Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-23

The threatened invasion of Fifth Avenue
New York. by a horse car line has brought
clearly into view Its deeadence of late years as
a fashionable street. The wealthy land-hold-
ers have tried to ignore the signs-in this case
the business signs-of the times, but in vain.
Little by little the hotels and boarding houses,
the piano and furniture warehouses. the art and
bric-a-brac shops, liquor saloons and BARRIERS
shops have been creeping up the street from
Washington Square until property values, even
well up towards Central Park. are disturbed,
and the more exclusive families are beginning
To desert the Avenue just as they reiterated in
former times from the lower portions of the
city, ouce fashionable but now wholly given
over to business and a crowded tenement popu-
lation.
But this emigration movement does not stop
merely with a removal from their favorite
avenue. The city itself is losing its charm as a
place OF residence. The fashions of locality are
so capricious that wealthy men are not in.
ciined to invest large sums of money In splen-
did residences, which in few years may suffer
As foriorn a fate as the palaces of Venice. Hence
in many eases, those who wish to build a per-
manent home to suit their taste, are finding
sites on the Hudson or in some one of the neigh
boring cities.
And in this connection II may be noticed that
not only from New York, but from all other
quarters, there is a tendency towards Wash
capital city Of n great nation must always
possess peculiar attractions to the more inteili-
gent and prosperous of its citizens Here the
game OF empire may be watched from over the
shoulders OF the eager PLAYERS. Here vast
interests are conferred, here public opinion is
formed, here all sections meet nowhere else,
making society truly national. And now
that the wisdom of Congress and our local
authorities has beauiificd the capital so that it
ranks with the finest cities OF the world in
at:ractiyenesS there is in that tact an added
inducencnt for investing in property here. In
compact little England, the powerful film lies
have a London residence a. n matter of course
wherever may DC the ancestral family seat and
il would not be strange if. with orr improved
facilities Tor travel, Il house at the federal cap
ital became as typical OF prosperity. culture and
social position here among our transatlantic
cousins.
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Mr.. Randall has TO be very careful what he
says about the tariff. Yesterday Ire was quoted
by the Philadelphia Press Us saying that he rad
no intention of offering supporting n tariff
bill At this session. This publication has
brought out n carefully worded statement from
him to the effect that not being on the ways
and means committee, it would not be his duty
to assist in originating bill, and that If one
were introduced he shouid endeavor to see that
1t conceded in its spirit and operation with the
Chicago democratic platform, especially az re-
CARDS the protection of Americau labor. Just
what all this means, Mr.. Randall leaves it to
Others TO explain.
Judge Durham has checked IL 800 against
Commissioner Colman's accounts for q misup-
plicafion of the appropriation for seeds to the
needs OF the agricultural laboratory. He re-
Gently made similar ruling in the case of
Commissioner Loring, and flowing from that
decision We heard some eloquent Indignation
On the popular theme of turning the rascals out.
In this matter much depends ON whose bull
cores the OK.
Mad dogs are swapping at people I'm the
crowded streets of New York and its -populous
suburbs, and in three cities in the nei ghborhood
Newark, Passaic and Hoboken, systematic
efforts, under official auspices. have been made
to protect the streets. Mayor Grace of New
York, says that he intends to issue proclama-
ton shortly calling for a strict enforcement of
the dog law. and similar precautions might be
taken with advantage here.
Mr.. Randall reiterates that he does not intend
to introduce q tariff bill this session. He ad-
mits that some changes, and that in the line ut
areduction of duties. might be made with adj
vantage, but he thinks that an agitation of the
general subject at this time would do harm
After period of depression business is picking
us, and ne falls i'm with the opinion that it will
be wise to let trade alone while and see if it
can regulate itself
A report comes from Paris that the French
have succeeded in the virtual conquest of Mad
agascar, but IL will be prudent to hear from the
Hoyas before taking too much stock In the
rumor. 1t will be remembered that the news
from Cochin, China. which came, by way of
"a 4,