The evening times., 1895-08-12
Gossip Of the Dav.

patronage at the soda fountain" said
an uptown druggist, lis the best heat
register there is. The slightest change
| iu temperature has its effect on the num-
Der of customers. In the past few days
| trade has increased to the ma aximum
Everybody has been drinking soda or
some other product OF the soda fountain.
Even the man who has passed the store
twice a day regularly for months, and
never stopped, has dropped In six times
half as many times. When the therm0-
meter drops five degrees lie viii quit
A drop OF ten degrees will make percept-
BILE falling off in the number OF customers.
| The trade viii fluctuate with the weather
then until 1T comes down TO the hot soda
| customer and the few customers who take
the same tonic all the year around
Washington must have q special atlrae-
tion for deformed people," said the police
| man who does duty n the Baltimore & Ohio
depot as he saw man with conspicuoIisiy
| crooked feet leave the depot. satchel in
hand, and get in a cab II think, since
have been on this beat have seen every
style OF deformity known to medical
science. That most frequently seen, how
ever, is crooked feet. Fully so per cent.
OF the imperfectly formed men and women
who get off the cars here to stop over in
Washington are afflicted with some pedal
difficulty II would take lots OF time
to euumerate the different kinds OF tiefor-
mites that come under my vision. The
funny part or IL is though, that while so
many come in, so few go out When a
deformed man gets off the car 1 notice
him, and expect TO see him again, but the
chances are that 1t is my last view. What
becomes Of them is a mystery, but they
| certaiuiy disappear.
''This hot weather In hard on the horses"
said the driver OF No. 40 herdic ON the
Avenue line yesterday.
I'VE make but five round trips now the
orders being given TO spare the animals as
much as possible. Saturday was very
hard day. The coaches were full near rly all
the time, and the heat on the Avenue was
just awful.
I'VE have had light work to-day though;
most people who care to leave home are
down the river some where, and the hefdic
loads are light
How many round trips did you make
before the number was reduced?''
Seven. Some probably made eight"
So it would appear that the man who
waited five minutes for herCiic to cnme
his way was really contributing that much
time To the mercy side of horse life
Were you ever in Cleveland?" asked O
citizen of fhe Buckeye State of a COM
panion on the Avenue.
.sN,5 We'll LOT fpll vau fhof n fn
NOUS Euclid avenue, of which Cleveland
is So proud, would not be permitted to fall
into the decay that is so painfully appar-
ent on your Pennsylvania avenue
I'VE have trees-real trees-on that thor
oughfare, and If you will take glance
along this handsome space from the Treas
ury Department to the Peace Monument,
you will admit that the sidewalks, so far
as the shade trees are concerned are but
little short Of the ragged edge
IT am surprised that there Is SD little
uniformity IN the kind of trees planted II
had the choosing I would have but one
variety on Pennsylvania avenue, and that
apretty maple or Lombardy poplar"
1T seems to me-" said a prominent
legal light .'that a sufficient length of
time has elapsed since the episode which
led to the Proctor Investigation for the
findings of the police trial board to have
been finally decided by the Commission
ers and the whole thing settled. 1t to
now over two nonths SINCE the arrests
that have caused all the trouble were
made and the case is still hanging fire.
The trial of Proctor by the board was or
dered on the grounds that he had been
prZpnIaux in ma fh.a arrpSfa rba
testimony at the trial showed plainly
that the charges were weIl founded, Proc
tors own witnesses tcstifying against
him, and yet NO one seems tU have been
able to reach conclusion. II Proctor
Is going to be dismissed from the force,
there's no use In holding off for an In
defintte period. II it is case OF white
wash, the public might as well be In
formed now as later. They viii take 1t
Just as well.
"The stIrchamber methods adopted by
the police trial board is anather objec-
tionable feature OF that body" continued
the lawyer. "There Is no more reaspn why
policeman should be taken before a
board composed Of his officers and given
a private trial for any misdoing than thae
tile same privileges should be accorded
one of the ordinary vags In Judge Seott's
court. And yet every trial board fnyestf
CATION is held behind closed doors. Aner
the papers leave the board they go before
Maj. Moore and he Is as sphynx-Ike as
his lieutenants. The Commissioners then
have q whack at them, and when several
weeks have elapsed we are told that John
Smith has been dismissed for conduct un.
an officer"