The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-04
MIR. DON p1ArT's ACCOUNT.

W WASHINGTON, March g. 1873.
Patriotic citizens, actuated by some curiosity
and good deal of office-seeking, are crowding
into Washington at fearful rate. The trains run
hourly are emptying their loads upon the streets,
and the hotels filed to overlooking, turn hundreds
away to wander about In search of lodgings. Last
night crowd from Illinois, falling to find shelter
even in rooms to let with generalization and
malice aforethought knocked down policeman
and won accommodation with quarters In the sta
ton house. The price imposed by Justice Smell
this morning was 30 much less than hotel bill
that it Is feared the practice will become
general, and the police be rendered incapable
OF attending to the pleasing duty on the
fourth OF caring for the safety Of the
gentleman who is to swear upon Bible
he never read to sustain constitution he
cannot understand That lofty, elegant creation
called the clerk Of the hotel, grows more dig
nifed and Indifferent as the suffering crowd in
creases and alter permitting each inferior creature
to register his name looks with calm in Indifference
upon the surging throng, leaving the walters, who
brush with the power OF locomotives and the tire.
less continuance OF q debate In the Senate, to in
form the unfortunates that 'the elevator and the
water closets have all been taken long ago and
OAR Amt ROOM FOR TAILOR, sAH."
The force Of this will be appreciated when one
members that the tailor is supposed to be the ninth
part of man. Along the halls and In the public
parlors, cots, borrowed from hospitals, fearfully
suggestive Of smallpox, straddle their insecure
legs, that make one seastck when occupied, and
have mattresses that feel as II they were stuffed
with doughnuts and grasshoppers. About those
cots wander no end OF innuenzas, quinzies and
epizoots; and sixteen times o night the unfortun-
ate occupant is aroused to general engagement
with some drunken wanderer, who insists
upon turning In with boots and hats on
and Q cotton umbrella under his arm.
The lobby has made q demand upon
Congress to devote the Rotunda to lodging place
for the patriotic people unable to find shelter else
where. The lobby has lost much OF Its influence
since their Credit Mobiler scandal has been inves-
tigated, or the Rotunda would be given up. It IL
calculated that the Rotunda will hold five thous.
and patriots II packed with any regard to sardine
possibilities. A night In such o tomb Is terrible to
contemplate.
s. THE UNRULv WINDS IN THE RorUNDA.
In this Rotunda unreconstructed winds from the
South get In, and, encountering loyal winds from
the North, the two sorts blow about whistle to
and fro and fight each other, while 1t is as
calm as q Summer day on the outside. All
night long the doors would be banging like thun-
der to coming and departing dodgers, letting in
the Ice cold from without and making the unfort l-
nate sardines nearest the entrances howl like In.
dams in their wrath. But think of lodger awak-
ing from q nightmare to gaze at that gorgeous
representation Of old George at a heavenly picnic,
or even to see William Powell's De Soto or Pocahon-
tas committing matrimony, or the landing Of Co
lumbus, where European legs 80 dominate. the
astonishing family of Mr.. 10, or Trumbus historic
monstrositieo, where all the noses Of the Fathers
are precisely alikel Only the devil could get some