3-077-945 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

America Revisited by our Special Artist: after-dinner lounge at Willard's Hotel, Washington, 1890. 'Our Special Artist has...made Sketches of characteristic American figures among the regular customers, where politicians of different sections, business men, "hustlers," and "log-rollers," commercial travellers or "drummers," professional men, journalists, and sporting men from all parts of the Union, are wont to assemble during the Session of Congress. In the lobby and "Under the Dome," after dinner, the floor is crowded with representatives of these various classes: keen, raw-boned Yankees from "Down East"; loud-voiced Western men, each talking of his ranch and stock, or of the price of hogs; "Old Colonels," in the shabby-genteel attire of past years; the Southerner, wearing his soft felt wide-awake hat as no other man could wear it; the Chicago mercantile speculator; the man who is interested in silver mines; the planter, whose wealth is in cotton or tobacco; the Pennsylvania or New England manufacturer; the newspaper proprietor, with editors, correspondents, and reporters; the political "wire-puller," and the agent for private bills. The evening papers are eagerly scanned, and there is much discussion of the events of the day'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.