Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-07-25

Ai4sa0mee Pea Pfesares snd yes
unss In the Capifai-sharea,s neav,
Tar Rate.
WAszxoToS, Jaly 2. - washincto,
SHOWS Itself 70 be q tropaesI city by tn,
unanimity with which evsrs BODY take
70 living o0t OF oors a soon a. IN,
summer fairly oe2iUs. Nor is this no
mad existence confined TO the poor
Here the whole population takes TO To,
open parks and squares 50 hberally
scattered about the city. Go to Duponl
circle any time after dusk. and yoE
Will see Mr.. ;. ). Cox and his wife, witt
perhaps number of friends. having ar
open air evening party on the benches
and Rrsss- On tue next bench TO item
VIII be vorkinRm4R and his family
enJoyin2 .themselves with as much de-
corum as tosir richer neiehbors- Sen.
ator Sharon smokes his after dInRer
cigar In Franklin Park oy the big foun
tain that FLASHES and splsshes under the
tall trees, and everybody in the parks
nss company. An ers of good feeling
s-ss IN about the 2lsf of June. and lasts
as long ss tue suumsf soi.tise. Oppo-
| site the rankin Is 4 big family hotel,
| which turns its guests loose to roam as
soon as evening comes on Lafayette
Park. opposite the White House, is the
largest, the coolest and shadisst of all
these beautiful bits of country set down
| IN the midst Of town, and the Prosideat
oftsn on hot nights strolIs through 1t
9Th friend. The poor IN Washington
koow nothing, SD far, of the worst mis-
eries of the tenement house system.
ney have AIR, space and grass In sbun-
dance.
There ID nst section of the city more
than i've minutes firm one of these
pleasure grounds of the poor, and they
are utilized and eni Dyed IRON O'Clock
IN tie morning until the police turn
every body home and lock up At mid
night. All day long toe nurses aud
children take possession of the public
squares. AT 5 O'Clock the governmei
employees appear. and at twilight the
whole population turns out In boiy.
Even tue thieves and burglars seem to
refrain from stealing from the deserted
houses preierring to con2regate with
decent company IN the parks. The Po-
tomao - tue exclusive property of the
young department clerks. Boating is
great pastime, and every government
clerk who can afford to pay the dues Be-
tOhSo w o1c va dhOSaFt vi Tue OOft CluO6
here. At 3 o'clock the river becomes
alive With single shells and four and
eight Dared boats. The female depart
ment clerks furnish the ballast for the
boats, and beer and crackers are the re-
freshments. The debt which these de
partment clerks owe ike river for cheap,
manly and wholesome diversions could
hardly be estimated.
Gn0awal Of Gan he
gentleman With the passion for ice
water fountains. has Just put up one for
man and beast In the publIS square at
the intersection of Seventh street and
Pennsylvania avenue. Ii is of bronze,
sarmonnted by Japanese stork six
feet high. At first Mr.. Cugswell wanted
to pat statue of himself. instead of the
stork, on top, and was disposed to sulk
when the Commissioners declined TO
allow him storisd urn or an animated
bust. but he finally compromised on the
stork. An ice company which Score
tary Folger thinks can afford to be
generous, on the strength of making
about 400 per cent opt of all its sales
to the Government, has given the ice
TO keep the fountain going.
High mp on q terrace on Massaehu-
sets avenue is Senator Bayard's house.
Nett to that is Senator Edmunds's.
They have good, plain. comfortable
homes, bat each of their houses could
be set down in the drawing rooms of
Mr.. Blaine's house without crswdine
the furniture into the fireplace. Mr..
Bayard has big flock of children
eight or niRe Of them-and although
he has competence, they cannot tn
10y many luxuries common in Wash-
lngton-such as keeping q carriage, for
example. Mrs. Bayard 10 an invalid
aud never goes into society. One of
his daughters, Miss Katie Bayard,
showed great nerve in frightening off a |
ourgler week or two ago. One even
ing she was sent for to the door TO see a |
man who asked for her father. She
explained that the Senator was out of |
town, but the man persisted in his |
inquiries until at last she shut the |
door in his face. Something |
in the way he eyed the hoase and in |
Quired As to the length of her father . /
absence aroused Miss Bayard's sust j. |
oions. so when she went to bed 81 @ |
hunted up her fathers pistol, and b, d |
It handy. Sure enough, during q
1 sht sue heard some one moving |
about in the basement. Without |
screaming or fainting, she quietly |
awakened the family, ran to the ops a |
window and fred five shots in quick /
succession. The police came &C dead |
I'm, all the neighbors were aroused, |
aud the burglar was seen scootina off |
across lots so fast that the police could |
not overhaul him. Senator Bayard does |
not seem at all worked up by the Pres |
idential blizzard now raging. He is |
naturally a man of cool and even tenn
persment, and of the kind that does
not borrow trouble. The old fellow |
trots down to the Capitol quite ,uten,-
ed, and looks at the Thermometer in his
committee room before be asks " What's |
the news?"
tx Senator William Sharon. of Ne
vada. has lately been in Washington to
attend TO his real estate. and the result |
It his visit 10 that he no. ranks next TO
Mr.. w. W. Corc iran AZ the largest tax
payer in the District. Some years Ago,
when Sharon and Stewart were in the
Senate, they formed a syndicate with
several other rich men to buy MP real
estate in the west end of town. Where
now are the British Legation, the Blaine
mansion, Stewart castle and iunumera-
BILE other splendid residences was then
little better than an open common.
Much of the land then bought for IL
cents foot has since sold for IS foot
Il 10 said that ex Senator Stewart has
made more out Of his Washington real
estate than bis Nevada silver mines-
Senator Sharon put mp Q great deal Of
tbs money for the operations, and came
on here TO gather up the loose ends of
his Affairs and to find his pile consider
ably increased during his absence. He
kept pretty close during his visit, and
declined 10 talk Pacific coast politics
Mr.. Willie Wallie Phelps owns q fine
house in the section beautifisd by the
syndicate. he and Mr.. Blaine have op-
Grated together in the real estate mar
ket. Mr.. Blaine's grand house 10 said \