The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-14

about It is only an evidence of the dis
content which prevails among the people as
to existing conditions. 1t is so constituted
that don't believe that it can hold together
and | do not expect to see it alive in 1892.
WASHINGTON IMPROVEMENTS.
New railroads are being built out from
Washington in every direction. Three
new electric lines are being constructed
and the rails are already down between
the treasury and the patent office of the
new G street line and cars will be running,
| it is SAID, by the first of January. The
business part of Washington is changing.
A few years ago all of the chief business
houses were on Pennsylvania avenue with
a few second-class stores on Seventh
street About eight years ago, little shops
began to spring up on F street which runs
parallel with the avenue on the north and
only about four years ago was it settled
that + street was to be great business
street. Now the z street property is the
most valuable business property in the
city and as an evidence of its rise
the Honorable John w. Thompson. Wash
| ington's millionaire banker, bought last
spring, the corner of T and Thirteenth
street, just below the Ebbitt house, and
paid 1925, 900 for it. This was considered
an immense price and the conservative in
vestors of the city raised their hands in
wonder. Mr.. Thompson went off to Europe
during the summer and after nice trip
through Norway and Switzerland, re-
turned few days ago and sold his prop
erty for $3.50, 900, making SIZE, 900 off it in
six months. This G Street railroad has
made great boom in G street property,
and it will soon be as busy as
f street is now. The owners
of residences along it have grown
rich, and houses which three years ago
were worth 5000 are now worth S25, 000.
i 4 n H. IA H.
| Denver was named tells me that his land
lady was the other day offered $4,000 for
a house which she had bought for 5000,
| there is negro woman who owned lit
tie s., 600 property, on Z street some years
ago who has made $4,000 on it. EX-Sena-
tor Buckalew of Pennsylvania, and Gen
eral Denver were chatting together last
night of the wonderful growth of Washing
ton and of its elements Of property. THE
people outside of Washington" said Gen
eral Denver, can't understand it." They
say the town has no manufacturers, no
water front, and no commerce, and they
can't see anything TO make it grow. Il has
in fact the biggest factories in the United
States and its hands are the best paid.
There is the treasury factory, with its 5000
employees, receiving an average of about
81 900 year. There is the interior depart
ment, which has three or four thousand
more high priced hands. And there is ohe
pension office, the war department and the
dozen of other governmental institutions
which must increase in size, and which
distribute millions of dollars here eveIy
month";
Eyes, said Senator Buckalew,' and there
is Congress, with its 400 men getting IS, coo
salaries and spending more than S., 600 a
year here on the average. There are the
thousand odd people who hang around
Congress waiting to get something out of
it, and there are the nabobs who are COM
ing here from all parts of the country for
their winter residences and spending here
the income of their millions. There are
millions of dollars spent every year in a
social way and Washington has l believe
the best elements of growth of any city of
its size in the country
Yes, said General Denver, and the tran
sient element of Washington brings a
great deal into the city. Every Inaugural
ton brings 100000 strangers, and he is a
mighty close calculator who can pass
through Washington without spending at
least $40 on the way. Washington gets
S., 0O0, GOO out of every Inauguration, or an
average of s500,000 year from this source
alone and it has conventions of all sorts
from week 70 week, year in and year out.
To-day it is the dentists of the United
States, tomorrow it is some branch of
ancientists, and the next it is something
else. The city grows right along in beauty
and in population. Its people pay only one
half the taxes and the capitalists are not
afraid of the voters voting more taxes
upon them. 1t is a city of low taxation
and of fair taxation, and it will be the
Mecca OF the capitalist for years to come
HOW FLOWER WORKED IT.
Speaking of the money spent in enter