| Show THIS ORDEAL THEIR LAST President and Mrs Cleveland Entertain New Years Guests THOUSANDS OF CALLERS Lavish Decorations of the White House = Representatives of Foreign Nations Were Particularly Noticeable Among the Most Observed of All Observers Was Mrs Yang I Yu Wife of the Envoy From the Flowery Kingdom Her Silks the Envy of Every Other Woman Present Washington Jan IThe annual New Years show at the White House took place today according to long established custom I constitutes the yearly ordeal of the president and the i mistress of the White House for they must shake hands with many hundreds A hun-dreds several thousand in fact of their fellow citizens and a large number num-ber of distinguished foreigners They smiled and bowed and beamed through it all today and stifled the winces that unconsciously followed the hearty grasp of some young subaltern fresh from the frontier or the grip of some horny hand that had done service in the late political campaign I was one continual round of handshaking and exchanging the compliments of the season seasonWAS WAS VERY LARGE I As on last New Years day the crowd that participated in and witnessed the A reception was very large I was the last function of its sort in which Mr and Mrs Cleveland will endure as the 1 principal characters and this may have been responsible in part for the throng that paraded corridors and 1 apartments during the time set apart for the reception The interior of the mansion had been lavishly decorated for the occasion A suggestion of the tropics was given bya survey of the decorative arrangements In the dainty ovalshaped Blue Room the official chamber of the White House with its delicately tapestried walls the artistic effect was well carried out I was in this apartment that the resident resi-dent Mrs Cleveland and the receivingr party stood Those who paid their respects to the president and lr Cleveland passed I out of their receiving chamber into the Green Room and thence into the spacious East Room the scene of so many historic occurrences Six hundred hun-dred people is the ordinary capacity of this compartment Today it I was filled to an uncomfortable degree with foreign envoys officers of the army and navy high judicial functionaries senators representatives and many civilians with a large number of ladies They were not so crowded however as to be unable to see and appreciate the floral beauty displayed i i As in every other part of the interior i I the East room had its chandeliers and II cornices twined with smilax Trailing asparagus also formed a graceful II drapery The white jardinieries on all the mantels held Chinese primroses rubber plants and cincineries Cocoanuts and palms spread their foliage high over the promenading guests The broader high east window was a mass of pomsett palms and grouped about the bottom of these were ferns The mirrors the embasures J the fire places were all suitably arranged ar-ranged mng rangedAND AND THE BAND PLAYED Eleven oclock was the hour set for the beginning of the reception Before A that time members nf the diplomatic corps ambassadors ministers attaches at-taches and their wives and daughters had begun to arrive and were scorted j into the Red Room where they awaited the signal to pass along the line Out in the public lobby the United States 7 marine band under the leadership of Professor Fanciulli waited the signal I to play Suddenly Fanciulli waved his baton and the various instruments j burst forth into the wellknown air of 1 Hail to the Chief Down the private I staircase came the president Mrs Cleveland the members of the cabinet and their ladies led by Colonel John M Wilson United States commissioner J of public buildings and grounds and 1 master of ceremonies Colonel Wilson attired in the uniform of colonel of engineers Mr and Mrs Cleveland I Vicepresident and Mrs Stevenson Secretary and Mrs Olney Secretary and Mrs Carlisle AttorneyGeneral I and Mrs Harmon PostmasterGeneral 1rs and Mrs Wilson Secretary and Miss I Herbert Secretary and Mrs Lament Secretary and Miss Morton and Secretary Secre-tary and Mrs Francis an imposing procession passed along the corridor to the Blue Room and took their places the president and Mrs Cleveland Cleve-land at one end with Secretary Olney and Colonel Wilson at their right and the ladies forming a line across the apartment The cabinet officers modestly stepped to the rear and entered into conversation with some of the ladies who composed that contingent con-tingent company designated as in behind be-hind the line C HIS FIRST VISITOR The first person to shake hands with the president was a tall broadshoul dered rather portly gentleman attired in a uniform resplendent in gold braid Those who did not know him did not need to be told that he was the Right Hon Sir Julian Pauncefote grand commander of the Bath grand commander of St Michael and St George the British ambassador to the United States and dean of the diplomatic diplo-matic corps Sir Julian was accompanied accom-panied by Lady Pauncefote the Misses Pauncefote Viscount Gough secretary of the British embassy Viscountess Gough Captain Alfred W Paget R N naval attache Mr Henry Sax Ironside and Mr Reginald Lowder second secretaries Mr Hugh T OBeren the Earl of Westmeath and Mr Ronald Macleay attaches The French ambassador Mr Jules Petaronia came with his American wife the daughter of Mr James Elver son the Philadelphia publisher and Mr Eugene Thiebot Commandant Clement DGrand Prey and Mr Jules Boeufve of the French embassy Baron Fava Italys ambassador passed down the line with the Baroness Baron-ess Fava and Count Vinci secretary of the embassy Another titled envoy Baron Max Te Von Thielman the German ambassador ambassa-dor followed with the Baroness Von hie1man and the secretaries and attaches tle l taches of his suite Then the brilliant uniforms of the European diplomatists black of conventional z 7 gave way to the modest ventional evening dress WOn by Romero Ro-mero minister from Mexico who in common with the representatives from the LatinAmerican republics with the exception of those from Brazi1 followed fol-lowed the ciistom of his country in appearing ap-pearing in the highest garb of civilian civil-ian conventionality without regard to the almanac Senora Romero and the secretariesand attaches of the Mexi can legation followed the minister ADMIRED HER SILKS A year ago a Chinese woman was seen for ag first time at the opening function of the official season She was Mrs Tans Yu the wife of the envoy from the Flowery Kingdom Today To-day she came gIn and created quite as much interes and comment as she did on her previous appearance at aNew a-New Years reception Her wonderful silken robes were the admiration of all the women present while every man pronounced her as pretty a a picture and not a Chinese picture either She drew inc 1ons share of attention even more than her husband and the silk go ed members of his suite Yang Yus costume was resplendent In his wake came his secretaries and attaches at-taches Ho Ten Shing Kwang Ting Mr Hoo Mr Su Mr Wang Mr Shang Mr Chung Mr Sun Mr Lee and Mr Sze SzThe presence of Mrs Yang Yu was not the only mark of oriental advancement advance-ment at the reception When the Konan Ko-nan minister and his suite were announced an-nounced the spectators who craned their necks to see the odd head dresses and gowns in which they had been accustomed ac-customed to see the representatives the Hermit Kingdom attired met wan a disappointment for they had discarded dis-carded their picturesque costume for the conventional garment of European civilization appearing in them for the first time at the New Years day function func-tion Uniforms of European cut were also worn by Mr Toru Hoshi the Japanese Jap-anese minister and his official family Moustapha Bey the sultans representative represent-ative fez made nis initial bow wearing his DE LOIE APPEARS A year ago today the Venezuelan message of President Cleveland was fresh in the minds of those who saw Sir Julian Pauncefote bow and smile as he shook the presidents hand as hough he might not within a Ii brief period receive notice that diplomatic diplo-matic relations between Great Britain and the United States had been severed I sev-ered and directions to return to London I immediately Today it was Senor Don Enrique Dupuy De Lome the Spanish I minister who was metaphorically in Sir Julians shoes The greetings he I gave and received were cordial in the extreme and he was resplendent in I gold braid as he passed along the line I boning and smiling with Castilian I courtesy to the ladies in the receiving I narty Senor Bupuy De Lome and a number I of uniformed secretaries and attaches some of them with their wives followed I fol-lowed sIme the Spanish minister I body who Others of the diplomatic 0 cnnt ir n pkerhlen I n p nun the minister of the Netherlands Senor Julio Rengilo charge daffaires of Colombia Co-lombia Mr Maurice Tostevens coun tlllor of the Belgian legation Mr A Grip minister of Sweden and Norway Sen r Salvador de Mendonca the Brazilian Bra-zilian minister and Dona dMendonca zial Senor Lazo Arriga Guatemalas representative rep-resentative and his wife Senor Doming Do-ming Gana the Chilean envoy and Senora Gana Senor Jose Andrade the Venezuelan minister just back from Caracas with the protocol of the treaty of arbitration with Great Britain La Dislaus Hengelmuller Von P ngervar the Austrian minister with nis wife J P Pioda the Swiss minister min-ister and Mrs Pioda Mr Constantine Brim the Danish minister Mr Francis Fran-cis M Hatch Hawaiis representative and Mrs Hatch Mr E D Kotzebue the Russian minister Viscount De SantoThyrso the Portuguese minister minis-ter and Viscountess DC SantoThyr so Dr Martin Garcia Merou the member mem-ber from Argentina Senor J B Calvo minister resident of Costa Rica and Senora de Calvo and Senor J D Rodriguez Rod-riguez the first representative of the Greater Republic of Central America < Honduras Nicaragua and Salvador to participate in the annual New Years reception WTTSHNT TARES A HAND Secretary Olney who had made the presentation of the members of the diplomatic body stepped to the rear as the last of the foreigners had passed and Colonel Wilson tpok his place to introduce those that fol o vfcd Chief Justice Fuller led the line of gravelooking justices of the federal supreme court Chief Justice Nott the new presiding officer of the United States court of claims was flowed by his associates on the bench Chief Justice Alvey of the court of appeals of the District of Columbia a member of the Venezuelan commission commis-sion preceded the district judiciary Then came exmembers of the cabinet and exministers of the United States MajorGeneral Miles attired in his full uniform a broad golden scarf across his breast indicating that he was the commanding general of the military forces le the large contingent con-tingent of army officers Adjutant General Ruggles and the various Ruggles brigadier brig-adier generals who preside over the bureaus of the war department were immediately in his rear General Wheaton Commanding the military department of the Platte took advantage advant-age of his presence in Washington to itttend A brilliant picture was presented pre-sented by the showy uniforms of these and the other officers of the army who were there staft officers on duty at the war department and officers of-ficers of the regiments stationed about Washington nearly all finelooking men vho passed along amid a continual con-tinual jangling of scabbarcs and jing lint of spurs Rear Admiral Ramsey Rear Admiral Walker Commodores Matthews Sampson Hichborn Melville Mel-ville and a number of other well i known officers composed the naval contingent Colonel Hey ool ine commandant of the marine corps led the staff under him and after them came General Ordway and the general staff of the militia of the District of Columbia l SENATORS STRUGGLE ALONG Senators and representatives in congress con-gress struggled along before and behind be-hind the military and naval people I Speaker Reed bowled past the receiving = receiv-ing party attracting considerable attention r at-tention Senator Sherman and other t veteran wearers of the toga were also i present Black frock coats became the rule at this point and continued for some time Passing along in the order J or-der assigned came the regents and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Institu-tion the civil service commission the I assistants to the heads of the executive i departments and the heads of governmental I c gov-ernmental bureaus L Carrying their battered battleflags k came the Associated veterans of the war of 1S46 all bowed down with the weight of years then members of the Grand Army of the Republic the Loyal Legion the Union Veterans Legion and the oldest association of the District of Columbia I was nearly 1 oclock when the public reception began Men women and children of all walks of life passed in a seemingly endless procession through the reception rooms For each the president and Mrs Cleveland had a smile and handshake At 2 oclotk the doors were closed and the last of the most trying social ordeal of the Cleveland administration was over rMr Mr and Mrs Olney Washington Jan According to I custom the secretary of state and Mrs OIney entertained the diplomatic corps I at breakfast at their residence at noon today About 150 were present Mrs Gluey was assisted in receiving by i Mrs George Gray Mrs Sheridan M r j McClellan Mrs Charles H Davis Mrs Hogue Mrs Endicott Mrs Thomas Nelson Page Mrs Minot her daughter and a number of young girls In the afternoon Mr and Mrs OIney received callers The vicepresident and Mrs Stevenson Steven-son received in the parlors of theN the-N Those assisting were Lewis G Stevenson Miss Clara R Brown of Illinois the Misses Endicott Senorita Andrade Miss Stevenson and others The members of the cabinet received callers tion after the White House recep Americans Abroad Paris Jan Alexander Eustis the American ambassador held a new year reception today which was very largely attended by the members of the American colony Miss Eustis I daughter of the ambassador acted as hostess She was assisted by Mrs George Eustis Mrs Alan Eustis and Mr Vignaud wife of the secretary of the embassy Among those who attended at-tended the reception were William Danat Mr and Mrs Henry Bacon Colonel and Mrs Charles Gibson Mr and Mr Francis Goodridge Mr and Mrs Julius Stewart Major and Mrs Huntington Mr and Mrs John George Munroe and Countess D Coettlongen Mr Samuel E Morse the American consulgeneral and Mrs Morse gave an at home which was attended by 500 guests A galaxy of American beauties were present consisting of Miss Bussey Miss Buschback Miss Noah Miss Denby Miss Sanderson Miss Fairfax Miss Fjthian Miss Plummer Miss Maud Davis Mrs Bower and Mrs Paul Lartlett The salons of both the ambassador and consulgeneral were beautifully 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