Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-02-16

read IN newspapers and books since their
childhood. The greater number Of these
strangers will arrive at the capital one
or two days before the inauguration.
And every one of them will expect TO
see Washington in a dayl
When stranger awakes and finds
himself in Washington, the first thing he
does, after rapidly boiling his breakfast
IKE hired man in harvest time. is to
rush into the office of the hotel and order
a cab brought around instantly. AS he
irantically PAGES up and down, waiting
for the conveyance, he mutters between
his clenched teeth the fruitless wall Of
nearly all Washington tourists: II am
going to see this town today, or by the
tub Of Diogenes, I'll never see it."
#@M
lie buys guide book, jumps into his
cab, and rolls off to see the sights. OF
course he goes to the Capitol first. He
has made a sacred vow for tho last
twenty years that some day or other he
viii gaze with rapture upon the interior
Of the United States Capitol. At last his
hope is fulfilled, but he is in too much of
hurry to 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
statuary, walks around the rotunda like
SIX day pedestrian, says "Big place.
this!' and inside five minutes from the
time he entered is out in the street and
IN his cab again. He tells the driver 70
set him down at tho National museum.
lie IS 50 absorbed in wondering if he will
ever manage to see the whole thing that
he takes no notice whatever of the bean
tiful botanical gardens as he is driven bv
ON the way to the museum. He is
totally ohlivious of the stateliness of the
parks he Is passing through, and when
he reaches the National museum. one of
the finest on the globe, he walks tbroueb
the vast cross shaped building (where
Gariields Inauguration ball was helD
and sees scarcely anything that he can
remember for two days, his examination
Is SO tremendously hasty. On his wav
TO the exit he passes q case containing
one OF Gen. Washinstons uniforms.
lie stops and looks at it a second. saws
curious old rag" and in another minute |
IS IN his cab and on his way to the Cor
coran art gallery. Here he goes through
The same lightning like tactics. All that !
he can remember of seeing in it a week |
after is Powers Greek Slave" In fact
ne goes everywhere and sees nothing
he covers the entire field, and yet when
nc goes homo and endeavors to tell his
friends OF the enchanting experiences he
lad IN Washington all that he can re-
member is broad avenue. a noisy leeis-
atlye body, nude white figure, a statue
II Napoleon, an air brake invention in
he patent Office, a red nosed, fourth rate
lobbyist" who asked him for ten cents
It Wizards, and a tremendously dis
greeable headache, which kept him
wake all night. There is but little OK
ggefation in this Washington sight
GERS stick as persistently to the beaten
racks and observe everything as cursor
" as the annual continent trotters of
europe. But even this sort Of superficial
Xamin2tion is preferable to no examine
ION az all. It is a curious but none the
ass positive fact that there arc men and
romen who have lived in Washington
or thirty and forty years, and who have
ever been inside the Capitol There is
man who lives directly across the
ireet from the Smithsonian institution.
nd who has lived there since 1859. and
&C he has never seen the inside of that
,orld famous establishment! But the
lsitor IN Washington at least sees
nough Of these places to be able to
hump his chest and conscientiously say
nat he has seen them.
##x
10 see Washington in all its splendor
ne visitor should 80 there in Nav or
une. With its flowers and traoe hurst