Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-15
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria. Gazette
WASHINGTON, August Is.

& ID. r. r., referred to by Rambler, :"
in he GAZETTE day or two ago, says
any body at all familiar with railroad
aa..irs would have known mat he woul
not have kept an empty cars doors
locked, when people were standing Tor
want Of seats on other cars, unless there
were orders to that effect. He also says
that ii some OF the men sitting in the car
in which ladies were standing had gone
into the smoking car, there would
have been seats for all
Mr.. Giles B. Hale of Franklin county,
Virginia, heretofore Il prominent and
influential democrat in his section OF
the State, who stopped here on his way
to Buffalo, \. y, says the third party
is strong, and is growing stronger in
his state, and that there should be Il
third party to hold i'll check the other
two parties.
The Navy Department has rejected
all the bids recently received for the
construction OF Il gymnasium at the
United States Naval Academy and has
called for new bids to be made in ac-
cordance with the provisions Of the
eight-hour law.
Among the few democratic Congress
men in the city to-day is Mr. Bynum Of
Indiana He says he doesn't know how
it is in the South, but that in his State
the enthusiasm among the democrats
for Cleveland is great, and that Cleve-
land clubs are being organized all over
that State just as rapidly as the requi-
site arrangements can be made. He
says J. r. Y. Hill of indianapolis, to
whom Mr.. Cleveland has written a let
ter. is very intelligent and reputable
negro, and has some influence with the
other negroes of his State.
A New York democratic politician
here to-day, in talking about the fund
now be raised in New York city with
which to prosecute a vigorous demo-
cratic campaign in the northwestern
States, said he hoped when that fund
shall be completed Mr. Whitney will
be wise enough TO have it expended in
New York, as it will be more needed
there than in the rainbow States. Mr.
Cleveland, he said, could be elected with
out northwestern States, which always
had gone and always will go re-
publican ut Presidential elections, but
could not possibly be elected without
the vote OF New York, and that it is
upon that State that the democrats
should concentrate their efforts.
1t is reported here to-day that some
Of the creditors Of the Washington and
Arlington Railroad and some Alexan-
dria parties have advanced the money
to complete that part of that road be-
tween the south end Of the Aqueduct
bridge and Arlington in iimo for the
meeting of the G. 4. r. here on the
18th proximo. Connection between the
west end Of the Washington and
Georgetown cable car line and the road
will be made by coaches.
\ democratic congressman from the
South here to-day, in talking about the
letters Mr. Cleveland writes to negroes,
says the ex-President, like many other
northern democrats, can't get it out of
his head that giving offices and making
much of negroes will increase the dem
ocratic vote. No delusion, he says,
could be greater, as the negro is inilu-
enced by the quarter that is given to
him individually, not by the one given
to some other negro.
Mr.. Warren S. Lurty of Harrison
burg, Va, was here as an applicant for
position as Z. S. attorney to take tes-
timony in Indian claims, place worth
$40 day and travelling expenses, but
didn't get it, and has gone back home,
probably not a wiser, but a puzzled man,
as Senator Morgan's son, democrat
and a free silver man, got the place,
while he, Lurty, republican, a Harri-
son republican at that, and an anti-sil-
verite, got left.
The power house for the Pennsylva-
MIA Avenue cable car line and the new
city postoflce here were commenced
about the same time. The former is al
most completed the foundation of the
latter has hardly been begun. This
shows the difference between private
and public work.
a member of the bar OF this city who
has long enjoyed the reputation of be-
ing Il profound constitutional lawyer
doesn't hesitate to say that the Prcs-
dent has made Il grave mistake i'll APP
pointing Senators and Representatives
as members of the monetary congress,
and that such appointments are special
ly prohibited by the CONSTITUTIONAL
the provisions of which Mr.. Harrison
has sworn to obey.
A large negro excursion left here this
morning for Chapel Point. Two steam
ers were required, the Colt and the Pr
lot Boy, and so crowded was the latter
that half of her load had to be put
ashore before she started, so that about
500 were left on the wharf.