, 1872-10-30

atmospheric cloud"
I lay down for moment, and as many visions
came to me as Mahomet saw in his ono nights
trip from Mecca to Jerusalem: the calculating
schemer, counting up the points he had made on
a Senator ere he dropped to sleep; the drunken
Congressman, tired of telling COARSE stories,
plunging into swiniah snore with his clothes on;
the Indian Chief, gazing at his paint in the mir
1or, aud indulging in an Intoxicated address to
his Great Father, as be fell asleep in his feath-
ers, like beheaded turkey-cock; the hundreds
OF brides and grooms, weary OF perambulatlng
the town arm in arm, full OF the sanguine pat
life.
sfDe Graf is good Magician said: "Like
an angel he bears them up; no Proerustes is he'
How much to occupy this p
ssThe parlor is $40 day." said the Room
Clerk "adding the bedroom and two persons,
S19 day. Shut the parlor off, .$9!"
9TH take both rooms at that rate for Is
minutes, and expose you in neWspaper-let-
ter"
TaE PAST OF WASHINGTON INNS.
Seated here in q room all set with Persian car
pets, mirrors and bronze mou1dings, writing
desk selected by the efficient 1adymistress of the
house, and all the other finery COMFORTING with
the rates, made an effort Of the memory as
to the past career Of Washington hostelr1es.
first hotel in Washington thus distinctly: The
only public buildings carrying on, as yet, are the
Presidents House, the Capitol, and large
hotel 4 The hotel is large building Of
brick, ornamented with stone; it stands between
tie Presidents House and the Capitol. In the
beginning OF the year 1895, when last saw it, it
Was rooted in, and every exertion making to have
it finished with the utmost expedition. It is
anything but beautiful"
GadAby's, part of which remains in the present
Metropolitan Hotel. The stages stabbed here
from Baltimore and left three times q day.
Before this hotel was opened, the stopping
places Of congressman were Peacock's, On New
Jersey avenue, Capitol Hill, and in Georgetown,
more than two miles distant. The Administra-
tion Of Adams was first resident here, and it's
supporters. selected the Capitol neighborhood,
while the Southern members rode in onnlbuses
from the Georgetown sountry-hotels.,
Blodget's Hotel, which occupied the eite OF
the Post Office Department, received the Thir-
teenth Congress, at it's third session. on the 10Th
Of September, 1914. The Capitol had been
burned by tho British. To relieve Congress from
Of houses on Capitol Hill where Senator Trum-
bull afterwards lived, now occupied By General
Dunn, Curtis T. Hi1lyer, and Judge Field ) and
it became, about 1877, one Of the largest board
ing-houses in Washington, kept by Mrs. Linden
berger, and afterwards By Henry Hill. Here
died Peter E. Bossier and John G. Calhoun.
Amongst the buildings destroyed by the Brit
ish, in 1914, was s'the large hotel belonging to
Daniel Carroll, Of Duddington, and others = and
probably occupied place in the Capitol Hill
square, where CAROLS property WAS situated,
near the subsequent boarding house of Mrs.
Carter. In 1873, there was hotel on this
square, called Bealls, where Decatur = break
Fuller's Hotel, nearly on the site of the pres
ent Wil1ards' and part OF it etiu standing
divided nearly the whole OF the patronage after
1820-25, with Gadsbye, on the site OF the Metro
poitan. The one was known as the Mansion,
the other the Indian Queen. John Tyler, in
18444, removed from the White House to Fuller's.
Polk retired to the Irving Hotel, now extinct as
such. The National Hotel WAS the first building
Of large dimensions for public accommodate -
q few rods from Browns, or the Metropolitan.
Browns Was the first to establish 8
bridal chamber and here Kossuth's COM
patriots vent to bed with their boots and
hats on, after getting very drunk at the Nation
took the mysterious sickness there. At Browns,
James B. Clay, Henry Claye son, VAS struck in
the face by General Cullom, Of Tennessee, and
bloodless duel resulted at Bladensbmgh, in
1853
OLD AND NEW WMLARDs'. -....
The brothers Willard, Of Vermont, had the
largest house in the city when the war began,
and they made very advantageous Lease Of it.
In their house, the Peace Convention Of 1861
was held. That hall has been turned BY n1r.
Cake, the now proprietor, into . reading and
music room, which will probably be the place
recherche, as the young men with pale neck-tles
put it, for soft and percussion theat1icals.
The present proprietor ct Wizards, belongs
to the race OF family magistrates, dignlfed, IN
dustrlous, and agreeable as Bishop. 1t 1s
great @ mora & advance, u no n more, to see IT, TIE
appear, and public men and their families, and
patriotic folks who visit the Capital receive the
entertainment OF q11leter and more demure and
responsible hosts. Persons familiar with Wash
ington hotels will be interested to hear that the
new Wlllards yi has grand marble and walnut
Office, a bliard-room where the bar formerly
stood, ladles, caTe over the othce, The1e used
to be Camp Sykes" !" "a 1umber-room), and the
long and gawky s1tt1ng-room has been dlseected,
and half Of it made ladies' promenade.
,.11 oIHEn HsNaa WASHINGTON II 3 HOUSES:
taken to pieces, raised up With jackscrews, and
large, domed office made IN the o centre OF the
block This house has above 2o0 rooms: Its
new dining-room is particularly light and spa
cious. me National M mas also 20G rooms, ana the
metropolitan LOU rooms. AZ the latter hotel Mr.
Cake-Who has now resigned it to his younger
partners and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ,000 last
year, and cleared S13, 1000 in twenty,nine days.
This notwithstanding the place had been run
down under the Old management.