Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-30
THE OLD SHACK HAS GONE.
A Change In the Landscape I'm Front Of
the White House.

For long time travellers along the avenue
across the street from the White House have
noticed a little box-like shelter that stood bv
tree at the southeast corner Of the park and az
forded protection in Indictment weather TO the
unfortunate man whose unpleasant duty IL is TO
stand exposed to all sorts ali kinds, all changes
of climate and conduct the transfer of passen-
gers from one line of herdic coaches 20 the
other. 1t is such a pitiful duty that nobody
who stopped to think of the great help il was
to the man had any idea of it az a nuisance and
the general tendency seemed TO be TO resent
any growls that might be raised az its presence
IL was not pretty or ornamental. or even unique.
being simply few implanted boards nailed
roughly together into a shallow box Just wide
enough for man and high enough to allow =
person to stand erect The transfer man had
plugged the cracks with paper and had rugged
rude seat inside on which he could rest dur
ing the long waits between coaches. He used
TO call II his ''parlor, with a fond harmless sa-
tire, and oftentlmes the nd-hearfed fellow has
saved an invalid or a cripple or an elderly lady
from waiting Tor the coach in the rain wind
or cold
But the memorable hand of the officer OF the
law has been stretched forth and the little box 10
now no longer part of the scene around the
historic corner. For many years a part of the
short street running on the east side of Iafay-
cite square, called Madison place. where Secre-
tary Blaine lives, has been used as a public
hack stand and the long row of night liners
and cabs and other vehicles Of all descriptions
has been familiar part of the landscape
Recently, however the hack stand has been
found to be nuisance, complaint has recently
been made and the police have been requested
TO get the carriages out of the way, 80 the
hack stand will have 90 go. But the cabbies
and the Jehus do not want to move away from
TINS very lucrative post and have petition ed
10 be allowed TO establish themselves lower
down the street, at the corner. Officer QuinlaI
who is on special duty as inspector of hacks, is
willing that they should take this place. but be
ilnds that II they do 80 the transfer station will
have 10 go 10 some other corner. and as a pre-
llminary move to this end he has ordered that
the little shelter box of the agent be taken
down. which was done yesterday morning.
Last night while the dssgreeable rain was fall
ing the evicted agent kept busy telling
folks how 1t was that lac had lost his house and
he was the recipient Of any amount of genuine
sympathy and pity. As the agent tells the story
Orhcer Qulnlans action was summary and
hasty. Judging from the efforts that have been
made IN former years TO secure permanent
iron shelter for the accommodation, not only
OF the agent but also of the hundreds Of pas
sengers who have to wait at this point daily, il
Is not improbable that this sudden disappear
ance OF the land mark at the corner will cause
somewhat of a revival of interest in the matter,
and II is possible that something may be done
this winter. The herdic company, it is stated,
has been willing TO erect a suitable shelter,
but has been unable TO obtain permission for
the construction