Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-06-21
" ashiDgton Morals-Habi,s Of the Peo'
ple- How Sunday is Spent -
Excursions and Beer.
Church and Its Ethiopian At
tachment-A Texan Becomes
Great National Issue.
Jim George and Lamar-The Anti'Mo
nopolists Again Come to the
Front in War Paint.


lies power, has become a perpetually
flowing fountain OF living water
Thousands go thither attracted by a
supposed sanctity incident to living
stream from beneath the temple OF the
most high, in which an elective
monarch utters his prayers. Others
crowd the place to see this elective
monarch-some- times called 1.-THE pres
ident." Others would contemplate
the ponderous proportions OF Fred
Douglass, who, delighted by being
stared at, secures proud place In the
center of The church. People going in
and coming ont of this sanctuary only
ask to be shown Cleveland, and then:
Where is the negro, Douglass" The
two constitute the "biggest show
on earth" and If Barnum could set it
going on wheels this fountain of
Lourdes, in front of the church,
would be drunk to dryness by unnum-
bered thrOngs following in the wake Of
the monstrous exhibition.
NOBODY HEARS THE PREACHER
He reads his nice little homily in the
most elegant and refined and touch
ingly tender manner, and Mr.. C.eve.
land seems to watch him intently
but even then "the president" il coil
tatlng about some great postoilice or
custom-hOuse appointment, or con-
irving method Of knocking silver
on the head without bursting his party
and destroying the mining industry
OF the West. But the silvery
thread Of the preachers discourse
Is still stretched out, to dazzle the
eyes OF Douglass and the president
while the mob sta res at them. A good
woman tells that lit is a bad place to
go with the purpose of exhibiting a
wardrobe Nobody in this church
looks at ones silks or satins or laces
or Jewels. All eyes are riveted on
Douglass and the president, and
fashionable danes propose to with
draw from the establishment. They
may make Douglass coming preteXt
for secession, Ii u negro can't initiate
and give practical force To secessionism
nothing can, and II Douglass will only
stick, the bonds binding many devout
Christians
or THE FASHIONABLE SORT
to Oleveland's sanctuary will be rude
~ discovered But 1t Is fact that
the greatest show in Washington,
drawing to 1t every wanderer from all
the states, is the unattractive brick
church, having grand bar-room on
one side and the great fountain m the
other. Here we have whisky and
water, sobriety and drunkenness,
Cleveland and Douglass, the white
man and the negro, and the negro and
his white wife, side by side, in the
country's capital. This show, the hal
lowed fountain, the bar-room and the
droppings Of the sanctuary constitute
the choicest resource these hot Sun
days OF weary, saturated and listless
place-seekers from all the states.
EXCURSIONS
Ten Thousand clerks and five thou
sand place-seekers, all idle and seek ag
rest, leave Washington each Sunday
for bathing and dining resorts II divers
places along the Potomac. Steamers
descend the river to Alexandra, to
MARSHALL hail. to Chapel point, Col
onial beach, to Cedar point and other
bathing and fishing places, varying In
distance from six to ninety miles from
the capital. One would imagine that
"A thousand men and women bent on
fun and having access to cool lager and
| other beverages, with music and dane
ing and songs, would not fail to forget
restrictions upon conduct and words
imposed by churches and Creeds. In
fact merrler throngs than these excur-
sionlsts are nowhere encountered.
SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS.
SUNDAY the little steamer on which
! embarked carried 800 passengers.
| The boys and girls were paired of in
about equal numbers. An almost toll
cradle brass band made music for such
q throng, and there was fun fast and
furious, But the bar.keeper and cap.
tstn were partners, and the captain
suffered no water or ice to beon board.
There resulted such thirst that 1--WE or
elk Of the crew, and the barber and his
sub aud the ehambermaid were de-
tailed TO supply Unsuitable passengers
with beer. The day was excessively
hot and the more beer drunk the more
intense the thirst OF the throng, aud
women unused 10 such beverage were
gloriously hefuddled, Babies on board
babbled in beer and rolled about the
decks In helpless stupefaotion. At the
bathing place food aud W Ster and bath.
ing ministered TO sobriety, and the
journey hOmeward, at first dreamful,
relaxation OF mind and body following
excessive hilarity, became again up.
roarious and
BARRELS or BEER
were consumed. Then the band and
three hundred passengers chanted OF
"Old John Browns soul,n the only
anthem familiarity sung by Washing,
ton assemblies. Beer lowed, the band
was hideous and drunken fellow
from Georgetown beloved like a hin
popotamus and At 10 O'clock ut night
the steamer landed at the Washing
ton wharf and reeliug passengers hied
away TO their homes. such are Sun
days in the capital
JIM dEoRdE AND rHELUCK or CLEVE.
| LAND,
This We'll known Texan may flgur,
more prominently than any other in
dividual in the history OF Cleveland,
administration. He does not object Il
a shindy. III fact he l. decidedly
combstive. He entered the Confed
crate service at fifteen and was gradu
| n al taF - =