Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-09-12
THE EVENING STAR.
-. SEPTEMBER ts, 1881,

MONDAY.

ITS GREAT VARIETY OF waTEHs-r-s HOTELS
STORES AND SrREETs-A BOARD OF rrBIIc
WORKS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. or THE AMERICAN
SOCIAL SCIENCE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
PAPERS On CIVIL SERVICE, NEWS
PAPER EDUCATION AND HOMES FOR THE
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES AND PUBLIC MEN.
Correspondence of THE EVENING STAR.
SARATOGA STRINGS. Sept. 10th. 1881.
This place is q conglomeration of kissingen.
| Ems, Wiesbaden, Baden Baden &c. for with its
Geyser and Vichy. its Magnetic and White
Sulphur and upwards Of dozen more largely
patroniZed and well-known springs Of q tonic;
cathartic. alternative or sedative properties well
high all ills to which flesh is heir To here find an
| ratory.
The larger hotels. in point of comfort and
elegance. are. as has truly been said. unsur-
passed whilst many of the smaller ones and not
| Anew OF the boarding houses appear realty in
Nitihg. Many OF the private residences
give evidence OF great taste and culture,
out the stores OF the town proper are far from
what one would expect to see in place of so
| great resort as this. whilst to a washingtonian
tne streets are simply abOmnable. There is a
glorious chance here for some energetic board of
pubic works TO immortalize itself
Life here during the season ia ever VARYING.
Daiis, races. regattas educational scientific and
other conventions follow each other in rapid
succession. The past week the sessions OF the
American Social Science Association the trained
horses and the farewell piazza concerts of the
bands at the United States and Grand
Cni0n, divided the honors of patronage Some
OF the sessions Of the American Social Science
Association were surprisingly well attended.
notably so those during which the papers on
civil Service" by George W. Curtis and the
one on g The American Newspaper" by Charles
| Dudley Warner were read During the sessions
OF the department of education presided over by
| the well-known Prof. w. I. Harris of the Concord
| school OF speculative philosophy, very in
structiye report infant development" by Mrs.
interesting paper on Education in the Southern
states, by Hon John Eaton, commissioner of
education. in which he paid some fatteriny
but none the less deserved compliments. to the
public schools of Washington, and the indus
trial and social methods of instruction
sought to he followed out by one of their number
the INDUSTRIAL Home school Of the District of
Columbia. DR.. Edward NJ. Galaudet, of the
National Deaf and Dumb association. also read
an able paper on Visible and Oral Speech OF
Deaf Mutes," which elected considerable dis
cussion and commendatory remarks.
ROBERT L. PoIfes, esq, of the Census Bureau.
presented an exceedingly clear statement of the
public Indebtedness of the people of the United
States, showing the per capita of debt to be
36S. estimating five persons to a family
S3lS4 40 for each family, and 17.3 per cent OF the
assessed value of all property of 1880. The ses-
sion OF the department Of social economy was
principally devoted to the subject of Homes
for the people"-papers being read by Robert
Treat Paine of Boston. Addison Burk of Phil
adelphia and John Hitz of Washngton-the
former mainly illustrating the desirability of
improved dwellings for the poor. and the advan-
tages and mode OF operating successfully
building associations, whilst the latter argued
that Washington was typcally an American
city. and promised in time to become more and
more so-Mr. J. Enthofer's system of Associated
Homes was explained, and the projectors of
lie Drot Park as an intelligent effort in the
| line of Associated American Homes were alluded
TO IN complimentary manner Statistics given
as to the number of houses i'm the District footed
up brick or stone, 14,054 frames IL $50. Val
ued at 500 and less. 1910 Total number of
tax payers estimated at $1,000; number of fam
lilies 1880.
Quite number of Washingtonians registered
at the various hotels during the past ten DAYS.
among them, at the United States: Hon John
Eaton. sir. and Mrs. Gallaudet Dr. and Mrs III.
Randall Waite, Jas. G. Hill, wife and daughter,
john o. Evans, VIM. Tayloe Snyder and Mrs
Gen. Ricketts, At the Grand Union: VIM Dick
son and wife, Chas J. Meyers and wife. Mrs W.
IL. Thornton. At Congress Hall: r. Downing
and wife, Geo. c. Maynard, VIM. Fitzpatrick and
wife, W. Mclean and wife, J. G. Cooke. Geo N
Day. The familiar forms to Neutrality-suspicious. of
ex-Secretary Hamilton Fish and of Senator David
Davis may also be seen perambulating about on
the spacious hotel piaZZas. -