Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-03-03

The LobbiES AXE CROWDED.
The lobbies Of the hotels are SO crowded that
to navigate through the throng it would take
one well acquainted with the WAYS and means
of the floor Of board Of trade during q panic.
Though in numbers the gathering is equal to
the days previous to the Grand Army encamp-
mert, the personalities Of the crowd are some
what different. The title ''comrade'' has given
way TO that OF boss and the army corps
badges have been displaced with the miniatures
of the incoming President and Vice President.
The campfire stories are discounted by the
campaign lies.
The appearance Of the guests is as different
rs the sections from which they come The
slick sleek, and weli-groomed easterner stands
cheek BY jowi with the iong-haired deniZen of
the un.rammeled west and the dark-eyed SOUTH
erner, lean Of face and spare of figure ex-
changes eafSas with the rotund and prosperous
German FROM middle Pennsylvania. Every
dialect, every provincialism of vast America
echo and clash and comuaingle in the hotel 70 =
tundas. Argument is rife. but it is good
humored- There are few hard words and
fewer blows. The republicans accept the re-
suit with as good grace they NAV and the
democrats seek to repress all undue manifesto
ton OF very natural exhilaration- All seem
anxious 70 make the occasion one of iollity in
stead OF recrimination. They have come to see
the sights and do not care to risk marring their
virion with black eye.
IN THE HOTEL BAR ROOMS
In the hotel bar rooms the distinctions be-
tween the eity's guests are even more manifest
than in front Of the counter of the clerk. You
can tell the nativity Of man by the fluid which
he pours into his stomach. The gentleman
with the SLOUGH hat and somewhat illy-ftting
black coat. who leans with right elbow upon the
board and calls for "bo bon, in q soft drawl,
would hardly be classed as q Bangorite and the
smooth-shaven rotund gentleman who wishes
q Manhattan cocktail made Of rye whisky.
please" evidently never breathed the ianeuor-
Gus airs OF Florida or felt between his knees the
strong stride OF the steed which was foaled
where the blue grass grows. The white-aproned
mixologist, who has had yests Of experience.
will name you a mans state by the drinks he
orders nine times out Of ten and is generally
right the tenth time.
WOMEN OF ALL CLASSES.
As FOR the women, they are Of all shades and
figures and ages. Langrorous-eyed maidens
with the dark bloom of the peach under the
brunette skins. bIue-eyed and yellow-haired
daughters Of the far north. frank and merry
voiced lassies from the wind blown prairies OF
the west, fat and comfortable mammas,
badgered chaperons, old maids with bas-reliei
elbows and startlingly new teeth, white haired
grandmoihers looking upon the eddying
throngs through steel-bowed spectacles-every
variety OF gracious femininity which the
world affords may be seen in an hours stroll
are q good many of the Washington males who
are Willing away tho hours in this fashion, and
who can blame them?
IL TIE DINING Rooms.
The crowded condition Of affairs does not
alone exist in the Hobbies and the lower floors.
The dining rooms are jammed with a hungry.
fanished. patient mass, willing to accept any
afront from the waiter and more than anxious
TO give their pocket books TO the sleek well-fed
head waiter il they could only be waited on
and not be obliged to spend over half Of the
time they remain in the city in the dining
rooms. But they bow complacently to the
despotism Of the Inauguration winter and lean
back to run through once more the pages of a
weii-thumbed book which is seen to contain a
hst Of the offices under the government that
do not require a civil service examination to
qualify Tor. III these people only knew what /
am about TO be they would show me q little
more difference" he saws, and then he begins
to wonder If il really 10 necessary to eat in
order 70 survive. A happy thought strikes
him. He slowly arises, turns his chair to the
table 10 Indicate Its occupancy and strolls ont
OF the room into the hall and through o swing
ing door, where the scene IL hveiier and the
''wsits'- are not so long When he again reaches
his chair it is with air OF and
. feeling that nut-imeut and nourishment is
not contained alone in edibles.
CROWDED SLEEPING APARTMENTS
Every available space is turned temporarily
into . sleeping apartment Bioatsd bond-hold-
InAuoC.AL HsAr.cHIs promptly cured BY