Show THE PRINCE AND THE CUTTER Mrs McKEE and Mra RUSSEL HARRISON the Presidents daughter and daughterin laW arrived from Europe on the steamer Majestic Wednesday last together with several hundred returning American tourists tour-ists It was an event of no especial importance im-portance except to these ladies and their relations and friends But a smallsized I official scandal or perhaps we should say I bit of gossip has grown out of it that puts the Presidents son in a rather ridiculous I light This scion of the house of HARRISON HARRI-SON appears to Jut great store by the circumstance cir-cumstance of his progenitor being the incumbent in-cumbent of the White House and suffers tortures in the thought that the fact may I not be remembered that the President is possessed of male progeny at all On Monday Mon-day last be gaily stepped into tne office of the new collector of the port of Now York Mr FASSETT and let fall the observation that ho desired to have the revenue cutter Grant placed under his orders so that ho could take I few friends down the bay to meet the Majestic and have the baggage of his folks transferred and broucht up without with-out delay Mr FASSETT scratched a spot on the northwest section of his cranium shook the whole of the same slowly and thoughtfully and with that pitying smile that a gentleman decorates his face with before declining your proposition announced I an-nounced he did not think he had the full I amount of authority requisite to grant the j request The prince was amazed An appointee of the administration showing such audacious spirit was something ho had not calculated upon and no doubt were I 1 ASSET not in reality tue creature of Boss PLAT his bead would have gone oft too quick The secretary of the treasury was appealed I pealed to but he sustained the negative of the collector until a is stated the Presidents wife took the matter in hand I and the desired order was given And so the revenue cutter Grant steamed down I to quarantine Tuesday morning with Prince j Ress his mother and a few others onboard on-board There was a heavy fog in which the Majestic passed the cutter unnoticed and but for the big steamers whistle being I recognized by the Grants officers Mrs McKuc and her sisterinlaw would have remained with the other passengers on the White Star lino until she reached horI hor-I pier pierThere There have boon two occasions when similar I sim-ilar use to the foregoing has been made of i government vessels and one of these was when NELLIE GRANT SAUTOUIS was hurrying hurry-ing from her European home to the bedside bed-side of her dying father But there have been numerous cases of employing such vessels for private junketing parties I would be better t establish an inflexible rule confining the revenue cutters and other United States craft to the purposes I for which they are built I I Pious AND decollete is what they say of Mmo de Lesseps I |