Show HEARING CLBYELiHD A Utah Party Sees the Ex President I FRANK G CARPENTER AT HOJIE A Sunday in WashlnKton West Point Notable Sights Seen on the Phlpps Plan NEW YORK Nov 1 1SOO Our party has spent the last week taking tak-ing in the sights on the George Washington Phipps principle and at the weeks close we have the satisfaction of feeling that i we havent done the East thoroughly that tourist did Europe we have at least done all the great points of interest and probably crowded into one week of sightseeing sight-seeing as many notable sights as any other parry of Utah tourists ever achieved in the same time Of course we have lingered longest in New York where if there were nothing else than pray and brilliant Broadway to enchain the attention one could still linger on and find new sources of delight with every view With New York as the center one may radiate Din all directions and strike some notable attractions at each turn The Brooklyn bridge that eighth wonder of the world Blackwells island the Tooinbs police court Greenwood cemetery o cem-etery the tomb of General Grant Central Cen-tral Park the filth and misery of Mul bery and Baxter streets all these things have been written about so much that they arc almost tabooed by writers and readers uhlvc though they can never be by the sightseer From New York too it isonly an buts journey up the Hudson to West Puint and we spent a few hours roaming over that historic region rich in mem ones of revolutionary occurrences Washington Wash-ington himself selected the site of the Military tory academy and Benedict Arnold was atOll at-Oll tune in command of the district close by there the old house where he made his beadquaiters is still pointed out to travelers trav-elers It is only an overnight trip from New York to both Boston and Washington and en route to Washington one passes through Philadelphia and Baltimore we took a sleeper for the nations capital Saturday Sat-urday ni ht after the theatre and were landed under the shadow of the dome at 8 oclock next morning SUNDAY IN WASHINGTON is as solemn and quiet as Sunday in Salt Lake even more so We had run down with the intention of taking a boat down the Potomac and visiting Washingtons home at 111 Vernon but we found the bat made no trips on the Sabhath all the dcparments the art gallery the museum und the monument were likewise closed and there was nothing for us but to sit indoors all the forenoon and watch the rain pattering pat-tering against the window panes In the al ternoou the clouds lifted and we took a carriage car-riage drive about the city gazing with awe at the 5 Ofoot Washington monument the exterior of the great government buildings build-ings of which this capitol is the most marvelous mar-velous and having pointed out to us the handsome brick residences of Blaine Whitney Whit-ney Edmunds Hearst Noble and others of the nations notables everything in Washington Wash-ington in the residence line i in redbrick red-brick and ail these abuses were much in the same fashion and degree of handsomeness Senator Hearsts we thought rather outshone any of the others A mournful point of interest were the blackened walls of Scretary Tracys residence resi-dence which still stand and tell the story of the terrible calamity that befel him a shcrt time aero We fell in love with Washingtons miles of asphalt pavements which make of it the paradise ot riders drivers and bicyclists Indeed our experience with all sorts of pavements in Chicago New York and Washington has made us more or less experts ex-perts and we all enroll our votes with those enterprising cast siders in Salt Lake who have gone in for asphaltum pavements pave-ments 6IIOVER CLEVELAND AND OTHER SIGHTS Monday morning on picking up the paper there is > great excitement in the crowd when it is learned that exPresident Clove laud now plain lawyer Cleveland of New York city is in Washington and will address ad-dress tho supreme court that day and tho trip to Mount Vernon again goes by tho board in tavor of a sight of tho great Democrat We hustle out at 9 oclock the hour when all the departments de-partments open to kill time as best we may till 3 oclock when Cleveland is expected to speak Of course we steer for the White House first and spend a half hour full of interest gazing at the rooms which have held so many Presidents and their families the blue room was being overhauledand workmen were busy putting electric wires through the house to take the place of gas so that we did not gain admittance ad-mittance to that noted chamber To makeup make-up for this tho custodian seein that out party looked small and had a welltodo air mysteriously took us into the living room of the family the inner circle as it were where he said not one in a hundred of the general public ever penetrate The family was out and our ladies got no glimpse of Baby McKce but this glmpse McKee thi disappointment disap-pointment was atoned for in the view they vvcro lowed of the Nile green room and the promenade which are adorned with come of the handsomest paintings imaginable imagin-able In the first the presidents family pass a good deal of the time and our guide showed us the various decorative articles about the room vhlch had been added by the wives of the Presidents from the earliest down to Mrs Cleveland whose perfect taste was illustrated illus-trated in a handsome pair of piano lamps to which Mrs Harrison has added a monster mon-ster pair of Persian shades Monday was public reception day and we were shown the big reception hal hung with paintings of American heroes and carpeted with Japanese Ja-panese matting with the particular spot where President Harrison would stand in a few hours and allow the curious throng of sightseers to press his hand We were told that we might share that privilege if we would return in the afternoon aud the guide stared in cold wonderment when wo told him we preferred seeing the next President Pres-ident to the present one Poor fellow it was a joke thrown away We ascended the Washington monument that marvelous pie of stone monument height of 500 feet gazed upon the vat panorama spread out at our feet Wo readily picked out Utahs stone as the elevator passed it and saw the beehive inscription with the Holiness to the Lord and Dsseref The war state and navy departments depart-ments were then rushed through and the sword of George Washington tho original ori-ginal copy of the Declaration of Independence Indepen-dence kept there and religiously guardedwere gazed upon with man gaed many reverential rev-erential emotions The renowned instrument instru-ment is fast fading out of sight only good eyes can now make out the world famed signatures appended to it and even John Hancocks the most prominent of all is very pale and faint To us the most interesting thing in Washington is the national mus dun which we visited with the Smithsonian Institute wo spent an hour silently gazing upon such memorable memor-able relics as the uniform of Washington the household goods of Martha Washing ton presents to her from La Fayette Washingtons writing desk dressing casehis tent camp utensils etc etc alet tor from Sir Walter Scott the original manuscript man-uscript of one of Coopers novels Napoleon Bonapartes cane and the thousand other articles of historical interest crowded Into the museum a half hour hal put in among the art wonders of thq Corcoran gallery and it was 3 oclock Wo reached the capitol soon after and easily found our way by the hurrying crowds bent in that direction to the supreme court chamber We reached the door it was blocked up with people But as decorously as possible we wriggled in by use of Our elbows and at length got a footing within the historic chamber A huge screen shut off the gaze however and at first we could 0 1 r only hear the tones of a speakers voice apparently engaged in reading some law extracts Whos that speaking we asked in a whisper of our nearest neighbors response Thats Cleveland was the whispered GROVER CLEVELAND I The word was hurriedly passed up and down our line and we once more did some dexterous lunging to obtain a better view Finally we secured a footing at one side of the screen and the eight black robed justices jus-tices of the supreme bench burst upon our view They were elevated above spectators and lawyers the latter of whom there were some twenty within the enclosed railing being seated in front of the bench and below it Only one figure among them was standing was that of Cleveland and upon him every eye in the room was eagerly bent I must have been at a disadvantage that he argued his case with the consciousness that curiosity curios-ity to see him had drawn such a throng but he showed no sign of embarrassment em-barrassment While he was speaking speak-ing we tried to think who it was in Salt Lake of whom his voice reminded us and decided that it had something of Mr Varians nasal quality along with a suggestion sug-gestion of Mr Ferrys tones His figure he stood with his back to usand the way his hair crows high in the neck with a perfectly oval bald spot on top of the head was very much like that of Apostle Brigham Brig-ham Young though ho is a taller and more strongly built man He looked about 5 feet 10 inches in height his hair is dark and when he turned around wesaw that his mustache which wa cut short at the ends in military fashion was of the same color and that both were just beginning begin-ning to take on a tinge of gray He looked voll and strongand a physician would have ailed his general tone excellent He wore the inevitable black suit the coat a double breasted Prince Albert Most of the speech was made up of readings from law books but the eight judges among whom we recognized by their pictures Chief Justice Fuller in the centre and Mr Lamar at one end paid him tho deepest attention At 4 oclock the hour at which the court closes the chief justice inter Upted Clevelands reading and said We dont wish to crowd you Mr Clove land but this is the adjourning hour I you wont require but a few minutes I shall close in a very few moments was Mr Clevelands answer Very well you may go on the chief justice said Next day the New York World correspondent spondent said that this was tho first time in his experience that the supreme court ever deferred adjourning on the stroke of 4 but that that courtesy to Cleveland was natural when both Fuller and Lamar owed their appointment to him A striking instance in-stance was it not of the pure democracy of our institutions to see a lawyer arguing before judges to whom as President he had given their positions Cleveland sat down at fifteen minutes past 4 closing with an earnest and somewhat some-what poetical quotation about the sacredness sacred-ness of a promise made by a public body he represented a New Orleans firm which was suing that city for the nonfuldllment of a drainage contract Immediately the court adjourned and the judges at once arose and retired Cleveland was surrounded by lawyers and others within the bar and a general handshaking ensued He then turned and went out of a side door with two gentlemen vhomwe afterward learned were Bayard and Garland Immediately the crowd of people who had not bestowed a look upon the supremo bench as it re tiredsurged into the hall and were justin just-in time to see Cleveland go into the marshals office where he evidently intended tended to wait till the crowd dispersed Tie crowdand about half of it was made up of ladies walled up around the glass door however very much as we have seen a mob of people do in front of a drug store when the victim of a runaway has been carried insideand Cleveland seeing that ho was in for it put on a long black overcoat over-coat and a silk hat and came out He was promptly seized by the hand by a woman and he looked for the first time a little embarrassed em-barrassed as he smilingly returned her grasp he then bore off through the corridor cor-ridor went down the back stairs and rolled away in a carriage We made un a part of tb3 rabble we are free to confess md our sight of the lastand let us hope the next President forms one of tho important im-portant spots in the history of our trip FRkXK G CARPENTER INTERVIEWED Before leaving Washington I paid a visit to the noted newspaper correspondent Frank G Carpenter knowing it would be interesting to HERALD readers to learn something of him personally and besides thinking it only fitting that one who had made his lame as an iutcrviowe should himsel be subjected to the interviewing inter-viewing process I found him at his home No 152S Q street a long avenue of handsome hand-some brick residences in one of Washing tons best living quarters He greeted with much cordiality the representative of Trw HURALI a paper with which he said his business relations had always been of the pleasantest character char-acter he was full of questions about Sal Lake which he visited when he started on Hs noted trip around the world and would have turned the tables on the wouldbe in terviower had I not plunged at once into the subject by saying I had heard many people wonder what a trip like his had cost how long it had taken would the account of the trip be published in book form etc and i he had no objection to giving it Tn HERALD would like to obtain the in formation forma-tion tonVel he replied I was gone just thirteen months and my expenses were just about twenty dollars a day between seven thousand and eight thousand dollars in all You must understand under-stand of course that it could be done for much less I hear there is a minister preparing pre-paring to take the same trip I did for f 1500 and I could have cut my expenses in two had I not taken my wife wIth me Then I went with letters from the state department eminent politicians and capitalists and had for the sake of appearances appear-ances you know to stay at the best hotel and tako in the best of everything going So that perhaps the minister could do the trip on 1500 though I am inclined to think it a little low Regarding my book I am just now thinking of publishing the trip as one volume though I have not as yet reached a definite conclusion I told him I believed it would be I a success and assured him it would have a good sale out west He thanked me and resumed Another An-other reason why our expenses were large was that we did not take the beaten path of tourists but went into a great deal of new country like Corea and Siam We staid three months exploring Japan alone Then at every new country we reached Ihired servant who also acted in the capacity of interpreter I devoted myself t getting absolutely reliable and correct information Unlike most travelers I took a regular library with me and whatever what-ever I learned I always checked up and compared with my authorities before sending send-ing off I dictated my letters t Mrs Carpenter who carried her typewrite around the world with her Mrs Carpenter brightfaced handsome young lady had previously entered the room and she here broke in Ohyes and youve no idea the time we used to have getting our typewriter past the customs officers at every country we came to they 1 insisted on undoing it The case looked exactly like a bonnet box and everywhere they thought I was trying to smuggle in an expensive bonnet 1 asked Mrs Carpenter whether she had not grown very homesick during her thir teenmonths absence Oh no she replied I was full of novelty and excitement Looking back at it the hardest parts of it the places where we had to rough it like the interior of Siam seems now to have been the most on joyable Of course I was very anxious to see our little boy He was three when we left him and over four when we got back and we had gone out of his mind altogether alto-gether But the trip gave me an education nothing else could have done and I would not have missed it for anything And do you still do Mr Carpenter typewriting Carpnters No she replied with a smile Weve two children now and they with the household house-hold cares forbid my lending him any as sistauce I keop two stenographers now1 said Mr Carpenter t whom I dictate all my letters I I did any writing myself I should not be able to keep up Was your trip around the world undertaken under-taken mostly for pleasure or for business 1 Mostly for business I took a letter of credit with me for 110000 that enabled me 4 U r r UJL to draw money in any part of the world t used 7000 or f8O and I suppose the trip netted me 4000 or 5000 above expenses ex-penses Besides my newspaper letters I a writing series of articles on agriculture agricul-ture in tho far east for the American Agri ulturtst and I also furnished a series of articles on my trip to the Cosmopolitan May zinc I mentioned that readers of his letters were disappointed that he did not visit Russia Yes ho saidI would like to have gone there and shall yet do so In 182 I am thinking of visiting the principal capitals of E Europe a Colonel Burr is doing for the GERALD and other papers now only I shall make it my aim t obtain interviews with such men as Gladstone Bismarck ete They probably will be off the scone but others just as notable will have risen and thats the class I mean I nave had some thoughts of going to Mexico and South America but I see Mrs Ward is doing that country and doing it very well too Africa I regard re-gard as the coming great field for the newspaper correspondent and though I have no thought of going there myself I am in communication with one of my friends a very bright writer who is going out there and it is possible I may place his letters for him Mr Carpenter is about thirty five years of age slightly built very active in his motions and a blonde of the most violent type In his mauner and general appear ance he is a little reminiscent of our own Rev Mr Thrall Without knowing any thing of his financial status I would say he was very well to do and his letters which go to the Sunday edition of a dozen of the biggest newspapers of the country and appear ap-pear in them simultaneously must yield him a comfortable income and he has his magazine articles besides He owns his residence and said he was on the point of selling out because he could realize real-ize a handsome profit over what I he paid and because it was not large enough for his needs He was recently offered charge of the Washington bureau of the New York World worth probably from 8000 to 10000 a year but as he preferred to retain his freedom it is probable his writings do not net him much less than that figure OUR CADET Utahs cadet to the military academy Bryant Wells son of General D H Veils passed a pleasant half hour with our party while we were at West Point He is a frank sturdy open faced young fellow and looks stunning as one of the ladies expressed it dressed in his regimentals Better than that we have it from Captain Villard Young that he stands extremely wel in all his studies aud he bids fair to be a credit to the territory GAX |