The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-03-01
TO OUR VISITORS.

TO the thousands and tens of thous.
ands of visitors who are coming into
Washington, people from Maine to
Texas, from Florida to Alaska, The
Critic, in thename of the people of the
city, extends the heartiest kind of wei
come. You are welcome, ladies and
gentlemen, for you are upon your own
premises. Washington is no more ours
who live here alls the time than il is
yours who come here only occasionally.
This is unlike any other city in the
+ Union. 1t belongs not solely to the peo.
pie who make 1t their home, but to the
nation at large There is no American
who puts his foot upon the ground in
side the District of Columbia who Is
not part owner of the earth ON which he
ireads and who has not all the rights of
ownership.
You are all welcome in Washington,
You must come into possession of your
~-patrimony for the time. You have
caused great structures to be raised
here; you have paved the streets beauti-
fully; you have shown pride in the
adornment of your Capital, and it is but
right that you should enjoy it, We,
who are here all the time, who are Gus
todians of the place, are glad to see our
fellow proprietors. We havea local
pride, it is true, but II is feeling which
is always merged into the greater
national pride when occasion
arises. We recognize the fact
that, as Keepers of the Capital and co.
owners with you, II is the national
trust Of which we should be proud, II
il in the broadcst and most earnest
spirit, therefore, that we tell you TO
make yourself at home here. See all
The sights and insist that all your public
servants be courteous to you. DO the
town thoroughly and feel that you are
getting the worth Of your money. And
to quote the common expression, IL you
don't see what you want, ask for it.
IN HAS BEEN suggested that a division
or corps Of Office seekers be made part OF
the Inaugural procession, but we, fear the
suggestion is impossible of accomplish
ment. An estimate was made by the COM
mittee early in the campaign and ii was
at once discovered that, notwithstanding
we have q city Of magnificent distances,
there would not be anything like enough
room to accommodate one-haf Of such q
host. That part of the procession will
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relefs and taken in installments.
THE CITY is filling up rapidly with
visitors Theincoming trains bing in theii
thousands and the streets are thronged
with those who indicate that they are
strangers by the sightseeing air they have
The CRITIC must reiterate what 1t hai
already said that there should be shown ia
these hosts Of visitors the utmost courtesy
and consideration, and that there should bt
no extorion. The quadrennial occasion OF
an inauguration is one IN which Washing
ton makes its record as a good city to visit
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ONE COMMENT made by visitors to Wash
ington is that the police force is we'll
conducted. The policeman, as a rule, II
courteous man, who recognizes the fac
that IL is his duty to accommodate tn,
public as well as to preserve order He il
polite To strangers, ready 20 give directions
and something Of Il help. lie is in rathe
sharp contrast with the New York O
Chicago policeman, who is too apt TO ian
agine that bis sole duty Is to try 20 be
dreadful parsonage.
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CARTER HARRISON, the famous eX-Mayo
Of Chicago, declines to run again for tina
0filee. II is possible that he may chang
his mind before convention time, for he
man who cannot easily keep out of
tight II one is going ON in his vicinity; bu
II he does not II will be probably becaus
be wants TO run for Congress. The Demt
Gratis really need Carter Harrison In Cor
gress They have no man now with all hi
cultivated, breezy way,
ANoTHER PRETTY girl has married o
Indian This time it Is Miss Britton,
se,nnstress at the Yankton agency, and th
Indian was Wellington, full-bloodo
Sioux. The groom is said to be quite q
lazy and dirty as the average Of his tib,
When lovely woman fully determines TO b
married TO somebody something IS goln
10 happen
The ions j. O'BREN ASSOCIATION {
New York will be here to take part in tn
festivities of Inauguration Day. The ~
.preme Court has not yet passed upon th
subject, so that II Is still an open questlo
OF whether or not President could b
legally installed In office We're the John