The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-06-22

open car ana she had to take her stand on the
rear platform. The negro gentleman showed
no disposition to relinquish his seat, but when
the conductor came around he lectured him
like magistrate | never heard car conduc-
tor get such lecture on his duties and his fail
ure to perform them. And all because he had
failed TO provide a seat for this colored lady
when no seat was available. If this lecturer
had been white man, be would have deserved
to be kicked off the car for his impudence. But
the negroes nowadays assume privileges that
the whites don't enjoy
If this should meet the eye of Charlie Boyle
who came to this country from London about
war time and is supposed to have come straight
to Washington, he ought to put himself in COM
munication with Mrs. John Carmody at 63l
Eighth street northeast. Mrs. Carmody is
Charities sister and she would like to hear from
her long-lost brother. With her husband and
family she came from the English metropolis a
ycal ago. The Carmodys thought that Wash
ington, being the National Capital, was the
place to come to- They thought that Washing
ton was to the United States what London is to
England, and that New York and the other
provincial towns were not worth calling in
by comparison. But they found that Washing
ION is not the place they pictured. They find
it place where there are so many people with
political influence that strangers without any
political status have a poor show, and they
would like to hear from Charlie.
Il X
This idea that the Londoners had of the Amer
lean Capital presents a striking contrast with
the notion that our distinguished townsman by
adoption, Mr.. Henry Z. Eland, had of America
when he started out from his native wilds in
England to come to this country, six or seven
years ago. He thought that he ought to land
somewhere on the Virginia Coast, and that on
landing he ought to be prepared to trade with
thn 1,,1 1sn,, l. L..
brought with him a considerable collection of
Birmingham goods-toys, cheap cutlery, and
the like-which he has never yet found an op-
portunity to dispose Of and consequently his
lodging, understand, is a sort of a curiosity
shop
If there is anything in Wash ington more dis
proportionate to its surroundings and more
eneraly ridiculous than the little toy cannon
which stands at the main entrance to the State,
War, and Navy Department Building would
like to have it pointed out
X 4 Il
If Judge McCarty, the Little Giant of the
Eighth New York Congressional District, NAV
be taken as authority, and l think he may, the
war veterans are losing their grip. On recent
occasion there was great military parade in
New York. There were battalions of grizzly
and battle-scarred veterans in the line with their
blue uniforms and military slouch hats Some
OF them had lost limbs and all of them had run
talions of giddy and well-dressed young men,
all wearing the tall white hats which lend such
an air of prosperity to the wearers, glossy
suits of civic clothes with flowers in their but
ton-holes' holes and every man armed with
cane which was charged with
can dc cologne. Every little while they would
fire voley of eau de cologne among the dear
girls who gathered on the sidewalks or saluted
the procession from the open windows. The
sweetscented volleys from the canes of the
youngsters did more execution than all the
bravery of the veterans did either during the
war or since. The perfumed young men won
all hearts and it was quite apparent that the
day of the veteran was over.
The men that link the public life of the pres
ent with the public life of the past are fast diving
out The death of Mr.. McElhone, who for over
forty years was one of the official stenographers
OF the House of Representatives, and for many
years the chief stenographer, removes an impor-
tant link. His long experience was very useful
to the House, and he was one of the most in
teresting men at the Capitol
X
1t is generally known that the value at which
property in the city of Washington is assessed
for the purposes of taxation does not amount
to more than one-fourth the market value.
But it will surprise some people to be told, as
was told the other day by Col George X. Davis,
that the assessed valuation of Chicago is less
than that of Washington. Col. Davis used
to be collector of taxes in Chicago and he
knows what he is talking about. In 1873 soon
after the big fire, when there was little left Of
Chicago, the taxable property of the town was
assessed at $500, 600. Since then, as the
town has been built up, the valuation has been
gradually pulled down, until now the CITY,
within the municipal limits in vogue in 1S73, is
valued at only S162 100000, and the entire
city, including all the extensions and annexa-
tions. is valued at less than $500 900, 900,
which is less than the tax valuations of Wash
ington, where the United States Government is
supposed to own half the property, and where
the Government half is not counted. Just
think of how much a man could learn if he
swallowed all the statistics published by all the
corporations and public institutions Of this
country Chicago can't borrow any money
for the Worlds Fair unless the constitution OF
Illinois be amended The city is already in
debt to the extent of thirteen million dollars,
which is as far as she can 20, as long as the
State constitution limits a city's borrowing
power to S6.52 per cent Of her assessed yalua-
ton DAVID LEwsLEY.
A Handsome Treat to Their Employees
The Messrs, Saks &; Co., wishing to show
how much they appreciate the faithful and in
tellgent manner in which their big force of
employees have served them during the past
year, have arranged for a grand excursion TO
Marshall Hall on Thursday evening next, when
their employees will be the guests of the firm
A committee of employees have been given
charge of the details of the affair." their only
instructions being TO spare no expense to make
II as pleasant as possible in every way. The