Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-10
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| Old SDno.
| Between eight and nine hundred people
visited the Corcorsn Gallery last evening This
is not 30 large q number - has been present at
some Of the evening exhibitions, but all the
rooms were comfortably filed without being
% crowded as to prevent an enjoyable study Oh
their contentss A number Of paintings be-
longing to Mr.. L. 2. Letter were sent to the
Gallery for safe keeping after the fire in. his
residence on new year day, and these attracted
their artistic merit The Gallery, It win be re-
membered, will be open to the public, free,
every Friday evening until further notice.
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When quails are offered for sale on the streets
- plentifully ss they have been lately people
ought 10 refuse 70 buy them, no ma.tor how
plausible story their vendors may tell. The
plain unpalatabls truth ID that nearly all Of
them are brought here from long distances,
| and generally from more inclemsnt sections of
the country, where, through want Of food and
| severe weather the poor creatures are rendered
helpless by starvation and freezing, and thus
become easy prey TO consciencelsss fellows who
take them In traps and other unsportsmanlike
and inhuman devices OF course these propo-
sitions cannot be absolutely proven in regard
| to any particular bunch Of birds offered for
sale, but the general facts are SO we'll under
| stood by every person familiar with country
life that no doubt need be entertained on the
subject Another thing ought 70 be borne in
| mind in this connection. The flesh Of the quail
is apt to be bitter and often poisonous at such
times, when, owing to the scarcity Of proper
| food they are compelled to eat semi-poisonous
| or unnufritious berries and other unwholesome
diet, which preserves their lives for the time
being, but renders them unfit for the table.
Mr.. Andrews duties as Director OF the Cor
| coran School Of Art leave him but little time
to spend in his studio, on 10th street, but his
easel and palette there are by no means for
saken. He has lately been engaged on a por-
trait Of Senator Voorhees,, which, though not
yet completed. is far enough along to promise
to be source of pride and satisfaction to the
friends Of both the sitter and the artist.
The three principal magazines for the month
Of December presented curious and really
notable instance of literary coincidence in the
fact that the Century, Harper's and Sribne's
each contained an original story, expressly
written for 1t, one Of the characters of which
bore the unusual name Of Spurlock. In the
Century this queer eognomen is given to a
woman, in Joel Chandler Harris story Of "A
Conscripts Christmas" as it is also in James
A. Aliens 'Flute and VIOLIN" in Ha,per's,
while in Scribner's It is borne bya man, in
George A. Hibbards story GAS the Sparks Fly
Upward" Equally remarkable is the coinci-
dence presented in the issue for the same week.
reCeUtIy Of the fvv0 hmm p.,rL
and Judge. Curiously enough the large car
toon OF each illustrated precisely the same idea
and the treatment was almost exactly the same.
The central thought Of both colored plates was
the result Of the fall elections, and both pic
lures showed the figure Of Columbia in the act
Of turning the cold shoulder on the leaders of
the republican party, special prominence being
given In each case to those who 60 into en-
forced retirement in obedience to the verdict
recently rendered at the polls. What influence
is it that brings such strange things about oc-
casionally?
There il dole in store for the members of the
commission on geographical nomenclature,
now in session in this city, II they ever go to
Tacoma. However, as there can be no shadows
where there is no sunshine, they will be BAN
quoted and toasted to their hearts content and
the discomfort Of their stomachs If their lives
are spared long enough for them to get to
Seattle, twenty odd miles away. In pursuance
of their duty to decide upon the proper name
Of all geographic points and places where more
than one, local or otherwise, is now in use, and
also the way in which it shall be spelled, they
have had the temerity to issue a decree that the
loftiest and most beautiful peak in the state of
Washington shall hereafter be called Mount
Rainier, and not Mount Tacoma Now, if there
ID anything about which the two rival Puget
Sound towns get excited, next to population
and future possibilities it is over the name Of
this splendid mass, which rises like pyramid
of pure alabaster out Of the comparatively
level country in plain view Of both. Seattle,
the older town, has always insisted that Rainier,
the name the peak has borne for more than
century, shall be retained. It won't permit
the other to be printed in any Of its excellent
newspapers, nor will it allow a stranger to use
the one favored by its hated rival without put
ting on vacant stare, as if ignorant of what is
meant, or administering a reproof, mild or
severe, according to circumstances. To clinch
matters, the swell social organization of the
place is called the Rainier Club and one of its
leading hotels is the Rainier House. In short
it is Rainier everything, in Seattle, and nothing
else. Not for your life. In Tacoma Just the
opposite of these things prevail. II a man
W ants to be refused accommodation at bank
there, or be chuoked in q small dark room at
hotel if not turned GU. Of doors), or to hope
lessly lose social and business caste in the
place, just let him speak Of Mount Rainier once.
That will finish him forever and ever. And in
spite Of the odds againt hem, born of long
usage, the Tacomans were really making good
headway In the propagation OF their shibbo-
leth. They were able to show. or claimed to
be, that Tacoma was the original Indian name
Of the mountain, that the term had signii-
can't meaning. and that, that was both the
Oldest and most appropriate name, it should
therefore be 30 called, henceforth. no matter
what white man saw 1t first or who gave it the
designation by which it had 90 long been known;
and they have so far succeeded in carrying
their point as to get their chosen name used in
later maps Of that region. Aud SO the fight has
been going on for more than decade past
with a prospect Of continuing with increased
bitterness through all the ages when, SO please