Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-03-04

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| ON THE LINE OF MARCH
most conspicuous In this respect, commencing
at Pennsylvania avenue and 1st street north
west, were as follows: Gordon's cafe, corner Of
LIST street, gaily decorated from top to bottom
WIN variety OF llags and banners;
frederick IRE W: Bergers place. No. 107,
| Capitol restaurant, was trimmed With banners
and Ereaths; next door was III and 49, both
neatly trimmed: also cigar store and Bun
| American banner swinging in front, with small
| flags on either side and some flags and ba6ners
| peculiar to the Knights of P5thlas. The Lafa =
| yette House, corner I'd and streets was hand
somely feStOoned with appropriate devices
| on the top OF the house was a large American
banner hoisted and streamers floating from the
corniceS; W. T. AtkfnSon'5 dry goods house POI
Pennsylvania avenue; Hopkins bookstore 2O9
the grocery store. gil; O'Meara's fancy and
notion store. 215; the store OF Adolph Knabe
~, and that OF q. A. Bartholome. 22l, were
nicely decorated, the latter displaying a large
gtlded eagle with shields, &C.
ADAMS EXPRESS CoMPANYs OFFICES
made splendid showing, being gaily trimmed
from top to bottom with handsome variety
OF flags tastefully grouped and draped; inter.
mixed were large number of guidons and
markers. making very lovely showing. No.
22' PeDnsyiVania avenue had large portrait
OF Hancock and pictures OF Garfield and
Arthur painted on the center OF the American
shield; G. W. Holl tobacconlst. 231 Pennsyl-
yaDia avenue. had fair display OF bunting
and st. Charles hotel. corner Sd sire t,
was covered with small flags and the balconies
festooled WIZ variety OF bunting.
THE wAsHINGTON HOUSE,
ON tie corner opposite, was quite conspicuous
with handsome decorations including a large
American shield on the center corner window.
Sd story with the portrait OF Garfield, attracted
attention; every window was brl5tling with
shield with the words "Wecome" inscribed on
II. Mades' Hotel, opposite, Oh the south Side.
showed well with its neat trimmings OF small
flags over the entire front. Herman BaumgaT-
tens, next door, was covered with small flags
Of various cOlOTS and devices. McDermott Bros
carriage wareroolns We're covered with large
banners, and on the balconies were gay hang.
ings and a portrait OF Garfield in center.
rope, filled WITH streamers and pennants, was
stretched from the Washington House to APP
pich's market storehouse, on the south side. A.
E. Young a IS Y 1nmsd as a7en M1s
a afa co aa nte s gaey ne No y 3D.
ton, headquarters OF the Reyburn
Club, Philadelphia" This house appeared to
be wei tllled With guests. G. Marineiis French
confectionery store. $35 Pa. ave, was quite
tastefully ornamented with fags and other
devices The New York House, corner OF the
alley was conspicuousiy trimmed, and looked
very well, the entire five stories being covered.
The Mansion House, $40 Pa. ave, had shield
on the front representing the District or Column
Ola, with variety OF flags ta5tefu!ly arranged.
other buildings taStefully decorated along here
were the stores Of T. Zeller aud II. Hell, talors
and the boarding house 326 Pa. ave. the latter
with portrait OF Garfield and inscription OF
welcome III large letters. At Henry Lees
Sons. On south side between Sd and AZ Streets
were TWO large stands, twenty. five Ieet lons
each, with an arcnway over each, trimmed
with Wreaths ana The portraits Of Garfield
ana Arthur pendauC, with q square aud com.
pass neatly wrought In worSled on a Held Of
white bunting underneath each portrait.
House, the Shakespeare House and other bust
ness places on this square were very neatly
ornamented; also the following: Il. Kauffman'5.
35i Pennsylvania avenue; ii. L. LancKCOn 219
~ street; 3nd the Howard Dental rooms.
PRETTY SCENE AT foUR-AED.A,HALF STREET.
The health Office looked very neat, trimmed
With gay coiors and other places up towards
the City Hall we're also decorated. Police
~ strees ana strnss A Of ' bIn 1I1sn On
the Avenue side. Henpler's store under
nea'h and the restaurant at the cor
Frank Hume'S store was decked with Smallnaes
frontop 70 bottom; Two large balconies for seas
, Were arranged ana draped with colors. Gedaey'5
and other buildings on the same block Were
handsomely decorated. A. l. Strasberger's
shoe store, 46l Pennsylvania avenue, was deco
rated. G.. NJ. Bells photograph establishment
looked very tasteful. w Il and o. r. MOTIF
son. booksellers, had grand display OF bunting
over their store, aad a large balcony was con-
procession. Wnkenning's, 4S3 Pennsylvania
avenue, had f1ne large American banner sus-
pended from the top. drdpei over the front
ard a portrait OF Gaf1eld with a frama-wOrE
Shaped Ike six pointed star. The Mt Yer
non House was neatly draped With nigs ard
banners, With Oil paintings or G1rlitld,
LINCOLN, WASHINGTON AND GRANT
SUSPENDED on the walls outside. St1tt IL Crom-
wells drug warehouse, Fltzgerald's saloon
Mrs. LyHns Keystone House, T.. l.. Roand's
house aud Beall d Middleton'S grocery store
were all handsomely draped. Tue st. James
Hotel was iiutIeTiGg With gay col0rS. THts vas
the heaoquarters OF the Columbus Oai1} Gle
Club, ana was fun or guests. y kauFmal's
clothing house. tAe Boston auction saoe house
Beaifs bookstore. and the store OF Luz Il
Bros, harness makers were gaily dressed. The
National Hotel haC small flag suspended fro n
each window and large banner above AL
McCormlckS saloon, on 6tn street, above Pend
SylYaDia avenue, was Handsomely decketi, as
was also HUDSON g. Martins, George McCarthy's
Sloe store ana most OF the stores under the
Metropolitan Hotel This hotel had two
small h4g5 suspended from eaca win
GOV GOV aud tQree large banners over. all
as also Geo. Holmes restaurant, and the EX-
change restaurant next door; Campbell &c Ken
nedy'5 hardware store. Bryan Bros. grocery
Cuttings hardware store all looked well. The
neadquaTteTs or the Co. A. Washington Light
Infantry, looked very tasteful In It's elaborate
trimmings. Frank T. May q CO.'S hardware,
Lully sfaucy store, Davis hat store, AuerDacn's
next door, and H. Hoffa, jewelers., 624 PennSyl-
vania avenue had some handsome flags OF sew
| eral nations hung on the front. among them
| German. Irish. English, Siam. Chinese, East
| Indies and the United States. Jackson Bro,
| grocers, the L. = Tea compauy5, next door,
| COhens shoe store, Noah Walkers clothing
| house, the drug store Of T.. D. Gilman
| and j. Karr's lewelry store all looked Well.
! The ST. Mares Hotel had red. white and blue
| flags, one 10 each window With large banner
! over the whole. II. |. Gregory. stoves, 6;4 Penn
| sylvania avenue, had a large banner draped
! across the front OF balcony with numerous
! small flags and American shields. G. NJ. Tow
! son, dry goods store was neatly decorated as
! was the American House. with sanail iiags The
Bank OF Washington, the Central National
| Bank. Beck'S restaurant, Barbour & Semmea'
| grocery, Copelands awning shop were all gay
with flags, stTeamers shields, etc. VIM. y.
! Moses corner Waa gaiy trimmed from top to
| bottom. A. Behrends, 1OI Market Space, was
! covered with small flags. NJ. silver, dry goods;
| W. ii. Rice, boots and shoes, were Handsomely
| trimmed, The store of &. G, Davis Ti9 Market
Space, looked very attractive, dressed In flags OF
| all nations. Singleton IL Hoek55 carpet store,
| On corner OF Sth and Market Space looked very
| line, covered with great variety OF flags from
| top TO bottom. Tae National Fair rooms we're
| oyerspread With bunting. Hall & Hume's
grocery store was also covered all over pra
| senJing an unusually splendid appearance. W.
| ). Mitchell carpet store WED wi d The Others
| in that ne!ghbOTh0Jd Ia tasteful DECORATIONS.
| This store and front overhead was literally
| covered with gay dress. The fronts OF Wn NJ
| Brown. dry goods. and Benkert q Wilson, shoe
dealers next door, were covered with II lG,s oil
| all nations. Perry S dry goods store corner
| pennsylvania avei-Go and 9th street. was neatly
! QIapeQ with ndES and AIleric III shields.