Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-05-31
Wssbip.fOn i'm its summer Dress
More beautiful Than Ever Before
signs Of 6rOwth-The EuyIrOus.

once more il is summer in Washington.
In the country round about the capital the
chill and unf-iendly spring has 50 kept back
foliage and vegetation that neither fields nor
forests are yet in their full summer beauty
But mere in town the parks and terraces and
tree-lined streets and avenues are all dressed
in deepest green. Thanks to the wOndrOuS
Improvement of the past few years, the whole
city is now dressed in venture. Let all
American tourists write in their note hooks
the capital is seen at its best only in the last
weeks OF May and the early days of June.
These are the days when all that one
has ever written OF the place seems poor and
tame. and fresh tributes are demanded to the
men VINO planned and their successors who
have adorned ito Washington who selected
the site of the city. and TO mother nature for
giving the Father OF his Country such n beau
Giul site To select. No one who Thoroughly
realizes the attractions of Washington NJ
this Sc8SOhran wonder that there is growing
up here pride in and regard for the capital
alGong The majority Of It's inhabitants utterly
M known during the first half century of its
existence. and hardly equa.led elsewhere ex-
ccpt IN the capital of France. To me il
seems as natural that people who have
money TO spend and leisure TO enjoy il
should
sEFE a RESIDENCE IN WASHINGTON
Tor hali The wear AZ they should 90 To Sara
IGga or Long Branch in July and August.
The fact that the largest hotels have been
Kept nearly fun OF guests for mere than 2
month. and are 80 still. proves that the peO-
n
this conclusion. The erection of residences
10y the wealthy vino can ford a home here
without regard To business or prOre gsionaI
occupation goes steadily on. and spite of all
The predictions of lapse and decay which
were made when the board of public works
collapsed, the city was never increasing its
habltationS more rapidly. The fact that all
mechanics here ind plenty OF employment
is evidence on The same point. The increase
OF buildings is not particularly noticeable
m any section of the city, but goes on every
where in localities where paved streets were
not thought OF ten wears ago, near George
town, on C.pitOl Hill far cut toward the
Soldiers Home park. Nor are the residences
Of the wealthy alone increasing. Indeed the
majority OF the houses one sees going M
are evidently for persons of moderate means
1 believe there is no city in the cOunfry nm
less II be Philadelphia, where men who live
Oh moderate incomes can procure comfort
aDie homes on such easy and reasonable
teImS as they can be got here now. The re-
SGlt IS that many clerks in the departments,
ana higher officials in the government, VINO
would have felt compelled TO a boarding.
Rouse eXiS ienCe ten years ago, are prrchaS-
ing homes and living under their ow.I roof
trees. Thus the material and social con-
uitlOn OF washington are improving tC-
gelher, and II becomes less and less dfficdlt
10 beileve the predictions of the future extelt
ana attractiveness of the capital.
4 VERY GREAT FEATURE
OF The general atfractiveneSS OF Washington
- the improvement Of the parks. and of the
turnpikeS leading ont OF the city. Thus the
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cultural department which will form part Of
the continuous park enclosing the CapitOI
anu The monument. are igst now being light
ga bS gas for the Hr>! time. This is 10 be the
summer evening pleasure ground for the
masses of the people. For those who can
GflNt or Tldc There are the great park of the
Soldiers Home. and the turnpikeS leading
out 10 The greenest. quietest landscapes and
forests IN every direction. Thus on a Nav
evening you may dirty to Arlington across
Tire river. or the cham bridge on the POtO-
tNn .FG.4m
Rock creek. or 10 BrightwOOd. near which
The venerable Frank II. Blair has his sum
iner residence. or 10 EdgewOOd. where Chase
ilNeu IN rural summer glory, or TO BlSdpns-
btfg. bS me beSt Of roads. or beyond the
eastern branch Of the Potomac 10 the heights
heyoEd. where one gets a hundred different
views OF the city as he winds along the
charming roads. If YOU are prepared 10
make a day Of IL and picnic. there are n
score 81 excursions that may DC undertaken.
Last sunday / was in the saddle five hOurs
o. grand tour down ON the Virginia shore.
win The best Of companions taking i'm Fair
lax seminary, from whose slightly tower one
OF me best views OF the capital NAV ne had
anu y leNdndr!a. Almost every mile of The
Iodu was gOod enough for rapid gallon. /
remember with sTeat pleasure another csy
cGF~'On- OF twenty-five miles. on which we
crossed rom one pike 10 another through
lanes ana farm roads as delighff1l as the rTi-
Nale ways 81 an English park | write Tins
,''dl - 30 not think the surroundings OF
washington have ever been sufficiently soon
or appreciated by strangers. and 10 exnIafn
Why 10 seems 10 be one ~ the cliefest ain,Gi
l-Ni1> o. q re- idert Of Washington to keen a
noiSe'- b"sh"hP.'7i tysfssPD,tieHce B0goa Hll-