular fiction
story where the cub" reporter jumps
in and scatters dynamite all over the
newspaper office.
Way back yonder in the '90's some
time. Vile was a reporter out in Chit
cago. The city editor thought SO little
of him that he did not even have him
out on an assignment on one of the
big days OF Chicago political history.
when President Mckinley came to
town. Suddenly, however, the city
editor recalled that he did not have
Mckinley covered at the Union
League Club, SO he called for VILE
and, with many misgivings, sent
him over to the club.
stay right with Mckinley. Don't
let him get away from you,,. were the
orders VILE received.
About an hour later the city editor
heard q great noise over in Fifth ave-
nue.. so he adjusted his spy-glasses,
stuck his head out the window and
saw that the President was going
along the avenue at the head OF a
parade. II was quite treat for a city
editor to look at a President, so he
clamped the spy-glass closer to his
eyes. clutched the window sill tightly,
and looked again. very intently.
What he saw almost caused him to
fall out of the windew Sitting right
next to Mckinley In the hired hack
which led the procession. was little
Vile, busfly engaged in pointing out
Kings restaurant. where most of the
reporters used to eat, and lot Of
sther famous sights. And the Presi-
dent was So interested in Vile that
he was not paying the least attention
to the madly cheering throng, neither
tipping his silk topper nor doing any
OF those things that q President on
parade should do.
You know the rest, of course Vile
wrote yarn. Riding Down the Ave-
nue. with the President" and got his
wages raissd from $40 to 81 wssk.