Evening star., 1869-12-01
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srkrcH % MAYOR Bowks, ETC.


ted their fifteenth anniversary last evening by
ALI elegant supper at -Am3ns well known estab-
hshmsnt, on 9Th street. About forty guests
we're present, among whom were Second Comp
troller Brodhead, Hon. Mr.. Loughridge of Iowa,
EN-CommissiODer Cox. Collector Tullock, Mayor
Bowen, Thomas T.. Lloyd, Esq, Capt i. VI. Du-
bant, Col. Fred. Stuart, A. Gardner, Simon
Wolf, and other well known citizens. W. X.
Smith, ESQ.,, PRESIDENT and Gen. &. W. Balloch
did the honors at their respective ends of the
table.
The supper was, as usual, success, and ample
justice being done TO the many good things pro-
vided the bowls OF "hot scotch were brought
forward. and the President Of the Society rose,
and after few timely reflections, proposed the
first toast OF the evening, 1.-The day We cele-
brate. an a who honor it." MIR. p. NJ. Dubant
responded with favorte song.
1.-The Queen of Great Britain and the Presi-
dent of the United States good luck at
tend them" Responded to by General Balloch,
with the song, 'Why Weep We by the Tide" by
MI Parsons, who sang .!Jock O. HazeIdean;'
and Hon. Mr.. Loughridge, in speech eulogistic
of old Scotland.
The Army, the Navy, and the Press--the
country. Responded to by Rev. DIR. Eliiot and
"The City of washington-the teste abused
the best located, and the best designed city in
the world. 1t will continue to be the Metropolis
Of the Union as long as the name of its Noble
Founder is remembered by an appreciative and
grateful people" Responded to by Mayor Bow
en-, ~ follows:
ADDRESS OF MAYOR BOWEN.
Mr.. President cnd GeRaemen:-In responding
to this toast shall be as brief as possible, and
will speak TO each branch of its subject-matter
in the order i'm which il il stated. I..,
Washington is the best abused city in the
world. 1t has been the target for grumblers and
back-biters for years, and it appears to have be-
come fashionable to misrepresent its condition
and belittle its inhabitants. Everything is out
of joint; our streets and avenues are unmprov-
ed unfit for travel and abound in filth; our cti-
plun6pr. hotels d.
houses and mercantile esta tablishments are swim
ding shops. where the unwary stranger is taken
in and relieves of his money; i'm short, if We may
credit all that is said OF us, are a community
of thieves and robbers, and but tor what we steal
from Uncle Sam or fitch from strangers and
>9journers, we would be Paupers, dependent OH
charity for our daily bread.
i deny, gentlemen, the soft impeachment. We
have wider streets and avenues than any other
city, and while their condition might be i'm
proved, doubt whether, in a city similarly sit
uated, extending over the same area with an
equal number of inhabitants, smoother and bet
ter streets than ours will be found Ii must be
remembered that Washington has but recently
emerged from condition that threw a blight
over all its vital energies; condition that expe
rience has shown served to crush out our spirit of
enterprise that otherwise might prevail. and
that within a period OF eight or nine wears its
population has doubled. This increase OF popu-
latiOn, scattered as it is over an extensive sur
face, has produced necessity for opening a
vast number OF our excessively wide streets and
Of course takes from our people at this time the
means of paving the streets in the older and
more iopu1Ous portions of the city. This we ex-
pect to DO, however, i'm due course of time, and
in such a manner Is to satisfy the most incorrig-
BILE fault-fnder.,
do not pretend to say that our citizens did in
the past all they might or should have done to
improve the city. They were too unwilling to be
taxed for public improvements. But unanimity
OF feeling now prevails among our peOple-a
spirit Of enterprise that cannot fail to place the
i'm fnr aslx
is concerned. Nor do i say that living at the
hotels and boarding houses is not higher than it
should or would be were our means of cOmmu-
nicatiOn with the West. whose provisions
cheap, not 80 limited. The heavy rates OF trans
pOrtatiOn adds so much to the cost Of provisions
that board cannot be afforded at the prices
charged elsewhere But if you investigate this
matter you will find there is not so much differ
ence between this and other large cities after all
To prove that Washington is deemed a de-
sirable city to reside in, will state that during
a long residence here have not known a single
individual who ever left Il AFTER residing here
for a time that did not seize the first OppOrtu-
nity, or make some excuse to get back again.
Some of these while here were constantly re-
Wiling Washington, and declaring it an unit
place for respectable and enlightened people.
But sOjOurn i'm other parts soon caused
change in their ideas as well as their base, and
We now have them among us neither afraid nor
ashamed to own that they have become perna-
pent residents of this benighted city.
That our city is the best located and best
designad in the world l. proved by its rn-
e1ualled healthfulness, If there were nothing
else to justify the assertion. The bills of NOR
tality, i Am informed, show a less number of
deaths on an average than any other city of the
same population on the globe. Fatal epidemic
diseases, such a. more Northern and more
Southern cities are subject to, have never pre-
vailed here to the same extent, and frequently
We have been spared when they have been
terribly scOurged. Situated at the head OF tide
water navigation; OF easy access TO the ocean;
ON the direct line between the fertile regions of
the West and the sea; with inhaustible supplies
Of iron, coal, and other minerals, il might be
said, in our lap; the South open to US with its
supply Of cotton and other products of the sOil
with water-pOwer unequaled; with country
villa sites, capable of being made the most pic
turesque of any on which the eye or man ever
rested-what more i s,,ar the capital and
entsrp.1se to prove the truth of the averments
In the toast? When this fact shall be Demon
strated to the world depends on the action OF the
people. 1t Is within their easy reach; will they
avail themselves Of the present opportunity, or
leave IT to those who come after them?
washington viii remain the capital of this
Union so long as this nation exists. The very
idea Of a removal Of the seat Of Government
from this city strikes me az assaeriligious. 1t was
founded and cherished by him whose sacred
nation was pledged that within these ten miles
square should remain 'the permanent seat of
the General Government" dAe capital cannot
Of the founders of this Republic, as well as thc,
fundamental law of the land
The retr0cessiOn Of that portion Of the District
lying south Of the Potomac in Virginia, brought
about .. :. w:s. oy designing men with a view
OF aiding the rebellion, have ever considered
unconstitutional and ycc.,,, and believe the Su-
preme Court will SO decide it il ever the case
comes up for its action, Ard were I i'm Con-
gress i would never cOasent that Virginia
should be restored 10 Its relations to the Union
until she had relnquished all claims to that ter
rltory. That would make short work Of the
case.
In behalf of the citizens of Washington. 1
thank you for the declaration contained in the
toast and for your kind attention to what
too, most heartily for the honor you did me i'm
inviting me to be present at this anniversary of
your society. will conclude by Offering to you
the following sentiment:
The city Of Washington and the st. Andrew
SOciety-the former will be the permanent cap
ital of the natOn-Inay the latter exist and pros
per 80 long as thsSsoescn endures.
Other tOasts were. 70 Kindred SOcieties-may
the benevolent never know poverty" t" Scotland
and ScOtland's great men deserve our admira-
tiOn and respect" and {" The Lasses-nay God
bless them, and nothing distress them" to which
responses were made by DR BrOdhead, Franklin
Philip, Thomas +. Lloyd, Collector TuIlock.
Simon Wolf, John McDermOtt, Jas. E. ThOmp-
son, of Buffalo, and others. Songs were rem
dered by Messrs. John Parsons, Capt Dubant
General BallOch, Captain Stuart, and Others
The affair was a very pleasant one, and the fes-
tivities continued until a late hour.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENTAL little daughter
(ab0ut three years Old) Of Mr.. Cannon, living on
L street, between AZ and 9Th streets, Island was