Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-17

Washington. If he does his wife will be sure to
create q sensation. She is one of the most
elegantly, talks well and speaks several laHgu-
ages. She created quite sensation when Mr..
straus was minister to Turkey, and the
wealth of her husband enabled him to make his
entertainments equal to those of the ministers
who had large allowances for this purpose.
Some of the funniest things in Washington
happen in the herdics and street cars. Every
one rides in them, and you may be sandwiched
between juctice of the supreme court and q
darkey laborer, or you may find servant girl on
one side of you and a senator's wife on the
other. In such cases you have 10 be careful
what you say for there is certain to be someone
in the car who knows every one you are talking
about, and strangers often make fools OF them
selves by h eir remarks. You cannot talk about
public men for their secretaries may be sitting
beside you, and the public men themselves may
be sitting IN the other side of the if you do
not know them. The diplomats are occasionally
seen in the cars, and in riding to the White
House the other day saw one of them do a very
mean thing. The car was passing the National
hotel, and the rain was pouring down with all
summer strength. The car was full and this
diplomat had his seat at the end of the car. Just
81 this point lady stopped it. She well
jumped on the steps of the car, put down her
umbrella and started to enter, when this diplo-
mat put his arm across the door aud said,
do you not see madam, that tn ees car is full.
You cannot get in, madam, it ees against the
rule and he then yelled to the driver,
''Drivair, why do you stop thees car? You
know it ees full By this time the lady was so
frightened that she jumped off the and went
back to the pavement before there was a chance
for the other men in the car to offer her seat.
This foreigner has been in Washington but a
short time and he did not know the rules of the
car lines. He was looked upon q boor. and
the story tucked to his name is now going the
rounds.
One of the meanest men in Washington. is
worth all the way from $500 900 to $3.50 900, and
see him adding to his pile every day in one of
these red five. cent Washington herdics, which
goes past his s5G goo residence and on to the CAPT
tol. This man invariably takes a seat near the
fare box, buys package of tickets OF SIX for
quarter. and when anyone passes him up five
cents to put into the box he puts the nickel in
his pocket and puts one of these tickets which
have cost him four aud one sixth cents into the
box. On rainy days he must make at least as
much as six and seven cents ride, and as his
income is probably not over $50, 900 or So, 900
year the poor man ought to have it.
The washington climate is changing and it IS
new the most healthy city in the country. The
filing up OF the Potomac fats has gone I'M: il
there is now great island covered with grass
living between Washington aud Virginia This
will eventually be laid out as park, and it will
contain some of the most beautiful drives OF the
United States. The trees have made difference
in the air here. We have parking commission
which attends to them, and congress appro-
PIRATES SO much every year for tree planting.
The result is that there are a hundred thousand
shade trees running along each side OF the m any
miles 90 streets which make up the national
capital and you can walk for miles during q hot
day and not get out of the shade. The parks
are now well kept, and every six or eight
squares you come to a government reservation
which is carefully cared for by Uncle Sam, and
in which new flowers are planted from month to
month throughout the summer so that they are
always in bloom. The houses of the capital are
constantly improving You can't get q decent
house in a fashionable quarter inside the
boundary now for less than ST., 600, and it used
to be that you could get the same thing for SS000
/ know OF dozen houses which offered for
sale at from SIS 200 to 500, 600 EACH and there
are at leaa. Sae hundred $50, 600 houses within
-Iiie of the White House.
Rents have gone away up out of sight, and
there are, venture, a thousand houses now
empty and ready for the occupants of the next
season. There is another thousand which are
idle while their owners are off at the sesshore,
and there are hundreds of people here who pay q
Thousand dollars and upwards per year for
houses in which they live only six months.
While they are away they have to pay to have
their houses taken care of, and there are men
here who make a business of taking care of
houses. They send men to sleep in them, to see
them aired daily and see thai they are well
guarded 2: night. This Is necessity in Wash
ington for We have set of junk thieves here
who get into vacant houses, cut the Innings out
of the bath tubs, steal the chandeliers, saw out
the water pipes for The old lead and carry away
every thing they can get their hands on. W. E.
Curtis OF the Pan American congress had his
vacant house entered some months ago, and
these thieves, though there was not bit of
furniture IN the house, did more than 500
worth of damage.
Furnished houses rent for Just twice what .