Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-22
WASHINGTON LETTER
A Dull Season for Lobbyists
and BOardlnghuuses.
Former Memphis Hotel Men
Life at the Met
ropOlitan.
interview With Colonel Mssk, OF
ths Chgsaneake and Ohio
Railroad.
sndletOn's Absurd Bill Senator
Browns Hand Sense.
General Atkins Candidacy for
Clerk.
PsndletOn's Absurd Bill Senator
Browns Hand Sense,
General Atkins Candidacy for
Clerk.
Correspondence Publ c Ledger.
METROPOLITAN HOTEL,
W ..uytaw,N II n Dec II

The present season is by far the dull
,st known here for many years. This
S attributed to various causes, the
rue one being the demoralizing effect
If the late November elections upon.
lie wealty and influential squadron OF
.obbyists, jobbers and machine Politi>
who are wont TO oongregAie here.
this is a short session, which
expires, by Limitation of law, at IL
o'clock high noon March 4, 1883 1t
5 predicted that after the approaching
holidays the city will bo full of visi-
.ors, for between now and Christmas
Congress can only hope to 80 on with
is annual appropriation bills. The
Of the people from every
State in the Union" to put 10 their
usual December appearance has been
/ Just and retributiye disappointment
70 that parasitical category Of individ-
who live upon the accidental
necessities Of strangers visiting Wash
The Washington boarding
house keeper, whether male or female,
miss or madam or mister, is in many
respects a wonderful creature. The
hash dispensaries are run in a manne
different from any other of the many
institutions Of the United States. 1t
is much cheaper in SO far as a quid
pro quo is concerned, to say nothing Of
comfort, convenience and reliability,
to stop at a first class hotel. At a
clearinghouse you are never certain
Of what you are expected to pay, much
less the exact and component parts Of
your food. Hence the custom of fol-
getting to tell boarder that such ard
such things are extra, and that unless
you remain a year the room rent is so
much more. Hence the prevalence Of
hash - veritabis hash and also Of
sausage, genuine sausage, and sour,
regulation soup that would do justice
to an orphan asylum, in every board.
inghouse. Rooms and board are from
twenty to thirty per cent higher than
they we're this time last year, copse.
1uently there are many unoecupied
rooms and vacant chairs in nearly
every clearinghouse. As a result
Of this ibjudiciously studied efori
at imposition upon the stran.
ger to Americas political Mecca
the irst-class hotels are doing a 6n,
business, for they have not advanced
their rates. The Metropolitan Hotel
of which old man s. B. Robbins
formerly Of the 0Verton, Is a joinr
partner With Mr. : Selden, from th,
himball House, Atlanta, is filed viii
regular boarders, among whom arr
Senator Brown, Of Georgia, and hi
amilyi Senator Ransom, Of Nortl
Carolina; Senator Lamar, OF Missis
sippi; congressman Atkins, Hous.
aud SimOnton. OF Tennessee: Con
gressmen Cooke and Reese, Of Geor
ga Oongressmen Blount and Herbert
of Alabama; Congressman Reagan
Epson and Culbertson OF Texas; Con
gresham Buckner of Missouri; Cor
gresham Turner, Of Kentucky, wifi
aud daughter; Mrs. Lillian Resell
Messenger, the gifted poetess an
author; CONGRESSMAN Willis and fam
lily, of Louisville; Congressman TuckC
and Barbour, of Virginia; Congressma
Fulkerson and wife, of Virginia. an
others prominentin politics and socic
ty. Old man Morris, the renowne
caterer of the 0vertOn in its palmie.
days, is the steward. It is strange IN
be has been permitted to live So lonl
for Mr.. Robbins took him away frol
the Grand Hotel at Cincinnati Ol
man Morris, who believes that a COO
should be forty years Of age. the AZ
assigned TO the Roman Consular cook
has for the past 67 years assiduousl
tried to bankrupt the appetite of tLo'
who we're at the numerous caravans,
ries where he was connected. He
still trying, aud if any one. even III
epictitian gourmand, can fail to h
satisfied with the menu Of the Metre
politan, such individual is nOtin zoo
health. The Only way TO do iustic
to the Metropolitan fare is for a gue,
to have his neck elongated like ths
OF a crane, so as to prolong the sens,
ton Of taste. 1t is said that nj
Marion Crawford, the popular an
efficient clerk, who was years +,
the Maxwell in Nashville ~subseouentl
the Peabody, in Memphis, IS aetr
ally undergoing the wonderful trans
formation. The thyroid cartilage +,
his larynx is already affected. br
there Is no obstruction Of the bort,
circulation.
MEMPHIS RAILROAD INTERESTS.
Since the completion Of the Chez,
peake and Ohio railroad Memphis
afforded another competitive ireigl
and passenger line to the Atlantic go,
board and the Eastern cities. Viii
recently in Louisville / had a ~,
%yersation with Colonel Robert Nee
General Superintendent Of the Man
phls hue known as the ChesapeaE
and Southwestern,
" 1 is the new line, Colon,
1T is we'll, | thank you-pew 70 )
sure, but we are improving the Tos
ped as last as possible and adding
the rolling stock"
H. Do you need more rolling stockg
| asked. 'sV'A'
Need more rolling stockP Nv do..
SIR We are actually refusing freiob,
we are doing all that we have a : an
engines to do it with. The busina,
OF the road since the completion of n
line to Memphis has far exceeded m
expectations. II we had the ada
tional rolling stock we could do twir
IS much business as VIC ara now 49,.
Our through business is immense
are doing a large coal business on bo,
ends Of the line--in Kentucky as we
as in West Virginia. I tbinI ~
business men of Memphis will snrr1
ciate the facilities which we shall XII
them for Eastern business.
/, A trip over this line which extend
from Memphis to Louisville, AM