Daily Republican., 1882-10-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.
SIGHTS AND SUENES AT THE
CAPITAl-YxaE PRESIDERT
STILL ARAENT.

! WASHINGTON, ID. O., Oct. 13.-Thsrt
are certain signs in and about the CAPT
tai that suggest the near approach ol
the Government. The President, II Is
true, has net returned from his fishing
excursion. The legislative personal ID
scattered over the political field, many
OF them struggling tor foot-hold In
tho 48th Congress. But the Supreme
Court is here Many newspaper cor.
respondents have returned and native
butterfly Washington has come back
from summer resort and is In training
Dy her veteran mother for another race
Tor the matrimonial cup. A majority
OF the members of the ornate but nse
iess diplomatic corps display their fault.
lOsS clothes and manners on the drives
and promenades. The contingent of
young army and naval officers at Wash
lngton never grow less but continually
grow more as West Point and the Ma.
val Academy turn them out with the
rapidity of machine.
The many hotels of the city have
been renovated and painted. The
boarding houses and restaurants, en-.
couraged BY good times, and chea D
beef from Chicago, have increased their
capacity and everything is being put In
readiness for the ad vent of the Govern.
ment,
The season will open two or three
weeks earlier than usual on account of
thS dartield monument fair, for which
great preparation has been made, It
was originally intended that thfs fair
should be held only in the ro,uuda of
the Capitol, and Congress passed a spe.
ciAl act granting the use of the rotunda
Ior an Industrial and Art Fair for the
purpose of raising funds for the erection
ot a monument in Washington to tie
memory of Garfield but :he demand
ior space has been 80 great that it has
oeen found necessary to rent the Ma
sonic Hall and the Skating Rink as an.
neXes.
The fair will doubtless attract man,
visitors, and taken In connection with
the permanent monuments and mu.
seums OF Washington will be the occa-
sion OF pilgrimage to their country's
Capital for many who have not hsan
mere before. Every year makes Wash
lngton Detter worth seeing. Improve
ments are constantly going on. Our
Capital has not the completeness, the
finish, and the nobility of Berlin, Brus-
ssIs, or Paris, but to this impeachment
It may with great propriety plead the
baby act and promise to make n better
showing when 1t is half az old "A the
youngest city of Europe.
1t would surprise many who have
seen Washington only from the routine
places to know how large a portion of
the city is occupied by shanties and
negro novels in condition of filth and
delapidatlOn that would disgrace a
Hottentot village. Those who promen-
ade Pennsylvania and Connecticut
Avenues, who drive through tho parks
or admire the marble palaces that
Uncle Sam has built, know nothing of
this architectural paradox, but lot them
walk, they cannot drive, through the
muddy and quilted streets of South
washington and they will be astonish.
Ell to see the thousands of pig.sty habi
tatlons OF men and women there There
Is slow but steady encroachment on
THIS quarter of better residences and
this almost unnOted imprcpo,aart,
puohod Ivy private enterprise, Is accom-
more for the city than Govern.
ment appropriations.