The Washington critic., 1888-03-17

charming spectacle Of more beautiful
| women In their jaunty and attractive at
tire than any city on the continent.
ii is the paradise for children on roller
skates and young ladies on tricycles.
| Its numerous charming parks afford
facilities for "spooning" couples to an ex.
tent only equaled by the birds in the spring
time, billing and cooing in the tree-tops OF
| the same localities.
| lt4 now has new, commodious and we'll
furnished opela-houses and theatres which
are credit TO the Nations Capital.
| IL has the largest and best supply of
stylish carriages, cabs, hansoms, herdics,
| phaetons, etc, with polite drivers always
| in readiness, and at lOtCer rates of fare than
in any other city in America.
| For twenty-five cents person can ride
In and about Washington on the street.c
lines to the extent of nearly thirty miles and
| get a view ofmost all the prominent objects
and places OF National and historical inter
| est which adom the Capital CITY of the
Nation. No other city in the world fur
nishes visitors such an exhibition at so
small an expense.
IL has one OF the best Jockey club race
| courses, the most attractive in its surround
ings, of any on the continent, which is only
fifteen minutes drive, and only five min
utes by railroad, from the city.
III has the brightest and most skillful
| disciples OF Esculapius of any city In the
land.
| Its local military companies arc the best
| looking, best-equipped, drilled and disci-
| plined of any In the country.
IL contains upwards of 10000 shade trees,
making Washington resemble grand park,
interspersed with the most magnificent
| public buildings In the world, handsome
private edfces, monuments, statuary, etc.
The natural beauty of the suburbs sur
rounding Washington excel in magnificent
scenery any other large city on the globe.
The grand panorama of wooded knolls,
grassy plains, commanding hills, abrupt
and sloping valleys, all bordered by the
broad, silvery Potomac, presents a land
scape view such as the residents of no
other locality in this country enjoy.
With the reclamation Of the Potomac
flats--now in rapid progress over 200 acres
of land will be added to the mall now cx.
tending from the Capitol to the Washing
ton Monument, making over 1000 acres In
onemagnifcent park, with its drives, lakes,
ments, fountains, statuary, &c, located in
the very heart Of the Capital City No
other city in the world has such q charm.
ing ccntre-piece.
The projected Grand Memorial Bridge
will, at no distant day, span the Potomac,
connecting this park with the Government
reservation at Arlington Heights, on the
Virginia shore.
IL is the proper place for the Government
to celebrate in 1889 the centennial anniver-
sary of the adoption of the Constitution of
the United States, and In 1892 the 400th an
niyersary of the discovery of America by
Columbus, and the proper manner to com.
memorate these important historical events
is by an industrial exhibition of the arts,
industries and resources of our great Re.
public.
Now with the present photograph OF
Washington as the capital Of the Nation.oi
6O,00O,000 people what Is likely to be Its
progress and condition in the future I
Say in only twenty-five years from this date
when the vast republic-which is constantly
contributing from its varied resources to.
ward the growth, development and gran.
deur of its Capital City-has population
of 100000 600 free and independent soyer-
eign citizens.
1t has now as o resident q fne-looking,
leyel-headed man, with an iron spinal
column, as Chief Magistrate of the Nation
who compares tavorably with the long line
of his illustrious predecessors.
And the handsome young wife of the
Chief Executive of the Nation, by her modest
demeanor, ladylike department and true
womanly instincts, adds an important ad-
ditional charm to the society of the national
seat of Government of the Democratic Re
public.
II is the only place in the country fol
the establishment of National University
Itis the only proper location for grant
geological garden and extensive aquarium
II Is rapidly becoming the favorite plac,
In the United States for holding conven
tions, anniversaries and public gathering
of the various societies and organization
existing throughout the country.
The Nations Monument to George Wash
ngton, recently completed, is the lofties
structure ever erected by human hands.
It's parks and places are ornamentet
with statuary In excess of any other city.
AS the capital of q vast nation, cosmo
politan life exists here, as in the capital:
OF the Old World.
II contains at times, in the vast popula
tion that grayitates here, more profound
statesmen and philosophers, more talent
cosmopolitan in its variety, more cranks
geniuses, blackmailers, bummers, strikers
reformers, demagogues, humbugs, 'jedg
es,n ''majahs," "kurnels,n than any plac,
of its size within the Nations domains.
1t has more churches, schools, fashion
able society, intellectual entertainments
saloons, card rooms, and such, than any
other orderly community of the same popu
lation.
There is more individuality of opinion
and less restraint on the freedom of per
sonal action than in any other city.
In its vast resources of hotels and res
taurants, boarding-houses and lodging
rooms, 1t can entertain, absorb and com
fortably provide for larger gathering o
people than any other city three times it
size in America.
Its broad, smooth thoroughiares presen
the most attractive lines of march for mill
tary or civic professions Of any city on tht
continent.
1t is the headquarters of the Army anC
Navy, and the domicile of great many o
the officers and their families.
In the winter season 1t is the great so
ciety centre Of the country
1t has the most agreeable winter climat,
OF any city in the land.
1t has the fattest terrapin, largest canvas
ducks, most succulent oysters, choicest fisl
and game which Chesapeake Bay and it
tributaries can furnish,
1t has the most profound jurists, tn
brightest bar and fewer shysters than an,
other legal forum.
1t has the largest underground mali
sewer in the world-twenty-two feet il
diameter.
IL contains moreoffice.seekers to tn,
square foot than there are shekels in Sun
day contribution-b
1t has the best dlaw-poker players in eX
istence.
Washington contains the handsomes
women, the sweetest girls and the pretties
babies of any locality on the Western
Hemisphere; and finally
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