Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-05
ILLEGAL TRACKS MUST GO.
Major Raymond Recommends Removal
of Railroad Tracks from III street.

Of Railroad Tracks from III street.
The communication OF Gen. Enoch Totten,
attorney for the Baltimore and Potomac rail-
road company, suggesting that orders directing
said company TO remove the railroad track
from II street southeast be suspended until
next fall, in order that the railroad company
might have sufficient storage room for cars 20
accommodate the Influx OF people due here
during the Knights Templar conclave, was re-
ferred TO the Engineer Commissioner for &C.
ton. This communication was submitted 10
the board to-day with the following memoran-
dunn endorsed thereon:
The permit for the occupation of this street
na,ihs oeen issued under a misapprehension
ana being clearly illegal am of the opinion
that the Commissioners have no authority 10
comply with Mr.. Totten's request The permit
contains the condition that upon revocation the
tracks shall be removed by the company within
ten days. The company was notified that this
permit was revoked on March Is. lssg As this
condition has not been complied with recon-
mend that the tracks be removed by the Dis
trlct without delay"
1t is more than probable that Gen. Totten's
request Will be denied, and that the railroad
company will have TO remove from street
The Romance Of Adele Hugo.
To the Editor OF THE EVENING STAR:
MI D. W. LOuklck. OF hAlltaN. Nova scotia.
relates in the April number of the Magazine Of
American History true story. as thrilling as it
is sad, of Adele, the favorite daughter OF Victor
Hugo. After the famous coup d'etst in 1851
Victor Hugo. being prescribed by Napoleon,
first took refuge with his family in Belgium,
whence, from political pressure. he afterward
removed 10 Guernsey. in the Island of Jersey
where, as is well known. he lived until the fail
OF the empire IN ISL. While residing in Brus-
sells Adele became infatuated with a Young
Englishman named Pnsen. whose family which
was wealthy. resided there at the time The
lovers became engaged. and in spite of the OBJ
position of Plnsens family, they went through
the form OF a secret marriage" This is believed
TO have been about 1861. when Pinsen went 20
JOIN HE regimsnt-he belonged to the army
IN England ''On leaving his lady love he
promised, with every token OF sincerity aud
honor, that she should join him in England
and that the marriage, which had been secret
IN Brussels, should be publicly celebrated in
an English church. just at this point-proba-
bly, December, ls6i-his regiment was ordered
to Halifax. and Lieut. Pinsen wrote to Made
moisele Hugo informing her of this fact and
| asking her 20 join him in London. have their
wedding duly celebrated, and go together 20
Halifax. Her parents both objected, demand
| Ing that Lieut.. Pinsen should come 70 Brussels
and marry their daughter there. But Adele
was infatuated. and her fiery spirit would
no: accept this wise counsel" Find
! length acquiesced so far as TO
! accompany her to London" On their
arrival there. they found that Lieut. Pinsen
had sailed with his regiment for Halifax, and
! without leaving any message OF satisfactory eN-
PLANTATION" They returned 10 Brussels but
Adele could not endure the thought of being
! separated from her lover. She left Brussels
clandestlnely, and took passage. via New York.
/ for Halifax where she assumed the name OF
Miss Lewly. Alasi for her fond dreams of
/ happy reunion with the man in whom all her
ardent, unconquerable affections were CEN
| tered. She found him indifferent; she resorted
| TO every means TO secure his regard, but her
love was spurned Lieut.. Pinsen positively
| refused TO renew the intimacy and regard OF
those halcyon days when they talked of love in
BRUSSELS. The story of her residence in Halifax
| Is very sad one. She remained three or four
years. during which she was chiefly engaged in
| doggInS her lover by night aud by day, but
without success"
Lieut.. Pinsen's regiment at length embarked
Tor Barbados, where Adele promptly followed
him. Here she devoted herself to writing
and walking in the streets in dowdy apparel
| and with an air and manner so eccentric that
she was subjected to jests and ribaldry In
time she came TO be associated with Capt. Piu-
sen.who, 1t seems, had got his company-and
| was Known TO the people of the little town as
Madame Pinsen;" but he always stoutly denied
the relationship. An exile from home. friends
and country; poor, unhappy waif in a lonely
and comfortless worldi With her beauty, her
| talents, and her family connections. she might
have been an ornament of European society
But that all-powerful impulse of love- which
has often enough turned and overturned the
| lives of men and the events of history irresisti-
bly, bore her on TO life of unspeakable misery.
Reason became dethroned. and she was finally
lmmured in an insane asylum, where she still
ekes out her blighted life. Her father, al his
death, bequeathed her half his fortune, two mil
hon francs. Xix