The Washington critic., 1890-03-21
THE CRITICS" CAMERA.
PICTURES OF MEN AND THINGS AT
THE NATIONS CAPITAL.

People were reminded this morning
that DR.. Beall, who has hanging over
him charge of body .snatching. is still
at large by seeing him on the Avenue in
situation that attracted the attention
of everybody The doctor was well
dressed. He wore a neat-ftting Prince
Albert coat, dark trousers, rolled up at
me bottom, and, despite the drizzling
rain, shiny beaver hat The spectacle
OF SO faultlessly attired man dragging
a carriage down the Avenue in broad
uaYllght was one that made people
STARE Yet this is just what DR.. Beall
was doing. The carriage was the same
one in which he is said to have taken
the bodies from the cemetery. He stood
between the shafts and hauled it SLOWLY
down the Avenue amid the ieers and
plaudits of gang of small boys. After
time he seemed to tire of this, and
calling colored man he placed him in
between the shafts in his stead.
Did you ever notice that woman
never knows the right side of the street
TO get on carr" asked the conductor Of
a Fourteenth-stre vehicle Of CRITIC
man as fat woman waved her arms
wildly in her efforts to have it stopped
in the middle Of a street crossing.
Another thing, too, is the inconsid-
erateness of women. They will keep
car standing nearly minute sometimes
to finish up piece of gossip with some
friend, or by their deliberate move
lnents in getting on or off. They don't
seem to know that we have to make
time. People generally, in fact, don't
appear to understand that street cars
have regular time schedule, Just as
steam railroads have. This car, for in
stance, is obliged to make the trip from
the Boundary to the Capitol in thirty
four minutes, and If we happen to be
late getting in we are laid off for several
days. / don't think that if this was
generally understood people would
delay us as much as they do, or would
kick at us trying to hurry them up oc-
casionally."
A novelty in building material can be
witnessed in large edifice now being
constructed on Tenth street, between D
and E. A continuous bay. window,
which lights all the upper stories, is
being covered with copper instead of
the wood or sheet.iron generally used
for that purpose. The builders will
probably make the mistake of painting
this, but the effect of the ruddy copper
as it now appears is a good one and
ought not to be destroyed. Tenth
street, by the way, is fast becoming a
business thoroughfare. A few years
ago that portion of Tenth street between
ID and f was entirely occupied by old
fashioned dwellings, but now 1t has
over score Of business places and the
old dOmiciles are fast being torn down
and replaced by modern structures.
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A trio of barnacles were found by
the camera operator surrounding a
lamp-post near the corner of Fourteenth
street and the Avenue the other even
ing. "Say, Uncle Harry, do you re-
member the time, way back in 1861,
when the r.sack was started on its
journey from Austin, Nevada, on its
trip around the country for the benefit of
the sanitary fund p Perhaps 1
don't" was the reply. Wasn't / the
man who delivered the speech that
stirred the Austin people up the night
the flour sack was sent off, and did /
not take it to Virginia City 2" From
this the conversation turned to Califor-
MIA and the days of the Broderick- Terry
duel, which occurred away back in
io1l
Isaac T. Evans, now of Leadville;
Judge Adair Wilson of Del Norte, Col /,
and Hon. III. @. Worthington. To use
an old expression, they all three remem-
Der when Pixies Peak was hole in the
ground, and have been familiar with
that section of the continent west of
the Missouri River since 1849. Judge
Wilson and Harry Worthington both
take pride in having figured in the
flour.sack journey, which netted the
sanitary fund $27S,0 in gold worth
$2.7S on the dollar in greenbacks. The
latter was present at the breakfast table
in the International Hotel in San Fran
cisco on the morning that the challenge
was issued which terminated in the
virtual assassination of Broderick and
perpetuated feud that only terminated
with the death of Terry. The chances
are that you would not strike any street
corner in Washington again in ten
years and find another such combina-
tion as this.
'"rhey may talk all they please about
the Department clerks taking no stock
in the edict that went out month oi
more ago to the effect that they must moi
frequent drinking places, but some OF
the familiar faces have been mighty
scarce about here since" This was the
utterance OF a bartender at one of the
most popular places in Washington las
evening. Many of these fellows, .
continued the bar tender" were accus
toned to coming in here every morning
on their way to work and get s
cocktail or wine and seltZer, and il
the evening they would drop in for {
half hour or so for a social drink anG
chat. Now they never see us as they
pass by, but, just the same, they resor
toquieter and more unfrequented places
where they think no one will observe
them.
I'VE expect to see mule teams an(
plows when we go to the country, bu
il is a rare thing to witness in the centr
of large city like Washington. Thu
spoke one Of group Of men yesterda.
while looking at the work upon tn,
excavation for the new building to b.
erected on Tenth street for Messrs
Woodward & Lothrop. The gee
who.ha'' of the colored drivers of tn
plow was heard the same as If in
corn-tield, and people looked at tn
nalienIlv.Mn mnlns and the dee