Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-05-23
@ ADABOUT'S COLUMN
Written for the Evening IStar.l
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Now good Hoban who built this pile,
And in its shadow slumbers,
Awake this morn while all the bells
Are tuned to wedding numbers;
For in the century only now,
A bride thy White House covers,
The orange blossoms on Der brow,
Her hand within her lovers.
The English sparrows in the square
MiScbievously are cooling,
The leaves and blossoms everywhere
Are murmurousIy woOing;
So let all Us OF loyal parts,
In high or gentle stations,
Repeat the woOing in our hearts,
And give congratulations.
Let every husband take his kiss,
Nor any wife refuse him;
Ind should a sW Ain do likewise, Nj :,
The day and hour excuse him.
For II they cheer with merrlment,
When Kings wed Ger the water,
The lady of our President
Shall hear us cheer her daughter.
Her simple childhood taught her truth,
Her fathers yalor duty;
The smoke of battle hid her youth,
But there she grew TO beauty,
And like a Wild on the field
A soldier sDatches rudely,
Transplanted to the palace yard,
She grew as sweet and goodly.
Now warm upon an English breast,
Heaven keep her fresh and tenderl
While millions watching in the West,
The bud they scarce surrender,
Say to the bridegroom: Glove her well,
As if Prince had sought her."
Ennobled as our country man,
Because he guards our daughter.
New Buildings.
The Baltimore and Ohio depot has been
planned, and will be a large and elegant archi-
tectural structure, at the lowest part of the
grade of Delaware avenue, hitherto a disused
street, and for the greater part OF its length
scarcely intelligiby outlined, trsversing, in the
main, the soggy and wet grounds along the Old
Tiber and James creek. IL no obstruction be
offered this work will ne at once begun, and
the excavations already made show a good
foundation. The railroad will be led out the
Avenue between iron ratings, and will make
the Junction with the Baltimore branch by a
cut back OF the Soldiers Home TO Bladensburg
At the junction, near Terra Gotta city, will be
repairing shops and hotel station.
The terra Gotta brick in the new British leya-
ton has not stood well in color, apparently
through the presence of some chemical in the
clay. The red brick In this mansion is set in
partly lamp-black mortar aud partly white
mortar. The white belt courses and ornamental
iron roof, together with the elegant Swiss
stable, the handsOmest in the city, flagstaff and
royal arms, nearly conclude building soon to
be ready for occupancy IN the midst of that
quarter where the lugubrious Merrick said the
houses were half mile apart.
walter Cox, esq, and two other gentlemen
are 10 commences Immediately three elegant
residences on the south siCe OF Farrsgut SQUARE
on the site of the little cottage belonging 10 the
Fowler estate. The Pollock residence, on the
opposite corner, is pushed up to the third floor,
and the square on street above is to be paved
Immediately, thus lighting up what has bith-
erto been an exceptionally dark street, owing
to the old Seneca stone pavement.
The squares surrounding the circle at the
Scott statue are coming out ele gantly IN their
ntw rallied Enclosures OF sod. terrace and fresh
ly tTansplaEleC trees. Nj. Morrill,, OF Vermont.
said the other Oay thar Massachusetts, avenue
was To lie undoubtedly tvs leading street of the
city, The social spine Of Washington. Merrick
calls ii solitude. But where MeTrick is, things
are always GreaTy.
The rising church aTcht cture Of Wasbing-
ton Is remarkable for the nun rer o. tie build
lngs and tie almost invHIiaDie sp,re which &C
compa mics them, breaking the profile Of tue
city up INTO pleasant forms, rejecting on their
pinnacies the light of the sun, and at N ght and
Morn catching its beams latest and first. st.
DOminick's Roman Catholic church, of grew
granite, with a tall nave. double transepfs.
Triple side cbapels, swollen choir. and 10 "
towers IS one OF the most conspicuous ei;hces
not only in Washington, bat in The United
States. 1t was hogan with energy immediately
after the war, and has been at least ten wears
rising to Importance, There are said 70 be mr.
teen churches going up at present amongst ne.
The Lutheran church on 18th street SOU IRE be-
SlIs 10 STANG up impoSinely. new church rs
arising On Georgetown heights another en- 18th
street near l., a large German church on Cap
itol Hill, and the city is looking cathedral zed
all over. The great Church of the Ascension.
at 18th and N Massachusetts, avenue, on the high
est ground in town, will, with its ambitious
splre, be more conspicuous than the Capitol
itself. Yet this is the city they call bankrupt,
than any except the last in its whole history.
ARCTURUs GADABOUT.