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Show THE 31 OE XING EXA3IIXEK, SUNDAY, JUNE 1001 Jliztf.Tkrx daughters of wlduwwra la tho Cabinet hava noted aa mtetrsasea of (hail This la tho earn in fathers' household tho homo of tho present Becretery of Hi daughter. Mine WilAgricuUur is one of tho moat admired young wotnen In official Ufa and aha lueently earns off vtetortouo la aa animated aortal ounteat with tho daughter of another member of the Cabinet, who claimed that Mian Wilson should not ha anti Usd to rank with tha wives of the other Cabinet members at official and social functions. However, tbe permns In control deemed that Inasmuch aa aha was presiding over her father's hoses she was entitled by virtu of that poaittea to all tbe privileges which would ha aeoordnd to hla wifo wars aha WALDON FAWCETT. living, The World's Biggest Grain Elevator. Gaaada has rightly bees termed the world's granary, and E la not surprising to team that noma mneuder atevo-to-rs am to ba man k that country. B elevator Is me designed for tbe What la probably meted la that recently cuiu Montreal. It won built to tho order of after plana tho Barter CVmiwilminnar approved by tho Minister of Publlo Works for tho Dominion, so Canada's greatest elevator may be sold to be a government building. The edlflae la particularly Interesting, not so much on account of Its gigantic aim as tho Improvements It am bodies over existing structures of this kind. It la buflt of steel and concrete: and Is fireproof. Moot elevators are of wood, nd, being liable to destruction by fir n heavy insurance premium he Bummer ul winter tna wife of of tlM president's cabinet la permitted to forget for king her Hwmber ,,er Tbs new Montreal elevator has a total storage capacity of 1NMW bushels of Wheat. Tha grata la kept hi hla They am cylindrical Is shape and built of steel plata Alongside tha atrnetum Is n msvabto tower, which runs on four eteri mile ,lMf the dock. It la S feet wM M feet long sod IN foet high. It Tho moves on JO pairs of oar wtmei total bright of tho whole structure la IN foet Tho building hi Hgbtod throughout An tho by Incandescent electric fight motor machinery Is driven by electric white H la needlem to add them In a complete dust eoiteotlng and burning system. Tha cleaners am entirely of atari, and therefore fireproof. It Is la them building that fanners atom their wheat often for mouths at a time. Tho grain on bring received at the eieTStnr la examined and graded, nil of the mam quality bring kept together. Tbs farmer or merchant who briiva It receives an acknowledgment for bo much grata of such a quality and tbe groin which Is delivered from the elevator on his account in grata of that quality, and nut tha soma aa ba brought Tho elevator under notice can rooriro from boats at tha fate of le ans hnahrla on hour. Grain can aim be takes hi Item rollwsy trucks at the rate of earn an hour. By means of Ms conveyors It can load skips with the wheat at tbe rate of ItOM ocial reepooaibUlita and thla wUl be Prially true thia year. For ana thing, SC Louie Exposition la bringing to Mr ahorea 'great mnasen of dlatln-Mtehforeignanii many of them per of rank and official position, to hom formal boapitalitlea most be ed and then again a presidential campaign, with the Chief Magistrate a candidate for neeeaaltateg CMial activity rather beyond ordinary standards la what might bo termed the official ""rial circle of the nation the wife of 1 resident la aa as la her husband In the 'olltical realm. For mslauce, her preferences in the matter aocial naago are universally But. Just as at foreign courts, the gayety of a social regime is often hmre dependent upon the bid lee of the ourt than upon royalty Itself, so, too, " greatest of republics fete has tbs balance of power in the tenda of (ha wtoca and daughters of the members of the president's cabinet. The feminine members of the cabinet "o two ho Ids constitute, with the possible cteeptlon of the president's wtfo the Cr4tt single factor la official aoclal Ufa The heads of the various executive Ccpertmenta constitute the official fam-"- F of the chief executive and from a da! standpoint the ladies of the aab-bbear much the same relation to the "st lady of the land. One reason for jdr Iniluenee Is found in the foot that (be social duties of a cabinet member's lfe am obligatory. To be sure, the lv of United States senators also Uv aoclal responsibilities that am sup-P-d to bs compulsory, but them la far ora shirking of such duties on tbs of senatorial women than by tha 'rt U1 members of the cabinet circles The aoclal al importance of tbs cabinet ia no now thing. But J existed from tha earliest days of be republic. It was during tha admin tration of Thomas Jefferson that ladies f the cabinet first became especially Prominent la entertaining: Mr. Madison then secretary of state cad hie the famous Dolly Madison, and teier, Miss Payne, afterward Mm Jr tulte wem-ver- y active haetowe James " J4 pmel-aentl- homes In Washington each winter. Possibly the cabinet circle which the entire history of the country bocn most memorsbls for lavish pit silly was that formed as a result of Urn election of Grover Cleveland to tha presidency, it included Mi William CL Whitney, whose husband was Secretary of tbs Navy, and Mr Manning, a desesndant of r or Livingston, who administered the oath of office to President Washington. When eompalled the retire-meof Mr. Manning from the Cabinet be waa succeeded by desist ant Secretary Charles SUbblna Fairchild, and Mr Fairchild bacam tha first lady of tha Cabinet after tha death of Mr Bayard, wife of the premier. An Important event la tbs Cabinet circle during the Clevw-iaa- d administration waa the marriage of Mary C. Endlcutt, tbe daughter of the Secretary of War and Mrs William Crownlnshleld Kndlcott. to Mon. Joseph Chamberlain, of England. A broader sphere of social activities was opened to tbe ladles of the Cabinet When, during tbs Cleveland administration. Congress re pasted tha old law: whereby the president pro torn, of tha Senate or tha speaker of tbs House of succeeded as chief executive in tha avast of tho death of tho president and vies prvriiit, and, instead. regulated presidential succession by precedence of members of too Cabinet. Not only did this give the mem-be- n of tho Cabinet added Importance in the eyes of tha law and tha public, but it established a line of succession sccordltg to which Cabinet members and their wives now rank at all ceremonial end social affair This order of precedence Is ee follows! becretery of stoic, secretary of the treasury, of war, attorney general, general, sec rotary of the Navy, secretory of the Interior, seel clary of agriculture and secretory of oniuiercs and labor. One of tbe first women wbuwaaubliged nt Monroe was In turn. Madison's tary of atato and his wifo proved herself admirably fitted to act as tha Ird lady of the cabinet. Tbe next turn of the wheel of political fortune made John Quincy Adame, secretary of elate In tha cabinet of President Monroe, and Mrs, Adams, who was born, educated and married in Loudon, wax tha moving spirit of a vary brilliant aeries of cabins! function Early In tha last century them first appeared those vexing social prebiams which In one form or another have eon fronted all tha women of the cabinet circle to thla day. Evan at that early data tha tangle was such that during tha time John Quincy Adams was secretary it became necessary to discuss It Tha first turmoil at cabinet meeting was occasioned by the fact that all ladles arriving at tha National Capital as of strangers expected that the wives tha members of tha cabinet should take Initiative In calling upon them. Thia tha cabinet women absolutely refused to do. They were perfectly willing to return ail visit hut they would under no circumstances tnaka first calls'' upon strangers who arrived. comnewcomers The. Jdignsnt plained to the wife of the President ; aha Interceded with tha cabinet lr lie but all to no alL Then the Cabinet took c. the matter or.a day, bu. after discussing It for more than tw- - hours they wisely concluded to allow each lady to follow lr. r own In- At Ilia conclusion of thia nalion r .orabls Ci .net conference Peers-tar- y of iitate Adame Issued a formal doctoral setting forth hi position and that of his wlf They look tha ground that to visit all atran era was of impossible and that to visit soma tha newcomers would Imply - alight n: many other ladle a .whips the aarlies f tha great soc.al s rents which v .. dial etly a was the ball given Cabinet functl -by Mr John uincy Adama In hour of A Irew Jackson, on January i, let the anniversary of the battle of Now Orleans The gentleman present were all In full state reception drees, consisting of blue coat gilt button white or buff waistcoat wbita nocktla . high choker silk stockings and pump la thia connection It may be mentioned that altbongh political feeling ran very high at tbe time a It way again thla autumn no exclusions were mads la invitations during Hie eight years Mr Adams presided at the brad of tbe Cabinet cteda because of differences la sentiment aa to public affair The moat sensational episode or rather erica of episodes la the aoclal bistory of Um Cabinet occurred during tlia administration of Andrew Jackson, wken Mr John H. Eaton, tbe wife of tbu Secretary of War, but a woman unfortunate la her antecedent was openly Blighted by tbe other ladies of tha Cabinet, who exerted nil their influence to have tha President remove Mr. Eaton simply that his wifo might bo deposed from the aoclal position to which her husband's post entitled bar. President Jackson not only refused to accede to theso request but openly aided with General Eaton and his wile, of whom ho was a grant admirer. How satisfactorily tbs ladles of tha Cabinet can, upon occasion, meet grave responsibilities was strikingly attested during tbs administration of President Van liuren. Mr Vaa liuren had died many years before her husband attained to any degree of political prominence, and the ladies of the Cabinet literally saved the administration from going down to history os a eeriel failure. Dur- log President Johnson's Incumbency of tlie position of Chi) f Mug strata the ui the Cabinet inuuKuraicd the regular weekly public receptions which have ever alnce been held at the Cabinet sen-rota- ry i j post-mus- ter to give up social life 111 health, supposed to hare bean di to the latter-da- y rosponoibi lklca of I Cabinet member's wtf waa Mr Vila .be wtfa of tha postmaster general under Cleveland. PI nee then there bars been several similar rise To tbs fa tig's Induced by arduous social duties waa attributed tha death of Mr Lyman Gag wifo of tho secretary of the treasury In the administration, and tho daughter of Long, of tho Navy, and other feminine members of Cabinet households have also within the past low years Buffered from nervous prostration and other serious consent of the severe strain Imposed. One of the conditions which play havoc with the health of many Cabinet women la found in the unwritten law which that the wife of n Cabinet member shall return every coll made upon her, not merely by her personal friends nod other prominent people In official lif but by the throngs of curious folk who attend her public reception Aa a result of this custom there era cabinet women who, at tha height of tha eoeisJ season, avenge over ION Colls a month. Then too: n Cabinet hostess must assist tha President's wife ia nil tha big card sad public raoeptloas at the White Hous and at least once each year tha wife of each member of tha Cabinet entertains at her owa home the President and hla Cabinet, together with tho iadlea ef their household The daughters of Cabinet o Rice re havq frequently vied with the older ladles of the circle in popularity and weight of Influence. A notable example eras afforded by the famous Kate Chase, whose father was at one time secretory of the treasury. Thla beautiful woman waa one of tha moat powerful of the powers behind tlie throne during the Civil War. la a model for a modish e slid It waa largely her Influence which mohair traveling suit The color la kepi General McClellan al tiis head of lrtl gii'.y and the trimming ronsiatx of the Union Army. gray taffeta strap pearl buttons and la quite a number of laetancaa the i eiltcbing. an A Modish Traveling Suit. Tl-- ro two-piec- t |