Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1889-02-23

SCTlpVlO1HsOl WHICH luObU VI u11CAA AAe1No
read nSnewspap and books since their
childhood The greater number Of these
strang Will arrive at the capital one
81 two dSys before the inauguration.
And evei one Of them will expect to
see abingdon in dayl
I'M stranger awakes and finds
himsAlt M ashington, the first thing he
does, AZ rapidly boiling his breakfast
like ii hifAd man in harvest time, is to
rush nto Tie office Of the hotel and order
q cab brolght around instantly. As he
franti PAGES up and down, waiting
for the conveyance, he mutters between
his clenchsd teeth the fruitless wall Of
nearly IN NV ashington tourists: II am
going to6ee this town today, or BY the
tub of Diogenes, I'll never see it. \
He guide book, jumps into his
cab, and TOLLS off to see the sights. OF
course hR goes to the Capitol first. He
has mada6h sacred vow for the last
twenty ears that some day or other he
will gaze with rapture upon the interior
Of the United States Capitol. At last his
hope i'll fulfilled, but he is in too much Of
hurry u stop and summon any rapture
over the realization Of a two decade
dream. He rushes from the senate to
the house, takes one glance at the hall Of
statuaIY walks around the rotunda like
six day pedestrian, says big place,
thislt and inside five minutes from the
time he entered is out in the street and
iii his cub again. He tells the driver to
set him down at the National museum.
Heis so absorbed in wondering if hewill
ever manage to see the whole thing that
he atakesn notice whatever Of the beau
tifuIs nical gardens as he is driven by
on theS way to the museum. He Is
totally oblivious Of the stateliness Of the
parks he u passing through, and when
he eaGhSs the National museum, one Of
the hne6tgon the globe, he walks through
the vast cross shaped building (where
Garfield inaug uration ball was held)
and sees scarcely anything that he can
remember Tor two days, his examination
il sp mend usly hasty. On his way
to tha the passes case containing
one ~ Gen. Washington's uniforms.
He stops and looks at it a second, says
sClriouslold ragl'' and in another minute
is iii Hill cab and on his way to the Cor
coran aft gallery. Here he goes through
the samp JIG htning like tactics. All that
he can Remember Of seeing in it week
after ii Powers "Greek Slave" In fact,
he goes everywhere and sees nothing.
He covers the entire field, and yet when
he goes home and endeavors to tell his
friendsof the enchanting experiences he
had Hill Darlington all that he can re-
member isa broad avenue, a noisy legis-
latiye body, q nude white figure, a statue
ct Napoleon, an air brake invention in
the patent office, red nosed, fourth rate
lobbyist; who asked him for ten cents
at Wizards, and tremendously dis
agreeable headache, which kept him
awake all night. There is but little ex-
aggeratton in this. Washington sight
sseerse ttc as persistently to the beaten
Il tracks ang observe every thing as cursor
lily ~ thu annual continent trotters Of
Europe. But even this sort Of superficial
exam ton is preferable to no examina.
ton III An 1t is a curious but none the
less positiye fact that there are men and
women who have lived in Washington
Tor thiIg and forty years, and who have
never been inside the Capitol! There il
H man who lives directly across the
street from the Smithsonian institution
and has lived there since 1869, and
yet M never seen the inside Of that
world neus establishment! But thu
visitor W ashington at least seer
enough these places to be able tx
thump hip chest and eonscientiously say
fhnt 15X1 1SSaaa naon than @glg6s5is ~