Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-02-16
WASHINGTON CRY

cities grow its progress has been tar.
dy. This yeanling of towns, so care
fully iostered on the banks of the Po.
tomac, hhs not availed itself to any
great extent Of that popular method OF
, Improvement so successfully adopted
!. by Chicago and Boston--the method
of burning; and its increase has been
I more reflection Of the extending mag.
, nitude Of other centres than sponta.
q neous movement. More and more the
Q custom has grown among the rich or
energetic and inquiring inhabitants Of
, other places, Of going TO the Capital to
1 see what II is like; many OF them have
been so fascinated that they have staid
and now Washington may fairly be
called the Winter end of New York, as
/, Newport is the Summer extension of
the metropolis, Add TO the exotic
population the enlarged ranks Of pub.
lie officials and clerks, the growing
circle Of scientific aud literary people,
who from choice or government con.
nection have been led to make their
homes there, together with the needful
contingent OF small traders who supply
the daily wants OF these elements, and
you have a general classification of the
hundred and sixty thousand heads
counted by the new census. A city
without commerce and without sub.
urbs-drive a mile or two in any di.
reetion and you find yourself in the
midst OF woods SGT but sparsely with
houses or cabins, and with only the
great pilared dome, like shining
cloud in the air, to remind you of the
human massho Washington new
ertheess wears distinctly the appear.
ance Of capital which has risen TO
the emergency.
1t has this special charm TO commend
it above other places, that while Bos.
ton and San Francisco, Cincinnati and
New York, despite their numerous
points of other than commercial inter
est, are work.a.day towns, the "mai-
den capital shows gayer disposition,
and devotes itself largely TO social
pleasures To the outsider the defer.
ence is that between friendship and
filtration. You like, you may love,
the particular big local capital where
you live and do business, but you ap.
proach Washington.wth a sense of It's
being something piquant and novel,
with which you may triile and entan.
gle yourself in in make.believe at
tachment having all the stimulus and
none Of the drawbacks of steady devo-
tion. Besides, it is a city provided
with "sights," There are Congress
and the Capital there are Mount Yer.
non and Kalorama, where dwet the
author of the "Columbiad," in pro.
found conviction of his errand as the
American epic poet and Cabin-John
Bridge, the longest single arch in the
world Arlington, with its earlier his.
toric and later war memories George.
town, with its observatory, It's college,
and its convent; besides all these, the
Corcoran Art Gallery, the Smithsonian
Institution, the curiosities of the Pat
ent Office, the Treasury with its hun
dreds OF rooms and thousands of em-
ployes, where you peer into the busy
brain'cells OF the Government whlle
they are in full activity.
You arrive by an early morning
train, and are greeted by gong beat
ing for breakfast at the station, which
makes you feel like an impossible Chi
nese embassy. But, armed with a
pocket copy of the Constitution, you
re-assert your birthright, and after
going to the hotel, where you wait
some hours for room, you step forth
into the broad airy streets. They
have continental width and extent,
making it impossible to crowd them
except on rare occasions; and in the
more retired ones children glide peace
fully along the asphalt on roller.skates.
Walking these thoroughfares, you know
that the trial of the Boss is over them
all, but it is picturesque trail, excel
lent in its results, whatever 1t may
have been morally. Many of the
houses in the new northwest end are
well set OIL by trees and lawns; some
stand on terraces decked with vines
and shrubbory and the avenues are
lined with more than a hundred thou.
sand trees udiciously planted--elm
aud tulip, buttOnwood and cottonwood,
the ash, the negundo, the maple. The
quality of The houses is still unequal.
Here and there you see q relic of the
village era-some little whitewashed
hut sticking pertinaciously TO the side
of fine modern brick structure OF
and tasteful style, like
wasp's nest attached to real human
and 1t is amusing TO come
upon a building-in what is known,
according to the barbarous nomenola.
ture of the place, as Il streot--which
bears on one side the legend, claw
College of the University Of George.
town." and on the Other, "Capitol
Laundry" Such a conjunction is only
to be explained by the tendency Of
people nowadays 10 wash their dirty
linen in court. Colored men and
women are numerous, and laugh very
loud on the streets with refreshing
There is everywhere about
the city slight but racy touch of tho
Southern characteristics, intorinsed
with the vigor Of other portions of the
Union and for the sake Of this you
are willing TO forgive the copious TO-
bacco ostans-those blots on the national
which dis6gure the side
walks, and around which you see an
English tourist and his wife making
their way with pardonably imperial
disdain.-G George p. LdthrQp, in Hdr.
per's Magazine for March.
A country girl at a fashionable hotel
in New York noticed that all the guests
used their forks only in eating their
pie. Upon her return home sho re-
nnrtnd Inc lnnL 10 the old lahv uhn