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The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-06

humanity which flows In upon Us when
Congress is In session. :
The legislative body adjourns, the tide
high and dry on land where the demand
for services such as they can give is al
ready supplied. They seek employment in
Baltimore, and II successful in obtaining
situation which affords Remuneration
sufficient to tide them over the period Of
adjournment, these people keep their homes
in this city, and make trips ut intervals in
accordance with their means and oppor.
tunities to their families. and thus swell
the crowd OF passengers on the railroads
until Congress comes and their employment
is restored
DEPARTURES IN THE MAJORITY.
The morning arrivals from Baltimore
are greatly in excess of the departures from
Washington. When the sun has just turned
the darkness of night a grayish tint the
trains deposit their first burdens of hu-
maDity. These are laborers who are EN-.
ployed by contractors and are either work
inr on some public building or are erect
ing some large private structure. Then as
the morning gets older passengers nse in
the social scale.
Clerks in the business houses OF Wash
ington, who live with mamma aud papa at
the other end OF the hours ride. climb
sleepily down the car steps and make their
way to their destinations in groups. Many
OF these salespeople are young women
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Tor carriages win be made from Pennsylva
mia avenue to the d street arch. On either
side OF the large room into which the en-
trance opens are TO be placed the ticket
offices OF the various roads, and OF the Pull
man Company. To the right OF this will b.
the office entrance and the station exits.
Persons leaving the station must go by this
way and cannot reach the entrance room.
A number OF elcvatorsand n broad stairway
will lead to the elevated roadbed above.
To the left OF this part of the structure,
section, which will be used for telegraph
Offices, barber Shops, news stands, toilet
rooms, buffets, and the like.
The building from d to C streets will be
used on the lower floor for restaurant,
lunchroom, kitchen, engine and boiler room.
portion of the building under the arch
will be depressed, allowing room for a
CAB stand. which will not interfere with
the traffic through ID street. The first
floor of the structure, from d street to the
Agricultural grounds, on both the Twelfth
and Thirteenth street sides, will be used
as stores, arches spanning each of the cross
streets, and the whole building and all the
tracks being elevated.
The second, or, in reality, tie first, floor
OF the elevated structure will be the real
scene OF activity. Here IL is that the
trains enter and leave. The stairways and
elevators will lead to the general wait
ing room, which is Thanked by the telegraph
office, information buEeau, news stand,
The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-06

Ing problems presented by the location are
! taken into consideration it is probable
that its successful completion marks as
great a mechanical conquest as has ever ac-
companied the completion OF any OF the
great structures which adorn this city.
The cost OF the structure and extension
OF the line will slightly exceed half a
million dollars. and nearly half OF this
amount was expended in preparing the lot
for the laying of the foundations
The property faces $50 feet on NJ street
and has a depth OF 242 feet to Prospect
avenue on Thirty-sixth street. In this
short distance there was originally "a
surface slope throughout Tolaythe fonn-
dation at all required Che excavation OF
more than $4,000 cubic yards OF earth
and stone.
THE RETAINING WALL. "
To support the enormous pressure OF this
mass OF earth the engineers found neces-
sary the erection OF a massive granite wall
averaging sixteen feet in thickness, grad
ually growing less toward the top, where
it is crowned with granite slabs to be
surrounded by a railing OF iron.
This wall Encompasses the building on
three sides, with space of three feet
between the retaining wall and the wall
OF the depot, except at intervals OF sixteen
feet, where substantial brick pilasters are
arranged asan additional safeguard against
accident by the settling of the breast walt
In the areas thus left the windo WIS and ven
tilators of the house are skillfulIy arranged
to depth OF sixty feet, the floor line q
the building a..
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Ground rIan of the Building and Tracks.

package and baggage office and station
masters room
The entire section across and over the
arched carriageway win be used as hotel;
provided with ballroom, magnificent
dining apartments, restaurant and lunch
rooms and parlors. A private waiting room
is also placed here, which communicates
with the ladies' entrance below SO that
any distinguished passenger could board
orembark a train withouthayingto enter the
station proper.
The tracks on the elevated will be twenty
In number and accommodate about five
hundred cars. By means of switches they
will be reduced to eight at point between
MarylaDd avenue and Sixth street south
west.
All OF this portion will beeIevated BeIow
Maryland avenue the entire area between
Twelfth and Fourteenth streets will be
utilized. Fast-freight yards are to be built
between and streets; ordinary freight
cars will be placed in the section bet ween
and Maryland avenue; from Maryland
avenue to the water front will be yards for
storing freight cars. A passenger-coach
tracks, while a round-house is to be on
the left below Maryland avenue.
The shops are to be placed pear the wharf
to be built near the proposed bridge.
A power plant for electric lighting and
water supply are to be put on adjacent
sections of land
The bridge that will displace the pres
eDt Long Bridge win have an upper plat
form on which the tracks will be laid, while
below is to be road for vehicles
and pedestrians. This will be built on high
piers, and the PENNSYLVANIA railroad bridge
across into Ariacostia is 10 be likewise con-
structed, so as TO obviate the necessity for
draw-bridges anu to prevent any interfer-
cuce with vessels.
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each Of whom carries the paper bound sand
witches, for her sex prevents her from FIRE
| queDting the places where her fellow
clerks of the male persuasion feed fatat din
| ner hour on free lunch.
| Later come the Department officials aut
| clerks who reside in Maryland because
| of the right of suffrage which they ma,
| exercise there, and the opportunity thu.
I afforded by participating I'm official life
By living in the District the yswould be shut
off from these privileges and their exercis,
is OF someimportance to Department man
Quite a lumber Of prominent men who are
identified with Washington's mercantile
and professional life, but who aspire t
office, and therefore have their homes
where they may vote, are numbered among
the regular morning arrivals.
ARMY OF SCHOOL CHILDREN.
There is a large number of school children
who go daily from Washington to BaltL
more to receive instruction at Institutions,
public or private, which their parents re-
gard as superior to the educational estab-
lshnents and advantages afforded i'm this
city. There is an equally large, and. pos
sihy iatECA, huhhOVA VI VupltS lIOlh Dbl
tiInore, whose parents send them here 10
be educated, for reasons similar to those
which induce the Washington people TO
send their children To Baltimore. This
Class of travel is not SO large as formerly
between Baltimore and Washingtun, and
vice versa, but the travel IL both places
from intermediates points is vast source
of;railroad revenue.
Bythemselves, the above mentioned classes
OF passengers would be sufficiently rcInun.
erative to the two lines to maintain the
service, but there is in addition to this a
large periodic travel. Those merchants
who have stores in both cities make visits
several times every week to the branch
house, lie it in either city. Drumnmrs
for Baltimore houses are often found who
daily make the rounds Of those houses in
Washington which deal IN their line of
goods. and make the return trip I'm the
evening.
Commercial travellers Of Washington fol-
low in a large measure similar plan oc
procedure with the business concerns Of
Baltimore. The morning trains bring In
swarms Of fustling trade enliveners, who.
with their cases or trunks of samples, tour
the emporiunis Of business. and take orders
for the home house. Large numbers come
daily, but there are also those-and their
name is Iegion-who make trips every other
day. semi weekly, weekly, or bi-wcckly.
These periodic visits are also made ty
many lawyers who practice in the courts
and have Clients In both cities.
The railroads are by no means insensible
tothe importance Of thisintorcity trayeland
traffic. Both the Pennsylvania and thu
Baltimore and Ohio roads have furnished
the most modern and scientific service on
these branches Of their systemR sk3Nast.
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all other lines, the main Pennsylvania and
Baltimore and Ohio roads are provided for
and there remains of the present estab-
lished roads hays entrance into Washing
ton only the Metropolitan Branch eff the
Baltimore and Ohio to be secured accom-
mcdations. This line will proceed with
the others on the tracks to the water, but
instead of crossing the bridge it will de-
scend n gradual decline and proceed up
the shore of the river along by George
town, Takoma, Twenty-seventh street,
across Rock Greek, Water street, under the
Aqueduct Bridge, between the canal and
the river, to Cabin John river, under Cabin
John Bridge, Thomas run to Rockville,
where the present road will be joined and
followed
The tracks between Washington and Rock
Willie also between Washington and Hyatts-
vile on the Baltimore and Ohio, being rem
dered useless as means of steamways would
be used as lines for trolley systems, which
would enable the company to give better
service and operate at less expense than
at present.
All lines entering this city at present are
thus provided Tor, and should any rodd Ia
the future seek to connect Washington by
their lines the use OF the tracks Of this COM,
pany would be granted them at price
which it is proposed to be prevented from
ever being made excessive, through a check
which will be explained below. By this
means the streets OF the city will never be
rendered unsightly and unsafe by the pres
ence OF many railroad tracks.
PLANS FOR THE STATION.
The depot will be elevated anu allow OF
the passage OF vehicles and pedestrians un-.
der the arches OF the building. The main
entrance VIII be on PENNSYLVANIA avenue
at point midway between Twelfth and
Thirteenth streets. An arched driveway
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orthe Agricultural grounds, from Thirteenth
poIhirteen nd-a-halfand Fourteenth reefs
VIII De Utilized as freight aud storage yards.
"A roadbea accommodating twenty tracks
Is 10 be constructed from the station to
point half way between Mary land
avenue and f street southwest, where the
tracks will converge to eight Two of
these Will lie used for loaded and one
Tor empty inbound trains, two for stor-
age cars. two for loaded cars, and one
for empty outbound, trains. A signal and
switch tower will be erected here, while
the engine rouhdboise and storage sheds
Tor passenger coaches will be by the side
OF the tracks between Maryland avenue
and Water stpces
The railroad shops are to be placed at
the side of . proposed receiving wharf
On Water street, Just below Twelfth.
! ! .YS- TO BRIDGE THE RIVER.
According to the plan, new bridge
VIII be constructed across the Potomac Mt
d point midway between Twelfth and
Thirteenth streets and ending on the
Virginia shore at exactly the same point
where the present Long Bridge terminates.
All southbountfa trains would run over
thlsrOute. The pennsylvania and Baltimore
and Ohio trains going north would not cross
to the Virginia shore, but at a point on
Alexander Island would leave the bridge
and pass over an elevated structure on the
island to a point directly opposite street
southwest, where the river would be again
spanned and several streets OF the city
traversed: then another bridge extending
from street to Poplar Point would be
crossed. Anacostia would be passed, and
the road will extend to point east of Ben
ming, where the Pennsylvania tracks would
proceed in straight line and Join the pres.
ent road at point just across the Beaver
Dam River.
The Baltimore. and Ohio line, from the
separating point, would follow direct
route, meeting the present system at Shep-
herds Junction, near Hyattsville Thus,
the Southern road and south bound trains on
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wien IN ie" i"o.'ns .he ne" UNION
repo. "nen Is pe'he oui. ny we SapHai
4ao''o" company az we Sol"er ol inlr.y--
e..s" anu N sl.ee's northwest, - Ih'aiiS
~ I eo'u anu 'uineu over 70 Us owners
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Architectural attractions, and the company
will have at hand a material addition to
their already efficient means Of meeting
the demands Of hurrying public.
Time was when The term ..car barn.
was synonymous with long, single stored
whitewashed frame structures, W hich ram
bled over great areas without seeming plan
or purpose, eycsores always 10 the CON-
inunities so unfortunate as to entertain them,
and catalogued by observers as >nuisances
born OF necessity.
Modern methods, however, have wrought
a revolution as modern ingenuity and Skill
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| OF the Baltimore and Ohio road as on the
| tracks between here and the home office
that great corporation would be enabled ii
build several $fO,OOO,OOO tunnels and
John n. Cowen would be president instead
| OF a s at present receiver for the concern
The travel on the Pennsylvania and Balti
more and Ohio lines between these two
cities is enormous. By no means is this
mass OF humanity daily conveyed made mp
,, entirely or even principally Ut those who
are only temporary patrons OF the roads,
but on the contrary large percentage ar,
daily passengers.
HAS HAD ITS EFFECT.
In one particular the travel and traffic
between the two places has materially
diminished. Not so many years ago Wash
ington as a business center was little
better the village town. The authorities
in their wisdom saw fit to discourage the
investment OF capital in manufacturing
industries and also in retail, stores. Such
restrictions had been placed upon merchants
in the way of police regulations and legal
requirements that all who even desired to
established tisemselvesin business here were
led to seek other fields
Consequently the. shopping trips were
frequent, and the revenue accruing to the
road large. As Washington grew in popu-
1ation and wealth 1t was found to he both
ifnpractieable and impossible 10 close all
the avenues of trade. The lfc N the city
demanded that stores be maintained. Then
began to be established those concerns which
have grown into the great business houses
which minister to the daily wants OF our
hundreds or thousands of inhabitants. To
day washingtonians are the best fed snl
dressed people in the country.
There are some of the older residents
who still cling to the idea that the Msiu-
mental City markets ar. better than those
at home, and do all tlleis shopping in our
they are growing less In numbers and in a
short time the genus will become ex-
tinct. Some may still-be seen on fair
mornings having their hampers and
baskets put in the baggage ca, which they
will bring back filled with articles which
they have purchased at a higher price than
II bought in Washington and for the trans
portation of which they Would not have
had to pay.
ONLY LlvEsHERE.
There is another. class q persons who
daily take the trains fdssrBaltinore. These
are wealthy business ana professional men
who are part and paroes OF the nearby COM
monwealth, but VINO live in this city to
give their families the benefit of the social
circles which the Capital. of the Nation
possesses. Men of an inflpfte diversity nf
trades are found among !theyegular rassn.
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Notwithstanding
Human Tide Daily Flows Be
tween Here and Baltimore.
WORK HERE. LIVE THERE
Hundreds of PeopleWh Daily
Travel the Route-Commu-
ter and His Life on Rail.

Were all lines OF railroad as well patron
lied as the two connecting Washington and
force. these carriers Of the public would
require the services Of several acres of
building space and OF a small army Of
guards to take care OF their earnings. IL
the other bra inches OF the Pennsylvania road
were as prolific sources OF revenue as the
section connecting these two cities, the d.
rectors would be billion instead OF million
aires, and IL the same amount or travel and
traffic could be maintained ON other parts
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-10-23
The PeopIe WakIna UpN

The New York bank state
ment of Saturday was regarded
as a bad one, showing a loss Of
5000, 900 in deposits, which is
thought to point very distinctly
to gold boarding on the part Of
the peoplef-Minneapolis Tri-
bune.
The republican calamity howl
ing is getting in its work.
The people are Withdrawing
their deposits and of course are
trying TO get gold as they are
made to beliexe that it will 60
to a premium as soon as we get
Tree coinage Of silver as we will
i'm 1897. If the republican pa
pers and speakers keep up their
foolish cry another panic, much
more severe than the one Of
1893, will be upon us in less
sixty days.
That there was SS,OOO, ,OOO
of goldwithdrawn from the New
York banks alone IN one week
for the purpose Of boarding is a
warning that should be needed.
The gold viii soon be all
exhausted, for the banks do not
hold FIVE cents on the dollar OF
deposits to pay the same, and
the depositors would be foolish
to accept anything but gold
from the gold standard cranks,
who are sowing the wind and
will soon reap the whirlWind.-
South Dakota Ruralist.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-10-23
Shot Ills Son.

Hartshorne, Oct. 21.-Lsst
Saturday night Franklyn Freeny
bowled up rather too freely on
territorial bug juice and went
to the house of his father.
Frank Freeny, a prominent
merchant of this place and pro-
ceeded to scare all the inmates.
He was not allowed admit
tance, and was kicking on the
door, threatening TO kill the
inmates. when his father shot
through the door. the ball en-
tering the young mans arm
near the shoulder. The arm
will have to be amputated.
Both parties are Choctaws
aud stand high in social and
business circles in this com
munIty. The shooter has mo-
been arrested.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-10-23
JUVENILE LITERATURE.
In Frasss n Il Pria - a. Krtrs.s q
Hn.lpldIty.

In Fr.nes NJ Il Fria - a. Krtrsus q
In@lpidlty.
Literature I'm cur country not having
~ its aim either inEfruction or ANUS
ments but the production of works of
art, is forbidden 10 Preach children I
oxcept fairy taleA Perault has written
masterpieces; Nine. d'Anlnoy and 9th
era have followed hin- The fairies q
other countries may have been more
poetic. but they have never been a. wit
" M the French. Leaving fairy tales
aside. children werc obliged for a long
time GO be satisfied with the very slight
collection bequeaihed By BerEuin.
Bouilly, Mne de Genlis. those clever
people and who know how 10 coat . moral
lessen with = thin layer q pictures, a.
bitter pills are coated with sugar. In
fact. this is the French parents' very
ideal In the matter of story books, aud
70 please them the lesson must not b.
too well coated or hard 70 ind. for the
spirit Of investigation Ia not encouragod
in young readerA
During the past 20 years. however,
the meager library at their disposal has
grown wonderfully. Celehrnted pxna
have contributed toward IL We need bat
mention Jules Verne. who's scientific
fairy tales have. Alaa. almost complefely
dethroned those that appealed % The
Imagination alone But neither in hia
books. nor in tho@s q any u his CON
pstitors. win you ever ind what both
English and American writers curruntly
permit themselves 20 do-nAnely, % ar
raign q relative. a. for instance. the
wicked uncle IN ''Kidnapped. o. %
mako teachers hateful. O. merely ridicu-
lous. - is the oAns In Dickens woriA
This woeld be an outrage upon the re-
spect due them IN the aggregate. For
this reason trAnnlAfiona are nearly al
ways expurEated The friendly adop-
tion of poor Laurie By the four girls IN
Little Women wonld b conndersd
very unseemly. Yet. for all that they
were good little New England girlA T.
B. Aldrich's STORY a Bad Boy wns
deprived Of one of itn pruttiest chapters
the one about bis childiah love for a hiR
girl ''It is useless. they say. ito draw
Attsrtion 10 that kind Of danger.
Authors and editors are often greatly
perplexed before this severe tribunai a
French parontA The dinercnoe between
the books children are allowed 70 rsad
IN France and those sought hy their
elders. the contrast between the taste
less pap on one side and the internal
spiceneSs ON the other. must greatly az
tonish both English and American rad
erS. who nearly all aooept the same lit
erary diet, young and old. parents and
children--Th- BentEun In Century.
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He Col EVEN.


A vir9inlA Juati@s Who Had o crudrs
AEafnst Wa4hinEtsa-
A wAEhinEtu1 man who had sume
business before one q the smaller courts
in q Virginia county went down there
on = recent Saturday 20 attend 10 H.
he found the judge before whom the
matter came. and a. Ia was a merely
pro forma prooeeding be bad no antici.
patton Of trouble In getting IL donA
When the matter wa presented. the
judge said:
mo. sab. II I transact that buHinaas
for ycu. I will have 90 open cot and I
will not open eo't fer any WAahington
man on Saturday"
"why Botr' aakud the aatoniahed
Capital City man
Because. sab. Invent down 20 Wazh-
ington on = Saturday not long Ago. and
NOT . single Judge wAs sitting IN the
cot am an attorney. sab. an attor-
ney admitted 10 practice IN washington
cots. and jet because 10 wAs = SATURDAY.
was nos allowed 20 practios thcrs.
aah. when I had some vital points %
make. EAh-"
-well. i am rot 70 Be blamed for thAt. %
said the man from WAahingtn- "Yoa
ought not 10 hold me rsspondbis foE
what the judges do CT do not do"
"It makes no dincrence. aAh: yoa arr
a part of the system. q deviliah bad Eyp-
tenn. HAh. and you must help 10 reform
20. aAh. and yuu are the nrst man have
bad opportunity 10 tmprum my viewI
upon. and am going 10 make them felt
Go home and rvform youx yEicm oi
Saturday cots. and then cone 20 NE.
aah-"
And Virginia got even with wash
ingtcn I'm oDe case Star.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-10-23
wHITECAP THREAT.

Denton, Tex, Oct. 22.-The
people near Roanoke, a small
place south of here. are much
worked up over a threatening
notice which purports to be
from whitecaps and which was
posted on the door of Knox
Rector, a respected cad we'll
known resident of that part of
the county. The notice runs as
follows:
Roanoke, Tex, Oct. 49,
Mr.. Nox Rector: / am authoc-
lied from headquarters 10 dis
miss you from our neigbbor-
hood, as you are not wanted in
it any longer. Your actions
have gst to stop at once. Now,
you must be out of this county
in five days or we VIII give you
a call ald you viii be dealt with
according 20 our laws.
CAPTAIN OF THE WHITECAPs.
Rector is much E'ightened by
the notice, end came to town
this afternoon to turn the mat
ter over 70 the authorities. BE
says he knows of nothing thai
he has done that would warrant
such a threat, and has no idea
or clew to the perpetre.or OF
the deed. The authorities are
investigating the matter, but Sc
far with no results. The notice
was poorly written with a lead
pencil and the spelling was very
bad.
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TOOK HIS OWN LIFE.

San Antonio, Tex, Oct. d.
Ogden H. Whitman, aged 81,
committed suicide by morphine
last night. He was found dead
this morning with some farewell
letters by his side. The deceas-
ed was an old confederate. Des-
titution drove him to this end.