The Evening critic., 1882-01-16
FULL OF LIFE.
THAT'S WHAT GEORGETOWN IS.

business RuOsuimg BFishiy-Tho 0Ed
Town RouSing Hike Lion -Egcr
Eutcrprising Citizens Determined
10 Make the Rear Or TEcr Business
rFcnrd-SOme 0f rhc Entcrsgrises Of
She Ancient city.
John B. Davidson respectfully informs
his friends and the citizens Of West Wash
ington generally that he will hereafter be
the agent Of THE EVENING CRfTlC in that
place. and vhilo thanking them for their
liberal patronage TO him while acting n3
agent for the EcG,ig star hopes TO meet
with continuance of the same in his new
undertaking.
THE CRITIC will be served promptly TO
any address by carriers at 80 cents per
month
Books for entering The names aud adj
dresses Of those desiring the paper, and
also for complaints Of non-dcliyery, &c,
will be found at the following places;
c. II. Fickling's drug store 1880 Thirty
second street.
G. b. Locllhart's drug 5toge, corner
Thirty and O streets
G. W. Cwpcy' drug store, 3075 Matrcot.
r. i. Braces drug store, 1901 NJ street.
No. 1925 Thirtioth street.
west washington.
The appellotion ofa sleepy town has
| been applied to- Georgetown, but if any
body takes the trouble to visit the mills,
the cooper shops, the granerics the fsrti-
i2ing establishments, and the immense
shipping houses within the confines Of
that town will find that ON the contrary it
! is not sleepy, but very, very wide awake.
! A CRITIC reporter this morning made
visit to Georgetown and dropped in upon
a number Of business people, all of whom
| seemed to bo so busly engaged that they
could scarcely give the modest representa-
! dive of the only afternoon newspaper the
| District has ever had more than q passing
notice.
However, when the -gatherer entered
! the Office of the worldwide miilers, MesBs.
Herr & Cisscl, he was asked to take a soat
by the urbane and afable senior member Of
| the firm. "Tell me- said the reporter,
something about the milling business"
| "Well,' said Mr.. Cissel, the junior part
ner, 1--WE are still grinding, but with little
profit to ourselves"
How is that " asked TIE Critic.
"This,' said Mr.. c., is tho dull season.
Grain is very high, and our profits are in
deed very small. We are, however, max
ing rs much flour at this time as at any
than ten or twenty cents profit on each
barrel of -four we turn out now
Is it true" asked The Critic, 4" that
the Western people, Minnesota, for instance,
produce better brands of -four than in this
part Of the country p
No, sir" said Mr.. Cissol, emphaticllly.
ut is mistaken, idea that some people
1asrz-o Int Hpst~ l. do f,r-
off Western State that it is better than
ours. We get all our wheat from Mary
land and Virginia. 1t is recognized fact
that those States grow tho best wheat in the
world and that being the case the flour
from that wheat necessarily must be the
best.
"Thereforc I say, " continued Mr.. Cissel
" that the assertion that the Western houl
is bettorthan that which comes from the
mills of Georgetown is incorrect.
" DO you, as a rule, Mr.. Cissel, said the
reporter, increase your price in fOul
when there is a rise in the price Of wheat!
Unless, " said the enterprsing miller,
there is a very large increase we do not
change our prices.
4" At this time wheat is selling all the
way from S1.20 to $l.5j, and l fear it viii
rise much higher than these figures belor,
many weeks, in which case, of course ther,
will be an increase in the price Of -four"
Leaving the Office of Messrs. Herr 81 Cis
sci the reporter next paid his respects t
Mr.. Horace Jarboe, who is the owner of on,
of the most extensive cooper establishments
in the country
There he found about forty Jolly an(
wellfed barrcl-pounders hammering away
for dear life. They were singing the beau
tiful :Coopers' Chorus" from the opera o
Boccacio, the notes of which could be heard
distinctly, Notwithstanding the noise of tht
busy hammers upon the barrels,
There are very few people, indeed, whC
I have any idea of the magnitude of thi
cooper business in Georgetown. There ar,
several establishments Of this character
which turn out hundred Of thousands o
barrels in year.
.Jarboe for instance, makes on an average
70000ncw barrels every year for one ilou
mill alone in Georgetown, besides shipping
from 10000 to $4,000 to Norfolk and othc
parts Of the country.
Another branch OF industry which shoult
not be overlooked is the fertiliZing estab
lishments
Guano of the best quality is made an
thousands Of tons shipped to all parts of til
! country every year.
In addition to this, the coal aud grail
: trade of Georgetown is looming up to i'm
5 mense proportions. Her citizens are of tn
> most enterprisiug character, and there
| CNNi lHluS W lhblfubS ~ hNN CIt VI liD3
: perity for the old town.
Suicide of Henry Addison.
Mr.. Henry Addison, one of the besi
known citizens of Georgetown, and son {
:, the late Henry Addison, who fog n grea
? number Of years was the mayor of GeorgC
town, committed suicide yesterday ever
= ing at his residence, corner Of Twenty
= eighth street and Dunbarton avenue,
cutting his throat with a razor. He ha
been out in the morning, and, after eatin
. hearty dinner, retired to his room.
= A member of the family knocked at Ii
- - bedroom door about 6 o'clock, and failin
% to get response called for help, and 500
y the lock of the door was burst open. Thel
- the unfortunate man lay weltering in h
blood, his throat cut from ear to ear, b,
side his bed was small tub almost ha
filled with blood. 1t is supposed that ii
,e deceased, after cutting his throat, thre
81 himself ON the side of the bed and allowe
\, the blood to flow into the tub.
i DR., Armstrong Peter was summoned, bl
could do nothing for the unfortunate su
- eide, as death had already claimed him f
its victim. The cause of the rash act
not exactly known. Mr. Addison, for son