The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1885-06-10
WARRINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent

alIeauy Ielt IN washington, i learn
tina. the President and his Cabinet
proposes to remain here allsummer.
There had been talk Of going to
Soldiers Home, which place has
been a convenient dog days retreat
for Presidents since President
Lincoln SET the fashion. But it is
now said that Mr.. Cleveland will
remain at The White Hous right
through the hot season and set
an example to several thousand of.
fensiyely delicate republican clerks,
who have considered a summer in
this city a thing to be Stunned as
deadly, or worse, vulgar. Wash.
ingtOn, however, is not now the
heated and sufFoca!ing place of,for.
mef Gays, It's many parks, cooled
by shade trees and fountains and
made luxurious with seats and paw.
ed walks, furnish abundant and
convenient escape from the ardent
rays Of the sun. The asphaltum
streets that were to absorb heat
throughout the day and radiate it
during the night, thus making day
and night intolerable, are now shad.
ed with the trees planted ten years
ago and the mean summer heat
has been summarily reduced about
three degrees. If you take your
stand on the top Of the Washington
Monument, you will be able to see
the cause ofthe improvement. You
will overlook a labyrinth Of young
and vigorous shade trees. In O few
years Washington will be the for.
est city of the Nation. The trees
shade not only the grand boule.
wards where fashion in livery takes
its drive, but the squalid shanties
Of Virginia and Maryland avenues
are also shaded. There are about
10000 shade trees along the streets
in Washington and many more in
the different parks. 1t has been
estimated that the city has 1875
miles Of shaded streets. 1t was the
plan of those who have had the
matter in charge to plant the mar.
rover streets with two rows Of
trees, and many Of the wider ones
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. Plant.
ed in a grove with a space of TWEEN.
ty.fve feet between the trees, they
would form a forest Of 800 acres.
The last few years have made
great changes in the appearance Of
Washington. Your correspondent
has resided here but twelve years,
but he has seen in less than half
that time whole streets of negro
shanties give place 10 the elegant
houses of claim agents, mail con.
tractors, and millionaire Senators
the BlainOs, the Dorsye8 and the
RObesons who aourished during the
unCtuous Presidencies Of Grant and
Hayes. The city has now a popu.
lation Of more than 100000, and
the wealth of the country is daily
seeking investment here. Retired
wealth finds here a larger number
Of attractions for q winter residence
than in the larger Eastern cities.
But it is in the summer that the
city is really most attractive.-I
Cool, spacious parks then take the
place Of heated and crowded draw.
ing.rooms. Who would not prefer
paradise to pandemonium2 II is
not remarkable that the President
has decided to spend the summer
here. He is less sybarite than any
President since Lincoln, and the
thermometer at ninety has no ter
rors for him surrounded by the
grand trees Of the White House
grounds. His Cabinet will also re.
main here. The Secretary of the
Interior and the Attorney General
know the advantages Of q summer
in this climate as compared with
that Of their native cotton belt
Secretary Bayard will leave every
Saturday to see his family at his
ancestral home in Delaware, re.
turning to the State Department
on Monday. The other Secretar.
les will remain here, as will also
the Chief Of Bureaus, and a much
larger proportion of clerks than
have hitherto remained in the city.
Many clerks cannot leave because
Of the new rule prohibiting leave to
those who have been absent from
sickness or other cause for thirty
days. Others are not willing to go
because they are afraid of finding
big Democrats in their places when
they return. D.