Show Yon Thielinan the German ambassador ambassa-dor followed with the Baroness Vane Van-e Thielman and the secretaries and attaches at-taches of his suite Then the brilliant uniforms of the European diplomatists black of conventional = gave way to the modest ventional evening dress worn by Romero Ro-mero minister from Mexico who in common with the representatives from the LatinAmerican republics with the exception of those from Brazil followed fol-lowed the custom of his country in appearing of civilian pearing in the highest garb cvi ian conventionality without regard to the almanac Senora Ronero and the secretariesand attaches of the Mexi can legatioxi followed the minister ADMIRED HER SILKS A year ago a Chinese woman was seen fm the first time at the opening function of the official season She wss Mrs Tans Yu the wife of the envoy from the Flowery Kingdom Today To-day she came again and created quite gin as much int ies and comment as she did ou her previous appearance at aNew a-New Tears 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 tne l ons share of attention even more than her husband and the silk go ed members of his suite Yang Yud costume was resplendent In his vvake came his secretaries and attaches at-taches Ho Ten Shing Kwang YIng Mr Hoo Mr Su Mr Wang Mr Shang Mr Chung Mr Sun Mr Lee and Mr Sze SzeThe presence of Mrs Yang Yu was not the only mark of oriental advance When the Ko ment at the cepton rean minister and his suite were announced an-nounced the spectators who craned thetr necks to see the odd head dresses and gowns in which they had been accustomed ac-customed to see the representatives of the Hermit Kingdom attired met with a disappointment for they had discarded dis-carded their picturesque costume for the conventional garment of European civilization appearing in them for the ivl zaton day func first time at the New Years tion Uniforms of European cut were also worn by Mr Toni Hoshi the Japanese Jap-anese minister and his official family Moustapha Bey the sultans representative represent-ative made nis initial bow wearing his fez DE LOME 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 brief period receive notice that diplomatic diplo-matic relations between Great Britain and the United States had been severed sev-ered and directions to return to London immediately Today it was Senor Don Enrique Dupuy De Lome the Spanish minister who was metaphorically in Sir Julians shoes The greetings he gave and received were cordial in the extreme and he was resplendent in gold braid as he passed along the line lowing and smiling with Castilian courtesy to the ladies in the receiving narty Senor Dupuy De Lome and a number of uniformed secretaries and attaches some of them with their wives followed fol-lowed the Spanish minister < Others of the diplomatic body who were present were C D Weckerhlen the minister of the Netherlands Senor Julio Rengilo charge daffaires of Colombia Co-lombia Mr Maurice Tostevens coun clllor of the Belgian legation Mr A Gzip minister of Sweden and Norway Senrr Salvador de Mendonca the Brazilian Bra-zilian minister and Dona dMendonca 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 ftngervar the Austrian minister with hIS wife J P Pioda the Swiss minister min-ister and Mrs Pioda Mr Constantine Brun the Danish minister Mr Franks Fran-ks 11 Hatch Hawaiis representative and Mrs Hatch Mr E D Kotzebue the Russian minister Viscount De SantoThyrsc 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 WILSON TAKES 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 took his place to introduce those that fol oed Chief Justice Fuller led the line of gravelooking justices of the tederal 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 led the large contingent con-tingent of army officers Adjutant General Ruggles and the various 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 attend 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 who passed along amid a continual con-tinual jangling of scabbards and jlng 3inr of spurs Rear Admiral Ramsey Rear Admiral Walker Commodores Matthews Sampson Hichborn Melville i lathews yule and a number of other flell Ii known officers composed the naval contingent Colonel Hey wood the i commandant of the marine corps led the staff under him and after them I I came General Ordway and the general staff of the militia of the District of Columbia SENATORS STRUGGLE ALONG Senators and representatives in congress T con-gress struggled along before and behind be-hind the military and naval people Speaker Reed howled past the receiving t receiv-ing party attracting considerable attention t at-tention Senator Sherman and other f veteran wearers of the toga were also I t present Black frock coats became the rule at this point and continued for some time Passing along in the order 3 or-der assigned came the regents and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Institu-tion the civil service Commission the assistants to the heads of the executive f departments and the heads of governmental gov-ernmental bureaus Carrying their battered battleflags came the Associated veterans of the war of 1846 all bowed down with the I weight of years then members of the Grand Army of the Republic the t Loyal Legion the Union Veterans 1 Legion and the oldest association of the District of Columbia W 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 u handshake i At 2 oclotk the doprs were closed and the last of the most trying social ordeal of the Cleveland administration wa over Mr and Mrs Olney Washington Jan According to i custom the secretary of state and Mrs I Olpey entertained the diplomatic orps at breakfast at their residence at noon reakas1 today About 150 were present Mrs Olney ws assisted in receiving by f Mrs George Gray Mrs Sheridan r I a H I Q l = j C < McCIellan 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 Olney received callers The vicepresident and Mrs Stevenson Steven-son received in the parlor 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 daughter of the ambassador acted as II hostess She was assisted by Mrs George Eustis Mrs Alan Eustis and 1 Mrs Vignaud wife of the secretary of the embassy Among those who attended at-tended the reception were William I Danat Mr and Mrs Henry Bacon Colonel and Mrs Charles Gibson Mr and 1r 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 Misa Buschback Miss Noah Miss Denby Miss Sanderson Miss Fairfax Miss Fithian Miss Plummer Miss Maud Davis > Mrs Bower and Mrs Paul Lartlett The salons of both the ambassador and consulgeneral were beautifully decorated |