The evening times., 1895-08-19
Gossip Of the Dau.

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lioemen in hand and push it through" !"
| said member of the force yesterday. We
| are the only class of employees of the District
now exempt, and our labors are harder than
those of the ordinary workers, and certainly
should be rewarded In this way. The letter.
| carriers. who used to work as long as do,
have only eight hours day now. When
/ their bill was passed a feeble effort was
| made by some of our men to get an eight
| hour movement for policemen On foot, but 1t
was not enterpr ising enough, and fell
| through. The nan who wants to be a real
benefactor should father a bill establish
Ing eight hours a day for policemen"
For minor offenses, such as obstucting
the sidewalk, getting drunk and disorderly,
| or using profane language" said an official
of the police court to-day, ''thc offender
must go to the workhouse, where he is clad
In striped suit and put to work on the farm.
For IL ore serious violations of the law such
as stealing, assnulting, en- beg zzlement
etc.. the offender is sent to Jail, where he
wears bis own clothes, does no work, is
given hotel food, aud has good tin,e gen.
orally. 1t often strikes re that the scheme
should he turned aroun nd a little, and let
the greatest criminal get the greatest pun
ishTent. But 1 dou't suppose it will
ever be DONE"
'.Inspite of the fact that part OF the timo
the weather has been extremely hot, >" re-
marked Mr.. L. II. Peters, librarian for the
District Bar Association, lit feems that
there Is greater number of lawyers in the
city this summer than there has been any
season before for long while. The only
way can account for IL is because there is
an uncommonly large amount Of summer
judiciary business. / think the records
will show more injunction and other equity
suits filed during these summer months
than during similar period of any previous
year. The associations library has almost
as many visitors as 1t has at any time of the
year" "
what is going to be the future of
Pennsylvania avenue?' queried one of the
oldest Inhabitants yesterday. 1T is as
suredly an undeniable fact that the business
Washington is moving northwestward. At
first it began TO crawl in that directions:
now ii is walking. 1t won't be Ions, before
it is on the run. There are examples in
every city of just such perambulations of
the business center Of the city. The cutting
down of the trees on G street is a fignificant
fact. Nothing but the demands of King Com
merce could have caused the removal of
natures legacy to the city. Isay then what
is to become of Pennsylvania avenue IL
business moves from it. 1t will hardly revert
into residence street, for the handsome
business block and lack OF trees viii be dis
favorable. Let us hope that the most famous
tboroughfare Of the continent aill not
become a double row of houses filled only
with memories and ghosts
THE laws of the District are not only
past finding out, in large nlea sure, but
they have the inconvenient appendix of
non-reliability when found out" was the
remark made by a gentlema to-day
I'VE have before us a number OF suits
in court in which the District is the de-
fendant upon points raised aga inst this,
that and the other provision of some local
law.
''The latest case is one OF great i'm.
portance, and upon the issue depends a
vast system of improvements which, IL
carried to a conclusion, would make one
vast city of the District, but It Iooks as
though the doubt is against the Gommis-
sioDers.
"What we need is q revision and codi-
fication of the laws, primarily, but we
should in addition require of Congress, by
appeal and otherwise, the exercise of
greater care in the drafting OF specific
acts. Laws should be SO framed that the
Commissioners win have NJ trouble In
having them properly Interpreted
tseTha net il N at aSfS Of han
as wards of the nation" are eternafly
the football of the legislators and con-
alteration of bills passed in their interest
Is generally postponed to the eleventh
hour when no chance is given for their
proper revision.
at costs the taxpayers tidy sum each
year to defend themselves against suits
brought to test the validity tofiaws enacted
for the government of this neutral ground"
The lady bike riders in LIE Droit
Park have determined not to be outdone
by their sisters in other towns and are
about to organize a club, the members
to be atired in boomers. Already the park
folks have had many pleasant outings ON
their wheels. in many instances taking
long rides unaccompanied by gentlemen.
There are in the Park fully fifty wheels
and some of the riders are very expert
Several misses whose excellence in riding |
has been the subject of favorable criti-
cisni are the leaders in the movement
Have you ever noticed the number OF |
b ,nde women in Washington. asker a |
man in the lobby of wiilard's |
last night. My business lakes me over |
the entire country, and have made 1t a |
point to study the characteristics of the |
women in every town visit. As a result |
OF my observations have found that there |
are more yellow haired girls in the Ma
tional Capital than any other place On |
the globe or, course these little pecul- |
iarities are not as noticea Bile to the people |
who live here as they are to q stranger,
but 1 have often heard druhmers re- |
mark on the same fact.
AS proof that my conclusions were |
correct I stODd out in front of the hotel |
this morning and counted the women COM |
ing home from church, and would You be- |
lieve me, six golden-haired creatures passed |
me to every brunette. Keep your eyes open |
and you will observer the same thing"
Women of Note.
Musical authorities are prophesying an
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