Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-15
A LOOK AROUND.

IT is extremely doubtful if there is hot
ter place in summer in the United states
than the corner of Broad and Chestnut
Streets in the city of Philadelphia. You can
broil steak on the asphalt and not half try.
The remainder of the city is hot likewise,
and there comes to you wave OF Drlck-
pavemented atmosphere from whatever
quarter you may approach tine place IL Is
probably for this reason that Philadelphia
is made the starting point for so many cool
places along the coast or in the mountains
When man has to stay in the city he taxes
Off everything you cannot see, and goes
about in shirt that is chiefly bosom ana
landscape effects. trousers and loose coat
He also wears straw hat which, If he is
there in body, causes him to resemble one
OF those brass-headed artist tacks haii an
inch long and with top like a restaurans
table, We are doing pretty well in Pittsburg
on the broad brim business, but we are not
worth considering alongside of Ph1la-
delphia.
WASHINGTON has taken to Hannels with
as much vigor as Philadelphia has to hats.
Everybody goes in for comfort and some
thing white.
THERE is good deal of complaint about
the Inconvenience to which East End people
are put by the management here of the ex-
press company. If there is a package TO De
shipped by the company from an East End
residence it requires an amount OF trouble
which is wholly unnecessary. The EAST
Liberty office has no telephone connection,
and when inquiry is made at the main city
office, the answer is that they do not send
wagons to the East End but notice must be
sent to the agent at East Liberty. during
the summer when great many Things are
being shipped to the resorts sucn an arranSe-
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of 4 special messenger or the taking OF the
package TO the shipping office.
For city of its size and opportunities it
is singular that the capital city of the United
States should be as badly Off for restaurants
as it undoubtedly is. Washington Is a place
where it is almost impossible to get we'll
served, well-cooked meal outside of private
houses, the Capitol lunch room, the clubs
and one or two hotels. 1t has no restaurants
worthy of the fame of Chamberlains &
Welckers. At Chamberlains the service is
abominable. You are compelled to wait
twice as long as in any other place of its
pretensions, ard it is matter of pure luck
whether what you get will be worth the
waiting. The house is dingy and the lies
are thick, the china is unbreakably heavy
and coarse and there is POe-llke air or
melancholy desolation about the cafes do
not doubt that other rooms in the house are
are not eating rooms. Yet this place is
famous and Washington people speak OF 1t
with pride and look upon its menu rs worthy
of exclamatory comments. Living in WASH
ington is dear in price and poor in results as
everybody knows, but of all the shamS ana
hollow mockerieS the restaurants take their
place next the drum major ana ahead OF the
band.
THERE is an employe of the Associated
Press in Washington who has read up the
Bering Sea question so thoroughly that he
can discuss and dissect it as well as State
Department special aeent. 1t is said that
this gentlemans work was SO good that it
led to the suspicion that Executive Clerk
Young was giving away pointers which
caused his dismissal. Since the unfortunate
affair one OF the Senators concerned in the
dismissal went to the a. P. man and sought
to get some facts on the sealing dispute and
this led to many amusing comments. Incl
dentally it may be said that executive ses-
sion secrets leak out as usual whenever
there is enough of anyone of them to make
it worth while to seek leak. Enough has
come out to show thut Young was not the
source of correspondents news, but was
sacrificed on the already bloody altar of the
Foreign Committee.
IT has been cold and foggy at Atlantic
City during the early part of the week and
the mosquitoes, oh, the mosquitoes. 1t is q
PITY uudG uuflnS tue COupoSlIlOH VI biS
Confessions of an Opium Eater De Quincy
was not familiar with the Jersey mosquito!
What he wrote gives an impression that he
could have given us fairly just description
OF II man W no has fallen into the hands OF u
flock of these woodcock of the ceiling.
In spite of bad season last year and not
too good prospect for this season, a large
amount of money has been put into new
buildings or additions to old ones at At
lantic City. Mr. Helmsley, of the Brighton,
has almost doubled the size of his house,
which he now owns, having paid $25O.OO0 for
the building and lot. Those rambling af-
fairs which were recently burned have come
into existence again and others have come
with them. The fish, however, which failed
to put in an appearance to any extent last
summer, seem to have gone to the lakes or
the mountains this year altogether, for they
are so scarce in the inside inlets that it does
not pay to seek them.
AT the handsome new Army and Navy
Club on 1 street, Washington, the move
ments, appearance and general conduct of
the Pennsylvania militia have tor several
days absorbed the talk, and relegated to the
ice chest the ordinary stories scandals and
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