The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-25
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.


The president has returned to the
capital and there are many other signs
Of the winter rehabilitation that will be
complete in about six weeks when con
gress will have assembled, for the
short final session. Many senators and
representatives have already returned
to their Washington homes. The di-
plomatic corps is here in lis usual
force, and Splendor : he social world,
too, that heterogeneous but potent en-
tity, has also come back TO Washing
ton and is preparing for its important
role in the drama of Washington life.
What would Washington be without
society," without its round of social en-
tertainments where cabinent officers,
supreme court judges, senators, their
wives, and daughters, sisters, cousins,
and aunts meet in sitting drawing
rooms, inhale carbonic acid gas, swal-
low tea punch, champagne, chicken
salad, and sandwiches. They are at
Judge As at II midnight, and repeat
the same performance at Senator B's
at l o'clock in the morning. These
senator's are expected TO legislate for
fifty millions Of people next day; these
judges Of the highest court must give
final Interpretation to laws, and make
judicial precedents for all time; these
cabinet officers have ministerial funct-
ions throughout the postal, naval, mil
itary, financial, state and judicial SER
vices Of the greatest and most pro-
gressive nation on this planet The
objector may be austere, puritanical,
and everything else that is abhorred;
but he must insist that these night
orgies are not the proper training
mental, moral, or physical, for the
perilous science of government.
The coming winter is expected to be
one of unusual interest at the Capital.
1t is the last winter Of the present ad-
ministration, Ring out the old; ring
in the new" On the fourth of March
another president will be inaugurated,
another cabinet Will be formed and
the quadrenial adjustment to the new
order of things will follow with more
or less friction, and discord
Just ten days before the inaugdra-
ton Of the next president on the TWEEN
ty second Of February, the anniyer-
sary of the birth of Washington, his
monument, the highest artificial struct-
ure on the planet, will be unveiled
with fitting ceremony. 1t is expected
that visitors from all parts of the
country will be in Washington during
the unyeiling ceremonies, and many
Will no doubt remain until after the
inauguration.
Each succeeding year makes the city
better prepared for the entertainment
of strangers. The hotel, and board
ing house area Of Washington is ever
increasing. Anyone can live comfort
ably Cif his idea Of comfort IS not too
luXurious) in the capitol Of his country
who can pay one dollar per day for
food and lodging. Those who wish to
pay more can have pleasure Of doing
50 At the expensive hotels grouped
about the Treasury Department the
charges vary from three to eight dol
lars per day according to the location
ofrooms.
Many improvements have been
made during the summer in the streets,
parks, public and private residences
Of the city.
A part Of the mammoth Pension
building has been completed and is
now ready for the hundreds Of clerks
who Will soon occupy it. The million
dollars improvement Of the wings of
the Capitol is progressing favorably.
A million cubic yards of mud, dredged
from the bed of the Potomac, have
been dumped on the swamps that Dor
der the river front Of the city, and
many acres Of solid ground have been
made. y new opera house the finest
and largest in the city, has been er-
ected, and Mrs. Belya Lockwood pres
idential candidate On wheels has had