Smyrna times., 1894-11-07

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= Social life in New York and d.,
delphia while these cities uorn a." : ma
55ireiy Ine capital of the United State
uI" UTos not seem to have been altogetbe
pleasing to foreign visitors. but il mns
n~So Deeh beautiful and luxuriou
coupared with the first year at Wash
14gtoh. Henry Loomis Nelson in ~,
november Hdrper's, describes some -
1ne honest crudities of that early neriod
Unuer the title "As the Capital Of tba
1oung Republic" The article ia iIlns'
trated by T. De Thulstrup. ~ .
PHILADELPHIA AS CAPITAL
Life in Philadelphia during these
Sen years-from 1870 to 18O0-must
nave Deen as delightful as provincial
me can ever De to those who are hrad
fh capitals. There was little gloss Of
.nIsn, and there was the beauty of tho
Amerlcan women, which led TO certain
lnIlernauohal marriages, but there was
Uue eternal monotony of a now ond
small society Outside Of this tap,,,n
rary capital, in the woods where H.
| people were beginning to build an on,
pre-, was to be found the real life or,b,
new experiment. Civilization bad
| pltched Its tent there. but wbiIa ~
future glowed with hope for the conn
try and for humanity, the present No.
cruue and uncomfortable Tba 60
europeans who Saw the hopefulness of
1he experiment were men of broad and
phllosophic minds. Most of tboeo ~
came hither on business or for Meas
ure complained only of the barbariSDo
ot the oackWoOds. The representative
OF foreign countries who were forced - |
1Well at the seat of government fond |
ire almost unbearable. II was &c
1urreau, whom Napoleon sent aa
minister to the United States in 1907
that Mr.. Henry Adams was writiUn,
when he said "At best. the nosit;osS toS
VI rrenGh minister in America was not
sssieeaOle' The mere difference in
uaOlVS' manner, amusement, and the
want OF thousand luxuries and pleas.
ures u such as made Paris dear to every
Frenchman, rendered Washington q
place OF exile. Perhaps nothing bnt
rear OF the guillotine could have recon
clIed even republican Frencbman to
IN country where. in the
words OF Talleyrand, there was No
frenchman who did not feel bimselfa a I
stranger" 1i'eii ;:
But what did Jefferson or Madison ,
are for Turreau-Turreau of whom 7
Dolly Madison wrote, 81 have heorJ :
au tnlngs OF Iurreau-that he wbins n
lis wife, and abuses her dreadfnlIv;. i
ne wife who was servant in his i9il' a
Who rubbed out the red marx on b;s q
IOoT placed there as a guide to the n
and whom he married ba-
ause she had thus saved his life .
EARLY DAYS IN WASHINGTON
II Philadelphia was sad, what can he t(
ald OF Washington in these early davsS o.
hen the government moved there in a.
oOO the Journey was made over roads II
lat ala not deserve the name of biob. ci
ays, that were mere wagon-tracke n
lazed through the woods. The wagono II
ere rough and springless makesbifts NJ
ne company was prOmiscuOus and In
emOcratic. The inns were generar,, lie
eat, but the food was chiefly Of saItaS tn
'rk' There was everywhere made. 1t nf
ia'e accommodation. Europeans ~ ~
implanted that they were compelled IN
sieep IN rooms which con. no
lned from two to a dozen beds. and ue
metlmes to occupy a bed with a tIo
anger. The journey from Baltimore VT
washington that is now made in an Oi
ur required long day a century Mt
O. whlle the best part OF three davs
Is consumed by the journey from Ing
lladeiphia to the new capital As ah'
s. John Adams recalled it, the wav ne
8 som0re, the woods were thick. the Ia "a,
amps were noisOme, the evidences Ioll
lie were few. Now and then n bnt so
S seen IN small clearing, and there ina
re INNS at the end of the stages he reS
cen Philadelphia and Georgetown SUI
v ashlngtOn itself was the most un. me III.
nfortable capital in the world No ne
ng was finished. The President wel
Ved INTO an uncompleted White me
use, and Congress into an uncom- Ma
ted Capitol. Pennsylvania Avenne oI o.,
described by John Cotton Smith me
deep mOTass covered with alder ueU'
hes" The trees had been cut from N hei
'ldewalks had been made with cbins IOe
the stone of the Capitol, the black
er Creek which crossed it had hean
nned by q timber bridge. Here
there were groups of wooden
Idlngs for the accommodation of
gressmen. Six brick DWELLING III
ses that are still standing on Penn. the
ANA avenue between Twenty-first artiC
Twenty-secOnd streets had been You
! with money derived from the sale glim
Ottery tickets. There was one good at I'll
'rh y, ABOUT torty rods from the Presi. ing
mousse, Dut there was an enor. viViC
ls dlmculty IN securing lodgings. The
members OF Congress, the cabinet has
ers, and all but few persons who of by
3 compelled to keep house lodged robb
me tavern and boarding houses, they
~ CulscomIorts they endured is best gard
Hated Dy an entry in the diary of Grim,
Der OF Congress. Speaker Sedp- able
> ne wrote, was allowed a room unfOI
Hlseli the rest OF us in pairs" 'agrC
N0rInern members who had never who
red the removal of the capital to than
'anks OF the Potomac began to talk ThOn
thelr expatriatiOn, and to grum.
: the loss OF luxuries they had en-.
IN New York, and especially in The
~ pnls, attempts to repair the MGgG
,Ho anu 70 move Dack to Phlladel- of esp
were at once begun. These fail ton
~ =. enor1 was made In 1904 to re- write
the capital to Baltimore. The New
= y ~ oio OaPiVOl were not COM CORES
until lolI, ana so slow had been of wild
lVSIess VI washington that after his W
uoilG ouiIulngs had Deen burned the ex
40 DIIVisn IN 1914 there was by the
PaI.y ~ congress opposed to an paper
PrlAII0h IOr tnelr repair. istic il
PeoPIe PP VINO dwelt In the" Federal rush a
~ ~ IooO were poor, IDLE, unclean. marizi
OiooII salu' Iney 1--we ike fishes, receiv,
each Otner' some of them familis
WnlcS, ana some OF them were bulleti
os. 4he most considerable per- humor
!. ..I;ut Gne soUVieIieuC were Mr.: Law, a pei
sis9nan st !l i VINO nad gone there to sympa