The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-07-07
Our Washington Letter.
COUR REGULAR LETTER.

Our w aSnlnBtOn Letter.
lOUR REGULAR LETTER
WASHINGTON, D. O., June 80, 1888.
The development of the new residence
portion Of the city is something needing
to be seen to he seen appreciated. 1t is
unique. After false starts in various di-
rections, some of them engineered by
anxious spectators who had big plots OF
ground to sell as the aite for the new
White House, the residence part of the
city has taken a defnite direction of
growth along Connecticut Avenue, which
follows an oblique line drawn from the
White House to Washington Heights.
This section has been rapidly built up
with handsome houses and building con-
tinues steadily. Fortunately the move,
ment began within few years after the
architects had made the surprising di,-
covery that there could be bright colors
in dwelling houses and beauty of form
also. The houses are mostly of brick.
Each Louise has its own style and indl-
Yiduality, stands apart from its ntighbor
and is surrounded by green turf, with
pretty beds of flowers here and there.
The result is broad street after street o.
houses, all varying and many Of them
beautiful presenting a marked contrast
to tie monotony of the streets of tie
close built cities. If there is any criti.
cism to be made here on that score, it j.
that there is little too much of Queen
Anne, though any criticism seems almost
uugracious. One wealthy gentleman,
who like many others is coming to WASH
lngton simply for the pleasure of living
here, says the Queen Anne sty le has been
overdone, AMI he has given bis architect
orders for plain George, the Third
house, with portico. This movement
into Washington Of people of wealth and
culture, who are attracted simply by the
life, society aud climate they find here,
has apparently only begun. Every few
days some new name is mentioned of q
man of money and leisure who drives
through these broad shaded avenues, seer
he people, and breathes the air, and
forthwith buys q lot aud orders brick
People who have been good deal abroad
and have learned to like the variety OF
European society, seem specially draw
TO Washington, where the diplomats
urnish a foreign element of cultivated
people, Nnd the concentration here
representative men and women from al.
parts of the Uuion, gives society som,
picturesque contrasts, and diversity
which lis agreeable. There is IA good deal
of wealth here, but 1t is poiut OF prid,
with the richest, as well as with those
Who axe MT SO rich, that tue society ul
Washington Is very democratic, and lha,
a man counts for what lie is, rather tina,
Tor what he Las.
The principal subject considered at thu
Cabinet meeting yesterday was the al-
legged shipment of pauper immigrants to
this country from Ireland, 10y the British
authorities. The Secretary of the Treas.
ury, subSt quently telegraphed instruc.
lions TO the collectors of customs at New
York, to cooperate with the comms len.
ers OF immigration at that port to proven,
the landidg Of all immigrants found to
oe paupers, within the meaning of the
law, In the event that such pauper i'm.
migrants may have already landed, as i.
ported to be the case with the large
number shipped on the steamship Furn.
essia, the collector is instructed to take
all practicable measures to have them re.
shipped to the port whence they came
The reduction of the tax on tobacco
and the abolition Of the tax on bank
checks, as provided for in the internal
revenue bill, which goes into effect JULY
l. has necessitated the appointment o.
about fifty temporary employees in tn,
internal revenue bureau. When the bill
r-ceiyed the approval of the President
there was in existence several millions O.
tobacco stamps, of the l6 cent per pound
denomination. These had to be changed
to correspond with ihe provisions of III,
new law, which dxes the tax on tobacco
at cents per pound. That work la,
been completed, aud the additional em
pl'yes of the bureau are now epgaoed /,
eone,ling the stamps ttat were printed
on bank checks belonging to the yariou,
banks throughout the country. When
, ever bank notifies the bureau that /
wants tue blanks on which IN,
checks are printed returned. the pumhe
ni stamps III each book is counted anf
with hand stamp the word ..capeel, A.
, Is printed across the face of the STAN,
aud the blanks returned tolhe bank tba
issued them. 1t is estimated that tber,
will he work enough to keep the fit,
temporary employees at work for two O,
'Niee WEEKS longer ArGUsT.
IFRoA ouR SPECIAL CohaRsPoSpESTl
WASHINGTON, d. c., Juue 90, 1888.
= About The busiest appearing Govern
ment cfhee in Washington now is Ia,
9 Pension Bureau. The buiIoirgs Z,