The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1886-10-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
rom our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept. %, 1885,

AohlNuloNJ OCpb' ~, lOOO.
A refreshing GOODNESS in the air; increas
II activity about the hotels and on the
treets; the temperance of familiar but
ono absent taces in churches and in
theatres are indications that the season
+ Saratoga, White Sulphurand Newport
4 over, and that the season at Washing,
IN is about to begin.
4 When the Capital of the United States
Nyas a village and the government a
<)oose iointed federation, the season at
Washington was synchronous with the
Congressional session. But now the
limited States has risen to the place of
Iprimacy among nations, not as military
hover, but in population and in wealth.
fhe capital has grown to be great and
beautiful city, and each year the res
nestae and res dictae at Washington,
fwhether social or political, grows in i'm
|portance and are read with increased
Gnterest by an incl eased population, the
! most intelligent in the world, What will
1.-THE combined increased, popula tion,
wealth, intelligence, be IN another huns
|dred years? The thought is staggering.
bike the fathomless and the infinite. One
hundred years ago we were an amorphous
string of weak sea coast colonies roughly
estimated at 100000. Now We have
60,OO0,000 with wealth and resources
incalculable, great empire whose east
ern and western boundaries are oceans.
Is it too much to predict that in another
hundred years our northern and southern
boundaries will be the Arctic Ocean and
DeLesseps canal? or shall we say Terra
del Fuego for the southern boundary,
with an electric railway running from
Hudson bay to Cape Horn. This pros
pect does not seem more extravagant
than the retrospect for the last hundred
years is wonderful.
There is to be a centennial, constitu-
tional, and presidential celebration in
in few years and the
establishment Of a permanent exposition
Of products and resources of the various
states and territories. Other cities, of
course are contending for the honor, and
insisting that their corporation limits
hall be the locus of the National Expo.
,ition. But it is not intended to have
my more Philadelphia provincialism in
,ur National celebration. The Capital
If the United States is Washington
French national celebrations are not held
It Cherbourg, nor British national ex DO.
'itions at Birmingham. We have no
reason to be ashamed of the national
capital, for, aside from its being the
,leanest and most beautiful city in the
world, it is especially adapted for pagean-
Try. and entertainment. More people |
nave sisters, cousins, aunts and other |
elatives in Washington than in any other
;ity in the Union. They are here in the
,ubIic service from every state and
erritory. The visitor to the Exposition
will be in direct communication with a
elative or friend, who will entertain him
r direct him to place of entertainment.
Halt the houses of Washington are
oarding houses, and half the population
ave been boarding house keepers. In
hort, here is bureau of information
nd city of expansible boarding houses
ady to hand. Washington to-day can
nd does entertain a larger transient
opulation than Philadelp phia. Then
,ere is much more that is historic and
'orth seeing in Washington than in
Besides the building in
hich the continental Congress was
eld, and tie Liberty Bell, I do not ;
,member anything that a patriotic
isitor would care to see in Philadelphia,
ere are monuments and colossal stat
les commemorative of the illustrious
cad and every epoch of our evertful
istory. Here are public buildings, !
useums, the Corcoran art gallery, the
'hite House and the Capitol the Nat.
nal Botanical gardens, and the agri.
ltural department, comprising, before {
'llar hao been expended, such an expo I
ton as no other city in this hemisphere |
uld prodnce. even at an expense of S
10000, 90. But perhaps the strongest
aim of Washington is the fact that
re, right in the midst of the city, in G
,ht of all these commemorative and
tichectural monuments, and in easy 2
llking distance, is great unoccupitd
ain of three hundred acres for the :
nporary or permanent buildings of the
exposition. This plain is s
the banks of the Potomacand no
position in the history of the world J
s had sight so perfect and so