Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-10-31


WASHINGTON, October 20, 1889
While our world-famous avenue. well-named
for the Keystone State is interesting at any
season, in the soft evenings of Indian Summer
days, now coming on, it is one living panorama
OF grace and beauty. To see it at its best you
should walk at about the hour of sunset The
last rays of the declining day-god gild the great
dome of the Capitol till it CLEANS us though it
were demi-globe of the finest FURNISHED gold.
The tall Smithsonian towers to the southwark
stand out in sharp relief against the hazy
autumn evening sky, and living human tide
pours along the broad street.
Here during the Three Americas Conference
and the late Triennial Conclave of knights
Templar one might see type of man or
woman from almost every section which COM
poses the great Republic. This stout man with
the diamond solitaries in his shirt front is a
mine king from the far Off Pacific Slope; next
is the tall, 1.-THE dweller on the distant prairie
lands, whose every step marks the man whom
free, open-air life has made familiar with
Nature and its mystic soul. There goes a
group such us one might meet under the linden
arbors OF Berlin. or near the shady walks of
the Lung Arno, where the dwellers of Italy's
greatest art centre enjoy the evening breezes
by the swift rivers rushing stream. The faces
are OF the purest Italian cast and the language
is that soft-sylabled tongue that has made the
Tuscan the synonym for graceful musical
| speech all over the world. English Italian,
the resonant Spanish and high-keyed French,
that may all be heard within the space of a
half squire, remind the stranger of lands thou
sand leagues across the sea, but to the dweler
in the Capital City they are as familiar as the
lofty dome itself.
| But to the student of American womankind
| is the avenue also interesting for here it is
where the afternoon shadows grow longest and
the occasion is propitious that every region
trom the st. Lawrence to where warm summer
seas lap the sandy beach of the islands of the
Carolinas and Georgia and the pine-shaded
coast of the great Mississippi Sound has its
most perfect and fittest representations.
WHAT is HE DOING?
There is much wonderment and some Often
sive emphasis of speech, not unmingled with
profanity, at the order last week of Harrison
that hereafter Congressman and Senators will
be received an hour and half in each day,
'and no other time" The question with the
faithful is, what in" (my letter being adapted
for family journal cannot possibly repeat
the full sentence as usually expressed) sis he
doing?" He cannot be preparing his message,
for it was understood that his almost five
months sojourn at Deer Park was for the pur-
pose of composing his mind to this work amid
the hills and dales of the idea-inspiring noun
tain ranges to lofty and statesmanlike thoughts.
W hat upon earth is he doing then? is the in
quiry going up, more or less mixed with pro-
family, from one hundred and fifty Congress-
men, thrty-six Senator's and Heaven alone
knows how many thousand oflice-seekers
Democratic postmasters in several of our
great cities are still drawing salaries Republi-
cans would fain enjoy, and yet Harrison can
only be seen an hour and a half each day, "and
no other time" Here is meat indeed for anger
and wailing, and it is going on.
THE PHILADELPHIA POSTMASTER.
The appointment of John Field as postmaster
of Philadelphia, which involved the removal of
William f. Harrity, struck the city like
bombshell to-day, inasmuch as the incumbent
had but short while to serve out his four year
term. The removal is considered by politicians
here as a bad break and will not elevate the
occupant of the White House any in the esti-
nation of those who are trying to purify ap-
pointments from the communicating influences
that now surround them. Many Republicans
condemned Mr.. Hauity's removal and the civil
servicers wear gloomy smile. But the horde
of hungry ofce-seekers look at it in another
light, and confidently expect that it is the OPEN
ing of new policy, one that will eventually
break all the barriers that now restrict so
many appointments. The departments were
crowded this afternoon by those seeking situa-
tions, and several applicants acted like so
many famished wolves, as they went about
bowling for positions.
THE BRITISH MINISTER,
The return of Sir Julian PauncefOte accom-
panied by his wife and daughters to make
their home in the city, has proved source of
congratulation to the resident and political
society of the place, as it is generally under
stood among the large circle of friends made
by the Minister since his arrival in our midst
that he intends to enter largely into all the
social festivities of the winter months and in
all respects to become identified with the coun-
try. 1t is pretty sight to watch the fine-look-
ing old gentleman, accompanied by his trio of
handsome daughters, taking their daily morn
ing walks in the neighborhood of Connecticut
avenue, engaged in animated conversation
while walking at the brisk rate so customary
among English men and women when engaged
in their favorite exercise.
THE NEW PENSION COMMISSIONER.
Gen. Raums appointment was the surprise
of the day. His name had never been men-
toned in connection with the Pension Commits
sionership in any public way, and it was gener-
ally thought in Washington that the recipient
had finally retired from public official life when
he left the Internal Revenue Bureau. But the
surprise quickly gave way to general commen-
dation, and but few appointments of recent
years seem to have given such unqualified sat
isfaction to politicians OF both parties. X.