The National tribune., 1889-08-29
THE FLAG Mnsr FLOAT.


Government during business hours. Hence
forth there will be no possible excuse for
failure for the Stars and Stripes to foat from
every building in the country to which tse
Government has a title or interest. This has
always been the law, but il has not usually
been observed as il should have been.
AN OLD MESSENGER TRANSFERRED.
VIM. Dupee, the colored man who has filled
the position of Chief Messenger in tho Office OF
the Secretary of War since Edwin NJ Stanton
was Secretary, resigned his position recently to
accept the messengership to the General OF the
Army J. NJ Sohofeld. Dupee is one OF the best
known men about the War Department., and
on account of his intelligence and polite man
ners is universally liked by everybody who
ever came in contact with him. lie has car
ried the cards of almost every prominent oti-
zen of the United States to each succeeding
Secretary of War, and has treated each visitor
with so much politencss and urbanity as TO
obtain Che nickname Of admirable CTichton."
| He knows more public men than any other
! man in Washington or the United States and
| numbers among his friends some OF the great
/ est aud best of our lawmakers and fighters,
/ having commendatory letters from such Bota-
/ bles as Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, and host
| OF other prominent military men, besides the
UNQUALIFIED Endorsement of every Secretary oil
! War from Edwin NJ. Stanton down through the
| line to VIM. c. Endicott, Cevelaud's Secretary
tlemanly manners when they call at the War
! Department, bat as he receives more salary In
| his present position and his duties are much
| lighter, what will be the public's loss will be
| his gain and all his friends will congratulate
him upon his promotion.
A SOLDIER THAT CAN SHOOT.
| Gen. David S. Stanley, u. s. Army, who com.
| mands the Department of Texas, announced
/ last week ia a General Order the records made
| in the annual rifle competition in his command.
| The General Order names the 20 officers and
| men who made the highest scores OF all in the
/ competition and of all the 90, Second Lieut..
| Robert NJ. Rose 9th Inf, who graduated only
last June leads all the list, and took the Depart
ment gold medal. =.
This young man is the son of the late Col
Thomas NJ. Rose, who was a Captain Of the 10th
Inf, and who promptly quelled the rioting at
Little Rock in the political times that followed
after the rebellion.
| POOLING sTREET-CAR HORSES.
For some time past have frequently noticed
| three horses driven abreast TO the Fourteenth
| street car-linc, and while finishing a smoke on
the front platform few days ago found the
extra horse attached, and asked what the Lew
wrinkle meant. The driver is an old veteran
cavaryman. and he dscoursed.
"You have noticed, of course, how smart
army horses become after they get used 70 the
service. Well, I'll tell you; it's a fact, in two
months work on street-car line one OF these
horses could give points TO any broncho you
| ever saw.
They actually know when it is their time
| to be taken out OF the stable; and when 10 Is
necessary 10 take team out of its turn some
| time when another team is hurt or sick, It's \
job 10 try and make them work. When one
bell rings to stop they will stop quick enough,
but when two bells ring to go Oh they will turn
heads aud look at each other in n surprised
way, ms much as il they were saying to each
| other What does all this mcanI Why are We
here when il is not our schedule timer Aud
then they will move awful slow, aud most of
the limo We have to use this persuading tool ~
sowing his whip.
But about these three horses abreast, like
ssslan outfit in Winter. That OF horse is one
4 the hill horses aud be is bound down town
now 10 work on the New York avenue aud III
street Hill. Do you know, II this boy here that
works him should get TO ride him down
from the stahles-or from the hill TO the Stables
fer that matter-the smart old cuSs would take
a slow walk in spite of all tho boy could do
and he wouldn't make the trip in less than
half or threc-quarters OF an hour. The oldest
ones take the longest time when they 20 alone
" Now, this is the way we fool them. The
boy Rms him out IN a hurry just we start
the car np. aud bitches on TO the hooking bar
The old fool thinks il is part Of his regular
business and keeps right along with the team
utes. It's the same way going home; because
when the boy doesn't swing him out and un-
hook at II street ne thinks we've got an extra
big load Of passengers on and goes ahead. First
thing he knows he is in the stable, and when
he gets At his feed be forgets all about IL.
"They have 10 do the same thing on the
Avenue aud Seyenth-street lines, or else tine
company would have 10 keep more hill horses.
They mostly take the horses that have worked
longest on the road for the hill pulls, unless
they are clean broken down"
A HEATHER ASD A BucRBoARD.
The japanese that we have with us are
among the incest aud most polite of the foreign
ers that come 10 Washington In official life
bat they do some things that seem funny 10 us,
and no doubt some Of our ways must seem fully
as Qaeer 20 them.
The members Of the Legation are very fond
OF horses, because the few they have in the
rock bound islands Of the Emperor Of the Sun
SIRE small, and not adapted to the uses that
Western nations put them 10. Whenever the
racing meetings are held here every citizen
Of Japan resident here can be seen on the grand
stand, whether the races be run ia fair Oh
stormy weather, and no one Of them leaves the
. vicinity Of the track until the last race In run
and the dead and disabled steepie-cbase jockeys
are counted up.
Washington people like the Japanese thai
! have come among us since the days that Al
wonderful country to communication with thu
outside world, and / too admire greatly the
little gentlemen who so dignifedly walk oul
broad streets
/ Therefore no reader viii suspect me of Per
( sian levity when ] tell this story. A few day
= ago gentleman Of the Legation was driVini
: out with rig that in the West is called ~
: hoss and buck" lie was alone and when h
# bad driven out near the end Of Fourteenth
!. street be concluded to turn back. Then cami
S the trouble. The street is wider almost thaI
: the best Of the Paris bOulevards, but Ii was no
c wide enough for him to turn his blackboard
i lie tried twice. while ! amusedly observed hi
C motions, but each time he failed. He droY
Z down close 10 the curb on one side and made
d long sweep, but just then strect-ear came an
headed him or lie disgnstediy swerycd bacl
Il again 10 the curb line. and when the car ROLES
y on tried IL again he brought up on the othe
G side Of the street with his horses head p0inte
. straight into tree-casng. Tho third tria
q Was 10 better, and then the bright idea scenes
10 strike him that the intersection OF a stree
would give him more room. He went ahead b
the next street, and then got his buck boar
u headed around, but he skinned the cnrb-stone
n closely at each Of the four corners. j do no
y mean TO be disrespectfnl at all, but 10 il M
e private opinion that any woman who eve
u lived in this section Of the hemisphere coul
:, have done better. And i say this, despite Z
the longtime assertion that turning a tear
, around in roadway is one OF the things tina
D mighty few women can do.
VETERANS IN THE CITY
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