The age-herald., 1898-01-01

ined man can do when he makes up his mind was seen in the case of the old Lib erty market, which stood at the corner of Seventh and K streets. The building was old and decadent and unsightly and a dis grace to the city. Shepherd, besides, picked out its site for a public park. He tried every method in his power to have the old build ing demolished according to law and order, but he was blocked at every turn. The law said to him: Thou shalt not cut down the market-housei" His appeals were as strains in the March wind People generally want ed the old building removed, but their own laws would not let them touch it.
 One morning Washingtonians awoke and To! when they looked for their familiar market it was gonel It had vanished in a night and not a stone remained on stone. Shepherd had gone .there in the dark of the night, when the people slept, and with crowd of congenial spirits he battered down the old structure which the law had clung to so tenaciously. To do this Roman like thing, Shepherd got up a banquet far from the scene of the work. All those who were known to be opposed to his park scheme Wcic iHFlteui anu W0lle they IedSteQ ana the others slept the governor and his friends played havoc withs the old market bill has been introduced into every con- gross since then to indemnify the owners of the stalls in the market but those of them that are yet alive have never re- ceived a penny for their trouble
 Another monument to Mir. Shepherds in- dustry. genius and peculiar methods is hillock on the south side of the Baltimore and Ohio railway tracks. His purpose was to drive the railway out of that part of the city, in which, by law, it was allowed to come into Washington. Of course. he could not do this legally, he tried to do it H. legally He hired army of men, and they went to work digging and piling up the earth on the tracks. This bold plan of bold spirit failed because the railroad people, learning what was going forward, kept couple of engines storming up and down the track. In word, there was noth- ing that he wanted done that he did not have done or try to have done by fair means or foul. Mr. Shepherd in a verty made Washington. This Nero of America saw mudhole of town and left it with Il, shaded by 10000 beautiful trees. It cost $25 ,O00,000 to do 1t, but 1t was done, and Americans can thank this one man and him only if they feel that their seat of gov ernment is all that 1t should be-
 MT. Shepherd did not get rich while he va governor TlS ral ht .ie tire during the seven years he spent in public life ah. it s95t,nOt Wren he got out of office h. was more than $1 .O0O, ,QOO in debt. The motive power that made Shepherd do what he did for Washington came about in this way: l.. U. Reavis was a St. Louis man with hobby twenty-five years ago. He wrote book showing how much better it would be to have the countrys capital in the big town on the Mississippi than on the Potomac. He was a man of tireless energy, and there was a time when his hobby came pretty nearly being carried into cold fact.
 Now, Shepherd was native Washing tonian, and did not want the capital to go to St. Louis He got himself made gov ernor and then opposed his will to that of Reavis, the "capital mover" He forever settled the Reavts agitation by making Washington infinitely more beautiful than St. Louis, and was cursed for his pains While he was making Washington pretty his business went to ruin and he lost all he had saved up. He then determined to leave America and make new start in life. He went to Mexico, negotiated mines worked them, and soon became a million aire. His imperiousness and positiveness of character made themselves felt in every thing he undertook. He even coined his own money and reigned like baron of old over his willing and faithful subjects.
 A glance at MT Shepherds face tells the story of his character. He has mouth and chin for enterprise-for eenquering the unconquerable. He has an eye for em- pire, and a jaw that means lot if there is anything at all in physiognomy. Self-edu- cated, self-built, self-reliant, he is man to whom other men have clung for conn fort. He will never be forgotten in Wash ington.