Show iff I 1 11 6 SNUBBED D PITE N afire I 1 4 washington SOCIETY hat HAS A SENSATION bachelors bachelor cotillion takes up secretary of states staka grievance trouble when mrs seat t Pt Pate notre word that she wag W dead washington letter the french aniba ambassador asa v has been cut by the bachelors 4 cotillion T this h I 1 9 mearis means much more i to washington society than to the I 1 14 11 rest of the world 4 S G I 1 it opens a f resh fresh V 1 chapter in the feud between the ambassador bas basa ador and the first assistant secre tary ary of state mr rockhill the bachelors cotillion Is the most exclusive of the social organizations of df the capital A committee of auto batic powers and discriminative judgment makes up the list of those permitted to share in the functions this list excludes all who can not pass pasa p asa the rigid scrutiny of the committee A P e ew w weeks ago the notices for the coming event of the club were sent around an of the french embassy who was included in the list called at the metropolitan club the headquarters of the bachelors cotillion to inform the committee that by some come oversight the ambassadors notice had not reached him he learned that there had been no mistake and that M Pate notre had been omitted the list because of his course toward I 1 the assistant secretary of state I 1 the members of the committee were friends of mr rockhill and they had decided to show their friendship in this remarkable manner the snub is the sensation of the season it is the culminating incident of a long series it has given diplomatic circles something more serious than cuba and arbitration to talk about years ago mr rockhill Rock hlll was secretary of the american legation in china at the same time M Pete notre was the french minister at pekin mrs mn rod hill is an active american woman w with ith consid considerable emble capacity for managing ing she was the life of the foreign colony at pekin she led in the sug suggestion io and execution of plans plan for the colons col onys entertainment she originated and carried to success picnics fetes and all manner of social features one time mrs rockhill had something in mind and sent word tor for the french minister to come to the house at 2 in the afternoon and help her make the necessary essary arrangements range ments it was in the hot season the minister was as stopping at a suburban place twelve miles milea out of the city called the temples he rode into the city to keep the appointment mrs rockhill was taking a siesta perhaps her temper tamper had been somewhat wh at affected by the heat when M Pate notre presented himself he was told that mrs rockhill could not be seen go tell your mistress that I 1 have ridden twelve miles to keep the appointment she made and would like to see her said the minister the chinaman disappeared around a corner of the court the house was built on the open plan an of the country M Pate notre probably overheard every word of the conversation 1 I can not see him said the lady tell him anything tell him im dead the solemn faced heathen reappeared at the entrance and announced with emphasis I 1 ulisses Mlis ses cant slee you she slay she dead the minister and the Rock hIlls were strangers from that day in the course of time M Pate notre b became ambassador to the united states irate and found hl his aforetime fe tim pekin acquaintance holding the position of chief clerk of the state department the feud slumbered until the night of the dinner at congressman drapers a couple of seasons ago when M pa enot arrived at the drapers he discovered by the cards that he was cast to take mrs rockhill in to dinner he went at once to his hostess and said bald I 1 to 3 0 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 M excuse me I 1 the pleasure ot of acquaintance with this lady can you not abot assign me to some one else elge oh said mrs mm draper allow me to present you to mrs rockhill Roc the frenchman bowed and replied 1 1 I knew the lady some year sago but she die informed me that she was dead I 1 io do not uke itte resurrections alonsi A change w was aa made in the cards ft but ut the incident was whispered about md and before that dinner party adjourned there them knew air that had passed pass assed bd then jen mr Rock cockbill bill supplied un an official side to the trouble he fie fhe ambassador A an 4 note taa V I if f midch maii abid ehtan th tan in W z i f bad aad hyi hould d decline I 1 6 to ia aee i eai eqi the aw ambassador when a lu caad me to 1 hi W de department vu on beslu business a e X ath r A um I 1 1 I 1 cassador bas took mr rockhill at his hie word it was not difficult to ask toi fot I 1 somebody else when he visited the department part ment in the course of time chief clerk rockhill Rock hlll became assistant secretary rockhill it was impossible forthe two to avold avoid meeting there have been several occasions when M pa has called upon secretary 01 ney and found mr rockhill Rock hlll in the room he has transacted his business and gone away without betray betraying InS the slightest recognition of the assistant secre presence there have been meetings at the aristocratic to metropolitan club when M X Pate Paten notre tr and mr rockhill Rock hlll have come face to face in the presence of mutual friends and have exchanged no sign of recognition th the e formal action of the bachelors cotillion is the first engagement ga of friends of either side in the feud no one can predict where the division will end society is profoundly concerned the ambassador married an american wife the daughter of a philadelphia newspaper proprietor mr james elverson a few years ago mr rockhill though holding the second highest position in the state department was educated in part at the french institution st cyr and served for a time in the french army during the algerian campaign he is considered a very able man in statecraft |