The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-05-03
THE RETIRED COLONY HERE.

the Republic and the Woman's Relief CorDs as
to the amount t$25 per month instead of $12)
was adhered to.
THE RETIRED COLONY HERE.
Every year brings more army and navy men
here to take up permanent residence so there
is now a very considerable colony. Most of
these are on the retired list, and they gravitate
to Washington because they are strangers in
the locality whence they went away into the
service When q man, after 90 or more years
of service is looking forward to the rest his
being in uniform ahoat or ashore entities him,
he begins to think of his old home and the
people be left there. When he does 60 home,
he finds himself stranger in the land, and
after time runs to the Capital to come across
some of his old associates. For the first season
or two he lives a hotel life or in lodgings, but
each visit grows longer, and then he selects
residence and settles down. Next, if he is not
too DID, he looks about for light business to oc-
cupy his mind, and thus it comes that so many
are in the real estate or other business, while
another large class obtain SOME official position
that will not separate them from the retired
service. / suppose at least a dozen are employ
ed as clerks in the various Departments, under
pay, for the Supreme Court has decided that re-
tired pay is in the nature of pension, and does
not therefore forbid the receipt of clerical
salary from the United States. Gen. Orlando
B. Wilcox who was retired last year is at the
surance company. Gen. Innis n. Palmer is
deeply interested in mining properties that
have brought him generous wealth. Capt K.
w. Tyler and Col. Rutherford conduct q very
extensive real estate and insurance business
Commander Henry de Haven Marley and
Lieut. Commander Black, of the navy, and
Mai. Armes, D. S. A., are also in real estate
Col. Bates deals in land, and his sometime
partner, Col. Whitman, is pushing the use of
California native wines. Gen. McKibbin is
looking around for business. Gen. Meigs is in
charge of the new Pension Bureau building as
Superintendent of Construction, at very COM
Portable salary. The late Maj.-Gen. Ord had
settled here before his death, and was interest
ed in developing some Mexican enterprises
when he died at Havana of yellow fever. Gen.
VIM. A. Hammond, ex-SUrgeon- General, who
has just removed here from New York, is
building an extensive private hospital to treat
nervous patients. The doath-roI in the past
five years has taken away Gems. Ricketts,
Humphreys, Dunn, Emory, Paul, Alexander
Hunter, Blake, Alvord and John II. King;
while among those still remaining are Gems
Carroll, Holt, Brice, Townsend, Brown, L. p
Graham, Joseph j. Reynolds, Cakes, Hagner
Macomb, Van Vliet and Henry J. Hunt.
NEW AMERICAN SALAD.
funny incident occurred at a fashionable
reception here not long since
The hostess, who is of Teutonic origin, and
on hospitality bent, was determined that the
menu of her luncheon table should be lacking
in nothing that any guest might fancy. She
therefore, in anticipation of the German friends
who might call, placed among the salads, gaily
garnished with sprays of green as usual, gem
eTous dish of sauerkraut, served raw; for
though German by descent, she was so far
Americanized as to know very little of this
national Wand
4 young society lady was assisting her who
had never seen this edible and was even less
well informed concerning it than her hostess,
and it so happened that TO this maiden's kind
offices a swell young Englishman was turned
over By the sweetly scheming hostess who
thought thus to give her bid in the matrimo-
NAL market
The lady helped him to generous dish Of
this new salad, aud the poor Englishman, bound
by poiteness to think everything excellent
that she recommended, tried to do his duty by
it. With many grimace, instantly suppressed
when he caught her eye, ne managed to gulp
it down, but excused himself thereafter as soon
as possible.
Afterward he expressed himself to friend
thus:
"Sir! that beastly, blawsted American saw
lad, you know, it was simply execrablel The
young lady was most chaWmipg, so handsome,
SO Vivacous, so hospitable with Wry face).
But alas l am not equal to another luncheon
with her"
And thus the kind intentions of the hostess,
| and the hopes OF the young lady, were prema-
tuTely blighted, because the cabbage had been
chopped too long.
VETERANS IN THE CITY.
Charles A. j. Castallo, 5th N. Y, Syracuse,
Ny.
w. c. Wyncoop, I'd Mimi, Denver, Colo.
Comrade Wyncoop has been engaged in min
ing since the war and has high reputation
among the Colorado people for wide experience
and sound Judgment.
William Linn, 93th N. z, Spencerport N. Y.
Comrade Linn carries on blacksmithing and
wagon making.