Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-05


PAVED STREETS, THE HANDSOME PUBLIC AND
PRIVATE BUILDINGS AND IN EDUCATIONAL
fAcILrrrEs-Hs NATIONAL UNIVERSITY PLAN.
II leave for Vermont in the morning." said
Senator Edmunds TO q STAR reporter last
night, but I shall not bid farewell to Wash
ington at this time. II is true we have rented
our house for couple Of years, but we expect
to spend a good deal Of time in this city every
winter. My law business will call me here.
What . difference there is between the
Washington Of today and the Washington
entered for the first time twenty-five years
ago" continued the Senator, becoming natu-
rally reminiscent THAT was Just after the
war and the city was by no means desirable as
place OF residence. There were no pave
ments, except on Pennsylvania avenue
and on part of F street, and the
mud on the side streets was literally hub deep
except in midsummer. The place was semi
pigs, cows and geese wandered unhindered
through nearly all the thoroughfares; great
unfinished public buildings stood alongside
dilapidated hovels-an Of them set in seas Of
dictate. 1t is somewhat difficult to realize that
these conditions prevailed SO lately twenty
i've years ago.
WASHINGTON HAS GROWN WONDERFULLY.
Washington has grown wonderfully since
then-grown in every way. Very many fine
buildings, comfortable homes almost without
number, the smoothest Of streets and crafty
ing condition of general public cleanliness
have succeeded the old order or disorder of
things, and We have a capital Of which we
can be and are justly proud-a city that is
size on the face of the earth. Internationally
the city has advanced to the front rank;
1t Is fast becoming an art center, and
1t now is the abode Of brilliant
array OF literary genius All this
is not startling; every one who reads The STAR
must be aware Of it and we are all
proud of it. The reasons for the city's
growth are not such as would apply to any other
great city. Washington is not railroad center;
1t Is not a terminus of ocean steamship lines;
has no manufactures TO strengthen and enrich
1t; is not q commercial city in the sense of be-
ing the location of those gigantic business
houses which are the power and motor force
OF many other centers of population. WASH
lngton has grown because it ought to; because
the capital Of our nation must be correspond
lngly as great as the nation; must be repre-
sentative"
HIS NATIONAL UNIVERSITY PLANS.
'Win your national university plans fall to
the ground when you cease to become Sem
ator?" asked the reporter.
statesman. I'VE we're SO busy with tariffs and
other such matters during the last session that
it wac utterly impossible for me to reach any
results as to the university idea. Before my
resignation takes effect-which it will not until
November next shall make strenuous effort
to call together the members of the select COM
mittee appointed to report on the measure and
l shall endeavor to so arrange matters that the
idea will not lack champions on the door Of the
senate. We need great national university
and We need it right here at the national capt.
tai. Not a college, but a great non-sectarian
university-an institution which should make
plain the hberality of Professionalism as COM
pared with the narrowness Of the papal power.
have no objection to any one being papist IL
he or she desires to be, but do object TO the
efforts which are being made by the papacy to
combine the church and the state. The people
OF the United States must and will see the me-
cessity for taking firm stand in this matter,
and one Of the results of their frmness will be
| a great national university