Show I AMOS WIDOW IS HERE TO SEEK HEALTH Interesting ting Stories Concerning th the Life of the New Y NewYork NewYork York Former Formel Congressman are Related Mrs 1 Amos J. J Cummings widow of or the late Congressman Cummings Cumming is a auest guest of oC the Cullen hotel Mrs Irs Cummings s Is accompanied b by her brother EUgene Eugene Eu Eu- gene sene J 3 J. J Van Yan Ness and is returning from a trip which embraced Victoria San I Francisco southern California and Mexico Mrs 1 Cummings was waR prostrated at atthe I the time o of tho the death o of her husband and took the thc trip upon th the advice ad of oC her her physicians She Is now rapidly regaining her health After visiting the points of Interest In Salt Lake Mrs Cummings Cummins will go to Colorado Springs s where she will visit the Union Printers Printers' home and arrange for forthe forthe or orthe the transfer to the Institution of oC her late husbands husband's splendid II library bra r he desired should b be thus disposed of or when he had no further urther u ube use e for or It it Mr Van Ness tells some interesting stories concerning Congressman Cummings Cum Cum- It Is 15 well known that Mr Ir Cummings began blan life as 36 a n printer and worked hiD hia way up For years carR prior to his death he was a n syndicate writer and his stories of oC Washington life particularly as they referred to tho the of oC Senators and Congressmen were read with great Interest Mr 11 Cummings was YaM also an editorial writer of oC note and for years cars was connected with the he editorial staff oC ot the New York Sun Speaking of oC Mr Cummingss Cummings's Democracy Mr Van VAness Ness ess sa says saya was a Democrat ns as a n. boy On one occasion his father who was yas the editor of oC a n weekly paper in New Jenie Jersey was called awa away from home and left leCt Amos to get the paper out An abundance of oC Republican editorial matter had been heen previously pre written b by the elder cIder Cummings who was vas a staunch member of the G. G O. O P. P but the matter matter matter mat mat- ter did lid not suit young Cummings and he accordingly changed it to Democratic doctrine It Is said Mold that there was plenty plent doing In the town when the paper appeared that week as the D Democrats were vere o overjoyed And the thc Republicans filled fined with consternation The fhe young oun mans man's father ather who was a a. minister r hurried home as soon eoon as he learned learner o of the change In the politics of or the thc paper laper made b by Amos but the interview between father Cather and son A was wa aa never made macic public Later hut but before reaching his majority Mr Cummings traveled about the country countr set setting Un tY type tyre but as he hc was a a. born writer he soon oon drifted from Crom the mechanical mechanical me me- part of oC the business and became one of oC the most entertaining writers of oC the tho countr country When hen a young oung man he accompanied the ill fated Walker Valker flU fill filibustering expedition to Nicaragua and barel barely escaped ith sith his life Ute For sixteen years ears Mr Nr Cummings s represented the Ninth New York district in Congress His Ills successor or Is W. W R. R Hearst |