The times., 1889-03-15

scriptions of which most of them have
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 day!
When a stranger awakes and finds
himself in Washington, the first thing he
does. after rapidly bolting his breakfast
like hired man in harvest time, is tc
rush into the Office of tho hotel and order
cab brought around instantly. AS he
frantically PAGES up and down, waiting
for the conveyance, he mutters between
his clenched teeth the fruitless wall of
nearly all Washington tourists: Il am
going to see this town today. or by the
tub of Diogencs. I'll never SEQ it."
So
He buys guide book, jumps into his
cab, and rolls OFF TO zee the sights. OF
course he goes to the Capitol first. lie
has made sacred VOW for the last
twenty years that some day or other he
will gaze with rapture upon the interior
Of tho United States Capitol At last his
hope il fulfilled. but he is in too much of
hurry To stop and summon any rapture
over tho realization OF two decade
dream. He rushes from the ccnate to
the house. takes one glance at the hall OF
statuary, walks around the rotunda Ike
six day pedestrian. says Zig 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 TO
set him down ct the National museum.
He l.; so absorbed in wondering if he will
ever manage to see the whole thing thcs
no takes no notice whatever of the beau
tiful botanical gardens as he is driven by
on the way to the museum. IIe is
totally oblivious of tho statelincss Of the
parks he IL passing through. and when
he reaches the National museum, orc CT
the finest on the globe, he walks through
tho vast cross shaped building (whcre
Garficld's Inauguration ball was hclD
and secs scarcely anything that he can
remember for two days. his examination
Is so tremendously hasty. On his way
to the exit he passes a case containing
one of Gen. Washington's uniforms.
He stops and looks 1t it q second, Gays
Curious old ragw and in another minute
Is in his cab and on his way to tho Cor
ooran art gallery. Here he goes through
the same lightning like tactics. All that
he can remember Of seeing in 1t week
after is Powcrs' Greek Slave" In fact,
he goes everywhere and secs nothing.
He covers the entire field, and yet when
he goes homo and endeavors to tell his
friends Of the enchanting experiences he
had in Washington oil that he can re-
member is broad avenue, q noisy legis-
lative body. nude white figure, statue
of Napoleon, IN air brake invention in
the patent Office, red nosed, fourth rate
lobbyist" who asked him for ten cents
at Willard's. and a tremendously dis
agreeable headache, which kept him
awake all night. There is but little cx-
aggeration In this. Washington sight
seers stick as persistently to the beaten
tracks and observe everything as cursor
lily as tho annual continent trotters of
Europe. But even this sort of superficial
examination Is preferable to no examine
ton Mt all. 1t Is curious but none the
less positive fact that there arc men and
women who have lived In Washington
for thirty and forty years. and who have
never been inside the Capitol! There Is
a man who lives directly across the
street from the Smithsonian institution,
and who has lived there since 1859. and
yet he has never seen the inside Of that
world famous establishment! But the
visitor in Washington Mt least sees
enough of tiese places to be able to
thump his chest and conscicntiously say
that he has seen them.
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To SEQ Washington in all its splendor
the visitor should GO there In May or
June. With it's flowers and trees burst
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