Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-02-06
Late Eastern News.
Inauguration Carriages .

| w ASHlNGTON, Jan. OU.-1u0 e0er-
9etic officers of the Inauguration
ceremonies who are plotting and
planning day and night schemes of
resplendent display for the 4th of
March are reported as having ex-
pressed a desire to assign place in
the procession to the officials of
! Washington who have carriages fur
nished them at public expense.
There is only one trouble about this
suggestion, and that is it might
make the line too long and might
throw into the shade the tiamboyant
fealcies of the military display.
The carriage feature of the Govern
ment dates back over very long
period. In the days when Wash
ington was an unpaved city, when it
had no street cars, it was proper
enough that the Cabinet officers
should have public conveyance to
carry them over the long distances
of the scattered city fer the trausac-
ton of public business. But the
necessity for these rnll;c convey
ances has long pass: / away. To-
day every Cabinet oiiic 1 has an ele-
giant carriage, with Il pair of horses
and q coachman, all paid for out of
the public treasury. These coach.
men are paid $500 year, and are
bone upon the rolls as messengers.
The Pos,otiice Department has two
carriages for is chief. These cal
iinges are not cn!y usei for public
bu>incss, ba: are constantly en-
rl"yed by the wives Of the Cabinet
officials to assist them in the per
Torrance of their social duties.
This innovation of making over the
plain department ambulances into
fashionable carriages, with liveried
coachmen, was inauSurated in the
time of Attorney General Williams.
He WAS covered with scandal at the
time of his purchase of landaulet
out of the department funds. He
was called then, and is still called,
Landaulet Williams" His pur-
chase gave rise to spirited debate
in the House. in which the witty
Nesmitb, of Oregon, pictured Viii
liams, when he was in Oregon, as
only too well satisfied to ride upon Il
mule, "that patient animal which
has no pride of ancestry and no
hope of posterity."
An Infamous Traffic.
SAN Francisco, Jan. 80. - The |
morning newspapers c ntain long
accounts of the Infamous traffic 90
ing on here of selling white babies
to Chinese. 1t is shown that the
business is mainly carried OH through |
the agency of private establishments
termed Lying in hospitals and
homes for foundlinss. The ma
irons of these places charge $50 if
the mother desires to keep the baby,
but only from $50 to $50 if the moth
er gives up all claim to it. In the
latter case it becomes the property
of the matron, who sells the baby
over again to whoever she can find !
that will pay the most for it. In
this way many of these unfortunates
have been sold to the Chinese. The
latter pay more for female babies
than male ones.
This fearful business has created |
SO much excitement that Mrs. Hun
ter, secretary of the society for the
prevention of cruelty to children,
called on Chief OF Police Crowly,
asking his cooperation in making IL
raid on Chinatown and removing all
the white babies they could lind in
possession of the Chinese. They
found three, two Of them girls. 1t
is believed there are still many 9th.
ers, but the Chinese have hid them
out of sight. The three that were
discovered have been placed in the
orphan asylum. The chief of police
stated that no cases of kidnapping
white babies had been reported, SO
that these little unfortunates were
undoubtedly turned over or sold to
The Chinese by mothers who did not
wish to rear them.
The Ecentny Post, referring to the
iniuultous practice of white mothers
selling their illegitimato offspring to
the Chinese. says: 1--WE are in
formed upon tho very best authority
that the children are purchased in
many cases by Chinese Spectators
and sent to China where they are
raised until they are twelve years of
age, and then sold to wealthy Chi
namen for large sums of money, to
be placed by them in their harems.
One OF the most dreadful phases of
slave trading is going on in our
midst. and if strong measures are
not taken to stop it at one, it will be
disgrace to our city and our c,vili-
cation"
The Inauguration Bail.
WASHINGTON. d. c., Jan. 3O.-The
latest problem the inauguration has
to wreste with is the dancing music
at the ball. Prof. F. W. Mueller,
instructor of dancing at the Nava!
Academy, wants to superintend the
dancing music. He points out many
mistakes in rendering dancing music
which, he says, are made by the
best musicians. Among, them arc
that the waltz music is always played
too fast, and the quadrille and the
lanciers played too slow. He would
rectify all such error.. He proposes
that there shall DO at the ball an "im-
perlal dance" as executed on state
occasions by the Gar of Russia and
his Court. AS this will be a sort of
Democratic Inauguration, Mr.. Muel.
ier's suggestion does not meet with
approval. The committee got along
so far to-day as to decide that Prof.
Mueller should not superintend the
dance-music nor introduce the inn.
perial dance"
President Arthur's Late Supper.