The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-12-27

day to ma haven Of TEST when placed on the po-
ii,icsl retired fist.
TIL. New York turf bookmakers have made arule
to close all betting not made on the track half an
hour before each race begins. This fer their own
protection. II turf patrons would require that all
bets should be declared on on races where short
horses are booked as winners by 4 combination Of
bookmssers who run their own horses with other
tcrfunen and Jockeys, It Would make TRIVIA more
even,
Is announc,ss that they will resist the nomlna-
tor OF any Democratic partisan appointed in the
place OF Republican removed for offensive parti-
sanshlp, certain Republican Senators lose sight Of
the fact that partisanshp out OF ofice Is not what
the civil service reform gun is amedat. Partlsanshp
In once ls oTensc when carried to the extent OF
the neglect or porvcrson Of oflical duty or power.
II Is an ofiense which but few Democrats have had
the opportunity OF committing in the last quarter Of
century.
TnoueH we cannot agree with him in many ether
respects, the suggestion OF Treasurer Jordan that
the appearance OF our silver collage should be i'm
proved is decidodls well founded. The present de
stsns Are neither pretty in themselves nor well i'm
pressed on the pieces. An improvement In these
respects would he as creditable to the Admufstra-
tion as that already made in the postal cards since
the reforming Democracy come into power. II
there must be minor silver coins instead of the con-
venient fractional currency which Nas Snwsey
abolished at least let them be things OF beauty edu.
eating rather thAn debaslng the artistic tastes OF the
peopye.
ACCORDING TO Senator Beck, one objec, in demone-
tlzing silver is to prevent Its use in payment Of
about 81 ,000, 900 OF United States bonds, matur
ing In 1892 and 1907. "lt Is simply an attempt
says the Senator "to repeat the legislation of ls69
. declaring that the principal of the 500 bonds
= should be paid in coin,) and the same pretenses
" are made now that were made then" Whatever
truth there may be in the Senator's facts and de.
ductons cannot be belittlei by placing him In the
false position OF an enemy OF the Administration,
for he Introduces his remarks with the assertion
that upon all questions except that of coinage
" and the payment OF the public debt he heartily
indorses all that the Executive and his Finance Sec
retary advise
IL It's laudable anxiety to crush out polygamy In
Utah, Congress should be careful not to break down
the rules OF evidence which time and custom have
proved essential TO criminal procedure Is there any
thing in the necessity OF the case which demands
one rule OF evidence In prosecutions for polygamy,
and another rule in other criminal cases7 II 80,
then the Judiciary Committee Of the Senate may,
full wife OF any Mormon may be compelled to testify
against him, even though the offense be that OF
ogamy or plural marriage. II there is any case in
which the lawful wife should not be required to
testify against the husband this one, We think is the
case Of all others. 1t would be better to provide by
law that lawful wives be lawful witnesses in all
cases than to make special legislation Of this kind.
THAT humorous journal, the Judge, has passed into
the hands of an owner who announces, to quote his
own language that "the Judye Will be an ardent de-
fender and exponent OF protection to home in.
"dustry." The accession TO the protection ranks OF
well-establishcd comic paper promises a new de-
parture IN protective journalism. Mast has treated
the subject in dramatic way, with cartoons that
picture the misery OF unprotected labor, and gladden.
the eye with the sight Of the happy homes OF the So
called high-paid mechanics OF America. Now we
are to have protection treated in humorous veln
IL the new owner OF the Judge succeeds In making
the subject funny, he will do more than any one has
yet accomplished for protection. Perhaps, however
the Judge under its new management is Itself pro-
tected by liberal donation from the protected in
dustres. No Law will be required to give 1t a mo-
nopoly OF the funny business applied TO protection
THOSE who have forgotten from what slough of
despond the now beautiful city Of Washington began
to emerge in 1870 would do well to read some such
article as that Of George Augustus Sala in tht
Temple Bar magazine Of September, 1858, q copy o.
which lies open before us. The article is one
OF series on "The Streets of the World" and IL
entitled Pennsylvania Avenue" but 1t is really
one long TRADE at the expense Of the Federal City
enriched with all the resources of Mr.. Saas lively
and somewhat varied vocabulary. Allowing for the
necessity he was under Of making his essay smart
and incslve, there remains solid substratum o.
fact that cannot be gainsaid, anu rejecting how
absurd it would be TO write such article about tn,
Va NJ infs
the immense progress that has been made since tht
war.
Mr. Sala begins by observing with true British
inaccuracy that "the avenues OF Washington ar,
"supposed to run parallel 10 each other.
1.-THE streets are supposed TO be christened alpha
betically,' and SO on, and adds
Isay supposed; for everything about Washington
ls the barest OF suppositlons and most untenable
hypotheses. Washington Is an exceedingly we'll
meant city, which may account for Its being so re-
W fe e pae ss4s said m to Be s,p
thing certain about Washington 1t is an abomi
nable hole, a beast Of a place!
Worse than all, he appeals to Americans them
selves tor proof of this and says that while othel
cities are objects of local pride, you may grid Al
Washington to your hearts content; you may hit Il
remorselessly, for 1t has no friends. never me,
with either the most patriotic or the most prejudced
"of Americans who had word to say in favor OF
"Washington as dwelling-place!r There has beer
change indeed since that day!
! never met with an American yet who went tc
washington, Or being there, abode in the wretchet
hoie more than twenty-four hours save under com
pusion. a lady forced TO repair thither generally
remarSs:" am going down to that dreadful Wash
ington;" a gentleman usually observes, "Im going
down to Washington and be (somethinged) to mn
vt Is place" says Mr.. Sala, referring to an old
proverb, mot ft for dog to live in and adds with
much circumstance that, though Northern sympa-
thlzer, this is probably ironically he wonld have
10 fa1n ltaUf oil tbair
for one thing.
When they last invaded Maryland and marched
into the very suburbs OF Washington, why didu'
they tue march mile and half further and burn dowr
lner best, aud In very savage. vandalic manner
TOO, & In the year lsl4 TO ruin Washington root ant
the mischief done by the British troops was visible
and the city arose again as big, as shabby, dirty
as dusty, and as hdeous as ever. 1t may have beer
point OF honor with the Yankees to repair Wash
ington after the injury wreaked upon it by the de
praved and reckless Britisher, but II Dixie hat
destroyed II Uncle Sam might not have thought 4
worth re-edincation.
There is much more of the same sort. It ID
universally conceded, Mr.. Saa says, "that Wash
"ington is a most wretched and comfortess place
sal. but uninhabltable.n Yet "the two large brawI
sing, dirty, drunken hotels" and the " smaller bu
"more brawling more dirty, and more drunken hos
"telres are always over crowded; but 1t is with
oceseekers and worse, who add to the dlsagreeabl,
features. The ladies are the greatest sufferers.
There are positively no places In Washington
where lady can buy anything worth purchasing o
see ANYTHING worth seeing The pavement
az IN most American cities, Ia In execrable cOndi
tion You are smothered in mud during the winter
months and sudOcated In dust during the summer
while as TO spriyg or autumn there is none. There
are lew carriage drives or rides IN or out of Wash
lngton. and the foot pavement, owing TO the mum
bers OF 1lthy negroes and flthier soldiers about, Il
almost useless as promenade for ladies'.
Finally there are In Washington two three nj thu
worst theatres to be met with anywhere in the United
States or In the sem-civilized world. Washington II
not pious. and theatre going Ia fashionable enough
but don't think ever witnessed out Of the New
Cut or poor Old Greenwich Fair such thoroughly
publishing performances those which take placi
at the " gals OF Washington.
This was certainly before The days OF the Gran,
Opera House and the New National and the well
sustained smaller houses here. The men, he con
cludes by saying, have the reragium I,eccatorun
"There Is plenty OF profigacy and vice."
The article, as may be seen from these extracts
was exaggerated and abusive even for that day, bu
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