Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-09-25

WASHINGTON, Sept. %,


The great advantages to be derived by
the ordinary visitor to Washington in
the way of social enjoyment will continue
to attract to this city thousands of guests
who come on pleasure bent, but the at
fractions offered to the student far out
weigh the social enjoyment of the pleas
ure seeker. Washington is not inaptly
named "The University City," and as a
seat of learning destined to become
widely known. Already the numerous
universities together with the proposed
National University, a bill for the es-
tablishment of which has been offered
in Congress, and, if carried out, will
offer such attractions to the students of
the country as will render this city the
Mecca towards which all who desire to
avail themselves of the advantages these
great educational establishments offer
will turn their steps. In addition to It's
universities, the Smithsonian Institution,
the National Museum, the Medical Muse
um, the Agricultural Department., with its
wonderful display of all of natures
products, reproduced with such skill and
artistic excellence, as the rival the ad-
vantages to be derived from such medi-
ums of knowledge, nature herself must
render Washington the resort of the
students of the world. Each and every
department of the Government present
subjects in every branch of national
life which can be studied with advant-
age. To these attractions are to be added
the great National Library, which, after
many years of preparation, is advancing
towards completion, when the vast ac-
cumulations, which have overflowed all
the space that can be allotted to it in the
Capitol, will find ample accommodations
and provision for its growth for the next
half dozen centuries.
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The current statements that Washing
ton is a great consumer of horsetlesh do
not strike the over-fastidious Washing
tonian as a very welcome piece of in
telligence. But in Washington the con-
sumption is not carried on as it is in
France, and the reader need not become
alarmed at the suggestion. The fact
remains, however, that every year hun
dreds of horses are brought to this city,
used a short time, and dispatched no
one knows whittier There is one fash
ionable stable in town which hires teams
to wealthy public men at prices as high
as $500 per month. This is rather an
expensive mode of location, but there
are some Congressman who can afford it
and are willing to pay that much for the
pleasure of having team which they
can call their own. Most of the Repre-
sentatives, though, do not higher teams
at $500 per month, or even half of it,
There is a large portion of our law
makers who are content to have a cabby
in waiting for them at their residences
after breakfast and at the Capitol in the
afternoon at adjournment hour. This
costs them from fifty cents to one dollar
a day. There are other Congressman, |
and this is probably the largest class, |
whose horses do not cost them more |
than ten cents day. These statesmen
hire their horses on the communistic |
plan, sharing the expense with many
other citizens. The horses thus hired |
are driven in front of street-cars. Horse
back riding always revives with the com
ing of fall. Every year the number of
devotees in the ranks of Vanity Fair
and the political world in Washington
becomes greater. The season for riding
begins generally about the middle of
September, and after that until winter
the country roads which skirt the Capitol
will be gay with equestrian parties.
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1t begins to look as if the bronze
counterpane of Lafayette and his
statuesque attendants would find rest
place at last. Ever since their rather
inglorious arrival in the city, SO unlike
the arrivals of the eminent marouis
himself in this country, the bronze parts
have remained in their original packages,
stored away somewhere around the
Senate stables. At length, however, the
commission having in charge the selec-
ton of a site have fixed their minds up
on one that they think is in every way
satisfactory. The chosen site is the plot
of ground at the southeast corner of the
Treasury building, on a line with Penn
sylvania avenue and commanding a
splendid sweep of view.
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Mr.. Blaine is, It is needless to saw, the
same power in his party that he always
was. When he talks up In blaine thons-
ands of Republicans listen TO his voice
and millions more read what that uoice
has uttered. Mr.. Blaine, on the sub
ject of reciprocity, talks to humanity
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