The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-21

Another characteristic of Washington is
the statue. Every stranger is impressed
by it. Wherever one turns he finds con-
fronting him. near or remote, rising boldly
before you or adoruing the perspective, in
silhouette against the sky, statue of dead
president, general or admiral. 1t is a re-
markable fact that there is not one spot on
any one of the many avenues of Washing
ton-and there are hundreds of miles of
them altoget her-from which statue
equestrian or other, may not be seen, and
there are spots from which a number OF
these works of art may be commanded by
the eye. These impress the visitor by their
frequency as one rides or walks about
they add art and hero worship to power
and the past
Washington's wide avenues, all running
at acute angles with the streets, the many
pretty squares and circles at the intersec-
tons of these angles, the apparent design
to accommodate the plan of the town to the
location of the Capitol and the White
House-the two seats of power-convince
the visitor without his taking the trouble
TO think about it all. that this is a tailor
made town, a creation not a growth,
manufactured thing turned out to fit
known requirement. OF coarse we all
know this TO be historically true, but man
could come from Mars or t. Don with
out any knowledge of Ar N tory
and know this without ing told, from
simple observation. How fortunate that
the men who cut these garments had fore
sight enough to bear the future, with its
wonders OF growth and change, in 4.
The public buildings predominant. OF
course, in the architectural characteristics
of the capital. but the vast number of an
cient and time worn structures, with their
gablea roofs sloping toward the street, and
the still greater number Of beautiful mod
ern residences bespesk two epochs IN the
building of the city. Here again appear
ances are historically correct, for Wash
ington brick and mortar were laid either
very long ago or very recently. There
must have been about two decades
which things stopped stock still
There is Newspaper row, hu6dle OF
old brick novels which the newspapers are
deserving for more modern quarters; it is
an example Of this. 1t looks now, they tell
me, exactly as it did before the war, only
the signs are changed, the correspondents
are dead. many of them probably before
their time from overworS; and there are
new men on the ground, running their legs
VT and worrying their heads into scatter
hent eryiag to keep the wires hot and the
country happy. This Newspaper row Is
me Of the characteristics of the canitaL
Newspaper correspondents are every
where, and in everything excepting jail,
churches and other people pockets, They
enter into the social, the political, the per
sonal life OF the town as in no other city.
They form corps large, peculiar in its
traditions and instincts, a third house o.
congress which would scou simply 10
make laws, but which essays to manage
executive and control parties. How news
pa per men are met al every JGrn. how they
mix themselves up in ali things, how they
know and influence rybody. is a capital
characteristic which the dullest visitor per
ceives anc talks about.
OF course the presence o. large number