Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-02-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[From Our Regular Correspondent

WASHINGTON, ID. G., Feb. 16, 1885.
the ceremonies of which will take place in
the Hall of the House of Representatives
on the 2lst instant. is exciting good deal
of severe comment because of the exclu-
siveness OF the thing. The House with
its galleries will accommodate about six
teen hundred people, and these seats have
all been placed at the disposal of members
of Congress, who assume that the memory
OF Washington is their own private prop
erty. BY the present arrangement, there
fore, only members of Congress and their
invited guests will be able to take IN the
intellectual pant OF the ceremonies. Here
again the Washingtonian prcclivity to
rake in the spare dimes pretrudes itself
for every conceivable device upon which,
figure of the monument can figure, will
be peddled upon the street, from the
candy lozenge to the card Of ginger. bread
with the shape of an elephant bearing the
monument on his back. A sad feature of
this celebration will be the impossibility
OF the usual pilgrimage 10 Mount Vernon,
unless the weather clerk should change his
tactics for the OCCASION. The river for
some time has been frozen over no that the
boat has heen compelled to suspend her
daily trips TO the American Mecca. As
Washington was E. Mason in pretty good
standing during the last years of his life.
the Masonic Fraternity of Washington
City, in conjunction with The lodge II
Alexandria, TO which he belonged, are 10
participate in the dedication ceremonies
with the corn, oil and wine emblenis That
Gen. Washington wins so often called MP n
to administer on like occasions MS the
Grand Master of the United States.
The devices If Washington people for
turning mn honest penny ara both nmmpr
ous and ingenious. All along the line of
Pennsylvania avenue, throngh which Mr..
Cleveland's inaugural procession will pnas,
the windows have been advertised for rent
at prices ranging iran Ten TO sixty dollars
each for the day while the indefatlgable
Yankee Ii"s leased lineal frontage the
whole distance from The Capitol TO the
White Homse, proj j"cting Iron, fomr 10 ten
'e"' NV" wv pU'"hS Ihe, upon which
stages and platforms are 10 be erected and
seats thereon utilized ni rates Of one 10 ten
dollars for each seat, with n brilliant pros
pect OF tremendous raise on the price by
the 4th of March. All the hest rooms vi
the hest hotels were long since snapper, up
ut prices That only Washington hotel
keeper knows how To exact. while all the
halls and billiard rooms and resianrants
(and possibly the chn:ches) will be the
temporary abiding place Of many of the
military organizations that win I've unable
to secure other quarters. A regiment from
Philadelphia has already been given leave
To bivonac in the corrIdors of the new
State Department, while The famous Sew
eDth Regiment would not come nj all be-
cause of the want OF snfh lent room for IT,
$50 scions Of New Yorks hest nrisiocracy.
Abont twenty thousand dollars have thus
far been contributed by The people of
Washington 10 give Mr.. Clevelan nd an nm
usually good 4ih of March send #, and the
Inaugural Ball, for winch about Twelve
thousand tickets have already been snld,
will he just little superior TO anything of
that particular character yet prodnced on
this continent. The ball room far this
occasion is the spacious court of the new
Pension Office, and 10 oi sufficient dimen-
sions to allow four thousand people to
dance to the music OF four bands Which
will he no placed as 10 lie ont Of hearing of
each other. Mr.. Cleveland will open The
ball by joining In the opening qnndrille,
the music for which has been written ex
preSsiy for the occasion by a Washington
admirer. DON PEDRO.