Show tracy avoiding the NOT AS EASY TO REACH AS WHITNEY office seeking pilgrims and their of the secretary tracy is evidently endeavoring deavo ring to put as much time as possible on naval affairs having adopted certain stringent rules by which the flow of visitors into his sanctum is to be regulated he is not at present as easy to reach as mr whitney was and has hakea steps to keep tho representatives of the press away from him as far and as much as possible one of his first acts was to create a new bureau abc the desk of the chief clerk whom he has made his medium of communication with the outer world i there was a striking incident at the door of the Secre office yesterday his time was well occupied in receiving and consulting with the heads of the various bureaus by a custom long since adopted these personages are known to that part of the naval world located in the department part ment as the commodores they were given free entry while others regardless of conditions were excluded A newspaper man tried to run the gauntlet but was stopped by the cerberus abc the door who informed him that none but commodores could pass the portals AB he did not fill tho bill he resisted desisted des isted shortly after two gentlemen approached pro ached one was tall broad shouldered heavily built with a smooth face and he trieb to persuade the watchman to let him pass the latter finally responded that he could not pass him umess he was a commodore the smooth faced man responded spon ded laughingly that he was not a commodore but that ha thought mr tracy would see him the watchman finally took his card inside after considerable hesitation and a moment later the doors flew open and the smooth faced man followed by his companion entered in triumph it was stephen B elkins the senate is having a good deal of fun with the visiting public at the publics expense naturally some senators feel annoyed because during open sessions anxious office seek ers send in numerous cards and requests for personal interviews and not unnaturally seme of tho office seekers lose their equanimity and think profane thoughts when the senate shuts itself up for no other reason than to bo rid of the importunities of the hungry multitude the public or that portion of it which crowds the corridors of the senate wing would instantly abolish executive sessions if it could and its protests against being shut out were especially ally loud yesterday or without reason an office seeker imagines he has a greater or less claim upon the senators who represent the state he happens to hail from when he comes here and finds that the sought for influence is for several hours each day as carefully shut up as ifft was in a burglar proof vault he becomes annoyed is peevish fretful and if relief is withheld he swears and does other desperate things ex attorney general wayne me leagh of is in tho city he took a turn around the hotel yesterday to visit a few friends after shaking hands with several hundred people who had known him when he was in president garfielda Gar fields cabinet he remarked to a gentleman sent leman who accompanied compa nied him it looks to me like a revival of the past there aro the same old faces thail saw here in 1881 when president garfield was inaugurated they look just the same and a good many carry in their pockets petitions and endorsements that they have had in stock for the last eight years many of these men are applicants for three and four thousand dollar positions when they could not earn and have not earned a thousand dollars a year in any private enterprise ter prise mrs harrison has been compelled by tho rush of callers during the present week to abandon her deter mi nation to devote herself exclusively to her domestic affairs and has each afternoon received many friends in the bed koom of the white house she usually goes out for a drive accompanied by members of her family while the president indulges himself in a regular constitutional upon some of the public avenues generally in close with some his figure is becoming to be almost as familiar on the streets as the stately form of presidents bachanan of former years who regularly each morning raia or shine during his term of office walked bristly out on fourteenth street as fat as P street which in chosse days was quite beyond the aiho of buildings and back again befaro a late breakfast march |