The rustler., 1891-09-18

fsnsclal Wassluxtaa Letteri
People who complain live In our /
neiehtorhnod and alsa iuyuur nei9hbur- /
hood. Why taey complain and why
nothing salts them | eaunu' imagine
nor can you tell We simply know that
they arc here. there and everywhere.
Pcnnsvlvauia uvenue, the most beau
tiful street ID the world. Tor Is width.
grade. pavement and approaches either
from the capital or white housc, the
haudsomest parade ground for militia
- and civil displays, Is al torn up and
decorated with a systematized mass of
debr.s Numerous citizens have entered
complaint. verbally and by letter, some
of them declaring that they win bring
suit for damages against the district
government for permitting the streets
q b. in such a condition.
Congress passed law requiring the
street ear ltqes between the navy yard
aud Georgetown to dispense with the
services Of their horses by January l,
Isga. ana u substitute either cable or
electric power. The avenue line is en-
gagged in putting down a cable track
und that & what has developed our peo-
pie with the torpid livers, who com
plain uf the condition of the street.
They see before themua thousand work
mcu, each Of them earning sl.25 per
day. but they are not gratiiied with the
prosperity of a city which can afford 10
employ so much labor in one enterprise.
They do not understand that those la
4ssAsH HWh
give food 70 nearly five thousand people
every morning, noon and night. They
see nothing Of the conteutment In the
faces OF the wives mothers and chill
drcn Of those laburcrs while the hus-
band and father has something To do.
They have lit,lc, II any, appreciation OF
the Improvement of the city which Is
going on. They live in the present,
from day to day, and have no care for
the future Of the city, nor for the well
being Of posterity. They are relies oi
the days OF BOSS shepherd, when every
old fossil In Washington declared that
shepherd would ruin item with his ex
pcnsivc improvements; but he made
them all rich.
II has been many years since this city
mas witnessed such "A transformation
such u change Of dress, such brighten
ING up. Business is always brisk whert
there is work to do by working people
Three weeks ago the picks and spades
of the worlsiucn were commencing 4
tickle the streets of Georgetown, re
moving the stone pavemeuts and dig
ging up the earth. Within n week Roci
creek was spanned by the cable people
and then several gangs of workmcr
were employed ut intervals of thrc'
squares. They worked night and day
and have already covered nearly TIVE
milcs OF their line, completing theii
work us they have gone along. Th
tracks are completed clear down pas
the white house, treasury, department
of Justice, and the state, war and nav.
department buildings. They are nov
mt work between the treasury and tn
capitol. along the business part Of tn
avenue, and here IL is that the most ae
.grievcd complainants reside and d
business. They have discovered tina
trenches cannot be made, tracks laid
concrete filed in and traffic continue
at the same time, without more or les
noise and considerable dust and dir
With temporary tracks laid alongsid
The curbstones, the horses trudge alon
close 10 the doors OF the houses, tran
pie sand and gravel into powder, an
the fine dust penetrates every erevie
1t would not be complained of an.
where else than in this city; for tn
place Is an exception to all other aggr
cations Of people, in that we never ha'
either dust or mud to trouble us. Co
.sequently, when improvements n
made which bring those obiectionab
things, which are of the earth, earth
IL il so disagrccable, because unusuG
that it is unwelcome. Nevertheless, Il
work goes right on, and rapidly too.
IL is interesting at night to stand
the Peace monument, Mt the foot
Capitol hill aud look up the avenue I