Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-01-29
New Washington,
I'll rREKINs AT THE CAPITAL-THE STORY
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ELt rREKINs AT TIE CAPITAL-THE STORY
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IL ne Editor Of ths Ddt GTgBhic.l
The last time l came 20 Washington was IA
ls6i. Then remember II as great village,
with its quiet streets full Of grass, its reserva-
tons covered with beautiful frog poRds, AM it,
atmosphere yellow with lovely, sitting SIMEON
Of Maryland dust in March, OF humid with
cdoriferous Potomac malaria in August. But
oh how sad the change These new Nanials-
shepherd and Babcock and Mullett-what have
they done With saddened ewes 20 cropping
around 70 zee my favorable frog ponds ana
gulches. and with tears streaming down nv
cheeks, ! snuff in vain for the venerable, old
time malaria They are gone! The old city has
taken 20 itself legs and walked away. while
ingtOn was.
Well. what do you see
Listen and ! will tell you OF the sOrroWruI
changes which meet me on every hand.
first visited the old Central Market on Penn 70
sylvania avenue. Here we used 10 see pictur-
eeone sheds filled with good old Virginia col
ored women sitting around on the ground sell
ing chickens and penny royal and white oak
bark and eggs and b0neset. The Old darker wo-
men are gone. The rough sheds have departed
its place.
Then | lounged back to the muddy. MAS
matte canal which ran from the Capitol away
down TO Washington Monument and into the
Potomac, cutting the capital In halves. looked
tor the melodious bull-frogs the firtins peri
wrinkles, the playful vater-snakes-looied for
rows Of darkey boys fishing TOR the bull-heads
as they painfully chstted and snuffed the air
heavy with malaria and scented with sweet
odors from the sewers and the fish markets. The
canal, too, was gone. In ITS place the vandals
have made a stately boulevard. which sweeps
grandiy down from the Capitol through a Bots
de Boulogne, and passes tbs Smithsonian, the
Treasury, the White House, and the new State
department. IL is TO be the new "Rotten Row"
Where are tie patches of low marshes from
the Capitol TO the Smithsonian, the muddy pond
and great swale which separated the White
House and Washington mon ument? Alas! they,
too, are gone, and in their places is a second
Central Park claiming the White House 70 the
Capitol with trees and shrubbery, with serpen-
tine walks, fountains, and deep liquid lakes.
Then roamed through the grand old bywsys
OF the city. I wanted 70 see the big boulders,
the gulches made by the army wagons; see the
dust and mire and muck and boulevards Begin
ming in swales and ending in frog ponds. Here.
too, the Nandals had been at work. In place OF
mire and mud our carriage rolled over level
concrete pavement bordered with green grass
plots. look about me In bewilderment Why.
the city is one vast park. IL is Central PARK
the city OF magnificent distances, but the city
Of magnificent squares. grand sweeping boule-
wards, and beant ful grass plots which border
miles OF delightful drives. All, all is changed
TIE TRIAL OF RRsIKY for the murder OF
Clary, in Cumberland, Nd, Was continued yes
terdsy, and the evidence for the state, including
the DYING declarations Of the murdered man,
cn luded. The defence in its opening state
ment asserted It's ability 10 prove that Clary
nrst drew his pistol, and was preparing 10 shoot
when Resley fired. The Baltimore American
the oco u renee, ss well ~ the declarations OF
Clary, establish a precisely opposite state OF
facte.