St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-16
WASHINGTON WINTER
The Capital City Getting a
Great Deal Of Snow
This Year.
Everybody in the Burg Is Go
ing Sleighriding, After
a Long Rest.
A Little Discourse on Society,
Real Estate and Other
Topics.
The Quaint Old Town Doesn't
Yet Enjoy Cable or Elee-
trio Cars.
GnecIal To the Globe

WASHING1ON Udl' If OuiA P"iNN
with the growth of mushroom West
ern cities, which spring up in
night and die with the next change OF
the moon. the growth of the national
capital is small; but as we'll established,
we'll regulated cities increase III size,
Washington is growing in a won
derful way. The city was laid
out after well conceived and
ample plan, which leaves plenty
of room for growth. Houses of moder-
ate size are springing up III all the SUD-
urbS, and mansions are being built mere
and there on the fashionable avenues.
There are so many Salarled people III
the town whose incomes do not depend
on the chances of business life that
the city is comparatively free from
fluctuations in value, and investments
are exceptionally safe. The retail trade
has increased wonderfully of late. Time
was when no woman who really re-
spected herself bought her gowns in
Washington. She went to Baltimore
when the shopping mania seized her,
and reveled among the wares and goods
in the shops of that historic city. Now,
the fashionable world shops on +
street.
Washington is destined to become at
no distant day
The Social Center
of the country. 1t is, from its very nat
ure, more cosmopolitan than even New
York, and, in losing its distinctively
Southern characteristics. it is becoming
the representative American city. The
Western ''r' and the Yankee tWang are
quite as often to be heard in the streets
as the Southern draWl, and an activity
at variance with the easy-going, DELHI
crate methods of Maryland and Virginia
has come with the influx of people from
the North and West. There are many
fashionable families here who, although
not condeScending to mix with the
shifting world of off1Ceholders, love the
city and have faith in its social future.
Who has once lived in Washington is
anxious to live here again, and the
number of retired capitalists who come
here to make their homes is constantly
increasing. People live here in Wash
ingtOn and go to New York when they
want to see things, but even that will
be changed, for the federal capital is
rapidly becoming better ''shOw town"
and has the best attractions during the
season. The men who founded the
uOpCN lIidG IL NOulu DC lllG lllCI-
airy, social, artistic and educational cell
ter the capital of so great nation
ought to be, and their most sanguine
hopes bid fair to be fulfilled.
There is one part Of the city, though,
from which little is expected. and that
Is Capitol hill. Our nations capitol
Faces the Rising sun,
and catches the rosy reflection of the
young days first blush on its pillared
pOrticoes. To the east lie street after
street of pretty houses, broad avenues,
with spreading trees, and miles of city
where our common foe malaria need not
be feared. This is where the city was
meant to be, but land sharks held the
hill property al such extravaganza prices
that the energetic American would
have none of it and built his city on the
low lands the capitol turned its massive
back ON. Capitol hill is the prettest
and the healthiest part Of the city, but
it Is not fashionable. Fringing about
the capitol live few people of distlnc-
ton Justice Field has house in the
old capitol prison to the east, and Mr..
Springer, OF Illinois. owns a rOomy old
frame house TO the south, but with the
exception of a few Western congress-
men who don't know any better, and
few independent people who don't care,
nobody lives on Capitol hill. A change
may set in DOW that the more modern
cable system has superseded the slow
old Washington horse car, but it hasn't
begun yet.
Minnesota MaIigned.
A recent number of American Indus
tries, III an article on tariff reform. con-
talns paragraph rejecting on the
conduct of the recent campaign by
prominent Minnesota Democrats. The
accusations are SO unjust, and the entire
matter stated so falsely, that Congress-
man Harries has written an article TO
the publication upholding the state
leaders and explaining the real truth of
the matter He considers it unfair that
men, able. interchangeable and loval to
their party should be so i'll repaid for
good work. The campaign was well
carried on" he says, land the men in
charge came far nearer carrying the
state than any of us hoped. That
Minnesota did not go Democratic is no.
body's fault. Some of the voters were
frightened by the silver issue, and
well, Pm afraid the majority of them
are Republicans, any way"
Capt. and Mrs. Harries have taken
oPUA Sii SOllIlCCIlCub dNGHu6 lUI
the rest of the session. Mrs. Harries
was not here last winter, but is a well
come addition 10 the Minnesota colony.
She is q sweet-faced woman, with soft
brown hair waved back from straight
parting in the pretty old-tashioned way.
She is devoted to her four children,
none OF whom is with her, but finds
time to be well Informed Of current
topics.
Baldwin on Hand.
Tho newly elected congressman who
will represent Duluth in the Fifity-third
congress, Maj. Baldwin, has already
taken a house here, and proposes tC
make Washington his home at once
He has already arrived with his family
and is busy studying the battlefield he
will fight on next winter. Maj. Bald.