The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-02-12
WASHINGTON.
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WAsH1NeTON, D. c., Feb. 5, 1881.
The feature Of the ceremonies attending
the Inauguration Of Gen. Garfield will be
the grand ball at the National Museum
building on the night of the 4th of March,
and for that event large amount Of money
is to be expended. The intention is TO de-
corate the building upon a novel and orig
inal design, and one attraction in this re-
spect will be a colossal statue of Amerca, /,
thirty feet high, with sixteen of the largest
sized figures, emblematic Of peace, war, COM
merce, science, navigation, agriculture, min
ing, horticulture, fruit-growing, &c. Elec
trio lights will be extensively used, and es-
pecial attention will be paid to the erection
OF approaches to the building, which will
be constructed for all the vicissitudes of the
weather. The music will, of course, be fur
nished mainly by the Marine Band, but a
proposition is being entertained to invite
the most prominent of the visiting bands to
assist, thus providing a competitive concert.
1t is expected that there will be a crush at
the ball, and though it is estimated that the
| building will accommodate over 10000 per-
sons, the tickets will be limited to a much
less number.
Everybody in Washington looks to Gar
fields Inauguration with delight, as being
more gorgeous and jovial than Hayes's At
| Hayess last reception there was but one
woman with bare arms and back, and ifshe
had been as naked as an egg she could not
! have looked queerer There was a time
when the glowing shoulders moving down
the East Room made it look like the pun
miced deck of a ship, and men were given
away in marriage, by regiments, because to
look was to be lost. Now they go buttoned
to the throat, and even pull the hair down
over their forebeads, lest they might exceed
the bounds of modesty. Nevertheless, the
population increases, as by a sort Of divine
arithmetic, and there are people bold enough
to say that if Mrs, Hayes did not button her
Puritan gown so close up on her milk white
throat she would be perfectly magnificent.
We are pning for undress receptions.
With every year the social attractions of
the city increases. In spite Of the fact that
new houses have been built by the hundred
since last fall, the demand is greatly in ex-
cess of the supply, especially for furnished
houses for the season, which means Tor the
session. Some of the new houses and blocks
of houses in the northwest section, which is
the fashionable quarter, are quite elegant in
architectural effect and are supplied with all
| the comforts and convenences for modern
Housekeeping, feature which is wanting,
or is clumsily supplied, in the older houses.
| To keep house and to entertain Hospitality
is coming to be considered the duty of a
Senator or Representative who is known to
! be in a position to do so. What makes
Washington So crowded in the season is not
the number Of persons who are making the
capital winter resort. A wealthy man,
whose purpose is to enjoy life, can hardly
do better now than to establish his winter
quarters in Washington.
Another retired statesman is going to write
a book in his seclusion. Secretary Schurz,
after March 4th, will divide his energies be
tween his newspaper and the preparation ol
work for the Appetons. The Republican
| agitation in Germany which eXled Mr..
Schurz, the war in which he played a part,
both as a soldier and civilian, his senator
ial career, and lastly, his four years service
as Cabinet Minister, furnish varied and
interesting materials for a remarkable auto
| biography.
Word reaches here from Ohio that the
| friends of eX-Attorney General Taft will
make pressure for his appointment to the
bench in the event Of either the rejection or
withdrawal of Mr.. Matthews name. THIS
| gossip rather startles the democrats who oop.
pose Mr.. Matthews, for between Mr.. Mat
thews and Judge Taft, the former is TO them
pre- eminently preferable. AUGUST.