Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-18
Idealisn I'm Garbage.


We are told how to gather garbage without
being told how to make the collection of il less
disagreeable or the disposition of it more
profitable. When the collection Of garbage
shall be made not only inexpensive. but also
inoffensive. and the garbage wnen collected a
source OF benefit to mankind, it seems to me
the ideal stage of the question will be reached.
beg to indicate this happy solution. sug-
gest that stock company shall purchase a GER
tain number OF acres near Washington to use
as u hog farm. The company shall undertake
to make daily collections of garbage through
out Washington at. say, the price accorded for
the very inefficient service for the past year.
This daily collection shall be the daily con-
sumption of the happy hogs Of the farm, who
may have woodland to roam in and nuts to
eat beside delightful roofing on the company's
acres. The happy hog makes the good ham.
1t will be to the interest of the company to
have the receptacles of the garbage clean and
sweet, the useless and by accident offensive
garbage being kept apart and burned for ma
nure. The care and cleanliness OF the col
lectors in the work will be the first condition
of their employment by the company. because
of their chief interest in its collection. /
have observed from various back win
dows during my residence in Washing
ton that the hogs would have plentiful
and wholesome diet. If careless kitchenry
wastes so much let it come back to us in bacon
and sausage. That truck farm be attached
to the hog farm is the fond hope of one who
has vainly searched in American markets for q
succession of cabbage q mean humanity edible
cabbage and salads such as the markets of Paris
and London afford. One hog farming company
might. after counting their immense gains from
the safe OF their fattened stock, fattened Oh
NashIngtons stale bread and half-consumed
joints. tEd time to turn to the cultivation of
long lettuce or romaine, the numerous varic-
ties of summer and autumn salads. including
ch friu uni at, fur
ni,h our tables till the month of March with
delicious and wholesome greenery. Ii.
Washington and The Evening Star.
GatL in the Cincinnati Enquirer.
When 1 was in Washington city day or two
ago 1 went up to the library of Congress and
looked ut the files Of the Washington city
papers for the year 1866. at the time johnson
succeeded Lincoln, and for 1877, when Hayes
succeeded Grant principally looked at The
EVENING STAR, now a broad, conspicuous sheet
of eight pages at least every day. l could
hardly believe that the little paper l WAS exam
lining for those past years was the same STAR.
Such immense events as the murder of Lincoln,
the swearing III of Johnson and the disputed
count. with special tribunal Of arbitration, did
not arouse the paper of thirteen years ago to
any extension of its limits or high cadence of
sensation.
As came out of the library of Congress and
stood on the portico the panorama of the new
city Of Washington unfoded before my eyes,
and could see why we now required large
newspapers. The present city had become
populous and had the character by growth
and accession to sustain very large print. l
looked below me. and almost every thing in
sight was brand new. Right across the way
from the Capitol building the library of Con-
gress was partially completed up to tho third
story, an enormous quarry of brick aud stone
apparently eXcavated TO the air. with its ten
great masts of derricks rising uniformly
around its bulk. On that old Capitol Hill
where everything seemed dead prior to 1875
were new church spires. great breweries, tine
former grassy streets now paved. graded and
cut through from river to river.
Down in the city the Washington monument
is only one out of hundreds of bright-look-
ing buildings which fill the vista. Taste. opu-
lence. power. u great state we're felt and com
pretended by the eye alone. And thus
Thought to myself we owe good deal to all the
Presidents have had for holding things
steady; the impetus which touched this coun-
try and this capital since 1861 has never been
taken of.