THE PTTTSBTJEG-. DESPATCH, ' SUNDAY APELL IT, 1892. 15 GREAT METAT EASE, Pen Pictures of Six Presidents "Wlicn the Public Eye Was Off Them. GRAKT SLAPS SHEBMAff. Puts in Denunciation His Interviewer Was Afraid to Use. AX AWKWARD VISIT TO HAYES, Cleveland Knew JTothlnj: About the Tariff While Governor. HE. IIAERISOX IS A 11UCH-ABUSED HAN witiTim ron tus dispatch.i In the following I have given a few of the striking experiences of a long career as a newspaper correspondent They serve to give an insight into the characters of the last six Presidents: GRANT DISLIKED SHERMAN. How lie Scored the Senator From Ohio and Objected to Milk and Water. When General Grant became President of the United States he continued to be sur rounded by the same class of men who had served on his staff duringvthe war. Ther had dealt very arbitrarily in war times with the newspapers and their representatives, and they still retained the habits acquired in a military censorship. The natural re sult was that through no fault of General Grant's the "Washington correspondents ceased to go to the White House. It was currently reported that the General re garded the newspaper correspondents as mischievous persons, and as a necessary consequence there was bred throughout the countrv in the newspaper press a feeling of hostility. This feeling was made the basis of all kinds of attacks upon General Grant. No JVb -Milk and Water. President was ever more abused and none less deserved it, but in spite of his imnfedi ate associates men hostile to the press any correspondent could obtain access to the General, and where his trust was not abused he was always faithful and loyal to the newspaper press. This was conspicuously shown in his treatment of Rudolph Keim and John Russell Young. Mr. Keim, who made General Grant's acquaintance as a war correspondent, always observed every con fidence placed in him by the General, and always could obtain an interview with him under any and all circumstances. Tito Newspaper Men, Rewarded. As a proof of his friendship to Mr. Keim he appointed him on a roving commission to inspect the Consulates of the United States in all parts of the world. Mr. Young, who made the circle of the world with Gen eral Grant and who shared his confidence as an intimate friend, was .afterward appointed Minister to China. In these two acts Gen eral Grant recognized the corps of special correspondents more than any other Presi dent bas ever done. The political gifts of the average high official are given gen erally to the proprietors or editors of the newspapers. My first introduction to General Grant was at the hands of Senator John A. Logan. General Logan was an advocate of Grant's nomination for a third term. I wished to ask General Grant his views concerning the various candidates. General Logan did not know whether the ex-President would care to talk or not, but be gave me a very warm letter of commendation to him, in which he was kind enough to say the General could talk to me without fear of misrepresenta tion. I found the General in his sitting room of a suite of rooms in the Arlington Hotel at "Washington. He was then re covering from the effects of a broken leg, caused by a fall on an icy sidewalk several weeks previous. It was a narrow escape. This visit to AVasbincton was just before the great Grant & "Ward failure, which eliminated Grant from the field as a politi cal figure, and afterward, as everyone be lieves, hastened the development of the taalady which took his life the following year. Tamped Into Sherman Unceremoniously. The General was with Mrs. Grants He was seated in an easy chair with his injured leg resting upon another chair. He was dressed in black. Mrs. Grant was sealed in the window near him. The General after reading the letter of introduction carefully presented me to Mrs. Grant, and then turn ing asked me what I wanted to talk to-him about I said at once that I wished to ask him some questions concerning the coming convention and the candidates. The General replied without the slight est hesitation, giving his opinion on the rival candidates. "With un usual frankness he expressed the greatest possible hostility to Senator John Sher man. So vigorous was his language con cerning this gentleman that I hesitated when I came to write out what he had said. The General talked with great rapidity and freedom for about 15 minutes and then he stopped suddenly, his face assumed an expression of stolidity like that of a graven image, and not another word would he say upon any other political subject Still what he had said was quite enough to make a great sensation. "When I came to write the interview I was so doubtful about the expressions of opinion with regard to Senator Sherman that I modified them considerably. I have invariably made it a rule to submit the Interview to the person giving it for re vision. My visit to the General upon the occasion mentioned was in the morning. Insisted on Denouncing? Sherman. That afternoon after I had written out the interview I sent a note to General Grant and asked him if he would like to see it written out He wrote back a very polite letter, saying he would be much pleased to see it I called upon General Grant that same evening after he had finished his din ner. He took up the manuscript, and in true newspaper fashion borrowed a pencil, keeping within the mysterious rule that those who w rite never by any chance have a pencil, and proceeded to deliberately go over the manuscript. He made no change or correction until he reached the portion which I had tenderly modified, that which related to Hon. John Sherman. The General adjusted his glasses when he reached this part of the story, and said: "Young man, you have been patting in milk and water here'," ard -with that he began to rewrite this portion ot his conversation and wrote in with his own hands his former expres sions of opinion concerning the Ohio Sena tor. I still have this revised manuscript and prize it most highly among my auto graph notes of public men. TWO VIEWS OF HAYES. Be Failed When He Tried to be Entertain Ins, But He Could He Generous. "When President Hayes was in office I had two special interviews with him totally diflerent to those which usually result from casual'calls upon a public man. When Mr. Hayes was first inaugurated General Comly, of Toledo, O., who was afterward appointed Minister to the Sandwich Islands, came to, Washington. General Comly, who was himself a newspaper man and the editor of a Toledo paper, thought that he would serve President Haves' interests best by placing him In friendly relations with the corre spondents of all the leading newspapers of the country. There was a very hitter feel- ing throughout the country against Mr. Hayes, many believing that he was not elected, snd nearly all of the correspond ents at AVashincton, without regard to their politic, were of the opinion that he wasnot entitled to the office. All sorts of stories were at that time in circulation at the capital concerning the rural simplicity of the President, and the badly concealed rapture of the family when once they had taken possession of the White House. Some of the irreverent newspaper writers of that time said that the Hayes family 'every evening locked the doors of the White House, closed the blinds, and then gave way to the ecstasy of delight which had with so much difficulty been controlled by them during the day. Awkward Attempts at Entertainment: One evening I received a visit from Gen eral Comly. He said to me. "I want you to meet th'e President and talk to him as you would to any other public man. He is a good man and I know you will like him. He is very anxious to be on friendly terms with the correspondents, and so if you haye no engagement to-morrow evening I will take vou ud to see him." General Comly's experiment was a dismal failure so far as establishing any very inti mate relations between the President and the correspondents was concerned. My visit was one of the most uncomfortable and unsatisfactory I ever made upon any public man. It was understood that the visit was to be of a private character and that the President was to be asked no questions of any kind for publication. Being thus de prived of all business interests, .there was not sufficient social hilarity developed as a compensation. President Hayes acted as if he were a Sunday school superintendent who had been asked by some faithful out door missionary to talk with some very un regenerate person in the neighborhood. He had no reason at that particular time to have any personal affection fornewspa pcr correspondents in the abstract The air of benevolence and would-be ease and the desperate devices employed to introduce harmless topics made up a conversation far from interesting or amusing to anyone. General Comly sat rigid upon one chair, the correspondent upon another, while the Pres ident faced us as if we were a class, and after he thought a proper time had been de voted to the subjects introduced by him he arose and conducted us to the inner part of the AVhite House, where we were formally presented to Mrs. Hayes. airs. Hayes Introduced Her Cat. As this was supposed to be an evening at home with the Haves family, 'it should have" left upon my mind some agreeable impres sions. But I can only now recall to mind. Mr. Hayes' frantic attempts to talk in an offhand way and restricting the conver sation entirely to newspapers and newspaper correspondents as a method of entertaining me. He was very familiar with the Ohio correspon dents and gave me some light upon their private character which was rather remark able coming Irom a President Mrs. Hayes' share in the entertainment consisted in bringing in a beautiful brown Angora cat which disported itself in quite as graceful a manner as the tiger cat employed by Mme. Bernhardt in her receptions of newspaper callers. But while I have no particularly happy memories of this first interview with the President, the second occasion leaves me with particularly agree able recollections. The -President then had an opportunity to show a kindness and a conrtesy which I shall never forget AFTER GARFIELD WAS SHOT. Scenes In the White House When the Wounded President Was Brought In. President Garfield was never very popular with the correspondents. At the time of the Credit Mobiher investigation he was so attacked that for a long time thereafter he fought rather shy of newspaper men. With the exception of the one or two representa tives of the Ohio newspapers he rarely spoke to a correspondent There was no' man more sensitive. to criticism than Gar field and no one who loved more to have the praise of his friends than .he. Jn the early days of my career at Washington I was always about the House of Representatives, and naturally paid great attention to such a striking character as Garfield. I never had anything more than casual conversations with President Garfield dur ing his career as a Congressman. The un usual experience in connection with this President occurred July 2, 1881. I was in the AVhite House when the assassinated President was brought there. .The White House was closed immediately after his ar rival and sentries were placed about the grounds. For some six hours X. was the only correspondent in the AVhite House. So great was the confusion and demoralization of that day that my presence there was not noted as anything unusual. I was in the President's bedroom, and was even per mitted to remain in the room where the first Cabinet meeting was hastily convened for the purpose ot listening to the reports of the surgeons. ' A Correspondent's Bare Luck. From Mr. Blaine's own lips I heard the story of the assassination, lor every one will remember that it was he that stood at the right of the President when Guiteau iluved HU Band. fired the fatal shot Upon such an occasion it was the very climax of good fortune that I was -enabled to be in such apecitlon where I corld learn from first hands the true story of the terrible incident of this most ex traordinary day. The President was borne upon a litter to the AVhite House. The first shock of the wonnd had passed; he was conscious and his face showed little 'trace of the agony he suffered. He looked up pluckily at the group of attendants and servants near the door as he arrived and waved his hand to them as .he was carried,through and up the private entrance into the living rooms at the south part of tuo uuusc. -ue wucamcu iuiu we large I bedroom opening ouf of the library. There I the house. Be was carried into the large the sure-eons, under the, direction of Dr. Bliss, who had been summoned to the sta tion, made the. first examination. -The Cab inet Ministers met in his library and there received -reports nearly every moment of the President's condition. I was permitted to remain, and, while the physician in charge was very careful in all that he said. it was plain to be inferred that he thought the President had received a fatal wound. One of the most thrilling incidents of the day was the arrival of 'the wife of the Pres ident She had left Washington in advance of the President and came back upon a special train. The President was shot at 9 o'clock and his wife arrived at 6 in the afternoon. -The engine of the special broke down on its way, and only liappv fortune saved the train Irom a wreck. From the station she came in a close carriage as fast as two horses could be driven. This car riage entered the rear cate of the private part of the grounds some quarter of n mile distant from the AVhite House. The house was then filled with officials, surgeons and newspaper correspondents who all stood uncovered as the "carriage' flashed up to the steps, where Mrs. Kockwell, a pale-faced, delicate woman, with snowy while hair, stood ready to receive the tottering, half fainting Mrs. Garfield. The Execution of'GuIteaa. Several weeks after tfitt I witnessed the execution of Gniteau, the assassin. It was the second execution I had ever witnessed, and I hope that it will be the last His death was a most .revolting one aud the cle ment ot human sympathy was lacking throughout He was tho onlv prisoner ever executed in ATashington who had not made some friends among the attendants during his last days. Among the 200 or 300 persons who had assembled to witness his .execution not one exhibited any emotion of sympathy. Every one felt that the sooner he was executed and out of sight the bet ter it would be for the human race. There was something contaminatingand vile about the very atmosphere of the man; one could not look on him long without feeling de graded. .One of the peculiar incidents of the exe cution, and one which was mentioned in none of the reports of that time, was the presence there of a distinguished naval offi cer in a cell directly overlooking the scaf fold. He had come on specially from Bos ton to attend the executionand had a special cell where he could with a' powerful glass study at his leisure every shade of arrony of the forlorn wretch on the scaffold. He was what the French would call an am ateur of executions. He told me that this was the two hundred and seventy-fifth exe cution he bad witnessed .and he never massed one within 250 miles. He said: "You have no idea what a splendid shock it is to your nerves. I really call it a serve bath." PRESIDENTARTHUR'S TIMIDITY' Ha Would Never Talk to the Newspaper Men for Publication. President Chester A. Arthur was very reserved and timid in the presence of news paper men. I think he was more sensitive to criticism than any President who was ever in the AVhite House. T saw him fre quently during the first year of his succes sion to Garfield. When once assured that he was not the subject of a public interview he would talk Very freely. He had thetrue Arthur at the Window. Irish volubility when he felt sure of his surroundings. One of the most notable in terviews I ever had with President Arthur was in the house of General Butler upon Capitol Hill. This house was then occupied bv the brilliant Senator Jones, of Nevada When Garfield was shot down Jby Guiteau Mr. Arthur came on at once to Washington and became the gnest of Senator Jones." The night following the assassination I walked down from the White -House with Dr. Bliss, the chief physician in attendance upon the wounded President I had known Dr. Bliss well for many years, and so I" ven tured to secure his real opinion' concerning the probable outcome of the President's case. "It is a fatal wound," said the doc tor. "He cannot live. He has not one chance even in a thousand. " The doctor had. sent out hopeful bulletins and id ways talked encouragingly in response to all in quiries made to him at the White House, but in the confidence of a walk home to gain a little rest he expressed his real con viction. This positive opinion sent me off at once to the residence of Senator Jones. It was nearly midnight when I reached the house. It was still lighted up, and as the Senator was yet 'in his library I was admitted at once. I told the Senator what Dr. 'Bliss had said. He at once sent into another room back of the drawing room to sea if Mr. Arthur had retired. AVe found him sitting at an open window looking out upon the city bathed in soft July moonlight He tnrned and Senator Jones told him what Dr. Bliss had said. Mr. Arthur was shocked. It was no pretence of distress, al though the wounded President was no friend of his. The responsibility of the situation weighed with crushing force upon Mr. Arthur. He felt in advance the savagery of the abuse that would be heaped upon his head as the member of the faction of his party which had engaged in a politi cal broil with the President and which had led indirectly to his death. As he faced the angry and trying future he broke down completely and wept like a schoolboy. Such a paroxysm of grief upon the part of a steong man I Had never seen before. AVhen I left the house Senator Jones wrfs seated near the weeping Vice President urging him to regain bis self-control. Yet this Senatorial friend, who itood by Mr. Arthur in this most try ing ot times and who placed his home at his disposal, was one of the first to be forgotten. Influence counted for but little when once Mr. Arthur became President GROVER CLEVELAND'S WAYS. Aa Governor Be Knew Xothlng About the Tariff, but He Iiearned Fas'. I had the first notable interview with Grover Cleveland as a Presidental candi date. It was nine months before the Nation al Democratic Convention was held. At the time of my visit to Albany to see him his name had only been casually mentioned among many others. I arrived at the Gov ernor's office in the neighborhood of 10 o'clock one morning. I offered to send in a card, but the messenger at the door said it was needless, because anyone that had any business with the Governor was at full lib erty to walk into the large room and say what' be had to say in his turn. No one was turned away. I found Governor Cleveland, fortunately, alone, with the exception of his secretary, Colonel Dan Lamont, who was at a little desk behind him. Cleveland's manner rather suggested at this time the 'offhand brusque style of the captain of a man-of-war. He called, out to me in loud, rotund tones in a sort of-an "Ahoy there I" way, to give an account of myself. I did so by . telling bim irom what port I had started veiling aim irom wnai port j. uaa started and the object of my call upon him. I shall never forget the look" of rapturous surprise which spread over the broad face of Gov ernor Cleveland when I asked permission to write the story of his life as a Presidental candidate. He .burst into a regular roaring laugh, and turned to his secretary as he said : "Lament, that is a good joke, isn't it ? Here is a voung man who has come all the way from ATashington to write me "up aa a Presidental candidate." ' Knew Nothing About the Tariff, Colonel Lamont, good and -faithful subor dinate that he was, echoed Mr. Cleveland's laugh. But after this -first preliminary of cov surprise we soon passed to business. Mr. Cleveland answered at that time every question with great promptness and frank ness. AVhenever a question of fact, of record, would come up he would turn to Colonel Lamont It was Colonel Liamont who afterward supplied me with newspaper slips praising the Governor's 'action., copies of veto messages and the like, showing that some one in the immediate neighborhood .of Grover Cleveland had at least prepared to furnish campaign material in the event of a nomination. The Governor then impressed me aa a clearheaded, resolute business man, with no particular pretence to special information Between You and Me, Said Graoer. concerning public affairs. As he is to-day regarded as the apostle of tariff reform and is often held up as an authority upon the subject it is perhaps well to allude to a por tion of the talk of that day which did not appear in the published interview. During the progress of the conversation I asked Mr. Cleveland what he thought of the tariff question. "Between me and you," said he, with a twinkle in his eye, "and this need not go down, I don' t know, a thing about it " His entire knowledge of the subject must have been acquired within the shortest possi ble period, for he did not take up the sub ject until after he was elected President I spent nearly the whole day with the Gov ernor in preparing material. He gave me a line of introduction to his married sister, who had charge ot the Executive Mansion, at some distance from the CapitoL I found her a most agreeable, refined lady and was indebted to her for some of the most inter esting material furnished concerning the life ot Mr. Cleveland. Grover Has Splendid Nerves. Upon the second occasion when I saw the President he had just taken possession of the White House. It was within two or three days after his inauguration. Colonel Lamont asked if I would like to go in and see him. It was 10 o'clock in the evening at the time of my cilL I found the Presi dent alone. He had been through, perhaps, as great a strain of excitement as is possible for a man to be called upon to endure. He had been the center of the concentrated at tention of the entire country and had borne the transfer from the comparative quiet of Albany to the pressure and excitement of the highest place in onr country without showing the slightest trace of disturbance, lack of confidence or nervous worry. I had but a few words with him that evening, and nothing was said which I was permitted to use for publication, The first authorized interview that Presi dent Cleveland gave out as President, and in which he enunciated the extraordinary powers assumed by him as Executive, was given to me. I have to-day the original manuscript of that interview, with the care ful revisions made in the President's own handwriting. To obtain this interview re quired the work of several weeks. The President I always found very accessible, but his brusqueness increased as time passed on, and he was more and more reluctant to talk to representatives of newspapers for publication. When he consented to give me the interview, which was published dur ing the first year'of his taking office, I am sure that he followed the advice of Colonel Lamont, and that it would not have been given if Colonel Lamont had objected. The interview was not obtained without a num ber of preliminary visits and talks with the President's private secretary. Finally it was arranged that'I should see the Presi dent and talk over the i whole matter with' him. It was understood that I should see the President alone. How He Trusted to Idtmont Cleveland was at bis usual post of duty in the library of the AVhite House with a great mass of papers placed before him. He talked nearly as frankly as at the first in terview that I had with him at Albany, but he doubted the advisability of saying any thing for publication. The conversation had hardly begun when Colonel Lamont came in very quietly and took a seat upon the ledge of" the window just bad: of the President His attitude was one of the most perfect discretion. He never volun teered a suggestion, but his presence eyi dently acted as a check-upon the President Upon any doubtful point the President would ttirg to Lamont, and he always adopted his view. It was to the Colonel that the President finallv referred the ques tion of whether there should be an inter view or not. Lamont nodded approval. There were no notes taken at the time of this Interview. After half or three-quarters of an hour I.went away and dictated to a typewriter the substance of the conversa tion. The next day when-I called upon the President with a mass of manuscript he was greatly surprised and almost alarmed. He said to me: "Why, it does not seem possi ble that I said' as much is this 1" I then asked him to read the manuscript through, and that if there, was anything in it that he had not said to p'romptly erase' it The manuscript was absolutely at his dis posal. I further gave him the assurance that not one word ot the conversation would be published except that part revised and approved by himself. The President seemed very much relieved at'this. He appeared to have all, through the affair an underlying feeling that it was not dignified for the President of the United States to submit to an interview at the hands of a newspaper correspondent The Independence of the Executive. The President now put on a pair of round and black rimmed eyeglasses and went to work upon the manuscript He first read it all through carefully. He then drew a long breath and said: "There is nothing here which I did not say. It is reported with creat carefulness aud accuracy. But there are a number.of things here' which I said which I think it would be well to leave out" The President then began the work him self of revision and editing. Instead of calling Lamont to do this under his direc tion he performed the work himself, and only called upon Lamont now and then for his advice. This manuscript, crossed out and revised, aud in some instances with whole pages gone, is a most interesting ex hibit of Mr. Cleveland's methods of work ing. The part which he left in, and even amplified-and i emphasized, was the inde pendence of the Executive in his relations, to Congress. This new departure from the previously held views ot the relations be tween the President and Congress was made w.ithout the slightest consultation with any one of his Cabinet Ministers, and created therefore in official circles the widest possi ble interest and attention. Some of his Cabinet advisers criticised bim because he took'so important a position 'without con sulting them. But the President never paid the slightest attention to any. critioism which came from this direction. His Cabin et Ministers, were never to him any more than so many department clerks. Blaine's Visit to His Sueeesaful BlvaU During the campaign that'preceded his election I had traveled exclusively with the Republican candidate, Mr. Blaine. Soon after Mr. Cleveland's inauguration Mr. Blaine came to Washington to reside. I asked him one day if he had ever met Mr. Cleveland. "No," he said, "but I intend to call upon him. I have asked Secretary Lamar to ar range an appointment, but he has certainly forgotten it'' ' - Then, to my surprise, Mr. Blaine asked me to call at the AVhite House to make the nrrangement My call, and request made a small sensation. Mr. Blaine s politeness was appreciated in its true spirit by Mr. Cleveland. An appointment was made for 5 o'clock in the afternoon the following day. The interview passed off pleasantly. Mr. Blaine said afterward that the conversation was confined absolutely to commonplace topics. He observed the etiquette of call-' ing upon a high official by permitting him to lead' and control the conversation. It is the- only instance I ever heard of where the defeated candidate tor the Presi dency has paid a call of absolute ceremony upon the' successful candidate. GLIMPSES OF HARRISON. Appears Cold, but Is Really Sympathetic Talks Well and Is Posted. I first met President Harrison when he was a United States Senator. My first im pression of him is the same that is experi enced by nearly everyone in a first meeting with him. He had the air then of being very cold, very self-opinionated and with bnt narrow sympathies. It always needs more- than a casual acquaintance with Mr. Harrison to appreciate and arrive at a Knowledge of his true character. My first real acquaintance with, bim be gan in the campaign of 1884, in the State of Maine. I found myself at the Augusta Hotel one dark and stormy night in the month of August Mr. Harrison, who was one of the speakers in that canvass, arrived soon after at the hotel. We were the only guests. That evening I called upon Mr. Harrison and found him most agreeable and of a most social nature. Over a glass of weak grog and with a good cigar he showed a geniality rare upon his part except when witn intimates, uejs a very easy taiser and has almost keen appreciation of' the characteristics of people with whom he comes in contact He also disclosed a sur prising fund of humor. His stories of pre vious campaigns and of his law experiences were told with such conciseness and effect as hmight' well arouse the envy of professional story writers. ' He .Has a Clear Jgal Head. My first experience with -President Har rison' in a newspaper way was at another time. This was prior to the Chicago Con vention which nominated Mr. Blaine. The Chicago Tribune asked me to write a sketch of Mr. Harrison's life, as, he was one of the candidates then. I called at his house, which .he then occupied, on Fourteenth s.treet, and told him what I wanted. I wai anxious ts have from his own lips the mate rial necessary to write a correct biography of his life. The best evidence possible of his simplicity of character and lack of van ity was shown in the way he responded to this request There was "not the slightest assumption of mock modesty. He complied with civility, and told the story of his life. in the privacy of his library, with the same clearness, conciseness and lack of personal color as if lie bad been telling the story of the career of someone else. In the presen tation of the salient facts of his history he showed the clear, concise intellect of a law yer who understands how to -present the essential features while eliminatbg the de tails not necessary to the completion of a picture. I had after that a number of occasions to call upon Mr. Harrison when he was Sen ator but had no special noteworthy experi ence, although I bad unusual opportunities for forming an estimate of his character. He is one 'of the most honorable and up right men I have ever known in public life. His ability is now conceded by every one. 'While he has the reputation of being a cold man. he is really one of the most sympa thetic and tenderhearted. He has been obliged through circumstances to lead a life of toil, and has' bad few of the relaxing ad vantages' which come from ease and an ability to escape from the grind of daily work, I'have'seen his eyes fill with tears at some picture of pain or suffering called up by some one' near to him, although in the presence of" strangers he is as stoical as an American Indian. Harrison Is a Keen Observer. I published one authorized interview with Mr. Harrison in the New York Tribune last March. This is the only authorized publi cation which has ever come from him since he was President except what has been sent out as an official document over his own signature. Some of. the best pieces of news, some of the keenest observations which I used in my letters I had from Mr. Harrison himself. I could always obtain much more interesting material from the President than from Mr. Blaine, because the President seemed to have a much better knowledge of the general situation of politics and what constituted news than the brilliant Secre tary of State, whose mind was wholly ab sorbed in tne Held ot diplomacy, xne ma terial for the interview was selected from conversation running through two or three weeks. The principal conversation was, however, obtained during a ride with the President Mr., Harrison, who is fond of driving a pair of horses attached to a light Brewster buggy, invited me to go out with him one February afternoon. I was then with him for a drive of upward of three hours. , The-President is often attacked when, if he were permitted to reply, his opponent would be completely knocked out. This can be illustrated in no better way than by giving a story that the President told in that talk of a certain public man who, al though a Republican, had become prac tically an opponent of the administration. This official sent one day to the President an applicant for office with a letter ot the most cordial indorsement It was a letter written in such terms of eulogy that the President felt that if the bearer of it was worthy of the encomiums heaped upon him nothing short of a Cabinet office would be his due. He took the matter under consid eration in connection with an important ap pointment How a President Is Misrepresented. The next day the high official, who was a leading member 6f Congress, called upon him, and in the course of the call the Presi dent said: "Do you really want this man appointed?" ''Not at all," was the reply; "he is the biggest scoundrel in the State, and I meant to have sent you a letter yesterday to pay no attention to my letter of indorsement Several months after the member of Con gress called upon the President for the pur pose of asking him to help secure his own re-election. The President treated him with great civility, but gave him no en couragement. It was with difficulty that he controlled himself so as not to hand over to the member of Contrress a letter which the applicant mentioned above had sent to the President that morning. The letter was from the member of Congress to his con stituent, explaining to him why he had not received his appointment He said in this' letter that Harrison was a failure as Presi dent, had no real appreciation of working Republicans, and that it was impossible to obtain' anything from him. I think the President must have had great self-control to have listened calmly to the pleadings of .such a lying-hypocrite as this particular public man in question. The story is valuable'in illustrating the point that in most of the'stories against the Presi dent it is possible, that if the President's story of the same thing could be known quite"" a different impression would be created. T. C. Cbawfobix Besidbs Tallin! stantlr Bmrlne i ne roaones ana bedbugs In fs one of the most powerful dlelnfeotant known and is wortu Us weight In gold for this purpose alone. 23 cents Fiirsiturx, cbina, ornaments and pictures packed; hauled, stored and shipped. Uavqr & Knirur, 83 Water street. AMATEUR ATHLETICS. Opening of the Season of 1892 With Unparalleled Activity. TENNIS SAINING IN POPULARITY. Improvements Mads In the Various Fitts bnr'g Club Grounds. FIELD MEETINGS ALREADY ANNOUNCED A Pittsburg dealer 1n sporting goods said recently that last year he sold 2,400 tennis .racquets. .Add to this the number sold by numerous other dealers and the several hundred players who did not need new racquets and yon will have a slight idea of the number of devotees of tennis in Pitts burg and vicinity. The actual number of tennis .players in the vicinity is variously estimated at from 6,000 to 15,000. The popularity of the game is growing year by year, and though it is yet too early to begin 'play, preparations of grounds, etc., portend a wonderful activity in that pleasant pas time. Every amateur athletio club in the coun ty now caters to tennis players, and as a result there will be at least a score more club courts this year than last The Pittsburg Tenuis Club is just now somewhat entangled, but hopes to be prepared for play early in the season. The trouble with the club is that it is not sure of having its Bellefield grounds. The owner, Mrs, Davison, wishes to dispose of the property, and the clnb has so far failed to secure a lease of the prem ises. There is another scheme on foot, however, which may fix the club better than ever before. To Purchase the Bellefield Grounds. Three members of the club, Messrs. Barr, Moorhead and Davison, are organizing a land company among the club membership to purchase the' property and lease it to the club. The gentlemen have so far been quite successful with the project and it now looks as though it would go through. Nearly all the shares have been taken, and the pro moters of the scheme hope to finish their work in a very short time. As an invest ment the land company will have a good thing, as well as put the club in a good con dition, as the property is quite valuable. If the grounds become the property of the land company a large sum' of money will be spent in improvements. A first-class club house will be erected, and everything will be put in good shape. The idea of a club hnnse came up .last year, but nothing conld be done inasmuch as the ground could only be leased from year to year and jthe club would be in danger of having it sold and be out the money spent in improvements. If the property comes into the hands of the club men there will be no difficulty en countered in securing the money necessary to make improvements. Tournaments to Be Held Th! Season. Notwithstanding the fact that the club feels a little unsettled, arrangements are made for the regular tournament for the Western Pennsylvania championship, which will be held on the same dates as last year, the week of July 11. The tournament promises to be especially good, from the fact that the club feels a. little chagrined that the championship left the city last sea son. Mr. Buch, of Altoona, who took the honors, won on his merits, but he will have to work harder to keep it in his possession another year. There are a number ofPitts burg men who are going in to work for the cup tins year, ui course, me ijss win in clude Mr. Moorhead, who was defeated last year. All the Western Pennsylvania tourna ments will.be on-dates corresponding to last year. The Altoona double championship event.will be the first week in August, though some of the members would prefer a July date. Numerous club tournaments will also be held during the season. The Sewickley Athletic Club will be prepared for a good season on its new grounds, and will give at least one tournament, per haps more. The Allegheny Athletio Clnb and East End Gymnastic Club are also counting on open tournaments during the season. The Brnshton Clnb Grounds. The Pittsburg.Cricket Club will not only have a first-class cricket season, but is pre paring for a boom in tennis as well. The club's grounds at Brushton are now ac cessible by tbe Duquesne street railway, and as there are excellent improvements in the way of clubhouses, courts, etc, the club grounds will be more popular than in previous years. Four new courts will be added4his spring, making an even dozen in all. Heretofore'the distance has prevented many ladies using the grounds, but this season a large addition to the list ot lady members is anticipated. The cricket club is to give its. regular tournament this year as nsual. As there has been some talk ot the Pittsbur? Tennis 'Club going tcpieces the cricket club has been quietly negotiating to nave tne big tournament on the Brushton grounds. This will not very likely occur, as the tennis club is pretty sure of coming out in good shape, lf.not on the Bellefield gronnds some place else almost as good. Both of these popular clubs expect to have a large in crease in membership this season. The East End Gym Boys. The East End Gymnastic Club will open its outdoor season about May 30 with a big open field daytat their park. In the mean time quite a number of improvements are booked. The park will be leveled off, the running track fixed up, a stand built, tennis courts and other like improvements made. Beeinninr with the May tournament, meet ings will be held monthly until the end of the season. Inasmuch as some of the club members think they could do a pretty good 60-yard dash, that event will be added to the list. The programmes will be arranged to suit those who wish to enter and any event will be added which will increase the interest Already some of the members have begun indoor training and will be given outside work as soon as the weather will permit At this months' meeting of the club eight new members were elected. The new men are all good in some department of athletics and will add to tne club s roll ot Honor. Among them are a bicyclist, high kicker; jumpers, etc. Prof. Kirchner is going to put his men through hard this season and make the record ot the club better than, it was last year. 1'lttsbarg's Amateur Baseball Teams. There is one thing that is disappointing to all local amateurs, and that is the fact that Pittsburg will not be represented in the A. A. U. Baseball League. The boys believe that Pittsburg could produce a team of amateurs that would stand pretty close to the top if they' would not be pennant winners. The Eastern teams are too far awav for Pittsburg to enter, as the expense would be much greater than the income. AVhy would it not be a good scheme for the Allegheny ' Athletic Association and East -End Gym teams to play a series ot games for the city championship and the winners challenge the winners of the A. A. U. championship for a series of games here after the close of the season? That Is an idea the clubs should entertain. There is no doubt that the .games would draw well and be money makers for the winning club. Local college and academy men, besidcj having a baseball league, will also be well represented in -field sports: The outlook now is very bright The Shady side Acad emy boys ' are? preparing their grounds and may give a field day later in the season. Inter-Collegiate Athletic. The inter-collegiate field day will be as food as usual this season. The date has not een fixed. It was the intention to have it on May 30, but, as that date waa taken by the East End Gyms, the college men will doubtless have their meet on the 28th, the Saturday preceding Decoration Day. The W. U. P. Athletio Association is fix ing up its gronnds and is preparing for a good season. The outdoor trainer, Davy Sbeehan, will go to work with the boys this week, aad keep the sprinters going, in the hope'of winning a better share of prizes than in previous inter-collegiate tourna ments! He will have quite a number of young men on his hands, as the athletio spirit in tbe University is wide awake. The news from the other colleges in the association is similar to that of the W. U. P., and as a result the annual field day promises to be decidedly lively. It is not yet decided in which park it will be held, nor has the programme been fully arranged. The committee which has it in charge prom ises a first-class series of events. Athletio Meeting In the West End. A comparatively new addition to the field of indoor amateur athletes is the AVest End Gymnastic Club. A meeting will be held in the clubhouse on West Carson street next Saturday evening. The club wants to get up the interest in order that an in structor may be secured. The lease on the present quarters runs three years longer and if that cannot be renewed other property will then be secured and a new clubhouse built The East End Gymnastic Clnb will assist in the entertainment to be given by the West End-club Saturday evening. The pro gramme will be: Class of East .Enders on hbrizonial bar; club swinging by H. CFry, Jr.; contortion and tumbling bg. Close Lang and Morris; tug-of-war, AVest End Gyms, married men against single men; wrestling, members of the AVest End club; class ou parallel bars, East End Gyms; high kicking, -members of both clubs; club swinging, AVest Ender3; tug-of-war, East vs West Enders; wrestling and boxing by AVest End Gyms. The Keystone Bicyo'e Clnb. The Keystone Bicycle Club will hold a meeting Monday evening, when the plans for the new clubhouse will be submitted. Tbe plans will have to be somewhat changed before the contract for the building can be let The Keystone club is one of the oldest !n the country, being the thirteenth to join the L. A. W. It was'organized about 12 years ago, when bicycling was in its infancy. Nothing bnt the high wheel was used then, and there has been a perfect revolution in wheeling since the club has been in existence. At present high wheels are in bad odor. more with the .public than with the riders, however. As aa illustration, a few davs ago a local rider sold his hieh wneel for $25, which a year or so ago would have been worth 190 or flOO. "I don't dislike the wheel," he said, "but when I ride along the street the people laugh at me as sort of a freak. As a result I must have a safety, no matter if I am compelled to dispose of the high one for a song." A New AiiocUtlon In TVIIalntbarg. Wjlkinsburg ,is the home of a'new and quite lively athletic association. It has purchased a first-class park, and already work is started toward making it one of the finest in Western Pennsylvania. A base ball team is one of the features. It is fully equipped and ready for business with the other amateur organizations. The Wilkinsburg Athletio Association (that is the club's name) will make quite a feature of lawn tennis and football, as well as baseball. The park is in the best part of thetown and easy of access. It occupies an entire square of good level ground, which can easily be transformed into a first-class athletio park. The association is in the shape ot a stock company. THE AVBINKLS OF CHAPE. It Is Effected byTwlstlnffBoth the Warp and the TV art Threads. Crape is a fabric of silk, cotton or wool, with a wrinkled surface. Crepon is the French name for a thick crape, but popu larly this season it is any fabric with an uneven surface at all suggestive of crape, whether woven like a crape or in plaits thrown up by dropping certain weft threads on the under side at definite inter vals, after the Jacqnard manner, and tight eniug them by twistins. The wrinkle of crape is produced by making the weft, and sometimes the warp also, of twisted threads alternate threads or groups twisted in the reverse direction. The threads so arranged are woven loose, that is with space between them, and when the fabric h completed they untwist, each in its own direction, which gives a uniform irregularity. Twisting both warp and weft makes the most perfect crape. If the weft only is twisted, and the warp straight, the weft threads will push up and down the warp, making a less durable fabric. AVhen the twist is in tbe weft only there is elastic ity across the goods, and when twisted both ways it is elastic one way. j.ne result oi tuts weaving is a charming surface of broken lights and shadows a surface that reflects less, light than if smooth, and absorbs much. Such a surface permits color to be seen to advantage, and crapes are especially beautiful in rich colors suited to them, as vivid red. Oriental crapes, the mot beautiful in the world, are of silk, or-of mixed silk and cot ton. When of part cotton, they are cheaper, but there is no vulgar attempt to conceal the cotton, as it is kept frankly on the surface and its own good qualities are made to appear. Cotton has less power of re flection than silk, and therefore lends itself to increase the absorption of light which is an object in crape weave. Also the crimped surface enhances the beauty of cotton thread. Tne Japanese Yoboscbi crape shown mag nified in the illustration, has the warp of silk, and the weft of cotton. Both are twisted. It is an exquisite fabric and so sheer and soft that no one would dream it is not all silk. I have before m,e a sample of Japanese Kanka crape, white with hair line of 'color. It has straight warp of silk and twisted welt of cotton. It also is a charm ing texture, semi-transparent, as if the warp were of spun glass. There is also a French crape twisted deftly in the weft, in which the weft threads are of both silk and cotton, the two alternating regularly, to produce a delightful checkered effect These two last are each 75 cents a yard. Beautiful wools of crape weave in the market are 43 inches wide. and 31 a yard. . Some of the French cotton crapes at 40 cents are very desirable. BOCK FOE MILLSTOJJEl The Pennsylvania and Ohio Supplies For merly Came From France. All the millstones used in the United States formerly came from France, where they were made of" a silicious rock found in creat blocks near Paris. The 'stone is, mostly quartz, but has a regular cellular structure, is extremely hard and compact, and of all shades of color, from a whitish gray to a dark blue. A number of years ago, however, an ex cellent substitute was found in America, in the buhr-stono of Northwest Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio. Where millstones are employed at all this is now the favorite rock, and it answers the purpose so well that there is no need of any miller going abroad for his millstones. W pack ana store furniture; clean, dry warehouse; charges reasonable. Hauqh ft Km., a Water street. ' WBU ' MACEINE-MADE WINE. The Paris Chamber of Commerce Sita DoAvn on All Manipulation. TAKIKG PHOTOS FfiOM A BAILOOJ. Tincture of Iron Is s Sore Cora for thj Slight Hemorrhages. HET7 TEEAT1IEXT FOR COJnUSIOSS rcou&EsroirDExcx or the dispatcw.i The drinkers of French wines in thlj country who eschew the sweet and heavy vintages of our home production, as well as the California vintners whose machine made wines by a chemical miracle become five years old within ten days from the press, will be interested in a report recently made by the Paris Chamber of Commerce. The question whether it was permissible to use the salts of strontiim to precipitate the excess of plaster added to wine by vintners was referred by the Academy to a com mittee of eminent savants, who reported that for above 30 years the employment of plaster in the manipulation of wines has been general throughout the south of France. A recent law has decreed that the maximum quantity of sulphate of potassium per litre in merchantable wines shall be two grams, and therefore the wine trade de mands a method for reducing the quantity of sulphate in wines on hand to the legal limit A problem has arisen, too, as to how the pernicious effects of one chemical can be neutralized by the introduction of another without breaking the law. The committee came to the conclusion that the vintners were playing fast and loose with the health of the public by this luiruuuubiua 01 loreign elements into tneir wines. They considered that, as wine is a natural product, the addition of any chemi cal substance whatever should be looked upon as a falsification, more especially wben the purpose of tbe substance added is to mask the real character of the wine and deceive the purchaser as to the real nature of themerchandise he purchases. Their re port, in fact, brings wines within the range of the law made for the prevention of adul teration of edibles and drinkables. They define clearly the point where wine ceases to be a natural product and becomes a chemical fabrication, and they emphasize the fact that it is to " the inter est of no one, either among the vint ners or among the merchants, to furnish ground for proclaiming to the world that French wines are artificial products made, not by vintnersj but by chemists. The Academy is enjoined to inform the Chamber of Commerce that it declines to approve of the employment of salt of strontium for deplastering wines and reprobates such practices. For this "deplastering," for the purpose of reducing the contents of the wine in potassium sulphate to the legal limit, not only are the chloride, nitrate aud car bonate of baryta commonly used, but also the tartrate, acetate and phosphate. M. Qnontin, who submitted the result of a study of deplastered wines to the Academy, bore' witness to the fact that the deplaster ing of wines by means of the salts of baryta was not merely a method of falsification of a common alimentary substance, but a real, wholesale manufacture of poisons. Checking Slight Hemorrhage. When minute bleeding points, such aa sometimes occur upon the face after the use of the razor, are neither checked spontane ously nor by the usual means, a drop of tincture of iron, applied on a pledget of cot ton or the end of a match, will at once put an end to the bleeding. Sometimes obsti nate and even alarming hemorrhage follows the extraction of a tooth. In such a case a pledget of cotton saturated with tincture of iron pressed into the cavity will promptly staunch the flow, unless the case be an ex ceptional one. Bleeding from the nose is a common, though seldom serious form of a hemorrhage. It is often checked spontane ously by such simple means as bathing the face and nasal cavities with cold water. Sometimes, however, when more persistent, some styptic application may be needed. Alum water or a solution of tannic acid may be snuffed up the nose from the palm of the hand, or some powdered styptic may be blown into tbe nasal cavities by means of a quill, roll of paper or other tube. But the most unique, simple and efficient way to check an obstinate nasal hemorrhage is the old-fashioned one of pressing an ordinary clothespin firmly over the cartilaginous portions of the nose from above downward. Keconnoltering by Photography. Much attention is paid, by tbe superin tendents of English military schools and colleges to instruction in photography, which is likely to take a very prominent part in the reconnoissance of the future. The position and appearance of forts can often be admirably shown by means of pbo tocraphs, and enlargements will frequently bring out a surprising amount of detail. The use of balloons in war affords another opportunity of using photography in recon noissance. Several attempts bave been made from time to time to develop balloon photography, and special cameras have been devised for the purpose. It is pro posed that balloon photography should be used in sieges by the besiegers. One plan, is to start a small balloon, loaded with a camera, to windward of the fortress, the plates being exposed by means of a clock work arrangement or a slow match. These, of course, are adjusted to the time which would elapse before the balloon will reach the point or points where the exposures are to be made. The gas escapes, and the bal loon descends on the further side of the fortress, within the besiegers lines. A Simple Care for Convulsions. Dr. Leopold F.oheirn has published Ml experience in the cure of convulsions. He states that in cases where every remedy ordinarily prescribed for the affection has proved of no avail, he has effected a prompt cure by compressing the right carotid. After constant compression for some time of tbe carotid the convulsions were sud denly arrested, the patient would recover normal respiration and would soon feel well. A recurrence of the symptoms was met by a repetition of the treatment Dr. Boheim considers the rationale of the treat ment to be that by compressing the carotid and at the same time, necessarily, tbe sym pathetic nerve fibers, which closely follow the course of the artery, the excitability of tne brain is auayeo. Automatic Call and Writing Btx. A great convenience to tbe public has been instituted by the postoffice authorities of London, England, in the introduction of an automatic call and writing box, which it is proposed to erect at railway stations and in other public places in London. The box is worked on the penny-in-the-siot princi ple. After dropping in the coin, a drawer can be pulled out containing a stout, white card for writing purposes and two envelopes one to cover the message and the other to contain the messenger's fee. At the same time a sliding writing desk becomes fixed in front of the box, and simultaneously a bell is rung at the nearest postoffice and an ex press messenger is dispatched to the au tomatic box. A Chemist's Artificial Mllfc. The chief difference between cow's mill: and mothers' milk coyists in the propor tions of the protein constituents, the albu min preponderating in the latter, and the casein in tbe former. A German chemist has rectified this divergence by adding to cow's milk albumin in such a condition aa notto be readily coagulated. This is effected by beating albumin from vegetable or ani mal sources to a temperature of ISO degrees 0., whereby it is liquefiid and does soft coagulate on standing. J 4 V i . 4- J irf .Jfcr yfl. Tt-1' -M.
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