Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-04

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souvenirs have done much to enliven the
crowds on the Avenue and adjacent streets the
past few DAYS. They seem to be more numer-
Gus than ever before. and the wares they offer
to catch the floating dime or nickel are of
almost infinite variety. New Workers recognize
in many of them familiar figures of Broadway
and the Bowery, and their cries at once be-
trayed them to washingtonians as strangers in
the city.
| HOW THEY SLEPT.
How the vast army Of visitors would sleep
was difficult problem. Cots were put up in
hotels, in boarding houses, and in private
dwellings where the owners are willing TO add
to their revenue by taking the sheckels of the
visiting stranger. Besides this. cots were re-
CURED for the various government depart
ments and halls in which the visiting militia
were quartered. OF course the hotels all own
their own cots. but most of the thousands re-
CURED elsewhere were rented. Not only were
cots rented. but mattresses, pillows, and every
kind of bed furniture.
One Philadelphia firm brought several car
loads of cots, mattresses. &c. here, and
did large business in rentingothem. This
was also the with the local furniture
dealers They rented the cots in lots of half
dozen or more, and the prices charged were not
exorbitant. The usual time for which they are
rented is ten days, and il they are not wanted
FOR that length Of time it doesn't matter TO the
is generally as follows: Pillow case. cents:
sheet, 10 cents; pillow. Is cents; comforter 30
to IS cents pair Of blankets. 40 cents; mattress,
SO cents; cot. from As to 60 cents. An uphol-
stored cot, which does not need either pillow or
mattress. rs cents.
WATCHING A STREET SWEEPER.
Among the curiosities of the national capital
to the truly rural attendant upon the inaugural
occasion, who has never visited Washington be-
fnr 10 Sha OTIS
day, while the large four-horse sweepers were
at work. II struck a party of our country
cousins as a wonderful thing and they at once
gathered their clan and followed il two or three
squares. One old fellow said he had seen a
'barl rolled forward but to make a thing roll
backward and go ahead too and clean up the
truck besides beats tarnation." The old woman
thought il was mighty kind in Mr.. Cleveland
to let il work right out on the Streets where
visitors could see it, and not have to pay any
thing, either"
SUNDAY AT THE DEPors.
II there was a rush at the Baltimore and Ohio
depot Saturday there was a jam there yester-
day. The public comfort committee rooms
we're open all night and Messrs Lipscomb,
Bartlett and Wallace, the persons in charge.
looked faded after their nights work. The rooms
proved great institution, and were it not for
them many persons would have been walking
around all night. The trouble seems to be-"
said Mr.. Lipscomb yesterday. ''that persons
won't pay reasonable prices. The class OF peo-
pie coming in expect rooms for about a dollar
and object II they are charged more. Our
prices range from q. 50 to s2.5 without board,
and from g. 80 to e5 day with board.
At the New York avenue station everything
was In q constant hustle. Trains were arriving
one after the other and depositing their cargo.
The trains were all backed up on side tracks,
and resembled miniature hotels. The corn
palace train attracts a good deal of notice The
different bands made things lively all day. II
didn't seem like Sunday.
TIE WHITE HOUSE ovERRuN WITH VISITORS
SATURDAY.
The White House was the center of attrac-
ton to the great crowds Of strangers in the city
Saturday. From the time that the doors
were opened at eA5 O'Clock there
was constant stream of visitors in and out Of
the east room. II was found necessary TO sta
ton an usher at the foot of the stairway
leading up to the executive Offices, in order 70
keep the visitors from invading the upper
regions. It was estimated that fully 10000 peo-
pie visited the mansion during the day.
GOVERNORS IN THE CITY.
Governor Foraker and his staff of twenty OIL
GERS, have quarters at the Ebbitt house
They held quite . reception during Saturday.
Governor Lsrrabee. Of Iowa, ia also at the
Ebbitt Governor Dillingham;, of Vermont,
II ct the NAltby.
SUNDAYS BUSY SCENES.
Monday IL nothing IL not the most unfortu-
nate day Of the week for Q presidential inaug-
uration, whether IL be - rainy q yesterday or
- fair - the last lth of March. When the day
preceding the Inauguration IL the holy Sabbath
IL must OF necessity be broken, and yesterday
ably the worst broken one Warrington ever
knsw. The Inauguration of Mr.. Hayes fell
upon Aonday, but owing TO the little difficulty