Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-26
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS

''The tina check transfers that are given
out on your local cable line here probably
rave a good many pennies for the compa-
n.y." said F. E. Lynch Of Boston at the
Riggs House this morning, as he looked oft
Of the window and saw the crowd lining UP
at the window of the transfer office. II
know when I was living here temporarily
several months ago. it was my habit to get
On q Georgetown car when down town and
ride up 10 the Junction, get a transfer to
l4th street. whose cars carried me cut near
my boarding house, and attend to any bust
ness / might have in this neighborhood and
then use my transfer when got good and
ready, and lots of other people did precisely
the same thing. The adoption Of time
limit on the transfers of course, would pre-
vent anything of this sort now, but even
this system cannot compare with that re-
Gently adopted by the Lynn and Boston
Railroad Company ny in my state. There
has been much abuse of the transfer privi-
lego on that road by reason Of the convey
ance OF transfers from one person to
another. by which several persons have
been able to ride for one fare. The new
transfer check adopted has done away with
this custom, because each slip contains pro-
file cuts of seven sorts Of persons. There
are two of women, one being the side face
reproduction of an elderly female and the
other q similar view of q young creature.
The five cuts devoted to men display a fell
lew with a smooth face, another with a
mustache, the third with side and the
fourth with chin whiskers. while the fifth
is depicted with full beard. When a pas
senger wants transfer at Lynn. Salem, or
some other point on the road, the conductor
punches the slip under the profile that looks
most like the patron. 1t is a great scheme.
and passengers and conductors alike have q
great deal Of fun out of it.
1T is almost impossible for q person to
conceive how rapidly Chicago liz growing"
said Frank Z. Perkins of the windy city at
the Ebbitt last night. Il know a Chicago
man IL always laughed at for Dragging 80
steadily about his town. but l don't see how
he can help doing so. No matter how ia
miliar one may be with the city, nor how
long he has lived in it, there is always
something occurring to excite his surprise
and amazement The fact Is. Chicago never
grows stale, even to Chicagoan. But let
me tell you about that growth i spoke of
just now. The school census just taken
shows a gain of 10000 in the population of
persons under twenty-one years of age since
the last regular census, and the most con-
sentative statisticians believe that this fig
ure shows the entire population of Chicago
10 be about l,5OO.OOO now against a little
over l.OOOOCO in 1880. Now. II an average
gain Of 100000 a year in population isn't
something remarkable have nothing more
to say
John Jacob Aston has concluded not to
use the stable he recently built at Madison
avenue and 65th street, and the aristocratic
neighborhood around there has stopped
boiling and resumed its normal state of
quiet torpor." said Max Braun Of New York
at La Normandie yesterday. There has
been more trouble over that stable almost
than there was over the building OF the ark,
If all accounts OF the latter work of Cos
struction are correct. When Mr.. Astor first
made up his mind to use the site as a horse
residence there was "a commotion. The OBJ
tections managed to get concrete expression
through the rich and powerful B'nai Jesh-
uran congregation, which worshiped across
the street from the expected objections BILE
erection. The congregation objected TO Mr..
Astor-or, rather. to the Aston trustees. be-
cause no one Aston has a word to say re-
garding the management OF the estate-but
the work went on. Then IL secured a tenn
porary injunction, but IL was vacated, and
again the construction was commenced.
Then the powerful congregation prepared
to make the greatest effort of its life. Some
or Its leading members went up 10 Albany
and held deep consultation with various
members of the legislature, and the result
was that a bill was passed prohibiting the
erection of any stable within one hundred
feet OF any church or other place of wor-
ship. People who were watching the fight
thought the Astors had gotten the worst
Of II at last, but Gov. Flower vetoed the
bill on account Of It's unconstitutionality.
After this action good many people up
around Madison avenue and G5th street
were seriously contemplating removal from
the neighborhood when the trustees of the
Aston estate announced that they had
agreed to stop building the stable The
reason that they submitted to all the liti-
CATION and risked adverse legislation was
stated in their letter announcing their final
determination, which shows just how the
Aston affairs are managed. The trustees
said that they did not want to have any
unpleasant relations with their ueighbors
and that they had merely continued the
construction of the building in order to
maintain their right to use their own prop
erty and in their own way, provided such
use did not interfere with the health COM
fort and convenience of their neighbors. OF
course they might have stopped the build
Ing when the first objections were made,
but the Aston trustees invariably test all
laws before they accede to the demand Of
the public. and In this way they keep on the
safe side"