The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-06-10
Washington Letter.
From our regular correspondent

Notwithstanding the hot weai her al
ready fel, in Washington, | learn that
the President and his Cabinet propose to
remain here all summer There had
been talk uf going Ia Soldiers Home,
which place has been n convenient dog.
davs' retrea, fUr Presidents since Presi-
dent Lincoln set the fashion. But 1t il
now said that Mr.. Cleveland will re-
main at the Whit. House right
through the hot season and set an ex-
ample to several thousand offensi ely
delicate Republican clerks, who have
considered summer In this city n
thing to be Stunned ~ deadly, or
worse. vulgar Washington, however,
is not new the heated and sufIncstiny
place OF former days. Its many parks,
cooled by shade trees and fountains and
made luxurious with seats and paved
walks, furnish abundant and con
venient escape from the ardent rays of
the sun. Tho asphaltum streets that
were W VII W uiSblu tGIbukilout
the day and radiate 1t durine le light,
thus making day and night iniolesable,
are now shaded with TIE trees planted
ten years ago and the mean summer
heat has been su'nmtrily reduced
about three degrees. II y1u take Your
stand Oh the top OF the Washington
Monument. you will he able to see the
cause of the improvement. You will
overlook labyrinth OF young and wig
orous shade trees. In n few years
Washington will be the forest city of
the NatioK The trees shade not only
the grand biulevards where fashion in
livery takes it, drive, but the squalid
shahties OF V irgiria aud Maryland
avenues are also shaded There ale
abou. $4,000 shade trees along the
streets ia Washington aud many more
in the Il II rent pirks II has been es
timated that the city has l25 miles of
shaded streets. 1t was the plan of
those who have had the matter in
charge to plant the narrower streets
with two rows of tr e., and many OF
the wider one with four rows. This
plan has in the main been carried out.
Set out In single file twenty five feet
apart the trees would extend from
Washington to New York. Pan Ell in
a grove with a space of twenty five
feet between the trees, they would form
u forest of 800 acres
The last few years have made great
changes in the appearance of Washing.
ton. Your correspondent has resided
here but twelve years, but he has seen
in less than half that time whole streets
of negro shanlies give place to the ele-
CANT houses of claim agents, mail con-
tractors, and millionaire Senators the
Blaines, the DJrseys aud the RobesOns
who fiourlshed during the uuctuous
Presidencies of Grant and Hayes. The
city has not population Of more than
200, 900, and the wealth OF the country
Is daily seeking investment here. Re
tired wealth finds here larger mum.
Der of attractions for winter residence
than in the larger Eastern cities. But
it is in the summer that the city is real
ly most attractive. Cool, spa ciOus
parks then take the place of heated
and crowded drawing rooms. Who
would not prefer paradise to pandemon-
nm ? Ii is not remarkable that the
President has decided to spend the sum-
mer here. He is less u sybarite than
any President since Lincoln, and the
thermOmet' at ninety has no terrors for
him surrounded by the grand trees Of
the White House grounds. His Cabi-
net Will also remain here. The Secre-
tary of the Interior and the Attorney
General knew the advantages of sum
mer in this climate as compared with
that of their native cotton belt. Secre-
tary Bayard will leave every Situr-
day to see his family at his ancestral
home in Delaware, returning to the
State Department on Monday. The
other Secretaries will remain here, as
will also the Chiefs of Bureaus, and
much larger proportion of clerks than
have hitherto remained i'm the city.
Many clerks cannot leave because of
the new rule prohibiting leave to those
who have been absent from sickness or
other ease for thirty days. Others are
not willing to go because they are
afraid of finding big Democrats in their
places when they return.